Here it is... the Teana Open!

[TemjinGold]

Wait, shouldn't the AV be killing off the thorns as they're getting summoned (and sneaking in hits on the RT in between)?

[dashcunning]

The royal thorn generates, on average, 28 thorns (warrior or hunter) every 3 turns. The AV can kill, on average, 9 warriors or 15 hunters every 3 turns. Not even close to keeping up.

It's a bit of a shame both vampires ran into and got offed by the same thing that their gimmicks (regen and high init/speed no retaliation) wouldn't help against. Otherwise they were capable of beating any sufficiently slow melee. Guess it doesn't matter that much as they would have been dominated by a dragon eventually.

[Lord Ludwig]

Originally Posted by dashcunning

The royal thorn generates, on average, 28 thorns (warrior or hunter) every 3 turns. The AV can kill, on average, 9 warriors or 15 hunters every 3 turns. Not even close to keeping up.

I agree that the vampires were quite unlucky with their entry rank, and that without germination the RT wouldn't stand a chance. However it gives 150-300 worth of leadership in thorns, which translates into a minimum of 18, a maximum of 37, an average (as you said) of 28. The point is not how many thorns the AV can kill, because indeed he can't keep up, the point is: does the AV have even the tiniest chance of finishing the RT before enough thorns are around to kill the AV in one round? Indeed he DOES have a chance, but that would require the RT to constantly summon the bare minimum of the 150-300 range and the AV to score 17 criticals in 19 rounds. Such event is clearly so unlikely as to be close to impossible. Once again, a 3-1 does not indicate that team A wins 75% of the matches, only that his victory is not completely and utterly guaranteed.

Ah, and let's not forget the AV DID beat the only top ten player to be eliminated early on, the giant.

[MaroonMaurader]

Once the Royal Thorns have at least 3 stacks of thorns, and at least one of them is thorn-hunters, they can use their minions to wall themselves in against the side of the map. The ancient vampires can try to maneuver themselves to lengthen the royal thorn's path to the wall, but starting with turn 4 the royal thorn can use summoned thorns to hold a path open and the ancient vampire can no longer stall; even before that the royal thorn can advance one space by tacking around the ancient vampire on turns 2 and 3.

So it's actually less likely than at first glance - the AV must get 17 critical hits in 19 rounds, at a 17% chance of a critical per attack; the royal thorn must summon no more than 21 thorns in any given germinate, AND those thorns must always be thorn warriors, not thorn hunters (~8% chance each). Giving total odds of success of roughly 3 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

[Lord Ludwig]

Originally Posted by MaroonMaurader

So it's actually less likely than at first glance - the AV must get 17 critical hits in 19 rounds, at a 17% chance of a critical per attack; the royal thorn must summon no more than 21 thorns in any given germinate, AND those thorns must always be thorn warriors, not thorn hunters (~8% chance each). Giving total odds of success of roughly 3 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Indeed, as I said it's so unlikely as to be virtually impossible, just not mathematically impossible.

[Lord Ludwig]

Ah, and here are the quarter-finals.

Black Dragon (1) 3

Ancient Ent (9) 0


Royal Thorn (12) 0

Green Dragon (4) 3



Red Dragon (3) 0

Archdemon (6) 3


Cyclops (7) 1

T-Rex (2) 3

All quite settled matches, I think, now that the bigguns are starting to mix together. The ancient ent doesn't stand much of a chance against the black dragon due to double fire damage; the royal thorn who caused so much discussion goes down to the green dragon in a few rounds; the red dragon may have higher ranking (due to leadership, remember) but the high fire resistance of the archdemon makes the dragon's bite quite ineffective, and so we have seeded player nr. 3 not reaching the semi's. The only match I think could require some deeper analysis is cyclops vs t-rex. There are a lot of variables here (the t-rex being tyrant and terrible, the resistances and special attacks of the cyclops) but my opinion is the cyclops is the first one to go down.

[pavned]

The cyclops vs TRex is a tough one in my opinion.

The thing is, Cyclops get 2 free turns before the TRex gets to him, dealing about
65 x 2 = 130 damage.

Then the Cyclops got 2 no-retaliation attack one for 90 and the other for 70, 160 damages

so the TRex goes from 1000 to 710 health where he can'T deal any damage to the Cyclops

meaning you go on a 710 health creatures vs 670

The Trex do deals a lot more damages, the thing is that I'm not sure how to calculate the 30% loss to the Cyclops defense for the Tyrant skill of the Trex.

I thhink the Cyclops got about 6 rounds to finish the Tyrant before the Trex finishes him! Is that enough? For those 6 round he'll do (here not sure about retaliation damage) 65*6 (turns before being killed) 390 damges from retaliation. The cyclops can get a total of 2 push attack and 2 stun attack, meaning 1 push and 1 stun additional attack for a total of 160 damages.

so that's a total of 550 damages not enough for the 710

The one round where the Cyclops can'T use a no-retaliation attack he'll be more more advise to take the defense stance insuring the fight to go for the 76turns.

But it stills not enough.

Summary:

TRex closes-in on the Cyclops in 2 turns:

- first 2 turns Cyclops deal 130 damages (Trex 870)
- Round 3, Trex deals damages (Cyclops 550), Cyclops retaliate for 65 (Trex 805) and use push deals 90 damages (Trex 715)
- Round 4, Trex deals damages (Cyclops 430), Cyclops retaliate for 65 (Trex 650) and use stun for 70 (Trex 580)
- Round 5, Trex deals damages (Cyclops (310), Cyclops retaliate for 65 (Trex (515) and stand guard
- Round 6, TRex attacks (Cyclops ~250), Cyclops retaliate for 65 (Trex 450) and use push (Trex 360)
- Round 7 Trex attacks (Cyclops 130), Cyclops reataliates for 65 (Trex 295) and use stun (Trex 225)
- Round 8 Trex attacks (Cyclops 10), Cyclops retaliate for 65 (Trex 160) and Attacks before being killed (Trex 95)

In the summary I maxed the damages delt by the Trex to mirror the Tyrant effect.

The Cyclops is toast unless the TRex can't get to him in 2 turns depending of the battlefield, since the Cyclops can move 2 hex before doing his attack.
So if the Cyclops can get 1 more free turn before the Trex can close on him he can win!

Summary

TRex closes-in on the Cyclops in 2 turns:

- first 3 turns Cyclops deal 195 damages (Trex 805)
- Round 4, Trex deals damages (Cyclops 550), Cyclops retaliate for 65 (Trex 740) and use push deals 90 damages (Trex 650)
- Round 5, Trex deals damages (Cyclops 430), Cyclops retaliate for 65 (Trex 585) and use stun for 70 (Trex 515)
- Round 6, Trex deals damages (Cyclops (310), Cyclops retaliate for 65 (Trex (450) and stand guard
- Round 7, TRex attacks (Cyclops ~250), Cyclops retaliate for 65 (Trex 385) and use push (Trex 295)
- Round 8 Trex attacks (Cyclops 130), Cyclops reataliates for 65 (Trex 230) and use stun (Trex 160)
- Round 9 Trex attacks (Cyclops 10), Cyclops retaliate for 65 (Trex 95) and Attacks before being killed (Trex 30)

With a little bit of luck, the Cyclops can get that extra 30 damages from the free attacks and 2 pushes

But that's a lot of if! So it's a good assumption that the Trex win that match