Gladiator (TDS) (HiamjamesXD)

The Gladiator is a melee tower in Tower Defense Simulator, as well as fighter in TFGOE that can be unlocked for 2,500 coins in the shop.
== Bio ==
The Gladiator is an exclusive tower in Tower Defense Simulator that can either be obtained from triumphing the SFOTH event while it lasted, or buying it with robux when a promotional sale comes on. It is a short ranged, fast-attacker with strong piercing damage and rather high DPS for its cost.
In TFGOE, it mostly stays the same, however rather than rapidly swinging at enemies, it now gains varying yet rather simple moves and abilities focusing on combos to do large bursts of damage to the opponent if all hits connect.
== Pros and Cons ==
=== Pros ===
* High DPS if you know how to play him.
* Piercing damage allows multi-hits.
* Can parry attacks if you time him correctly.
* Very good mobility.
* Quick attack rate once you get a combo going.
* Above average health.
* X-factor is a great finisher assuming it hits an enemy.
* Good jump height.
=== Cons ===
* Requires loads of skill.
* Low range.
* Parries have sluggish cooldown.
* Missing too many hits can be punishing due to damage penalty.
* Abysmal DPS if you can't keep up with comboing.
* X-factor can miss, wasting it completely.
* Extremely vulnerable to opposing parries.
== Costumes ==
* Default
*Beach Ready
*Demon
*Pirate
*Retro
==Throws==
FORWARD: Gladiator impales an enemy and kicks the opponent, sending them to the ground.
BACKWARD: Gladiator impales an enemy and swings his sword behind, sending them backwards.
==Specials==
===PASSIVE===
His first three hits have reduced damage, respectively by 75%, 50% then 20%, and also suffer a 30% firerate debuff. From his 4th hit onwards, all his attacks do normal damage at his regularly fast rate, and will not recieve the penalties until the combo meter resets. The combo meter also resets instantly if you miss 3 attacks, and disappears slightly quicker compared to other fighters.
To not make him too punishing nor infuriating to play as, his combo meter will slow its disappearance rate down whenever he is stunned for him to recover if he encounters a freak accident.
===Parry===
Gladiator goes into a parrying stance. If an enemy hits him while in the stance, the attack will be blocked and the attacker will be stunned, giving Gladiator time to attack.
The stance lasts for 0.4 seconds, with a 6 second cooldown. (8 seconds if you missed the parry.)
=== Sharp Edge ===
Gladiator raises his sword up and it starts glowing white with a magenta aura for 2 seconds. During this, his next hit will double in damage. The duration immediately ends when after one hit.
The sword raising animation is cancellable by doing anything, making this move ideal for comboing, 7 seconds cooldown.
=== Lunge ===
Gladiator lunges forward, reaching further and dealing more damage than a normal attack while dealing a decent amount of knockback. 3 seconds cooldown.
This deals the most damage out of the specials.
=== Upwards Slash ===
Gladiator slashes upwards, sending his opponents flying vertically depending on their weight. 6 seconds cooldown.
=== Whirlwind Slash ===
Gladiator starts moving (actually floating) in whatever direction he's facing as he spins around with his sword, dealing continuous damage to whoever touches him. 7s cooldown.
=== Warrior's Call ===
Temporarily increases attack rate and halves cooldown of all other specials for 8 seconds, but requires him to stand still for 3 seconds and not be knocked back/down in order to activate. 16 second cooldown regardless of activation.
Each hit light hit Gladiator recieves will reduce the duration by 0.4 seconds, while each heavy hit will reduce the duration by a whole second.
== X-Factor ==
=== Darkheart Swordsman ===
Gladiator switches appearance to his max level (gaining a white dominus and a darkheart for its default), gains a 15% damage boost (which nullifies his passive) and charges forward. If it connects, the opponent will get impaled, and Gladiator will then do a rapid 6-hit combo, followed by an upwards slash into a whirlwind slash, then a sharp edge'd lunge, knocking the opponent far back. After this, he returns to normal.
If he is in tag team and he kills one opponent with the X-Factor, he will heal for 15. Not that much, but it's something.
If it misses, it is completely wasted.
== Player Objectives ==
just combo bro (tba)
== Animations ==
=== Entrance ===
Gladiator appears with some particle effects, followed by 3 "cha-ching" sounds as well as bits of his armor appearing for each sound. This is to visualize him being upgraded.
=== Stance ===
Stance depends on costume. (See images)
=== Victory ===
Gladiator spins his sword before shouldering it victoriously.
=== Taunts ===
# Gladiator does some spin trick with his sword.
# Gladiator slashes the air.
=== Time-up loss ===
Gladiator looks dumbfounded before getting disappointed and putting away his sword.
== Quotes ==
(to be added, for now he remains silent except for some of his moves where he screams.)
== Trivia ==
* Gladiator's costumes are all level 3, with his X-Factor being level 5.
** The only exception to this is the Retro costume which is at level 2, even if the Venomshank didn't actually poison enemies in-game at the time.
* The healing in tag-team upon defeating an opponent is a reference to an old, removed passive he had in the original game where he would heal your base for 3 each time he gets the finishing blow on an enemy.
* His Retro costume references a TDS fangame recreating its oldest era, Retro TDS.
* His upwards slash is inspired by the one found in wave defense gaem.
== Gallery ==
File:Beach glad lv3.png|Beach Ready costume
File:Demon glad lv3.png|Demon costume
File:Pirate glad lv3.png|Pirate costume
File:Classic glad.png|Retro costume
File:Max glad.png|Gladiator during X-Factor
File:Max beach glad.png|Beach Ready costume during X-Factor
File:Max demon glad.png|Demon costume during X-Factor
File:Max pirate glad.png|Pirate costume during X-Factor
File:Max retro glad.png|Retro costume during X-Factor
== See Also ==
* Gladiator on the TDS Wiki.
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