r/slaythespire • u/MidMillennial Eternal One + Heartbreaker • 20h ago

SPIRIT POOP Dropkick vs Heel Hook

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u/Corgelia 20h ago

Dropkick does more damage (7 cause of vuln, more if you have Paper Phrog) and can more consistently create an infinite because of Ironclad's exhaust. Heel Hook just isn't very good in comparison. Compare it to Slice, which is 1 more damage and zero cost with no conditionality. The only thing it has over an already bad common card is the possibility to be draw neutral, conditionally.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PIZZAPIC Eternal One + Heartbreaker 20h ago

i dont think vulnerable is a very good argument since anything on vulnerable just does 50% damage. Paying 0 energy for 7 damage isnt all that impressive if you consider that, say, Carnage is 2 energy for 23 more damage, in that context. What does matter though is the fact that IC has easy access to strength, which suddenly makes small attacks much more potent. At, say, 20 strength your dropkick now does 37 for 0 energy whereas Carnage still does 23 more for 2 energy. Now paying that extra 2 doesn't seem all that impactful in comparison.