Fountain

**Fountain** is a Tier 4 body upgrade upgrading from Thorn, Remedy and Forge at Level 45. Instead of damaging enemies, the Fountain can heal allies with it's Remedy aura.

## Technical/Design

It is a fusion between the ramming ability and the healing aura. The concept is "Foundry but healer". It replaces the Bonfire aura with the Remedy one. It heals as much as one. The Spike shell is slightly bigger, and it has the same stats as a Thorn. It's health is higher,but is slower and deals less body damage.

This is the base stats as of Dec 23, 2023.

Base Stats
 Health
 Body Damage
 Movement Speed

## Strategy

#### As a Fountain

As you are a fusion between the Thorn and the Remedy, and you have half the power of the Saw and Fabricator respectively, the power of you is nothing to underestimate. This is great in that it moves and regenerates itself fast, so if you choose tanks to attack with, you could play as a rammer. Moreover, because it will light the dark place in the Crossroads, it's the best tank when roaming around the Crossroads. Overall, it is a good tank with multiple merits, and you can also equip yourself with Amalgam, Riot, Shrapnel, Octo, and Arsenal to further solidify it's utillity. We must also look at the suggestions and strategies to play the Fountain effectively.

* **Don't** start in FFA, as you are unlikely to survive (or fight back if you're faster) higher-leveled tanks and Celestials if they target you. You also had a disadvantage since other players in FFA have a offensive/fast/high-health body upgrade. Moreover, you're completely **alone** in there,and there is no one that can protect you without friendly-fire on you. If you have founded yourself on FFA, you must rupture a nearby Wormhole and run from this gamemode to the Crossroads ASAP.

* Although the usage of Fountain is not recommended in FFA,it has various potentials in 2 Teams and 4 Teams. Yet, there are some requirements to unlock the full potentials:

* Stay in crowd as much as possible. Assuming there is a battle between teams, your heal, although weaker than Fabricator's, can speed up the process of the "fast healing", giving an significant edge to your team in combat.
* Use trap spammers - or tanks that protect in all directions. Riot, Amalgam, Shrapnel, Palisade, Octo and Arsenal all work on protecting both you, and your teammates from enemies. Shrapnel, Palisade and Octo all work on defending your teammates in all directions, with the Octo even be able to damage back the enemies, and is good at farming polygons, but has weaker protection. Riot, Amalgam and Arsenal works on defending in a single direction, and they can even attack back! Riot is the most defensive, but can't farm. Amalgam is better for farming, but weaker, and the Arsenal been the best for farming. It's pillboxes can also attack the enemy,but overall it's traps without the autocannons are weaker than the former two.
* Avoid direct conflicts (mostly 1v1). Fountain is not a strong body upgrade on its own and is reliant on others. If the player engages such battles, there is a high probability of dying.
* You must also spend your stats onto speed. Since you are outrammed by Saws, you must spend most of your stat points into speed to make the chase more difficult for the Saw. You must also spend your points into health and health regeneration,and ram slowly,as you wanted to survive without getting easily killed once outmatched.
* Simillarly,Fountain has more health than Foundry, so it's not a big issue if you're fighting a weaker Foundry. (45/53)

#### Against a Fountain

* See if the player is lucky enough - Fountain is rarely seen alone/or in FFA, but if that happens, kill the Fountain as fast as you can. Even if they use a strong trap-spammer, like the Riot, keep attacking it until it dies.
* If in 2 Teams, if you don't have a team, run when you see it going with a crowd, or, engage a fight with teammates,to see which team is stronger. Use Alpha-Saw to try to find a weakness to the enemy team's defenses,then you can rush the Fountain if it's exposed. If you succeed,the Fountain will die.
* You can also use Marksman-Saw to slowly cripple the Fountain if it's on the sides and exposed.It is very hard since it's team will focus a part of their attention to do,so have another Alpha-Saw teammate, or you can distract the attention of the enemy team so that your Alpha-Saw teammate can kill the Fountain.
* If the team has a fair amount of Infernoes,use them to counter the Fountain.

#### Matchups

* **Strong Against:** Normal teams with a crowd of teammates, otherwise nothing.
* **Goes Well With:** Foundries and Infernoes with the same level (if you're with a group), Saws (again, if in a group)
* **Weak Against:** Inferno and Foundry during most battles,Alpha-Saws (if you're exposed),Engineer branch (unless you defend yourself from every direction) and most tanks when alone.