The aged @NotoriousDAD can use all the help he can get in this game. By his own admission he has lost the ability to win because the game is “rigged”. So always happy to help a brother out
It is not the holding of the skill and waiting that is an advantage to the hero, it is the fact that the hero gives you that option. The faster the hero, the more options are opened up. Is his special one you that a blind monkey can fire as soon as it is available? No.
You have to hold specials with Grazul, you have to do it with Lady Loki, and reason and logic tells me you have to do it with Myztero. Myztero gives you far more options as to when he can do it thatn Lady Loki. He gives you options such as dumping tiles into an opposing hero early, if he is already ready. It boggles me that I have to explain this.
Fenrir’s special is a little bit different. It depends on the opposing hero health, and that is dependant on your own moves but also the on-color tiles avaliable to you. Holding his special may mean that you never get a good opportunity to optimise it. With Myztero if you don’t have the perfect opportunity to strike as soon as his special is ready, you need to either wait or strategically place tiles (of any color) into the opposing heroes that will optimise his special. That puts the control almost completely in your court - make the right moves, time it right, and keep him alive and his special will devastate. And his speed means gives you a wider spectrum of opportunity to do so.
Duh. There is no guarantee that firing a special straight away will kill an opponent, or that the status ailment will be effective, or that a cascade won’t result in a heal or cleanse to undo the special. This is part and parcel of the game. But holding the special of a fast hero for the opportune time is much more likely to succeed in an optimal use of the special than if that same hero were slower.
All this applies to any strategic hero such as Grazul. I sometimes find myself holding Grazul and
- Not firing at all
- Getting enough tiles to have fired her twice
- She dies
Does that mean she has no advantage at very fast speed? Absolutely not. It means that in some circumstances her being very fast is a life saver, and in others it won’t be a factor at all. But the option of her firing at very fast is always an advantage that she has for someone who can take advantage of that advantage.
This is what you end up with if you don’t form the right team and you don’t use him properly. Is he niche? Probably. Until I get him (which is probably never) I probably won’t conclusively know if he is at the same level of nicheness as Lady Loki (not very) or if he is more niche.
Yes, his stats aren’t tanky. But he is sturdy enough to survive long enough to make the most of his special. To compare his unemblemed stats:
725 D 1332 H
Across various raid and war teams I run the following heroes:
Mist D 711 H 1339 (+18)
Proteus D 702 H 1259 (+20)
Musashi D 715 H 1321 (+15)
Brynhild D 699 H 1398 (+19). I use her for raid and war tank
Most of these guys run without a cleanser. And somehow… magically… they survive long enough to use their specials once or twice to help win the match! And this comparison is to unemblemed Myz - if you emblem him to make him more sturdy he can get to 818 D and 1551 H (possibly more, I just looked at a random image). There is no way that you can’t make this guy survive to use his special once or twice to devastating effect even without the benefit of a cleanser. Having one healer should be enough.
The more I look at his ability and stats the less I believe this is true. A cleanser is ideal, but not mandatory. A healer is a must, but then a healer is a must in most team configs. Other support heroes or buffers would help. But I am certain I could integrate him into a number of my existing configs which are in no way overpowered, and have him improve those existing configs.
Again, given that I don’t have him this is all debate based on reason and logic and extrapolating based on the heroes that I have. But really hoping that sometime in the near future I will get a burst of extreme luck and I will be able to show this in practice rather than in theory
