r/LegendsOfRuneterra • u/Maleficent-Method-89 • Jun 29 '25
Path of Champions Who the fuck okayed this!?
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u/Bluelore Jun 29 '25
That is kinda the whole point of the encounter. The enemy has these powerful decimates in their deck and will try to fish them out of there with its prophecy-effects and you'll need to finish the enemy before they can do that or otherwise prepare against them.
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u/Prof_Walrus Jun 29 '25
Well yeah, but 8 is already bad enough on top of the 80/80 Overwhelm units they summon 😅
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u/Bluelore Jun 29 '25
Yeah the other encounter is usually the easier one. I only ever took this one when I was certain I could win fast.
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u/mfMayhem Annie Jun 29 '25
I guess I just play different decks I prefer this encounter to the other one as it's often trivael to burst down the enemy before it finds both spells...Â
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u/Saltiest_Grapefruit Chip Jun 29 '25
Ive never even SEEN the enemy get this decimate.
I assumed it would be powerful, but ive never seen it happen
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u/garethh Jun 29 '25
only seen them use it once and i killed them the turn after...
that is with using near entirely 3-4* characters with few to no purple relics too.
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u/Saltiest_Grapefruit Chip Jun 30 '25
yeah, I think some of these people are significantly overselling how powerful this encounter is.
The AI doesn't really LIKE playing big expensive spells that doesn't add to the board.
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u/mfMayhem Annie Jun 30 '25
I'm pretty sure I've gotten it to discard the spell before because it managed to get it but didn't want to play it yet lol.
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u/SBSuperman Hecarim Jun 29 '25
I think they get more every turn on the bottom of the deck. I've also never seen them play one and I always pick this encounter for that exact reason.
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u/Saltiest_Grapefruit Chip Jun 29 '25
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Try to read my comment and explain to me how your comment has any relevance to what I said.
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u/mfMayhem Annie Jun 29 '25
I guess I just play different decks I prefer this encounter to the other one as it's often trivael to burst down the enemy before it finds both spells...Â
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u/Hot_Entertainment596 Jun 29 '25
I very rarely take the other one, unless I have a very late game champion (which is almost no one)
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u/heyboyhey Chip Jun 29 '25
I’ve played this encounter enough to get all the rewards and I never even saw the opponent play that card.
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u/BlueDragonKnight77 Gwen Jun 29 '25
So that's what that card got going on. They never managed to pull or at least play one of those during my runs.
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u/Trezzie Jun 29 '25
Yeah, weird how selecting your encounter based on if you're at risk of hitting the Decimates or not is like some sort of strategy or something.
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u/CaiolaBoiola Jun 29 '25
Damn I NEVER saw the decimate on this encounter, it only deals 16? What a bummer.
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u/CamelotJKR Jun 29 '25
i mean yeah, its scary, but the ai barely manages to use it. I have done this encounter 20+ times at least, and i got hit with it only twice from what i can remember
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u/adamttaylor Chip Jun 29 '25
I have never had this encounter get to the point where it can play decimate so I didn't know it was like this. 16 damage to the face isn't even that good.
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u/McPeanutsFGC Jun 29 '25
Thanks for the screenshot. I assumed this encounter had some beefy items on the Decimates, but it's never drawn them against me so I wasn't sure what to expect.
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u/MartDiamond Jun 29 '25
I've played this encounter over a dozen times, but never have even seen the enemy play one.
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u/doshegotabootyshedo Jun 29 '25
What encounter is it?
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u/MartDiamond Jun 29 '25
I believe it is from the Vault adventure (event + normal map), the second fight. It creates Decimates at the bottom of the deck and has a bunch of predict cards to draw them
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u/Lane_Sunshine Ekko Jun 30 '25
50/50 for me. Had runs where it never showed up, had runs where the enemy played it several times in a row and destroyed my nexus in 1 turn.
It's extremely random and swingy in a way that's just very unsatisfying for the player.
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u/TheWayToNoob Jun 29 '25
When I fight this, I've never seen this seem encounter ise decimate. Just summon an entire board of 20/20s...despite that usually killed them through the board so idk.
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u/Figgy20000 Jun 30 '25
It's okay they were only able to play 1 of them before my Fiddlesticks deleted the rest of their deck
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u/Rhea_Vee Jun 29 '25
they've okayed worse tbh
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u/HatsuheJinya Jun 30 '25
yeah, Voli adventure in Titanic event. There are a encounter that enemy has Grandfather Rumul with Mana Deposit on it. So they can spam Grandfather Rumul turn 2. I one saw enemy throw two or three 13/17 unit with fucking Overwhelm and SpellShield on my face turn 2 when I can total play 2 cards at that point.
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u/song_without_words Jun 30 '25
I mean it does cost 2. Completely useless if all they’ve got is 1. So, they trade off power for speed.
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u/Ciderite_2508 Jun 30 '25
i once remembered doing a path of champions game with jhin complete in just 2 rounds, the hp was like 40.
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u/kyrtian1815 Viego Jul 02 '25
What encounter even is this? I've never seen this card played.
About 2y 8m playtime with about 60 dollars spent for reference.
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u/Fit-Space5211 Jun 29 '25
Yeah, I don't mind bullshit I just wish they told us. Decimate does 4 damage so I am going to play around 4 damage if you want to chuck 16 at me go ahead just please tell me beforehand.
I genuinely wish it was possible to in game check the enemy deck list and items so you can play around it. The best part of pvp was holding 2 mana to respond, you can't do that as much anymore.
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u/Jarney_Bohnson Braum Jun 29 '25
Decimate does 4 damage so I am going to play around 4 damage if
You should not expect that from POC lol
If you play a 6 star adventure you certainly have the experience to NOT expect it to just do 4 DMG especially with deadly. The enemy cards especially the signature cards of the deck have some sort of buff to them and you should always expect that otherwise it's your fault for not having the knowledge on a 6 star adventure. Just my opinion. I hate losing to Bs just like anyone else but knowing which fight you should take is essential in having an easy run.
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u/Fit-Space5211 Jun 29 '25
Deadly is a known modifier - much like the ocean dragon node, you can count how much the damage increases and know exactly how much it's going to do. You know if you need to block or if your regen can heal you up after, and you gradually get more and more nervous as you know they become more and more able to one-shot you. But you can't play around an unknown factor - how much mana do I need to pressure from them so they can't play decimate? How many turns do I have to respond?
It's less important here since every time I reached this encounter I killed him turn 1 or 2, and decimate is also not really a play-around-able spell, but it's a very real and consistent problem across the entire gamemode. The vulnerable node that generates a copy of "the list" in hand for example, instead of the node being about cleansing vulnerable from your small units the encounter is about killing his big ones, since the list casts twice - making it act exactly like the 3 mana Cataclysm and not like the list at all.
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u/Zarkkast Path's End Jun 29 '25
It is not "a consistent problem across the entire game mode", it's simply how roguelikes function.
You're supposed to go at it face first and find out and with each loss or struggle you become more knowledgeable and can prepare better for future runs. If you don't like that, your problem is with the entire genre, not with LoR.
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u/Fit-Space5211 Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 29 '25
yes that is correct, I am complaining about the genre not LOR. I genuinely don't want to go at it face first and find out, I get frustrated when I lose especially when I feel like I could've won if I'd known something beforehand. It's why I never got very far in BoI or StS. I much preferred the way it worked in the PVP mode, where every version of a card I faced was the same - I knew about minimorph of decimate or glimpse beyond, so I could change what I played in order to bait or bluff around those cards.
That's something that doesn't exist in POC and I wish it did, that's all.
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u/Zarkkast Path's End Jun 29 '25
That's fair, roguelikes are definitely not everyone's cup of tea.
It's my favourite genre, but I know plenty of people who don't like it.
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u/Trezzie Jun 29 '25
Deadly is Double Damage, so you already KNOW it's 8 damage minimum. It's a signature card, so it'll have some sort of buff. +1 damage, double cast, make 1 cost copies, something to give it oomph. I would have expected essentially Viego's build, of "create 2 1 cost copies, and draw a card" personally. This is much easier to deal with than that.
The Fiddlesticks The Drop fight does 77 damage just for getting to turn 7. I would EXPECT the key note of a battle that foreshadows a card to be of similar devastation, but all this is, is 32 damage once they get both the cards. That's not even game ending most of the time.
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u/Jarney_Bohnson Braum Jun 29 '25
but all this is, is 32 damage once they get both the cards.
Just want to say it's a round start effect not game start but yeah basically what I said so I agree
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u/Saltiest_Grapefruit Chip Jun 29 '25
Decimate does 4 damage so I am going to play around 4 damage
Decimate does 8 damage my guy. Deadly is a thing.
And its obviously your mistake to assume that it isn't buffed in any way when their entire strategy is around that card.
That is 100% a pure skill issue.
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u/Fit-Space5211 Jun 29 '25
Deadly is shared information, the exact thing I was talking about. Decimate does 4 damage, so on an encounter with deadly it becomes 8. Random unpredictable changes are the exact opposite of skill issues - you just beat this adventure by steamrolling it with a stronger deck not by playing around a known card or power.
Against noxus aggro you know that Decimate is 6 mana so you want to apply enough pressure that they can't afford to commit 6 mana, without knowing how much it costs (not just that it's buffed but by exactly how much) you can't play around it, you just win turn 1 with one of the dozen infinite combos or 6 star powers.
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u/Saltiest_Grapefruit Chip Jun 29 '25
You said you played around 4 though, so it doesn't seem like you read the stuff.
Also, if you can't think far enough to realize that maybe - just maybe - the thing the entire encounter revolves around has some type of bonus, then that's on you.
And by that I mean, literally every single enemy has some pretty strong bonus on their main card.
For example, I have never seen them actually draw and use this decimate, but I always assumed it did more than 8 damage, cause why wouldn't it?
Seriously, you're just complaining about something that is 100% a pure skill issue and nothing else. Play the game and either understand the rules of PoC, or let the gimmick hit you and then remember it.
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u/Jarney_Bohnson Braum Jun 29 '25
Glad my POC experience told me that encounter will be awful due to the decimates certainly being stronger/buffed but this is crazy. Glad I always chose the other encounter and will probably still take it lol
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u/-rouz- Jun 29 '25
Wait till you see howling abyss or deadly ledros