We have another two-hero map here, and I'm beginning to suspect that will probably be the case through the rest of this campaign, and probably all of the elite campaigns, unfortunately. I certainly prefer to finish maps with a single hero when I can, not just for the flex but because it also makes the job of grading heroes so much more straightforward.
The only subtlety to this map is figuring out the tear-down build, which is an extreme rarity in Kingdom Rush games, surprisingly. We have to build a couple of Royal Archers to handle the Winged Croks of the first two waves, but after surviving wave 2 they can then be torn down and we can go all-in on Tricanons. Surviving wave 2 is largely the win condition here, although things can get a bit dicey at the very end of the final wave.
Impressions
Again the grading strategy is to assign a normal grade, then deduct accordingly based on how much the second hero had to carry the day. The result is that while a lot of the wins look fairly easy the actual grades are pretty brutal, with half the heroes ending up in 'C' tier due to them relying strongly on the second hero, for which I would deduct up to one and a half letter grades. Thus while Stregi's video, for example, felt like a 'B', I knocked her down to a 'C-' just because Grimson was so critical to her performance.
On the opposite end, the top tier heroes really don't need a second hero, although I keep using them to keep things consistent. Broden, Kosmyr, and Bonehart all wreck this map pretty hard with their AoE ability, and so I didn't feel the need to dock anything from their grades. This is definitely going to a lead to a "rich get richer" and "poor get poorer" dichotomy in the final GPAs, but I'm fine with there being a strong separation in the final analysis, as there's no question (as usual for KR games) of the giant gulf between the top and bottom heroes.
Final Grades
- Vesper - C+
- Raelyn - C-
- Nyru - C+
- Torres - C-
- Anya - C+
- Grimson - C+
- Broden - A+
- Therien - B+
- Onagro - B-
- Warhead - B+
- Lumenir - A-
- Kosmyr - A+
- Stregi - C-
- Bonehart - A+
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