Shadowrath Parry Replacement Ability: Cloak | Stick War | Page 1

young briar Jan 30, 2025, 3:42 AM

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Cooldown: 35 seconds.

UC only ability.

When the ability is used, the shadowrath will be immobile for 1 second as it turns invisible. When invisible, the other player will be unable to see the hidden unit for 3 seconds. During its invisibility phase, the unit will be ignored by all other enemy units, and it can't be hit by regular attacks unless the attack inflicts a stun. (ex: getting caught in a magikill blast or a giant's attack) The unit also gains 25% more movement speed during its phase. Hitting an enemy will cancel the Cloak early, but inflict 45 damage and stun that unit. If an enemy attacks the shadowrath while it's immobile, it'll cancel the ability. You'll have to wait 35 seconds to use it again. Using the spell Illuminate or attacked in its invisibility phase will cancel the shadowrath's invisibility.

Temple lvl 1: Cloak lasts 4 seconds instead of 3.

Temple lvl 2: Cloak lasts 5 seconds instead of 4. Also inflicts poison onto the enemy. (3 poison damage every tick)

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lusty bone Jan 30, 2025, 3:45 AM

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Haven't heard of you in awhile, how's it been?

young briar Jan 30, 2025, 3:46 AM

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Been alright. Just took a break from Discord and fan ideas for a bit

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What about you?

lusty bone Jan 30, 2025, 3:46 AM

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Very good

lusty bone Jan 30, 2025, 3:47 AM

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young briar Cooldown: 35 seconds. UC only ability. When the ability is used, the shadowra...

This is pretty balanced

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Thought statue chipping would be a problem

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Does it not do the 45 on statue?

young briar Jan 30, 2025, 3:47 AM

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It does

lusty bone Jan 30, 2025, 3:48 AM

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Damn

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That's a 14s CD with temple 2 lol

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It's still better than current parry

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Would rather have this for them

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Yes

young briar Jan 30, 2025, 3:50 AM

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Doesn't it just reduce ability cooldowns by 30%?

lusty bone Jan 30, 2025, 3:50 AM

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It's 40% now

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Wait, it's been 40% since forever

young briar Jan 30, 2025, 3:51 AM

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damn

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What touching grass does to a man

lusty bone Jan 30, 2025, 3:52 AM

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😭

young briar Jan 30, 2025, 3:57 AM

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Little detail I forgot to mention, if an enemy attacks the shadowrath while it's immobile, it'll cancel the ability. You'll have to wait 35 seconds to use it again.

lusty bone Jan 30, 2025, 3:57 AM

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Nice

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Counterable

mellow cypress Jan 30, 2025, 4:06 AM

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Idk about this tbh

young briar Jan 30, 2025, 4:09 AM

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Why?

mellow cypress Jan 30, 2025, 4:18 AM

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young briar Why?

It's an instant 45 damage along with being a movement speed increase, it also doesn't require to research any upgrade to unlock it and scales a lot with temple which shadows now benefit hella lot from due to vamp buff

young briar Jan 30, 2025, 4:43 AM

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There's a long cooldown though

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and it only lasts for 3 seconds unless you upgrade temple

gray helm Jan 30, 2025, 5:52 AM

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Isn't this just shinobi

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Hmm wait

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45 damage is pretty crazy

lusty bone Jan 30, 2025, 5:53 AM

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Only UC available, though getting 21s with temple 2 for it's CD is insane-

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And that's not even mentioning mana burst

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That'd be funny

gray helm Jan 30, 2025, 5:53 AM

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Altough no Shadowrath can get past the frontlines without getting hit using this ability anyways

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Which is what I would've said

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If the requirement "needs to be hit by an attack that stuns" does not exist

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Why does it need to be hit by an attack that stuns

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To get revealed

lusty bone Jan 30, 2025, 5:54 AM

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If it could get hit by normal attacks it'd be too fragile

gray helm Jan 30, 2025, 5:54 AM

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actually no

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Getting hit by a stun attack doesn't even remove the cloak effect

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It isn't said anywhere on here

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It just says they can't be hit by regular attacks

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Meaning they're just immune to quite literally every attack except from abilities

young briar Jan 30, 2025, 5:56 AM

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Updated the post

young briar Jan 30, 2025, 5:57 AM

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gray helm Getting hit by a stun attack doesn't even remove the cloak effect

I forgot to mention that

mellow cypress Jan 30, 2025, 10:02 AM

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young briar and it only lasts for 3 seconds unless you upgrade temple

That's long enough

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I had to go to school btw

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Anyway, I like this version of Shinobi, but the main reason why I'm not sure about it is that it replaces parry as shadowrath's UC ability

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And parry has basically become a genuine part of shadowrath gameplay

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It's a major part of shadowrath's capability to be aggressively as it can barely save them from dying by parrying fatal damage and then dashing away (which is slightly faster than normally running away)

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It also allows UC shadows to fight against generals by parrying and stunning the general

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Against archer generals, by parry dashing in close range to use the dash stun and potentially pick off the archer general

round lodge Feb 1, 2025, 5:47 PM

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Imagine fighting a army of shadow wrath and then they all suddenly disappear 😭 in all honesty it's pretty good

chilly ferry Feb 1, 2025, 6:55 PM

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CA still can shoot it?

dapper harbor Feb 2, 2025, 4:42 AM

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Years and year years we didn't know how to parry but now we know how to.

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Said by shadow wrath

young briar Feb 4, 2025, 2:04 AM

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chilly ferry CA still can shoot it?

No, in multiplayer, the other opponent won't be able to see the cloaked unit or damage it

chilly ferry Feb 4, 2025, 9:53 AM

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then it's OP

mellow cypress Feb 4, 2025, 10:00 AM

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Tbf it's an UC exclusive ability

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So if you want to backline snipe with it, then you're gonna have do to it with individual shadows

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Though yeah, having no actual counterplay against so much potential DPS output and backline sniping power is OP

chilly ferry Feb 4, 2025, 11:01 AM

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just anything that can stop CA is OP really, thats why they had to nerf meric shield against it

mellow cypress Feb 4, 2025, 11:51 AM

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I don't think the meric shield nerf was specifically for being worse against CA

chilly ferry Feb 4, 2025, 12:02 PM

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mellow cypress I don't think the meric shield nerf was specifically for being worse against CA

i'm talking about when they used to completly block CA

mellow cypress Feb 4, 2025, 12:24 PM

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They can still do that tho

chilly ferry Feb 4, 2025, 12:33 PM

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didnt theycused to block 100% now it's just splash or something?

mellow cypress Feb 4, 2025, 12:52 PM

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Wha?

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They can fully block CA except for the occasional 3 splash damage they might take

chilly ferry Feb 4, 2025, 1:12 PM

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yeah that

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which is still broken so you know somethings strong when we compare it to something thats already broke

#Shadowrath Parry Replacement Ability: Cloak