History Characters / SlayTheSpire

* FighterMageThief: The clear Mage of the main trio, with complex cards and additional ability and more potential than its simpler counterparts.

* EyeBeam: Can fires blue laser from its eye spot.

* ActionBomb: After two turns of attacking with Slam, on the third turn, the Exploder will always, well, explode, kiling itself and dealing 30 damage that ignores status effects, either positive or negative.

* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: In an interesting twist, the spikers' damaging attack remains a consistant 7 (9 in higher ascensions) which is pretty low, even compared to the other shapes. What they do to become more lethal is increase their Thorns condition to cause more damage to you when they get hit.

* TentacledTerror: Whatever it is attached to must be ''very large'', and can break armour effortlessly.

* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: Lagavulin only has one attack, but every few turns it stops to inflict a debuff against your armour and attack. If you don't kill it quickly, or have some way to keep pace, your ability to hurt it or block it will slowly be faded to nothing.

* ManipulatingTheOpponentsDeck: Will add wounds to your deck everytime they attack, starting at 1 on lower ascensions, but going up to 3 later on.

* StoneWall: In attack mode, it alternates between powerful attacks and high amounts of block; if dealt enough (unblocked) damage, it switches to defense mode, instantly gaining armour while it deploys thorns that hurt you whenever you attack, then switching modes again after a few turns. Getting around its defences while still consistently protecting yourself is key to beating it quickly - striking hard on the right turn to make it switch modes, inflicting passive damage using poison or orbs, or simply swiftly overpowering it.

* ShoutOut: Its Hyper Beam 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 on the. turn afterwards to recharge.

* RandomDropBooster: The function of N'loth's Gift. It triples the chance to receive rare cards as a monster fight reward. For reference, the base chance of that happening is 9%.

* CombatAndSupport: The Spire Shield deals more upfront damage while the Shield supports with raising large amounts of Block for both combatants.

* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Wears a rather prominent skull with spines still attached.

* AchillesHeel: The Boot finds its niche here as it forces your attacks to do 5 damage to it while it's Intangible.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: You fight them in the unique Surrounded condition, where you need to consider who you've attacked last before ending your turn. Attacks from behind will deal more damage.

* PercentDamageAttack: Its Divider attack scales against your current health, effectively halving it[[note]]more specifically, it attacks 6 times with damage equal to 1/12th of your HP rounded down, plus 1[[/note]]. Thankfully, Hexaghost only uses it once.

* TurnsRed: At half health, he'll rid himself of debuffs and gain a significant increase in strength.

* BigBad: Implied to be sentient and very, very malevolent, and at the [[{{Pun}} heart]] of the corruption twisting the Spire, its inhabitants, and the post-apocalyptic world the heroes inhabit.

* NonActionBigBad: Played straight before Act 4 is unlocked, but subverted when all keys are gathered, being very much active, very threatening... and [[SNKBoss quite a bit more difficult than everything before it.]]

* MeaningfulName: Well, halfway. Donu is a donut, but Deca is an octahedron.

* DeathByAThousandCuts: Her shiv builds run on this. Shivs do low damage, but boy howdy can you produce a ''lot'' of them, and if looped properly, will allow you to draw 0-cost shivs to chuck at the enemy ''perpetually'', allowing you to one-turn-KO even the FinalBoss! [[spoiler:(Not the Time Eater or the TrueFinalBoss, though: the former forcibly ends your turn after you play 12 cards, and the latter has a cap of taking 300 damage per turn and has 700 hp.)]]

* MasterPoisoner: Since the Watcher update, the Silent has an exclusive access to Poison, which damages an enemy through their block. Her arsenals includes multiple ways to directly poison the enemy, envenoming her attacks, or multiplying one on the target. She can also find Poison Potion to toss at her enemy, and has an access to relics that help her with inflicting poison as well.

* AlienBlood: His "burning blood" is more of a metaphor, mostly, but it can be upgraded to "Black Blood" that regenerates even more health.

* BoringButPractical: The Silent, Defect and Watcher can be very unwieldy and their large variety of strategies can make it difficult to build towards specific decks. The Ironclad on the other hand is much simpler, and thus his deck archetypes are much easier to achieve. While he won't reach the insane potential of the other characters as easily, he can unleash some devastatingly powerful combos if built right. Case in point, it's widely believed that the single strongest combo in the game is the Block stacking strategy enabled by his Barricade card. Where the Silent unleashes dozens of knives or the Defect rotates out orbs to buff himself to high heaven, Ironclad simply stacks his block to extremely high levels and becomes [[SimpleYetAwesome functionally invincible.]]
* CastFromHitPoints: Has various BloodMagic cards that also costs HP to use, or give you a powerful buff at the cost of some HP every turn. A card named Rupture [[PainAndGain increases your attack damage every time you lose HP from these cards]], and you can build a deck around hurting yourself to gain more strength and regain lost health with [[LifeDrain Reaper]] or his starter relic.

* EyesAlwaysShut: Due to being blind. They also help establishing her as a spiritual character.

* UnstoppableRage: Wrath stance… is actually an aversion. While doubling damage dealt is incredibly powerful, doubling damage taken means that enemy could very well kill you on their next turn. It is '''HIGHLY''' recommended to leave Wrath before ending your turn.

* ManipulatingTheOpponentsDeck: The mooks that the Bronze Automaton spawns steal the cards with the highest rarity from your drawpile, refusing you access to them until you either win the battle or kill the mooks.

** 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 punishes slow and turtling decks and the artifact charges reduce the effectiveness of debuffs.

* TrueFinalBoss: Gather all three keys (recalling the Ruby Key at a Rest Site, taking the Sapphire Key from a chest in place of a relic, and defeating a souped-up Elite for the Emerald Key) before confronting the heart, and you'll be able to take it on.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating
-->'''Face of Cleric flavor text:''' Everyone loves Cleric.

Possibly the head of the avian cult that infests the Spire, the Awakened One appears to be [[DeityOfHumanOrigin a cultist that has fully transformed into a transcendentally powerful bird creature.]] The Awakened One punishes Power-heavy decks, and has a TurnsRed mode once it hits zero health the first time.

* CreepyCrows: An evil crow god.

* TurnsRed: Once its health drops to zero, it'll go dormant for a turn. Then it Awakens, and gains a brand new health bar.

A woman from the Swamp who has come to avenge her tribe, who have been slaughtered by the monsters pouring forth from within the spire. Begins with five Strikes, five Defends, 1 Survivor, and 1 Neutralize.\\\

* BlobMonster

* CastFromHitPoints: Has various BloodMagic cards that also costs HP to use. A card named Rupture increases your attack damage every time you do this, and you can build a deck around hurting yourself to gain more strength and regain lost health with [[LifeDrain Reaper]] or his starter relic.

One of the three shape enemies found in the Beyond. Capable of dazing their oponents

* CombatTentacles: Will attempt to constrict you as one of is moves.
* StatusEffects: Can inflict the unique status, "Constrict", which causes you to take damage at the end of your turn.

A heavily-armored knight and a squishy cleric who always appear together.

* ManEatingPlant
* OurHydrasAreDifferent

* WhyAmITicking: [[LudicrousGibs Corpse Explosion]] causes an enemy afflicted with it to blow up and deals damage to all the other enemies equal to their max HP.

** The infamous Claw card is a free attack that has its damage increased on every use, and it increases damage of '''all''' Claw cards in your deck. A fun build is to have a lot of Claw cards and card draw and watch what was once ScratchDamage turn into 0 cost 50 damage cards.

* 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.

* SwordandFist: Staff and fist, but close enough!

* EyesAlwaysShut: It is the only slime in the game human-like eyes, but they are always kept shut.

* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: ZigZagged: While a lot of the Watcher's cards suggest this with cards like Vigilance, Nirvana, Inner Peace, and Insight, a number of her Wrath cards like Eruption, Tantrum, Simmering Fury, and Indignation also imply that the Watcher is not necessarily always in harmony with her spiritual peace. This implies that the Watcher is either not so enlightened, or that inner peace and goodwill [[EnlightenedAntagonist isn't a requirement for enlightenment in this universe]]. Made worse by a card like [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Reach Heaven, which produces a powerful attack card Through Violence.]]

* Time Master: Scry allows her to see the future and effectively chose her next draw and Vault allows her to take an entire extra turn, an ability reminiscent of the Time Eater's capacity to end the player's turn early.

* SimpleStaff: Carries a long staff with some sort of carved eye at the tip. Most of her attacks involve her hitting enemies with the staff.

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

* NiceHat: Wears a small bowler hat.

* KnifeNut: Most of her attacks involve knives. Stabbing you with knives, tossing knives, tossing a [[MoreDakka lot of knives]], poisoning you... by stabbing you with a knife, etc. The card art for Grand Finale, Die Die Die and Infinite Blades demonstrates that the entire inside of her cloak is lined with knives.

* KnifeNut: They don't carry daggers into battle, but a certain event shows that inductees into the cult get a Ritual Dagger. The Ritual Dagger becomes stronger from each successful kill, but is exhausted if the player uses it.

[[quoteright:259:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/silent_3.png ''A deadly huntress from the foglands. Eradicates foes with daggers and poisons'']]

* DeathByAThousandCuts: Her shiv builds run on this. Shivs do low damage, but boy howdy can you produce a ''lot'' of them, and if looped properly, will allow you to draw 0-cost shivs to chuck at the enemy ''perpetually'', allowing you to one-turn-KO even the FinalBoss! [[spoiler:(Not the TrueFinalBoss, though: that one has a cap of 300 damage per turn and 700 hp.)]]

The Watcher's unique mechanic is her stances: Calm, which grants her bonus energy when she leaves it, Wrath, in which she deals and receives twice as much damage, and Divinity, in which she gains a large bonus energy and deals '''tripled''' amount of damage. Managing your stance properly is a key to play the Watcher to her full potential.

* 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.

** And even if you debuff its strength to cripple its Blood Shots, it stills has its Echo attack that hits for a huge amount of damage.

* TrueFinalBoss: Bring all three relics before confronting the heart, and you'll be able to take it on.