So this is my old, remade concept of nkd BG with new stuff added, when they released reverberating bracelet and conjure ice block got cheaper. Salaman hunter is my current wildcard, I keep him, cause of his low nora cost and range. the bg relies on counterable things, so if you encounter shimmering flower or distract often add circadian songmaster with bastion of will and water front This is my favourite bg of all times, not sure if it's comleted, but certainly isn't the best bg out there. the winner is of course stuff x2 so nkd, mobility, double sacred, and knockbacks. it can run without backfires but spells sometimes hurt the bg, therefore I try to backfire in the worst moment. I don't use gale + iceblock, cause it's inefficient, unless everythin is in perfect position. The bg is really fun and lets you do creative stuff. I used to run bubble too but now don't have space for it. Feel free to ask questions and post suggestions.
Reverberating bracelet. It gives sonicburst similar to flameburst (3 spaces knockback and distract) and void shield to any monk
Looks cool. Why double sacred temple? I personally really like firk paraform. You're also not running any northern wind discipline? Whats the rune you run double after call of the tundra?
Here is the Poxbase Link. https://poxbase.com/deck/CgPctcxbcxnCk8cq-c58cqBCz4CkkctFcwGs1s6=s3mS2Ys2Ls13s44s4Vs77RGE3K A bit confused with some of the upgrades. Would you mind laying them out for me and anyone else wondering. Wanderer is a notable one. Feels like it would be run in various ways.
Okay, I should explain some of the strategy, and thanks for doing poxbase link for me. Sorry I didn't do it before. So, double sacred is because I deploy it just before the fight, when you are positioned well (it might take time to learn how to use sacred with nkd champs) so that people can't use hex and other similar abilities due to premonition, that can hurt your valuable hp as well as making any future hammerstrike inneficient to use (you will still get hurt by some attacks, cause it reduces ap, but you will be able to move the next turn) and making festering wounds useless. I'm using two, because I like to have 20 nora cleansing aura, as well as relic-contester something stable through the whole game, making sure it's always out, sometimes in two different fronts. Reverberating bracelet which I use the most after iceblockis amazing cause it works with any monk that has 4 ap to spend on 3 range against opponents standing closeto any wall. The best use of reverberating bracelet is working on a mobile 7 speed, melee specialist, leap 3 ferren (which I run with stun for some utility, but you can try anything else on the second upgrade), cause leap and ap can let me position accordingly to knockback against some wall/font/iceblock. Ice block is the most used spell. It has 3 uses: I always use it when I attack with augur and that extra 15 damage lets me get a kill. Secondly, I use it when I need 5 damage to kill someone. Finally, I use it to combo with reverberating bracelet to, again, get a kill. Sometimes I use it with gale force, to do most damage I can, but only when it can hurt 2+ champions and everything is against the wall/will be positioned really well. Call of the tundra has usually the same use as Ice block, but you also can leash the yeti to deal extra damage, so use it when you have really important kill. Use swap on nkd champions, so that the opponent is against some wall/font and also here is the window to your creativity. Nohkan guide will provide more knockback utilities in form of summoned champions (Poor children, don't do it unless you really have to!) The rest is self explainatory I think, if you have more questions, feel free to ask. The rune you might want to try out too is Providence. If somebody stands exactly in augur's range and you have 5 ap, you can use hold the line, defensive strike and knockback someone into your further range to do double attack and double knockback (so he is thrown away from the font, or slammed against some wall).
I used to run firk paraform and it isn't said he is bad within this deck instead of thunderfist and with nohkan do/adaptation. The reason behind that is that you have void shield in reverb bracelet when you absolutely need it (i think it's over-estimated, now when also it got nerfed). I tried northern wind disciple as an aoe instead of ice storm but it doesn't give me the freedom of positioning and spending ap as I want (ap is really valuable and you always want to have 4 at the end of your turns). If you want to use it, I suggest running x2.
I run Augur with jolt/slam. Opportunistic could be run as well, but it costs too much nora for the most important champion in your deck, which you always wanna have out. Boghopper shaman with divine favor/ heal 3, but heal mass seems like a better way I will eventually go back to. Thunderfist with punish/nkd, but I'm not sure of this rune again. 7 speed is nice, but I have precision on khong monk and 7 speed on wanderer Chipped monk with seism/stone barrage. I don't need 1 space knockback here in a straight line. stone barrage is just so good. Wanderer is a guy which is always somewhere on the side, waiting till he can move in with his 8 effective speed and stun somebody/use bracelet. shadowstriker is really nice with posion 1 when he costs 70 nora and can contest side fonts 1v1 for ages. Khong monk is run with chilling discipline for maximum damage (his nuke deals 18 base damage for the first 3 hits. If you wanna run 2x northern wind discipline and some freeze, I'd run him with chilling discipline for global damage boost, but it's currently so weak that I totally resigned from it). He is second best rune after augur in the deck. I run guide with commander, so augur and khong deal about 20 base damage counting their overtimes. it's possible to make global +1 damage with nokhan guide if you run freezing discipline, but it doesn't happen so often, so dont even pay attention to it. Salaman hunter with shot 2 and precision for cheapness. negamage with dispel/wizard foe, but weaken spells is also a way to go if you like safety. (I will remove him first, because his range is really bad, but dispel can be good against champions like grintmaw bouncer)
https://poxbase.com/deck/CgPctcxnckqCk8cq-clic58cqBCz4CkkctFs6=S2Ys2Ls13s44S89s4VRGe1@E3K Here's an alternative. I put away tundra discipline, cause it's just against physical resistance wandering zombie/earth golem/groble rock eater, because the deck is heavy on this kind of damage. It's possible to kill rock eaters with pinger and thunderfist/paraform and blocking it with nkd, but is a lot of work lol.
