I think 1x ninja mana (5 tiles) doesn’t do anything… because you’ll have to activate it in the first 2-3 turns, when Aether Power is in effect.
If you wait to recharge 2x, 3x mana, he is like other heroes; and even at full mana, he is not as strong as expected (the above example is similar to Kemény - at average speed - ~2x mana)
I choose which hero I fear to face; Ninjas are not among them.
I would like to balance the discussion. Here XiaoTu can counter 2 members of the current rank2 having minion effects (Phorcys), and Heal Over Time (Hathor), but he would need to fire before both Hathor and Phorcys and ChangE (which will be super difficult, perhaps possible with mana-booster supporters) 
(In fact, Cupido can also counter them if he fire first )
The game cards now are very complex with new generations of heroes and I am loaded with information
I went for Xiaotu - I wanted her so bad in the portal - so why wouldn’t I want her now? I love her artwork.
I agreed with your suggestion and great advice on the selection. When my alliance ask who should the select i send them to your link.
That´s quite a bit of a stretch… You can bet you are not firing an avg speed hero before a fast speed tank and Porky is a taunter, Xia does nothing to stop that, only a minor side effect of the minions which mainly are a meat shield can be prevented. She doesn´t have to fire first, but she does have to be alive by the time he fires, which already is a bit of an assumption…
But a meta defense is hardly a team to look at when talking about SE heroes, odds of winning with old heroes like we are talking about here are generally very low.
The only SE hero I would have a minimum of confidence to be a useful hero against this team would be bubbles (with a bard and a god to fire in 6 tiles) as you have some chance to manage 6 tiles before the tank fires. And it seems they have the original version of Hathor so you actually can stop her with bubbles in that case. Still not great odds, but better than anything else I can come up with among the SE heroes.
Feel free to fear whomever you like, but none of the 20 heroes in this SE is worth being feared on a def team. Anne was a year ago or so, but today, I am happy if it´s only Anne and none of the real monsters… the only thing I would have any respect for would be a Snow White in a rush defense, if that´s the argument for who to pick… Anyway if any of them seem fear inspiring to you I guess you have a rather small roster (nothing wrong with that), but I personally would try to boost a small roster by picking a generalist hero with lots of uses, rather than a specialist.
All other interesting heroes in this SE are offense heroes, so it´s rather irrelevant what people think about them on defense.
His name is pronounced (force-EEs).
Is it now… I like Porky Or maybe Porquie? Porker? Anyway he´s a pig to play against.
If I wanted to be correct, I would spell it correctly.
And as far as pronunciation goes I very much disagree with your emphasis on the last syllable, it makes no sense at all. If you had said force-is I could have gone along with it. As in “the force is with you Luke”, not “the force IS with you Luke”.
It’s a Greek name and the YS at the end is pronounced EEs.
At 2800 range I still run into a lot of Lady of the Lakes on defense. We just keep getting owl towers not ninja. I picked Xiaotu.
Just go to the wikipedia page and look up the proper pronunciation (and annotation while you are at it) instead of making up your own.
I’ve looked it up on Google and from what I’ve seen and heard, the pronunciation changes depending on which language you’re speaking.
I’m a native English speaker and it’s pronounced force-EEs.
Alright so I change my statement from you making stuff up, to Americans butchering foreign languages.
Now I am not fluent in ancient Greek and even less in modern Greek, and since there isn´t any 2000 year old Greek dude I know that I could ask, even my old Latin teacher is long dead, who I would have trusted to give a proper approximation… anyway it means I cannot give any 100% correct answer, but I think I know enough to take bets that this is not even close to the actual pronunciation of the word. Which btw is an easy bet as I don´t think many Americans ever pronounce a word correctly that isn´t American.
Anyway back on topic: I have to admit I didn´t try hard, but I can´t come up with any 2 syllable word in any of those languages that has the emphasis on the second syllable. That´s just not how it works, btw not even in English.
Take the similar sounding word force. One force, two … forces or forcEES ?
One horse, two horsEEs?
One house, two housEEs?
Can´t think of any other similar sounding 2syllable words right now.
I admit English is the opposite of a phonetic language and 3 examples don´t make a rule, and some exception may well exist in English, but there certainly is no reason to believe that PhorcEEs should make any sense at all.
Seems a nice bit of useful background information, and a potential stepping off point just to agree to differ…!?
Who said that anything regarding speaking words, especially in English, had to make sense?
That seems based.
But at least Americans, like other people, that I’ve known might accept a possibile veracity of an academically accepted pronounciation when it’s presented to them, and not, out of hand, reject academia as making " no sense at al". There’s not much in English that does make sense.
wtg at derailing your own thread.
English is exceptional.
Ah yes, I have been missing your comedy! And since SE is over we may as well misuse this thread for some more entertainment!
yes Americans are famously known for accepting scientific facts!
btw care to present academic facts on the topic?
The only thing presented so far is a google search stating that pronunciation depends on the speakers language, which I have accepted as evidence of the scientific fact that Americans butcher foreign languages, and then use that fact as an excuse to not pronounce words correctly.
The claim alone that a google search is academic proof of anything is right up your alley of course, and it does not surprise me that you have not yet realized that a google search can be used to “prove” anything as well as it´s opposite depending on personal preference. I take it, you also hail from the country that gave the world the gift of “alternative facts”?
True that, as I have stated above. Shall we now take that as an excuse to always go for the most nonsensical option and call it a fact? It does usually come down to that wherever you are involved…
I said English, then sent you a video of several people from the UK pronouncing the name. The English language changes the pronunciation of names, not Americans.
Not all Americans are idiots, but it can be fine when some are. My advice is to try to find ways to agree to differ.
It makes sense to people all around the world, to look at a word and to make reference to the way it’s pronounced, or at least have respect for the cultural way that the originators of the word may have done so.
Are you Greek? In that case I will respect your pronunciation of the word. Or if you can find any Greek person to tell me to pronounce it PhorcEEs. Until that happens I will laugh at it.
BTW I still haven´t heard a single 2 syllable word from you that is pronounced with an emphasis on the end, should be easy, if all the world does it, no?
How about sofAA, ovEEN , blankEET or curtAIIN ? Just because I see those in front of me right now…
I call it 4sis
I called him Proc-sis…IDC, this is the correct pronunciation and I’m sticking with that!
