Luchadora Slot

Luchadora is one of the recent releases by Thunderkick. All their slots have minimum bet of $0.10 but I can never keep up with how many pay lines, some has 11, some has 15, some has 17 or 30 for $0.10 bet.

Set against a wall full of wrestling posters, symbols on the reels include 4 different coloured peppers and 4 wrestlers namely: El Toro, El Rayo, El Serpiente and El Pantera. There’s also Lucha Smackdown, Mysterious Champion and Luchadora symbols. 5 of a kind will reward you with x25 your total bet.

In the base game, look out for the first and last positions on reel 1 and 5. These are indicated with a golden square and are in the corner positions. If a wrestler symbol lands on a corner position, all wrestlers of the same colour will transform to wilds and golden square will be removed. This corner will not change other wrestlers to wilds as it’s been claimed. Once the spin ends, the wilds become wrestler symbols again, also known as the ring corner feature. If you’re lucky, you can get various wrestlers in all corners to give you extra wilds on the reels.

Wilds substitute for any other symbol except the Lucha bonus symbol and Lucha smackdown symbol. Wilds are only active when a wrestler symbol lands on the corner spots.

Three Lucha bonus scatter symbols which appears on any reel trigger the free spins feature. 3 scatters will give you 7 free spins whilst 4 rewards you with 11 free spins. If you get 5, you will receive 15 free spins.

Now, if a wrestler lands in 1 of the 4 corners, it becomes a wild with all instances of that wrestler also becoming wild and remain wild for the duration of the feature. This means you can play up to 15 free spins with 4 wrestler wilds. If you get all 4 wilds, the mystery symbol transforms into the higher paying La Luchadora symbol which gives you x25 your total bet.

The Lucha smackdown symbol appear on reel 5 and awards anything from free spins into wild symbols as well as multiplier times your total stake. Anything from x3 – x15 your total bet can be won. The Lucha smack down symbols is pretty active during free spins and less active during the base game.

I am not a big fan of this slot as the base game wins rarely happens and of course the low pay table as well. But it is nice to try something new every now and then.

Thunderkick do a really good job on their graphics/sounds of their games.
Bonus has a good potential, all premium symbols can become wilds, also can retrigger free spins.
Managed to get 90x during the bonus with all the wilds unlocked, though it had potential to hit bigger.

Wins are very limited, like in all Thunderkick games. Do not expect to hit 1000x or something crazy like that.
The random feature can give you something silly like 2x your bet instead of giving you the free spins.

Here comes another pepper hot game from Mexico.

Wrestling is sport of acting or it's actually an acting sport. Nobody gets actually hurt during this sport, only the sweat dripping off of their body and bunch of yelling and taunting. My hero of this kinda sport was of course Hulk Hogan but he is retired now.

Thunderkick latest release is a game based on sport I mentioned above. If you have played NetEnt games before then you will know that some of their games have a certain mission. From rescuing of a princess to killing an alien queen. Luchadora is about revealing the champion with the name Luchadora. This game is all about him or probably it could be a her. This mysterious wrestler is very hard to reveal and till now I still haven't found out who he/she is.

The concept is very intriguing and the game itself is fun to play. Each time I triggered the bonus round I was hoping to reveal the champion but unfortunately I need to play this game more often in order to do so. When 3 or more championship belt appeared on a spin, you will awarded with 7 free spins, the more belts you win the more free spins you'll be awarded with a maximum of 15 free spins. I did won 4 belts once and awarded with 11 free spins and end up with more than 100x bet but no champion yet.

Luchadora is a great new comer this year and it's a new game with gameplay I never seen before. Thunderkick has always been creative with their games, each one of them has it's own gameplay. The first game with very odd but interesting gameplay was Fruit Warp. It was so odd, I even didn't give it a chance till one of my fellow gambler showed me it's potential and that's the only reason why I decided to gave it a try.

Nowadays, whenever a new Thunderkick game has arrived, I just can't wait to play. You can say, I'm hooked on their games. Well, most of them. Some of their games are just plain odd but Luchadora is a jewel of a game to me.

Luchadora is the very latest game from Thunderkick, and I'm always thrilled whenever they release a new game. It's interesting for me to see what new ideas and creativity they can come up with, and this is one of them. The game plays with 30 paylines, with 5-reels and 4-rows, not to my liking usually, but the game looks pleasant enough. The best part, the minimum starting bet is still maintained at 0.10 EUR per spin, so playing this game won't kill your wallet so quickly, unless you aim for big wins and play with big bets.

There are 4 Wrestler icons in the game, with one Underdog icon, and all 5 icons can be turned into Wild symbols during the Free Spins game. Each Wild symbol pays 25x the total bet for getting 5 of them, which is very low indeed, but it's possible to get all 15 Wild symbols for a nice 750x total bet win. The game plays with a Ring Corner at each end, 4 Ring Corners in all. Any Wrestler symbol that lands in a Corner box turns all same symbols into Wild symbols for that spin. During the free spins, 1 Wrestler can only take up 1 Corner box, allowing for all 4 Wrestlers to fill up the 4 Corner boxes, and thereon turning the Underdog regular symbol into a Luchadora Wild symbol. This is something new and interesting, I must say.

There is a special Lucha Smackdown symbol which appears only on reel 5, in both the base and Free Spins game. Whenever it appears, it triggers a spinning meter to award either 2x, 3x, 5x or 15x the staked amount, or a Free spins game of either 7, 11 or 15 free spins if appearing in the base game, or 2, 3, 5 or 7 additional free spins during the Free Spins game. The Free Spins game cannot be retriggered of course. Lucha Bonus is the Scatter symbol, it doesn't pay anything for itself, but getting 3, 4 or 5 of them also triggers 7, 11 or 15 free spins, so there are 2 ways to get these free spins. Hmm, sounds good!

As for the Wrestler symbols, Toro pays 25x, Rayo pays 20x, Serpiente pays 17.5x, and Pantera pays 15x, whilst the lower Chillies symbols pay from 3.5x to 2x, all per total bet for getting 5 of each kind. All symbols are stacked on the reels in both games, and the transformed Wild symbols during the Free Spins game appear in every spin until the end of the game. This is the only time to get all those 15 Wild symbols, if you're lucky enough to get them.

My first ever play on Luchadora was at Casumo, and I'm happy to say that the game played well, beyond my expectations. Even though I couldn't make a win in the end, I had a wonderful extended time playing it, getting 5 Free Spins games in all, with one game coming from that special Lucha Smackdown symbol in the base game. The payouts weren't that big, being 12x up to 59x my bet amount, but I have yet to get the best out of the game. Yep, this is one Thunderkick game that calls for more and more plays on it!

There is only 1 thing that I don't quite like about this Luchadora game, and that is the very low paytable. Imagine getting a line of 5 Wilds and getting paid only 25x your total bet amount! Oh sheesh! And getting all 15 Wilds, which is indeed possible, would only pay a win of 750x the total bet amount, and that's the best that you can get from Luchadora. Payouts in the base game are typically within the range of 10x up to 40x, with the Free Spins games paying slightly bigger, but with better potentials, no doubt. Well, it's a nice welcoming change from Thunderkick nonetheless, knowing that this game can pay up to 750x, when almost all their other games cannot.