Andromeda

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Andromeda, the Archer
Type	Character
Group	Amazons
Kongai Version	1.9
Main Information
Health	70
Innate Ability	Range changes cost 5 less energy
Defense
Physical	2
Light	4
Dark	2

Contents 1 Attacks 2 Equippable Items 2.1 Amazon Items 2.2 General Items 3 Strategy 3.1 Strengths 3.2 Weaknesses 4 Known bugs 5 Changes scheduled with next versions 5.1 v. 1.8 5.2 v. 1.9f 6 External Links

[edit] Attacks

• Rain of Arrows

• Trueshot

• Crippling Shot

• Lightning Arrow

[edit] Equippable Items

[edit] Amazon Items

• Herbal Remedy: Very useful, especially since her reduced range-changing costs allows her to stall at range effectively.

• Reinforced Breastplate: Not great but it does swing the Rumiko matchup strongly in Andromeda's favor.

• Sacred Candle: Always a solid choice but there are better items.

• Sharpening Stone: Very good. Trueshot has a 50% chance to crit when using Sharpening Stone, and Rain of Arrows will do 60 damage maximum on a critical hit.

• Valkyrie's Charm: Though she does have slow moves, they're not helped much by the Valkyrie's charm because not many ranged moves are below speed 5 or speed 4.

[edit] General Items

• General's Insignia: Decent. It makes Lightning Arrow and Crippling Shot considerably better.

• Girdle of Iron Will: Fairly useless. There are hardly any situations where this would apply.

• Healing Salve: Only useful if you don't have an Herbal Remedy.

• Stoneheel Totem: Good item. Combined with Andromeda's innate, this will give you a sizable energy advantage when range dancing.

• Yellow Rock of Cowards: Decent, but only use this if it fits your playing style.

• Mindreader's Chalice: Decent, but only use this if it fits your playing style.

[edit] Strategy

[edit] Strengths

• Andromeda's energy lasts longer than most characters'. Her innate gives a small but significant bonus, Crippling Shot is cheap and can save her from needing to stay far, and Lightning Arrow does significant damage for free.

• Andromeda's Trueshot is powerful and can be done in the same turn as a range change.

• Rain of Arrows is extremely effective against lightly armored opponents, sometimes inflicting more damage than an intercept would have.

• Lightning Arrow can interrupt Chi Blasts (!) and other light based attacks.

[edit] Weaknesses

• Due to the slowness of her "big" attacks, Andromeda tends to lose in direct matchups against other far-focused characters, such as Anex, Phoebe, and Cain Solomon.

• Andromeda's hits-fleeing attack is ineffective against the heavily-armored close-only tanks whom she otherwise does well against (Helene, Onimaru, and Ashi).
• Even though it is offset by her abilities, she is still a single-range character.

[edit] Known bugs

None

[edit] Changes scheduled with next versions

[edit] v. 1.8

• Lightning arrow
  • 18 damage, 9 speed, 100% hit

[edit] v. 1.9f

• Trueshot hit rate up 97%->100%
• Trueshot energy cost down 55->50
• Crippling Shot damage up 15->20

[edit] External Links

• Guide to Andromeda by EsIeX3