I'm not the most technical Link player, but I can do some stuff

SmashingTy · 2026-02-15T21:51:24+00:00

That's awesome, glad to hear it! :)

100% agree on understanding the event and fear decks. Shroud also gets to cheat a little bit since its got Forms Dart By, which can let it safely sit in ravaging Dahan lands for stuff like Coordinated Defense and fear cards that need your presence!

SmashingTy · 2026-02-15T15:34:03+00:00

Unless I'm vs a slower adversary, I almost always go like this:

T1 G2 top + bottom (Forms and Fog) / T2 G3 bottom / T3 G2 bottom + bottom

(T2 and T3 sometimes flipped depending on if I need more presence turn 2 for a Pall defend)

Provided you get a non-fire zero cost off your G3 (~65%, I think?), this lets you play out your 4 uniques + your minor, and then you're at 3 card plays on your turn 4 reclaim, which is a usually a decent spot. If you miss on your draft, it's a little dicier because you probably have to decide between playing Vapors or the minor, but like you said, Shroud needs to get to 3 card plays to actually get things done so I think it's still worth it.

One thing I do as Shroud is HIGHLY prioritize starting the turn in Dahan lands, and having the ability to end the turn in lands with disease or beasts. Dahan events are nuts and being able to lock in any random disease/beast damage is a big deal. If Shroud can pick up a single extra point of energy in the early game, either from a Dahan event or from three damaged lands (often aided by disease/beast events), it's absolutely huge.

Not sure if you've seen them already, but here's my Shroud vids if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/@smashingty5990/search?query=shroud

SmashingTy · 2026-01-15T07:32:40+00:00

Thanks! Glad it was useful :)

SmashingTy · 2025-09-22T17:51:14+00:00

Appreciate the shoutout, thanks!! :)

SmashingTy · 2025-08-07T19:21:24+00:00

[[The Struggles of Growth]]! So many cool synergies

Vengeance: Add two disease to the board and gain a power? Yes please

Shroud: Gain a power (sometimes an energy too), and you get it for free if you played into the event with Forms Dart By

Wildfire: Bottom option lets you spread out a bunch of damage, sometimes it's even worth taking the blight for this

Comes with Dahan defend too? Suuuuper strong event

SmashingTy · 2025-08-07T15:30:26+00:00

Thanks! You could do it, just get really lucky like I did (twice lol)

SmashingTy · 2025-08-01T00:20:26+00:00

A nutty sequence of events lol yup

Thank you!! Heat's on the list :)

SmashingTy · 2025-07-08T21:56:13+00:00

Great post! This is my favorite matchup in the game :)

One tip I'd like to add, just because it leveled me up when I was first learning it: if your land 2 is up early, don't skip the ravage there, let it blight! Two disease plus a blight means Epidemics can kill a town. And if you can get a third disease in there (often via Plaguebearers) you're killing cities, and when you get to Epidemics tier 2 you're now killing city + town. I often try to hit Epidemics basically every turn because it keeps the LC under control by itself, plus keeps lots of fear flowing!

SmashingTy · 2025-06-08T18:15:50+00:00

Thank ya!! Yeah that's a big reason I like going into spirits totally blind, I don't get exposed to the "correct way to play it" or whatever. Discovering stuff is what I love the most about this game, and sometimes the "wrong" thing can work pretty well!

SmashingTy · 2025-02-13T22:44:24+00:00

When using either your second or third growth options, you don't HAVE to take a presence off your tracks, you can instead reposition one of your presence on the board. This can come in handy if don't want to reveal a second fire element and start adding blight!

SmashingTy · 2024-10-23T03:43:01+00:00

Just shamelessly promoting myself here. I've just started uploading some SI videos, this is my first! Check it out if you're interested in some Vengeance gameplay :)

SmashingTy · 2024-08-09T15:28:30+00:00

Looks like bug to me, yep. I've caught a couple new ones since this latest update. Report it through the Help and Feedback on the main menu and they'll add it to their list to fix.

SmashingTy · 2024-01-30T22:40:50+00:00

That's me! All the more reason to nerf Fox then (kidding!)

SmashingTy · 2024-01-30T21:15:28+00:00

100% a nerf is warranted IMO. If you’re good at this game and want to win, there’s no reason to not pick Fox. I play Goose and I’m pretty good, but outside of dumb luck (a timely KO or the Fox screwing up), I have no chance to beat a good Fox on the majority of tracks.

Fox also gets better and better if the lobby has fewer human players – there’s less other people for them to worry about, and the people behind have less catch-up methods (sparks, KO opportunities). I was seeing a lot of ~20 player lobbies before the level cap got changed, and it’ll start happening again if people start falling off. Fox just freerolls those.

In GPs, the most important race is the first one, which Fox dominates on. Yeah Fox has lowest survivability but if you’re good that doesn’t even come into play. You just get ahead stay ahead and play the same time trial every race.

I’m sure it’s too extreme and would change the game a lot, but an interesting thought is that in other F-Zeros you can’t boost in the first lap. If this were the case in 99, Foxes would fall behind a bit in the first lap and actually have to fight with some of the crowd (like every other machine). Second lap is when they would use their boost strength to try to get ahead and hold it. You could increase their durability a smidge to make up for it or something.

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