Red Hood

Red Hood
Can give out Christmas spirit when touched.
Main Stats
Type	Heavyweight
Rarity	Exclusive
Health 130 Melee Damage 25
Crit. Chance	30%
Crit. Damage	10%
Speed	5
Prepare Time	35
Courage Cost	30
Behavior Stats
Agility	60
Aggression	85
Detection Range	80
Agility Penalty	10%
Aggression Penalty	10%
Morale Stats
Charisma	350
Valor	400
Charisma Radius	120
Abilities
Perks
Knockback Strength	20
Special Ability	The wave deals damage. The wave's damage equals to 5% of melee damage for every 50 points of valor.
Resistances
Poison	100%
Knockback	70%
Unlock Requirements
Price	Reward for opening Christmas cases
Player Level	Any

Red Hood is a large brute armed with a heavy machete and dressed in an American flag print jacket vest, a black and yellow shirt with blue highlights, black pants, and a brown and red-stained GP-5 gas mask.

He can be acquired during the Christmas Event by opening a Christmas case with an extremely low chance of obtaining him.

Overview

Red Hood is a melee Heavyweight, and has slightly above-average stats for his class. His attack speed is moderately slow. RH possesses a unique critical attack: he will raise his machete, and strike his target with it, releasing a psi wave. This wave serves as a purely visual effect, unless his special ability is unlocked, which adds actual function to it.

Red Hood is immune to poison, and has resistance to knockback, while being able to inflict it himself on critical hits. Some time after dying, he turns into a Sergeant.

Special Ability

Red Hood's special ability turns his psi wave into an AoE attack with a short radius. It also becomes able to attract nearby enemies to Red Hood.

The psi attack deals 20% of Red Hood's melee damage at base level. It will receive an additional buff equal to 5% of his melee damage for every 50 points of valor. With his base valor of 400, Red Hood is guaranteed to receive eight ticks of the buff. The maximum possible bonus is +110%, making the wave deal a total of 130% of his damage.

This ability proves useful for slightly increasing Red Hood's damage output. It might've been even more impactful if it had greater range, but as it stands right now it acts more as a small bonus. It also doesn't help with resolving Red Hood's fundamental issues, making it a questionable investment in its current state.

Gameplay

Main Campaign

Red Hood, being unlocked through the Christmas Event at a very low chance, is generally not useful for progression unless players get lucky and secure him early. He can be compared to Soldier and Chopper in terms of stats, but with a few key differences. His lower preparation time, faster attacks and easy access to knockback complements his offense, not to mention poison immunity he also has immunity to poison.

Despite his promising applications, Red Hood falls off very quickly, mostly due to his lack of key resistances, very high cost, and the prevalence of other units that simply do the job better. By the time most players secure him, poison-based threats have been largely invalidated by ranged units sniping them from afar. Offensively, he is outshined by cheaper damagers and fighters, which have enough versatility to justify their cost and provide significant value.

Red Hood utilizing his special ability to strike and lure in nearby zombies, as seen prior to update 3.9.4.

Skirmish

In League, Red Hood is completely useless due to his lack of resistances, meaningful team synergies, massive cost and very low speed that quite literally sweeps his perks under the carpet.

Item Sets

Gentleman proves to be the best option for Red Hood, as it allows to take advantage of his naturally high crit. chance, and capitalize on his burst damage potential, even if it's not as great as on some other units. Surgery can work in case you try to turn RH into at least moderately competent tank, but it proves to be a riskier strategy.

Red Hood gets most use out of prep. time watches, with agility bonuses acquired as secondary buffs. He can receive a significant boost from percentage bonuses to health. The same buffs to melee damage are also preferable to flats once he is close to being maxed out. Among books, he gets most use out of +crit. chance, as respective builds provide him the highest increase to damage, especially with his SA unlocked. Crit. damage buffs are also important to RH, even if he isn't using crit. rate books.

Skins and Synergies

Red Hood is part of the Psychos team.

Name	Red Hood
Skin
Unlock Req.	Obtain via gacha during Christmas Event
Team	Psychos

In his current state, Red Hood is considered a bad choice for the Psycho team, due to being a worse heavyweight than both Chopper and Juggernaut. The former supersedes him as a tank, and the latter is able to cause a greater impact with his criticals, which, taking into account how they work, also provide greater chances of spawning rage packs with the 2/2 ability. There's generally no reason to use him even on a budget.

Trivia

• Prior to update 3.9.4, Red Hood lacked poison immunity, and his special ability did only 9 damage. He also possessed a unique attack behavior: when above 95%, Red Hood performed his floor-scraping slash that only caused knockback on critical hits. When below 95%, Red Hood switched to his two handed psi blast strike which always dealt knockback. If Red Hood were to be healed back up to 95% health, he would return to using his floor-scraping slash attack again.
• Internally, Red Hood is referred to as "Xmas".