He’s the true final boss if you are trying to go for a high score. The two times I beat him instead of the final boss, I used the combo of “start fight with X” options, buy attack items, and then double deck strat to wail on him before he can set up.
A lost a couple universes to the damn kobold who is the true true final boss, but 575.68 is my current best.
I feel like if there was another round before him, he’d be okay. Kobold’s pain in part depends on you had before him.
He almost always takes more lanes than Medusa, especially if he shows up in the same game as the dork who runs away so I am missing buying power because I couldn’t shut him down fast enough. Some of those early guys also have the force a draw power, and if I didn’t pick up a better weapon, I sometimes miss on lanes I could have won because I could hold even, I just needed to get lucky.
Overall, Kobold feels like an off-brand strategy wrecker - he piles on damage pretty quick.
If the player is trying something kind of weird and doesn’t have a freeze item to shut him down, it’s rough. I wind up taking the Healing Wave collapse or shield boosts I really wouldn’t want quite yet just to deal with him.
