Swine skiver help

[Geo]

So, I don't get this guy at all, I have been fine with pretty much every other enemy in the game, I was fine in the darkest dungeon, through all the bosses and any other enemy on champion, but this guy is ridiculous?!? he has high speed, prot, high hp, decent dodge and can nuke 3 back lines at the same time while also applying blight? all this topped with him having reasonably high crit rate, it's becoming more surprising to me when he doesn't crit at least 1 of my guys, I go into a long champion dungeon and within 1 fight with this guy my whole team is crippled, hes difficult to burst quickly, but cant be left because he will easily put 3 people on deaths door with blight in 3 turns by himself, any tips? i;ve had to abandon a bunch of dungeons early because of multiple fights with this guy

[PalmTree]

IMO skivver's the worst of the 4 champion enemies.

My only tip is to stun him and then beat the crap out of him. His stun res is pretty high but if you hit him with one with a high proc chance and a stun trinket (Like Manacles + Broken Key or Blackjack + Cudgel Weight) you should be able to stun him long enough to kill him with your DPS.

[Spiegel]

It's probably the stongest non-boss dmg dealer (after Swinetaur). Stun and bring to front position, he cant do anything dangerous in position 1. Absolute priority, ignore anything else.

[Geo]

Originally posted by Spiegel:

It's probably the stongest non-boss dmg dealer (after Swinetaur). Stun and bring to front position, he cant do anything dangerous in position 1. Absolute priority, ignore anything else.

I don't find swinetaur an issue, he only has about 50% more health but he doesnt apply blight, every time he aoe attacks he then needs to waste a move using trot retreat and going back so hiks overall dps doesn't feel anywhere near as high, plus the fact that he takes up 2 units just means there's so much less on the field to deal with, skivver is still with 3 other allies that can also deal high damage, cant remember the name of the cloaked hook guy but if you get unlucky he nukes the hell out of 1 person

[Spiegel]

Originally posted by ๖ۣۜAsphyXia:

I don't find swinetaur an issue...

Me too, Swinetaur is much easier to manage, it's just "boar rush" damage statistically being highest dmg attack.
Skiwer is deadly, just move and focus him no matter what. My first battle with him he one shotted my lvl6 leper to death door with crit. That's why during Stygian runs I almost completely ignore Warrens until all DD quests are done. Cloaked guys are Swine Slashers, quite nasty too with 20%+ crit chance.

[Geo]

Originally posted by Spiegel:

Originally posted by ๖ۣۜAsphyXia:

I don't find swinetaur an issue...

Me too, Swinetaur is much easier to manage, it's just "boar rush" damage statistically being highest dmg attack.
Skiwer is deadly, just move and focus him no matter what. My first battle with him he one shotted my lvl6 leper to death door with crit. That's why during Stygian runs I almost completely ignore Warrens until all DD quests are done. Cloaked guys are Swine Slashers, quite nasty too with 20%+ crit chance.

yeh think ill just use an occultist to pull him to the front then, and hope it actually works, i tried to use arbelest debuff attack but i dont like relying on -acc debuffs I feel like they never work well, i stacked -20acc or smt and all my units with 40 dodge, he still hit/crit everyone

[Skinny Pete]

His attack is devastating but his HP pool is fairly weak. Have characters like HEL who can hit him anywhere. Have a stunner who hits the back rank if you can't finish him in round 1 (which means the VES stun is useless to you). PD's Blinding Gas in particular is very good for this and PD herself is great for Warrens anyway.

My HM-PD-♥♥♥/FLA/HWM/anything-HEL team has little difficulty dispatching Skiver. Dump a scooby snack on HM (who also has +DMG against Beast in general) and combined with HEL they should finish this thing before he even attacks. If you don't have the snack consider the stun and finish him at the open of round 2.