Peter Pants

### Text

You start at level 3 and never grow up! Characters in your shop have +1/+1 for each time you would have leveled.

### Artist

Kate (Ekaterina) Chesalova

**Peter Pants** is a hero card. He starts out at level 3, and never levels up. Instead, for every 3 XP he earns, his shop characters have +1/+1. He has a counter next to his hero portrait that counts how many +1/+1 buffs you have accrued.

## Strategy

**Peter Pants** has a very unique playstyle - knowing how to play **Peter Pants** is very different from knowing how to play other heroes! You have perpetual, strong access to the level 2 and 3 pool, along with buffs that are quite relevant for the midgame, but in exchange you have no access to higher level characters in your shop, and higher level treasures are difficult to find too.

**Peter Pants** wants to pick up economy-boosting characters early, like Lucky, Ogre Princess, and Prized Pig, so that they can quickly fill up their board with level 3s. Failing that, The White Stag and Trojan Donkey win many early brawls mostly on their own, so you can at least get a health buffer.

Next, as your rivals hit level 3, you are starting to look to triple characters, both taking advantage of and cementing your early advantage, and using your economy-boosts to do this before other heroes. More importantly, you are looking for treasures.

But not just any treasures - **Peter Pants**, more so than any other hero, needs to focus on assembling the "Hatball" combo to compete late game. **Peter Pants**'s outcome often hinges on whether or not he is able to find Crystal Ball and Merlin's Hat early enough, though some other treasures like Power Orb, Tell Tale Quiver, and Deepstone Mine can buy him some time too. Once he can do this, his ceiling rises significantly.

Once you have "Hatball", or perhaps a bit before, look for Blind Mouse triples, who can potentially give you Forking Rod - that along with "Hatball" can allow you to become strong enough to win a lobby.

Treasure Map is interesting too - if you can line it up with a Blind Mouse triple, you can get Wand of Weirding (a substitute for Forking Rod) or Embiggening Stone (which can be an alternate route to victory). If you cannot line that up, tripling a level 3 character for a level 5 treasure could yield Monkey's Paw - a treasure that probably doesn't win the lobby but at least buys you some time and allows you to get a decent finish even without "Hatball". Tripling a level 2 character for a chance at Forking Rod is valid too.

You should also seek Mages - namely Wizard's Familiar and Spell Weaver - to scale with your "Hatball" combo.

Another good thing for **Peter Pants** to find is Mixawizzle and True Love's Kiss, especially if you can chain them, giving you access to characters that you otherwise do not have access to. Note that Shard of the Ice Queen can also be used to keep a Mixawizzled character permanently on a higher level, letting you potentially continue your chain later. Sometimes, a lucky Good Boy or The Storm King could be the result!

As with any "Hatball" build, it's important for **Peter Pants** to have valid targets for several targetable spells, such as a Treant for Expo-Natural Growth and Good and Evil characters.

Once you have "Hatball"+Forking Rod, cast as many spells as you can, and have fun managing the chaos!

## Notes

* Shop buffs like **Peter Pants**'s buff are permanent buffs applied immediately to all shop characters when **Peter Pants** levels up, and then applied to every character that the shop rolls while you have **Peter Pants**. Shop characters still have the buff if you cast It Was All a Dream out of **Peter Pants**, but future shop characters will no longer have it.
* On **Peter Pants**, your first shop will always contain at least one level 2 character.

The "Superpan" hero card skin is available through the Super Supporter Pack. The bundle also included emotes that could be used with the skin, the Golden Early Access hero frame, and 2,500 Gems.

* The Super Pan skin and emotes are also by Kate (Ekaterina) Chesalova.

## Gallery

*Peter Pants* card art*Superpan* skin card art
## History

 June 18, 2021 | Released in *Storybook Brawl's* Early Access launch.