Diabrollow (ツバサターン, Tsubasatān, Tsubasaturn) is an Aku/Sage variant of Brollow introduced in Resort De La Cospa.
Enemy[]
Diabrollow is a peon that behaves similarly to Brollow, having somewhat high damage, full backswing, close range and many knockbacks with decent health. Its level 3 Mini-Waves shouldn't be discounted either, able to extend its reach all the way up to 867.5.
Strategy[]
The sheer damage, mini-wave, and guaranteed knockback all serve to make Diabrollow an annoying pusher, especially when 15 knockbacks allow for even a weak attack to activate a troublesome rebound mechanic. However, a 100% Diabrollow only has 60,000 HP and can thus be one-shot by several damage-dealers. The sooner an attacker such as Can Can Cat can reach and attack this threat, the better.
Since Diabrollow's mini-waves deal very low damage (2,400 at 100% strength magnification, which isn't even enough to kill Jellycat), you can use them to your advantage by skipping the backswings of rushers like Bullet Train Cat or repositioning backline units that can be hit by it.
While the Sage type does give Diabrollow resistance to all status effects, this should hardly matter, as raw damage is more than enough to defeat it.
Description[]
| Enemy Unit # 697 | Aku/Sage | |||||||
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| Diabrollow | ||||||||
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EN Description | |||||||
| Greedy bird that is obsessed with valuables. Created a business selling treasures after picking up a shining stone one day. If the buyer promises to repay their debt, the transaction is complete. | ||||||||
| Enemy Unit # 697 | Aku/Sage | |||||||
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| ツバサターン (Tsubasatān, Tsubasaturn) | ||||||||
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JP Script | |||||||
| 金目のものに目がない欲深きツバメ。 妖しく光る石を拾ったことで宝石の 出張買取ビジネスを閃く。出合い頭に 受け取った品物の代金は出世払い。 | ||||||||
| EN Translation | ||||||||
| A greedy swallow with an eye for anything valuable. After picking up a mysteriously shining stone, it came up with the idea of starting a business buying and selling jewels on the go. The price of the goods received at the beginning of the meeting is paid after career advancement. | ||||||||
Encounters[]
This enemy has always appeared at 100% strength magnification.
Zero Legends[]
- Stage 14-1: Pre-Fab Cathedral
- Stage 14-3: Weedy Garden
- Stage 14-6: Costly Emigration
- Stage 15-2: ZL 15-2
- Stage 15-3: ZL 15-3
Stats[]
| Diabrollow | |||||||||||
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| Health | Attack Power | Attack Range | Attack Frequency | Movement Speed | Knockback | Attack Animation | |||||
| 60,000 HP | 12,000 damage (2,627.74 DPS) |
150 (Area Attack) |
137f 4.57 seconds | 77 | 15 times | 1f 0.03s (136f 4.53s backswing) | |||||
| Special Ability | Type | ||||||||||
| 100% chance to knockback Cat Units 100% chance to create a level 3 Mini-Wave |
 Aku /Sage
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Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Diabrollow's Japanese name, Tsubasatān, is derived from 燕 tsubame (swallow), 翼 tsubasa (wing), サターン Satān (Saturn) and Satan. In this context, "Saturn" does not refer to the planet, but to a Roman deity conflated with the Greek Titan Cronus, whose sister-wife Rhea gave him a stone that he swallowed thinking it was his sixth child, Zeus, just like how Diabrollow has a Sage stone in its beak. After Cronus was overthrown by the Olympians, he was banished to Tartarus, a pit of the underworld where the wicked are tormented, hence why Diabrollow is an Aku enemy.
- Diabrollow's Japanese description references how some birds are attracted to and collect shiny objects. This behavior is often misattributed to crows, which relates to Cronus because he was depicted with a crow and Robert Graves posited that Cronus could mean "crow", like the Latin cornix and the Greek corōne.
- Diabrollow has what appear to be two small, thin horns on its head, which may refer to the 19th-century theory tracing Cronus' name to the Semitic root qrn, meaning "horn".
- Diabrollow's Sage type may refer to how Plato etymologized "Cronus" as a compound of κοῦρος (koûros, "youth, young man"), καθαρός (katharós, "pure"), and νοῦς (noûs, "mind, intellect"), thus meaning “he of pure intellect", as described on Mythopedia.
- Cronus' weapon was a scythe, sickle or harpe, and Diabrollow's wings are shaped somewhat like the blade of a scythe.
- Diabrollow's wings also resemble a huge, gaping maw, befitting a Titan most famous for devouring his children.
- Diabrollow's black-and-blue wings may be a reference to Psalidoprocne pristoptera, a species of swallow commonly known as both the black saw-wing and the blue saw-wing.
- Costly Emigration's Japanese name, Akogina Shukkoku-ryō (あこぎな出国料, "Cruel Departure Fee"), is likely a reference to Diabrollow's greed.