Playing Every TMNT Character - Rocksteady, Easily Angered

Welcome back to Undefeated at Locals! Last week I played the last remaining character in my attempt to play every single character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles UniVersus set! This has been a great, if long ride and I am very glad I did it and also want to give a huge thank you to any of you who have read even a single one of these articles and an even bigger thank you to those of you that have read all of them! This will not be my last article I will have one more in the TMNT theme going over a recap on my thoughts on each character and then after that I have plans for articles on other subjects within the UniVersus TCG. I will not personally be writing a “Playing Every Character in Guilty Gear Strive” series but another member of the Undefeated at Locals Team will hopefully be taking care of you there so more on that soon!

This week at locals I played Rocksteady, Easily Angered on the Earth symbol. I chose Earth for Referee Juri which came in handy, and Earthbreaker, which was a mistake in this deck as it was almost always a blank attack. The goal of the deck is to hit them with big poke attacks while building up a stage for a huge swing, using Forcing Surrender and Hardheaded to kick the face down cards from our cardpool. We can ramp foundations even faster with Weapon Clash, using it on my turn and then readying the face down with Weightless was a favorite trick in my matches. I do think the response on Rocksteady is basically pointless and I used it maybe 3 times in total in 8 games.

In Round 1 I fought my buddy Ed, proprietor of Kobold’s Keep, check them out in the link in the footer of every page on the site! Ed was on his continually upgraded Leonardo, The Leader deck now with added foundation destruction tricks. I took game 1 with a very aggressive string of Destructive Entrance into a handful of 3 diffs, ending with a Channel Energy for game. In game 2 I struggled to get a good foundation base established and lost the game rather quickly. Game 3 was a much more balanced game with us both trading blows, but I failed to seal the win in the end losing the round 1-2.

Round 2 was against my good friend Steven and his Mitchell Cimino Stun/Freeze deck. These were some incredibly fun matches. I landed a few hits in game 1 but Mitchells ability to constantly refill his hand with spent momentum on both turns via Hacker Extrordinaire makes it very difficult to break through his defense. This was also the game in which I learned Earthbreaker is entirely pointless in this deck since with very little card draw throughout my turns. I lost game 2 even quicker to a Levi’s Rampage that Steven echoed 4 times to take my final health. Round 2 was an 0-2 loss.

In round 3 I fought Edgar’s first run at his Bridget build. I took game 1 extremely quickly since +5 damage to every attack on turn 2 sure does tell a 21 health character to go pound sand. Game 2 was just as quick but exactly the opposite outcome with Edgar very quickly taking me to 0 on his 3rd turn. In game 3 I started using my Forcing Surrenders to kick his flipped attacks from the cardpool to stop him from snapping them to momentum or picking them up with Fillet Fling which helped but wasn’t enough to win the game giving me my 2nd 1-2 loss of the night finishing the tournament 0-3 for 8th place.

Overall Rocksteady is interesting and fun enough. However, if I were ever play him again I would probably either play a City Rampage build or more likely, just play Byakko instead. If he had a better way to make use of his response, or had more access to clearing or picking up face down cards from the card pool he would be way more fun to play. If you want to check out my list it will be linked below!

https://uvsultra.online/deck.php?deck=swhlpfHFOZOZyQcmdNGEsidEgZpLML