Dooley
Dooley is the core hero. A core buffs the item to its right, so the board is a sentence you read left to right. He was in the base game with Vanessa and Pygmalien. Cymon sells his skills.
Cores, Tech and Friends
Dooley’s core is the center of his chain-reaction archetype. Read the particular core’s text and arrange the supporting Tech or Friends around the directions it specifies. The older wiki describes core choices, but this page does not turn its ambiguous menu wording into a current rule that you receive five cores at level 3. The imported item pool contains 229 records. The wiki gives starting gold as 5 and starting income as 8; those figures belong to its older 2.5.0 snapshot, rather than a newly published patch-20.1 opener. Friends and Tech are useful search terms when looking for supporting cards.
Hotfix 19.3: win rate 57.6%, 10-win rate 26.7%, second only to Pygmalien on 10-wins in that snapshot. A core plan fails when the buffed square is empty or is a passive that ignores the buff. The normal shop pool is hero-specific, while cross-hero acquisition can require another route. Compare each item’s tag and source, and use the monsters table if you need a day-by-day drop rather than a core lecture.
He was never a separate $19.99 DLC. Guides that tell you to unlock Dooley with a pack are describing a different hero.
Evidence status
| Record | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Wiki Dooley | 1 published source | 2026-11-08 |
| Hotfix 19.3 | 1 published source | 2026-11-08 |
Questions
What is a Dooley core?
A core is Dooley’s signature item and the focus of his chain-reaction archetype. Its own text determines the relevant triggers and directions.
Who sells his skills?
Cymon, a Diamond trainer, 8 gold to reroll, one choice.
Sources
- Wiki Dooley — checked 2026-11-08
- Hotfix 19.3 — checked 2026-11-08