What’s your favorite Banished Leader? What makes them your favorite Leader?
Atriox
Decimus
Shipmaster
Colony
Arbiter
Yapyap
Voridus
Pavium
Personally, mine is Colony, I’ve always liked Hunters and his defense based and unit augmenting leader abilities stick out to me and suit how I like to play. Skitterer’s can be highly useful if deployed right, Goliath’s are fun if a bit cheap in early game and the Hunter Captain with veterancy 3 is a living god that’s more or less a bug zapper when put up against vehicles.
Colony. I am a huge fan of his entire kit with the exception of the missing teleport as well as the goliaths but the thing that drives it home for me is the Hunter Captain. Watching a vet 3 hunter captain giggle while he is being attacked is one of my favorite things about this game. Colony plays a great counter ball and the dev Host really gives you the extra base cracking power to bring the game home.
Arby for me. Arby brings back the good memories of wars 1. His phantoms make him unique and arguably almost unbeatable. The COR allows him to beat mirrors almost every time.
Having the ability in the late game to drop leader powers often (having reduced cooldown via power surge) allows me to take the edge on games that are perhaps stalemates
Surprise surprise but the shipmaster main’s favorite is shipmaster. I love how Honor Guard is pretty much unbeatable in a 1v1 against all the other heroes thanks to cloak. Yes you can play around it, but it is a great strength. I also love how slippery he is and how he has several distinct playstyles he can use depending on which leader powers you pick.
Wanna go locusts? Get tier 2 teleport, extraction, tactical gateway, and displacement. The enemy will have a heck of a time trying to engage while you jump around melting bases.
Or you can get banished raid 3 and zip around with marauders that can cloak. Etc. (side note banished raid should really be 2 points. It is a huge handicap having to invest 3 freakin points in a movement speed passive. and 2nd point is simply ghosts being able to capture points, woopdie doo that could have been displacement)
When I win with shippy I feel like it is because I outplayed the opponent, he is very reliant on troop micro and leader ability decision making as his abilities aren’t great at doing direct damage like most other leaders.
I don’t own colony but his playstyle also intrigues me I would like to give him and yap yap a shot sometime.
Shipmaster and decimus for sure