Benefits on Alarak

Co-op Missions Discussion
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Why Alarak is the best offensive-based co-op commander?

  • Every Supplicants sacrificed empowers him.
  • Self-sustains his health and shields by killing his foes and his own Supplicants.
  • Slayers, Havocs, Vanguards, Ascendants, and Wrathwalkers may deal terrible damage against his foes.
  • Summons the Death Fleet to support him for a short period of time. (Permanent when using Shadow of Death prestige)
  • Structure Overcharge on your building or an ally to clear any debris for your expansion in early game.
  • Very easy commander with humorous voice lines, as well as full offensive assault.
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I love Alarak so much and definitely one of my favourite commanders however his ā€œglass cannonā€ strategy can be very punishing against some mutators so Iā€™d say heā€™s in the lower bracket when it comes to any B+1+ mission but heā€™s totally fine in B+1 and having a maxed out Ascendant/Wrath Walker P1 army is one of the most satisfying coop experiences IMO.

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Is this a new series on ā€˜a brief summary of the basic concepts of coop commandersā€™ that I heard so much about?

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All coop commander can be good at offense. I would not say Alarak is the ā€œbestā€ offensive coop commander.

I feel like you are listing COā€™s units and abilities then just saying that they are best. Like the Karax post.

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Some corrections on this post:
-Supplicants do NOT empower him when sacrificed. Unlike Ascendants, he does not gain any power stacks from Power Overwhelming. The only time he gets stronger is when he sacrifices a unit for himself (not just Supplicants) to restore his own HP and temporarily power up Deadly Charge.
-Once again, Alarak doesnā€™t just sacrifice his own Supplicants. If you donā€™t have any on the field, he will start eating the rest of his army.
-Vanguards and ESPECIALLY Havocs donā€™t do much damage, if any. Vanguards are the worst unit in his arsenal and are severely outclassed by both Alarak himself and Ascendants. Havocs deal zero damage.
-Alarak is not a ā€œvery easyā€ commander. He is actually very micro intensive between controlling Alarak himself, and keeping his Ascendants/Wrathwalkers alive, and casting Ascendant spells.

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On high difficulties Alarak is definitely not an easy commander to play, between his units being made of wet tissue and Alarak himself easily capable of eating his army, itā€™s much too easy to lose your hard built army in seconds with a bad engagement.

His P3 is arguably one of the best prestige in coop though, imo.

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Stettman P2 is without a doubt the strongest Prestige in the game.

I donā€™t think Alarakā€™s P3 is up that high, but itā€™s still very good. A tier for sure.

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I think Tychus P2 is probably stronger.

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To be fair, I didnā€™t mean to say the best, just very much up there.

Iā€™d give it to Stetmann, the tester server Tychus would stand a good chance of being the better of the two though.

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I read it as referring to the fact that every Supplicant sacrificed empowers Alaraks ability to Deadly Charge/Destruction Wave faster. Which seemed fair enough to me.

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Itā€™s fun to hover over his attack boxes when Empower Me is activated. Then see what the values are. Yeah, some crazy stuff like ā€œ200 + 1600ā€! :sunglasses:

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If we are talking about pure offense then I would say p2 zagara.

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If there was one thing that I wanted (especially years ago) was Vanguardā€™s 16 attack. I felt like the first upgrade to increase dmg against armored was kind of dumb.