Just wanted to hear opinions of this. After using him in IC it is apparent to me that he is not fast enough. Pretty much the entire AI team gets turn before him and he never gets to use sneak attack. Many times he is killed before he gets a turn, so catapult is hard to pull off too (and it’s link!). A similar monster is shurikaizer. He has 69% speed and usually gets something done (either sneak attack or poison eater). Then there is Flutterdrake daffodil. He is about as fast as shurikaizer and can stealth himself without exit plan and avoid the rng related to it. In my opinion 43% speed is not enough for chamilizard to get something done. As he has no other way of stealthing himself than exit plan, I suggest to increase his speed to around 60%.
I have flutterdrake Daffodil and have used him to great effect even without another flutter. The same can’t really be pulled off with Chamilizard and his plan B is also link limited. Increasing his speed would make him more reliable in a non link setup.
Chamilizard is made pretty much for link teams. It can get a guaranteed kill on any monster as soon as it gets a turn with catapult. Hence, FL 60% speed is a bit much (fastest catapult is currently Elephantom at 54% and wrong element for throw).
Comparing it to Shurikaizer is a good one except that hitting Shuri once will nullify most of the threat whereas Chamilizard has both sneak attack AND link catapult as attack moves. It even creates a rockoid on entry for the catapult.
I think if you look at other SEs which do similar-ish things then Chamilizard fits in just fine. I’ve used it in IC before with link earth and it performed reasonably well but if you’re counting on just the sneak attack then yeah sure it will seem underwhelming.
I don’t see this as a problem. Earth is already a little underwhelming and link Earth is generally inferior to e.g link holy? If anything, it would create much needed new possibilities for the Earth Element.
Earth has 16 legendaries, Holy has 25. I think this is more of the problem when it comes to Earth currently needing more. We need some good earth legendaries that people can collect and form a proper link earth team with.
Tbh a lot of limited SE designs have been making them as strong as legendaries or potentially strong when they’re under the right circumstances. Chamilizard isn’t like this, it’s basically a weaker legendary that only fits into link earth teams. It might be better with a stronger pay-off for link earth. Like maybe if it swapped catapult and sneak attack…
Catapult 160TU
Link sneak attack double 100TU / single 70TU
Then it presents a real threat if left untouched before its turn and always has the fallback of catapult. Exit plan back into non-link earth parts of your team won’t matter so much either.
If I talk about IC i am already right now 220 with charmelizard or whaterver with no sleep team and No last stand …just make a good link team with it and go with it its great…other event i dont have it