Badger

Badger
Info
Tier	3
Stats	6/3
Ability
Level 1	Faint: Deal 50% attack damage to adjacent pets.
Level 2	Faint: Deal 100% attack damage to adjacent pets.
Level 3	Faint: Deal 150% attack damage to adjacent pets.

The Badger is a Tier 3 Pet, available in the Turtle Pack. When the Badger faints, it will deal a percentage of its attack to the pet in front of and behind it, regardless of what team they are on. Levelling up the Badger increases the percentage of attack its ability will deal as damage.

Strategy

The Badger is a guy that damages the pet ahead and the pet behind, and realistically if it's gonna attack in battle and faint like a real MAN, it's gonna be an enemy and a friend. There are ways to mitigate this.

If the Badger is placed at the back, it will only hurt your opponent's pets. This means that the Badger can turn losses into draws, if its ability knocks out the last enemy pet. The Badger synergizes incredibly well with Honey, dubbed "Honey Badger". The Bee will win a draw if on the last pet, and the Badger can draw losses if in the last spot. This creates an infamous combo: the Badger faints the last enemy then creates a Bee, turning what would otherwise be a loss into a win. During the late game, Mushroom works better although the 1 damage probably won't amount too much. Still, it will against other Bees or Mushroom summoned Pets.

Badger shines in front, if you put a punk ass small guy behind it, minimizing the downside of the damage, most preferably a scaler like Giraffe, Cat, etc. The main benefit to this strategy is that it has a higher potential to destroy a big enemy unit because players will often put their strongest units near to the front, leading to this guy to trade with one opponent big guy or if scaled enough, two. Make sure to balance your scaling to the former so that it doesn't go overkill.

A strategy that is viable in a good amount of fields is to suck it up with hurt pets. A strategy is to use badgers to trigger hurt abilities of certain friends in combat. That's alright.

To counter the Badger, run Chili, Deer or Dolphin. This forces the Badger player to play differently and to Pear stuff above the 5 or 4 HP breakpoint. Chili is most preferable later on since taking one pet slot to counter badger rather than a perk slot feels kinda silly. In Versus you could also position stuff so that some guy of yours trades with it and all its damage goes to your small guy, minimizing damage from an opposing badger.

Game Sound

Trivia

• A Badger is one of the few Pets in the game that can one-shot a 50/50 Pet with melon armor. Others include 21+ attack Pets with peanut or a level 2 or higher Swordfish with 35+ attack.

Gallery

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  The sprite of the Badger

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  The classic sprite of the Badger