A slow-moving fat rabbit with a Gatling gun made of carrots and a bag full of exploding eggs walks onto the battlefield. The horde, frankly, never had a chance.
Her name: Bunni.
One of the original glass cannons in the HvH roster, Bunni puts up some of the most absurd raw damage numbers in the entire game—and when boss brawl rolls around, she's the floor and the ceiling. If you've got Bunni on your shelf, you've got a hero who's going to carry you through arenas, boss brawls, and most of the normal-mode/hard-mode grind on damage alone.
So, let's load up the carrot Gatling gun and take a closer look at why Bunni is the best boss brawler in the game.
| 10 | +1 Projectile(s) |
|---|---|
| 20 | +20 Armor |
| 30 | +5% Critical Hit Chance |
| 40 | CARROT SHRAPNEL: Each carrot will shrapnel into 8 smaller pieces on impact, shooting in all directions dealing 800% weapon damage. |
| 50 | All Heroes: +20% Damage when dealing Physical Damage |
| 60 | -5% Cooldown |
| 70 | All Heroes: +12.5% Damage |
| 80 | SWIPE THIS!: Throws a basket of eggs across the screen which then explode after a short delay dealing damage. |
| 90 | All Heroes that share Faction: coin/utility bonus |
| 100 | BUNNI BARRAGE: All kills fill a meter, once full the Bunni unleashes a barrage of carrots covering the entire screen. |
| 120 | +Armor |
| 140 | Strong Stat Bonus |
| 160 | All Heroes: +100% Damage |
Bunni is a physical-damage hero whose weapon is a carrot Gatling gun. Her whole identity comes down to two things: she does an absurd amount of damage, and she's incredibly slow. She's a glass cannon in the truest sense—if the horde gets to her, she'll go down. But the horde rarely gets to her, because everything is dying first.
Her base stats lean hard into damage—+1227.5% Damage and +360% Physical Damage at level 175 with maxed star levels. Her shrapnel mechanic is what makes her boss-brawl-broken: every carrot her weapon fires shrapnels into eight smaller pieces, and all eight of those pieces will hit a stationary target. That's where the boss-brawl numbers come from.
Bunni's globals aren't going to win any awards. This is a hero you're investing in for the kit, not the global package. The team gave her a forge later in the cycle and made the 3-star a projectile speed bonus, which—as you'll see in a moment—is actively bad in some game modes. So the globals here are mostly forgettable.
If you're rolling Bunni for the globals, you've made the wrong call. You're rolling Bunni for the boss brawl carry, the arena push, and the early-game normal/hard mode wins. Get her to three star levels and she'll already be carrying you through League 7 of Boss Brawl on her own.
Bunni's forge is a great forge wrapped around a problematic 3-star. Most levels are huge upgrades. The 3-star is a trap.
Level 1: Punchy Carrots (more damage) or Punchier Carrots (2x projectiles). Late game these are roughly the same. Earlier in the game—roughly until you've stacked 13+ projectiles—the projectile option wins. Past that point, raw damage starts to overtake. It's basically a wash for most players, so don't agonize over it.
Level 2: Colorful Eggs (more damage) or Fertilized Carrots (reduce Swipe This! cooldown). Take the cooldown reduction. One second off Swipe This! is much, much bigger than it sounds—you'll see screens full of egg baskets at all times. This is the right pick across every game mode.
Level 3 (Bunny Hop): Projectile Speed. This is awful. The Unity engine that powers HvH bugs out at high projectile speeds, and Bunni's shrapnel can't reliably hit a boss when projectile speed is too high. If you stack projectile-speed tomes across your roster, Bunni's boss brawl scores will collapse. Take the 3-star to unlock the rest of the forge, but never feed projectile speed into her or your other heroes if you care about boss brawl.
Level 4 (Empowered by the Golden Crop): Bunni now calls in precision air strikes from the skies. Little arrows appear on the screen marking strike zones, and shoot the horde for a whole bunch of damage. Free damage layered on top of everything else.
Level 5: Damaging Artillery — air strikes also trigger Swipe This! Or Golden Support — instead of dealing damage, the artillery drops golden crop airdrops every 4 seconds. Run them over and Bunni becomes golden, increasing weapon damage by 50% for 6 seconds. Golden Support is the boss brawl pick—you can keep golden uptime at near-100% during the vulnerability phase, and a 50% damage multiplier on top of her shrapnel scaling is enormous. The Damaging Artillery option is fine for normal and hard mode if you want extra clear in non-boss content.
The optimal boss brawl build is left-right-right or right-right at levels 1, 2, and 5. Going from a 3-star forge to a 5-star forge with maxed star levels roughly doubles your boss brawl score—from around 700 million to 1.7 billion in personal testing. The forge investment in Bunni pays back hard.
Bunni has three skills, and all three are pure damage. There's no shielding, no sustain, no utility. She makes a horde-cleaning machine and trusts you to kill everything before it gets to her.
Each carrot will shrapnel into eight smaller pieces on impact, dealing 800% weapon damage. This is the skill that makes Bunni broken in boss brawl. All eight shrapnel pieces will hit a stationary target, multiplying her single-target damage by 8x against bosses. It's also the reason she clears arena hordes so well—each impact effectively becomes an AoE explosion.
Bunni throws a basket of eggs across the screen. The eggs land, sit for a short delay, then blow up dealing a whole bunch of damage. With the right forge choice, the cooldown on this becomes obscene and you'll have egg baskets carpeting the screen at all times.
Kills fill a meter. When full, Bunni unloads carrots across the entire screen. The whole screen takes damage. There's no other way to put it. This is one of the most visually overwhelming ultimates in the game and it's a huge clear in normal mode, hard mode, and arena.
Stack all three skills with the shrapnel multiplying every hit, and you understand why Bunni is a glass cannon: the only thing she does is delete things, and she does it so fast that she rarely needs anything else.
Bunni in action is a glass cannon master class. The carrots split into shrapnel on hit, the egg baskets carpet the screen, the air strikes drop arrows from the sky, and the ultimate covers everything in carrots. There's so much going on you stop tracking individual damage sources and just watch the whole screen melt.
Her boss brawl ceiling is what makes her S-tier. Druid will eventually do more damage at the very top end, but Bunni's floor is dramatically higher. A three-star Bunni without a forge will already carry you through League 7. A five-star forged Bunni with the Golden Support evolve is putting up 1.7 billion+ scores. There is no other hero in the game who is that strong with that little investment in boss brawl.
Outside boss brawl, she's also a fantastic early arena pusher and a great normal mode/hard mode clear. The only weakness is movement speed—she's slow. If the horde does get to her, the math gets ugly fast. But that's the whole glass cannon trade: do enough damage that nothing reaches you, and you never have to think about it.
Just remember the projectile speed warning. Don't stack projectile speed tomes across your roster if Bunni is your boss brawl hero, because the Unity engine will eat your shrapnel and your scores will tank. Take the 3-star forge to unlock the tree, then forget projectile speed exists.
