Archerous' R3M17 Delib

Quality

It was only a matter of time. Sing Now! has been in the player’s crosshairs pretty much since his introduction. And with the Middleman gone, he’s finally got nothing to hide behind. Our assassins, Ouroboros from Evergreen and Gugulethu Duiker of the Dead City Haunts, both have their work cut out for them. Swathes of guards, a large tower, and even Sing himself stands in their way. With all that established, how do they do?

Starting with Ouroboros, we have a fairly straightforward strategy: blend in with the guards and use his newfound role and natural charisma to worm his way up to Sing Now!’s penthouse. He achieves this in a lot of interesting ways, including his convincing of the guards to treat the clouds as a threat, as well as tricking the guards into going to the penthouse through his own theatrics. The former not only disrupts Gugulethu’s own assassination efforts, but affords him and his fellow guards a safe path through any flooding while Ouroboros makes his way further up. The latter plays into his final plan, bring the whole fight to the top floor, have Gugulethu take out as many guards as she’s able to, and ultimately fall by her hands. This is a ruse, of course, allowing him to disable Gugulethu and “save” Sing Now!, using what little trust that garners to take the mogul out himself, retiring his role as a security guard and taking over the role of Sing Now!

This new role seems to fit Ouroboros just fine, given the way he pulls the strings of both the guards and his “rival” towards his favor. It’s an efficient strategy that uses his blunt, but durable body for cunning and scheming his way to victory. Thus, I’m giving this strategy an 8! Well done!

Moving onto Gugulethu, we have a similarly simple plan: take out the guards in an ever-growing storm, using the debris of furniture, trees, and even bodies to make the rising tides even more deadly. Of course this takes some setup, first by taking out the guards near her at the beginning, and moving her way to electrify everything she comes across. She traps doors and then knocks on them, prompting guards to get taken out just on virtue of investigating the danger, she has Act 2 eviscerate trees and branches to add more electrical fodder to her flood. Once built up, it becomes increasingly more difficult to avoid this “electrical flood”, guaranteed to take out anyone who comes into contact with the debris, only adding more with each fall. Finally, she gets to Sing Now!, dodging objects slided towards her and sending them back towards him with an electric touch. Finally, she takes out the mogul with a CO2 dive knife, ending him in a violent, yet swift manner.

This is a brutal strategy that builds upon its momentum fairly efficiently. It’s a simple strategy, as stated previously, but greatly effective. Thus, I’m going to be giving this strategy a 7! Well done!

Jojolity

As for Jojolities, I’ll be brief. As an assassin, Gugulethu is far from subtle, but that’s not what the match required. It asked for one to forge a smooth path to victory. From the way her storm builds up and keeps on going, she creates a devastating path to her opposition, but one that only benefits her and her missions. I’d argue that’s as efficient as one can ask for, thus I’m giving her Jojolity a 7! Well done!

Onto Ouroboros, it’s hard to be smoother than assimilating yourself into the opposition, socially manipulating your way into victory, even using your opponent’s inevitable advantages to get what you want. For that, I’m going to give his Jojolity an 8! Well done!