karakai dies to poison enemies for me early on nearly always
Initially it happened to me too, but I saw that if you switch it at the right moment with another monster you can barely win without it dying. This happens very often, on calamity, for me. I put a "shield monster" to take most or all the dmg, I keep a strong dmg-dealer in the back and then, when the shield one is going to die, I switch them to avoid that. The poison is hella tricky because you have to switch them before, or divide the dmg.
I hate the little poison monsters. They are the worst XD
Very often, I find them more difficult than the "elite" ones.
Are there monsters with which you don't have this problem? Other bulky ones? Maybe Woad with a supporter that heals it? Healing is another strat I found that works well against them
Tuskal just shreds most things. With karakei both monster die, I too do the switch thing snail and bug tank are fine but with karakei I have to switch too early he simply is not as tanky against poison so both die.
Skimander frontrow damage scales insanely with speed not as holistic as tuskal but I think it can be more powerfull.
With my skimander builds I usually killed myself in recent runs either to the switch debuff or leeches because his damage was so insane.
Yeah, Tuskal is broken, I was thinking "monsters aside from it" XD
I don't know, I find Karakai very good in general, but against poison for sure Slagg and Kabu are easier to use thanks to their comebacks mechanic, I agree. But if you have someone that gives enough dmg, with Karakai, against anyone else Karakai really shines, tanking lots of stuff with its enormous Def.
Skimander I agree it's awesome! Tricky to use, but awesome. Love it with Chip to do Rumble dmg and stun around.