Best TemTem?

[iLiberate]

So far Innki is my best, but I’ve only maxed 3 TemTem.

[Lastig]

Innki performs very well right now

Swarm games in its raw form --> main objective --> gain max XP per minute.
Stay ahead of the curve so you clear mobs (fighter) instead of dodge and weave (survivor)

Platypet - Innki - Houchic have offensive traits that support staying ahead of the curve.

Innki's trait is superstrong, like 1,5% cooldown per level up to 30% (maxxed @ 20)
This is an insane amount of cooldown reduction.

Some other traits scale superbad.. Houchics trait enhance = faulty ''Increase the dmg cap.''. While you reach the original cap @ lvl 80.. like why up the cap LMAO.

Platypet has a immense pool of moves and gears it can obtain. Playing the needle in a haystack per level up is not as strong as an Innki that has a lot more favorable RNG.

Pigepig although not having an offensive trait is very strong.
You can pretty much unlock the entire tree during this EA stage. The 2,0 HP/sec regen @ lvl 1 along with 5 stages of armor make it the most forgiving Tem to make mistakes with.
It's ultimate is also something that makes resurrecting fallen allies a lot eazier

[Prometheus]

Smazee is easily the strongest. You can overanalyze individual traits and the like but in the end your ability selection matters the most.

Smazee's starter is a high damage aimed with a target limit equal to however many you can get it to connect with. He also gets an aimed high damage projectile with high pierce. These two give you a large amount of reliable aimed damage and are good at general clear as well.

The random target chop attack has crit chance boosted and fires many times very quickly. Get its synergy, which is the fighting type damage item, and its a combo wave clear and single target spike. Its easily the strongest attack in the game right now no contest.

If they gave us kudos for 10 second kills on the various bosses I'd have them all and I'd have done it using Smazee.

[Aleh]

Innki easily in the current state.

We tried doing coop between a maxed Smazee and an Innki (which we singled out as the strongest) in Tucma (where there is a lot of Crystal tems weak to melee attacks and resistant to electric ones, Inkki usually carried 2 Crystal and 3/4 offensive electric techniques). In the 6 runs we did, 5 of them Innki ended on top with ~20-30% more kills and damage and the only one Smazee won was ~10% above.

Seismunch was better at fighting Gharunder and Gyalis but wasn't even close in clearing everything else when compared to Innki.

EDIT: Still it's worth noting Smazee can't access the 2 extra techniques passives right now.

[DDoig1]

Until Smazee gets health regen in their skill tree, they're not worth using. Stacking max health doesn't mean much without healing.

[Wavuvi]

Innki is easily the best Tem right now. Minimal investment in skills for damage, movement speed, and regen (only about 24% of the tree) and you can handle the whole game.

Platypet is close, requiring a bit more investment in skills. The main thing that drags it down is a bloated movepool, with about half of it being trash. Playing solo is usually getting to level 5, and if you don't have the moves you want just start over.

Oree and Pigepic are quite good too. They require MUCH more investment in their skills, but once they have it the only downside is their poor speed, even with speed up. Because the maps are ridonkulously huge, speed is super important. Oree at least gets an excellent double dash, but it's crazy expensive compared to most other skill lines.

Houchic can be really strong, but is much harder to pull it off. Similar to Platypet, it has a mixed bag of moves, with its best choices being water. If you don't pull Water Blade (and you frequently won't), bosses are absolutely hell because you're stuck hoping random moves will pick the boss over everything else. No matter what moves you pick, Houchic feels like a worse version of Innki or Platypet.

Smazee is complete garbage. No regen from skills. Borderline useless range skills. Terrible AoE. Limited and weak moveset that is counter intuitive to itself (range moves hinder the melee moves). You pretty much have to get Haito Ushi+ just to catch up to what most other tems get for free with their starting move. I'd say this has value if you want a challenge, but you could just reset skills on other tems for a similar experience. So it's a shame a powered up Smazee is so bad.

Crystal is only slightly better then Smazee because Glass Blade is such a stupid good move. It's hard to comment on this one otherwise because so much of its skill tree is locked away compared to the others. It's missing access to tools like dash dealing damage and a damage boost to its primary type's damage (crystal) that every other Tem can unlock right now. The ultimate may even be good once upgraded, but currently it's mostly worthless.

[DDoig1]

Originally posted by Wavuvi:

You pretty much have to get Haito Ushi+ just to catch up to what most other tems get for free with their starting move.

Absolutely perfect. Exactly what I thought.