Hey hey everyone! With the approach of the spookiest of seasons again, it’s time for us to start revisiting some of our creatures of the night and the few heroes who rise up to stop them! Season 33 will mostly be touching the Unlikely Heroes and a few of the Horror members that are receiving a sub-theme of their own, as opposed to sitting there just as secondary options.
The reworks we’re going over here are actually only a first touch, as we plan to continue revisiting toons from these themes in season 34, which should bring a slightly larger batch of changes.
For the here and now though, we’ll be completing the Unlikely Heroes, keeping their identity as specialized Monster-slayers. This will be supported by a variety of toons being moved over from their current race tags to Monster to better reflect their nightmarish characteristics.
As for the Horror toons, we’re creating a second full team that has it’s own special interactions, the Mon-Steins, which will be themed around their reworked toons, Monster Foghorn and Dr Dawgstein, hopefully giving a fun halloween twist to the Barnyard crew!
You can check the changes down below, but as always keep in mind that these might not be final:
Who’ll stop this Mon-stein?
The Mon-Steins have made it to the World of Mayhem, coming together from the whims of two mad scientists who didn’t really care about the consequences. Featuring the core cast of the Barnyard team in true halloween fashion, this team will already have veterans in the form of Monster Foghorn and Dr. Dawgstein!
This team, like their Barnyard counterparts, features powerful Critical Hits with increased Critical Damage, backed by a large amount of healing and counterattacks and Max Health reduction. They’ll feature as an Alliance Wars offensive team, with some crowd control immunities as they kick off the battle!
Here’s a sneak peek of their theme passive:
Reworks
Mon-Stein
Monster Foghorn
We’re slightly updating Monster Foghorn’s stats to compensate for his lower baseline as a Rare toon, and slightly tweaking his skills so that he can better make use of the Counter Attack offered by the Theme passive of his new theme. Although we are aware that he’s losing some self-sustainability with the changes to Bad Memories, we’re also buffing Dr Dawgstein’s support capabilities to make up for that!
- Added to Theme: Mon-Stein (is now dual tagged with Horror)
| Stats | Old | New |
| Attack | 306 | 327 |
| Defense | 286 | 320 |
| Health | 787 | 882 |
| Speed | 144 | – |
| Skill Name | Old | New |
| Eye Throw | Deal 100% damage to target enemy, gaining 2 Defense Up for 2 turns. | Deal 110% damage to target enemy, gaining 2 Defense Up for 2 turns. |
| Bad Memories | Whenever this toon lands a Critical hit, it gains Counter Chance Up for 3 turns. Whenever this toon is damaged by a Critical Hit, unless Incapacitated, it heals for 10% Max Health. | Whenever this toon is attacked and fails to perform a Counterattack, inflict all enemies with Attack Down and gain Counter Chance Up. Whenever it lands a Critical Hit, it inflicts all enemies with Recovery Down. |
| Mon-Stein Theme Passive (New) | – | Mon-stein toons have +25% Critical Hit Chance and +25% Counter Chance. |
Dr Dawgstein
The first mad scientist to make his way into the World of Mayhem is also joining the Mon-Steins, receiving some updated stats to make-up for his lower baseline as a Rare toon. We’re making some large additions to Anatomical Knowledge and changes to Quicken the Blood both for him to be more powerful in his supporting role as well as give his team powerful anti Damage Over Time capabilities.
- Added to Theme: Mon-Stein (is now dual tagged with Horror)
| Stats | Old | New |
| Attack | 305 | 325 |
| Defense | 240 | 267 |
| Health | 631 | 700 |
| Speed | 172 | 199 |
| Skill Name | Old | New |
| Call Lightning | Deals an undodgeable 110% damage to the target enemy, gaining Speed Up for 3 turns. | Deal 95% damage to the target enemy, healing for 20% Max Health and gaining Speed Up for 3 turns. |
| Groundshaking Science | Deals 95% damage to all enemies, Flipping 3 Stat Up on each, and inflicting Stun on a random enemy. This can be a Critical Hit. | Deals 95% damage to all enemies, inflicting them with 2 Damage Over Time for 2 turns and Flipping 3 Stat Up on each. Stun a random enemy. This can be a Critical Hit. |
| Anatomical Knowledge | Cleanse 5 Stat Down from each team member and Heal them for 115% heal-power. Cleanse all Damage Over Time from each Horror team member and grant them Sure Critical. | Cleanse 5 Stat Down from each team member, healing them for 125% heal-power. Revive a random ally at 50% Max Health. Grant all Horror team members Sure Critical. |
| Gory Harvest | Whenever a team member lands a Critical Hit, grant them 3 Heal Over Time. If they are a Monster, grant them +20% Turn Meter as well. While in Alliance Wars, unless Incapacitated, inflict Critical Defense Down on enemies whenever they are damaged by a Critical Attack. | Once per each of their own turns, when a team member lands a Critical Hit, unless Incapacitated, grant them 3 Heal Over Time, and if they are a Horror toon, grant them +20% Turn Meter. While in Alliance Wars and this toon remains in battle, your team’s attacks inflict Speed Down. |
| Quicken the Blood | Whenever a team member gets Stunned, grant them 3 Speed Up for 2 turns. If they are a Horror toon, unless Incapacitated, Inflict Damage Over Time for 3 turns on the enemy that inflicted the Stun. | While this toon remains in battle, all Mon-stein allies have Immunity to Damage Over Time. At the end of each turn, for each Damage Over Time on this toon, inflict a Damage Over Time to a random enemy for 3 turns, then Cleanse all Damage Over Time from this toon. |
| Mon-Stein Theme Passive (New) | – | Mon-stein toons have +25% Critical Hit Chance and +25% Counter Chance. |
Unlikely Heroes
As two new team members arrive, most of the changes to the existing Unlikely Heroes are to offer better support for their unique Emboldened buff, specially by making it considerably more accessible, which opens the way for them to have much more powerful turns earlier in the fight.
Petunia Unleashed
As the leader of the Unlikely Heroes, Petunia will be receiving changes to a few skill in order to better support the team as a whole. First and foremost, her leadership skill Survival Instinct will have its current effect moved over to one of the newcomers, which opens it up for her to immediately kickstart all of the Unlikely Heroes extra effects through Emboldened. We’re also tweaking Crawler Chase to be immediately accessible, but swapping it’s effects around, which should help the entire team get going.
| Stats | Old | New |
| Attack | 364 | – |
| Defense | 285 | 305 |
| Health | 609 | 651 |
| Speed | 176 | 189 |
| Skill Name | Old | New |
| Crawler Chase | Deal 165% damage to target enemy, inflicting 2 Recovery Down for 2 turns. Stun a random enemy support. While Emboldened, grant your team 15% Turn Meter. | Warm-Up reduced from 1 to 0 Deal 130% damage to target enemy, inflicting 2 Recovery Down for 2 turns. Grant all team members 15% Turn Meter. While Emboldened, Stun a random enemy Support as well. |
| Rise to the Occasion | The first time this toon falls below 35% Max Health, it gains doubled effects from Emboldened for the rest of battle, and if this toon lacks Emboldened, gains Emboldened for 3 turns. | While this toon remains in battle, all team members have +20% Lifesteal and their attacks inflict Recovery Down for 2 turns. For each Monster on the enemy team at the start of battle, grant all Unlikely Hero team members +6% Max Health for the rest of battle. |
| Cookbook of the Dead | Deal 100% damage to all enemies, inflicting each with 2 Defense Down and 2 Recovery Down for 2 turns. If this defeats an enemy, gain Emboldened for 3 turns. | Deal 95% damage to all enemies, inflicting each with 2 Defense Down and 2 Recovery Down for 2 turns. Gain Emboldened. If this defeats an enemy, increase the duration of Emboldened by 2 turns. |
| Inspiring Memento | While in Arena, this toon has +10% Stats and, when placed on Offense, grants all Unlikely Hero team members Emboldened at the start of battle. | While in Arena, this toon has +10% Stats and when placed on Offense, whenever an Unlikely Hero team member becomes Emboldened, they gain 10% Turn Meter and +50% Lifesteal until the end of their next turn. |
| Survival Instinct | While this toon remains in battle, enemies have -100% Critical Damage and an additional -25% Critical Damage for each Unlikely Hero team member. | For each Unlikely Hero team member, there is a +25% chance to grant all Unlikely Hero team members Emboldened at the start of battle. While this toon remains in battle, Unlikely Heroes gain double effects from emboldened while below 25% Max Health. |
Van Wile
Van Wile is not seeing substantial changes to his skills. We’re updating some of his passive triggers with “Unless Incapacitated” clauses as most passives are, and giving him slight tweaks to his ease of access to Emboldened, the Unlikely Hero unique buff.
| Stats | Old | New |
| Attack | 325 | 344 |
| Defense | 243 | 264 |
| Health | 606 | 658 |
| Speed | 199 | – |
| Skill Name | Old | New |
| Cryptic Contraption | Deal 100% damage to target enemy, gaining 2 Piercing Up. While in Arena, grant your team Piercing Up instead. | Just a text correction, it already worked like this Deal 100% damage to target enemy, gaining 2 Piercing Up. While in Arena, grant all allies Piercing Up as well. |
| Once Is Enough | While this toon is in battle, all Revived enemies become Monsters. Whenever an enemy toon is Revived, Silence and deal 25% Max Health damage to them, gaining 50% Turn Meter. | While this toon is in battle, all Revived enemies become Monsters. Unless Incapacitated, whenever an enemy toon is Revived, Silence and deal 25% Max Health damage to them, gaining 50% Turn Meter. |
| Static Bomb | Deal 100% damage to all enemies with a 50% chance to Stun each enemy Monster. If this Stuns an enemy, gain Emboldened for 3 turns. Whenever an enemy is Revived, reset the cooldown of this ability. | Deal 90% damage to all enemies with a 50% chance to Stun each enemy Monster. Gain Emboldened. If this defeats an enemy, increase the duration of Emboldened by 2 turns. Whenever an enemy is Revived, reset the cooldown of this ability. |
| Watch the Shadows | Once per turn, when an enemy gains Hidden, this toon gains 20% Turn Meter and 2 Attack Up for 2 turns. If the enemy is a Monster, gain Emboldened, and unless Incapacitated, inflict them with 4 Attack Down. | Once per turn, when 1 or more enemies gain Hidden, this toon gains 20% Turn Meter and 2 Attack Up for 2 turns. If the enemy is a Monster, gain Emboldened for 3 turns, and unless Incapacitated, inflict them with 4 Attack Down. |
Monsters
As mentioned before, we’re swapping quite a few toons to the Monster tag. Their skills and theme tags will not be affected whatsoever, but this is being done both to better reflect what these toons are in game and enable certain specific synergies between and against Monsters.
The toons undergoing changes are:
- Hyde Bugs: Rabbit → Monster
- Hyde Sylvester: Cat → Monster
- Possessed Melissa: Bird → Monster
- Krampus Dog: Dog → Monster
