Necrosphinx. underpowered at tier 5?

[Razgrizz]

So, is it me....or does the necrosphinx seem very underwhelming. it has the least health of any of the main monsters, barely more than the tomb scorpion, it dies so easily. I feel like it should either be moved to tier 4, or the health needs to be buffed a bit, thoughts?

[TVMAN]

It's does a great job at its role, which is killing infantry. Keep it away from other large monsters and anti-large units and it'll stop dying. If you need a monster/lord killer, take the hierotitan instead.

[Tormar]

And have a Necrotect nearby. The buffs and healing they can give to constructs makes up for most negatives they might have

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by TVMAN:

It's does a great job at its role, which is killing infantry. Keep it away from other large monsters and anti-large units and it'll stop dying. If you need a monster/lord killer, take the hierotitan instead.

The necrosphinx is the anti-large one right? Isn't it supposed to be the monster killer?

[Tormar]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

Originally posted by TVMAN:

It's does a great job at its role, which is killing infantry. Keep it away from other large monsters and anti-large units and it'll stop dying. If you need a monster/lord killer, take the hierotitan instead.

The necrosphinx is the anti-large one right? Isn't it supposed to be the monster killer?

It is yes

[Mesmerion]

Underpowered ?? the RoR necrosphinx is just raping Kholek in 1v1...i can't call that "underpowered"

[Kblocks]

it lacks defense for better offense. what's the problem

[TVMAN]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

The necrosphinx is the anti-large one right? Isn't it supposed to be the monster killer?

You're right, I confused the necrosphinx with the warsphinx. Still, I'd use the necrosphinx as an anti-cav/anti-monstrous infantry killer instead of as a single unit monster killer. For killing the big scary single unit monsters and lords, the hierotitan is the best tool in the TKs toolbox imho.

[pin]

^By the time Hierotitan made to the large monsters or enemy lords the battle is over.....

and at infantry speed it can easily be bogged down by trash, shot up while it advances or avoided altogether. Its the least effective monsters units for Tomb kings -_-....

[Tormar]

Originally posted by TVMAN:

Originally posted by Forblaze:

The necrosphinx is the anti-large one right? Isn't it supposed to be the monster killer?

You're right, I confused the necrosphinx with the warsphinx. Still, I'd use the necrosphinx as an anti-cav/anti-monstrous infantry killer instead of as a single unit monster killer. For killing the big scary single unit monsters and lords, the hierotitan is the best tool in the TKs toolbox imho.

Agreed, bound Soul Leech alone is an amazing tool for it

[TVMAN]

Originally posted by pin:

^By the time Hierotitan made to the large monsters or enemy lords the battle is over.....

and at infantry speed it can easily be bogged down by trash, shot up while it advances or avoided altogether. Its the least effective monsters units for Tomb kings -_-....

I keep it grouped with my infantry and have it act as as a monster guard. Any monstrous units or lords that go after my infantry get a face full of hierotitan instead. It's pretty effective, you just need to use it right.

[Kblocks]

and by right he means move slow match the speed of the titan and if you're too impatient to do that fast forward the battle speedx2 that's what it's for

[Wyvern]

Theoretically, each of the 3 big monsters has its place.
Warsphinx = anti-infantry disruption
Necrosphinx = Large unit/monster killer
Hierotitan = Well rounded support monster, basically a better giant, but much less offense oriented.

[★ Black Prince ★]

Well Necrosphinx seems weak on the paper - less stats, hp etc.- however against single huge monster.. oooh boyy, what a pleasure to watch 1vs1 anything that matches his mass / height.

He slaughters!

By the way I can not imagine the final battle against Arkhan without Necrosphinx. (atleast for me, played Settra campaign, I managed to kill 1 Scorpion, 1 Warsphinx & 2 Titans with
RoR Necrosphinx - Legendary difficulty)

So Necrosphinx is my favorite in TK roster.

[Jagore]

It does its job which is to rip other big guys to shreds. Very useful when you are facing doomstacks full of mammoths/carnos/treemen/dragons/sphinxes and what not. Its a specialist where the war sphinx is more general use and more durable.

[Songbird]

Originally posted by MesmerionFR:

Underpowered ?? the RoR necrosphinx is just raping Kholek in 1v1...i can't call that "underpowered"

It trades even if Kholek isn't using his Starcrusher. Necrosphinexes are slightly favourded against Shaggoths and I wouldn't call that insane at all considering you will just get halberd cw shoved down your throat in every chaos matchup.