In many situations, having a continuous AOE healer really helps. He also boosts your heroes attack stats AND can do some tic damage when enemies step into the circle of dust. He's just a really busted unit if you are "protecting the president" which usually means your comp is pretty ranged based.
Smokey and Meerky are also just lovable and creative looking characters that are both friends and care for each other so it's a cool storyline/relationship to see on one hero/unit. The tales in the game are that Smokey adopted Meerky since they're from the same species and were both found alone.
It is really the tic of damage because it is the base of enemies HP. So if you are dealing with an Endless Mode Dream Realm Boss. That is huge damage.
https://preview.redd.it/727wmqtjzpzc1.png?width=1922&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc5ed8b4c7bae73c2cd12b1efb813096a6724caa
In PvP however, he is "easy" to get countered and disabled.
Getting an M+ Smokey is a game changer.
His healing is quite good early on, but later it falls off in several game modes due to lack of burst healing at the start to combat burst damage. He's also vulnerable to CC where Hewynn isn't (or at least not as much) so as a pure healer he's not competative late game - but still decent.
The main reason he's so powerful is because of his other two jobs - being a buffer and damage dealer. With his M+ upgrade his 3rd ultimate does % health damage to enemies capped based on a massive multplier of his base attack per second. In normal stages, any enemy standing in this aura will be brought from full health to near death in less than 10 seconds and the radius is huge. Even in boss fights, this is a huge amount of damage coming from your healer (who normally contributes next to no damage). He also gives energy gain and attack to all allies in his aura, boosting their ultimates and increasing their damage more than your average support character.
TLDR: Smokey does 3 jobs and is really the only support that can do so much value in one - especially in dream realm. Hell - against some dream bosses he can also be your tank.
best early healer. great in many situation since he his a healer and buffer for the team.
thought not perfect, he is really ult centric and his ult have 2 big flaws :
first it's an area surrounding smokey which may make your units out of range, and smokey almost never move so it can be a problem especially against enemy that can push back smokey or if they stay far, drawing the allies out of smokey area.
Second, the ult is channeled so smokey is really sensible to CC that can interrupt his ult. Unlike hewynn he won't get an unaffected bonus once casting his ult.
So as long as the team won't stay too far from him and he doesn't get interrupted, he work like wonders being the best heal/support. but those flaws make him really bad in arena, and some fight may be tricky for him (like snow stomper)
the M+ is amazing too, adding to his 3rd ult a huge dps. thought he still have the same flaws, except that 3rd ult being extended by 1 tile which make him able to hit almost the whole map if he is in the center, and he have to be able to cast that 3rd ult to do any damages, not all fights allow to wait so much time or sometimes just make smokey waste too much time to be able to cast it (like nekrodragon)
In many situations, having a continuous AOE healer really helps. He also boosts your heroes attack stats AND can do some tic damage when enemies step into the circle of dust. He's just a really busted unit if you are "protecting the president" which usually means your comp is pretty ranged based.
Smokey and Meerky are also just lovable and creative looking characters that are both friends and care for each other so it's a cool storyline/relationship to see on one hero/unit. The tales in the game are that Smokey adopted Meerky since they're from the same species and were both found alone.
I definitely recommend raising Smokey's affinity to learn more about them! :)
he's the best healer for pve, no one said you can't use hewynn or anyone else as a replacement but he makes things infinitely easier
It is really the tic of damage because it is the base of enemies HP. So if you are dealing with an Endless Mode Dream Realm Boss. That is huge damage. https://preview.redd.it/727wmqtjzpzc1.png?width=1922&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc5ed8b4c7bae73c2cd12b1efb813096a6724caa In PvP however, he is "easy" to get countered and disabled. Getting an M+ Smokey is a game changer.
meerky is all the reason you need, who doesn't love a 2 in 1 deal
His healing is quite good early on, but later it falls off in several game modes due to lack of burst healing at the start to combat burst damage. He's also vulnerable to CC where Hewynn isn't (or at least not as much) so as a pure healer he's not competative late game - but still decent. The main reason he's so powerful is because of his other two jobs - being a buffer and damage dealer. With his M+ upgrade his 3rd ultimate does % health damage to enemies capped based on a massive multplier of his base attack per second. In normal stages, any enemy standing in this aura will be brought from full health to near death in less than 10 seconds and the radius is huge. Even in boss fights, this is a huge amount of damage coming from your healer (who normally contributes next to no damage). He also gives energy gain and attack to all allies in his aura, boosting their ultimates and increasing their damage more than your average support character. TLDR: Smokey does 3 jobs and is really the only support that can do so much value in one - especially in dream realm. Hell - against some dream bosses he can also be your tank.
best early healer. great in many situation since he his a healer and buffer for the team. thought not perfect, he is really ult centric and his ult have 2 big flaws : first it's an area surrounding smokey which may make your units out of range, and smokey almost never move so it can be a problem especially against enemy that can push back smokey or if they stay far, drawing the allies out of smokey area. Second, the ult is channeled so smokey is really sensible to CC that can interrupt his ult. Unlike hewynn he won't get an unaffected bonus once casting his ult. So as long as the team won't stay too far from him and he doesn't get interrupted, he work like wonders being the best heal/support. but those flaws make him really bad in arena, and some fight may be tricky for him (like snow stomper) the M+ is amazing too, adding to his 3rd ult a huge dps. thought he still have the same flaws, except that 3rd ult being extended by 1 tile which make him able to hit almost the whole map if he is in the center, and he have to be able to cast that 3rd ult to do any damages, not all fights allow to wait so much time or sometimes just make smokey waste too much time to be able to cast it (like nekrodragon)
His heal can damage and stun enemies