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Vector (2012)

Duration: 19:12

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And for the final villain, we run into yet another unique one. Vector is all about healing, and if he reaches full, you lose. When his virus hits the field, if he hits 0 HP, you lose. So your options are to try and burst him and hope the virus doesn't pop (deck manipulation really helps with this route), or keep him in moderate health and let him flip. The problem is that he can heal about half of his max HP in one turn if the game runs long, making this somewhat tense.

So Doc is here for nemesis reasons, but he can block some of Vector's healing while still healing teammates. The nemesis bonus can be extremely helpful here, so make the most of it when you can.

Terminus is here for group reasons, but she can nuke extremely hard with the proper token generation and ongoing card. You do have to worry about counters, but as hard as she can hit, it is worth the card plays.

Titan is here and provides much needed ongoing destruction. There isn't as much to tank here as some other villains, so when you don't need him for destruction, release his DPS.

Lady can deal obscene amounts of damage, and that is my goal here. We need to get the proper cloak, Summer, and Dusk into play and she far out damages anyone else on the team. The downside is there is a lot of recoil to this, so you can't draw things out too long or the Lady simply won't last. The other strategy is to go Winter, load up your hand, sacrifice everything into a single nuke and you can almost one-shot Vector.

Finally, Echelon is here to amplify the damage of others with her tactics and give some card draws to others (namely Lady). She doesn't have the damage to really help here, so she needs to function as a support to make the others all the more dangerous. If push comes to shove, she will need to be the first one sacrificed.

As for the environment, this one is almost truly neutral. With a bit of environmental manipulation, you can make it swing hard in your favor. I don't know how it interacts with Akash, but if there are requests, that can be one of the things I try. I just need to pick a villain who has some durability so we can actually find out.

With this, I have beaten every Cauldron villain. The only option left from here would be to demonstrate combos between new and old heroes or try some of the more difficult modes. If there is anything that really stands out for you guys, let me know and I can whip something out. There are certain old heroes who can really cripple Cauldron guys (and environments), so the question is whether you want to see that or not.