Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-13368701-20130828014302/@comment-13368701-20130828132257

Godofcyanide wrote: The signature weapon bonus makes up for these weapons' shortcomings.

Breakdown with his weapon is like a mini-R5 Mirage: He doesn't do the most damage per hit, but he takes many more hits to kill, so he will keep dishing out that damage.

Before TBL, Recommend set my 3 leaders as R5s Galvatron, Nemesis Prime and Jazz (because it insists on giving R5 Ironhide's weapon to Galvatron!). I switched my leader to Ironhide, NP and Mirage and saw  more reliable damage output, as one of the major factors in damage swing - loss of a trio accelerating the death of the others - minimizes ever further, making the boss more reliant on his random attacks being focused to avoid taking an expected amount of damage.

If you're a T2 player with zero/one/few Soundwave(s), it's most likely a reasonable idea to get Breakdown onto your leader line at some point, just to see the difference in how and what damage you deal. I think Soundwave, Nightbeat and Cliffjumper are the only T2-level cards (excluding former x7s) that would surpass BD on the leader line. Forgive me that I cannot agree with you. I myself have 1 soundwave, 1 hotspot, 1 cliffjumper, I thought breakdown probably can make my commands but sadly it just can't.

And the recommendation deck is not the ideal construction if you google around. I actually video recorded some of the battles and figured out the way in which Mobe does the math. In fact, defend is not as useful as attack. For simplicity, only 50% of defend status is taken into account when your bots are taking hit while roughly 120% of attack status is effective when your bots are hitting the bosses.

Granted, the more rounds your bots survive the better. But that is based on the assumption that the bots can make reasonable hit damage while they last. Seeing a great R4 card is better off with non-signature weapon (both silverbot and hotspot weapon are better even factor in the 15% sig bonus) is just sad...