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The clutch
At this position, the game feels pretty much lost.
However, I have mentioned the snowball potential of the bloodlust ability many times, and here we can perfectly see it in action. MVP of the game: Quora Towershead, one of the strongest Gladius cards out there.
Let's take a detailed look at how it went down.
Round 1
At the very first sight, I realised this would be a difficult battle to win. Even though I think my lineup is stronger in a general sense, I am facing a lineup that somewhat counters mine.
First, there is Tusk the wide, a very strong frontline tank when facing a full magic lineup.
Second, he has 2 opportunity monsters and 1 sneak monster while I am using a lot of squishy units.
Round 4
At the beginning of round 4, it's pretty clear that I'm in big trouble. My entire backline is gone, my pegasus only has 1 hp left and the enemy hasn't lost a single monster at this point.
I realise that my only hope is Quora's potential snowball effect.
Round 5
Sure enough, the next round it's a 1 v 5 situation.
However -and this is very important- Quora was able to deal the final blow on tusk the wide. Buffing her to 4 (3 + 1) magic damage and 3 melee damage, a potential of 7 total damage.
Keep in mind that bloodlust also buffs attack speed and health. The last buff will also buff the heal ability of quora, which is a pretty important factor here.
Because of all this, we get to heal (+5) and attack first, changing the situation dramatically.
Round 6
Even though the end of round 5 looked pretty good, we are still absorbing 4 attacks, good for 9 total damage. Somehow, 5 attack speed wasn't enough to get a single miss and we drop down to 2 health.
Very close, but I realise at this point Quora would be unstoppable. She has 5 magic damage and 4 melee damage at this point.
Round 7
Round 7, another kill, another buff, we still dropped to 4 health, but the enemy doesn't have enough damage left to potentionally kill Quora here.
At this point, we will take out 2 units per round.
Round 8
Final round, 8 magic damage, 7 melee damage, 8 attack speed, 10 health (but we still have to heal for +6).
Well hello little spider...
Quora's process
Dropping down to a 1v5 situation with only 2 health left at some point, I call that a nice clutch!
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Whoa - this is amazing, well done! Quora is definitely one of my favorite Gladius cards. But the fact that she went down to 2 health against 4 opponents and still won... just wow...
Hmm, I've noticed now for a while that speed does not give you the advantage anymore as it used to.
Yeah she's awesome!
Was the attack speed thing verified? Would be interesting to know for sure.
No, at least not by me, I don't hang out/check their official server much. Solymi seemed to have noticed the same thing though.
Quora Towershead is one of my favorite Gladius cards.
Thanks for sharing! - @marianaemilia
Good job!