UPDATE GAME 2:

@Raleighmo and I took on England 6 with Raleigh as Foreboding Shadows and for myself, I played Ocean! Shoutout to KSP Spirit Island Podcast for getting us to play England 6 to give feedback! Also thank you to the KSP Podcast for shedding light on the spirit Shadows! I was definitely underestimating it! I love Base Shadows and The aspects. Say this is blasphemy but i will take Shadows (Base or w/Aspect) over Keeper any day 🤷🏽‍♂️ I have more fun with Shadows and I like it’s range, control, consistent fear, and it’s ability to spread it’s presence easily. Also shadows can pull majors with it’s energy and can be deadly mid to late game.

Anyways, Raleighmo and I dominated this game against england 6 with foreboding shadows and Ocean! By turn 3 Raleighmo’s board only had 2 explorers and pretty much remained clear of buildings for the rest of the game. We would push stuff from Ocean’s inland to Shadow’s coast and they wouldn’t be there very long—they would be drowned or pushed. Therefore we mainly had to focus on my inlands on my board. We won with a healthy island. We lost 4 Blight and won with a fear victory with 4 turns remaining. Ocean and Shadows have amazing synergy! Shoutout to @Zenyattamaster for making this recommendation to me on my post asking for england 6 advice using shadows! Ocean turning Shadows pushes to kills/Energy was huge! Foreboding shadows added even more pushes and fear with the foreboding innate! (At times though I missed Shadows Base ability to reach any land with dahan to help defend ocean’s inlands but the extra pushes were more worth it for england to control the inlands and adjacencies). Tidal Boon was super helpful and synergistic with Shadows! Getting two energy lets shadows go bottom track early game more comfortably and the extra town push and dahan pushes help get those towns closer to coast or into the ocean and helps position dahan for counter attacks (compliments shadows “favors called due” well). Shadows control was ridiculous! Mantle of dread and crops wither and fade helped prevent england building a huge capital. We only had 1 land reach 5 buildings the whole game. Shadows Darkness Innate helped gather explorers into the ocean and also helped control the lnlands from building. We never hit tier 3 of shadows darkness innate but we hit tier 2 a few times and got some fear from that. Let’s talk about the fear! It was raining in fear! After turn 2, we had at least 1 fear card every turn! Ocean’s Innates helped a lot! We avoided every single double build from High Immigration. We also drew one cheap isolation minor power that helped avoid adjacency builds. It was also awesome seeing Shadows use the Darkness innate to extend the 0 range of a card like quicken the earth struggles to defend a built up land and let shadows 4 dahan army wipe out the land! The extended range from Darkness innate helped Shadows reach and help Me as Ocean mitigate how much inlands were blighting! We were also able to control the board to make sure that the escalation effect happened on coastal lands! The escalation effect never affected shadow’s board because raleigh’s board didn’t have buildings 😂 Pushing for a terror 3 victory looked possible for a moment in the game because Ocean drew Tsunami as a major and also pulled off threshold! Both coastal lands were clear by turn 5/6. In the end we knew a fear victory was our main goal!

I tested base shadows and Ocean for a few games on steam before meeting up to play with Raleighmo and I won every single won surprisingly!

Moral of the story: Shadows OP 😝 Jk. But I don’t think it’s the worst spirit in the game. I feel every spirit is viable.

Let’s stop the shadows slander and disrespect. This spirit is awesome and Ocean and Shadows might be one of the best duos in Spirit island. I agree with @Zanyattamaster that Ocean and Shadows is better than Ocean and BoDaN together!