Welcome to Assemble!
Here, we'll look at several different characters across multiple series to see who would form a perfect team for a certain genre. From fighting game rosters to RPG adventuring parties, different types of characters tend to show up frequently. What we'll do here is look at those archetypes to see what character is the best fit for that slot, and in the end, we’ll have the best team for the job. These articles will also be shorter entries, compared to some of the more long-form articles here, focusing on one or two characters at a time.
Despite a perception of a lot of these titles as generic war games, some shooters allow players to dive into an engaging story in a captivating world, taking the role of interesting characters with varied weapons, abilities, personalities, and motivations, especially with the popularity of hero shooters like Team Fortress 2, Overwatch, and Paladins. In this series of Assemble articles, we will be assembling a hero shooter roster using characters from several different shooters, based on different character archetypes.
The picks will be based on the different themes and tones of the characters and the worlds they inhabit as well as the roles they fill on a team or the kinds of weapons they use. Only characters that originated from video games, shooters particularly, will be observed here. Both first and third-person shooters will count and so will first and third-person action games if their main method of combating enemies is gunplay. Finally, I’ll only be discussing games and characters that I am at least somewhat familiar with. While this means I won’t discuss every shooter in existence, there should still be a good amount of variety with the series explored.
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THE DEMOLITION EXPERT
The Demolition Expert is a character that specializes in
explosives. Grenades, missiles, mines, remote bombs; if it can blow up for
massive damage in an area of effect, they are likely to carry it. Since their
explosions can cover a large area, they are especially good and fighting in
crowds, where they can damage multiple enemies and possibly score some lucky
eliminations. Owing to the chaotic nature of their weapons of choice, the
Demolition Expert is often shown to be not the most mentally sound of their
group, possibly being even obsessed with explosions or the damage they can
cause.
Our pick for the Demolition Expert is…
Bomb King from Paladins.
The first clue to how well he fits this role is his
appearance. He’s literally a walking giant bomb. He was brought to life when a
warlock working under a warlord wanted to create new weapons to take down her
enemies. The resulting confused construct believes himself to be an actual king
and is wandering around visiting the lands he thinks he rules over. As for the warlord’s
army, Bomb King took care of them all by himself and with his explosive arsenal,
it’s easy to see how.
His main weapons are sticky bombs that he throws at
opponents and can detonate at will and he can spawn more from compartments in
his arms when he reloads. For his abilities, he uses different kinds of bombs
that not only damage, but can also stun enemies or knock them back, or knock
himself back if he needs to make a fast getaway. Finally, for his Ultimate move,
he uses himself as the bomb, rolling forward and controlling which way he rolls
before detonating himself for massive damage. (He’s just fine afterwards
though.)
For his effectiveness in fulfilling this role, from mechanics to appearance, we now add
Bomb King to our roster.
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