Lancer

Uber Super Rare

Description

Lancer is a decent general Backliner unit with 49k HP and 4 KBs, 5100 DPS at 480 range with a 4.5s attack rate, a cost of 4350, and a recharge of about 2 minutes. He has 100% Barrier Breaker as a supplementary ability.

Lancer's strengths are his range and DPS. His range is above average for a Backliner and allows him to outrange most common enemies safely, and his DPS is sufficient to be worth using against them, making him a decent generalist Backliner, a better C Baha/pre-TF Ururun for early to mid-game. His fast attack rate makes him able to consistently deal this damage, able to afford to miss or be interrupted from time to time without much loss, and handle faster enemies well. Lastly, his guaranteed Barrier Breaker can come in handy for Starred Alien stages, letting him both open up barriers for your other units to start doing some damage, as well as let him start delivering his DPS from the first hit he lands.

Lancer is so generic that he doesn't really have weaknesses so much as absence of strengths. Every stat and parameter is at least satisfactory for his job, but he has no meaningful specialist value except a simple Barrier Breaker and no situations in which he is really great. The later you get into the game, the less you want a simple decent Backliner to safely kill things from a nice range, and the more you need units that counter specific traits or abilities, and Lancer will quickly fall into disuse as he has no such applications.

Lancer's role in the meta is simple and boring; a straightforward generalist that does Crazed Bahamut's job, but better. His stats are average except for an elevated range compared to a typical generalist, so the only time he really stands out is when fighting something like Master A or SLOTH that stands just a bit too far back for a 450-range Bahamut clone to get to. A solid answer to early game problems which can largely be solved by throwing a good generalist at everything, but has nothing to offer beyond that.

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XP Cost Curve

Lancer uses the Regular Uber Rare/Legend Rare/Legends Cat Curve

Level XP Level XP Level XP Level XP Level XP
1 0 11 15,600 XP 21 23,400 XP 31 27,300 XP 41 31,200 XP
2 9,800 XP 12 19,600 XP 22 29,400 XP 32 34,300 XP 42 39,200 XP
3 14,800 XP 13 29,600 XP 23 44,400 XP 33 51,800 XP 43 59,200 XP
4 21,800 XP 14 43,600 XP 24 65,400 XP 34 76,300 XP 44 87,200 XP
5 42,500 XP 15 85,000 XP 25 127,500 XP 35 148,750 XP 45 170,000 XP
6 64,300 XP 16 128,600 XP 26 192,900 XP 36 225,050 XP 46 257,200 XP
7 93,200 XP 17 186,400 XP 27 279,600 XP 37 326,200 XP 47 372,800 XP
8 118,000 XP 18 236,000 XP 28 354,000 XP 38 413,000 XP 48 472,000 XP
9 197,400 XP 19 394,800 XP 29 592,200 XP 39 690,900 XP 49 789,600 XP
10 513,500 XP 20 1,027,000 XP 30 1,540,500 XP 40 1,797,250 XP 50 2,054,000 XP
1 - 10 1,075,300 XP 11 - 20 2,166,200 XP 21 - 30 3,249,300 XP 31 - 40 3,790,850 XP 41 - 50 4,332,400 XP
1 - 10 1,075,300 XP 1 - 20 3,241,500 XP 1 - 30 6,490,800 XP 1 - 40 10,281,650 XP 1 - 50 14,614,050 XP

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