Lost 2 dantes to a trollcom. Don't understand. Devs pls explain.

That's insane. Dante should be able to cook trollcoms of whatever level as long as they don't have disintegrator.

Your first dante died to fighting an Ogre, a Grizzly, an Emissary and a trollcom while at half health. That wasn't a 1v1 duel.

The second dante is distracted killing another com and doesn't even fire at the trollcom (seems to prefer fleas in general) until it's at 4000hp (from a bunch of different things hitting it) and fully slowed.

Really don't know what you expect when you stack the odds so much against the Dante. A Minotaur could have killed it there, let alone a 9.5k metal trollcom.


That said, even a level 5 disruptor trollcom can kill a Dante if the latter doesn't micro well and if the Dante DOES micro well then even the level 11 will die. The Dante needs to either pull back for a kiting or close in for a kill, either will work, anything except stay at optimal range for the trollcom.

Remember that while the Dante is a moderately good skirmishing with the 460 range AoE Napalm Rockets, its Flamethrower and Heat Ray have much shorter ranges (effectively 320 elmo) but will chew through hp incredibly well. A couple of Dantes can get through 40k Detriment hp before dying!

quote: Dante dies to basically every demi-strider except maybe Jugglenaut.

It would be more accurate to say "Dante dies to Cyclops".
Unless you time your turn with Grizzly perfectly a Dante will catch and kill a Grizzly eventually and it has no trouble killing a Crab (of course in a real lob pot a Grizzly is a great Dante counter as sending a Dante 1000 elmo into the enemy lines chasing a Grizzly is suicide).

And even a Cyclops can die if microd poorly (either due to turret turn speed issues if it kites badly/uses unit AI or due to the heat ray if it gets too close).