Crab Rework

[earnest magnet]

this crab unit is so bad. bad at high elo and overpowered at low elo so it needs a rework,
I have a suggestion like making the summoner dont spawn crabs but instead evolving into a crab after a certain amount of mana or hits

[quartz sparrow]

Theres already slime that does that lol itd be two of same units. However I can agree its crap unit now, better solution would be a slower summon with higher health and the summoner has lower health.

[earnest magnet]

No, totally different concept slime becomes weaker after it dies it doesnt evolved while the concept of this rework is making the mage become weaker but a strong unit after it becomes a crab, and if we are following your logic crab is just the same unit with gateguard so it still needs a rework

And the mage doesnt need to die it just needs to have enough mana or hits

[twin creek]

My idea: drop the summon, make the warlock transform into a crab monster piece by piece, getting stronger with each transformation

[lofty estuary]

Make the crab warlock gain mana when friendly units die and otherwise regen much slower tthan normal idk

[quartz sparrow]

i mean concept of getting stronger with attacks to become differnt unit.

[quartz sparrow]

thats already a unit also.

[lofty estuary]

thats a mercenary

what about exploding crabs. make them be all 3 damage types with an impact explosion 🙂

[quartz sparrow]

No its the only other summoning unit besides crabs lol

[pine reef]

Hades yep

[vapid dune]

Slime doesn’t even spawn other slimes since the last update though js, they just gave it 50% more HP or something like that.

[quartz sparrow]

It still spawns normal slimes once its attack enough mana

[vapid dune]

It doesn’t even have mana anymore, that’s the slime siren only

[quartz sparrow]

Reg slime never had mana lol

[vapid dune]

Yeah, I think you're right, I just remember it used to spawn a little slime after dying before.

[quartz sparrow]

I miss good slimes 🙁

[uncut gust]

Nerf it more and remove it from peoples potential rolls when theyre above X elo 😄

[winged coyote]

Or buff it and remove it from low mmr matches lol

[uncut gust]

No I want to never have to see it again

[glass pebble]

Why is it so bad at high elo? What if you don't spam crabs but use only a few?

[analog viper]

Nobody spams in high elo

But in high elo crabs suck because people send myth overall more and know how to counter

[glass pebble]

I understand, but do they ever use crabs sparsely? It make sense if in high elos people only send large attacks, so no time for any value generation

[analog viper]

In high elo nobody really use them because they are overnerfed

Its fine imo to have 1 tower to avoid

[marble cedar]

what if the slime wizard summoned a crab like... once per 2/3rds of a second
obviously they'd be massively nerfed
could make it feel more consistent
maybe the front slime sorry crab could absorb any reinforcements from behind
maybe... 4 mana cost, recovers 1 mana per second
then whichever was built most forward would cast an ability that could only target crab slimes and had a rangdius of crab-claw-grabbing-range. then they'd cast them in order and whichever cast it first would absorb all the slimes that came from behind, giving it proportionally more hp and damage and such. Like feeding a fish to a cat.

meanwhile the slime mage is just spitting out crabs here and there trying to throw them at each low point in the formation