Neeko
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Good (7/10)
High Investment Required
Epic Relics
Neeko offers highly explosive, fast-paced gameplay that excels in early turns, but her reliance on specific Epic relics and a heavily criticized constellation layout make her a costly investment.
Carpet Bomb Artillery
Floods the deck with Neeko copies and reduces the cost of her champion spell, enabling consistent replication.
Amplifies the damage of all generated Warning Shots and Neeko's inherent skill damage.
Generates Warning Shots every time a Neeko copy is summoned, providing massive burst damage.
Strategy
This build transforms Neeko into a direct-damage engine. Echoing Spirit ensures a consistent supply of discounted champion spells. Summoning these copies triggers Dreadway Chase Gun, filling the hand with Warning Shots. Luden's Tempest amplifies the damage of both the Warning Shots and Neeko's inherent skill damage, allowing for massive burst damage that can end games on the first or second turn.
Infinite Value Generation
- Ensures consistent access to Neeko's champion spell for repeated summoning.
Applies Epic items to cards in the deck every time a Neeko copy is summoned.- Doubles the item generation effect for rapid deck scaling.
Strategy
This setup leverages Neeko's champion spell to repeatedly summon ephemeral copies of herself. Each summon triggers the dual Guardian's Orbs, rapidly stacking epic items on cards in the deck. Echoing Spirit ensures a consistent supply of Neeko copies and reduces the cost of her champion spell, enabling multiple triggers per round to overwhelm the opponent with heavily upgraded units.
Subtype Swarm
Provides Overwhelm and bonus stats to all units with a subtype.
Amplifies the impact damage and overall stat scaling of the board.- Provides the necessary consistency to draw and play multiple Neekos.
Strategy
Focusing on aggressive board presence, this build uses Echoing Spirit to consistently draw and play multiple Neekos. The Beast Within provides Overwhelm and a stat boost to all units with a subtype, while Fear-Cleaving Axe amplifies the impact damage. This combination allows Neeko to quickly flood the board and push massive damage through enemy blockers for a reliable early-game victory.
Rare Relic Replicator
Generates a fleeting copy of Neeko's champion spell every round.- Applies Epic items to the deck upon summoning a copy.
- Doubles the item generation effect.
Strategy
For newer accounts without Epic relics, this build replicates the item-stacking strategy. The Grand General's Counterplan guarantees a fleeting copy of Neeko's champion spell every round. Using this spell to summon a copy of Neeko triggers the dual Guardian's Orbs, steadily building a deck full of powerful, item-enhanced cards to out-scale the encounter.
Constellation
Neeko's constellation path requires significant resource investment, and the layout is often criticized for placing niche upgrades behind expensive nodes. The node granting a universal experience boost is particularly resource-intensive and provides no direct combat advantage. Strategically, her intended subtype-focused gameplay is frequently overshadowed by strategies that exploit her champion spell and summon mechanics.
Harmony of the Wild
Each round, the first ally you play with a different subtype than other allies costs 1 less.
Definitely Not Neeko
+1 Starting Mana. Game Start: For each ally in your deck, if it has a subtype, grant it Impact. Otherwise, it becomes a Shapeshifter.
Harmony of the Wild II
Each round, the first ally you play with a different subtype than other allies costs 2 less.
Survey Corp
Game Start: Summon a Greenglade Lookout.Review
This upgrade provides a minor enhancement to board presence but lacks the impact necessary to significantly alter her core strategy or accelerate her win condition.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
The additional starting mana is a critical upgrade. It allows Neeko to fully utilize her champion spell on the first turn, drastically improving the consistency and speed of her aggressive openings.
Pop Blossom!
When allies attack, Pop Blossom deal 1 to all enemies and the enemy Nexus. Increased by 1 for each attacking subtyped ally.Review
Players disagree about Neeko's final star power. Some consider her ability to deal damage based on subtypes to be an underwhelming effect with a strict damage cap that fails to scale effectively against high-health enemies. While others find it to be a devastating board clear that easily strips enemy spellshields and accelerates direct damage victories.
Gameplay Tips
- Play Versus Summon Mechanics
Neeko's champion spell summons copies directly to the board rather than playing them from hand. Consequently, relics and items with "Play" effects will not activate on these copies. Ensure you play the untransformed Neeko directly from your hand when you need to trigger these specific effects.
- Aggressive Deck Thinning
To maximize the consistency of drawing Neeko and her champion spell, aggressively cut non-essential cards at healer nodes. A smaller deck ensures you can reliably execute her replication and damage combos early in the game.
- Subtype Tracking
You can track which subtypes have already attacked by hovering over Neeko during a match. This is crucial for managing her level-up condition and maximizing the damage output of her abilities.
- The Illusion of Disguise
The artificial intelligence always knows Neeko's true identity when she is disguised as another unit. Do not rely on the disguise mechanic to trick the opponent into making unfavorable blocks or using removal spells inefficiently.