Hammerjaw (I own a lvl36 one) has a terrible ability. What makes hammerjaw powerful is his passive: stun, snare, bleed, -10% defense, crit reduction, and hits multiple targets. Not to mention he has at an arcane rarity scaled damage stat (I believe shadowfang is rare in rarity?). Therefore shadowfang IS NOT similar to hammerjaw.
No offense but first thing that came to my mind reading this analogy to hammerjaw was: ya! And dauphin is just like Samuel because he heals players in range.
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