Synergy – the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects. – The Oxford dictionary.
The word Synergy, is one of my favorite word, and it gives me even more joy when I see it in games. I reckon it gives depth to games, and makes the strategy more interesting.
In different games, we might call it different things. When I was playing Magic the Gathering, we used to call it combo – or simply, this card goes well with this. But it’s not just slapping two units together so you have twice the force, it’s about knowing each cards/units and getting much more than what you originally had.
With Summoners war, it’s also fairly obvious, but with Undead Nation, it’s a little more subtle.
1) Let’s start with the basic “holy trinity” – the tank, the DPS and the healer. In UN’s case, the most common team will be – Hank, Doc and a shooter. While you might say there’s nothing to it, it’s also nothing to be scoffed at.
2) In a slightly more interesting pairing – Amanda and Doc/Medic. The mechanic that I’ve seen with this game is that the “heal” is not great. When my tank has over 10k, Doc just doesn’t heal enough (maybe 1/4~1/5, so about 2000~2500 hp). Amanda, however is a rare breed, which in WOW, was an “agility tank” – that is, she is capable of holding her ground due to her dodging skill. Of course, she doesn’t have high HP, but the great thing is, like I said before, this game doesn’t give you crazy healing, so that’s ok.
3) Spike and Judy. – There are many posts in the form stating Spike is a “has been”. But I really want try this combo – though I can see that, the issue is, it’s really only useful for one unit at a time (though I can think of two scenarios this would be really handy).
And to be honest, in this game, this is all I’ve found. It has a fair few “pure damage dealers”, and as such, I’m hoping that units like Doug, or Connie, Lucian would have some interesting effect (something like proportional to speed, or something like that), but the devs have gotten to that stage.
With the introduction of Dio, we may see something new come yet, so I might update this post if something comes.
Happy hunting.