Cannon Guide

This guide will describe how the supreme demon god Cannon works, his different mechanics and abilities, both for the base and liberated version.

The Cannon is an anti-boss unit and his kit is almost entirely based around killing bosses.

To unlock him you need to upgrade draxar (the red orc god) until level 5, and then buy the cannon for 5000 gems, since he can't be dropped with tickets. To see a difference in gameplay, you'll need his relic that can be obtained by tickets drops

The First Skill

The first skill consist of him shooting a piercing shot that does way more damage, each 5 shots fired The multiplicator goes from 500% at level 1 to 2700 at level max with the skin (+100% each level)

The Second Skill

The second skill is the main gimmick of Cannon He gain +0.1 atk speed for each boss kill assist he does (that mean each time one of his shots hit a boss, it will buff the cannon when the boss dies) and also a huge attack bonus that goes from +200% attack at level 1 to +640% attack at level 21+2 (the bonus of attack is calculated with the base attack of the cannon) You DO NOT get boss kills assist with bounties Also the cannon does not get any attack speed buff from any sources except boss kills (so  won't buff his attack speed)

The Third Skill

The third skill is the most important thing to know: when you click in game on the Cannon, you will see a button to "fortify" him. This will lock him on his tile, and prevent him of being moved by anything. While in fortified mode, the Cannon will get a doubled range (4 tiles), a base attack speed of 1.5, and will now prioritize bosses and bounties with their piercing shots. Those piercing shots will also do hp% damage, going from 3% at level 1 to 9.6% at level 21+2.

Cannon Relic

Now the best part about Cannon and why he is strong against bosses: his relic.

With his relic he will now do hp% damage on every enemies with his piercing shots while in de-fortify mode

Also in fortified mode he will now lock every other unit around him in a range of 1 tile. This feature is really useful to prevent nearby units to be shuffled by an eventual boss skill or anything. This is why we use cannon in abyss even at level one: to lock on units so you don't die because all of your placements got changed. And the reason he's so good at killing bosses: Shield damage.

Shield Damage

On boss waves the Cannon will get 4 base attack speed instead of 1.5 while in fortified mode, and each piercing shot will now do shield % damage. With that you will need around 7 Cannons to fully destroy a boss shield (defense and relic levels can alterate the number of cannons needed)

Cannon Strategy

Now that you know all of the Cannon's kit, how do you play him? Most of your game you will only play him as either a boss killer (in hell or hard), or a tiles locker (in abyss and hell). But if you have him high enough (around level 10-12), you can start playing it as a dps in hard, or an early dps in hell to hold (ss is better). What you usually want to do is de-fortify mode for mobs with fast atk speed, and fortify before the boss waves to kill them. Then at level 11, you unlock his liberation... So let's talk about the CANNON LIB !

Liberation - Damage Increases

Cannon's Liberation is simple but can be tricky so let's clarify it Once you unlock it, you can now liberate your cannon in game for 200 blue stones. 

Doing this will increase his base attack by 500% at lib level 0, and then by 100% more for each lib level until 10. After level 10, it goes up by 150% per level until 20 (the max) for a total of 3000% But the main things about liberation are the skills.

Liberation - Skills

The first skill unlocked at lib one reduces healing received by enemies by 50%. This will usually apply on bosses with strong regeneration like wave 90 boss in hell, or Ares and Poseidon in Abyss. The lib 1 will also decrease the number of normal shots between the piercing ones by 2 so now 1 of every 3 shots will be a piercing shot.

Liberation - Level 6 Skill

The level 6 liberation skill is the Quantum Bomb

The name describes itself: it will lauch a huge aoe bomb that does high damage.

Every 50 piercing shots you shoot, the next shot will launch a nuke at his target that will deal 2500% damage on a 5x5 area (within a range of 2 tiles around the tile shot), 10 times, for a total of 25,000% damage. Very useful for handling big groups of enemies, but the "cooldown" makes it hard to use. You need to be extra careful to target the nuke so it will hit a big group of enemies, and not just one.

Liberation - Level 11 Skill

Lib 11 skill is a buff for the lib 1 skill. The healing is now reduced by 75%, and a piercing shot is fired every 2 shots. This makes the nuke much more frequent, and increases Cannon's overall damage output.

Liberation - Level 16

Lib 16 is very expensive to get, but also makes him strong in abyss as well. The nuke will now be launched every 35 piercing shots fired, and will now deal double the damage from what he was dealing before. Specifically, it will deal 5000% damage 10 times on a 5x5 area or 50,000% damage.

Summary

Cannon can be played as a dps, boss killer, and a tile locker, but he need high investment for this playstyle. Lib 11 cannon can solo hell with a very small setup.

This was the Cannon Guide, if you need any more information feel free to ping me on discord in the #general channel or dm me (please use the general...). I hope you will join the Cannon cult soon! See you and good luck with cannon dps gameplay -Titi