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Co-op Commander Guide: Tychus

Legendary Outlaw

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Commander Summary

Tychus leads a band of powerful outlaws, each with a unique ability and gear, to control the battlefield.

Level Unlocks

Level/Icon	Name	Description
	Just Like Old Times	Tychus has a 100 supply maximum and can recruit legendary Outlaws from Joeyray's Bar. Heroic units. When an Outlaw is killed, they escape death and can be recruited again from the Bar.
	More the Merrier	Unlocks the ability to recruit a 5th Outlaw to Tychus' crew.
	Odin	Unlocks the ability to call down the Odin at a target location, picking up Tychus and taking him as its pilot and dealing 150 damage on impact. The Odin is controllable and will fight for 60 seconds. Call down the Odin from the top panel.
	New Outlaw: Kev "Rattlesnake" West	One of the Muscle. Adept at supporting friendly units and dealing with armored ground units. Can use Deploy Revitilizer. Recruited from Joeyray's Bar. Can attack ground units.
	Engineering Bay Upgrade Cache	Unlocks the following upgrades at the Engineering Bay: Increases the attack speed of Tychus, Crooked Sam, and Sirius by 25%. Increases the life of Blaze, Cannonball, and Rattlesnake by 25%.
	New Outlaw: James "Sirius" Sykes	One of the Guns. Adept at deploying Turrets and imbuing both himself and his Turrets with special abilities. Can use Deploy Warhound Turret. Recruited from Joeyray's Bar. Can attack ground and air units.
	First One's on the House	Reduces the mineral and gas costs of Tychus' first Outlaw by 50%.
	New Outlaw: Rob "Cannonball" Boswell	One of the Muscle. Adept at taking damage and dealing it back. Can use Heavy Impact. Recruited from Joeyray's Bar. Can attack ground units.
	Need a Ride?	Increases the maximum number of Medivacs Platforms from 1 to 3.
	New Outlaw: Vega	One of the Fixers. Adept at taking control of enemy units. Can use Dominate. Can be upgraded to be a Detector. Recruited from Joeyray's Bar. Can attack ground and air units.
	Five Finger Discount	Reduces the cost of all gear by 100 minerals and 100 gas.
	Primary Ultimate Gear Cache	Unlocks the following upgrades: Tychus gains weapon damage for each Outlaw on the field (Purchased at the Gunslingers' Hideout). Crooked Sam gains the ability to reduce the charge-up time of Demolition Charge with each attack (Purchased at the Gunslingers' Hideout). Blaze gains the ability to reduce all damage to 30 (Purchased at the Muscle Armory). Lt. Nikara gains the ability to cast a defensive shield around friendly units (Purchased at the Fixers' Safehouse). Nux gains the ability to reduce the cooldown and charge-up time of all primary Outlaw abilities (Purchased at the Fixers' Safehouse).
	Fully Loaded	Unlocks the following upgrades at the Engineering Bay: Level 4 and 5 Outlaw Weapons research upgrades. Level 4 and 5 Outlaw Life and Armor research upgrades.
	Advanced Ultimate Gear Cache	Unlocks the following upgrades: Improves the health and attack damage of Sirius' Warhound Turrets (Purchased at the Gunslingers' Hideout). Rattlesnake gains the ability to deal area of effect damage (Purchased at the Muscle Armory). Cannonball gains a 30% chance to deal 4 times more damage on each attack (Purchased at the Muscle Armory). Improves the duration of Vega's Dominate ability (Purchased at the Fixers' Safehouse).
	Big Red Button	Unlocks the following upgrade at the Engineering Bay. Replaces the Odin's Barrage ability with a better ability that allows the Odin to call down a nuke.

Highlighted rows denote large power spikes for the commander.

Achievements

The commander-specific achievements for Tychus are:

Achievement	Name	Description
	Buy Buy Buy (Buy Buy)	Purchase 5 pieces of ultimate gear by 20 minutes on Hard difficulty.
	I Ain't Flipping This Bill	Purchase the ultimate gear of every heroic unit.
	Out-Of-Network Coverage	Heal 50,000 life on allied units in Co-op Missions.
	Push In Case of Emergency	Kill 1,000 units with the Odin's Big Red Button ability.

Calldowns

Calldown	Name	Description	Recommended Usage	Numbers
	Medivac Pickup	Instantly transports all Outlaws in the target area to a targeted location, healing and cloaking them (10 seconds) on drop-off. If these units are attacked, they will stop healing and decloak.	Useful for dealing with attack waves and then returning back. Can be used to move freshly recruited/revived outlaws to your main group. Works well as a heal before your healer is recruited.	Cooldown: 120 seconds
	Calldown Odin	Calls down the Odin at the target location, dealing 150 damage on impact. The Odin takes Tychus as the pilot and revives him if he is inactive. It is controllable and will fight for 60 seconds.	Extremely tanky unit. Great for pushing into enemy bases. Can be used to revive Tychus for free just before pushing into an enemy base. Big Red Button is a must-get upgrade that does lots of damage.	Coolup: 600 seconds Cooldown: 360 seconds

The Calldown Odin ability brings an Odin onto the battlefield. This unit has abilities itself, shown below. Depending on whether the "Big Red Button" is researched, it will have one of these two abilities. You only have one charge for each of these abilities, so optimal placement (and timing) is required.

The Odin's Big Red Button ability does damage depending on how far away from the center of the target area the enemy is. Below shows an image after an Odin Nuke has been dropped, overlayed with the damage dealt.

The damage details are shown below:

Distance from Center	Damage
0-8	1000
8-10	500
10-12	250

Sub-Ascension Leveling

Difficulty: Very Easy

Tychus has most of the tools he needs to deal with any mission and enemy composition at level 1, making him one of the easier commanders to level. Use Nikara as your primary healer until you get Rattlesnake. Due to the lack of upgrades available, build only two Engineering Bays.

Masteries

Below are the three Power Sets for Tychus with the recommended point allocations for each. Note that these are meant to serve a general, all-purpose build that is effective across all maps with no Prestiges selected. You are highly encourged to change these masteries to suit your playstyle and particular challenges you face (e.g. Weekly Mutations).

Power Set 1:

Power	Value	Recommended Points to Add	Further Considerations
Tychus Attack Speed	1% per point 30% maximum	0	Depending on a player's playstyle, more aggressive players may want to get the Shredder Grenade mastery to reduce its cooldown, thus allowing them to spam it more often. This is particularly the case when players prefer to actively play Tychus and use all his outlaws' abilities as efficiently as possible.
Tychus Shredder Grenade Cooldown	-1% per point -30% maximum	30

The Shredder Grenade is used to provide an initial burst of damage that usually kills off low-HP units in an engagement. Reducing this cooldown will allow players to take more engagements and play more aggressively, which is generally rewarded in co-op.

Power Set 2:

Power	Value	Recommended Points to Add	Further Considerations
Tri-Outlaw Research Improvement	0.5% per point 15% maximum	30	In general, both these masteries are not too great. The Tri-Outlaw mastery only affects the three upgrades in the engineering bay, and not the class of outlaws. The Outlaw availability might be useful on certain mutators where you get attacked very early on and need some defense.
Outlaw Availability	-3 sec per point -90 sec maximum	0

Unless you are in very niche circumstances (e.g. speedrunning) where having an outlaw out early is critical, the Tri-Outlaw Research mastery is the better choice (despite it being relatively ineffective too). Additionally, in regular missions, you rarely will have the resources to recruit your first outlaw so early in the game.

Power Set 3:

Power	Value	Recommended Points to Add	Further Considerations
Medivac Pickup Cooldown	-1.5 sec per point -45 sec maximum	?	Both of these choices are competitive, depending on the mobility the player needs. In the case that mobility is not required very much, players should consider reducing the cooldown for the Odin, especially if it helps them push into enemy defenses effectively.
Odin Cooldown	-4 sec per point -120 sec maximum	?

The Medivac Pickup Cooldown allows you to spam Medivacs, allowing for greater mobility and less chances of outlaw losses. The Odin is usually used for pushing into enemy bases, which reducing the cooldown by 120s (to a 240s cooldown) helps a lot. Both these choices are competitive.

Prestiges

Below are the prestiges for Tychus. Note that "Effective Level" is the level at which the prestige achieves it full effect.

Level	Name	Description	Effective Level	Notes
1	Technical Recruiter	Advantages: Outlaws' active ability cooldowns reduced by 35%. Disadvantages: Outlaw cost and time between Outlaw recruitment increased by 50%.	1	Cooldown reduction for Shredder Grenade works additively with the Mastery Outlaw spawn timing mastery is applied first, then prestige cooldown increase applied
This prestige allows outlaws to spam their abilities more often, and compounds very well with the Tychus Shredder Grenade cooldown. Players that prefer to actively micro their outlaws and are more active with their outlaw ability usage may get a lot of value out of this prestige.

Level	Name	Description	Effective Level	Notes
2	Lone Wolf	Advantages: When beyond the vision range of other Outlaws, outlaws deal 30% more damage for each Outlaw recruited and take 50% less damage. Disadvantages: Ultimate Gear is unavailable. Gear costs 25% more.	1	Sirius Turrets get the Lone Wolf buff Vega Dominated units get the Lone Wolf buff Buffs to Turrets and Dominated units apply if the the respective Hero unit has the Lone Wolf buff Odin does not remove Lone Wolf buff from other outlaws if within range Damage reduction is applied before Armor
Lone Wolf is an extremely powerful prestige, that when used well, can allow the player to push on multiple sides of the map simultaneously. This obviously does require a lot of micromanagement and individual unit control from the player's part, but can be extremely rewarding when pulled off.

Level	Name	Description	Effective Level	Notes
3	Dutiful Dogwalker	Advantages: The Odin no longer requires Tychus as its pilot, its duration is increased by 100%, and its cooldown is reduced by 40%. Disadvantages: Barrage and Big Red Button are unavailable.	3	Odin Cooldown reduction Mastery applied first, then cooldown reduced by an additional 40%
The loss of the Barrage is insignificant in this prestige, but the loss of the Big Red Button removes the Odin's ability for a large area burst damage. However, this is compensated by the increased duration and the cooldown reduction, which also compounds well with the Odin Cooldown mastery.

For general play, all of the Tychus prestiges are solid picks. A good choice for a prestige is Technical Recruiter as it is versatile enough to handle any map with ease.

Recommended Army Composition

The recommended army composition for Tychus is below. Note that this assumes no Prestige talent selected and recommended Mastery Allocations. This is a basic recommendation for your army framework. It is recommended to gain an understanding for each of the units in the Units section and further add tech units so that you are able to better handle the situations you face.

Rattlesnake first allows a player to get adequate healing but also an increase to their potential damage output. They may then get Sirius to handle air units as well as further increase their potential damage output. Additionally, his turrets are detectors, which reduces the need to recruiting a Fixer for detection.

Add Crooked Sam to your Outlaws for his powerful disabling abilities as well as high single-target damage through his Demolition Charges.

Outlaws

Tychus has three classes of outlaws. These are:

• Guns: These are damage-dealers.
• Muscles: These outlaws are designed for high survivability and tanking.
• Fixers: These units are specialist units who with very unique skills designed with a certain gimmick in mind.

Each Outlaw costs 1000/200 to recruit. However, the first outlaw will cost only 500/100 to recruit. Upgrades cost 600/150, while Ultimate Upgrades cost 1200/400. Ultimate Upgrades can only be bought once all three Primary Upgrades have been purchased. This means that the total cost of a single outlaw (assuming no first outlaw discount) is 4000/1050.

Tychus will spawn at the 3:00 mark, and an outlaw slot will open at the same time. Then, every 4 minutes, another slot will open for another outlaw to be recruited.

For more information on Tychus' unit stats, comparison between units and upgrade calculations, visit the Data Tables page.

Tychus's outlaws are listed below:

Guns:

Muscles:

Fixers:

In addition to the equipment above, Tychus has three "Tri-Outlaw" upgrades. These are listed below:

Upgrade	Name	Effect	/	Research Time
	ITC-E Triggers	Increases the attack speed of Tychus, Crooked Sam, and Sirius by 25%.	150/150	90 seconds
	Endurance Supplements	Increases the life of Blaze, Cannonball, and Rattlesnake by 25%.	150/150	90 seconds
	Flashforce GDM Visor	Provides Vega, Nux, and Lt. Nikara with Detection, allowing them to see cloaked and burrowed enemy units.	75/75	90 seconds

Build Order

Below is the standard economic build order for Tychus. For more information on how to read and construct your own build orders, please check the Build Order Theory page.

17 Command Center
18 Refinery
19 Refinery
20 Engineering Bay
22 2x Turrets -> Rocks

Gameplay Guide

Playstyle Traps

A common trap for Tychus players is focusing on attack and armor upgrades while going for a Vega-centric build. Units that are dominated do not get benefits of attack and armor upgrades from Tychus. Therefore, these upgrades should be a low priority.

With higher skill levels, it is even possible to go for a greedy play and get out other damage dealers first, relying purely on the healing from Medivac Platforms.

Playstyle Tips

• Ensure you have adequate medivac platforms to provide you with the mobility you need to handle the mission. Healing is stopped when damage is taken, so if Medivacs are used for healing, ensure you move away from the enemy lines.
• Three Engineering Bays are recommended. Two will be researching the attack and armor upgrades, while the other one researches other upgrades.
• Build an early Command Center and either use Tychus (foregoing an early Engineering Bay) or two Turrets (with the build order above) to clear the expansion. This depends if you want to push with Tychus early or if the expansion is contested.
• You can revive Tychus by calling down the Odin, saving you on the mineral costs.
• If your ally doesn't help, it may be necessary to go for Sirius first for early DPS. In those cases, ensure you have a Medivac Platform ready to use for heals.
• Your choice of healer (Rattlesnake/Nikara) will depend on which outlaws you use. A build that uses lower HP outlaws (Fixers) will gain more benefit from having Nikara, whereas a higher HP outlaw set (Muscles) will benefit more from having Rattlesnake.

Note: All data generated on this site is based on Brutal difficulty. Timings, compositions and other elements may differ on easier difficulty levels.

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