Why is the parrot faster?
Why does the parrot have a 20 second countdown on egg-splosion only once then it's ready to go right away when you have to wait 20 seconds each time you use garlic drone?
IMO egg-splosion is a lot more powerful than corn strike because you take aiming out of the equation.
What's up with this?
Barrel Blast only hits for 150. For Cactus, in my opinion the best upgrades to use for her is Popcorn and Bon Voyage.
Unlike Captain Deadbeard, If Cactus has the Popcorn upgrade equipped, she has the ability to deny revives from vanquishing them at a long range if the player trying to revive doesn't see the potato mine and gets vanquished. The potato mine actually has a chance of being armed underneath the downed zombie, so they won't be able to see it and so they walk over to the zombie to revive, and next thing you know it...SPUDOW!
So with that upgrade equipped, she gets more rewarded when vanquishing zombies because on average (let's face it) their hitboxes are smaller, both head and body.
Bon Voyage is useful because if you're being rushed by a Super Brainz, you deploy a temporary potato mine beneath you, and while Super Brainz is focused on hitting ranged attacks at you, and not the ground, he will get vanquished if no overhealth is applied to him. Either way, he is taking massive damage from the explosion if he does have overhealth, so you can finish him off with your close-range attack.
Yeah, aside from their drones, I actually prefer the Cactus (I love mines, though I'll admit I greatly prefer the Wall-Nut over the new hover jump ability), but the Parrot drone is superior to the Garlic Drone in nearly every way. Not just for cooldown, but for ease of use for the drone strikes, too. In GW1 and 2 the slow but powerful strike from the Garlic Drone was great for clearing spawns or stopping enemies from advancing. Now it's not only much weaker, but it fires several low power projectile shots over the course of several seconds, during which you have reduced movement speed and can easily have your attack cut short by one well-placed shot. The thing that makes the Parrot's Eggsplosion so much better is the fact that you can launch your attack and then immediately resume movement and covering fire. The Garlic Drone requires you to stop what you're doing and become a target. Even against CPU I find it rare to be able to get the full volley fired, so I often find myself not even bothering with it when using the Garlic Drone.
The Parrot also simply moves faster, which doesn't seem fair. In GW2, the Parrot traded offense for speed. Now, the Parrot is superior in both.
