Changes: Melter

Revision as of 00:49, 20 October 2018

Melter is an uncommon Attack for The Defect. It destroys all of the targeted enemy's Block, then inflicts a decent amount of damage. As an Uncommon card, Melter can appear as a post-battle reward and be purchased from The Merchant.

Upgrading Melter increases the card's damage from 8 to 11.

Strategy

Melter is a tech card - it's exceptionally strong against certain enemies. Luckily, high-Block enemies are particularly annoying, and it's a solid beatstick against the others.

Melter excels against the Spheric Guardian, effectively dealing 50 or more damage and setting up an easy turn-one kill. It also rips through the abilities of Shelled Parasite and Snake Plant, and punishes Monsters with armor-granting abilities like Darkling, Centurion, and most Minions. It beats The Guardian up immediately after it transforms, and speeds up the Donu and Deca final battle.

Melter destroys Block before inflicting its damage, meaning it will deal damage directly to Health.

Players will almost never encounter multiple high-shield enemies at once, making redundant copies of Melter unnecessary in small decks.

As a solid standalone utility card, Melter is an oddity among The Defect's highly synergistic card pool. Its effect can translate into a big burst of damage, making it play nicely with efficient, aggressive cards like Hyperbeam.

The armor-removing effect is not a Debuff, so Melter will not trigger Sadistic Nature and is not nullified by Artifact.

Trivia

Melter's art depicts what the card does best - melting a Spheric Guardian.

Defect Cards
Starters		Strike • Defend • Dualcast • Zap
Attacks	Common	Ball Lightning • Barrage • Beam Cell • Claw • Cold Snap • Compile Driver • Go for the Eyes • Rebound • Streamline • Sweeping Beam
	Uncommon	Blizzard • Bullseye • Doom and Gloom • FTL • Melter • Rip and Tear • Scrape • Sunder
	Rare	All for One • Core Surge • Hyperbeam • Meteor Strike • Thunder Strike
Skills	Common	Charge Battery • Coolheaded • Hologram • Leap • Recursion • Stack • Steam Barrier • TURBO
	Uncommon	Aggregate • Auto-Shields • Boot Sequence • Chaos • Chill • Consume • Darkness • Double Energy • Equilibrium • Force Field • Fusion • Genetic Algorithm • Glacier • Overclock • Recycle • Reinforced Body • Reprogram • Skim • Tempest • White Noise
	Rare	Amplify • Fission • Multi-Cast • Rainbow • Reboot • Seek
Powers	Uncommon	Capacitor • Defragment • Heatsinks • Hello World • Loop • Self Repair • Static Discharge • Storm
Powers	Rare	Biased Cognition • Buffer • Creative AI • Echo Form • Electrodynamics • Machine Learning

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 === Strategy ===
-Melter is a tech card - it's exceptionally strong against certain enemies. Luckily, high-Block enemies are particularly annoying, and it's a solid beatstick against the others.
+* Melter is a tech card - it's exceptionally strong against certain enemies. Luckily, high-Block enemies are particularly annoying, and it's a solid beatstick against the others.
-Melter excels against the [[Spheric Guardian]], effectively dealing 50 or more damage and setting up an easy turn-one kill. It also rips through the abilities of [[Shelled Parasite]] and [[Snake Plant]], and punishes Monsters with armor-granting abilities like [[Darkling]], [[Centurion & Mystic#Centurion|Centurion]], and most [[Minion|Minions]]. It beats [[The Guardian]] up immediately after it transforms, and speeds up the [[Donu and Deca]] final battle.
+* Melter excels against the [[Spheric Guardian]], effectively dealing 50 or more damage and setting up an easy turn-one kill. It also rips through the abilities of [[Shelled Parasite]] and [[Snake Plant]], and punishes Monsters with armor-granting abilities like [[Darkling]], [[Centurion & Mystic#Centurion|Centurion]], and most [[Minion|Minions]]. It beats [[The Guardian]] up immediately after it transforms, and speeds up the [[Donu and Deca]] final battle.
-Melter destroys Block before inflicting its damage, meaning it will deal damage directly to Health.
+* Melter destroys Block before inflicting its damage, meaning it will deal damage directly to Health.
-Players will almost never encounter multiple high-shield enemies at once, making redundant copies of Melter unnecessary in small decks.
+* Players will almost never encounter multiple high-shield enemies at once, making redundant copies of Melter unnecessary in small decks.
+* As a solid standalone utility card, Melter is an oddity among The Defect's highly synergistic card pool. Its effect can translate into a big burst of damage, making it play nicely with efficient, aggressive cards like {{C|Hyperbeam}}.
-=== Synergies and Interactions ===
-As a solid standalone utility card, Melter is an oddity among The Defect's highly synergistic card pool. Its effect can translate into a big burst of damage, making it play nicely with efficient, aggressive cards like {{C|Hyperbeam}}.
-The armor-removing effect is not a [[Debuff]], so Melter will not trigger {{C|Sadistic Nature}} and is not nullified by [[Artifact]].
+* The armor-removing effect is not a [[Debuff]], so Melter will not trigger {{C|Sadistic Nature}} and is not nullified by [[Artifact]].
 === Trivia ===