Upcoming Rebalance - Prowler (Aaron Davis) - 9/14/23

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Prowler (Aaron Davis)

Abilities listed at level 70/270/370
Health and match damage are unchanged

Old Version
On the Prowl - Purple PASSIVE
(PASSIVE) When Prowler sees something he wants, there's not much you can do to keep it from him. At the start of each turn, fortifies 2 enemy Strike, Attack, or Protect tiles. Whenever your team matches a Fortified enemy Strike, Attack, or Protect tile, Prowler steals that tile.
270: N/A / 370: N/A

• Level 2: Stolen tiles are improved by 9.
  • 270: Improved by 18 / 370: Improved by 37
• Level 3: Stolen tiles are improved by 29.
• 270: Improved by 59 / 370: Improved by 121
• Level 4: Stolen tiles are improved by 80.
• 270: Improved by 161 / 370: Improved by 330
• Level 5: Stolen tiles are improved by 182.
• 270: Improved by 364 / 370: Improved by 749

New Version
On the Prowl - Purple PASSIVE
(PASSIVE) When Prowler sees something he wants, there's not much you can do to keep it from him. At the start of each turn, fortifies 2 enemy Strike, Attack, or Protect tiles. Whenever your team matches a Fortified enemy Strike, Attack, or Protect tile, Prowler steals that tile, then creates an enemy strength 1 tile in the type stolen.
270: N/A / 370: N/A

• Level 2: Stolen tiles are improved by 29.
  • 270: Improved by 59 / 370: Improved by 120
• Level 3: Stolen tiles are improved by 56.
• 270: Improved by 113 / 370: Improved by 231
• Level 4: Stolen tiles are improved by 117.
• 270: Improved by 234 / 370: Improved by 481
• Level 5: Stolen tiles are improved by 225.
• 270: Improved by 450 / 370: Improved by 925

When Prowler came out, this ability was pretty original in stealing SAP tiles and converting them to your own uses. Then the Fire NationPolaris came. She does the same, but better in that she'll create new friendly tiles on any match or destruction instead of only matches and only Fortified tiles. She does everything Prowler does, but better, with the sole downside that her created tiles are always at a specific power.

So we decided to go down a parallel route with Prowler. He'd still steal tiles, but improve them much more, making the overall strength equal to anything Polaris can put out at equivalent levels (well, barring cascades, but you can't have everything). Meanwhile, against enemies that put out little to no SAP tiles, Prowler had a very difficult time keeping up this pressure while Polaris could do it with friendly tiles. So we now have him auto-creating enemy tiles that next turn he'll fortify and can then steal and improve. Similar effect, different package and use cases.

Old Version
Tinkerer's Toys - 10 Blue AP
The Tinkerer's electrified gadgets pack a punch, but only if Prowler can figure out how to use them. Deals 361 damage and stuns the targeted enemy for 1 turn. If your team has more total Strike, Attack, or Protect tiles than the enemy team, also deals 259 damage to all other enemies.
270: Deals 704/505 damage / 370: Deals 1450/1041 damage

• Level 2: Stuns the enemy for 2 turns.
  • 270: N/A / 370: N/A
• Level 3: Deals 617 damage plus 443 bonus damage.
• 270: Deal 1204/864 damage / 370: Deal 2480/1781 damage
• Level 4: Deals 1162 damage plus 834 bonus damage.
• 270: Deal 2266/1626 damage / 370: Deal 4667/3351 damage
• Level 5: Deals 1947 damage plus 1397 bonus damage. Stuns the enemy for 3 turns.
• 270: Deal 3797/2724 damage / 370: Deal 7821/5615 damage

New Version
Tinkerer's Toys - 10 Blue AP
The Tinkerer's electrified gadgets pack a punch, but only if Prowler can figure out how to use them. Deals 361 damage and stuns the targeted enemy for 1 turn. If any Fortified Strike, Attack, or Protect tiles exist, steal 1 of them; Then, if your team has more total Strike, Attack, or Protect tiles than the enemy team, also deals 259 damage to all other enemies.
270: Deals 704/505 damage / 370: Deals 1450/1041 damage

• Level 2: Stuns the enemy for 2 turns.
  • 270: N/A / 370: N/A
• Level 3: Deals 610 damage plus 435 bonus damage.
• 270: Deal 1190/848 damage / 370: Deal 2451/1749 damage
• Level 4: Deals 1159 damage plus 824 bonus damage.
• 270: Deal 2260/1606 damage / 370: Deal 4655/3310 damage
• Level 5: Deals 2083 damage plus 1388 bonus damage. Stuns the enemy for 3 turns.
• 270: Deal 4062/2707 damage / 370: Deal 8367/5580 damage

Similar to Purple, the ability works decently well, but in practice it had a bit of a difficult time in getting that bonus damage going off. When combined with the proliferation from Purple, this ability now allows Prowler to much more easily tip the SAP tile scales to get the bonus damage going. There was also a minor issue with the multipliers for each level which was fixed, modifying the damage very slightly and raising the direct damage at max level by about 10%.

Old Version
I'll Get My Coat - 11 Black AP
When things get dicey, Prowler steals away, leaving his allies to clean up the mess. Creates 2 strength 65 friendly Strike tiles and 2 strength 65 enemy Strike tiles, then turns Prowler Invisible for 1 turn.
270: 126 tiles / 370: 260 tiles

• Level 2: Creates strength 107 friendly Strike tiles.
  • 270: 207 friendly tiles / 370: 427 friendly tiles
• Level 3: Creates strength 132 friendly Strike tiles.
• 270: 256 friendly tiles / 370: 527 friendly tiles
• Level 4: Prowler becomes Invisible for 2 turns.
• 270: N/A / 370: N/A
• Level 5: Creates 3 friendly Strike tiles. Prowler becomes Invisible for 3 turns.
• 270: N/A / 370: N/A

New Version
I'll Get My Coat - 7 Black AP
When things get dicey, Prowler steals away, leaving his allies to clean up the mess. Creates 2 strength 83 friendly Strike tiles and 2 strength 65 enemy Strike tiles, then turns Prowler Invisible for 2 turns.

(PASSIVE) At the start of the battle, create 2 enemy strength 1 Fortified Protect tiles.
270: 162 tiles / 370: 335 tiles

• Level 2: Creates strength 208 friendly Strike tiles.
  • 270: 405 friendly tiles / 370: 838 friendly tiles
• Level 3: Creates strength 415 friendly Strike tiles.
• 270: 810 friendly tiles / 370: 1675 friendly tiles
• Level 4: Creates strength 664 friendly Strike tiles. Prowler becomes Invisible for 3 turns.
• 270: 1296 friendly tiles / 370: 2680 friendly tiles
• Level 5: Creates 3 friendly strength 747 Strike tiles.
• 270: 1458 friendly tiles / 370: 3015 friendly tiles

This ability had multiple issues originally. First, it was just too expensive for any kind of real use. What's the point in creating a couple Strike tiles when most battles are well into the back half of the battle? The Invisibility can come in handy at that point, but it's not going to do much to help power his Purple or Blue at that point. So we went back and refocused with the ability costing less. We then discovered that it was actually underbalanced by a decent amount overall, valuing the Invisibility too highly. After taking all this into account, we decided on a couple things.

First, lower the cost. Easy! Second, raise the strength of the created Strike tiles. Simple enough, more usefulness on each use of the ability. Third, push the Invisibility increase to level 4, so it's more generally useful without needing to be a 5 point ability.

Lastly, we added a quick rider to the ability that we didn't actually balance or cost but helps his overall kit. This gets his Purple started at the beginning of the battle kind of like Rocket and Groot, only with more petty theft.

Punisher5784

His new Black will be useful in Puzzle Gauntlet

Seph1roth5

Looks interesting. Ironically looks like he'd work very well with polaris if you're in 4* land lol.

DrClever

Okay, that looks good.

I used to play Prowler, Shuri, 4*BP and that will be even better now.

DAZ0273

Yeah he looks pretty nice.

amberdrake2002

Looks like he is getting a classic costume from the picture above? Also Maybe He will be the feeder for the next 5* if it's either Prowler Miles or Spiderverse Aaron prowler.

Anon

Oooh I like this

ThaRoadWarrior

these are good changes, i always thought he was cool but could never quite use him effectively.

Kaidrin1979

Sounds nice.
Particularly in Puzzle Gauntlet