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Darkest Dungeon (2016)

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This video shows a comp made by Infamous YenYu and it shows 5 win matches.

The Iron Swan is a ,,damage-stress“ team, here are roles of characters:

1st: Hellion (damage trinket + accuracy trinket) - deathblow dealer
2nd: Bounty hunter (Grappling Mits + accuracy trinket) - deathblow dealer
3rd: Highwayman (damage trinkets) - damage dealer
4th: Arbalest (damage trinket + healing trinket) - healer

PROS:
1) Mark synergy (Arbalest / Bounty hunter + Highwayman)
2) Great damage output
3) Great stress output
4) Great DoT output
5) 3 disruptors
6) 4 deathblowers

CONS:
1) Stress is a menace
2) Disruption is a menace
3) Low healing potential

The Iron Swan is a damage team, that combines also stress and DoT. All characters are deathblowers (if we count Arbalest’s „Sniper shot“ on marked character), next you have 3 disruptors and 2 (self)healers. Sadly this team is vulnerable against stress teams.

I tried to play a few strategies, like „double finisher“, „mix damage + DoT“, „mark team“ and „full stress“. I tried both variantions of Hellion (damager / stresser), the damage variantion is better choice. And Highwayman (bandit / gunslinger), bandit version is much more optimal.

My advice: Start with Highwayman for opening the riposte, next use Bounty hunter for disruption, then Hellion for dealing some damage and lastly Arbalest for dealing massive damage OR clearing debuffs.

On the paper the team looks very nice, unfortunately I already knew from team owner, to play this team, your Hellion must have and use hers skill „Iron swan“, which is… well, probably most useless skill in Butcher’s Circus. Why? Simple, you can use it only in 1st position and attack on opponent’s character in 4th position (with great deathblow chance). That’s it. If you reduce opponent’s team by some characters, the skill will become redundant. Hellion needs accuracy and the possibility to attack from 1st-3rd position. Sure the premise of the team „mark with Bounty hunter, Arbalest hit the backline and Hellion kill the character“ sounds nice, in reality it’s not possible. Opponent’s backline is always some dodger or sniper, who can clear mark.

Playing this was really hard, firstly I got (after some time) darkest players, and they defeat me easily. What’s more embarrassing, I played against novice player with a stress team and the game WON’T let me won the match, because of RNGsus (Arbalest vs. Crusader with 40% deathblow resist).

If I could change Hellion‘s „Iron swan“ to different skill, the score would be very different and matches much enjoyable. In this case, sorry, but I don’t recommend this team.

For another tips and how play this team better, ask Infamous YenYu (on Discord).

Rating: 2/5

Music: Black Swan - Miracle

I don't claim any rights to the song. All rights belongs to the american hardrock band Black Swan!

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