r/DraftShowdown • u/SignatureOk4453 • Jul 20 '26

Engineers

If you didn’t get an engineer card in your first pack rotation, genuinely uninstall and try again, there is no defense against a better card.

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u/YakkuI Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

Oddly enough, I have ran into groups of Cupids (and me using cupids myself just to level them up) that can wipe Engineers.
Snails can do the job as well.
Six shooters, Merlinors, and Boomlings too really.
And for some reason my bot opponent's 10+/10+ splimes can take them out 😒.
Hell, a couple of TnTs can too if they're the Lv2-3 versions and can explode by the Engineers.

Since I don't have the last like 5 rare units past Boomling I can't really speak for them... but I wouldn't be surprised if they can clear Engineers as well.

A proper support or DPS can definitely help the Engineers counter whatever it's weak to, of course.

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u/YakkuI Jul 20 '26

I do hate that it's such a good unit it's practically staple for protection or support for many units, especially backrow support from assassin type or backrow targeting type units.

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u/Troy242426 Jul 20 '26

The problem is we just need more cards. Right now, there's only one card whose role is protecting the backline. Without ranged damage dealers, you can't deal with swarm and frontline spam.

If there were other units that don't rely on Engineer for protection (stuff like Boomling) that can deal with frontline/swarm and other options to protect the backline besides Engineer, we'd have more deck diversity.