Team Powers

Team powers, also known as synergies, are a special mechanic activated by creating a deck with a certain combination of units. When the required amount of said team's members are used in a deck, their special effect will be activated during a mission. It might positively change the way units function as a whole or grant them a bonus that activates under a condition. Some team powers only affect their respective members while others grant a bonus to an entire deck. A team power's activation is always indicated by a sound cue, and the team's icon below the courage and rage bars will briefly flash. The team's icon also briefly flashes over the recipient or subject of the power's effect.

In general, team powers follow a formula of three tiers:

• The 1st, activated by two units: a non-conditional passive effect;
• The 2nd, activated by three units: an effect that becomes active once three different units from the same team are present on field at once;
• The 3rd, activated by five units: a stronger non-conditional passive effect;

Units that belong to a team have their respective icon in the left corner of their deck portrait. Most units can use skins to get access to a different team. Currently, not every human unit or skin is assigned a team.

Articles related to team powers only provide information about their mechanics. For information about how well they perform, see Team Power Rankings.

Synergy List

The below table provides a list with all existing teams, and their synergies and members.

Some descriptions of bonuses are misleading, or provide an inadequate or incomplete explanation of how the synergy actually works. Additionally, certain powers suffer from bugs and might not function correctly. Please make sure to consult each teams' individual article to get proper understanding of how they work. The below table only lists synergy descriptions provided in-game by developers.

Team	Units	Units req.	Info
Emergency		2	All units in the deck obtain 50% fire resistance.
		3	While there are 3 unique Emergency units on the battlefield, any unit standing in Medkit's range will receive a 50% increase to their damage.
		5	The health of all Emergency units is increased by 25%.
Northerners		2	Northerners are guaranteed to get a critical hit on their next attack after killing an enemy.
		3	While there are 3 unique Northerners on the battlefield, the first hit of each newly spawned Northerner is guaranteed to be a crit.
		5	When a unit that costs 25 courage or more is summoned, 15% of their price is returned.
College		2	All units on the battlefield don't turn into zombies.
		3	3 unique College units on the battlefield. The Charisma of College units is increased by 100%
		5	A random College unit comes out when another College unit kills 5 zombies. Cannot activate more than once per unit
Military		2	Military units at less than 10% of their max health have a 30% chance of ignoring an incoming attack.
		3	While there are 3 unique Military units on the battlefield, when any Military unit dies, there is a 20% chance that SpecOps will be summoned.
		5	Military units cannot be directly attacked by anyone until they attack first with the exception of opposing Military units.
Patriots		2	Molotov Cocktail's fire pool and afterburn do double damage.
		3	While there are 3 unique Patriots on the battlefield, all fire damage by humans and rage abilities, both direct and afterburn, does double damage.
		5	Patriots get a 15% chance of setting the enemy on fire with any attack they do.
TMF		2	All TMF units have a 50% chance to ignore explosion damage.
		3	While there are 3 unique TMF units on the battlefield, a random extra TMF unit will be sent out when the next one is called.
		5	When a TMF unit gets summoned, there's a 50% chance for the courage/rage cost of a random unit in the deck to get decreased by 5 points. Limited to 10 activations per battle.
Builders		2	When a Builder unit is summoned, there's a 10% chance a random extra Builder will be sent out with them.
		3	While there are 3 unique Builders on the battlefield, a random extra Builder will be sent out when the next one is called.
		5	All units in the player's deck deal double damage to the barricade.
IF		2	Medkits on the battlefield stay out for twice as long.
		3	While there are 3 unique IF units on the battlefield, a Medkit is dropped on a random spot every 25 seconds.
		5	Medkit's healing pulses deal damage equal to its healing power to enemies in its radius.
Mechanic		2	When a Mechanic unit is sent out, the bus gets repaired for 5% of its health.
		3	While there are 3 unique Mechanics on the battlefield, each newly spawned Mechanic has a 25% chance to spawn a Turret, with Welder guaranteeing one to spawn after being sent out.
		5	Turret receives two times less damage from overheating.
Jailers		2	All rage abilities get a permanent 30% preparation time reduction.
		3	While there are 3 unique Jailers on the battlefield, all Jailers have a 25% chance to stun the enemy on a critical melee hit.
		5	All units in the deck get a permanent 30% preparation time reduction.
Psychos		2	There's a 25% chance for a 13 rage pack to spawn when Psychos land a critical hit.
		3	While there are 3 unique Psychos on the battlefield, any random unit on the battlefield gets a Fury buff applied on them when a rage pack drops.
		5	There's a 10% chance for any enemy to drop a 20 rage pack when killed.
Police		2	All ranged units in the deck get their magazine size doubled.
		3	While there are 3 unique Police units on the battlefield, all following cops will come out with a shield that is equal to 25% of their maximum health in shield points.
		5	When a Police unit dies, all other Police units currently present get the Fury buff applied on them.
Marines		2	Private Rodriguez never pauses while attacking.
		3	While there are 3 unique Marines on the battlefield, they and all next spawned team members get their agility set to 100.
		5	All Marines will not pause in between their attacks.
Rednecks		2	There's a 5% chance for a 25 courage pack to spawn whenever a Redneck takes damage.
		3	While there are 3 unique Rednecks on the battlefield, a random Redneck unit fully restores their health whenever they spawn a courage pack from taking damage.
		5	When a Redneck dies, there's a chance a courage pack will spawn.
Scientists		2	The Drone's explosion damage is increased by 100%
		3	While there are 3 unique Scientists on the battlefield, and a scientist dies, a Drone will appear and attack their killer.
		5	Damage to enemies is increased by 10% for each kill of the same zombie.
Prisoners		2	Melee damage resistance of all Prisoners is increased by 50%
		3	While there are 3 unique Prisoners on the battlefield, all prisoners get a 50% chance to dodge each enemy's first hit.
		5	N/A

Non-Synergized Units

Members that currently do not belong to an existing team include:

Units

Notes

• Since Pepper's special activates after a cooldown, it's fairly beneficial for Builders, as it means that all extras that come out with her are guaranteed to be inspired. Same works in reverse – extra Pepper will boost summoned Builder/Light Soldier.
• Mechanics' 2/2 synergy can be used to easily clear non-boss missions with 3 stars, thanks to Redneck's low cost and reparation time allowing the bus to be consistently healed. The game only checks its durability at the end of the mission, so as long as the barricade remains standing for a certain amount of time, it should be possible to recover from all dealt damage by spawning mechanics with leftover courage. Levels with bosses are guaranteed to give 3 stars on completion (unless the bus got below 1% of its health), so the synergy is less relevant there.
• In game, Rednecks' 5/5 power states that a bonus courage drop is guaranteed. It's possible that lack of chance mentioning is a developer oversight, or the synergy is just non-functional in current version of the game.
• Currently, a developer oversight causes all support items and units created by abilities to be level 0, unless the player has them in their deck. This affects Turrets in Mechanics 3/3, Medkits in IF 3/3, Drones in Scientists 3/3, Builders 2/2 and 3/3, TMF 3/3 and College 5/5.

Trivia

• Jailers is the only Team whose constituents are all units in their default skins.
• College is the only team to have no normal units, being made up entirely of units' alternate skins. This also makes College the most expensive team to acquire in terms of money/skin tokens.
• Northerners contain the most amount of skins/units that cannot be earned under regular means, totaling up to six out of the nine current members.
  • Both the Worthy and Nurse Hirsch skins for Redneck and Medic respectively, and both Turbo and Andrea can only be earned during the Halloween Event as very rare crate drops.
  • Lester can only be earned during the Christmas Event as a very rare crate drop.
  • Carol Flannel is a timed-exclusive skin only available for a few days during the US Thanksgiving Holiday.
• Before update 3.6.3, there used to be a glitch that prevented Police's 5/5 power from applying its respective damage boost.