i was just thinking Congorilla would make an easy LE out of Gorilla City Warrior.

Yes, and the special power is call Flinging Poo.

Now there'd be a good use for the AE mechanic. I've got a Colonel Mustard from the Clue set with actual figurines; just about clix-sized and it'd make a great Congo Bill!

And I play monkey teams every so often! Great write-up, I hadn't even seen Solavar's dial yet, but thanks for giving the Humanite his day in the sun!

It turns out the lack of range on monkeys is a bit of a perception thing. It's still significant when a monkey has it, as many of the filler options lack it. For those mid-to-low characters that do, take someone like Gorilla Man as an example, it's often preferable to get them in close.

More accurate regarding range is that 'Few Animal keyworded characters have it', as once you're outside of monkeys you're hard-pressed to find range.

I kinda disagree with the assessment of Grodd. He is probably the best choice of a figure out of all of these. He has so many options it is very difficult for him to not have an advantage in any situation. He is priced nicely to have a fair amount of support. In comparison you gave V Monsieur Mallah and the Brain a 4... and they were terrible when they first came out...

I'd love to see folks' ideal ape builds! Who would you use at 300, 500, or 800?

We're living in an ape vacuum, so just because Mallah&Brain weren't all stars in the grand scheme of clix doesn't mean they aren't great apes.

Both have 8 range and Running Shot, but for 23 more points Grodd loses one target. Grodd has to stay in the fight so his RCE can work. 4 clicks of Outwit is less useful than 3 of Outwit and 4 of Perplex. Neither is a bad choice, but it's easier to build a team around Mallah (or use him as a second big threat) than Grodd (whose cost will exclude a second big threat unless that fig is, indeed, Mallah&Brain).

My one suggestion would be to use the Blue Lantern to help with Grodd's Range and that way you do get a "use" out of his Barrier. You can even have Ultra carry it around. You can even add in both the Blue and the Purple Lantern and let Ultra have some extra Mind Control Range as well.

Damn you for making an article that now makes me want to run monkey's this weekend instead of Sinestro. You sure are a monster!!!

My question that I had coming out of this is, do the Gorilla city warriors get all those abilities if both Grodd and Solovar are on the team?

Yes they can choose to use either one when they attack.

This is great.

When I read this I flashed back to Madagascar, where the two monkeys just bought the bus tickets, turned around, and all those cops were pointing guns at them and the one said "If you have any poo, throw it now."


Flinging Poo: This character can use Incapacitate. When this character makes a successful attack using Incapacitate, the target of the attack suffers a -1 on all current combat abilities due to the stickiness and smell.


E.

Whoops-a-doodle...

Grodd: "Kill the humans!"

Solovar: "No; we must show we are their equals."

Gorilla City Warriors: "*erm*!"

If you have both, you've just got a lot of torn Gorilla warriors making quick decisions!

I am all kinds of psyched about the Gorilla City Warriors.