Battle Cats | Taitenki | New Merc Storia Collab Uber 13.7 (Review)

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[callumconnors]

The final unit merc storia will ever see...

[timmyreobed]

This and Wyvern are the only two Merc Storia Ubers that actually look like Ubers lol

[MrStephx]

Funny how they gave an obscure uber that comes from a collab that will probably never come again the necessary abilities to deal with their traits(except Warp immune) while some of the other ubers that come from the usual normal sets that target those specific traits dont even get them (Shield Pierce and Surge Immune for example)

[CardboardCatu]

Like the other Ultra Souls, The Grateful Crane has significantly different stats between Normal (spammable) and Evolved Form (high performance), both of which can be used effectively depending on the situation.

Normal Form
The Grateful Crane is a really good counter to some of the Cyclones (Black, White, Divine and Red), especially with Sanzo Cat, as he has a fast attack rate, great damage and a chance to knock them back. Besides this, his short range and slow speed only let him be useful against similarly short ranged enemies, despite the damage.

Evolved Form
Super Galaxy Cosmo's guaranteed status effects and incredible range allows him to chip down threats from afar while impeding his targets. This is particularly useful against Crazed Lizard Cat, Crazed Bird Cat or THE SLOTH. However, his attack rate is too slow for him to meaningfully hinder these threats, and an adequate fighting force is needed to keep them at bay.

Super Galaxy Cosmo actually has marginally higher range than Sunfish Jones and Spacefish Jones (850 compared to the Jones' 840) and his status effects target both. However, the tiny range difference makes him a rather inconsistent counter.

When Super Galaxy Cosmo is idle, using your regular Cat Cannon will make him run straight into the middle of the fight due to his insane speed, so you should only use it if you need it for certain purposes that are more important than Cosmo's safety, or use it while he's in his super long attack animation.

True Form
The main reason to get this True Form is the gain of a fairly long freeze effect. The uptime may be low, but that's not what it is for. Instead, Cosmo's freeze should be used to create an opportunity for others, such as A. Bahamut, to deal a lot of damage to hard-to-hit enemies such as Winged Pigge or to gain ground on a speedy army, such as one of Li'l Bun Buns or Angelic Gories, or a tough enemy.

Cosmo's second improvement is his damage, which increases by 40%. His DPS is still low, but once he gets a hit in, he'll rip a major chunk out of the battlefield. Cosmo is still situational and none of his weaknesses are fixed, though, he can just make up for them better. Overall, the evolution is well worth it, despite the massive catfruit cost. With proper meatshielding, he'll be able to do substantial damage to most of the enemies in the game, and the knockback and freeze against angels/flying can make the difference between possible and impossible stages, especially for newer/intermediate players.

Ultra Form
Supernova Cosmo gains several notable abilities on top of his existing ones. First, he now possesses an Omni Strike with a 200 forward piercing range, increasing his effective range to 1, 050. This addresses one of his most prevalent issues: enemies outside his standing range simply ignoring his attack. Due to his immensely long TBA and foreswing, even a slight push forward by your Cat units would cause him to completely miss his attack, rendering the buildup toward it completely worthless. The added forward piercing range provides players with the much-needed leeway for Cosmo to function optimally.

Moreover, his Level 10 Wave Attack takes this concept and amps it up to eleven. When he hits any enemy within his effective range, he unleashes a Wave that sweeps across the entire battlefield. This Wave Attack not only doubles his effective DPS but also guarantees that any non-Wave Immune enemy unit within 2, 133 range takes a guaranteed +100k damage. Additionally, target traits are Knocked Back and Frozen for 5 seconds by the Wave Attack. His wave also makes Supernova Cosmo exceptionally proficient at sniping Midline and Backline enemies such as The Face variants, Sunfish Jones variants, Calamary/Cala Maria, and many more.

Finally, Sage Slayer has notable applications in Zero Legends, specifically designed to counter Tarsiriel, Prof. Owlbrowley, and Sage of Mind Soractes. While Sage enemies are currently exclusive to specific Zero Legends stages, this ability will likely become more relevant as additional Floating and Angel sages are introduced.

Along with cost reduction and increased health, Supernova Cosmo transforms from a decent unit to an unreasonably powerful one. While it doesn't unlock entirely new niches like Cat-10 Gigapult, it vastly improves Supernova Cosmo's performance in his intended role. Although evolving him requires 10 Yellow Behemoth Stones, the investment is truly worth it.

[MinervaMori]

I've been waiting for your review on this unit

[char]

Ah well at least she's got lots of potential. Hopefully she'll eventually get a true form that'll give her much needed stat and ability buf-

Huh? What do you mean she's never getting a true form?

[StormBlade-BPB]

I can see her working very well with satoru
He keeps the enemies out of her blind spot and she breaks any remaining sheilds

[dacrabmanthatnobodyaskedfo]

I could kinda see some use for her as an "alternative" to satoru, which is to say, no epic catfruit seed and aku catfuits needed, maybe for some early aku realms shenanigans?
But being a limited Uber that will most likely not come back doesn't help justify this.
Overall, it doesn't feel unique enough to use over other anti aku/alien alternatives.

[eddy]

Least a okay uber to end the collaboration with. GL to everyone with their rolls, sad to see Merc go but how it rolls.

[thembigstonks]

Did you ever make a video on Gamereon’s ultra talents? I went searching for it out of curiosity and couldn’t find one anywhere.

[PlumSmug]

Thank god i came back to the battle cats before this collab, i can get healer cat thank god.

[BingLing-wl]

Talking about her being two shot as it clearly shows her taking more than that in the background

[nkhra]

Whatever, we got our Nono TF so we all happy

[A_Ali]

F- tier is quite generous for Cornelia no?

[Everythinggamingbros]

What’s you favorite collab out of all of the major ones in battle cats such as Evangelion merc storia medoka magica fate night ranma etc (it can be based on the units or how well it was done)

[gran-roan]

Feels like this was going to receive a True form and/or substantial talents in the future. Guess that's doomed now

[grimer_]

How life will feel knowing Healer will never be obtainable again: 😭

[NoxGoesWild]

Yo xskull will you ever do an ultraform tierlist? (ofc when 14.3 comes out) I would highly appreciate it :D

[Vai-Wolfe]

Do u think its worth pulling it now with only 40 pulls or should save for Baki event?

[Nightandcosmic]

We had this before in the English version