Unit Analysis by Team BethelFrankel
Class
Sniper that generates (and scales with) Enhanced Tiles.
Overall
S
Advantages
+Strong, global sniper chain; excellent for mobbing
+Selective Enhanced-Tile generation greatly boosts her value in E-Tile teams
+Enhanced tile stacking can generate some extremely silly numbers if built around
Disadvantages
-Very team dependent; E-Tile value is tied to specific units like Minos, Goldie, and Naroxel
-Stiff competition within role outside of E-Tiles teams
Explanation
At baseline, Paloma is comparable to the other S-tier snipers in Forest. She has a good ATK stat, a great sniper chain, and useful pseudo-Detonator style nuke. If this was the end of discussion, she’d be a strong, if unexciting, pick.
However, units like Minos and Goldie have greatly increased her value over time, due to the ways they manipulate Enhanced Tiles (E-Tiles). In E-Tile teams, Paloma’s active is not only a powerful Detonator-style nuke, but also a rare select E-Tile generator which can even double as select-tile Conversion via Goldie. Additionally, both her Normal Attacks and Chain Combo have absurd scaling with enough E-Tiles – enough that she can rival proper detonators on multi-tile content with proper support. Because of this, she ends up being one of Forest's strongest units, and one that'll age even better as time goes on.