are you sure about Jackal? I thought Kunchen was immune only to standard defense down (from Grimm, Athena and Buddy for instance), but not from elemental defense down (from Jackal, Evelyn, etc.). It was changed in beta, where originally he was immune to all defense downs.
i was just thinking that @Rigs it almost negates Jackal, and Jackal seems to be all anyone down grading Kunchen is talking about. Personally I have him at 3 70 so havenāt seen his full effectiveness but I really like him and it is killing me that I donāt have GP to pair him with. I am also working on getting my mana troop to 17 to take care of the slow issue.
Element link has always kinda been its own thing that stacks with similar buffs/debuffs. The original att/def buff EL stacked with other att/def buffs/debuffs, the healing EL stacked with HOT, and so Iād also expect the elemental EL to stack with other elemental buffs/debuffs.
Speaking of which, Kunchen + Boomer or Kunchen + Domitia on defense might really screw with a mono yellow team if they can cast in time.
I believe that is Grimm/Gormek/Tibby and specifically NOT Jackal. The text (as @FrenziedEye shows) specifically excludes Jackal and the other element defense down heroes.
Just seems kind of pointless to give him that resistance when there is only 1 yellow hero that drops defense and that 1 yellow hero beats the immunity. Then the same hero beats the special skill as well.
His heals + defense debuff are his perks. Rest is crap that looks good on paper but in actuality is pretty useless.
Plus very fast mana vs slow mana = death of kunchen unless board is so bad that you cant even line up 6 yellow tiles in 3 to 4 moves.
If he was average mana i probably would have already spent to snag him and max him just for the heals and defense debuff
But 3 useless perks + slow mana, yea sounds like aeron is the better hero so far
Agreed that Aeron is the better hero, particularly on raid offense. I have him maxed and use him for probably half of my raids due to the high number of debuffing/DOTing heroes in Diamond tier. In that environment, an average-speed multi-use shield is better than a slow one-time cleanse in my book.
Kunchen might still be useful against high-level titans where mana pots make his speed less of a detriment.
Average mana doesnt require as bad of a board to fire. And once aeron does fire, jackal isnt an exception to his special skill because SG used to make cut n dry special skills
In the long run forcing attackers to bring G. Jackal would be a good thing.
Tanks would still die against 7-8 stacked elementās tiles but so will 4* heroes at the first special taken.
if bringing 2 tc20 heros and killing a hotm before he fires his special is the best argument you have for kunchen being a good defensive hero then i think that speaks for itselfā¦