Runners

[prisma willow]

Basically fast undead, however to not be confused with pouncers, these guys run, they have like a red glint as their eyes

Health: 24
Type: Light, undead
Speed: Faster than crawlers by a bit, like 5 or 10%
Gold: 125
Gems: 51(on purpose)
Ability: Tackle
Dps: 15% of a unit's hp if tackled, but for swordwrath, around 20)
Pop: 3
Notes: A runner CANNOT hit with melee, they can only tackle, when they tackle a unit, they start vomiting or clawing at the unit they tackled and there is a chance a vomit may inflict poison on the tackled unit that lasts for 15 seconds, also a runner cannot tackle a giant, or heavy classes, for speartons, the speartons can be tackled if they are not blocking, however they cannot be tackled if the spearton is blocking, this go for any characters that can use their shields, also if a runner tackles a undead, like a zombie, they can't inflict poison, but they will still claw at the tackled

Also when a unit is tackled, they cannot be attacked by any other enemy units, however zombies can pile on the unit (maximum of 4) to speed up the runner's kill, while they are devouring the poor unit, the unit can be saved by a giant slam, or any that deals like splash damage that stuns them, or just kill the runner directly
(Easter egg, if 2 runners tackle eachother at the exact same time, both will be stunned and play like a downed animation, and they'll be each damaged by 5 up)
Art soon

[unborn viper]

24-

What???

51

Stawph, this is hurting me mentally

Why so specific on swords, they're already being fvked by the meta

This is so fragile a single archidon could solo probably 3 of them at once

This is so bad, I can't fathom-

Wtf even are their damage

Oh my god

😭

[tulip arrow]

give them the heavy tag and swords will stand a little more chance

[unborn viper]

Swords still beat them

[tulip arrow]

they don't have singular damage just percental dps

and for some reason a flat 20 against swordwrath

[unborn viper]

I'm biased here cuz I'm a perfecionist but their gimmick really just sucks

[tulip arrow]

they pin an enemy unit down rendering them invisible to your allies
then they take about 7 seconds to kill it

for swordwrath it's 4 seconds
with armory upgrades it becomes 5 seconds

[unborn viper]

With the crystal cost they're way too expensive to be viable as early game units, they do counter every single light melee but nobody brings zero tanks in their deck

You'd also have to heavy micro them to even get a single droplet of usefulness cuz they're so fcking fast yet also fragile

Your supporting units with them would be long behind

Their basic attack is literally just them rendering themselves useless and unable to retreat, and wouldn't matter anyways because of their egregious hp

This unit may actually be impossible to balance because of their gimmick

[tulip arrow]

challenge accepted

new stats
light dead / pop 2 / trains 10 sec / 100gold 50mana
30hp , weird atk , very fast speed (crawler)

Tackle: pins down a light unit and begins dealing 15% dps based on the enemy's health. it may inflict poison for 15 seconds (cannot poison other deads). non-blocking speartons can also be tackled.

blocking speartons and other heavy units simply receive 5 damage

tackled units cannot be targeted except by 3 more Runners.
any form of stun/knockback frees the unit from the runner's hold.

Runners cannot be tackled but rather receive 5 damage and 2s stun

alrite crimon
this was very difficult

i ended up just summarising their gimmick in a shorter way

[stoic inlet]

15% of a units HP is insane

That's 15% of a giant's health gone

150 HP in a single pounce

[tulip arrow]

if giants were tagged as light units then that would be the case
but they cannot tackle heavy units

[stoic inlet]

Oh okay good

Still 15% is crazy

Not even a flat number

Take xiphos

[tulip arrow]

7 seconds

more accurately 6.6 seconds