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Post by droopingpuppy on Aug 11, 2017 23:30:03 GMT
She's an all rounder which is her biggest strength and her biggest weakness. She doesn't answer enough questions and while she might be good into 70% of the field, her all-roundedness means the 30% she can't play is very difficult to fill with one list. Is it really an issue on Calandra? It may an issue, but it would be the issue of the other casters that doesn't solve the another 30% of problems and simply overshadowed by her. For her, it only proves her usefulness that she will grab the core list, while the other list is just a backup plan that only useful when she doesn't works well. Unless you want a warlock that good on every single matchup - and become an auto include warlock, she should have some weakness. And if she works more than 50% of the matchups she will see, she is definitely the most powerful warlock in Trollbloods because you can simply pick her in the most times.
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bluebeard
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Post by bluebeard on Aug 12, 2017 4:19:52 GMT
If she is top 3 is perhaps questionable. We have like ten casters who compete for top three in faction. She IS good though. Play her five times and then come back to us. Make sure you try PoD with double whelps but...but...she's one ugly model....just sayin.
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Post by trollsareblue on Aug 12, 2017 6:55:06 GMT
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Post by Trollock on Aug 12, 2017 8:40:53 GMT
If she is top 3 is perhaps questionable. We have like ten casters who compete for top three in faction. She IS good though. Play her five times and then come back to us. Make sure you try PoD with double whelps but...but...she's one ugly model....just sayin. Hey! Quit body-shaming my girl! More on topic i guess the problem for Calandra is to find a good pair. It is very hard to build her to really slam dunk any match ups, so the off list may have to cover too many of the bogeymen. Playing Calandra in to ghost fleet may be better than playing many other casters there, but she will still probably be disadvantaged. If you took for example Gunnbjorn or Madrak 2 you could probably build a list scary enough that they will not drop ghost fleet. Playing a normal Calandra list in to Fyanna Oracles might be better than some other choices, but Grim 1 does a WAY better job of it. So does Doomy 3 and possibly Doomy 2. Playing Calandra against Jack spam might work OK, but is not as good as Grissel 2 (yeah, her. My grissel 2 list was developed to battle Karchev with 15 Mad dogs) or Grissel 1. The list goes on. Calandra has a lot of slightly advantaged match ups, but she does not answer any of the real skews. It is hard to build one list to cover ALL the skews and thus it is hard to have Calandra as one of your casters in a pair. If you build a calandra list, and draw a random list out of a hat for her to play against, she will do very well across many lists. Its just that some lists (the ones mentioned above) pretty much needs you to have tailored your list to them to get to a 50/50 match up.
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Post by Big Fat Troll on Aug 12, 2017 19:41:00 GMT
I think Trollock has summed it up pretty well. My answer to this conundrum is to always build Calandra as a Question list. I guess that means that I will still leave a lot for the second list to cover, but maybe the opponent will be vexed too.
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Post by mattmcd on Aug 12, 2017 20:15:16 GMT
Perhaps a 2nd question list would be a good pair option?
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Post by bluebeard on Aug 12, 2017 20:20:50 GMT
but...but...she's one ugly model....just sayin. Hey! Quit body-shaming my girl! Just being honest, lol. Now Grissel....there is a good lookin model. And a great caster to boot! Hahaha 🤓
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Post by Trollock on Aug 12, 2017 20:54:53 GMT
Hey! Quit body-shaming my girl! Just being honest, lol. Now Grissel....there is a good lookin model. And a great caster to boot! Hahaha 🤓 Lol. The old grissel 1 model is one of the worst models in the game imo. The new one and grissel 2 are cool though ;-)
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Post by bluebeard on Aug 12, 2017 22:30:14 GMT
Lol. The old grissel 1 model is one of the worst models in the game imo. The new one and grissel 2 are cool though ;-) Totally agree. Grissel got some work done to improve her image. Callandra should do the same, ya know? Get her hair did, maybe a make over for those chin scales. Who knows she may be the next sexy sculpt....bwahahaha
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