🧪 Early Information on the April 2020 HOTM (Malosi)

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The game has specific definitions for what it considers status effects.

Everything that Malosi should block the target from casting is listed in the dropdown below:

Click to see all Status effects so far

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Buffs

|Status|Buff_Icon|Description|Overwritten|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|Attack Up| |Increased offense|
|Defense Up| |Increased defense|
|Protect| |Paladin talent activated, increased defense|
|Special Skill Defense| |Increased defense against special skill damage|
|Martial Prowess| |Significantly increased damage of normal attacks, stacks with other attack buffs (up to +160% attack max)|
|Wrath of Tundra| |Greatly increased damage of normal attack that only applies if enemy HP is higher than attacker. Stacks with other attack buffs (up to +170% attack max)|
|Critical Up| |Increased critical attack chance (x2 damage)|
|Berserk| |Increased offense, further increased with each hit taken (up to 5 increases)|
|Gambler Stance| |Offense greatly increased with reduced accuracy|
|Mystic Virtue| |Offense greatly increased with reduced accuracy, if enemy HP is higher than attacker|
|Attack Heal| |Heal x% of damage dealt each normal attack|
|Recover Up||Increases recovery of healing skills and status effects|
|HP Regenaration| |Recovers HP over set amount of turns|
|Mana Gain| |Mana gained increased|
|Mana Regeneration||Recover mana per turn|
|Mana Protection| |Resists new negative mana ailments ( ) and effects that reduce mana |
|Special Skill Protection| |Resists new status effects that block special skill activation ( )|
|Ailment Protection| |Resists new status ailments|
|Damage Share| |Damage is shared between allies with this status effect|
|Taunt||Prevents enemies from using Special Skills on the owners allies (including dispels)|
|Just a Flesh Wound!| |Chance to drop any received damage to 1 point|
|Counter| |Returns a counterattack per each direct hit|
|Mana Gain per Counter| |Recover mana for each counterattack, decreasing amount of mana recovered for each successive counterattack in the same turn|
|Reflect Holy| |Reflect all status effects and damage, and block other negative effects from Holy special skills|
|Reflect Ice| |Reflect all status effects and damage, and block other negative effects from Ice special skills|
|Dark defense up| |Increased defense against dark element attacks and offensive skills|
|Holy defense up| |Increased defense against holy element attacks and offensive skills|
|Ice defense up| |Increased defense against ice element attacks and offensive skills|
|Nature defense up| |Increased defense against nature element attacks and offensive skills|
|Fire defense up| |Increased defense against fire element attacks and offensive skills|
|Lucky Nine| |Moderate chance to dodge special skills. If dodge is successful, user generates an attacking fox minion that recovers small amount of mana each turn (Minions do not count as status effects)|
|Hide in Shadows| |Chance to dodge damaging special skill and gain moderate amount of mana. Chance is higher the more damage the special skill deals|
|Immortal| |If the owner is defeated, they are resurrected the next turn with all status effects removed|
|Zombie Blessing| |If the blessed owner is defeated, they are reborn as a zombie the next turn with 100% health, 500 attack, 500 defense, and Poison Bite special skill.|
|Bruise Bro| |If the owner is defeated while this status effect is active, they are revived in Chameleon mode|
|Chameleon Mode||Increased attack, decreased defense, special skill replaced by Fierce Slash|*can’t be overwritten
|Ghost form| |Removes all buffs and ailments; moderate increase to normal attack; can’t gain mana; immune to all attacks, special skills, and status effects|*can’t stack with any other status effect
|Elemental Link Atk+Def up| |Gives a small attack and defense boost to all heroes of the same colored element|
|Elemental Link Recover HP| |Recovers a small amount of HP per turn to all heroes of the same colored element|
|Elemental Link Weakness Defense up| |Gives a moderate defense boost against elemental attacks that the colored hero is weak to (indicated), to all heroes of the same colored element|
|Elemental Link Mana up| |Slightly increases mana generation for all allies of the same colored element|
|Element Link Critical up| |Small increase of critical strikes chance (x2 damage) for all allies of the same colored element|

Ailments

|Status|Ailment_Icon|Description|Overwritten|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|Attack Down| |Decreased offense|
|Decreasing Attack Down| |Decreased offense, further decreased by -4% with each hit taken (up to 5 attack reductions)|
|Heal Reset Attack Down| |Attack decreased, turn duration reset if healed|
|Defense Down| |Decreased defense|
|Decreasing Defense Down| |Decreased defense, further decreased by -4% with each hit taken (up to 6 defense reductions)|
|Heal Reset Defense Down| |Defense decreased, turn duration reset if healed|
|Health Drain| |Steals health over a number of turns|
|Recover Steal| |Health recovered is stolen by caster|
|Deep Wound| |Reduces healing received|
|Sargasso’s Curse| |Reduces healing received|
|Mana down| |Mana gained decreased|
|Mana block| |Blocks mana gain|
|Mana Steal| |Mana gained is stolen by caster|
|Silence| |Blocks special skill use|
|Mindless Attack| |Skill replaced by mindless attack; targets an ally when mana is full, with chance to miss|
|Spell Slayer| |Receives damage when mana is full, mana is halved when full|
|Blind| |Reduced accuracy on offensive attacks and skills|
|Dark defense down||Decreased defense against dark attacks and offensive skills|
|Holy defense down| |Decreased defense against holy attacks and offensive skills|
|Ice defense down||Decreased defense against ice attacks and offensive skills|
|Nature defense down| |Decreased defense against nature attacks and offensive skills|
|Fire defense down||Decreased defense against fire attacks and offensive skills|
|Burn| |Receives damage over a number of turns|
|Poison| |Receives damage over a number of turns|
|Water||Recieves damage over a number of turns|
|Sand Twister| |Receives damage over a number of turns|
|Moonlight Serenade| |Receives damage over a number of turns, starting low and increasing with each turn|
|Bitten| |Receives damage over a number of turns, damage increases if afflicted with this ailment again|
*damage over turns increased if afflicted by caster again
|Wound| |Activated by normal attacks from Barbarians; receives damage over a number of turns|

Malosi should not prevent these things:

• Direct Damage
• Mana reductions
• Minion summoning
• Direct Healing
• Dispels
• Cleanses
• Removals

EDIT: I’ve also edited the main post to include this reference. Hopefully that clears up the confusion!