The Cricket Star uses the Flaming Cricket Blaster as his primary weapon. This is the fire version of the Football Cannon. It inflicts burns upon enemies in exchange for a lower damage output. It deals 3-5 normal and 5-7 critical damage depending on how far the target is, and the burning effect deals 5 fire damage overtime.
An alternate ability of Dummy Shield, the Future Dummy is stronger than the default Dummy Shield, but only one Future Dummy can be placed down at a time. When the Future Dummy is destroyed, it explodes (dealing up to 75 damage to nearby Plants).
Weapon upgrades
Rounder Cricket Ball Enhancements
The cricket balls are given a good polish to make them more round resulting in less overheat friction.
Overheat Fans
The overheat fans provide a gentle breeze and reduce overheat time.
Superheated Flaming Cricket Balls
These superheated flaming cricket balls will cause extra damage.
Strategies
With
The Cricket Star's fire abilities are better suited at taking on groups of plants. The Cricket Star should never focus on one target for too long, as it ruins the point of having fire damage, instead, the Cricket Star should spread around its damage letting the fire vanquish weakened plants or leaving it to teammates. However, if the situation arises, the Cricket Star is great for taking on most singular targets, as your high health and fire damage should do the trick. in addition, even if you get vanquished, the fire damage will likely finish off most plants.
Against
Out of all the other All-Star characters, the Cricket Star is definitely an extremely dangerous variant. Its fire abilities can also make it a very annoying opponent to deal with, since you would always be taking fire damage from it from all ranges (this applies to all fire-variant characters). In just a few shots, it can take away about 15-25 HP from your health. If in the hands of an expert All-Star player, Cricket Star could burn down several or more plants in his way in a short amount of time. The best way to deal with it is to take advantage of its slow movement speed and its lowered damage by taking pot-shots at it with the Peashooter. Cacti can also take advantage by staying back and lowering its already lowered damage and snipe it from a distance. The best way is for a Chomper to simply eat him instantly but be careful as he can shoot it down easily.