@ Not necessary with this video existing and I still stand with most of the stuff I’ve said in my initial review minus a few small things such as competition with Chill Cat and the rank I put him in. I always considered him good.
@@b1ue383 Nova is literally free because 1. You have to beat all of UL 3 crown which by that point you have basically everything maxed 2. Nova’s backswing is really long which means it’s easy to slip fast units into her blindspot since she won’t move up often 3. Royal Guard’s DPS is way too good since he can be properly sustained there.
i accidentally found out his power when trying to do normal idi without ms, i struggled with basically the strongest units you can think of, then, i thought it'd be funny to see what royal guard can do, i thought he'd get shredded by the gories, then he beat the stage on his own
oh yeah Idi is one of those stages where I also thought he wouldnt dominate too well but then I see lots of people posting screenshots of obliterating Idi with RG lmao
If that's true, then I guess I'mma colonize idi with bri'ish cats since I'm doing SOL 4 crown right now and already got him to 45. And also having UL legends and esoteric uril might make it easier than the last time I did it with no UL legends and sticking to naga stack, slime, teamaster, ramen and uril pre tf.
@@saifmohamed2967 update, used Royal guard against idi re, dealt a bit of dmg before dying. But with the freeze of naga stack he can deal enough dmg to kb idi re. Partnered with uril slow then it can actually work for a bit. Still inconsistent but can act as an extra source of dmg
I haven't finished watching the video but i just want to point out something that i feel like you glossed over at the sirrel comparison. a huge part of why i feel royal guard deals with sirrels so much better is because he is able to one hit kb them. due to his fast attack rate and one hit kb, he effectively juggles the sirrels, making the fact that they stay alive "longer" irrelevant. As shown on your cossack cat example, you have to meatshield as it takes them multiple hits to get one kb off of sir rel, and if the meatshield dies sirrel pushes through and just kills of cossack
@@LucasIVYT perhaps on higher magnifications he loses but it was just specifically within the video I noticed that he was juggling the sirrels which lead to a much smoother and simpler interaction
If you spawn 2 RG cats, it combines and kbs the sir rel before it can attack, so even on bigger multiplier, it can kb them earlier. The fact that this cat is spammable makes it even better
Talented Gravi: Wow, I always wanted a melee unit that targets Relic and Alien, is Wave Immune, and beats hard stages like Infernal Floor 40/49, Soul in the Idol, and the Luza stages! What a great unit! The BRITISH EMPIRE: You called us?
I think one of the reasons people hesitate to use RG is he simply feels unintuitive, from the way it looks I'd expect it to be kinda like a UFO Cat or even a Dark Cat variant, yet here seeing it's actually about as tanky as M.Island while faster is quite a game changer. Similarly I never send out Killer Cat because it feels like I'd be sending an expensive Cat, just based off how he looks and how he used to work. (keyword Feels even though I know I'm wrong).
Royal guard has really been popping off for me. Over the past month I've had numerous stages where I went "Oh wait what if I use royal guard here" and it INSTANTLY became easier (Gigahaniwan, the current halloween farming stage, certain UL stages etc). It honestly reminds me of courier the way I can just throw him at a stage without thinking and it just works. In fact, calling him a melee courier is a pretty apt comparison imo. I gotta keep playing him more but he's quickly rising up the ranks to be my go-to spammable melee dps. And honestly I might STILL be underrating royal guard considering my opinion of him gets better every single day. Finally I just wanna add that using Royal guard on Puffington is the funniest matchup ever because he's literally just juggling a football lmao
royal guard is one of the units that makes 4* ul playable, on the same level of slime tf. its nice to have a "similar to slapsticks" unit for sir rels and relic doges and not summoning a UL true form to deal with starting peons. he has found his way into almost ever 4* ul lineup ive made due to his convinience and sheer stackable dps.
Xskull put this guy below teamaster on his tierlist and considering how much people listen to him as if he’s omniscient I think that might explain why people don’t use the guy
At first i was pretty indifferent about royal guard but that changed when someone recommended me boosting and using royal guard for infernal tower floor 40 and floor 49, thats when i truly realized that royal guard might be goated
I won't lie, I was a Royal Guard doubter when I first tried using them, but the more I used them, especially in my No Gacha save, I realized quickly this guy is capable of things I didn't realize were even possible. May God Save the King and his Feline Guard 🫡
Still find it so crazy how most of the merciless advent units were basically crap before true form. While all the deadly advent units were useable at worst, usually great, right from the start
lol I think a solid amount of the community’s idea of a good unit are usually ones that remain to be long lasting units. After all, when you do say that it takes 6 seconds in order to reach insane dps with research combos, you’ll most likely not even have more than 2 at a time even according to some of the clips you show in the 2nd half of the video. The main appeal of spam able units is the fact that they are strong when there’s more of them, but not many people realize that even just one Royal Guard cat does so much.
Which makes it more baffling how people argued chill cat was better. HE LITERALLY DOESN'T LAST AT ALL, you are lucky if he can even get more than 2 shots off sometimes, which usually only works if you he's boosted enough, or fighting short range aliens who don't immediately just take him out.
imma be honest, i didn't see him, i knew people said he was good, that's about it the moment I saw the stat change i was like, damn look at that damage, that pretty fucking good, looked at the health and was like, that's just straight up really good, thought the speed increase was quite significant, then remembered he has strong against when looking at the dps again, thought that it is kinda broken, then realising it was massive damage and proceeded to flip out the range is also quite nice who tf thinks chill cat is good, like actually, when I first started playing people told me to use him and my man never preformed
Gotta say that he shines in 4* UL. I have played for a long time so I've got some great Uber- and Super Rare wave immune/blocker units but I noticed that Rares and Super Rares lack meaningful anti-wave attackers, at least untill I started using Royal Guard. Overall great unit with some powerful niches.
His TF looked lame as first since nothing change THAT much, because of his usage in the previous form was extremely limited or even unusable. So not many player look after him after receiving the TF, even I also think he still bad and only get a little better. But, HOLY SHEET this little guy shredded everything. The biggest impact on him I could say is wave immune and range buff cuz he already have big DPS to his target and now it's open up his usage even more. From UR dump to underrated. This guy could be the unit have the best TF improvement in the game. (we don't talk about Uril)
"Um actually Royal Guard Cat is not that good. I don't understand why do some people think Royal Guard is good when we have Chill Cat already. All you have to do is to have it level 50 plus 80 + Talented + S Rank Orb and you're all set. It's that simple. Seriously, I don't understand why some people think Royal Guard is good. This must be some secret BC TH-camr Mindset that is being rumored around. Clearly there's still some decent amount of people who uses Chill Cat in 2024"
To be fair, royal guard is definitely a late game unit so you are going to be using chill for most of progression and you’ll have plenty of time to boost it before unlocking royal guard
@@narrihson8747 im end game and my highest rare +level (out of any gacha rare) is 27. assuming that my chill cat was 50+27 it would have around the same dps and hp as a level 41 royal royal guard cat (but thats best case scenario and mine is actually only +11). to match a lvl 50 royal guard you would either need a 50+73 chill cat or 50+40 stat talented chill cat. nobody has those levels unless theyve played for a very long time (my account is from 2020 for reference)
Unfortunately, I already had all of UL 4* done (aside from the recently released levels) when this true form came out. I think there could be a lot of use during those stages if people haven't already Esoteric'ed the whole thing. Dr. Nova though? This TF and Idi's are basically made for that level no matter what other units you might have prepared.
Royal Guard was my first ever Anti-Relic that wasn't purely based on CC, solely because I somehow got through Papuu by sheer dumb luck (and KFC), he helped me a lot in finishing SOL and has been helping me in UL (so long as M.Ost isn't screwing him over)
I have been of the opinion that RG is good since it got True Form. The most important improvement are 3 prong in HP increase, range increase and Speed increase. See, this has increased his survivability tremendously. Now he can stick to his targets quite easily. It doesn't hurt that most Relics are primary Curse debuffers with low damage. These are Slime-esqe improvements that would have been enough to make him good on it's own but no, they increased his dps by 75% as well. That completely removed the need to stack him now. His DPS matches that of Ururan + Urs together. So just having one little guy on an enemy is extreme dps for a while. He has almost become a Can Can like unit that just gives you a a lot of value by just existing on the field with a very cost effective price. He has too much survivability, speed and damage to stick to his targets and chip them down heavy on his own.
I feel everyone is using him now, most 4* lineups I see are using him (me included) The reason why he seemed to have had such an upsurge is probably because people looked at him and thought that because non of his issues were fixed, he’s still bad. But in practice, that’s definitely not the case, he insane at his niche and is very versatile when fighting against his traits. He’s a specialist sure, but a damn good one.
If I can speak from my personal perspective, I was one that initially thought he was garbage and a bad tf. My take has shifted from that idea since then, but before watching this vid, I still thought he was just "decent" and not much else. After watching this, I think I understand why I'm not overly enthusiastic about RG overall, but I do want to state that a lot of the points you brought up are things I've come to realize as of late. RG is a relatively unique unit, at least in comparison to others, given it's able to compliment well with other anti relics thanks to his burst-dps/rusher style, without having much of an overlapping issue, a factor that extends to his anti alien and even wave immune niche. Being able to deal with sir rels effectively is a big plus, while still having enough speed to not become a liability against higher range threats, and being incredibly spammable provides excellent value for disposability, namely in a stage like IT 45. And yet, I rarely think of using him when I'm playing regularly, despite realizing there's plenty of good qualities to his name, some that I even appreciate from the likes of manju and can can, units I bring to plenty of lineups, if not most. So in short terms, it's probably all about my playstyle: While RG is able to compliment other anti relics, we're also gotten to the point where most of those anti relics have become extremely powerful, with the likes of UL legends, superfeline, certain ubers like saki or gigapult, and specially uril tf. So when making a lineup, instead of thinking about trying RG out, I mostly default to the already established anti relics that I'm more familiar with, and try to build a lineup around those with the typical meatshields or supports. As for aliens, it's true that RG and chill operate way differently, and the latter isn't one I bring often against aliens. However, the only reason I use chill to begin with is to deal with those specific "midrange melee" enemies that RG happens to struggle against, and because I got other options for the higher ranged threats, rushing with RG was something I never considered before. That being said, while ubers and unit roles can be enough of a reason to dislike certain units, like how many players don't like cyberstacking in the first place, it's not exactly my biggest reasoning for not using RG, and I want to elaborate for a bit: When it comes to melee units, 2 of the more popular ones around the community are can can and balrog, which are also plenty comparable between each other. Both are high dph melee units with a bit of a foreswing to compensate, also having cheap cost and low cooldown for their rarities, and specially for their insane stats, given their great bulk and aforementioned damage output. These traits allow them to be highly versalite throughout most of the game, with plenty of relevant use cases across multiple stages and bosses, and I happen to have both so it's natural that I'd get a lot of mileage out of them, which I already mentioned for can can before. But to be completely honest here: I don't actually like using balrog. It's probably strange to say that when I think both units are quite similar, but personally, there's one key difference that makes me default to can can over rog, which is their speed. The former has 21 speed, while the latter has 12, so balrog speed is fine enough as is, given he's not slow by any means, but he's also not fast enough to my liking, and that's where his other stats become worse as a result. His bulk doesn't feel enough, his cost feels too high for his own good, and his damage isn't impressive enough anymore for me to not consider can can instead. As weird as it sounds, balrog is a unit that doesn't feel comfortable to use for me, to the point where I unironically think he would've been better with a speed up talent instead of the strengthen. Leading back into RG, I have similar feelings: -He's a fast unit, he doesn't feel fast enough. -He's generally bulky for his cooldown, but doesn't feel bulky enough. -His dps is quite high, but not high enough for me to consider him over can can instead. RG and can can operate much differently in this case, and I'm not trying to prove otherwise, as the only thing I'm trying to say is that RG enters that category of units that don't feel comfortable to use in their role, be it by lack of speed, bulk, or range in comparison to the other options I've accumulated over my playthrough. It also doesn't help that I haven't even done starred UL, with places where RG could still shine even over certain ubers, which might be the main reason I find it hard to actually think of the unit in the first place. Like I said at the beginning, this is all just my personal perspective. I'm still willing to give RG a shot when the time is right, as the potential is certainly there for experimentation, and maybe he'll change my personal feelings in the end, or not, because I can't predict the future. So with all that being said, great vid dude, looking foward for more. And I hope miasma gets the same treatment in its tf because I want a better winged piggie counter.
While this could be just a wild theory, I think Ponos decided that they wanted to make an easily obtainable counter to Nova, so they took an already anti relic unit and gave it several buffs via true form. The same could be similarly said for Idi’s true form where she obtained Sage slayer; however, Idi was already a great unit to begin with while Vodka cat was just forgotten.
I am going through 3* UL and I am definitely inclined to agree! The damage and stackability (especially with research combo) can be so absurd to kill tanky units much quicker! Love using this unit
I'm very much surprised people think royal guard isnt broken, spammable 32k/25k dps with really good health (big highlight on the health, something that spammable and with that damage shouldn't be that beefy) and wave immune as a nice quality of life works wonders, most of the time i use him if there is an alien or relic enemy bc he is amazing for both backliners and melee enemies. Royal Guard is just the cat version of Sir Rel
Royal Guard is just so fun to use apart of being very strong, and i actually use this unit in almost every relic/alien stage and still somehow work. Also, I believe the creation of Royal Guard cat was for preperation of Dr. Nova stage, since it has a property to reliably slip past her blindspot and deal ridiclous damage to it. With XSkull tier, i can confidently say he is B-tier
Doing all of 4 star in one month preparing for Dr. Nova made me realize our current 4 star powercreep is insane! The lv50 free units were constantly butting heads against my lv100+ gacha rares for loadout slots… and won around 60% of the time. I even had to ban legend, Uril and slime TFs to make the loadouts less monotonous!
Atm im going through hell (4 star all UL) and I popped him onto Outta This Village, and honestly I found him pushing into the Nyandam's range so often vs not using him but at the same time he's also just that powerful on his own in that stage. I'm gonna be so happy to find use for this fella in 4 star.
I heard a little while ago that he was kinda under rated so I started using him in my 4* Sol and he was carrying all these stages that I never thought he'd be good on. After that he became one of my more favorite units to bring
When I first got him I was really excited to use him. Then I stopped using him because I saw many people saying he's not a good unit. But I always had the feeling that he's actually decent for his niche. I'm happy to see he's not useless, because I LOVE his design.
The whole chill sectiin was great cause when i was first getting inot battle cats he was still treated as some amazing priority warranting rare like camera or ramen. Then i used him, and he SUCKED. So it's nice seeing someone else say he's bad.
LOL that is the funny part when I was editing the audio in, I was like 'wait why is this audio somehow kinda better' and now i'm confused on how to set my audio
Day 1 of finding every png of a hololive member in a Lucus IV video: 9:25 Ina 1 14:33 (Frog Costume) Kiara - Low Sanity 17:14 - Ina 1 22:03 Ina 1 22:07 smol O_O Fauna 23:04 Fauna 2 For stats that is: Ina - 3 Kiara - 1 Fauna - 2 -Myth- 4 -Council/Promise- 2 Total: 6 If I've missed any please do tell and I'll correct the count.
I genuinely couldn't beat floor 49 of infernal tower without the goat. Wave Immune and having enough health to survive a hit from yulalala (at level 39+) clutch so hard for me.
Hey Lucas, I really wanted to ask you a question. I’ve asked other bc TH-camrs this question, like Xskull. It’s for a very stubborn friend who doesn’t want to but Skeleton cat and Mr. Are you able to provide an explanation and reason why he should buy Skeleton and Mr? Thank you Lucas 🎉. (He doesn’t want to watch the video)
imo, the most underrated thing about rg is his target trait combination. Alien and relic is a really common pairing, especially in mid-late UL and most of those stages contain a relic pusher and alien backliner or vice versa and he absolutely cleans 90% of those stages on his own
Honestly I agree with this video, but thinking about it, it makes a really scary (or fun) thought rise: What's next for relics? What sort of counter will Ponos introduce to counter the current Relic powercreep?
this guy is a game changer in 4 crown UL merciless advent true forms (slime, fried chicken, and this one) are the only reason some of the stages have been doable for me up to this point
I've always liked this unit vodka cat for the memes, the fact that they made him good in true form was great and i have been using him quite a bit! The power of the British empire was truly enough to make this unit good 🔥
i viewed it as a faster but more expensive version of ramen, both short range rapid attacking units with very high dps though ramen has better survivability and can be spammed more easily, get them to bash away on some tanky enemy though and watch that health melt
I remember when i did 4 star chapel transfer and use this guy with violated chivalry and he proceeded to beat literally everyones ass I love him so much as mesocosmocyclone counter since that enemy was born from human suffering
i feel like you should have compared him to manic lion if they are both rushers and this is probably the only thing missing from a video thats supposed to be this detailed about a unit
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"Chill Cat is better" - Fried Chicken Fans
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i still doubt chill cat and that was another list of underated unit that i can turn into NP ChillholaCH
I don't care for chill in the slightest
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Dude is basically the whole reason why Nova is free
are u making a new video on royal guard? i think itd be nice if people saw an update
@ Not necessary with this video existing and I still stand with most of the stuff I’ve said in my initial review minus a few small things such as competition with Chill Cat and the rank I put him in. I always considered him good.
Nova is harder than most stages sheerly because it requires timing
Of course the timing needed is minimal but its something
@@b1ue383 Nova is literally free because
1. You have to beat all of UL 3 crown which by that point you have basically everything maxed
2. Nova’s backswing is really long which means it’s easy to slip fast units into her blindspot since she won’t move up often
3. Royal Guard’s DPS is way too good since he can be properly sustained there.
Yes, and it's even more free because there are not peons every five seconds, unlike in zero luza stage.
i accidentally found out his power when trying to do normal idi without ms, i struggled with basically the strongest units you can think of, then, i thought it'd be funny to see what royal guard can do, i thought he'd get shredded by the gories, then he beat the stage on his own
oh yeah Idi is one of those stages where I also thought he wouldnt dominate too well but then I see lots of people posting screenshots of obliterating Idi with RG lmao
If that's true, then I guess I'mma colonize idi with bri'ish cats since I'm doing SOL 4 crown right now and already got him to 45. And also having UL legends and esoteric uril might make it easier than the last time I did it with no UL legends and sticking to naga stack, slime, teamaster, ramen and uril pre tf.
wait i could have used Rg after all 😭
@@saifmohamed2967 update, used Royal guard against idi re, dealt a bit of dmg before dying. But with the freeze of naga stack he can deal enough dmg to kb idi re. Partnered with uril slow then it can actually work for a bit. Still inconsistent but can act as an extra source of dmg
@@Dasligma69 while i did beat it with just rg, I did use a bunch of combos and had to time thunderbolt at certain times
I haven't finished watching the video but i just want to point out something that i feel like you glossed over at the sirrel comparison.
a huge part of why i feel royal guard deals with sirrels so much better is because he is able to one hit kb them. due to his fast attack rate and one hit kb, he effectively juggles the sirrels, making the fact that they stay alive "longer" irrelevant. As shown on your cossack cat example, you have to meatshield as it takes them multiple hits to get one kb off of sir rel, and if the meatshield dies sirrel pushes through and just kills of cossack
well he can't quite one hit kb them even on 100% but when Sirrel is on the right treshold he wins the exchange that is correct
He's just playing football with his mates
@@LucasIVYT perhaps on higher magnifications he loses but it was just specifically within the video I noticed that he was juggling the sirrels which lead to a much smoother and simpler interaction
Hot take: sir rel’s difficulty is overrated
If you spawn 2 RG cats, it combines and kbs the sir rel before it can attack, so even on bigger multiplier, it can kb them earlier. The fact that this cat is spammable makes it even better
Talented Gravi: Wow, I always wanted a melee unit that targets Relic and Alien, is Wave Immune, and beats hard stages like Infernal Floor 40/49, Soul in the Idol, and the Luza stages! What a great unit!
The BRITISH EMPIRE: You called us?
i cannot overstate how good the range increase for slime feels
lil bore 😊
very small range increase but it makes it outrange basically anything it needs to
I think one of the reasons people hesitate to use RG is he simply feels unintuitive, from the way it looks I'd expect it to be kinda like a UFO Cat or even a Dark Cat variant, yet here seeing it's actually about as tanky as M.Island while faster is quite a game changer.
Similarly I never send out Killer Cat because it feels like I'd be sending an expensive Cat, just based off how he looks and how he used to work. (keyword Feels even though I know I'm wrong).
He's actually kind of like ufo/dark but has the stats of island LOL
yeah having basically identical bulk to misland is CRAZY, i had no idea about that until this video
Royal guard has really been popping off for me. Over the past month I've had numerous stages where I went "Oh wait what if I use royal guard here" and it INSTANTLY became easier (Gigahaniwan, the current halloween farming stage, certain UL stages etc). It honestly reminds me of courier the way I can just throw him at a stage without thinking and it just works. In fact, calling him a melee courier is a pretty apt comparison imo. I gotta keep playing him more but he's quickly rising up the ranks to be my go-to spammable melee dps. And honestly I might STILL be underrating royal guard considering my opinion of him gets better every single day.
Finally I just wanna add that using Royal guard on Puffington is the funniest matchup ever because he's literally just juggling a football lmao
British guys playing football⚽️
3:02 i can't believe royal guard got a 75% damage boost and a 58% damage boost! I am very convinced he's broken now.
royal guard is one of the units that makes 4* ul playable, on the same level of slime tf. its nice to have a "similar to slapsticks" unit for sir rels and relic doges and not summoning a UL true form to deal with starting peons.
he has found his way into almost ever 4* ul lineup ive made due to his convinience and sheer stackable dps.
4* ul is playable without royal guard wdym
Royal guard really helps. Like every relic (and alien because I don't have chill talents) stage he makes easier.
I usually used talented lil flying to counter sir rels in four star. Now royal guard completely invalidates lil flying relic targeting....
I faced 0 difficulty on 4* UL compared to 3* and I completed it before royal guard.
@@bosssnurp5912 It's fine.
They really turned Nadu into a cat. Funniest fish i've ever seen
Watch them make another merciless cat tf be merchant 😭
@@Donxquiote MERCHY you got a question
THEY SLEPT ON MY BOY FOR LONG ENOUGH, THE STATS DOES NOT LIE
Xskull boutta get 2nd thunder jack incident
I might be remembering wrong but im pretty sure Xskull did say that he was a good unit
@@sir27dagamerNo lol
@@sir27dagamerhe ranked royal guard as D tier fucking D tier he B tier at least
It’s already happening lmao😂
I won't be surprised if Xskull has changed his opinion on Royal Guard judging by the fact that he has been using Royal Guard a lot more recently.
i love it when royal guard cat does the funny thing and THE BRITISH ARE COMING
THE BRITISH ARE COMING 😱😱😱
THE BRITISH ARE COMING 😖😖😖
The recent advent tfs have been nothing but bangers
WE'RE MAINTAINING THE AGENDA WITH THIS ONE 💯
This video is cathartic you have no idea how much I’ve wanted to make a video like this
Xskull put this guy below teamaster on his tierlist and considering how much people listen to him as if he’s omniscient I think that might explain why people don’t use the guy
LOL that is INSANE he is easily top 3 advent rares maybe only beaten by rock and slime and nothing else
Teamaster does nothing. Absolutely nothing. Unbelievable.
@@LucasIVYTwhat about bullet train and green shell?
@@jackyliu9600btrain is not an advent rare
bullet train is a super rare, and rock is overall just a better shellboner
Crazy how people still think Royal Guard is bad even though it’s popularly used a lot to beat revival of origin (both base and invasion)
At first i was pretty indifferent about royal guard but that changed when someone recommended me boosting and using royal guard for infernal tower floor 40 and floor 49, thats when i truly realized that royal guard might be goated
I really like the little description you give to the cats/enemies
I won't lie, I was a Royal Guard doubter when I first tried using them, but the more I used them, especially in my No Gacha save, I realized quickly this guy is capable of things I didn't realize were even possible.
May God Save the King and his Feline Guard 🫡
Still find it so crazy how most of the merciless advent units were basically crap before true form. While all the deadly advent units were useable at worst, usually great, right from the start
Hopefully all the brutal advents are good units even before TF.
Cant believe Lucas made a whole video about Dread Pirate Catley...
lol I think a solid amount of the community’s idea of a good unit are usually ones that remain to be long lasting units. After all, when you do say that it takes 6 seconds in order to reach insane dps with research combos, you’ll most likely not even have more than 2 at a time even according to some of the clips you show in the 2nd half of the video. The main appeal of spam able units is the fact that they are strong when there’s more of them, but not many people realize that even just one Royal Guard cat does so much.
Which makes it more baffling how people argued chill cat was better. HE LITERALLY DOESN'T LAST AT ALL, you are lucky if he can even get more than 2 shots off sometimes, which usually only works if you he's boosted enough, or fighting short range aliens who don't immediately just take him out.
imma be honest, i didn't see him, i knew people said he was good, that's about it
the moment I saw the stat change i was like, damn look at that damage, that pretty fucking good, looked at the health and was like, that's just straight up really good, thought the speed increase was quite significant, then remembered he has strong against when looking at the dps again, thought that it is kinda broken, then realising it was massive damage and proceeded to flip out
the range is also quite nice
who tf thinks chill cat is good, like actually, when I first started playing people told me to use him and my man never preformed
Ponos saving a unit from irrelevancy by bloating the stats to crazy proportions is a bit uncommon but appreciated
This guy’s an essential on any UL/Relic heavy loadout I make; essentially, a wall of death on the ready.
Gotta say that he shines in 4* UL. I have played for a long time so I've got some great Uber- and Super Rare wave immune/blocker units but I noticed that Rares and Super Rares lack meaningful anti-wave attackers, at least untill I started using Royal Guard. Overall great unit with some powerful niches.
His TF looked lame as first since nothing change THAT much, because of his usage in the previous form was extremely limited or even unusable. So not many player look after him after receiving the TF, even I also think he still bad and only get a little better. But, HOLY SHEET this little guy shredded everything. The biggest impact on him I could say is wave immune and range buff cuz he already have big DPS to his target and now it's open up his usage even more. From UR dump to underrated. This guy could be the unit have the best TF improvement in the game. (we don't talk about Uril)
"Um actually Royal Guard Cat is not that good. I don't understand why do some people think Royal Guard is good when we have Chill Cat already. All you have to do is to have it level 50 plus 80 + Talented + S Rank Orb and you're all set. It's that simple. Seriously, I don't understand why some people think Royal Guard is good. This must be some secret BC TH-camr Mindset that is being rumored around. Clearly there's still some decent amount of people who uses Chill Cat in 2024"
My chill cat has like +10 so I'm still gonna use royal guard cat
To be fair, royal guard is definitely a late game unit so you are going to be using chill for most of progression and you’ll have plenty of time to boost it before unlocking royal guard
@@narrihson8747 im end game and my highest rare +level (out of any gacha rare) is 27. assuming that my chill cat was 50+27 it would have around the same dps and hp as a level 41 royal royal guard cat (but thats best case scenario and mine is actually only +11). to match a lvl 50 royal guard you would either need a 50+73 chill cat or 50+40 stat talented chill cat. nobody has those levels unless theyve played for a very long time (my account is from 2020 for reference)
@ 50+27 is already outperforming royal guard vs aliens, the range advantage of chill is one major difference that Lucas iv ignored
@@narrihson8747, 50 + 27 is still less DPS than a level 50 royal guard. Chill cat also needs investment into its attack up talent to catch up.
Unfortunately, I already had all of UL 4* done (aside from the recently released levels) when this true form came out. I think there could be a lot of use during those stages if people haven't already Esoteric'ed the whole thing. Dr. Nova though? This TF and Idi's are basically made for that level no matter what other units you might have prepared.
Royal Guard was my first ever Anti-Relic that wasn't purely based on CC, solely because I somehow got through Papuu by sheer dumb luck (and KFC), he helped me a lot in finishing SOL and has been helping me in UL (so long as M.Ost isn't screwing him over)
I have been of the opinion that RG is good since it got True Form.
The most important improvement are 3 prong in HP increase, range increase and Speed increase.
See, this has increased his survivability tremendously. Now he can stick to his targets quite easily. It doesn't hurt that most Relics are primary Curse debuffers with low damage.
These are Slime-esqe improvements that would have been enough to make him good on it's own but no, they increased his dps by 75% as well.
That completely removed the need to stack him now. His DPS matches that of Ururan + Urs together. So just having one little guy on an enemy is extreme dps for a while.
He has almost become a Can Can like unit that just gives you a a lot of value by just existing on the field with a very cost effective price.
He has too much survivability, speed and damage to stick to his targets and chip them down heavy on his own.
I feel everyone is using him now, most 4* lineups I see are using him (me included)
The reason why he seemed to have had such an upsurge is probably because people looked at him and thought that because non of his issues were fixed, he’s still bad. But in practice, that’s definitely not the case, he insane at his niche and is very versatile when fighting against his traits. He’s a specialist sure, but a damn good one.
2:51 wait is that a reference to that one meme video you made about royal guard
Cheeki Breeki has become stronger than ever
Ah yes the Maus Maus cannot be stopped
If I can speak from my personal perspective, I was one that initially thought he was garbage and a bad tf. My take has shifted from that idea since then, but before watching this vid, I still thought he was just "decent" and not much else.
After watching this, I think I understand why I'm not overly enthusiastic about RG overall, but I do want to state that a lot of the points you brought up are things I've come to realize as of late.
RG is a relatively unique unit, at least in comparison to others, given it's able to compliment well with other anti relics thanks to his burst-dps/rusher style, without having much of an overlapping issue, a factor that extends to his anti alien and even wave immune niche. Being able to deal with sir rels effectively is a big plus, while still having enough speed to not become a liability against higher range threats, and being incredibly spammable provides excellent value for disposability, namely in a stage like IT 45.
And yet, I rarely think of using him when I'm playing regularly, despite realizing there's plenty of good qualities to his name, some that I even appreciate from the likes of manju and can can, units I bring to plenty of lineups, if not most.
So in short terms, it's probably all about my playstyle:
While RG is able to compliment other anti relics, we're also gotten to the point where most of those anti relics have become extremely powerful, with the likes of UL legends, superfeline, certain ubers like saki or gigapult, and specially uril tf. So when making a lineup, instead of thinking about trying RG out, I mostly default to the already established anti relics that I'm more familiar with, and try to build a lineup around those with the typical meatshields or supports.
As for aliens, it's true that RG and chill operate way differently, and the latter isn't one I bring often against aliens. However, the only reason I use chill to begin with is to deal with those specific "midrange melee" enemies that RG happens to struggle against, and because I got other options for the higher ranged threats, rushing with RG was something I never considered before.
That being said, while ubers and unit roles can be enough of a reason to dislike certain units, like how many players don't like cyberstacking in the first place, it's not exactly my biggest reasoning for not using RG, and I want to elaborate for a bit:
When it comes to melee units, 2 of the more popular ones around the community are can can and balrog, which are also plenty comparable between each other. Both are high dph melee units with a bit of a foreswing to compensate, also having cheap cost and low cooldown for their rarities, and specially for their insane stats, given their great bulk and aforementioned damage output. These traits allow them to be highly versalite throughout most of the game, with plenty of relevant use cases across multiple stages and bosses, and I happen to have both so it's natural that I'd get a lot of mileage out of them, which I already mentioned for can can before.
But to be completely honest here: I don't actually like using balrog.
It's probably strange to say that when I think both units are quite similar, but personally, there's one key difference that makes me default to can can over rog, which is their speed.
The former has 21 speed, while the latter has 12, so balrog speed is fine enough as is, given he's not slow by any means, but he's also not fast enough to my liking, and that's where his other stats become worse as a result.
His bulk doesn't feel enough, his cost feels too high for his own good, and his damage isn't impressive enough anymore for me to not consider can can instead. As weird as it sounds, balrog is a unit that doesn't feel comfortable to use for me, to the point where I unironically think he would've been better with a speed up talent instead of the strengthen.
Leading back into RG, I have similar feelings:
-He's a fast unit, he doesn't feel fast enough.
-He's generally bulky for his cooldown, but doesn't feel bulky enough.
-His dps is quite high, but not high enough for me to consider him over can can instead.
RG and can can operate much differently in this case, and I'm not trying to prove otherwise, as the only thing I'm trying to say is that RG enters that category of units that don't feel comfortable to use in their role, be it by lack of speed, bulk, or range in comparison to the other options I've accumulated over my playthrough.
It also doesn't help that I haven't even done starred UL, with places where RG could still shine even over certain ubers, which might be the main reason I find it hard to actually think of the unit in the first place.
Like I said at the beginning, this is all just my personal perspective. I'm still willing to give RG a shot when the time is right, as the potential is certainly there for experimentation, and maybe he'll change my personal feelings in the end, or not, because I can't predict the future.
So with all that being said, great vid dude, looking foward for more.
And I hope miasma gets the same treatment in its tf because I want a better winged piggie counter.
Happy you're getting to do more of these videos, I enjoy them so much!
I honestly never knew that this unit wasn't commonly known to be OP, it was always a major talking point during my time in E280
While this could be just a wild theory, I think Ponos decided that they wanted to make an easily obtainable counter to Nova, so they took an already anti relic unit and gave it several buffs via true form. The same could be similarly said for Idi’s true form where she obtained Sage slayer; however, Idi was already a great unit to begin with while Vodka cat was just forgotten.
I mean maybe but if all they want is nova counter then they really didnt need the anti alien and wave immune extra LOL
I think he talked about the broken unit nobody uses in The Battle Cats guys!
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I love how in the notes for Cossack cat, it says that it has nothing to do with pirates, which is in the meme song
You should just say that The roal guard cat counters Sir Rel by preventing it from attacking.
Sir Rel is only dangerous because of Sirs insane DPS
I am going through 3* UL and I am definitely inclined to agree! The damage and stackability (especially with research combo) can be so absurd to kill tanky units much quicker! Love using this unit
THE ROYAL GUARD GLAZING IS REAL RAAAAGGGHHH! WTF IS A CHILL CAT?!?!
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I'm very much surprised people think royal guard isnt broken, spammable 32k/25k dps with really good health (big highlight on the health, something that spammable and with that damage shouldn't be that beefy) and wave immune as a nice quality of life works wonders, most of the time i use him if there is an alien or relic enemy bc he is amazing for both backliners and melee enemies. Royal Guard is just the cat version of Sir Rel
3:43 don’t you dare give them ideas
I actually do prefer to use RG then chill because i swear ive never seen chill hit enemies due to its foreswing
Royal Guard is just so fun to use apart of being very strong, and i actually use this unit in almost every relic/alien stage and still somehow work.
Also, I believe the creation of Royal Guard cat was for preperation of Dr. Nova stage, since it has a property to reliably slip past her blindspot and deal ridiclous damage to it.
With XSkull tier, i can confidently say he is B-tier
I agree! Slapsticks fell off. I'm a proud RG user now
Doing all of 4 star in one month preparing for Dr. Nova made me realize our current 4 star powercreep is insane! The lv50 free units were constantly butting heads against my lv100+ gacha rares for loadout slots… and won around 60% of the time. I even had to ban legend, Uril and slime TFs to make the loadouts less monotonous!
Royal guard pulling up to the game with the triple research:
Atm im going through hell (4 star all UL) and I popped him onto Outta This Village, and honestly I found him pushing into the Nyandam's range so often vs not using him but at the same time he's also just that powerful on his own in that stage. I'm gonna be so happy to find use for this fella in 4 star.
KFC, Brits are coming and "That's a weird jelly"
POV: you are an indigenous child about to get turned into minced meat
I heard a little while ago that he was kinda under rated so I started using him in my 4* Sol and he was carrying all these stages that I never thought he'd be good on. After that he became one of my more favorite units to bring
When I first got him I was really excited to use him. Then I stopped using him because I saw many people saying he's not a good unit.
But I always had the feeling that he's actually decent for his niche.
I'm happy to see he's not useless, because I LOVE his design.
The whole chill sectiin was great cause when i was first getting inot battle cats he was still treated as some amazing priority warranting rare like camera or ramen. Then i used him, and he SUCKED. So it's nice seeing someone else say he's bad.
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I actually like these audio settings.
LOL that is the funny part when I was editing the audio in, I was like 'wait why is this audio somehow kinda better' and now i'm confused on how to set my audio
@LucasIVYT, oh, I see. I hope that these settings will stay like this.
Day 1 of finding every png of a hololive member in a Lucus IV video:
9:25 Ina 1
14:33 (Frog Costume) Kiara - Low Sanity
17:14 - Ina 1
22:03 Ina 1
22:07 smol O_O Fauna
23:04 Fauna 2
For stats that is:
Ina - 3
Kiara - 1
Fauna - 2
-Myth- 4
-Council/Promise- 2
Total: 6
If I've missed any please do tell and I'll correct the count.
new lucas drop finally 🙏
I genuinely couldn't beat floor 49 of infernal tower without the goat. Wave Immune and having enough health to survive a hit from yulalala (at level 39+) clutch so hard for me.
Hey Lucas, I really wanted to ask you a question. I’ve asked other bc TH-camrs this question, like Xskull. It’s for a very stubborn friend who doesn’t want to but Skeleton cat and Mr. Are you able to provide an explanation and reason why he should buy Skeleton and Mr? Thank you Lucas 🎉. (He doesn’t want to watch the video)
If he has a good uber research combo he doesn't necessarily need to, otherwise just tell him its really good for ramen or something
Lol
ROYAL GUARD LOOKS SO COOL AND I THOUGHT HE SUCKED but hes AWESOME! TYSM TYSM
nice vid
video idea: rarest unit in battle cats (either across all versions or only BCEN). pretty fun rabbit hole to go down
the july 4th one gives you a British solider 😭 73.5k sub
Thanks, Lucas. I've been using him but never knew he would be more powerful with combos.
He's cracked with Bad Guys lol
I knew RG had potential the moment I realised his stats were basically "reckless M. Island"
have a good day
It’s ironic you need to beat march to death to have a unit with a march of death
I should definitely consider using him for 4 star UL.
Royal guard has been an absolute beast in 3* UL, when the guards are on the march, all relics and aliens are actually demolished.
imo, the most underrated thing about rg is his target trait combination. Alien and relic is a really common pairing, especially in mid-late UL and most of those stages contain a relic pusher and alien backliner or vice versa and he absolutely cleans 90% of those stages on his own
I’m an RG denier because he switched from Russian to British, and as we all know nobody likes the British, not even the British
The cat army’s starting to reflect the British Empire 🔥
The problem is you need to beat angel daboo to get this unit yeah.......
Eh just get idi and the stage doesn’t seem that hard. Also true form of delivery cat
Cafeteria cat……….
Lvl 50 Royal Guard has very close stats to Lvl 70 E.Duelist. I'm saying this because I love Duelist but doubted RG at first.
Royal Guard obliterates anything in his path with Bad Guys combo. He's my main melee unit in 4* sol.
18:31 the moving corpses 💀
10:10 what a legendary sentence. at first I thought you were just making up random words
Jelly dumpling cat and bullet train cat: LETS MAKE THE MITGY CATCOMBO
we need more people to push the anti-chillcat agenda
I had no idea he would work on on infernal tower floor 40 at all that's so cool.
Honestly I agree with this video, but thinking about it, it makes a really scary (or fun) thought rise: What's next for relics? What sort of counter will Ponos introduce to counter the current Relic powercreep?
Nobody's using it: meanwhile royal guard being the only reason of why im finishing 4*UL
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@justanotherweirdchannel8785 no way
this guy is a game changer in 4 crown UL merciless advent true forms (slime, fried chicken, and this one) are the only reason some of the stages have been doable for me up to this point
royal guard with bslayer would be to drool for
The moment I saw him deal with the pufferfish on his own I knew I had to get him
I didnt even know his base stats were so high, he's forever in my lineup now
Finally running down 3* UL after years of neglect and royal guard very quickly became a favorite. That’s my GOAT on screen……….
I've always liked this unit vodka cat for the memes, the fact that they made him good in true form was great and i have been using him quite a bit! The power of the British empire was truly enough to make this unit good 🔥
Gadzooks! This tower is too infernal to me! If only there was a way for me to trivialize Masked Grandmaster Cat!
The trusty Royal Gaurd:
The British museum described in a single quote:
“DUDE THEY STOLE OUR PRICELESS ARTIFACT”
i viewed it as a faster but more expensive version of ramen, both short range rapid attacking units with very high dps though ramen has better survivability and can be spammed more easily, get them to bash away on some tanky enemy though and watch that health melt
I remember when i did 4 star chapel transfer and use this guy with violated chivalry and he proceeded to beat literally everyones ass
I love him so much as mesocosmocyclone counter since that enemy was born from human suffering
Also as an irish person it deeply saddens me to see that royal guard is a filthy british cur(im joking or am i....)
it doesn't mean anything, but i still find it funny that this little fella has more effective dps than bazibastra
This is the long form content I can enjoy for a meal instead of "X station is Y"
i feel like you should have compared him to manic lion if they are both rushers and this is probably the only thing missing from a video thats supposed to be this detailed about a unit
As a rusher, Royal Guard is much better since he has actual damage output compare to Manic Lion weak ah 2.7k DPS.
16:59 uhh wave resist kai next question