[Feedback] Wood ants feel stronger than other ants

[HofNerd]

I've put each ant species against an uber crab to test their performance at a total tilecost of around 46500 per species on the open lane of battle arena:
Black ants: 310 lvl 3 soldiers. They all died with the crab taking little (less than 1/5th total health) damage.
Wood ants: 140 lvl 3 melee + 140 lvl 3 mortars. They killed the uber crab, losing almost all melee ants while all mortars remained alive.
Leafcutter ants: 50 lvl 3 majors (taunt) + 100 lvl 3 media. All ants died and the uber survive at 1/5th health.

So I did the next logical thing and put each ant against the other on the open lane:
Values are survival rates.
I used the same armies as used in the last test.

310 black ants vs 280 wood ants: 0/269, 0/266, 0/269
310 black ants vs 150 leafcutters: 0/143, 0/142, 0/141
280 wood ants vs 150 leafcutters: 161/0, 180/0 179/0

Poor black ant soldiers...

Now let's see how the wood ants perform against both armies at once:
280 wood ants vs 310 black ants + 150 leafcutter ants: 168/0, 170/0, 185/0.


Let's see how far I can take this, for science! I'm halving the wood ant army and run the same test:
140 wood ants vs 310 black ants + 150 leafcutter ants: 49/0, 32/0, 38/0.


Hmm...
What would happen if I changed the lvl 3 mortars for lvl 3 rapidfires?
280 lvl 3 wood ants vs 310 black ants + 150 leafcutters: 0/264, 0/260, 0/269.
Whoa, that is a huge difference.

Doing the previous ant species vs species test for wood ants:
280 wood ants vs 310 black ants: 245/0, 243/0, 241/0. (It looks like black ants are doomed to be stuck at the bottom of the food chain.)
280 wood ants vs 150 leafcutter ants: 119/0, 137/0, 122/0.

Woodants still seem to have a significant edge over other ants of the same tile cost.

 

[pakitane16]

Piggyback on this post. I made this for the tierlist post way back in summer. Groups of 50-food-worth ants vs 1 largest sized of another non-ant species (no uber), 1 wave in open lane. The composition for woody and leafcutter was to even the price and balance both their HP and damage. Trapjaw and army ant cost was speculated based on their stat.
Black ant is sadly worst agaisnt anything.
Trapjaw ant is better than them at fighting small creatures, but large creatures still cause troubles. Jumping prevents them from doing constant damage and they are the worst at killing the huge whip spider.
Wood ant is the most successful species. Their caste is so specialized that the damage output isn't affected when their tank are whittled down. Their only counter in the game is the huge whip spider that resist acid and can kill 20 ants per swipe.
Leafcutter is a bit worse, it cost more to kill large and AoE creatures.
Army ant is meelee species so their damage is hindered by the number of ants alive tanking hits to buff up. It costs a bit more than woody against AoE creatures, but they are overall the most cost effective (with this speculative price).
I didn't record the number for ants vs ants on my computer but I recall it was: mortar>army>taunt>rapidfire>stun>trapjaw>black.