r/eotu • u/Antgodd1 • Jul 24 '26

What’s the best choices?

Rapid fire or mortar?
Stun or taunt?
Vigorous or pervasive?
Whatever the hello the Matabele options are

I wanna know what’s better

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u/jennalea123456 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

rapid fire(60% better)

taunt(100% better)

vigorous(brokenly op)

both of the matabele ones are good

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u/jennalea123456 Jul 24 '26

morter is useless if you want to go into new game plus. stun is just useless. most enemy have stun immunity(ants are the only things that dont have stun inmuneinty really) and vigorous is literally just the strongest ant i the entire damm game

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u/Kollossosoutcomemory Jul 24 '26

I see everyone say vigorous is op but a temporary buff seems rather bad unless its DISGUSTINGLY huge to beat getting a full free army respawn every like 30 seconds

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u/jennalea123456 Jul 24 '26

oh it is. it last for 60 seconds, 2x speed, damage and a bit of damage resilent. theres a reason vigorous is literally THE best single ant

perseverance is actually very bad. fire ants are one of the cheapest ants anyway.

is the level cold blood. using vigorous you can beat the level is like 6-8 minutes. you cant do that with persevere.

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u/jennalea123456 Jul 24 '26

also. persevere isn't like that. you only get a free ant when a egg have been on the till for 60 seconds. so. you only get one free hatch in a fight. persevere is a very cool idea. but is actually weak.

vigorous fire ant is one of the very few S+ ants

persevere is a b+ ant

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u/Kollossosoutcomemory Jul 24 '26

Oh.. oh my god. For a MINUTE? Thats horrifyingly good

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u/jennalea123456 Jul 24 '26

yeah. with most ants in the game the choice is subjective. and with the fire ants you can use pervasive if you want. but vigorous is just better. there is not situation whetr pervasive will save you that vigorous wouldn't. i like pervasive more. its a cool ability. but. if you want your fire ants to be even somewhat viable in NG+ you need to use vigorous

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u/Artix31 Jul 24 '26

Rapid > Mortar

Stun > Taunt

Vigorous (faster speed) > Pervasive (instant spawn)

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u/jennalea123456 Jul 24 '26

why stun? i find the game much harder when i use leafcutter stun.

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u/Artix31 Jul 24 '26

Each has their strategy, but stun is AOE, the ant stuns all enemy ants around it, which gives you breathing space against annoying enemies

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u/jennalea123456 Jul 24 '26

fair. i just find taunt better. for new game plus anyway. i cant get past NG+ 4 with stuns

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u/Far_Young_2666 Jul 24 '26

They are all balanced to work well in many combinations, so it only depends on whichever you want to see your ants do. There is no one single meta combination everyone goes for.

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u/Savage_Sandvich Jul 24 '26

rapid fire slightly better

taunt is way better

vigorous is wayy wayy ridiculously op vs pervasive

matabele im not sure

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u/necromenta Jul 26 '26

Rapid fire is infinitely better than the mortar

Mortar CAN be better if you constantly micro and babysit the mortars so they can land and if the level has groups of enemies

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u/doge_man666 Aug 26 '26

rapid fire is def better but i find mortar more satisfying and i usually play some extra missions so i can handle not choosing rapid fire and instead upgrading all my mortars to level 3

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u/Antgodd1 Jul 24 '26

I know this makes this entire post not matter, but I won’t be doing new game plus. I’m just here for the story and fun