tried exactly this several times but mh, sometimes it works. but our bond is not that big.
Anyway best Phobie? Probably gingstings rare red brother. I HATE this guy even more than hercubees the black UR one. bluelien is the most annoying of course
With a lot of the most recent balance patch taking out a lot of the stupid combos the game was plagued with before hematic ginsting is definitely one of the best units in the new meta, super consistent and powerful. Id also say stuff like cupcake, frosty, klepto etc. are at the top of the new meta.
The most recent balance patch has been really good, displacement feels a lot more fair, none of the nerfed phobies seem particularly weak either even after heavy nerfs, aside from doc and billy i have every nerfed phobie and theyve all performed well. Even fantome despite everyone thinking he was dead, has performed well post patch.
Only one id say is still really really strong is unicorn, tbf inoc is still very good but its more manageable now and its nerf has helped a lot of the phobies that it just zoned out of existence see play.
as for the buffs, brutewurst has been really fun to use and honestly hasnt felt particularly busted either, you can counter it pretty well with stuff like blondie or i-scream. Ray has felt a lot cleaner to play, paddles has an actual role in the game now, Prometheus has felt solid, not amazing but not bad by any means even blue hasnt seemed too bad. hazmat and cecillia i dont have and havent seen much of so i dont really know about them. Cluck i havent seen much of but i dont expect i will cause the buff doesnt look nearly enough to make cluck viable.
Norris is a real clustercluck (hehe) of a phobie
Spending 6 keys on a 2/1 phobie (melee) already doesnt put it in a good spot as melee phobies dont sit well on the meta which is really ranged, and what you get from this melee phobie is too lackluster, making its damage 850 for 3 turns sounds good, but isnt much since in reality its 2 turns cus the activation on its turn also counts, but also you can spend 1 extra key for fowl which has slightly less stats but has a ranged disease attack along with having CONSTANTLY high damage of 700 giving it a better edge, hell you can use goon for the same cost or maestro for 1 key less, or mummy for 2 more keys which have different niches (line attack, boosting leech, summoning minions) but do better because they have constantly high damage as opposed to having ridicuolously high damage for 2.5 turns, you can also spend 1/2 keys less for scritch or gonzo if your looking for a damage buff, which isnt as high or last as long, but do better because they can boost whoever they want like an aoe phobie or one with an already high damage stat to outrival clucks buffed damage stat
i totally agree. the inoc brothers, billy and other staples still seen. And the Fantome one, i mostly used him with heavo plaid or the blob other AOEs and they do not care about resetted abilities. Being a bit costlier is fine. being capable to move blob like 6 spaces together with le shovell is neat. Hope i get paddles soon then i could nuke every space i want with this globby blobb
Le shovell is like the most in the background moves nerfed one, but still play here and there. On some maps i just start now with him. and still is delivering and feels more fair.
To Cecilia, i have this guy and can say yeah: he’s probably now somewhat efficient with his puny little toxic field. finally can give ranged attackers a revenge disease. Especially low health ones like Cerberus, Monty, Cassowary hating this guy and might force enemies in playing more bots.
i believe the phobie who has most profited was the Brutewurst one. being now basically a rare , one movement, much more bulkier disease spreading variant of Bad Sheep. but kinda capable of handling him. He being now somewhat of a play also gives a new niche for cecilia, whos immun to disease.
Paddles also increased highly in its appereance. Kinda annoying little *"%$/(§ 
Cluck i saw the first and only time now and he just heart rushed me in like 5 turns. together with paddles this is brutal having sit this guy on like turn 3 on your heart.
personally i mostly welcome the nerf of this teeth with 3 range pull. forgot his name. also repeller and attractor. now there is rambolina showing up.
and my heart bloods mostly because of inoculus because enemy overleveld ones still not one shottable with most of my guys without bonzo. but still play him like before. maybe a bit less often.
always loved and played blue so i take every buff i can get.
hazmath dude still never seen. i think he could do well with cecilia both spamming fields forcing the enemies into robots and then anti bot spam or stuff like that. maybe with leshy or zomboni to just sit there forever.
ray chargles buff also let me consider this guy more often, but i’m not a fan of him somewhat
the bluelien nerf felt like troll though. He should have the same base effect power like cecilia on 150.
Im of the somewhat controversial opinion that bluelien isnt really overpowered. He definitely is still on the stronger end of healers even after his many nerfs, but I wouldnt put him in the S tier category along with stuff like hematic, hes a bit more niche and he has some counters. Bruetwurst being a pretty good new option to deal with him but even outside of specific units he doesnt have the same burst heal a lot of other heal units have and now with his lower stats hes easier to bully and tempo out than before.
not the healing on its own makes him broken but also the ability to have several fields. without reliable Disease spreading this guy mostly sits there and will heal any poison and thousands or more life passive healing because healing also applies at the end of enemy turn.
while writing maybe honey bear could annoy this su"R$r
Havent actually tried honeybear lol. Not a bad idea though tbh, give it a go.
i also got familar with blasto he’s the reason i start playing cerberus again and glob.
and i would say cerberus is a really underrated one being slow but man this guy does not care about anything. if he thinks he counts blasto with erratic he will end as a snack for my beefy new best friend