I'm relatively new to this game, having purchased it a few months ago, and I'm still not very good at it. However, I feel like I am slowly getting better on each of the characters, with the exception of the Watcher.
I'm trying to kill the Heart on all toons before increasing to A1. I can consistently get to the heart on the 3 other characters, but cannot consistently even get past act 2 on the Watcher. I'm not sure I've beaten the slavers once yet on the Watcher. Does anyone have any general tips for the Watcher? I know stance dancing is important, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this without just getting murdered.
My deck never seems to scale faster than the enemies in act 2 and 3. I rarely seem to have enough damage to make switching to wrath worthwhile with the amount of damage I will then take due to enemy attacks. But I can't sit back and wait for the ideal time to wrath as my deck never has enough defense to block turn after turn. It just seems like whatever I do, I can't kill the enemies before losing too much health and eventually dying after several floors and fights.
It's frustrating me that I cannot figure out how to play well with the watcher. I'm sure my card selection and turn by turn play is terrible still, but I simply don't know what I'm doing wrong to improve.
4 Comments
GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 1y
Watcher is simultaneously my worst character and the character I've progressed the farthest with.
Upgrade Eruption, get a Rushdown and either Inner Peace or Fear No Evil, and trim your deck down as small as possible. Then just do an infinite combo in every fight. A Scrawl, a second Rushdown, or a Runic Pyramid helps with setting up the infinite combo, and a Mental Fortress is crucial for spikers and the Heart.
That's gotten me to A20 which is farther than I've gotten with any other character. But I literally don't know how else to play her. I either get the right cards early on and win or I don't get offered those cards and quickly lose.
proceduralnightshade@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
On A0 stance dancing is not as important I would say – it becomes the go-to when hitting higher ascensions, and if you want to beat the heart. I won A20 with all kinds of decks, even very off Meta (had a deck once that was like 5 wheel kicks and 6 Just Lucky's lol)
Focus on card removes and damage, keep your deck small, remove defends early. Make it a challenge to beat enemies in the least amount of turns (with a bit of luck you can beat most fights in act 1 in turn 1 or turn 2 – if you're very lucky even bosses at times!)
Often you just need 1 Mental Fortress or Talk to the Hand to block effectively!
Watcher is a pretty cool character because you usually just need 1 of everything to get very far.
mrsemi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
sirimeow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I've beaten A20 with all characters (A20 heart with ironclad) except watcher. She's still on A15 or something. Don't know why but she still haven't "clicked" for me and I just don't enjoy playing her as much, even though people on the slay the spire subreddit kept saying she's the easiest one to play.
I did beat the heart wirh her on A0 a while back with some really messy scry deck.
Edit: I think you either have to lean into the stance changing, scrying or like a calm+pressure points kinda build. There's also apparently a pretty easy infinite you can do with her, but I've never tried that myself as it involves specific cards and removing basically everything else.
ErrorCode@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
For me, I can never seem to get the combos to minimize the deck, so I go for the stance switches. Even though I have played this the least, I still do better with Watcher than Defect.