Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36303736-20180909201356/@comment-35353971-20191119035400

Yes, backlines exist in CotC. I’m not denying that. But I’ll say it again as I have 1000 times: there are more frontline rush stages than backline. The frontline rush averages 25-30 stages a chapter, levels with a substantial backline start out around a dozen and in the next two chapters goes up to ~18. The frontline spam levels are worse anyway because of money. Yes, backlines in cotc exist. No, they’re not more relevant than the frontline spam. I’ve said this a milliom times.

Weyland isn’t a problem in SV. 13 oldhorns is. Even then, all you gotta do is stack up Delinquent on the Cyberhorn at the start, and you win. I’ve never met anyone actually call this stage hard. Source: Beat first try, had more problems with subsequent stages. He isn’t a problem in corona either: it’s the star pengs. Weyland sits in tbe back like a lump, starpengs do all the work.

It literally just takes a single golfer to take off the barrier on a le’solar or other midranger. It’s not a worse version if it has the same effect for 1:3 the cost. A single maglev for 750 works for starfish. That’s 750/1200 cost vs 3900 cost, and golfer’s easily respawnable. Against baas, it’s better to use fencer because it doesn’t take much for baa to enter his blindspot anyway. Aer’s just outclassed as a barrier break, through and through.

Ribbo has such a long TBA that you can avoid your whole stack being warped by pushing and removing his miniscule hp instantly, and it’s also better to get your backlines warped back and lose some dps than your meatshield line and the enemies move forward. I can see using Aer for ribbo’s large barrier, but again Golfer does the same job for 1200.

You are right, Gardeneels are very strange, but honestly the way they work you’re better off using neither because with gardeneel you usually want to use its warp gimmick to its disadvantage and rush it out so it stops ruining your meatshields. Eel’s so strange that it removes both from the equatiom.