darkSpyro

Is Zou Lou a good character? I'm just wondering because I bought him today.

I'd say he's alright. He's not my cup of tea, but he is pretty good. He has moves that mainly have animals fight for him and I always thought it's weird that such a strong looking character would never just hit enemies himself. Anyways he's still good just takes some getting used to.

I don't have him but he looks like he is powerful

Underpowered in my opinion, relatively speaking of course. Having the wolf dig up food is nice sometimes.

Yes. He's a little difficult to master, though.

The birds are very rapid-firing, the wolf is helpful, and the hog is great for knocking medium and large sized enemies all over the place.

You'll be wearing out your hand quickly, because you can combine all of the attacks to go ballistic on groups of enemies.

He looks good, and he was a fan fav before the game came out, now he's like the fright rider of swap force

My only other nitpick on is that he only has summoning attacks. Like I said you think such a big bulky looking guy would be a physical fighter would actually hit enemies himself, but no he just summons creatures. Why couldn't he have an ability to change the animal he summons and have some physical move of his own. When you think about it it's like if had only potion attacks and only can attack with the acid, fire and minion potions and nothing else.

I go on the boar then send out a wolf and shoots loads of birds.

He fun to play with but not the most powerful. He's eclipse by the other life element character, Bumbleblast.

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He fun to play with but not the most powerful. He's eclipse by the other life element character, Bumbleblast.

This. Definitely. Though I do like , takes the win in who is stronger.

He's fun to play, and very effective in the field. The wolf is a great detraction while you fire your main attack... and the boar is goofy, but amusing.

He's one of my favorite new cores...second to smolderdash.

I went with the hog path on my regular and wolf path on my legendary.

Go Hog path. So much funner. He's essentially great at two scenerios - lots of bad guys at once or one tough bad guy. He doesn't do well against shields either - his strength is organized and well timed chaos...charge up 5 birds, let them fly, call out wolf, hop on hog, start charging up again, and then mash birds till everything is dead.

Now it is super hard after a while to tell what exactly is going on truth be told - due to the birds attacking twice, and filling up the screen with green lantern'd creatures...but it's fun.

In terms of overall strength, of the new cores he's is 'meh'. His movement is slow, slower on the hog, he gets out damaged and by bumbleblast who functions similar but his 'hog' while not as damaging, is easier to use and is spam-able. He dosn't have the raw DPS of say a Smolderdash or the sheer effectiveness of Pop thorn. He's not as 'invulnerable' as Star Strike, yet you control both kind of similar - that organized chaos so to speak. I'll take him over Slobbertooth any day of the week - easily the worst new character. I'd wager he's more effective than both Grim Creeper and *the rollerblade chick...name is eluding me*.

so with the released cores he's pretty much middle of the pack in terms of effectiveness (though the early years are HARD for him, his damage without upgrades is HORRIBLE). enjoying him is more a playstyle and theme thing.
- Unreall

I probably would've liked Zoo Lou no matter what, as he looks like a Usagi Yojimbo character with a Green Lantern ring. But yeah, he's great for causing visual chaos. I went with the boar path, curious to try the wolf path once I get the Legendary.

I find zoo lou a lot of fun in the 3ds version this is how I have been finding it if they r crappy in the console then they usually are amazing on the handheld version and vise versa that's my opinion has ne1 else found that to be the case aswell?

The Bucking Boar path really helps with medium sided enemies, like Greebles. They can be tossed around, non-stop, but when it comes to K-Bot Mineminers, Evilized creatures, and larger enemies, it isn't too good.

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Sorry, can you elaborate on this?

for the most part after some more PT I'm pretty much in line with AoA. Mind you this is all playing on hard/nightmare. I find in general that things that help you heal up have minimal 'use' right now, just because when things get hot and heavy, it won't help enough.

The only thing I'll disagree with though is at range - Boar Path is still super effective, you can call it and immediately hop off - creating a high damage, rampaging, damage absorbing tank that goes off in the direction you were facing with a little bit of auto correction. I mean typically against larger foes, I just run laps around them, but if I am nervous about their damage output, then I simply let the hog fly while charging up birds.
- Unreall

Zou Lou is fun but not the best

he is good but not the best

@AoA - because of the 'homing' nature of the birds, and him essentially being a pet user, he doesn't really need to be mobile. If you are in the thick of it, call the hog, and the PBAoE affect pretty much keeps you safe from everything but long range weaponary. I can sympathize with speed in general, but I find it to nod hinder him.

@Pennyman - that pretty much is the sum of it, I really enjoy playing as him, but I won't pull him out for a tough fight or a speed run (I got my Drobot for that)
- Unreall

I like him, but he moves slow.

I picked the boar path, and he just plows through groups of enemies. He does have issues with shielded enemies, but proper planning takes care of that.

For life I still prefer stealth elf or bumble blast, but that's me.

So to recap
Pros: high damage to groups
Fire and forget attacks.
Diversion tactics with the wolf.

Cons: slow, especially on the boar.
Slight struggle on shielded enemies.

He is a good overall character that is fun to play. The Wolf path is way I went since the Pig path has a cool down between uses.

I do kind of feel a little ripped off regarding the Legendary version though. His package and card art depict his summoned animals as being blue to match the new Legendary color scheme, but they are in fact the usual green. That really suck. Having blue animals would really sell the Legendary status and not cheapen the experience by feeling like he's just a repainted figure.