Scarlet [Gon x Gon]: http://imgur.com/a/RVLmc
Challenge of a Lifetime 2, Level 10 [Gon x Bastet]: http://imgur.com/a/hTi1D (Can’t see Vishnu because I’m bad at screen shots, but the timestamp is pretty suggestive here)
Yamato Rush [Gon x Verdandi]: http://imgur.com/a/RljRn
Sphinx (I uploaded an Imgur post of the clear from today specifically for the guide application): http://imgur.com/a/VEupm
[ ゴン＝フリークス ] [ Jajanken, Gon Freecss ] [ 制約と誓約, Gon Freecss ]
Awakenings: [ Enhanced Wood Orbs ] [ Enhanced Wood Rows ] [ Two-Pronged Attack ] [ Skill Boost ] [ Skill Boost ] [ Skill Boost ] [ Enhanced Wood Rows ]
Active Skill: ジャジャン拳・グー: [CD 13 ⇨ 9] Deal 100,000 damage to 1 enemy. Ignore enemy element and defense. Delay 1 turn to all enemies.
Leader Skill: もうこれで終わってもいい: ATK x4 when HP is full. ATK x4 when HP is less than 50%. Physical and Attacker type cards HP x1.3, ATK x1.3.
Gon Freecss, the protagonist of Yoshihiro Togashi’s popular shonen manga Hunter x Hunter, received a very strong buff from GungHo in July, which added a small HP and ATK bonus to his already solid 16x HP-conditional leader skill. The result? When paired with a Gon friend, green Physical and Attacker cards get 1.7x HP / 27x ATK bonuses. Because green Attackers are some of the strongest cards in the current meta, it should come as no surprise that Gon has consistently ranked highly in Japan tier lists (A+ on Game8 pretty much since his introduction) whereas leaders with similar bonuses, such as Killua, Batman+Disruptor, or Batman+Batmobile don’t currently place (Killua was bumped in September).
Apologies to players on NA servers—you won’t be seeing Gon anytime soon (or ever).
In terms of team building and overall power level, Gon plays like a slightly weaker Shiva Dragon. Both deal around 25x damage from the very first match of a dungeon, and both can build teams around rows, two pronged attacks, or a combination of the two as the major source of damage. Shiva Dragon is certainly better than Gon, as he has an extra TPA and a truly unconditional leader skill, but Gon isn’t that much worse either, because it is very easy to keep his leader skill active, and he can do absurd amounts of damage off of a single green TPA or row.
In terms of leader skill, Gon is a strict upgrade from fellow HP-conditional leader Genius Sleeping Dragon, Zhuge Liang (GZL). GZL’s first weakness is his team’s small HP pool, which locks him out of some dungeons due to high damage preemptives. GZL’s second weakness is the difficulty of keeping his active skill turned on. Back when GZL was near the top of the meta (at the start of the green Attacker renaissance), GZL users regularly and bitterly complained about random heart skyfalls ruining their dungeon runs. Gon has neither of these problems to the degree that GZL does: Gon’s high HP allows his team to tank even DQ Hera’s preemptive, and, even at 50% health and below, Gon has enough HP to tank hits from most descend mobs. To add insult to injury, Gon doesn’t have to stall at the start of a dungeon to let mobs take his team’s HP below a certain threshold as GZL does, and random heart skyfalls shouldn’t ruin too many dungeon runs—they just make it easier for Gon teams to stall.
Gon has an excellent active skill that can be used in a wide variety of situations. First, his active gives him a built in method for getting back to 100% after taking a hit (if you have sufficient hearts on the board, hit Gon’s 1 turn delay, match, and kill next turn). Second, his 100k nuke allows him to eliminate high defense threats including Extreme King Metal Dragon. Third, his one turn delay is similar to a 2x spike, insofar as it gives you an extra turn to match and do damage. The utility provided by his active isn’t always necessary and you likely won’t use it more than twice per dungeon, so an unskilled Gon won’t hold you back significantly in terms of the dungeons you can clear.
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