History Characters / SlayTheSpire

* AwesomeYetImpractical: The Defect can put on an impressive show, using tons of self-buffing Scratch attacks with Scrape to spam even more, or calling down ten lightning strikes per turn. Some complicated combos make the character exceptionally effective, but you're usually not going to [[LuckBasedMission get the right cards]] to make these synergies work as well as something the Ironclad's buffs or the Silent's poison.

* LightningBruiser: The Defect has the potential to be this. It has a decent amount of health, good defense via Frost orbs, and decent damage via Lightning orbs, Dark orbs, powerful attacks like Sunder and Streamline, and [[GatheringSteam Claw]]. However, the Defect can also veer into two extremes, either by [[StoneWall becoming an impenetrable glacial fortress]] with Frost orbs and Focus, or by [[GlassCannon evaporating all of the enemies before they can retaliate]].

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* FlunkyBoss: Fights along a red and a blue slaver on their elite fight. The colloseum fight includes them and a gremlin nob, but the nob is not exactly just a mook.

* JackOfAllTrades: Corrupt Heart has ways to counter almost anything you throw at it:

* GlassCannon: The more damage you do to it each turn, the weaker its next attack will be.

* UniqueEnemy

* AttackAttackAttack: Its first turn will be spent gaining ''Enrage'', which will make it stronger whenever you play a Skill, including most cards that block. It turns the rest of the fight into a race to see who can AttackAttackAttack the other to death first.

* {{Golem}}

* AstroidsMonster: Large Slimes split into two medium Slimes when they reach half health.

* GradualGrinder: The Silent usually slowly wearing her enemies down with poison and a lot of knives, while ensures that they would be too weak to fight back with a vast number of StatusEffects in her arsenal. With proper support however, she can becomes a terrifying GlassCannon that can kill even an enemy with 999 health by turn two.

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** Judgement, a Watcher card, sets an enemy's HP to 0 if they have 30 or less HP, completely ignoring block, which kills the Spheric Guardian at any point it's used since the guardian's Max HP is lower than 30.

* NonDamagingStatusInflictionAttack: They can use an attack that does nothing but adds two Dazed cards to your draw pile, which starts off harmless but quickly becomes maddening the longer the battle goes on.

* AchillesHeel: The Defect card Melter, which removes all block on an opponent and deals 10 damage. As its only defense was its huge amount of block and ability to pile it on very quickly, it's very easy to take it out once this card has been played. Melter even shows a destroyed Spheric Guardian on its art.

* OurMonstersAreWeirder: A GiantEnemyCrab hiding inside what looks like a giant broken ocarina. Or possibly a mask with [[EyesDoNotBelongThere too many eyeholes]], or the skull of some other unknown behemoth. And apparently, it's named after a whiskey.

* BigGood: Can be considered one in this game, as she seeks to destroy the Spire that has corrupted the land.

* HPToOne: Can give the player the ''Neow's Lament'' relic, which would set the HP of all enemies on the first three battle to 1. It even works on bosses! …If you are lucky enough to reach one without the relic running out first, that is.

* SapientCetaceans: However, it is unclear whether she is a whale, possesses a whale, or takes the form of one.

A sleepy behemoth resembling a hermit crab that moved into a bone-white ocarina.

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[[folder: Sentry]]
A strange, floating metallic contraption that wanders the lower areas of the Spire in search of intruders.

* DegradedBoss: Initially appears in a group of three in act 1 as an elite encounter, but can be found later in act 2 with a Spheric Guardian as a regular enemy.
* ManipulatingTheOpponentsDeck: Sentries alternate between regular attacks and adding two useless Dazed cards to your deck.
* NonDamagingStatusInflictionAttack: They can use an attack that does nothing but adds two Dazed cards to your draw pile, which starts off harmless but quickly becomes maddening the longer the battle goes on.

!! Act II Elites

[[folder: Book of Stabbing]]
One of several seemingly sentient books of ancient lore left among the Spire's ruins. Unlike others that you can encounter, the Book of Stabbing has no interest in trying to drive you to madness with its knowledge. No, it just wants to stab you. A ''lot''.

* BladeSpam: Its preferred method of attack is to stab you with many small, rapid strikes in a single turn. It starts with 6 stabs per turn, and that number goes up the longer the battle goes on.
* BooksThatBite: A much more actively hostile example than most, as just encountering it is enough to earn its wrath, and it won't rest until either you or it are dead.
* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: The longer the fight with it goes on, the more attacks per turn it can make.
* ManipulatingTheOpponentsDeck: The Book of Stabbing miniboss adds a useless Wound card into your deck each time you take damage from it... which is an issue, since it attacks with a BladeSpam of at least six individually weak attacks each turn, and all of them can potentially add a Wound to your deck.

* InvincibilityPowerUp: TheDefect's Buffer card will completely stop the next single attack (2 if the card is upgraded).

** They can do an attack that deals no damage but applies 'Hex' to your character- every time you play a card other than an attack, a useless Dazed card is added to your draw pile.

* NonDamagingStatusInflictionAttack: The most notable thing about it is that on its first turn it inflicts the 'Confused' status on your character, which randomizes the cost of the cards in your deck.
* ShoutOut: Its Tail Whip attack is one to the move of the same name from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. In ''Pokemon'' it lowers the opponent's defense by a stage; here, it inflicts Vulnerable on you.

* AchillesHeel: The Defect card Melter, which removes all block on an opponent and deals 10 damage. As its only defense was its huge amount of block and ability to pile it on very quickly, its very easy to take it out once this card has been played. Melter even shows a destroyed Spheric Guardian on its art.

One on several seemingly sentient books of ancient lore left among the Spire's ruins. Unlike others that you can encounter, the Book of Stabbing has no interest in trying to drive you to madness with its knowledge. No, it just wants to stab you. A ''lot''.

A shapeshifting [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot automaton-seed-bird-thing.]] The Guardian shifts between an attack and defense mode, controlled by how much damage the hero does to it. In attack mode it deals heavy damage and inflicts debuffs. In defense mode it has weak attacks, but is protected by its [[CollisionDamage sharp hide.]]

* ManipulatingTheOpponentsDeck: The Hexaghost adds Burn cards to your deck when it attacks, which deal take up space and deal ScratchDamage if you end your turn with them in your hand.

* MooksAteMyEquipment: Its two minions will steal the two cards with the highest rarity in your deck that you haven't drawn yet- if the draw pile is empty, they will steal from your discard pile. You gain your cards back after winning the battle, but can get them back early by killing the minions.

* ShoutOut: Its hyperbeam attack is a reference to the move of the same name from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. Both hit extremely hard, but require the user to do nothing turn afterwards to recharge.

A higher member of the bird cult whose signature move is to inflict every single debuff at the same time (thankfully only once.) [[FlunkyBoss She also has minions she can repeatedly respawn and empower.]]

* AchillesHeel: The Silent card Corpse Explosion - which deals damage to every other enemy equal to the total HP of the monster which just died - makes this boss fight laughable as you only need to kill the one you used it on.

** Its Beat of Death buff deals a little amount of damage every time you play card, punishing spam deck and infinite combos. It also makes blocking less effective.

** The Heart also buffs itself every 3 turns starting from turn 4, gaining an ever-growing amount of strength and Artifact charges, improving the damage of its Beat of Death and gaining the dreadful Painful Stabs buff. And just when you thought that you could keep its Blood Shots at bay by debuffing its strength, the self-buff also removes the penalty. The constant scaling of the punishes slow and turtling decks and the artifact charges reduce the effectiveness of debuffs.
** And to further cement the Heart's status as a Master of All, it will use its first turn to debilitate you by throwing '''every''' basic debuffs at you and shuffling a copy of '''every''' status card in your deck.

* HPToOne: Can give the player the ''Neow's Lament'' relic, which would set the HP of all enemies on the first three battle to 1. It even works on bosses! …If you are lucky to reach one without the relic running out first, that is.

* HiddenDepths: One of his quote is "I used to be like you," implying that he was once an adventurer like the player.

A masked individual clad in feathered robes. Seemingly has a fascination with crows. Their unique ability is to apply a Ritual buff on themself, gradually increasing their Strength. This means that they will get stronger that longer the fight is. Fortunately, they do not block nor debuff you, making fighting against them rather straightforward. The player may find a Cultist potion, which will duplicate the buff -- as well as make them call out "Ca Caw!" themselves.\\\

* {{Cult}}: Members of a cult that worships crows. One event allows you to sneak into one of their cathedrals and steal either the knife they preform blood rituals with or a bunch of their money.

* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: They hit harder every turn. This becomes problematic when they appear with another enemy or as a group of three and you do not have good area damage, as you either have to focus the Cultist down before they gets dangerously strong, or kill the other enemy that will plague you with debuff and/or stronger burst of damage.

In Act 1, you may encounter two of them in a battle, or one of them alongside a Louse or a medium-sized Slime. They also appears in a group of three to battle you if you choose "Stomp" in the "Hypnotizing Colored Mushrooms" event.

* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: It can use Grow to gain Strength. If you leave it on its own for too long it can become problematic.
* PuppeteerParasite: It infest a body of a rodent, turning the carcass into a weapon.

A group of small gremlins. They comes in five variations; Fat Gremlin, which has a low-damage attack that inflicts Weak, reducing your damage; Mad Gremlin, which gains Strength every time it takes a hit; Shield Gremlin, which grants block to another enemy; Sneaky Gremlin, which attacks with a single, high-damage hit; and Wizard Gremlin, which takes two turns to charge up a devastating attack.

Greenish blobs that come in three different sizes each; small, medium and large. There are two types; Acid Slimes, which are lime-green and get more eyes as they grow in size, deal less damage but can apply Weak, and Spike Slimes, which are gray-green and always cyclopian, deal higher damage and specialize in Frail. The medium and large Slimes can stick Slimed status cards into your deck, which clog it up until they're removed with energy. At its largest size, the Slime will split apart when it loses half of its health, turning into two medium Slimes with health equal to what the large Slime had left when it split.

* StatusInflictionAttack: The Acid Slime's Corrosive Spit and Spike Slime's Flame Tackle add Slime status cards to your discard pile, filling up your draw pile with useless cards. They also have a Lick attack that inflicts a status depending on their type - Weak for Acid Slimes, and Frail for Spike Slimes.

* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: After the first two turns they have a chance each turn of using Drain, which increases the Chosen's strength by 3 while applying Vulnerable to the player.
* ManipulatingTheOpponentsDeck: The Chosen inflicts the Hex status on you, which adds a useless Dazed card to your deck each time you play a card that isn't an attack. This starts off harmless, especially since any in your hand are removed at the end of your turn, but if you don't end the fight quickly you'll find it almost impossible to get the cards you need to block her attacks or deal enough damage to get rid of her.

* MeaningfulName: One is a donut, the other is a dodecahedron.

* GradualGrinder: The Silent usually slowly wearing her enemies down with poison and a lot of knives, while ensures that they would be too weak to fight back with a vast number of StandardStatusEffect in her arsenal. With proper support however, she can becomes a terrifying GlassCannon that can kill even an enemy with 999 health by turn two.

* StandardStatusEffect: Can indirectly inflict Vulnerable on you, amplifying the damage you take.

* StandardStatusEffects: Fat Gremlins inflict Weak when they attack, and on higher Ascensions inflict Frail as well.

* StandardStatusEffects: Blue Slaver’s Rake inflicts Weak, and Red Slaver’s Scrape inflicts Vulnerable. Red Slaver can also use Entangle, which inflicts a debuff preventing the playing of attack cards for that turn.

* LightningBruiser: The Defect is generally this. It has a decent amount of health, good defense via Frost orbs, and decent damage via Lightning orbs, Dark orbs, powerful attacks like Sunder and Streamline, and [[GatheringSteam Claw]]. However, the Defect can also veer into two extremes, either by [[StoneWall becoming an impenetrable glacial fortress]] with Frost orbs and Focus, or by [[GlassCannon evaporating all of the enemies before they can retaliate]].

* CopyFighter

* FireIceLightning: Can channel [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]] orbs and [[AnIcePerson Frost]] orbS. The 'Fire' part comes from either [[CastingAShadow Dark]] orbs (which seem to have a rather fiery explosion) or [[PureEnergy Plasma]] orbs.

[[folder: Boss Slime]]
The biggest slime of them all, with a NiceHat just to drive home the point. Boss Slime is an [[AsteroidsMonster Asteroids-type]] boss, splitting repeatedly into other slimes every time it or they reach half health.

* CallingYourAttacks: Calls out "Slime... Crush!" when it uses its Slam attack.

* EyesAlwaysShut: It is the only slime in the game who even ''has'' eyes, but they are always kept shut.

* AnimalMotifs: Crow.
* {{Cult}}: Duh.

* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: The Cleric has a roughly 1/3 chance each turn of increasing the strength of it and the Centurion by 3.

A knight and cleric who always appear together.

* DamagerHealerTank: The Centurion fulfills the Tank role, defending the Mystic and dealing some damage, and the Mystic is the Healer who can heal them both.

A higher-ranking member of the bird cult than the cultists that are encountered on the lower level of the Spire, though they sometimes appear together. Rather than relying on brute strength, Chosen are adept at inflicting status effects on its opponents while buffing themselves.

* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: After the first two turns it has a chance each turn of using Drain, which increases the Chosen's strength by 3 while applying Vulnerable to the player.

* MixAndMatchCreatures: Its a combination of a snake and a gecko, having the overall body shape of a snake but a gecko's large bulging eyes and a set of forelimbs with large round toes.

* NonDamagingStatusInflictionAttack: They can do an attack that deals no damage but applies 'Hex' to your character- every time you play a card other than an attack, a useless Dazed card is added to your draw pile.

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[[folder: Spheric Guardian]]
One of the numerous artificial creatures created to defend the spire, this floating orb makes up for its pitiful HP stat with its huge amount of block.

* BooksThatBite: A much more actively hostile example than most, as just encountering it os enough to earn its wrath, and it won't rest until either you or it are dead.