Boss Fight Misc: VS The King in Binds - Power Exchange

[tutuu]

@ElizaThePsycho

Totemic Call - Spend 10 Energy to summon a random totem from the following list. All totems have 10 Health. There may be an infinite amount of Totems out at any given time, even multiple of the same type. (The totems count as an additional allied player, except when calculating win conditions.)

1. Searing Totem: Deals 5 damage to an enemy each round.
2. Healing Totem: Heals each ally 3 Health at the start of each round. May not heal beyond the starting value. (Starting value is the amount of Health you have immediately after the Power Exchange)
3. Taunt Totem: An enemy has all of their single-target attacks redirected to the Taunt totem. (The Power Taunt takes priority)
4. Mana Totem: Grants 5 additional Energy to every ally at the start of each round. (This Energy vanishes at the end of each round as usual)

@ElizaThePsycho

Keeping the Score On Average - If you have dealt the most damage among allies throughout the game, your damage is decreased by Y, where Y is (the amount of damage you have dealt - the amount of damage the player who has dealt the 2nd most amount of damage you have dealt). If you have dealt the least damage among allies throughout the game, your damage is increased by Z, where Z is (the amount of damage the player with the 2nd least amount of damage dealt has dealt minus the amount of damage you have dealt). Does nothing if neither condition applies.

Hahah this is a nonbo. We dont want these two together because 3 of the totems will deal 0 damage. We want only 1 of these. Maybe we take totemic call and leave keeping the score for the enemies

[tutuu]

(nonbo means non-combo i dont wanna assume its common knowledge maybe it is but i dunno)

[tutuu]

Hmm do you think the game breaks if the boss gets Keeping the Score on Average or you reckon its fine?

[ElizaThePsycho (Willow)]

i’m too tired to think properly but if it would break the game i’ll probably just let the boss drop the power/not take it
if it already has it i won’t let it drop it ofc but

[ElizaThePsycho (Willow)]

though tbf the king in binds functionally doesn’t exist until he enters, nor do his powers
so

[Marluna]

What does the power does, if the boss takes it:

Summary

@ElizaThePsycho

The Tank - Spend X energy and select an allied player. If they take damage this round, up to X damage of theirs will be protected and you will instead burn 1/2 that damage, rounded down.

Does nothing (I think). it has no ally to defend.

@ElizaThePsycho

Combinohealing - Each round, assign a number 1-9 to every living allied player, including yourself. Players will gain that much health. Players may not recieve the same number twice. This costs as much energy as you heal players for. (For example, if you assigned 9, 8, and 5, you would spend 22 energy) Combinohealing may not heal itself past the starting Health of its user.

Heals 45 Health in the flow of 9 rounds.

@ElizaThePsycho

Training Arc - Spend 15 energy to attack for 8*X damage, where X is the number of times you have used this ability (starts at 1, so the first attack does 8 damage)

extra damage, increased each round. Although capped out after 5 rounds. (not counting shield.)

@ElizaThePsycho

Healing Potion - Target heals 10 Health. May self-target. Usable once per game, and may be bought an unlimited number of times during the Power Exchange. Only one Healing Potion may be used in a single around across all heros. May not heal beyond the starting value. (Starting value is the amount of Health you have immediately after the Power Exchange)

Heals 10. (multiple times, if it gets lucky on the roll.)

@ElizaThePsycho

Keeping the Score On Average - If you have dealt the most damage among allies throughout the game, your damage is decreased by Y, where Y is (the amount of damage you have dealt - the amount of damage the player who has dealt the 2nd most amount of damage you have dealt). If you have dealt the least damage among allies throughout the game, your damage is increased by Z, where Z is (the amount of damage the player with the 2nd least amount of damage dealt has dealt minus the amount of damage you have dealt). Does nothing if neither condition applies.

Depending on the context, it’s either quite detrimental for the boss, or does nothing.

@ElizaThePsycho

Taunt - Activate this ability to force an enemy to direct all of their single-target attacks onto you for that turn. 1 turn cooldown

Does nothing, we already want all of our single target attacks onto the boss.

@ElizaThePsycho

Power Word: Shield - Spend X Energy to grant an ally 1.5X Shields. 1 turn cooldown

Does nothing. (Same reason as for the Tank.)

@ElizaThePsycho

Totemic Call - Spend 10 Energy to summon a random totem from the following list. All totems have 10 Health. There may be an infinite amount of Totems out at any given time, even multiple of the same type. (The totems count as an additional allied player, except when calculating win conditions.)

1. Searing Totem: Deals 5 damage to an enemy each round.
2. Healing Totem: Heals each ally 3 Health at the start of each round. May not heal beyond the starting value. (Starting value is the amount of Health you have immediately after the Power Exchange)
3. Taunt Totem: An enemy has all of their single-target attacks redirected to the Taunt totem. (The Power Taunt takes priority)
4. Mana Totem: Grants 5 additional Energy to every ally at the start of each round. (This Energy vanishes at the end of each round as usual)

Reevalutes all other power I said it does nothing due to lack of allies. (and grants powerful effects to the boss, I think)

@ElizaThePsycho

Paperkenesis - If your basic attack would deal damage to an enemy, instead create that many Paper Airplanes. Paper Airplanes have 1 HP and automatically attack an enemy for 1 damage each round. You may command any number of paper airplanes to protect an ally instead of attacking; if the target they protect is attacked, damage will be dealt to an equivalent number of protecting Paper Airplanes after defense, but before damage is dealt.

Turns boss’s simple basic damage into continous damage.

@ElizaThePsycho

Discount Foresight - At the beginning of the round, you will recieve three possible attacks that an enemy could carry out, exactly one of which will be correct. You may choose to send X Energy to give one of the three targets 2X Shields. After actions have been selected, one of the attacks you didn’t choose will be revealed to be false. You may then spend X energy to change your target, and you may adjust your other actions. No refunds.

I don’t know, how this interacts with boss…

@ElizaThePsycho

Damage Transference - Spend 25 Energy to choose two allies. All damage that would be dealt to one target will be dealt to the other, and vice versa. If one of your targets dies, this ability’s energy cost is reduced by 1.

Does nothing. (no allies.)

@ElizaThePsycho

Hot Potato - At the start of each round, pass this power to an ally who has not held the hot potato. If there are no valid targets, you give it to a single enemy, dealing 40 unblockable damage and discarding this power. If someone dies while carrying the hot potato, it explodes, and a random living ally also dies in the explosion.

40 unblockable damage, once the boss plays. (i think unblockable means it won’t be reduced via Bandage.)

@ElizaThePsycho

Huntsman and Damsel - One other ally is secretly made the Damsel. Flavor will hint at the Damsel ’s identity. Once per game, you may guess that a living player is the Damsel - if correct, immediately deal 30 unblockable damage to an enemy.

Does nothing/one dead Servant becomes the Damsel.

@ElizaThePsycho

Backup - Once per game, activate this power and choose a dead ally, and inherit all of their abilities. You will lose all of your current abilities.

It can gain an ability we purposely taken away from the Boss. (Via Servant copying Hero’s ability.) Also it would lose his other abilities? (like Bandage, which at the moment is in our favour, tbh.)

@ElizaThePsycho

Honorable Offer - Strike a deal with an enemy, restricting both of you to be unable to perform certain actions. You spend Energy depending on how restricting the deal is each round, both to use this Power and to maintain it each round

It’s too vague of an ability… So I’m uncertain what the Boss would do with it.

@ElizaThePsycho

Doppelgangar - Burn 10: Copy an action an ally is performing this round. You must still pay costs for that action as normal.

Does nothing. (no allies.)

@ElizaThePsycho

Resource Redistribution - Spend 30 and choose 2 allies. Their Health values are swapped at the start of the round. (Their Energy values do not change.)

Does nothing. (no allies.)

@ElizaThePsycho

Power of Friendship - Each round, for every ally that is alive, gain +2 Energy (not health)! for that round.

Does nothing. (no alive allies.)

@ElizaThePsycho

No Pain No Gain - Spend 10 Energy: Your next attack will deal X extra damage, where X is equal to half the damage of a single attack directed against you.

Extra 40 damage for 10 energy. (I think)

@ElizaThePsycho

Bounty - Spend X: Place a Bounty of X on target ally. For every point of damage they take this round, you automatically gain X Shields and 0.5X Energy (not health!) next round.

Does nothing (no allies)

@ElizaThePsycho

Parry - Spend X: Gain 0.75X Shields. If you are attacked, you automatically make an attack against your attacker for 0.5X (with a maximum equal to the damage prevented by your Shields) this round.

Boss can Parrry.

@ElizaThePsycho

Manage Supplies - Burn 5: Swap two Powers between allied living players.

Does nothing (no alive allies.)

@ElizaThePsycho

Power Word: Heal - Spend X Energy (X is capped at 80): Target player, and heal them for X*0.33 damage. If X is greater than 40: If they are attacked in any way by The Boss this turn, their status reverts to how it was the last turn they weren’t attacked. This ability cannot self target.

does nothing. (No allies, can’t self-target.)

@ElizaThePsycho

Elemental Attack - Spend 20 Energy and buff an ally’s attacks by 33% this turn. Also choose one of these elements to add to their attack:

• Fire: Target is burnt, and takes 5 damage for the next 3 turns.
• Mental Exhaustion: Target is slowed, and loses 5 Energy (not health) for the next 3 turns.
• Nuclear Energy: Targets deals 5 less damage with each attack during this turn.
• Stock Market Transactional Power: Target takes the amount of energy attacker does not use this turn, next turn as an attack from them.

Does nothing. (no allies.)

@ElizaThePsycho

Necromancy - Target a dead ally, and choose one of their abilities. For this turn, gain the chosen ability and pay its cost. While nobody is dead, gain a copy of a random ability from another player at the start of each turn. (You lose them at the end of each round and gain a new one)

It can gain an ability we purposely taken away from the Boss. (Via Servant copying Hero’s ability.)

@ElizaThePsycho

Revenge - Spend all Energy: Make an attack against an enemy equivalent to the highest Attack made by them against you in this round, times 1.5.

Boss can parry, (but not attack/use other powers at the same time.)

That’s a surprisingly lot of “it does nothing.”

[ElizaThePsycho (Willow)]

@Marluna

Does nothing/one dead Servant becomes the Damsel.

oh yea tbc if a servant got this power i would entrust kyo with the secret info and flavor writing shit

[ElizaThePsycho (Willow)]

@Marluna

It can gain an ability we purposely taken away from the Boss. (Via Servant copying Hero’s ability.) Also it would lose his other abilities? (like Bandage, which at the moment is in our favour, tbh.)

it would not lose its powers listed in the main post
those basically count as boss-inherent mechanics
this is my justification for letting them take effect before the king enters

[Marluna]

Right, Should someone take only the Hot Potato, so one Servant has to copy that, (and we can kill two Servant’s for the cost of 1), or we think we really can mow down those servants in 1 round?

[ElizaThePsycho (Willow)]

if the game is over but would take a while longer due to Bandages i’ll also just shortcut it and have the boss surrender
(just to prevent it from taking too long for no reason)

[Marluna]

I think we should take totemic call, since it combo well with resource distribution, damage transferrence and power friendship, while keeping the score doesn’t really have nice combos beside the basic attack.

[tutuu]

@ElizaThePsycho

Revenge - Spend all Energy: Make an attack against an enemy equivalent to the highest Attack made by them against you in this round, times 1.5.

If this is used alongside Taunt for the Boss, would it work like this:

• Boss attacks 9 players for 30 with Basic Attack
• Player uses Taunt and Revenge on Boss
• Player gets 270 incoming damage
• Boss gets 405 incoming damage

Or, does the Boss get 45 incoming damage? (Only from the original 30)

[Marluna]

I like to use the therm of “anti-combo” or if in a more sophisticated milieu the therm “anti-sinergy/asinergy.”

[Marluna]

these are the most common TCG terms for this kind of thing, I think.
(there is a bit of marginal difference between anticombo and antisinergy, but I never bother remembering the difference, and most people use them interchangably anyway…)

[tutuu]

@ElizaThePsycho

Necromancy - Target a dead ally, and choose one of their abilities. For this turn, gain the chosen ability and pay its cost. While nobody is dead, gain a copy of a random ability from another player at the start of each turn. (You lose them at the end of each round and gain a new one)

@ElizaThePsycho

Doppelgangar - Burn 10: Copy an action an ally is performing this round. You must still pay costs for that action as normal.

@ElizaThePsycho

Manage Supplies - Burn 5: Swap two Powers between allied living players.

This is a combo between these 3 abilities, needs to be put on 2 or 3 players. Can make any 2 power combo from abilities belonging to dead allies (such as Taunt + Revenge in case it deals 405 in the above example). So a second Backup of sorts

[Zugzwang]

tbthbthtb I probably dont have time to do this before thursday evening

[Marluna]

If you fine with it, we can designate build sets. and everyone chooses one, which they like.

I think three of us (Atlas/tutu/me) can come up with something in a few days.

But we definetly want to hear the other player’s opinions as well.

[CarrotyReaper]

Damn the king in binds is stronk, also fun 2 phase boss battle…and limbus company… also that bandages effects seems like it’ll probably be to our favor

[CarrotyReaper]

@ElizaThePsycho

Discount Foresight - At the beginning of the round, you will recieve three possible attacks that an enemy could carry out, exactly one of which will be correct. You may choose to send X Energy to give one of the three targets 2X Shields. After actions have been selected, one of the attacks you didn’t choose will be revealed to be false. You may then spend X energy to change your target, and you may adjust your other actions. No refunds.

Literally just the monty hall problem amazing

[CarrotyReaper]

I think this is prolly a good solution (and we can try to figure out what powers go well together and stuff)