Mechabellum Rhino Guide

All units Rhino
Mechabellum Rhino
Rhino

Used against

Arclight Arclight
Vulcan Vulcan
Stormcaller Stormcaller
Crawler Crawler
Sledgehammer Sledgehammer
Fire Badger Fire Badger
Marksman Marksman
Mustang Mustang
Typhoon Typhoon

Countered by

Fortress Fortress
Hacker Hacker
Melting Point Melting Point
Steel Ball Steel Ball
Phoenix Phoenix
Overlord Overlord
War Factory War Factory

How to play Rhino

It's and aggressive unit that needs to be played aggressively. I mostly use them for shielding my damage dealers. If you are building crawlers for example and the enemy has a Vulcan, you can drop the rhino in front of the Vulcan to draw the aggro and let the crawlers do the work. Rhinos are also great at taking down enemy towers. To accomplish this, you need to push your opponent from multiple directions, pulling his forces away from the command tower thus finding a nice angle for the Rhino mobile beacon.

Rhinos different techs make the unit very flexible. There's so many tech paths that it's up to your imagination how do you want to use the unit.

Mechabellum Rhino counter

Against aggressive rhinos I usually build charged shot phoenix or steel balls deployed vertical to the rhinos. Sometimes a Fortress. If the rhino is high level and has some crazy item, I might build a Melting Point.

When you see a rhino deployed, you need to start thinking about where it can be mobile beaconed and drop stuff in all its possible paths. You can drop sentry missiles on it as they slow it down. Keep in mind it's later negated by the power armor tech. If it's round 2 or 3, you might want to start with a hacker. Do keep in mind you need some damage, like a phoenix to soften it up and something like fangs to keep it in place. If you already have phoenixes, getting jump drive and moving them in the perfect position helps a lot. Overlord with ground cannon is also a solid choice.

Keep in mind that they can tech the final blitz tech to explode the rhino, so don't stack too much stuff in one place. If this happens, you can try to keep the rhino in place and shield the explosion (the rhino must not get under the shield). EMP can counter the final blitz for one round, but after the enemy sees it, he will buy photon coating which negates the EMP effect.

Shielded fangs waste a lot of time for the enemy, even if they have Whirl Wind on their Rhinos.

If you are getting Rhino flanked, dropping an early War Factory that shoots in all directions is very powerful.

Rhino Builds

Listed below are all some highlighted Rhino builds.

Surrey's Rhino build

Photon Coating
Power Armor
Final Blitz
Whirlwind

Photon coating makes itemized and leveled rhinos a lot stronger. Power armor prevent the enemy from missiling your rhinos that are trying to take their tower. Final blitz is good with mass produced rhino and good in some defensive situations otherwise. Whirlwind is good against chaff and medium units that try to block your Rhino. I usually go Whirlwind as my only tech. If the Rhinos actually seem good after that I go power armor and build an overlord with photon emission near it.

Rhino Technologies

Listed below are all available technologies for Rhino, their viability and how to use them.

Mechanical Rage

Mechanical Rage

Increases the movement speed of units by 5m/s and reduces attack interval by 0.3s

supply cost
200

Mostly the movement speed increase is very relevant in many situations. Whirlwind is usually a lot better and teching them both is usually a bit of an overkill.

Field Maintenance

Field Maintenance

Automatically restores 4.5% Max HP per second upon taking damage

supply cost
300

Might be sometimes insane if you get high level Rhinos from the unit drops. But usually not since the rhinos will get countered by Steel Balls or Melting Points.

Wreckage Recycling

Wreckage Recycling

Upon destroying an enemy, recovers HP equal to the enemies HP

supply cost
100

For such a low cost, it ups the power level of your rhinos considerably. It's a tempo play for the early turns. Depending on how you use your rhino, you might want this.

Final Blitz

Final Blitz

Rhino activates a self-destruct mechanism at 0 HP, dealing damage equivalent to Rhino's Max HP to all units within 48m

supply cost
250

You might not use this every game, but it gives so much flexibility to rhinos that it's a must pick. It also server as a scare for your opponent when he sees that you can tech the self destruct.

Photon Coating

Photon Coating

Covers the unit with a photon coating, reducing damage received by 30% for the first 25s of battle and grants immunity to electromagnetic, ignition and acid effects

supply cost
300

This tech bring up the rhinos powerful by a lot. It's usually my first or second tech.

Armor Enhancement

Armor Enhancement

The effect increases with unit level, reducing damage received by 60 per level. Additionally, increases HP by 35%.

supply cost
200

The armor is used to block fast shooting units like Mustangs. If you tech the armor, the enemy will counter the Rhino with Steel Balls for example. If you need to block damage with armor, it's better to do it with for example Sledge hammers because they are harder to clear since there are 5 guys in the pack instead of 1.

Whirlwind

Whirlwind

When there are multiple enemies around, Rhino will use Whirlwind to attack all surrounding enemies, dealing 1.5 times the damage of Rhino's attack power over a long time

supply cost
250

Insane against Crawlers, fangs, Sledgehammers, Mustangs and any other unit that has multiple characters in the squad.

Power Armor

Power Armor

Increases HP by 25% and grants immunity to slow

supply cost
300

Crazy tech for bringing down enemy towers. The main benefit is to counter sentry missiles which otherwise slow your rhino. It also helps in base races as your rhinos become immune to the slow provided by your tower dying (or oil). If you are doing rhino rushes with mobile beacon, this is the most important tech for you.

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