FETO Tournament Guidelines Discussion

[Fredmir]

(05-15-2015, 09:58 PM)Nolan Kryptonite Wrote: Fear is not that bad.

1) It doesn't outright kill the unit. As said before it weakens a unit so that another may possibly finish it off. At best it's a 2RKO.
2) Unlike the other status staves, it does not allow the user free reign to ignore that unit. That unit is still alive and (surprise surprise) still poses a threat whether it's healing or weakening units. 25 Pow is really not that terrible. Basically it makes the feared unit the prime target and if it doesn't get ORKOed after, you just used 3 units to kill 1.

You won't use fear on a Dual Tank, you'll use it on an offensive units (which will give you a higher hit% anyway) to make it ORKOable or even maybe OHKOable, and now you get a 2HKO with 0 counter-damage, pretty good, if I can do that twice, I'd take that FS anyday, and since the 1 or 2 fear users can be further away in the back and still be in range to fear, my units in front should be able to reach them, if they don't just apply some pressure and make him back up.

25 Power isn't the only thing, the loss in accuracy and avoid hurt a lot too, even more in that the units that are the more vulnarable to fear are glassy-dodgy units, you basically take everything away from them.

and a feared Pegmage with 20 power isn't even a threat anymore, you do what... 25 damages on low res units?

Fear isn't "that bad", but it's still bad, you can't just say "it's less broken than those, so it's ok!"