Lord of Verminion - An Awful Frustrating Experience

[PotatoTree]

Wolf pups aren't actually that bad to deal with. You can't just run into a pack of wolf pups, you have to bait their ability.

The steps to defeat a swarming player is:

1. Identify they are swarming. Play aggressive to prevent them from gathering enough minions. Force them to use their ability then run, and then strike again the second the buff falls.

2. Succubus is not the counter to Wolf Pups, mainly because of their 3 star speed. Agility is way more important than type advantage, if they can run faster then they can choose when to engage in battle, so you'll never get the upper hand. If you want a direct counter, use Fenrir Pups.

3. Use a more technical style of play. Against any swarm, I prefer to use bombs (Robonyan) + taking out search eye (like a single cat) + traps (Rikku). Other strategies include Gilgamesh + pillow cleanse, or even if you have enough micro you can literally just swarm cats and out LB them. Cats actually counter wolf pups if you hotkey your LB, because you can quickly kill the swarm before they can damage you. If you have bombs backing a strong army, you can just walk your army and roll over the crystals, they can't engage you without losing their army. But as you said, you can't just have 4 random bombs against anything, bombs are technical minions. Think of them as caster types, you need tanky minions to protect them a prevent the opponent from just saccing four pups into you (note that four pups is very expensive, it's a quarter of their minion supply. Also, summon 5-6 bombs instead of 4. I usually use 5, but use 6 if you're still practising your micro.

4. Wolf pups need to be in groups of 4 to be effective, that's 60 points worth of minions, which is gigantic. If you just keep splitting siege units to the left and right crystals they're forced to split off pups to deal with you, allowing you to catch small groups off guard. One odin and one siege unit is just 40 points worth. By microing like this you divide their ball allowing you to pick and choose how to carve out battles. You can actually just use a bunch of hildies spread around. Send them to gates, search eyes, etc, but micro them well so you run if you face 4. They must send 3-4 pups against 1 hildy, that's 45-60 cost vs 30 cost, in every small engagement you'll be ahead.

As for other general play, I made a bunch of videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydfR..._SG1vi5fLWD9Ge

The only thing I would agree with is the niche abilities point. I would like things like Wide-Eyed Fawn's ability to be extended to 15s to make it more usable. However, Speed and Charging are just fine as it is. The whole point is that you have to pick your composition, you can summon some powerful minions but it may take up half your food supply. There's tradeoffs you have to do, it's not as simple as summoning what is the strongest.

Not all minions are meant to be balanced by each other. 4 wolf pups are not meant to equal 6 cats in balance just because they cost similarly.