It’s the final week of our Design-a-Troop Competition! How exciting! Now it’s time to put forward your ideas concerning the name and traits our brand new, community designed troop will have.
To recap, you will be naming and traiting a Merfolk/Mech from Blackhawk! The troop is a Shoctopus, and its spell goes as follows: “Octo-Shock - 12 Green/Yellow (Choose a colour. Destroy 8 gems of the chosen colour. Deal [magic+something] true damage to each enemy of that colour.)”
Have at it everyone. (Please remember we will be balancing this troop upon the completion of this competition.)
Name: Shocktopus (my original contribution is adding the letter k )
1st trait: Mech Bond. (Allied Mech gain 2 life.)
2nd trait: Water spirit. (Gain 1 magic for each blue ally.)
3rd Trait: Electric Shock. All enemies lose 2 health when the enemy matches blue gems.
Just as a quick update, we are open to new traits if they can be used for other troops in the future. This means no crazy unique traits, but if you have a fun new idea please feel free to share.
Takoyaki (I like that and very bad with names)
Trait 1 - Deal double Skull damage vs. Submerged troops. (newFish Eater)
Trait 2 - Gain bonus Blue Mana from Blue Gem matches. (Water Link)
Trait 3 - Reduce damage from Skulls by 25%. (Armored)
Name: Lil Johnny’s Pet Fish
Trait 1 - Indigestible: Immune to Devour
Trait 2 - Armored: Reduce damage from Skulls by 25%
Trait 3 - Reverb: Deal 1 damage to an enemy that casts a spell targeting this troop. (New)
Name: Kijoules
Trait 1: Thick Head (immune to stun)
Trait 2: Tangle (inflict entangle when dealing skull damage)
Trait 3: Stone Skin (reduce damage from skulls by 50%)
The name is a mix of joule (unit of measurement of electricity) and Kaiju (a monster from the deep!).
The traits make it a good defensive first slot to keep it alive to mana generate. I wanted to get ‘Tangled’ in there because I imagined it’s tentacles wrapping around it’s foe when attacking.
Well, since Shoctopus is already taken, let’s try another angle.
This is going to be an epic troop, so perhaps a unique shocktopus is in order.
How about:
Name: Shocktopus Prototype VII
Trait 1: Merfolk Bond (Allied Merfolk gain +2 life)
Trait 2: Indigestible (Immune to devour)
Trait 3: Defensive Formation (Submerge myself when I reach full mana)
Flavor text “As Sparkgrinder always says, seven times the charm!”
I think the name needs to be Shocktopus. That’s what caught the imagination when the concept was suggested and got so many votes.
@saltypatra personally I’d remove the name from voting and make this poll/thread just about the traits. Otherwise I’m stuck suggesting traits paired with a different name which won’t get votes.
Traits:
Blessed (All Allies gain 2 random stat points)
Cursed (All Enemies lose 2 random stat points)
Mech Power (Allied Mech gain 1 magic)*
*New trait similar to the ______Bond and ______Shield traits which provide a bonus to ally life and armor of that type respectively. ______Power would provide a smaller bonus (+1 instead of +2) to magic to allies of that type.
(Please remember we will be balancing this troop upon the completion of this competition.)