Scope: First Blood

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Hi everybody, I'm new to the team!

Hello everybody! I am just joined the team today and I was really happy to see hipcheck approved of me joining. I'll probably write a review on the next card to be released and get active here. I play Kongai a lot so I also might post some strategies and tips.

Thank you for reading this guys.

~Hokage4354

New Writer

My name is re4beast on kongregate and i am the newest member to the KCCG writer. Please request any game I can help with. I can make videos as well as written walk throughs.

Anex

General Use:
Anex is an amazing character, but unfortunately, she's one of the most underrated characters. Anex performs the best in long-range decks because she can threaten with Power Toss and Boomerang Chakkra. In my opinion, it's like having a Yoshiro-Cain hybrid at far, and with access to amazing items like Valkyrie's Charm and Sharpening Stone.

Suggested Items:
Valkyrie's Charm: Using Valkyrie's Charm improves some of her matchups. Power toss becomes the same speed as some death rays (which may or may not be desirable), and boomerang beats out a lot of other long range attacks.
Sharpening Stone: Considerably improves her good matchups and can help against some of her harder to beat matchups. A crit Power Toss will easily take out 90% of the cast in a single hit.

Noted Matchups:
Unfortunately, I can't think of any. If anybody would like to pitch in, go ahead and post a comment. I'll add it here and give credit.

Other Random Stuff:
When Anex uses Power Toss against the opponent's last character, and if that character uses a move that's slower than Power Toss, then their move gets "canceled" by Power Toss's effect. Also applies to Ashi's Power Swing.

Card Sets

Well to start off, I'd like to say that it's nice to see that this blog is finally coming back up :)

Anyway, if you haven't noticed, hipcheck put up that fancy new poll on what you guys think the best card set is. Here's each of the sets summarized:

Martial Artists:
Yep, the martial artists. Generally, the martial artists are pretty quick characters with medium-ish damage. Pretty standard characters if you ask me.

Amazons:
They're closer to range-specialists than any of the other card sets. In their unfavorable range, they usually only have moves useful for rangedancing. If they're at their favorable range, though, their attacks are damn powerful. They arguably have some of the best items in the game.

Tiki Villagers:
This group is more of a specialist or niche group. Each character does something really different. The characters are focused a bit more on chance than in other sets.

Vampires:
Yeah, the vampires. They're generally fairly slow but powerful and versitale. They have access to items that keep themselves alive, and even if they don't use them, some of the vampires have life drain attacks.


So, which character set should you use? It depends on how you want your deck built. For example, if you want a power deck, you should build it around a certain range with Amazons and possibly some villagers. A general-purpose deck will usually include vampires and martial-artists. Gimmick decks will always contain at least one villager. Depending on what kind of deck you want to use, one set will always be more powerful than another, but in general, all the card sets are pretty much the same.

An Honest Sand Dollar Challenge

Hey there it's hipcheck. Just wanted to give you an update on a weekly challenge. This is the honest sand dollar challenge. You need to earn a total of 10,000 credits in SandStorm Racing. This really isn't all that difficult because you don't have to save them all up. You just need to have accumulated 10,000 points through the entire game. There are also two badges for this game. There is an easy badge requiring you to get 5,000 credits. And a medium badge wanting you to beat the last level.



Walkthrough:

Don't worry about your credits because by the time you finish the game you will have the easy badge and card. So you go through training and learn how to drive your little car. Then you move on to a three lap track which is not very difficult at all. One of the only things I can suggest would be to go back to a race you know for sure you can win to get some credits. You want to spruce up your car as soon as possible. It has 8 levels you can upgrade it to. Also the only other thing I can really tell you is to do a test run of each map to get a feel for the track. You will find some spots where you don't have to do all the turns and can drive strait through. Also you will find out that you don't need to go in between the posts, but try to get as close to them as possible.



That's all for know enjoy your card and 20 points.

~hipcheck

Three Challenges

There are now three challenges up on kongregate for now. The Kongai challenge is back where you can earn Mind Reader's challice. The Necronimicon and earn Anex. And Sandstorm Racing where you will earn Stoneheel's Totem. also kongregate has added a card album viewer in your profile. This is the biggest help to any user. All stats and moves are shown in this album. Make sure to check it out.

Back in The Saddle

I've been meaning for some tiome now to get this back up and running so tofay is the day. I will put that poll to good use and put up a new one. I am also looking for dedicated writers who will make posts every other day or so. Email me if you are interested. I have no limit on writers so please feel free to jump in.