Do Minions hit opponents as the same color as their host? Do they have strong/weak/neutral damage?

[RudoDewbie]

Do minions hit opponents as the same color as their host or the heroes they are guarding?

[zephyr1]

My understanding is that Minions are indeed the same color as their hosts, and damage is calculated accordingly.

Searching around a bit seems to confirm that:

@Kerridoc

A strike from a minion counts as normal damage from its host hero. You can see this effect easily with the “Strong” messages a Delilah minion on Gravemaker generate when hitting a green minion.

@Mariamne

Minion “takes” the color of his heroes.
Melia is yellow. Normally, Thorn minion is yellow and hits a purple target. Probably do less damages on red target.

@Gryphonknight

Playing with Thoth, the minions count as colored troops so they do double damage versus a weak color ( yellow for Thoth ) and half damage versus a strong color ( purple for Thoth ).

@Gryphonknight

They do not get combo bonuses, or color stacking ( which would make them much more popular against titans), but they get strong, neutral and weak attacks.

@Gryphonknight

Coding note: I suspect the Devs are just using the matching tile damage subroutine and have simply tweaked the attack power input.

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Bonus Related Topic

Minions also inherit the Talents of their host.

@Kerridoc

I have definitely seen a Gravemaker minion create a Wound (1 HP/round!). I didnt video it. By extension, Thoth’s minions can Delay.

@Kerridoc

I;ve had a Delilah minion on GM proc Wound, so i’m confident that an attacking minion on Sabina can proc Delay.

[RudoDewbie]

WOW! Thanks Zephyr! This is all great info.

[zephyr1]

You’re welcome!

[Olmor]

Sorry for hijacking your topic, but I also have a minion related question.

Do different colored minions cascade?
If yes, to a maximum even higher than 3 per dude?

Would be cool to have a minion caster, where the minions would inherit the color of the minion stuffed heroes.

[zephyr1]

@Olmor

Would be cool to have a minion caster, where the minions would inherit the color of the minion stuffed heroes.

If I’m understanding what you mean, this is how it works currently.

If, for example, Delilah casts, the Minions she creates have the color (and talents) of each of their owners, not of Delilah. So a Minion made by Delilah on Grimm would be blue and have a chance to proc Wound, for example.

@Olmor

If yes, to a maximum even higher than 3 per dude?

Minions are normally capped to 3 per hero, with each subsequent new one replacing the oldest one.

I did see something the other day where someone thought they’d seen more show up, which may have been a bug.

[Olmor]

Thx. Exactly like expected.

[Kerridoc]

I’ve heard rumors of four Thorn Minions.

[zephyr1]

If that’s possible, I wonder how normal minions would work with them.

[Olmor]

Possibly there are several glitches and small bugs between similar specials and talents. But nothing harmful or that couldn’t be solved within the next few updates.