Supporters - pros and cons

[D1RE]

What supporter is best in what situations? In what base do you want what supporter? Who is best at hunting? Who is hte most gold dependant. Discuss and rate. And please, try to stay on-topic.


Example: Name of supporter goes here
Hunting: How well can he hunt with low/no gold
Defending: How is he helping a base and in what base is he more needed
Gold needed: Can he do anything alone without gold?


Please discuss each supporter and rate from 1 - 10 on the different tasks along with a comment. And the supporters I want rated are Morphling, Tauren, Magnataur and Demonologist.

[Buddha]

Builder: Tauren
Hunting: 5
- Taurens are good early until Titan gets his first minion.  Otherwise he becomes a nuisance, but no real threat is given.

Defending: 7
- Taurens can be a deadly distraction for the Titan if allowed to gold late game.
- Overall, Taurens are good as early or late base support as long as they don't block.  In my opinion, the Titan has to be inexperienced/average for Tauren to prosper.
- I am not a big fan of Tauren basing since I can probably count on one hand how many successful Tauren bases I've seen.

Gold needed: 5
- If the Titan neglects the gold mound for too long, watch out.  Once a Tauren hits level 3, it can only go downhill from there.
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Builder: Morphling
Hunting: 4
- Until Beast Form, Morphling is just a gold mound harasser like Tauren.  However, with summons and/or replicator tower, expect dead minions.  Regardless of how much gold a Morphling has, he/she needs at least 2 staff of teleportation due to a lack of escape abilities until Beast Research.

Defending: 8
- Morphling bases are very good.  It could spell disaster if the titan finds a Morphling base before workers occupy the towers though--that's the biggest downfall.
- Overall, Morphlings can play the role of a baser with towers AND harass (like mag/tauren/sat) while the Titan attempts to break.  That demands recognition...for a NERF!  (j/k)

Gold needed: 6
- With just a Merchant, a Morphling is full of win.
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Builder: Magnataur
Hunting: 7
- Magnataur is everything one can expect from a minion hunter.  He has slowing, AoE, aura, and escape abilities.  Combined with a Tauren, Morphling, or Satyr...GG minion.

Defending: 9
- With a merchant only, best walls in the game next to Fairie.  Need I say more?
- Even without Polar Wrath, a Magnataur has the potential to buff walls with aura, slow the Titan, and harvest wood at 25 a whack.  I recommend a Magnataur for any good baser.

Gold needed: 7
- If walling a base, 45g for the merchant can keep the Titan at bay until late game.  If gold penalty hits afterwards, Titan should either get Fog Generator, Energy Rod, or Alt Q.  It's that simple.

[eLK.]

Builder: Ogre Shadowdancer

Hunting: 10+
- Good at kicking minions' asses.
- Has a great hunter.
- Ogre can blend in with the environment, and then can easily ambush an unsuspecting minion.

Defending: 10+
- Ogre can cast fart juice, slowing nearby enemy units, and buffing armor ridiculously.
- Ogre can poke at the titan. A lot.
- Ogre has a great hunter.
- Uses scales to distract titan from main base.

Gold needed: 0
- Gold is only a bonus to the already crazy builder.
- 45 gold means you get merchant summons. More gold is EHT, and spearlocs.

Side note: easily the best builder/supporter in Island Defense.

[Ryld]

Builder:  Demon

Hunting: 9.4760
-Good at trapping minions, undead building shines here
-Balthazar is the best titan hunter in the game
-Scorp summons slowing is very important in killing and makes it easy
-Double summons rape
-Decent nukes and potential for high nuke damage with fiends and double nuke on builder
-Good escape on builder if trouble arises

Defending: 9.55665
-Undead walling
-Hard to cut off wood
-Good at lumber pooling, and draining mana with soul wands
-Spell resistance, able to take more nuke damage
-Summons can be sacrificed to discover ww titans, or they can be used to kill wards
-Scorp adds slow poison, and builder can nuke multiple times with the short cd
-600 hp walls with merchant

Gold needed:7
-I personally do not need much gold to thrive as a demon but around 20-30 gold is needed to kill minions over lvl 5 unless titan is a complete moron
-If a demon get around 20-30 gold, low level minions must always be on their toes
-Usually people choose to go double summons or buff their summons overall stats with demonic strength. 

Side note:  Demonologist is easily the base builder/supporter/early game baser in Island Defense.

[13omb]

What supporter is best in what situations? In what base do you want what supporter? Who is best at hunting? Who is hte most gold dependant. Discuss and rate. And please, try to stay on-topic.


Example: Name of supporter goes here
Hunting: How well can he hunt with low/no gold
Defending: How is he helping a base and in what base is he more needed
Gold needed: Can he do anything alone without gold?


Please discuss each supporter and rate from 1 - 10 on the different tasks along with a comment. And the supporters I want rated are Morphling, Tauren, Magnataur and Demonologist.

the only reason demon isn't awesome is how mush room he takes. I hate when i let a demon hide with me and he builds his 3 massive buildings

[jadegolem]

Faerie
Hunting: 9 late game: After the gold penalty, he can become a battle faerie is a mass selection of spells that can kill/harras titans and minions
Defending: 7: As a battle faerie with his hp bonus and spells, faerie can use spells on his allies towers and block the titan when he's in a base. He can also wall walk.
Gold needed: 4: Faerie is an absolute goth without gold, as he cant do anything. He still has his ranged attacks and free spells though.

[Syaorann]

Faerie
Hunting: 9 late game: After the gold penalty, he can become a battle faerie is a mass selection of spells that can kill/harras titans and minions
Defending: 7: As a battle faerie with his hp bonus and spells, faerie can use spells on his allies towers and block the titan when he's in a base. He can also wall walk.
Gold needed: 4: Faerie is an absolute goth without gold, as he cant do anything. He still has his ranged attacks and free spells though.

hes not an absolute goth without gold, he can use mana pool trap efficiently with his hunter and him because of ranged attack.