YMMV / Armello

• Awesome Art: The trailers for the game in particular are absolutely gorgeous and well animated, with many a fan asking for a full-on animated series.
• Base-Breaking Character: River. Her ability to deal 1 damage at the start of a fight isn't welcome by everyone in such a RNG-heavy tabletop game. Many assume that players who pick her will try to achieve a cheesy victory by attacking the King on the last turn.
• Broken Base:
  • "Banzai Runs," or more disparagingly, "suicide rats," where a player rushes to open up the castle and attack the king as quickly as possible - not to win, but to speed up the game. Some people hate them because they "violate the spirit of the game" or ends the game too quickly when they were doing well, others like them because it means a bad game can end quickly.
  • Various changes to certain cards have caused this. Most people think certain cards are op, while others are extremely bad (such as Torch) while some are just too situational to rely on (Spyglasses)
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome:
  • Most people tend to go for Kingslayer victories in some way. Prestige victories require you to wait out the timer and Spirit Stones rely off of RNG. Kingslayer victories can be much quicker (With or without "Banzai Runs"/"Suicide Rats"), so people generally try to play the more combat-oriented characters.
  • 6/6/6/3 is a fairly good stat alignment, with maybe one or two split between different stats. Most spells cost about 2-3 Spirit, so having 3 spirit is enough, while the others give you enough dice, health, and cards in your hand to burn in combat/perils and a good chance to find some useful equipment.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Sinvah Sorell, the weasel Warlock from the card of the same name, so much so that she (?) was added as The Cameo in another card later on.
  • Guppy, the frog Squire who was killed by bandits in the "Horrors and Heroes" trailer. Likewise, he was given more features in the game.
• Fan Community Nicknames: "Armellians"
• Fridge Brilliance: The symbol for Rot is a maggot curled into a circle. Guess where you find maggots?
• Good Bad Bugs: Until the 1.01 hotfix patch, the game's victory system was fairly inconsistent when it came to dealing with River's sniper shot against the King.
  • If River attacked the King with her sniper shot, she does not lose Prestige until combat was actually initiated.
  • Should River kill the King with the sniper shot, she would cause a Prestige victory if she was killed at any time during the game. If she never died in that game, Kingslayer or Rot victory was awarded as appropriate.
• Jerkass Woobie: Sylas of all characters could qualify. While his playstyle encourages the player to go aggressive and kill King's Guards and his emotes are anything but unpleasant, he has a justified reason in that the court murdered his village and left him Forced to Watch, over fishing.
• Low-Tier Letdown:
  • A few Treasures are particularly likely to prompt a groan from most players. Treasures are supposed to be very powerful, a few just don't live up to the standards. The Wyld Talisman sets your Rot to 0, but only as long as you're wearing it, and is only useful if you're going for a Kingslayer victory and have acquired a lot of Rot, but not enough to out-Rot the King. The Bane's Claw (not to be confused with the Game-Breaker Bane Blade) makes it so that a character wearing it cannot be attacked by Banes, it doesn't even prevent a Bane from spawning and forcing you out of a dungeon. Only the squishiest casters would ever want to use it. With the addition of the Explode Pool, the devs have attempted to buff these items slightly by making them give a sizable increase to said pool on top of their previous benefits, but even that was not enough to rescue them from the Scrappy Heap.
  • Volodar and Yordana tend to be seen as somewhat of this. Like most heroes with a low fight stat, they don't have an easy time fighting the King without rushing Rot and RNG. Because Volodar's passive only makes Banes attack nearby players, it's considered extremely situational. Yordana can apply Status Buff and debuffs, but most players see this as easy to ignore.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Thicc Wolf Hips^ExplanationMagna's Hartman Hips haven't gone unnoticed by the /r/Armello subreddit.
  • N E C C^ExplanationScarlet has a strangely long neck, which the game's subreddit also noticed, but definitely not in the same way as Magna's hips.
• Popular with Furries: Unsurprising considering Word of God has described the game's lore as Game of Thrones meets Kung Fu Panda.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
  • Mercurio and Zosha, thanks to a few changes made (giving everyone an extra body stat, adding new items and trickery cards) that made them more feasible.
  • Sylas. His original hero power (gain +1 sword for each guard killed) seemed counter-intuitive, but it made him virtually unstoppable if he was allowed to go on unopposed. When the Bandit Clan was released, it was changed to instead give him up to three guaranteed sword rolls based upon his bounty level, meaning it's still feasible to play Sylas as "clean" the entire game without being constantly hassled by King's Guards or players looking for some extra gold.
• That One Achievement: The 'Cry Us a River' achievement has (as of April 2018) a measly 0.3% completion rate. It requires River killing three opponents in a single turn using her talent only. Not only does it mean that you have to be lucky enough to have three opponents on the board with 1 Health, you must also find a way to be adjacent to all of them since her talent consumes one AP for each kill. Teleport, Strategist and Hot Rot Wine come in handy, but it still requires the blessings of RN Gesus in terms of card-drawing and heavy planning from the player themself. Or you could just assemble a party of friends with the explicit intention of helping each other get the achievement, and hold a game where everybody plays River and does nothing but bring themselves down to 1 health and converge at the same spot.
• That One Attack:
  • Assuming that he inflicts three Overkill damage points (also called Slaughter) on his opponent, Fang will not receive any damage in return, no matter how many attack dice his opponent rolled. This makes Fang a force to be reckoned with when he's on the offensive. What makes him so deadly is that the battle system has a much higher chance to cause an attack than a defense (half a chance to attack, 1/3 chance to miss, but only 1/6th of a chance to successfully defend under normal circumstances), which plays right into Fang's game since he makes the greatest use of his own attacks and has a really good chance of completely nullifying the opponent's attack. Without a huge bonus to defense and a high Body, prepare to die against Fang. A lot.
  • Bane Claw + the King's proclamation "Dark Army" = clear path to the King. But a "Dark Army" proclamation changes every guard on the field to a Bane. Clear quests and defeat enemies to gain enough Prestige, and that combination will almost guarantee victory without being accosted by all the guards at once due to the automatic warrant for getting into the castle.
  • One of the King's Proclamation will give everyone +1 rot. It's helpful for those going for a Rot victory, but for those who aren't? You get the negative consequences of Rot and none of the benefits.
• Viewer Species Confusion: Some thought that Volodar was actually a snake, or a Komodo Dragon - he's a monitor lizard. To be fair, Komodo dragons are a type of monitor.