I’ll probably nerf Kobold a little in the final game.
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.