Good power cards: Loop, Capacitor, Buffer, Electrodynamics (if multi enemies), Defrag, Self Repair, Storm, Static Discharge. The results are random, but can be very powerful too, especially with power-related relics. I almost always take White Noise cards and even Creative AI (trickier). Orbs are unaffected by a lot of buffs/debuffs, so you have to keep that in mind.ĭefect has power synergies. I think it's best to mostly have one type, though mixing some can work. I think of it as orb cards and regular attack/defense/debuff cards (like Streamline or Claw and Beam Cell or Go For the Eyes). I think one of the issues with it is that it has cards in at least 2 categories that don't really synergize with each other at all. I love Defect, but I still lose with it regularly. A chunk of damage followed by a bonus turn. Now that I think about it, I wonder if that's exactly what it's meant for. But the whole point in the first place is to rotate orbs anyway, so maybe the purpose of the meteor card is to do a nice 24 damage, and set up your very next turn to have +3 energy. My main hesitation with the meteor card is that I'll likely be channeling other orbs, so the plasmas won't stay in play for long. It has an image of something running/rushing. Blanking at the moment on the name of the card. But I can definitely get to 5 with that 0 cost card that gives you +2 energy and a void card. I didn't yet try that meteor card, the one that does 24 damage and channels 3 plasma, because a 5 cost is. That deck barely had any orb cards anyway, so the price of -3 focus didn't matter much.
Just tried out Hyper Beam, a card I've always skipped before. Regarding the Defect, since you mentioned OP, I've actualy recently been experimenting with OP cards on purpose, since so many of my runs with the Defect don't get me past Act 2.
Are you saying that you're playing chess because Watcher is OP (I don't know if Watcher is or isn't OP) and needs little attention, or that you don't enjoy using Watcher and would simply rather play chess?
#Slay the spire intangible update#
Play chess I'm not entirely sure what you mean, as I don't even have that update and know nothing about Watcher.