He Caitou: Am I Going to Be Replaced?

Xu Sanshi, with the Black Tortoise True Body Martial Soul of ultimate defense, is the strongest defensive tank among the entire younger generation.

The Black Tortoise Shield comes with absolute defense, water-based defense, and a shield field, enabling it to withstand powerful attacks from Titled Douluo- level opponents. It is the team's only front-line tank.

In team battles, he is responsible for tanking damage, blocking positions, protecting the backline, and dividing the battlefield. A top-tier tank is an absolute necessity in Soul Master battles.

Looking across the entire continent at the same age, there is no other Soul Master with such top-tier defensive capabilities; his value as a tank is irreplaceable.

Jiang Nannan, with the Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul, is an assassin with extreme agility and close-range attack capabilities.

She is unpredictable and incredibly fast, specializing in close-quarters ambushes, breaking through defenses, finishing off weakened enemies, and controlling key enemy targets.

In team fights, she is not responsible for frontal offense and defense, but she can roam the entire field, restrain the enemy's control positions and squishy damage dealers, disrupt the opponent's formation, and make up for the team's weakness in melee attacks.

This extremely agile assassin positioning and precise control ability are unique to the other six members.

Xiao Xiao possesses twin support-type Martial Soul: the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and the Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute. She is the team's only orthodox dual-type Soul Master capable of both control and support.

The Soul-Suppressing Cauldron stabilizes the battle, imprisons enemies, shares damage, and solidifies the formation.

The Nine Phoenix Flute can amplify the power of teammates, weaken enemies, disrupt minds, and break control effects.

She is the core of control and support for the Seven Monsters, stabilizing the rhythm of team battles, balancing the enemy's abilities, and covering the team's weaknesses. She is an indispensable lubricant in team battles.

This combination of two top-tier support Martial Soul is unique among people of the same age, and no one can replace it.

After looking at the other six people, we can clearly see a common point.

Their core abilities, Martial Soul characteristics, and team roles are all unique talents and inherent to their Martial Soul. They are exclusive abilities rooted in their bloodline, Martial Soul, and Divine Soul, and cannot be copied, learned, or replaced.

Martial Soul is innate, one's talent is predetermined, and one's Divine Soul bonds are unique. No matter how hard others try, they cannot take these things away or learn them.

It's different from He Caitou.

He Caitou's entire value, combat power, and team contribution do not come from his own Martial Soul talent; they all come from the Soul Tool he learned later.

This is his most fatal weakness, and the core reason why he is so easily replaceable.

He Caitou's Martial Soul is Cigar, a bizarre support Martial Soul with no growth potential, no combat power enhancement, and no attribute amplification.

This Martial Soul cannot amplify Soul Power, strengthen the physical body, has no control effects, no burst damage, or domain enhancement. Its only function is to assist in lighting Cigar, provide a slight boost of energy, and restore a small amount of Soul Power.

If we disregard Soul Tool and simply compare the combat strength of the Soul Master themselves, He Caitou is at the bottom among the Shrek Seven Monsters, even inferior to many ordinary high-level Soul Master.

He has no top-tier Martial Soul, no special talent, no Divine Soul inheritance, and no unique bloodline. All his brilliance comes from the Soul Tool.

Soul Tool are the fairest, most universal, and most replicable system in the entire Douluo II worldview.

Martial Soul rely on talent, inheritance relies on opportunity, and bloodlines rely on birth, but Soul Tool rely on learning, accumulation, creation, and operation.

Anyone, as long as they are willing to study, have sufficient resources, and have enough proficiency, can become Soul Engineer, can use the Heavy Cannon Soul Tool, and can replace He Caitou's position.

He Caitou's core role is to provide heavy firepower from a distance, break through Armor-Piercing, and clear large areas of the battlefield.

He relied on the giant Soul Guidance Cannon and the charged soul-guided attack device to unleash wide-range explosive damage, break through the enemy's defensive formation, destroy the collective shield, clear out the mobs, and severely injure the heavily empowered Soul Master.

But this ability was never unique to him.

In the era of Douluo II, where Soul Guidance Technology has developed rapidly, Soul Engineer are no longer a rare profession. High-level Soul Engineer are emerging one after another, and there are countless Soul Engineer who specialize in powerful attacks and heavy artillery.

The Soul Tool making, Soul Guidance Cannon control, charged attacks, and long-range suppression techniques of the He Caitou Society can all be copied.

If you were to switch to a powerful offensive Soul Engineer of equal cultivation and Soul Guidance skill, wielding the same high-level heavy artillery Soul Tool, they could achieve the same, or even stronger, results as He Caitou.

In contrast, none of the other six could replicate Huo Yuhao's Spirit Power, none could replicate Wang Dong'er's Ultimate Light, none could replicate Xu Sanshi's Black Tortoise defense, and none could replicate Xiao Xiao's dual auxiliary Martial Soul.

The only thing that can be replicated by everyone He Caitou.

This is the most brutal gap.

In addition, He Caitou's team role is not only replaceable, but can even be directly covered, diluted, or replaced by the abilities of the rest of the team.

Many people overestimate He Caitou's irreplaceable value, thinking that the team needs long-range heavy firepower and can't do without him.

However, looking at the Shrek Seven Monsters ' team battle system, He Caitou's damage output role has long been covered by multiple people.

First is Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao possesses the Ultimate Ice, enabling him to launch wide-range ice-based group attacks, Ice Seal and imprison enemies, and inflict devastating damage with a coverage area no less than He Caitou's Soul Guidance Cannon.

It offers greater controllability and flexibility, requires no power accumulation, and does not require any supporting equipment.

Later, Huo Yuhao merged with the powers of the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress, giving him the ability to deal large-scale group damage and clear Armor-Piercing attacks, far surpassing He Caitou's Soul Guidance Heavy Cannon.

He Caitou's soul-guided attack required setting up, charging, aiming, and filling with Soul Power, while Huo Yuhao could release it with a simple wave of his hand, completely overwhelming him in terms of efficiency, mobility, and potential.

Secondly, Wang Dong'er's burst of power and Bei Bei's wide-range thunderous attacks can replace He Caitou's long-range clearing role.

He Caitou's greatest advantage is his heavy artillery's ability to penetrate Armor-Piercing and break through defenses. However, in high-level battles, the enemy's top-tier shields and defensive formations are either forcibly torn apart by Huo Yuhao's ultimate elemental power, disrupted by Xu Sanshi's close-range attacks, or imprisoned and sealed by Xiao Xiao. There is no need for He Caitou and energy-accumulating Soul Guidance Cannon to break through these defenses.

More importantly, He Caitou's combat weaknesses are extremely obvious, further amplifying his substitutability.

First, its mobility is extremely poor. The giant Soul Guidance Cannon is cumbersome and huge, takes time to set up, and is extremely difficult to move. In team battles, it cannot quickly relocate, cannot flexibly pursue, and cannot get close to protect itself.

Once an enemy assassin gets close, He Caitou has almost no ability to fight back and can only rely on his teammates for protection.

The other six monsters are either high-speed and agile, or combine offense and defense, or are good at both close and long range, and do not have such a fatal weakness in mobility.

Secondly, his output depends on equipment. Without a high-level Soul Tool, He Caitou immediately falls to the level of a third-rate Soul Master.

He is strong when his equipment is strong, and weak when his equipment is weak; he has no backup plan.

The other six, even empty-handed and without any props, still possess top-tier combat power; their Martial Soul and talent are their eternal trump cards.