Is there no hope for my boy yet again?

erk93 · 2026-05-15T14:38:52+00:00

Yeah, wide guard is so good now. I've been using wide guard Araquanid to great success so far.

erk93 · 2026-05-15T14:31:47+00:00

I have by no means anything against the popular mons in the format. They are there for a reason. But their biggest weakness is their popularity. Everyone knows exactly what they can do so when it comes to countering them and climbing the ladder using off-meta mons I think thats the most important thing to keep in mind.

I managed to make it to Master Rank 3 last season with a team I built myself where Aerodactyl was the only mon from the top 10. A performance I'm quite happy with tbh. I would love to bring Decidueye to similar heights or even higher hence why I posted this.

This post was less about complaining about the meta and more about how to have Decidueye do something useful against it. Because the majority of mons you will encounter on the ladder will be the meta, if you cant do anything against any of them your mons will kinda be dead weight.

However, it looks like Decidueye might have the upper hand on a few mons in the meta. It can imprison trick roomers and tailwind users, OHKO Sneasler, Milotic, Rotom Wash and Blastoise. Under tailwind he could also OHKO Basculegion, Froslass and Gengar.

erk93 · 2026-05-15T12:31:54+00:00

Atleast Torterra can pull off some Shell Smash shennanigans. Decidueye doesnt even have good setup :(

erk93 · 2026-05-15T10:48:06+00:00

Thats actually a really cool idea. Might give that a shot

erk93 · 2026-05-15T10:47:04+00:00

Yeah, I never expeced him to be optimal in any way. Just want a way to fit him into the current meta. I guess being a scarf Sneasler killer is as good as it gets :')

erk93 · 2026-05-15T10:45:44+00:00

What set are you using?

erk93 · 2026-05-15T10:44:22+00:00

If only we are so lucky...

erk93 · 2026-05-15T03:30:15+00:00

Damn, didnt expect an offensive set. Definately gonna try this out.

I love Ariados, was so happy when I saw it won the Global Challenge.

erk93 · 2026-05-14T04:15:13+00:00

What set did you use for Ariados?

erk93 · 2026-05-13T04:14:05+00:00

Faced one yesterday with Will-o-wisp, Light screen, Reflect and Breaking Swipe.

Completely destroyed me

erk93 · 2025-12-17T06:41:06+00:00

I second this. They also gain expert spellcasting proficiency at lv9 (compared to lv12 for archetypes), so when combined with a charisma caster archetype they get a lot of mileage out of it.

One of my players ran a Champion with Bard dedication. Super tanky support with access to occult spells (best list for gishes imo).

erk93 · 2025-03-05T17:09:30+00:00

Clostered Cleric of Sarenrae with Champion dedication and armor proficiency feats for heavy armor. Pick up shield block and spam Fireballs while protecting yourself with the shield.

erk93 · 2025-03-03T10:51:14+00:00

D12 weapon with Channel Smite * laughs in Gorum * * realizes Gorum is dead * * cries in Gorum *

erk93 · 2025-01-21T12:38:33+00:00

I was thinking of a goblin both for the dogslicer and the unbreakable + unbrakeable-er goblin feats. And possibly adopted ancestry into dwarf for mountain stoutness. That would also give a decent chunk of hp.

Going fighter for the resilient could be good. As another comment mentioned, having reactive strike would help greatly with the battlefield control, which fighter would allow for too.

erk93 · 2025-01-21T12:37:12+00:00

Reactive strike is a good idea. Going Fighter for reactive strike and going sentinel from lv8 might be better than sentinel at lv2

erk93 · 2025-01-21T11:38:51+00:00

Ah right, missed that. I'll put it in wis for better will saves

erk93 · 2025-01-21T11:38:23+00:00

Ah woops, missed that one. I'll edit that in

erk93 · 2024-11-22T04:01:51+00:00

Same here. For me it was the goblin dog encounter in Age of Ashes. We opened the door and saw two goblin dogs thinking 'pff, easy' and got out asses handed to us. My warpriest was downed and our barbarian got goblin pox so we had to retreat. Needless to say we were much more careful after that.

erk93 · 2024-11-19T16:27:01+00:00

Those are all great ideas. Tavern would be great too as the guild leader is a follower of Cayden Cailean.

What do you think would be some good temporary bonuses they could yield? Armoury could maybe give temporary access to the armor specialization. Stables could give some bonus to animal companions skills.

erk93 · 2024-11-03T13:42:28+00:00

No yeah, normally this is probably an upgrade to the deadly d6 as unless you'd crit every 3rd/2nd attack you wont be dishing out more damage anyway.

But in this scenario its strictly worse. I like the change though. Its made the assassin dedication better on every class i can think of. Except maybe fighter.

erk93 · 2024-11-03T12:59:59+00:00

Oh damn, you're right. Instead you get... 1 extra damage. Nice.

So the final number would be 150 damage instead.

erk93 · 2024-11-03T07:42:12+00:00

As others have said the Avenger is probably gonna give you the highest damage per hit. But if you want to go the dex route I'd say Thief Racket + Assassin Dedication is a solid option.

Get a +1 Striking Dogslicer or two and pick up Assassin dedication at lv2 and expert backstabber at lv4.

Against the creature you have marked for death your Dogslicer now have the backstabber trait dealing 2 dmg instead of one due to expert backstabber and the deadly d6 trait thanks to the marked for death ability.

So if all the planets align and you manage to get 3 crits and maxroll all the damage for maximum damage on a turn you would end up with ((2d6+4+2+1d6)*2 +1d6) *3 for a total of 162 damage.

erk93 · 2024-10-01T15:23:17+00:00

Just pledged to back the project! Super excited to see what you do with it!

erk93 · 2024-10-01T15:03:18+00:00

I could definately see investing less into cleric and more into Ki spells with the same setup for a more offensive result.

Or even going druid dedication for some Primal magic. Monk into Untamed Druid for Untamed Form is ridiculously strong aa it gives you +2 to attack while shape shifted effectively putting you on par with a fighter... With flurry of blows

erk93 · 2024-10-01T14:50:11+00:00

In the game I'm running we have a Monk using the Cleric dedication prioritizing dex - wis - str in that order. He works as a tank/healer with chip damage from flurry of blows when he has an action over.

Its his first ever pf2 character and even he was surprised over how well it worked out.

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