Pollux

**Pollux** is a tier 2 Celestial body upgrade that evolves from Nebula. It has 1 big auto cannon instead of 4 small auto cannons.

## Technical/Design

An Artillery attached to a Celestial with slightly modified Bombard stats. It also has 1 small layer above the main body but below the Artillery.

Base Stats
 Bullet Speed
 Bullet Penetration
 Detection Range
 Health
 Body Damage
 Movement Speed

## Strategy

#### As a Pollux

It has the same strengths and weaknesses as the Bombard, except that you're stronger and don't suffer speed penalty. You can use the big turret to snipe enemies from far away, use it to farm shapes (although less effective than Galaxy) and all weapon upgrades (except Charon) works well with it,but the most effective upgrades are Quasar, Blazar and Asteroid. However, your central turret has lower detection range, and you won't have the extra health protection. Before playing it though, we had to look at the strategies to play it effectively.

* If you're playing as Quasar, you will have an extra bullet spam to fight off other spammer enemies such as Quadro or Disperse. You can also farm shapes a lot more effectively, as a result you had a great combo between spammer and single-shot bullet attacks. Drone tanks such as Emperor, Executive or Hatcher are like potato chips to you, simple because your bullet spam can quickly clear their drones/minions. They will ultimately be killed by the Pollux turret as there are few drones to defend them. Manufacturer stands a better chance at killing you, because it's Destroyer-Palace minions are tanky, and can take many hits from your bullets. Thankfully because it had few minions,you can rush it if it failed to kill you. Marksman-classes won't have much of a chance at attacking you, simply because you shoot a lot of high-penetration bullets, weakening the damage that Marksmans deal to you significantly. Be careful as Riot can still penetrate your bullets.

* If you're a Blazar, you also had high-damaging bullets alongside your high-penetration bullets. You can quickly clear out drone attacks from an Emperor or an Executive, as mentioned above. Annihilators are no match for you. Simple because you had stronger bullets and the Annihilator will die quickly if you're fast. Not even Ziggurat can defend from your wrath, as your combined bullets outdamages the health of the Ziggurat, effectively shredding it's health and kill it in under a few shots. However, you will have a much harder time to fight Disperses and Quadros, as your bullet penetration isn't enough to penetrate the bullet spam of bullet spammers. As a result, you must get lucky and attack their weaker bullet spam sides so that you can damage them. However,you are **way** more prone to been killed by Marksmans, because you simply don't have enough FoV to see them, and the fact that Marksmans are known to regularly be fast with the Saw/Foundry and/or having extra firepower in their snipes with the Bombard. Riots can penetrate you more effectively too, and you farm shapes less effectively, so be wary if you play as Blazar.

* If you're an Asteroid, you are nearly invulnerable to low-leveled enemies. Your traps are too tanky for even bullet spammers like Minigun or Disperse to penetrate. Drone-classes also had not much of a chance to penetrate your trap barrier, as all they can do is to charge all their drones at you. When they ran out of drones, you can use the Pollux turret to kill them as your penetration is high. If you're with other celestials or in the Crossroads, you needed to stand front of your teammates while shooting traps defending them. Since you're an escentially a mini-fortress to them,you act like a base for the other celestials to defend. Annihilator or Marksman will never be able to kill you. in fact they won't be able to damage you even a slight bit. Even Riot or Amalgam will have a hard time killing you. Simply because even your small traps can tank 3-4 of their traps, for each. However you will nearly be unable to farm polygons as traps are known for their bad farming damage. You are also prone to high-level Infernoes, as their aura is indestroyable. and if they're high-leveled you will die!

#### Against a Pollux

Despite it's powers, the Pollux still has a weakness. It's bullet might be strong, but it fires slowly. It's bullets might be fast, but it has less FoV than Bombard, and does not give extra health, so you can counter it with these ways

* You can use Marksman, as mentioned above. Pollux's turret has low FoV compared to yours, so stay out of it's FoV and snipe it from afar. The Pollux is slow compared to you, so stay out of it's range, making it unable to kill you. You can also combine with speed like Saw or extra pressure to it with Bombard. Don't afraid to use Bombard, as it's FoV is higher than Pollux's, so pressure it until it dies. It only works when it's alone.

* You can use pure death to rain down upon the Pollux. Amalgam or Riot are already dangerous for the Pollux, but if you combine it with the Inferno, you will cook the Pollux alive as it's bullets are all destroyed by your traps, and your aura is indestroyable, and you are also faster than it. If you're weaker than it you can kill it slowly, but if you're a real high-leveled (95's), and with/without teammates, you will **absolutely** bring death and suffering to the poor little Pollux, making it helpless, unable to escape you (or your teammates), and it will die in hopelessness...

* Might be weaker than the 2 former tanks, but the Wave also works well on killing the Pollux. It's Barricade back trappers are still stronger than it's attacks. not to mention you severely outspeed it. When you see an Pollux been alone, rush to it. When you got close enough to it, turn your back and attack it. You can combine with Bombard, Battalion, Foundry and especially Inferno to further help you in killing it. If you spotted it fighting another player, attack it from it's back and try to rush the Pollux. It won't able to fight a two-front attack and will die. You might share the XP with the other attacker.

#### Matchups

* **Strong Against:**Slow tanks, Low-FoV tanks, glass cannon tanks, Annihilator, Ziggurat.
* **Goes Well With:**Fabricator, Bastion, Saw, Quadro.
* **Weak Against:**Amalgam, Inferno, Marksman, Riot, Wave.