Vampire Zooka

"Vampire Zooka regains health as she shoots targets with her even longer range attack. She moves quickly, so enemies should watch out!"

Summary

• The Vampire Zooka is a Prototype Troop that attacks from a long range and heals herself from her attacks.
  • Magma Statues do not appear to boost their healing ability.
• Vampire Zookas have moderate health and DPS and their range and movement speed are slightly higher than Zookas, but their damage is still overall lower.
• The Vampire Zooka is unlocked for players who have an Armory level of 13 or above and starts 1 level below the Armory level. It can be upgraded using Proto Tokens gained from events.

Visual Appearances

• The Vampire Zooka appears similar to a Zooka, except having a more zombie-like face. Her skin appears more ghostly white. Additionally, her shorts and boots are dark blue instead of brown.

Offensive Strategy

• Use them similarly to Zookas. They are weak to a high amount of area-damage defenses like Rocket Launchers. It is a good idea to take out Rocket Launchers with the Gunboat before deploying your Vampire Zookas.
• Deploy the Zookas a few seconds behind other troops; otherwise, they might get taken down by Rocket Launchers.
• Mortars have unimpressive damage per second, and thus in a one-on-one, the Vampire Zooka will outheal the damage caused by the Mortar.
• When using the Heavy + Vampire Zooka strategy, remember not to Flare directly on a Rocket Launcher because the Heavies will walk into the Rocket Launcher's blind spot, causing the Rocket Launcher to target the Vampire Zookas instead.
• Compared to Zookas, the Vampire Zookas are less reliant on healing from other sources like Medkits or Medics. This allows the user to save more Gunboat Energy for other uses and also allow them to carry other troops, other than Medics.
• The Flamethrower's range is less than the Vampire Zooka's, which generally allows a Vampire Zooka to destroy a Flamethrower without taking damage. However, if you are not careful and allow a Vampire Zooka to get in range of the Flamethrower, it will kill the Vampire Zooka very quickly. In addition, if there is a grouping of Vampire Zookas, some of them may get pushed into the range of the Flamethrower, resulting in their deaths.
• Always take full advantage of the Vampire Zooka's range. Carefully look at the enemy defenses and their attack ranges, and look for the "Zooka pockets", areas where they can hit the primary building (Headquarters, Power Core, etc) outside of the range of any other defenses or at least where a very limited number of defense turrets can attack. This works more easily than it does with Zookas because of the higher range.

Defensive Strategy

• Use a Sniper Tower as bait so that all the troops will attack it. Put a Machine Gun on either side of the Sniper Tower. The Machine Gun will spray in a big area and will occasionally hit the Vampire Zookas.
• Keep Mortars behind groups of other Buildings. The Mortar shell takes time to reach its targeted location, so it can take out Vampire Zookas when they move up to attack another building.
• As the Vampire Zooka has a very long range, bait them with non-defensive Buildings and place Mines in front of them. A cluster of Mines are usually enough to take out a group of these before they could even heal.

Trivia

• The name 'Zooka' is a stylized version of 'bazooka', which is the weapon they use.
• The in-game description contains a grammatical error, saying "She's moves quickly", instead of "She moves quickly".
• You can have a maximum of 120 Vampire Zookas in a complete set of fully upgraded Landing Crafts.
• Vampire Zooka's artwork is based on the Zooka's legacy appearance and current icon.
• The Vampire Zooka was quickly removed on the day it was released, October 18, 2020, due to unspecified game issues that arose from its implementation.

Statistics

Unit Size	Training Time	Movement Speed	Attack Speed	Attack Range	Headquarters Level Required
2	4m	Moderate / 240	2s	Long / 8.2 Tiles	14

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Level	Hitpoints	DPS	Damage per Shot	HP Healed per Shot	Training Cost	Upgrade Cost in Proto Tokens
12	348	64	128	348	1,600	N/A
13	378	71	142	378	1,800	250
14	414	78	156	414	2,000	350
15	450	87	174	450	2,200	450
16	489	95	190	489	2,400	550
17	531	104	208	531	2,600	650
18	579	115	230	579	2,800	750
19	630	126	252	630	3,000	850
20	684	140	280	684	3,200	950
21	744	154	308	744	3,400	1,050
22	810	168	336	810	3,600	1,150
23	882	182	364	882	3,800	1,250
24	960	196	392	960	4,000	1,350
25	1,044	210	420	1,044	4,200	1,450
26	1,134	224	448	1,134	4,400	1,550

Warships

Rank	Level	Reserves Size	Upgrade Tokens	Tech Level
1	14	112	N/A	5
2	16	136	82,500	10
3	18	160	110,000	15
4	20	184	133,000	20
5	22	208	210,000	25
Total			535,500	75