How to Beat the Act 1 Elites EVERY TIME!
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- Beating the Elites in act 1 of Slay the spire is important to build your run quicker with great relics and extra gold. But they do pose some significant challenges. Join in and get an in-depth look to see how you can beat them all every time.
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me : (A20 heart cleared all of the characters)
Also me : lets see what im doing wrong againts the elites
Same. It’s actually possible to clear several of the ascension levels just by getting lucky. It’s only when I really dug in going for win streaks that I began to realize the importance of taking elites early on, and how to prep my deck for it
@@3hourgames yup, i feel like i definitely got boosted from 10 to 15 by just sheer card luck and events carrying me and i came to notice value early elites 15-20
For the sentry you don't focus the outer ones because they attack first. You focus them because it is much easier to generate 10 block per turn rather than 0 block and then 20 block.
Otherwise some decks would focus the middle one if they knew they had 0 draws that would kill either outer sentry on turn 2 but could kill inner sentry on turn 3.
sounds about right
Isn’t that what he said though? “focus on the left or right sentry because they attack together”
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2 months late, but here's a couple tips that I've picked up:
Neow's lament can be good for sniping an elite, but I would not recommend it if the path after the elite snipe is subpar. Remember, the main way of getting card rewards is through basic combats, and skipping too many can leave you with a poor deck for the boss. Even if you get past the boss at that point, you will probably struggle in act 2.
Silent definitely has the hardest time with the act one elites. Not only does she have the worst starter deck (having an extra strike and defend to sift through), she famously lacks good damage output and has a reliance on skills and debuffs that nob and sentries hard punish. In general, I would focus on getting cards specifically to deal with said nob and sentries. Dash is the act one holy grail of elite killers, getting good block and damage in an attack card. Otherwise, all out attack is very useful, terror can be really good if drawn turn one against nob, and if you can also find a prepared or dagger throw, sneaky strike is actually very good damage as well. Laga is probably silents easiest elite matchup (at least for act one elites) due to the fact that weaken is so good against him. As long as you are prepared for the other two elites, Laga should be no problem.
With the dead adventurer event, if it says chopped by claws, run away immediately. This means that Laga will attack you, and unlike his normal encounter he will start out awake, completely skipping the setup turns that are supposed to keep him in check. It's not worth the potential relic, even if you survive you are probably taking a forced heal at the next rest site.
Never too late, thanks for the feedback!Good write up on silent! I’m actually thinking I may start a mini series on ascension climbing with the silent since she is the toughest to get rolling out the gate.
Very Impressive.
Now let's see Ascension 20.
I’m at A20, but trying to make more of a beginner guide. Plus I’m really boring to watch a full run 🤣
American Psychopath reference?
I would add that, under normal circumstances, you would typically want to put off fighting Act 1 elites until you know you can deal with them handily. If you are forced to take an early elite and you've barely had time to accrue good cards and potions, you're going to get roughed up. It's easy to bite off more than you can chew.
As I've put many more hours into this game since i made this video, I'd definitely agree, and would add that it can be situation based on your character and starting bonus.
Wanna kill elites? Play watcher. Having wrath essentially makes all of your cards your big attack, if you can mitigate the downside. This guide is great thank you.
If only you could boss swap into prismatic shard, then everyone could wrath. Watcher is definitely the easiest to take down early elites.
Thanks!
I still Can’t even beat the lowest ascension level😭 I almost always lose in act II.
Act 2 really can wreck some decks! Be prepared to take 20-30 damage on turns 1 and 2, so grab cards early that will help you to mitigate that.
pre level 18 they are all handlable with almost ease, lagavulin tend to be the most consistently hard as even you can handle to block 15/20 per turn, you can't afford to get siphoned 2 time, so you better set up well and even take some damage to insure that it won't happen
sentry, while very consistant are only a big issue if you don't have the ability to kill one of the side sentry in 4 turn. like even with a bad deck, it's rare it get that bad. and while to be safe you should be able to kill one sentry in 2 turn, it is acceptable to eat 10 damage on the first double attack.
because of his attack patern, early nob can let you go almost unscaved if he delay the weakening attack enough. with a bit of luck you can do a 4 turn nob without too much trouble
past that... it's another story. you cannot get past gremlin nob with luck as he is guaranteed to do the bash turn 2. so realistically you can only afford to kill him before the end of turn 3 or you are DEAD. he is, for me, the biggest consistence checker in the entire game, you NEED to kill him in about 1 cycle of your deck, cause otherwise you will eat those 40 damage.
anyway, keep cacawing like that!
Good write up. They really do ramp up to insane levels past A17. I feel like for me the sentries I die to least, but there are times I really underestimate them and come out really damaged and die next floor.
Lagavulin for some reason I am most inconsistent win/lose. It really checks your block/attack at the same time and a lot of times that’s pretty tough early on.
Nob I’ll usually know after turn 1 if I’m going to get out alive 🤣, but I do lose to it way to much.
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When the only damage dealing card you have is Blade Dance: Alright time to beat Lagavulin's ass 😎
Awwwww yah blade dance.
Love your no nonsense content. Played ccgs in the past and this game fits that hole perfectly.
Rn on act 2 with watcher with a 14 card deck. Retain core around wallop and the 20 damage Retain card and power draws 2 when I wrath and retained cards cost 1 less for combat and meditate and scry5 block to make it happen for any linchpin.
I maybe took 1 or 2 cards I probably shouldn't have but, hey! That's the fun of replay. Vulnerable would help scaling. 🤷♂️
Thanks again ❤
Watcher plays COMPLETELY different from the other archetypes, you have to approach it either full aggro or normal, it seems like anything in between doesn't work.
Beat the heart a few evenings ago, for the first time, with the Defect. Was using an unstoppable Focus/Frost build. Since then I've been playing as The Ironclad and have been tinkering with a Strength /Regen build. In the early stages I fall short against heavy hitting enemies because I can't build up enough block and haven't hit any regen cards yet. Any tips for Ironclad specifically?
With the Ironclad if you're wanting to go with strength builds, grab higher damage output cards to work with at the beginning. Demon Form in Act 1 is incredibly slow and unless you draw it on turn 1 vs the elites it's going to end up being a curse in your deck. So I'd suggest cards like twin strike, Carnage, cards like that. They're already powerful, and then once you get a few of them you'll be set against the elites and then can look for strength scaling cards to roll on to act 2. Uppercut is also incredible vs elites as it applies vulnerable and weak.
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This video was extremely basic. Assuming you are asc1, it’s ok, otherwise go watch videos by jorbs, baal for actual information.
You're not wrong. I don't play at the level of Jorbs and Baalorlord, and the intent was for it to be a basic overview. As I continue to improve in my gameplay and screen presence I'll slowly start to make more advanced tutorials. Appreciate the feedback either way.
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To be honest, a couple of videos explaining some basic act 1 encounters or even mindsets might be more helpful than act 2, i can think of (events wanted, when to shop, how do normal encounters play
Thanks! I’ll add those into the ever growing list of ideas!
@@3hourgames small little side note, might wanna strike while the iron's hot, algorithm has its moments and these type of vids could be good potential for channel growth
Indeed. The algorithm is a fickle mistress. And these types have been great for growth so far (although none so much as this)
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I just died to the gremlin dude. I only had the chance to add 2 cards to my deck, and none of my options were high damage dealing. What are you supposed to do then? Just get RNG'd and start over? Avoid elite fights?
If you've only had the chance to add 2 cards, avoiding the early elite is likely the best option. Without having seen the run, I'm guessing some more pathing planning could have saved you
@koopa9815 I just covered your question in more detail on my latest video if you're interested!
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You should do a full video of all the fun little references throughout the spire. There's so many good ones!
There are just so many!
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Pls make a video on act 2 elites!
Can do! It’s in the pipeline, I just need to figure out an order and push things out!
Awesome!
I find that beating act 1 elites requires extreme decision on building an aggressive desk that is good at mitigating big damage, and playing heavy cards on turn 1
For example:
Good floor 1 picks include
Ironclad: Rampage, Iron wave
Silent: Predator, Terror
Defect; Streamline, Cold snap
Watcher: wheel kick, Sands of time
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Yah, you really need SOMETHING specifically good for elites before you take them on. I find that I’ll avoid paths if I don’t have good drops on the first few floors.
I particularly enjoy finding an early perfected strike before I’ve dumped any strikes.
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other options for watcher: ANY wrath entry; practice killing elites from half hp
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@@Quinnsek oops! Yah early videos definitely had some technical difficulties.
You can also mention that you cannot see two identical elites in a row, overall a really good video.
You know, I actually had that in my script….must have been part I cut out!
Thanks for the feedback!
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Hallway fight info please
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