Thread: First pick unit choice

Mages and bishops are a bit weird in the sense that they're so prone to overkill and attack so slowly that I evaluate them based a bit less on small differences in dps and a bit more on whether those differences are enough to change them to 1 or 2 shotting critters that have common trash wave hit point totals like 500, 1,000, and 1,500 so I have a better idea what kinda dinky stuff waves they can usually handle by themselves without having many leakers between shots. For example, I don't like Marius that much more than Noel--his range is pretty cool but if you're using a mincost Noel instead of a full cost Marius I would completely understand--but I like them both quite a bit more than Barbastroff or Cyrus because with Prince buff factored in either of them can 2 shot the 1,500 hp critters that are so common in this game. Sasha, Odette and Garania I have off roughly in their own tier above them because they're more durable--don't laugh, it's handy on maps with aoe, poison or both--and even Garania can just barely hit 900 damage after Prince buff which lets her 1 one shot purple goblin kings while also having that huge splash range during skill in her back pocket. Sasha and Odette both hit harder than Garania (and in Sasha's cases a bit faster) but amusingly the difference is rarely big enough to matter very much unless you also have an AW Garania buffing them in the first place. I won't talk about Estelle because she's Estelle.