👺 Deadboot - 5* Dark / Purple from Goblin Village

[Sternman]

I love this card, excellent vs the plethora of taunters out there. Charges so quickly it is timely and can then fire again soon thereafter.

Titans at 90 seconds are a bit tricky especially as the description for Whither explicitly says it is less effective vs monsters and titans. I tested that using Boots (had him maxed first, (link here) on monsters and got the same stats debuff as the card stated so it isn’t clear what the decreased effect is.

This from the Deadboot balance thread (the mythic titan that was mentioned was just prior to the big buff the Goblin heroes got from SG):

@Sternman

Deadboot could make sense on the mythic titan because those battles are longer than regular titans.

BUT

It is worth remembering that Wither is less effective vs. monsters and titans than in PvP, NOW, post November 2023 buff, Deadboot’s Wither gives -185 Defense to a mob instead of -300 Def (61.7% effective), this IMPLIES that if the % effectiveness remained exactly the same he was doing -99 Def pre-buff, so it is tough to envision Deadboot was going to have a big impact during the 90 seconds on regular titans.

Now he could be worthy of a spot in the dark team but which of the five core heroes gets pulled out?, DD? EDD? Tile Buffer? Attack Booster? Damage Booster?

Mythic Titans titan battles are longer so the Wither can build up more AND you need to swap out heroes in your attack team to avoid the debuff so clearly Deadboot deserves a turn too.

That said, I replaced LB2 Aramis with LB1 Deadboot and my first three flags averaged better than my usual scores on a holy titan. Tiny sample of three flags but the massive improvement from SG means he should be considered. If you have a tile buffer (Karnov), I can’t see Deadboot finding a place, I don’t so he may.