On Sludgehammer....

Just noticed this. Does he always target the lower HP battler? That seems pretty crazy.

Also Toxic Spew -> Thundershock -> Candycane combo for the win. In that order. Toxic spew starts off a long chain of VERY gradual HP loss for him over time, then Thundershock (or whatever it's actually called) does decent damage AND has the chance to cause Sludgehammer to lose his turn. Hit him with a candy cane somewhere for a 30% damage reduction in his attacks. Almost make his Vengeance sword look like a liability.

Any other worthwhile strategies to use against him? I'm almost ready to try to fight Sir Goowain.

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My strategy has always been to use Custom as a goo-shield while I employ Brute Force against Sludgehammer.

Sir Goowain has the same target-detection as Sludgehammer, so I've gotten the same tactic to work against him.

But your choice of toxic spew is really interesting.
Does the damage increment over time?
I don't think I've seen it do more than 15 or so.

And Supershock is a terrifying move.
I'd probably buy an Thundershield, even if it took up both of my equipment slots.

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They'll target whoever they can kill most quickly, and with the attack that will do the most total damage, unless they can kill the target this turn with a cheaper attack.

Debuffs are very effective against these opponents, of course. The upcoming opponent will behave a little differently.

Slimehold's use of Reanimation is particularly clever. I hadn't even considered the possibility of using it like that. I'm disabling it now, of course, but I feel an odd pride in him for figuring it out. This is what the AI world calls "emergent behavior," stuff the programmers couldn't have anticipated.

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Speaking of Sludgehammer, look what happens if you try to put Sludgehammer on team 1, and yourself + 1 bot on team 2:

http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1224

On the team selection thingy I picked

James Paige Team 2
Sludgehammer Team 1
Slimebot TRICKSTER Team 2

EDIT: Apparently this is not specific to sludgehammer, nor does it have anything to do with a battlebot being in team 1. See

http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18910

I was wondering how you pulled that one. And how did you get camdog in is challenge for 657 twice? Is that related and one of 'em was supposed to be CUSTOM?

Oh, yeah. That is wacky. That was supposed to be:

Me + TRICKSTER + CUSTOM
vs
You + Calahay + Camdog + GOLEM

I'm gonna cancel that one and re-issue it later after Mogri has a chance to take a look at this bug.

Seems related to the bug that James brought up:

Twinconclusive vs Twinconclusive

Which is pretty funny, to be honest.

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That is fantastic.

Working on this. Seems I screwed up a few things writing some new functionality.

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And fixed. I still have no idea why that caused that to happen, but everything seems to be OK now.

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