I LOVE the cyclops unit. They’re just so adaptable and so good At annoying enemies to death. Stun everyone! Poison everyone! Bypass rampart aura and heal allies! They’re so good, I always have at least one.

@CoffeePotato

8 ай бұрын

They're like a Swiss army knife that needs deodorant and inexplicably understands Abyss 2.

Also dont forget, Cyclops is the only beast unit that will actually use healing items you give em on Auto

Notes and such: -A detail I didn't cover, but with Insight and the right accessories, they can actually achieve 400 MP to pull off the end game Res-Paradigm throwback. -Also, in the case I forget to edit it out again..Warp is subject to Rampart Aura. That's what I was trying to get across there. It's got few use cases compared to flight, but this is one of them. -It doesn't have to be casters, they can serve up a Finisher or Monster Skill too. Very game changing sometimes.

He be waddling into the gyrphons and stunning/crippling the whole front line~

I like how Cyclops confirms you don't need to communicate to throw lightning storms.

@CoffeePotato

8 ай бұрын

Who needs words, or deodorant for that matter?

10/10 thumb I personally never got the idea when this unit was introduced on remakes. Like it was supposed to be an alternative to golems or what.

@CoffeePotato

8 ай бұрын

It's always been an odd duck. Like their SNES version was the most bizarrely useless little meatball...they were like the better TK in PSP, and here they're this rolling chaos thing. It's fun. Also, thanks!

@1cortar

8 ай бұрын

@@CoffeePotato SNES? I don't recall them on OG version. Are you sure? I thought they were introduced on remakes.

@CoffeePotato

8 ай бұрын

@@1cortar They were there, doing basically nothing, almost like a place holder. During Gryphon Only SNES recently I was making fun of them in the Hanging Gardens.

@CoffeePotato

8 ай бұрын

@@1cortar kzread.infoCqDSg8Z92wU?si=irTBDF0BETfsoj3t 4:10:00 ish

@1cortar

8 ай бұрын

Interesting, they were on lower numbers on OG then?

And let's not forget.... cyclopes can use the dark apocrypha =] Abyss II here we come!

@CoffeePotato

8 ай бұрын

Sweet, we can afford to use that on this guy in only 3.76 decades, hell yeah! 😂

Cyclops should have been able to equip armor and weapons would have made them so much better as they are humanoid and possibly fairly intelligent as they can use magic

@raics101

8 ай бұрын

Maybe if they had special armor and weapons, every unit has to fit on one tile so monsters don't look much bigger than humans, but they are. In Ogre Batle 64 ogres can equip 2h hammers or axes and swing them with one hand. Anyway, if I got a dollar every time I heard that cyclops should be able to equip armor in the mod I'd probably be able to buy a squaresoft remake, on discount. In the end I caved in and let them equip circlets, we can assume they wear them as jewelry (I'm leaving the way they wear them to the player's imagination). Weapons are a no-go, they don't have animations for them so the game crashes, they would've had to make them for reborn if that's supposed to work.

@CoffeePotato

8 ай бұрын

The beast has been gifted with a little hat!

Never been a fan of using monster units in TO, dunno why, might be a holdover from the PS1 version where you could only field 2 tops

@CoffeePotato

8 ай бұрын

Also those two were... unreliable at best.

I have a question regarding Cyclops-and, realistically, every other beast and non-human unit-which has me worried when bringing them along to places like PotD and SB: belonging to “unknown” clan, does that mean their loyalty constantly drops every time they hit an enemy dragon, beast, winged, lizard and so on? I've not been able to find any answers on this and I'm worried to use my dragon and matriarch and lose their allegiance every time they help me with my war criming...

@CoffeePotato

8 ай бұрын

You're never going to run into this issue, you're fine. The reason you'd see some folks complaining about loyalty is stuff like taking Bakram units and Auto Farming loot drops on Bakram enemies a few dozen times before going into a story decision and telling them off. You rarely ever see desertions outside of Arycelle, and even that's uncommon.

@blake.1312

8 ай бұрын

@@CoffeePotato okay, that's good to know. I've been Training My Dragon™ on both anatomy and draconology, and seeing as how it's taking many, many battles of having my own units whack them up every turn and it's yet to reach rank 2 in either, I was afraid of needing to reroll for loyalty cards. I've only ever had Donnalto desert once, and I was afraid, in case of it happening again, because my Deneb was openly reviling me during the law playthrough. 5 ranks of whips and 1 rank of anatomy later, she thinks I can do no wrong. Anyway, then I recruited a 15-year-old to go to war, so her judgement is botched. 😝😝😝

I really don't like their implementation. stat spread doesn't fit the offcaster role their skills have. Max mp is nothing special despite being the most magically inclined monster. Bulk got nerfed due to Reborn monster tax. Mp from taking damage scales very poorly. Enemies don't get funky spells to surprise you in coda. Meatballs is useless. If you at least gave them lich max mp, then they would make for interesting ogre blade vessels. Imagine sacrificing your human body in order to more effectively give sweaty handshakes.

@CoffeePotato

8 ай бұрын

The point of the video is that folks assume they're a backup caster, but it's the area stun and meat that make them useful. Their MP to damage doesn't need to be that good considering how much HP they have. A couple healing items can see them tanking for many of the longer fights. They're more of a weird support, which can be fun to mess around with. Also for some reason they allegedly get Abyss 2 if you really want to see them hit well regardless.

@benedict6962

8 ай бұрын

@@CoffeePotato just reread what I said, the rebuttals are already there.