Tips on beating Ermion at gwent?

[★rtwilson★]

Hey guys so I'm currently doing my second run through of witcher 3 (this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ amazing), and I finally understand how to play gwent. So I've been building up my decks and have some pretty decent cards. Just got to skellige and have to do the quest gwent: skellige style. Trying to beat ermion, any tips on beating him? He plays monsters and always has the ability to play one card and bring out multiple versions of the same card.

Maybe I just need a better hand but he always ♥♥♥♥♥ me over. Thanks for any tips.

[Pomptime]

You can build your deck around specific rows and use weather cards as a part of the solution. Not using melee non-gold cards and using biting frost, for example. If you're playing nilfgaard or northern realms, be sure to use spies, to get the card upper hand.

Remember, that your gold cards are immune to weather effects.

Also, don't forget about card combos, those who become stronger when standing next to eachother.

Did it with a Northern Realms deck, with a Leader, that buffs artillery. It's not that hard after all, with a bit of positive rng.

[BoogieMan]

My advice for dealing with monster decks, which often seem to heavily emphasize melee cards in large numbers is have 2x biting frost and scorch cards. Try to delay playing your higher cards as long as possible (so the strongest units played are theirs) and try to get a good scorch off after you've baited them into deploying lots of cards. Use biting frost when you're going in for the win if their melee strength is still high.

Avoiding using melee cards yourself can also help so you don't suffer from the biting frost yourself.

General advice would be sometimes you can sucker them into passing if they are in the lead and you use a target dummy to pull your strongest non-spy off the field, or "waste" turns using clear weather or other actions that have no real effect. Then if they are close enough point wise, you can place down just enough to win. This only has a chance to work if they haven't lose a round yet though.

Other than that, just keep trying again.

[natshely]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBqref88iQ

[General Malaise]

Yeah, biting Frost destroys Monsters.

I keep 3 in my deck, and no other weather cards - not even clear weather.

If you've done all the Gwent quests prior to Ermion, your Northern Realms deck should trash him by then. Really, by then, you should be extremely unlucky to lose to anyone.

[v0]

iirc dragon card's also good after frost because frost makes all normal cards drop to same value of 1. and still same value even if enemy doubles everything with dandelion later.

[General Malaise]

Originally posted by natshely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBqref88iQ

That guy had a terrible deck.

See how useless his rain and fog cards were?

He had two cards there, that I would have dismissed, Ves and one other low value(5 I think)card.

I throw out all value 6 cards except Siege cards, becasue I keep the Leader that doubles siege cards.

I throw out all weather cards, other than Biting Frost, and keep all those in. I keep all decoys, and one Scorch, it is handy at times, but because I'm keeping high value cards, it's often difficult to use.

Spies and Medics are awesome. If you think you have decoy to spare, you can use a medic twice, so mabye you played 2 Crinfrid Reavers last turn, you know the opposition hasn't got a spy, so play Medic(not Yennefer, the other one), get your Reaver card back, then decoy Medic, and get the other back.

As I said above, chuckng out all cards of value 6 or less, except all cards that have buddy feature, or Siege cards(cos you leader can double them), then you should have no problems.

At the start, any 6 point Siege card, I'll swap, knowing I'll almost certainly get something better, becasue they are the worst cards in my deck.