Medicball Build/Tuning

I plan on getting a Medicball sometime and I'd like some ideas on what would be a good tuning build. The only part that's removable from Medicball is the BS and everything else is locked parts (thus main reliance on tuning). Suggestions on cartridges also welcome.

Planned:
- All Capacity carts
- Broad Radar

Need help with:
- What BS should I use or just tune the one that comes with it?
- Other suggested cartridges aside from the ones mentioned above
- Recommended tunes and stats to shoot for

If you are going to stay in the front discard radar and pick some custom mov carts. Tune tgh, wlk and hp. If you want to chill behind your team your main goal is to upgrade the healgun with ammo.

Guard cats importance: Blast>Beam>Sword. Don't forget to warn any teammates with status effect weapons (malice, monica, perse, etc) to not shoot lone melee bots getting too close.

Medicball can't farm so don't be afraid of charging with the rest of the team if you are out of healgun ammo.

Well, for starters, a good BS to go for would be the Tycoon BS, the flag Booster that's bazaarable. It gives a good chunk of Fly so it would help if you're going for the Fly option.

Now, if you're going for all the capacity cartridges and Broad Radar, that means you'll be left with 2 cartridges. You've got two choices: you go for a WLK based and Pick Short Boost, or FLY and Float Dash. In my opinion, the final cartridge would be Beam Guard, because, on most of the times i healed with Medicball, one of the most frequent and annoying damage came from Fly robots who rambo'ed through enemy skies, including Seraphs and their Novas, so having Beam Guard helps the most.

The Build below is an example. It has a lot of things, if you're planning to go big time: 38 Fly and Float Dash, equal Str and Tec for your Repair bit, double Clearance for hp and some survivability, and, if you can spare it, a Ex Great Tough tune to reach the good 16 tgh value and some extra hp, for a total of 471 hp. Do note that you can use the normal Great Tough tune, but 25 less hp on a convinient tune does help your build.

Spoiler:

You can still hop with high fly. I think it's the same with float dash and walk too

Gerrion wrote:

Well, for starters, a good BS to go for would be the Tycoon BS, the flag Booster that's bazaarable. It gives a good chunk of Fly so it would help if you're going for the Fly option.

Butak BS is actually +1 Fly and +3 Tgh. Just a heads up.

Tycoon gives 1 FLY, 3 TGH, 20 HP for 30 cost. You might have mixed TGH up with FLY.

Medicball BS is actually the best FLY-based BS L supports can get. 30 cost for 20 HP, 1 TEC, 3 FLY, 1 TGH.

Don't really see a point in 16 tgh if you don't have Stun Regain.

Oh....yeah net derped and I thought I posted. Kray-chan beat me to it.

Yeah, now that you mention it, Medicball BS does suit the build best, although having a Red Cross flag is awesome in my book

And the point behind 16 tgh is not to make Medicball that squishy. Also, there was one empty slot on the build (BSJ and Accs apart ofc), so i thought Ex Great Tough would be a nice pick.

Will Short Boost and Float Dash depend on play style or are just personal preference? Most of my experience as a healing support was mostly to hang back away from the frontlines. If I ever had to go near the front, I usually heal as quickly as possible then retreat.

I feel float dash is pretty useful for evading melees (short boost accomplishes this too but melees with good vertical reach will still have an easy time catching you). On the other hand non-airs need quick boost to be able to continually use float dash, and I'm not sure if medicball has that.

Suguri wrote:

I feel float dash is pretty useful for evading melees (short boost accomplishes this too but melees with good vertical reach will still have an easy time catching you). On the other hand non-airs need quick boost to be able to continually use float dash, and I'm not sure if medicball has that.

ARTs can still get by fine by spamming float dash without Quick Boost, but LNDs and SUPs need it for sure.

Float Dash with 38 FLY would be a much safer bet to go anyways.

Suguri wrote:

and I'm not sure if medicball has that.

He has Quick Boost at level 9.

I was thinking of getting hops to stay rider friendly (you'd lean with fd); you should have room for radar to see anything coming.

I haven't really gotten that far on my own MedicBall Build, but I have plenty of stuff planned, and I will give some suggestions.

First of all, Medicball's WLK and FLY should be the priority, as for it has to get out there fast and be ready to heal others in time. Medicball isn't really much of a fighter, and the weapons are more for self-defense and not meant to be the main offense. So STR and TEC isn't very important, but WLK and FLY is, so you can reach others to heal in time. However, you'll want at least a bit of TEC so it still can defend itself enough, and balance it with the STR so the Wonder Bit is balanced. I'd say about 5 or 6 TEC might be sufficient, and about the same with STR too.
You might want to have higher HP too, so it doesn't get killed as easily when getting to others. Mine has so far been mostly tuned for FLY and HP, but I'll add more once I get more materials and slot protectors.

Also, I would change the BS to a Pulsardio BS. Pulsardio BS gives it a good amount of WLK, FLY, and a little TGH too, which is most important. It also does better than the default Medicball BS. I currently have Pulsardio BS on mine, and it works quite well.

Also, since the Wonder Bit is one of the main points, give it a Tough Wonder Bit cartridge, which will help it more.