Mantis Shrimp

Mantis Shrimp
Info
Tier	6
Stats	9/3
Ability
Level 1	Start of Battle: Deal 10 damage to the first enemy.
Level 2	Start of Battle: Deal 10 damage to the first enemy. Repeat 2 times
Level 3	Start of Battle: Deal 10 damage to the first enemy. Repeat 3 times

The Mantis Shrimp is a Tier 6 Pet, available in the Puppy Pack. At the start of battle the Mantis Shrimp will deal 10 damage to the first enemy. Levelling up the Mantis Shrimp increases the amount of times it's ability is repeated.

Strategy

The Mantis Shrimp is much like the Crocodile from the Turtle Pack but instead targets the front-most enemy (with slightly higher damage). This makes it a very good Melon, Lemon and Coconut perk popper and allows better trades for the front-most friendly pets. It also doesn't demand scaling making it a resourceful way to get fast value, even if its potential doesn't scale to such heights as the Lionfish.

While similar in design to the Crocodile, in Custom Packs it serves a very different purpose in that it can snipe weak units with dangerous perks like Scorpion or other pets with Steak. This is different to Crocodile which serves to take out powerful backline enemy pets and thus is easily countered by Potato due to the paranoia it (in tandem with Tomato) induces in most teams that utilise Turkey, Secretary Bird, Axolotl, etc. Mantis Shrimp is powerful in comparison because many people neglect to use Potato on frontline pets and instead its ability can remove perks that are usually designed to protect against attacks as opposed to snipe damage.

It can also work pretty well in Tiger, Parrot and Wolverine snipe combos to increase it's damage even more.

Gallery

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  The sprite of the Mantis Shrimp

History

• 0.27: The Mantis Shrimp is added into the game as part of the reworked Puppy Pack.