Mother Gothel (Tangled)
With a tongue nearly as sharp as her dagger, Mother Gothel takes to the battlefield, ensuring that her enemies never experience freedom or happiness as long as she’s around.
Role: Control
Position: Middle
Trial Team: Yellow
“Okay, okay, Rapunzel, please, stop with the mumbling. You know how I feel about the mumbling. Blah-bluh-blah-bleh, it’s very annoying–I’m just teasing, you’re adorable, I love you so much, darling!”
Basic Animations
Entrance: Lantern held in front, Mother Gothel sashays into frame lit by the lantern’s greenish glow with her free hand posed in a mock-thoughtful manner on her chin. She then uses that hand to reach behind her and produce a wicked dagger as she smirks maliciously.
Basic Attack: Mother Gothel performs a 3-hit slashing chain–a downward slash at normal speed, a horizontal slash at swift speed, and then a forceful thrust at slower speed. The slashes are performed at 1.0x, 0.75x, 1.25x speed and damage and hit all enemies in melee range.
Victory: Mother Gothel tosses the dagger over her shoulder almost dismissively, turning 90 degrees towards the camera to sneer at the fallen enemy team with a grin most smug.
Defeat: Mother Gothel begins to age rapidly, as she clutches at her throat and tightens the drawstring of her hood, pulling it over her head as she wails skyward in anguish.
Skills
White Skill: Verbal Venom (
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- Mother Gothel shouts, dealing X (determined by Skill Power) Fantastic damage and inflicting Reversal on all enemies for 6 seconds. Reversal causes all healing performed by the enemy to instead deal damage equal to 25% of the heal amount, causes Hardy stacks to turn into Fatigue stacks, and changes most other buffs to have the opposite effect. The Reversal has a chance to fail against enemies above level X.
- Animation: Mother Gothel drops both hands to her sides, clenching her fists around the lantern and dagger tightly as she stands as tall as she can muster before letting out a rage-fueled shout that sends soundwaves across the battlefield. Enemies are then surrounded by a smoky red chain to represent the Reversal effect.
Green Skill: Cutting Criticisms
- At the start of each wave, the player chooses an enemy for Mother Gothel to Criticize. Criticize lasts until the target is KO’d.
– When the Criticized enemy deals 10% of an ally’s HP in damage in a single hit, Mother Gothel and her allies gain Reflect for 3 seconds. The Reflect has a chance to fail on allies above level X.
– When the Criticized enemy heals one of their teammates for more than 10% of their maximum HP, all enemies are afflicted with Reversal for 3 seconds. The Reversal has a chance to fail against enemies above level X.
– While on Auto, Mother Gothel will Criticize the enemy with the highest Skill Power. - Animation: After her Entrance animation, Mother Gothel looks incredulous, points at the enemy team with a look of malicious glee, and laughs very, very ungraciously.
Blue Skill: Shameful Strike (
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- Mother Gothel executes a dishonorable strike on the nearest enemy, Blinding them for 10 seconds before dealing X (determined by Basic Damage) Normal damage and Piercing the target for 8 seconds. Pierced enemies take 6% of their maximum HP as True damage each time they take Normal damage. Damage over time effects will only trigger this damage once per second. The Pierce has a chance to fail against enemies above level X.
- Animation: Mother Gothel holds her glowing lantern right up to the target’s face before swiftly whirling around them to deliver a cruel and unfair stab with her dagger into their back. She then ducks low and returns to her previous position with a wide, snarling grin.
Purple Skill: Authoritarian Aura
- When an enemy recovers from the Reversal status, they are then Cursed for 13 seconds. This has a chance to fail against enemies above level X.
Red Skill: Mother Knows Best ()
- When an enemy takes damage from a heal corrupted by Reversal, Mother Gothel and her allies are healed by the amount of damage dealt. This effect may only trigger once every 3 seconds.
- Authoritarian Aura also applies 3 stacks of Fatigue to affected enemies.
- Mother Gothel gains 120 Energy each time an enemy is damaged by Pierce. The Energy gain is reduced above level X.
+X Basic Damage
+X Skill Power
Enemies take X (determined by Skill Power) Fantastic damage each time they are afflicted with Reversal
Friend Disk Campaigns
Disk #1 - "What Once Was Mine"
Rapunzel is surprised and a little scared to come across her mother here in the City, but Mother Gothel couldn’t be happier–she found her little flower and can hopefully, very soon, cast the de-aging spell she depends so much upon. Mother Gothel laments that Rapunzel was probably so alone and frightened without her dear mother to protect her, but Flynn Rider is there to spoil the false concern. Not only is he still salty about being knocked out and tied up by Mother Gothel and his own former colleagues, but he objects to the idea of Rapunzel being in the City all alone. After all, he’s been there for her (“Oh great, my lovely little muffin in the care of some common thief…”), and Rapunzel’s made all kinds of other friends in just the short amount of time she’s been here. Skeptical, Mother Gothel wishes to meet some of these so-called friends. She’ll pick out any flaws these “friends” may possess, and use them as a bludgeon to try to rein in this wayward youth until she’s back under her loving mother’s thumb, where she belongs.
- Partner: Rapunzel
- Allies: Sally, Bo Peep, Jasmine
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Level Up:
+X Basic Damage
Cutting Criticisms also grants Mother Gothel X Skill Power for 12 seconds when first applied -
Stars:
Cutting Criticisms also grants Mother Gothel 2 (+1 per additional star) stacks of Hardy when first applied.
If the first Criticized target is KO’d within the first 5 (+5 per additional star) seconds of combat, the player can choose a second target to be Criticized. While on Auto, the Most Wanted enemy will become the new target.
Disk #2 - "Speak With the Manager"
Something has gone horribly wrong. Miserably stewing over an equally miserable stew in the tavern of the Tortuga Inn, Mother Gothel mutters bitterly. She has signed away her very soul in a magical contract to maintain her youth, since she can no longer rely on Rapunzel willingly facilitating the spell for her, but the telltale lines and wrinkles have begun to appear once more! She clenches her fist and curses that wretched Shadow Man’s name. This happens to catch the ear of a few of the inn’s patrons, who then approach her table. The first is Randall Boggs, who had also signed a contract to trade away his soul for entrepreneurial success, but finds every one of his business ventures failing miserably. Next up is one Captain Hook, who made an agreement to turn over his soul in exchange for the skills needed to easily defeat his nemesis, and yet that blasted Peter Pan continues to evade capture, let alone defeat! Finally there is the fearsome Hun general, Shan Yu, who has likewise formed a soulbound contract to gain control over the Creeps, in order to bolster his meager ranks and launch a real takeover of the City, but they remain as uncontrollable as ever. “Well,” Mother Gothel declares, “it sounds like it’s time we march right back to the Shadow Man’s lair and get ourselves a refund…”
- Partner: Dr. Facilier
- Allies: Randall Boggs, Captain Hook, Shan Yu
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Level Up:
+X Basic Damage
+X Skill Power
Damage and Control role enemies lose X Basic Damage
Damage and Control role enemies lose X Skill Power -
Stars:
Verbal Venom also Hexes enemies for 2 (+1 per additional star) seconds. When a Hexed enemy uses their White Skill, they instead lose all their Energy and are Stunned for 5 seconds.
Damage and Control role enemies Stunned from this Hex effect are also afflicted with 3 stacks of Weakness that last for 4 (+1 per additional star) seconds. Weakness causes the target to take 10% increased damage from all sources per stack, to a maximum of 5 stacks.