whats the point of psi?

[Stellar Fox]

they level up extremely slowly, the only useful thing they do is oneshot blimps but by the time they reach that level you can already do it even faster with the others towers you have.

[Hiroko]

never misses
full map coverage
starts with camo detection
is still decent
attacks wont be blocked by bloons that it can't hit yet
gets lead/ceramic early enough for their respective first appearances
eventually can target all except BAD
abilities are both quite strong for cc

[Stellar Fox]

Originally posted by Hiroko:

never misses
full map coverage
starts with camo detection
is still decent
attacks wont be blocked by bloons that it can't hit yet
gets lead/ceramic early enough for their respective first appearances
eventually can target all except BAD
abilities are both quite strong for cc

yeah i can do all of that with a sniper except it doesn't take 90 rounds to get strong

[Hiroko]

Originally posted by Stellar Fox:

Originally posted by Hiroko:

never misses
full map coverage
starts with camo detection
is still decent
attacks wont be blocked by bloons that it can't hit yet
gets lead/ceramic early enough for their respective first appearances
eventually can target all except BAD
abilities are both quite strong for cc

yeah i can do all of that with a sniper except it doesn't take 90 rounds to get strong

good luck with that.

[Ackranome]

Probably... 3rd most powerful hero.

[Stellar Fox]

Originally posted by Ackranome:

Probably... 3rd most powerful hero.

yeah but just because 3/4s of the heroes are ♥♥♥♥ or only useful in niche situations with certain towers doesn't make an average one good

[Vivianite]

heroes level up at the same speed wdym slow.
psi is crazy good, wall bang, can drop ceramics out of MOABs instantly with zero contest. most of the time when i use psi she gets MVM over most of my towers

[Hiroko]

Heros do level at different speeds.

All four base heroes (Quincy, Gwendolin, Striker Jones, Obyn Greenfoot) as well as Etienne and Geraldo have an XP ratio of 1x.
Ezili, Pat Fusty, Admiral Brickell, and Sauda have a 1.425x XP ratio.
Benjamin and Psi have an XP ratio of 1.5x.
Captain Churchill and Adora have a ratio of 1.71x.

[Smokey]

Originally posted by Stellar Fox:

Originally posted by Ackranome:

Probably... 3rd most powerful hero.

yeah but just because 3/4s of the heroes are ♥♥♥♥ or only useful in niche situations with certain towers doesn't make an average one good

Heroes are much better than any tower for their price + by the end become a tier 5 tower for free (cost should also be considered) and dont mention it takes 200k to level a hero up since none do this anyway except for a challenge maybe

Remember all heroes has their place depending on map/mode/placement
just as with towers

[battlezoby]

Psi is extremely annoying because the last couple of bloons are killed really slowly, causing the game to linger at the most pointless points in time: just as each wave ends.

I think that's why so few people use him. That said, I have no reason to doubt what Hiroko said about him because, hypothetically speaking, if he were even better than that I still wouldn't be surprised if there were still few people who used him.

Originally posted by Hiroko:

never misses
full map coverage
starts with camo detection
is still decent
attacks wont be blocked by bloons that it can't hit yet
gets lead/ceramic early enough for their respective first appearances
eventually can target all except BAD
abilities are both quite strong for cc

[battlezoby]

But to more directly answer the OP's question, Ninja Kiwi hires game designers to constantly improve this game. When they can't thing of a good change, I assume they need to protect their jobs by adding in SOMETHING anyways.

[Vivianite]

Originally posted by Hiroko:

Heros do level at different speeds.

All four base heroes (Quincy, Gwendolin, Striker Jones, Obyn Greenfoot) as well as Etienne and Geraldo have an XP ratio of 1x.
Ezili, Pat Fusty, Admiral Brickell, and Sauda have a 1.425x XP ratio.
Benjamin and Psi have an XP ratio of 1.5x.
Captain Churchill and Adora have a ratio of 1.71x.

oh

[Ninja Zyborg]

Originally posted by Hiroko:

Heros do level at different speeds.

All four base heroes (Quincy, Gwendolin, Striker Jones, Obyn Greenfoot) as well as Etienne and Geraldo have an XP ratio of 1x.
Ezili, Pat Fusty, Admiral Brickell, and Sauda have a 1.425x XP ratio.
Benjamin and Psi have an XP ratio of 1.5x.
Captain Churchill and Adora have a ratio of 1.71x.

worded a bit confusingly; for clarity this is saying that Churchill takes 71% more xp per level than Quincy

[PatrRyk!]

Every player has a favourite hero and his opinions :)

Regards

[battlezoby]

Originally posted by Hiroko:

never misses
full map coverage
starts with camo detection
is still decent
attacks wont be blocked by bloons that it can't hit yet
gets lead/ceramic early enough for their respective first appearances
eventually can target all except BAD
abilities are both quite strong for cc

Thanks. I rarely ever play CHIMPS, but your post caused me to try another one out in order to test PSI out and I have to admit, I was pretty pleased with the results.

Psi made a pretty significant contributions, both by letting me let him handle some early stuff so I could save up money, and by using his level 3 and 10 activated stuns many times between Wave 95 and Wave 100 inclusive.

[Spookypizza]

Originally posted by battlezoby:

Originally posted by Hiroko:

never misses
full map coverage
starts with camo detection
is still decent
attacks wont be blocked by bloons that it can't hit yet
gets lead/ceramic early enough for their respective first appearances
eventually can target all except BAD
abilities are both quite strong for cc

Thanks. I rarely ever play CHIMPS, but your post caused me to try another one out in order to test PSI out and I have to admit, I was pretty pleased with the results.

Psi made a pretty significant contributions, both by letting me let him handle some early stuff so I could save up money, and by using his level 3 and 10 activated stuns repeatly at at around Waves 95-100.

I played chimps with him on an advanced map and failed terribly. He is not a good hero and should be avoided at all costs. Beware.