Barbed Battler

Barbed Battler is a Rare battler. It can be unlocked by leveling up to level 10. He now gains increased defense and damage but now moves slower, costs more with a longer cooldown. 
==Character== 
Barbed Battler is a battler wearing clothing in the style of the medieval age, albeit much darker and with a lot more spikes and thorns around his body. He holds a Black Balltop Mace.
===Accessories=== 
*Face: Lightning Speaker
*Helmet: Shadow Archer Helmet (Recolored)
*Shades: Spiked Shades (Recolored)
*Pauldron: Dark Armor with Straps
*Spikes: 3x Black Iron Horns (Recolored to Dark)
*Pants: Black Iron
*Gear: Black Iron Mace of Pwnage (Recolored to Dark)
 
==Usage==
Barbed Battler essentially has the same role as its normal form, . Barbed Battler is a meatshield unit with OK survivability used mainly for its damage reflect, making it useful against aggressive frontliner enemies. Also, its damage reflecting has improved a bit from its normal counterpart, allowing for more damage to be done to enemies when they attack him, giving it a more retaliatory kit than a random meatshield. It also gains significantly higher armor, allowing it to both tank and absolutely wreck enemies with fast attack speed and low damage, examples being and his gang, , and even enemies such as or .
Unfortunately, this unit has many cons which hinder its performance greatly. First, it is pretty expensive for what it's worth and its recharge is quite long, so you can't exactly stack it unless you bring support units like or . Its higher range does not do much either, considering it is supposed to soak up damage and quickly get rid of fast-attacking frontliners, even if its survivability is improved. Many red enemies are tanks or backliners, such as or which are able to take down Barbed Battler with ease, and the remaining few that are melee are fairly easy to deal with using other units. Also, many enemies can completely invalidate Barbed's gimmick, like with his "instakill". Paired with the very low DPS of its base attack, it's more situational than anything. On stages with enemies that attack fast and deal low damage, he's decent, but on stages with enemies that deal very high burst damage, like , he falls off massively. It's a good thing to know when to use him and where he's most effective, even if he does not find much use in the first place.
===Strengths===
* Retaliation 
* Decent health pool
* Very high armor
* Can reflect damage
* Can beat Coilfrontation almost entirely on his own, beating and his skateboard gang on his own, though dying to the coil mini-bosses afterwards.
===Weaknesses===
* Slow attack rate
* Slow recharge
* Pathetic damage with main attack
* Only effective against frontliners
* Dies easily and cannot deal much damage to enemies with high burst damage
==Statistics==
 
==Update History==
2024
==March 24==
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==Quotes==
 
==Gallery==
 
 APFB2.gif|Barbed Battler and a few other gacha units trying to beat Coilfrontation during April Fools, 2024.
FusecoilSpeedrun.gif|Barbed Battler destroying .
 
 
==Trivia==
*Barbed Battler's quote, "Stay five miles away." is a reference to 's description, where he runs 5 miles away to shoot enemies.
Category:Battlers
Category:Gacha
Category:Alt Form Battlers
Category:Anti-Red
Category:Rare Battlers