Use Sharpen on Wrathful Hornbreaker Prince. Trust me.

[Fyre]

Wrathful just got super-buffed, put some spikes on that bad boy and don't look back.

I really believe this is going to be nerfed, you don't even need other units if you start with sharpen and upgrade and copy it a few times. The only real issue would be maybe two big units on the same floor, but you could always supplement with so many other cards like inferno or onehorn's tome (because of all the armor you won't be hit in health.)


Hornbreaker will kill so much of all of the waves on his own really any strategy to supplement will work if it can deal ~100 damage a turn, which is basically an animus with a razorsharp. I'm gonna go ride this spike train until I fall off the rails.

[tookerdoter]

spikes are pretty awesome on any unit with a slay power

try it on the awoken unit that gets sweep and +dmg on slay by upgrading it with +hp stones

or the branded demon that gives everything on the floor 3 rage per slay

or get rich by adding spikes to a paraffin thug with +hp upgrades
20 gold per slay on levels that spawn mobs of 1hp priests or clipped = its artifact shopping time

[Giga]

Yeeeeeah no. I've tried this a few times in the past, even tried this now; He just straight up dies. He has no staying power whatsoever later on, and that's when it matters. When enemies start getting 160 some HP, he chunks pretty hard because he can't sustain armor anymore. If you somehow managed to get 50+ spikes, which is possible but not 'every single run', you could do it. But he has not enough HP to deal with that, not to get the ball rolling sadly.

The others mentioned though, especially Paraffin and Shell, those are legit. Just need one HP stone.

[Tizoc]

Originally posted by tookerdoter:

spikes are pretty awesome on any unit with a slay power

try it on the awoken unit that gets sweep and +dmg on slay by upgrading it with +hp stones

or the branded demon that gives everything on the floor 3 rage per slay

or get rich by adding spikes to a paraffin thug with +hp upgrades
20 gold per slay on levels that spawn mobs of 1hp priests or clipped = its artifact shopping time

...I never thought of that, thanks.

[Noble Nobbler]

I tried this now and he straight up annihilated.

[xep]

Okay, I trusted you and it was pretty great, but I had to restart-scum the Seraph the Chaste fight because my spikes got removed and I didn't notice until it was too late. Re-applying it to make sure I had >3 spikes let me beat it, but it was close.

Other than that it was great fun. 2 ranks of Wrathful was sufficient for Chaste; I took 1 rank of Multistrike and also had Onehorn's Tome. I imagine 3 would be for gaining lots of armor, which was unnecessary on my run.

[Mistic-Gohan]

Just tried that build. Looks pretty fun.

[Noble Nobbler]

Just cruised from 17-20 with this dude. With some armor cards, the multistrike card can actually be used since fragile only triggers on health lost, not damage

[Noble Nobbler]

Aaaand 21-25.