Upgrades Discussion: Kernel Corn!

We have now arrived at the upgrade discussion post for Kernel Corn!

Unique Upgrades

Buttered Branches (2 upgrade points): While you are aiming, your movement speed is doubled, meaning you can reduce your chances of being damaged while shooting at enemies if you keep moving while aiming or you can track your enemies more easily while aiming. This can be really useful to use if you generally aim at your enemies before shooting, or if you want more mobility. You move faster when using this upgrade compared to when not aiming.

Mob Cobs (2 upgrade points): Your Cob Busters can deal piercing damage. If your Cob Busters successfully pierce an enemy, they deal 50% more damage to any additional enemy hit, as well as gaining ammo. Your primary weapon ammo size is increased by about 25% as well. This is great if you can line up and hit groups of enemies, or as a way to greatly increase your damage output, if your enemies are close to each other.

Rapid Recob (4 upgrade points): When you reload your Cob Busters weapon, whether automatically or manually, they reload 75% faster, or in other words, 25% of the normal time it takes to reload. It will almost feel like you do not even need to reload in the first place. If you want to mantain fire at your enemies and to take barely any amount of breaks, this upgrade will be excellent to use.

Super Spin (4 upgrade points): Whenever you vanquish an enemy, the rate of fire of your Cob Busters is increased by about 7% for 10 seconds. This upgrade can be stacked up to 3 times at once, for a maximum of approximately a fire rate increase of 21%. If the buff is already in effect and you get another vanquish, it stacks and the timer resets to 10 seconds again. This is great if you can get vanquishes often or you want to be able to deal a higher damage output to your enemies.

Unique Ability Upgrades

Butter Beacon

20/10 (2 upgrade points): The Butter Beacon affects a 25% larger area, which means you can see enemies from a further distance away. This can be useful if you like to attack from a longer range and to maintain the full effect from the Butter Beacon, or if you simply want to highlight a wider area for you and your allies to benefit from.

Re-Corn-naissance (3 upgrade points): If you vanquish an enemy that is affected by your Butter Beacon, you get a 12 second cooldown on the ability. This is great if you wish to use the ability often, you would like to increase your damage using this ability or if you wish to consistently know where your enemies are.

Husk Hop

Reaping Leap (1 upgrade point): Your Husk Hop now has a larger area of damage, which means you can deal damage to single or grouped enemies that are more spread out. If your enemies cluster or you wish to deal more damage to your enemies, you will find this upgrade to be effective.

Hopscotch (3 upgrade points): When dealing direct damage while using Husk Hop, you are able to deal more damage than normal, approximately 12 damage now. If you can hit your enemies directly quite easily or you wish to improve the damage of your Husk Hop, this upgrade can be really good to use.

Shuck Shot

Happy Feet (2 upgrade points): When your Shuck Shot is in use and is being resolved, you gain a movement speed bonus of 50%. This is really useful if you want to reduce how vulnerable you are while using this ability by avoiding attacks, or to assist you in tracking down your enemies.

Cornucopia (3 upgrade points): When dealing damage to multiple enemies or getting multiple vanquishes with your Shuck Shot, the cooldown time of your Shuck Shot is reduced, by about 4 seconds if dealing damage or 7 seconds if getting a vanquish. If you wish to deal lots of damage with Shuck Shot or your enemies likely group often, this is a really decent upgrade to use.

Legendary Upgrade

Shogun-Guard (5 upgrade points): Your primary weapon is replaced by dual-fire assault cobs. It reduces your fire rate but improves your damage, and you gain a personal shield which you use by aiming and is not counted as an ability. If you use this upgrade, it is better suited to combat at longer range.

• Buttered Branches increases your movement speed when aiming, instead of reducing your movement speed. 
• Mob Cobs allows your attacks to deal piercing damage and to improve your overall damage.
• 20/10 allows you to use your Butter Beacon from a further range, which is where you are better suited in combat.
• Happy Feet improves your movement speed when you activate your Shuck Shot.

So that covers the upgrades for Kernel Corn! These upgrades here are fairly useful, although not to the point where they are overpowered like some other characters have. Some of these upgrades are greatly useful, although they are more expensive or take some setup to use to their full potential. Thankfully, using these upgrades are helpful when you are fighting, although in a general sense, these upgrades are not busted and feel fun to use.