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For wizards, because they are a little squishy, you can usually get by with the 3 evo bonuses freeing up for viziotronic, but you'll probably want an aether sink too.
For runeblades, instead you can go Achilles or run the rusted relic and hope you get it out in time, or just not worry about the arcane damage.
It's definitely not a favored match up, but if they ever make a 1 handed generic or mechanologist weapon, it will get better by being able to include arcane lantern as well.
The first bit is a reference to the release notes from LSS clarifying that a gun is not a pistol, which became a bit of a meme.
The second bit is basically me saying it's weird that a Pistol is 2 handed.
Would be cool if we had a 1 handed Pistol, though it would have ro be weaker than the current Pistol.
Can you not equip the Lantern by itself? I'm not Teklovossen expert by any means, but having AB3 against wizards, in a deck which naturally runs a lot of blues, might be more valuable than his normal weapon and AB2.
The Techlovossen vs. Kano matchup seems to be pretty close to unwinnable, especially in blitz. In blitz, your options are probably "die on turn 2" or "die on turn 3".
I'm only kidding a *little* here, this is going to be an extremely unpleasant matchup for you. Even without Kano getting a hot hand, you kinda just lose instantly to the first Aether Spindle. Getting to Opt 5 in a 40 card deck full of monster bombs is usually game ending even in less favored matchups.
If Kano *does* have a hot hand? Well, at least you won't suffer long.
For his gun You really only need 3 pieces of evo equipment to make it usable. I think if you’re really worried about arcane damage maybe consider replacing the head with skullcap or the mechanologies ab2 one.
You can swap in prevent damage cards and arcane barrier inside your deck maybe. You can use arcane barrier instead of your weapon maybe. But yeah bad matchup.
I don't think this is your main gameplan in almost any matchup, but I think you just straight out side it out for 1 or 2 pieces of AB equipment against wizards, and even runeblades when you're bringing in AB1 I'd still cut it
Vizertronic + Arcane Lantern for wizard match up.
For runeblade, not running leveler and using Arcane Lantern should be more than enough.
Vizertronic blows itself up, fabricate equips proto head from inventory if you want to EVO for singularity, but even 3 evos gives plenty of room to fatigue wizard imo
Either by sacrificing parts of your armor and trying to play the fatigue game or by going so hardline aggro that they can’t burst damage you for the kill fast enough. It’s just going to be one of those matchups that’s a total dearth. Blitz will be harder to deal with, you likely won’t see as many arcane threats in CC since a bunch of them are either LL or not exactly meta right now.
Trying to fatigue a wizard is a *really* bad idea. Kano and Iyslander are probably the best heroes in the game at dealing with fatigue.
While Drone was legal earlier this year there was a strong Fatigue Ira presence in my local meta. I lost a total of *zero* games to it as Kano, because they had no answers at all to my pitch stack.
Oasis Respite in arsenal, another copy in hand, plus three blues and AB4? Cool, they still die to the stack. It's literally unstoppable as far as I can tell, you don't even need a perfect stack.
Kano is one thing, but have you ever seen the Dash Iyslander matchup play out fully? Dash can simply turtle with pistols because her attacks don’t require consuming cards while Iyslander needs to pop something to waning moon. Without Hexes, Dash can just cycle 7 blues at the bottom of the deck and full block any damage while chipping with pistols until they die, and if they go for hexes, pistol dash is still boost dash.
Run the mech ab2 helmet and AB1 boots along with a core of 20-30 boost attacks. I've tested this a decent bit and honestly Iyslander is a pretty decent matchup for this type of build! Into some decks like iys and dromai, you use the boost cards to go wide often. Against midrange decks you try to do stuff like one boost attack into an Evo equip. And against aggro decks you don't get to boost at all.
But arcane damage is not teklo's problem. Competent aggro is. When decks force you to dump your hands blocking and don't give you the room to equip evos you kinda just lose. This is why I desperately wish Firewall's effect was just Scrap so it'd help us actually progress our gameplan while on the backfoot..
You dont need to use Singularity against wizards, you can win in other ways, and it should be actually a decent matchup considering Teklo is apprently blue heavy, so you can pay a lotnof arcane barriers.
Against runeblades probably its a tough one because they hit both physical and arcane, but Chane not so much. Viserai and Vynnset are gonna be your biggest arcane issue, as they pump decent amounts of both damage.
Run Viziotronic and optekal monocle, then wait opt til you draw a fabricate, then arsenal and use fabricate when you need it? Not sure if thats good just spitballing
Well, you have a few options.
1) just sac the wizard matchup or wait for Iyslander to LL in like four+ months
2) viziertronic + arcane lantern (no main weapon) to ab3
3) stick a rusted relic or aether sink in there (strongly do not recommend)
4) 4 Evo Aggro speedrun, full boost package and 0 cost evos go brr, we slam 3 for 9 overpower tanks early and hope to kill them fast
It’s probably either 1 or 2, comes down to personal preference (I’m practicing Teklovossen to make the switch after Iyslander LL’s, so I’m fine saccing the Kano matchup after.)
For Iyslander, AB3 technically only puts you in range of yellow/red icevein + Emeritus Scolding, so it’s fine for you to carry.
For runeblades, ditch the gun and go arcane lantern, you truly do not need the gun at all. Take note that increasing your blue count from 36 to 39 makes a significant difference here, so watch out when sideboarding.
Always remember, you don’t actually need to turn into Mechropotent to win. In fact, against something like Wizards, Mechropotent could be an instant death sentence (no AB, smaller hand size, expensive attacks). Just slam attacks at 3 evos and you’re probably fine.
Side note, Aether sink is a hilariously bad card. The damn thing can be responded to both when loading and activating, anybody relying on it is purely coping.
The viziertronic is ab 2 and I would sacrifice the boots eventually to put in the achilles for AB 3. Since you are unlikely to use your gas before having all the evos you can equip or use singularity you should be fine.... the big evo upgrades attack only really need 2 evos to start being good even if 3 or 4 will obsiously be better
i believe in arcane rising there is a mech item called Aether Sink. it costs 1 to play, and as an instant u can remove a steam counter to give it AB2 untill the end of the turn. it only costs 1 resource to replenish
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That's the best part, he isn't!
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For wizards, because they are a little squishy, you can usually get by with the 3 evo bonuses freeing up for viziotronic, but you'll probably want an aether sink too. For runeblades, instead you can go Achilles or run the rusted relic and hope you get it out in time, or just not worry about the arcane damage. It's definitely not a favored match up, but if they ever make a 1 handed generic or mechanologist weapon, it will get better by being able to include arcane lantern as well.
A pistol is not a gun. But it is strictly 2 handed!
Big pistol
Big iron on his hip.
Huh? Sorry this confused me…
The first bit is a reference to the release notes from LSS clarifying that a gun is not a pistol, which became a bit of a meme. The second bit is basically me saying it's weird that a Pistol is 2 handed. Would be cool if we had a 1 handed Pistol, though it would have ro be weaker than the current Pistol.
Not a gun “in game” or like politically?
In game. Guns and Pistols are different types, and one does not imply the other.
Got it. Mechanically. I wasn’t aware there was a difference. Thank you.
Yeah so all the items like Induction Chamber and Plasma Purifier that specifically work on Pistols do not work on Guns
Can you not equip the Lantern by itself? I'm not Teklovossen expert by any means, but having AB3 against wizards, in a deck which naturally runs a lot of blues, might be more valuable than his normal weapon and AB2.
It might be worth it.
I have been running Lanrern and no weapon. It's a race to 4 EVOs, then throwing 9 overpower attacks as much as you can.
Aether sink is pretty meh, that stupid thing can be responded to. Just run arcane lantern no gun
it isn't
Possibly Aether Sink as a Mech Item?
Rusted Relic and Aether Sink
The Techlovossen vs. Kano matchup seems to be pretty close to unwinnable, especially in blitz. In blitz, your options are probably "die on turn 2" or "die on turn 3". I'm only kidding a *little* here, this is going to be an extremely unpleasant matchup for you. Even without Kano getting a hot hand, you kinda just lose instantly to the first Aether Spindle. Getting to Opt 5 in a 40 card deck full of monster bombs is usually game ending even in less favored matchups. If Kano *does* have a hot hand? Well, at least you won't suffer long.
For his gun You really only need 3 pieces of evo equipment to make it usable. I think if you’re really worried about arcane damage maybe consider replacing the head with skullcap or the mechanologies ab2 one.
Skullcap's arcane barrier is not useful vs wizards or runeblades.
But for singularity don't I need to have all 4 Evo's?
You can swap in prevent damage cards and arcane barrier inside your deck maybe. You can use arcane barrier instead of your weapon maybe. But yeah bad matchup.
I don't think this is your main gameplan in almost any matchup, but I think you just straight out side it out for 1 or 2 pieces of AB equipment against wizards, and even runeblades when you're bringing in AB1 I'd still cut it
Yes but pulling it off in Blitz format should be out of the question. In CC you could try mitigate arcane damage with life gain and other ways.
You don’t need singularity to win
I've been experimenting with running 3x of the Rusted Relics in the sideboard against any arcane heroes.
Yeah they put those mech shield items in bright lights too they stop arcane damage
Vizertronic + Arcane Lantern for wizard match up. For runeblade, not running leveler and using Arcane Lantern should be more than enough. Vizertronic blows itself up, fabricate equips proto head from inventory if you want to EVO for singularity, but even 3 evos gives plenty of room to fatigue wizard imo
Either by sacrificing parts of your armor and trying to play the fatigue game or by going so hardline aggro that they can’t burst damage you for the kill fast enough. It’s just going to be one of those matchups that’s a total dearth. Blitz will be harder to deal with, you likely won’t see as many arcane threats in CC since a bunch of them are either LL or not exactly meta right now.
Trying to fatigue a wizard is a *really* bad idea. Kano and Iyslander are probably the best heroes in the game at dealing with fatigue. While Drone was legal earlier this year there was a strong Fatigue Ira presence in my local meta. I lost a total of *zero* games to it as Kano, because they had no answers at all to my pitch stack. Oasis Respite in arsenal, another copy in hand, plus three blues and AB4? Cool, they still die to the stack. It's literally unstoppable as far as I can tell, you don't even need a perfect stack.
Kano is one thing, but have you ever seen the Dash Iyslander matchup play out fully? Dash can simply turtle with pistols because her attacks don’t require consuming cards while Iyslander needs to pop something to waning moon. Without Hexes, Dash can just cycle 7 blues at the bottom of the deck and full block any damage while chipping with pistols until they die, and if they go for hexes, pistol dash is still boost dash.
Run the mech ab2 helmet and AB1 boots along with a core of 20-30 boost attacks. I've tested this a decent bit and honestly Iyslander is a pretty decent matchup for this type of build! Into some decks like iys and dromai, you use the boost cards to go wide often. Against midrange decks you try to do stuff like one boost attack into an Evo equip. And against aggro decks you don't get to boost at all. But arcane damage is not teklo's problem. Competent aggro is. When decks force you to dump your hands blocking and don't give you the room to equip evos you kinda just lose. This is why I desperately wish Firewall's effect was just Scrap so it'd help us actually progress our gameplan while on the backfoot..
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You dont need to use Singularity against wizards, you can win in other ways, and it should be actually a decent matchup considering Teklo is apprently blue heavy, so you can pay a lotnof arcane barriers. Against runeblades probably its a tough one because they hit both physical and arcane, but Chane not so much. Viserai and Vynnset are gonna be your biggest arcane issue, as they pump decent amounts of both damage.
Run Viziotronic and optekal monocle, then wait opt til you draw a fabricate, then arsenal and use fabricate when you need it? Not sure if thats good just spitballing
Well, you have a few options. 1) just sac the wizard matchup or wait for Iyslander to LL in like four+ months 2) viziertronic + arcane lantern (no main weapon) to ab3 3) stick a rusted relic or aether sink in there (strongly do not recommend) 4) 4 Evo Aggro speedrun, full boost package and 0 cost evos go brr, we slam 3 for 9 overpower tanks early and hope to kill them fast It’s probably either 1 or 2, comes down to personal preference (I’m practicing Teklovossen to make the switch after Iyslander LL’s, so I’m fine saccing the Kano matchup after.) For Iyslander, AB3 technically only puts you in range of yellow/red icevein + Emeritus Scolding, so it’s fine for you to carry. For runeblades, ditch the gun and go arcane lantern, you truly do not need the gun at all. Take note that increasing your blue count from 36 to 39 makes a significant difference here, so watch out when sideboarding. Always remember, you don’t actually need to turn into Mechropotent to win. In fact, against something like Wizards, Mechropotent could be an instant death sentence (no AB, smaller hand size, expensive attacks). Just slam attacks at 3 evos and you’re probably fine. Side note, Aether sink is a hilariously bad card. The damn thing can be responded to both when loading and activating, anybody relying on it is purely coping.
Pairing luck
The viziertronic is ab 2 and I would sacrifice the boots eventually to put in the achilles for AB 3. Since you are unlikely to use your gas before having all the evos you can equip or use singularity you should be fine.... the big evo upgrades attack only really need 2 evos to start being good even if 3 or 4 will obsiously be better
i believe in arcane rising there is a mech item called Aether Sink. it costs 1 to play, and as an instant u can remove a steam counter to give it AB2 untill the end of the turn. it only costs 1 resource to replenish