Lucina Spinos

Lucina Spinos

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At the start of your turn, gain
, pay , and consume a Drone: construct a Perforator

Supply:	1
Cost:	17
Build time:	1
Health:	1
Attack:
Consumes:	Drone
Creates:	Perforator
Position:	Middle Far Right

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A Lucina Spinos

Lucina Spinos is an extremely aggressive legendary Red unit. It is very breach-vulnerable, and has the ability to convert Drones into Perforators.

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Strategy

Lucina Spinos will often be the center of your strategy when you choose to build it, both because of its ability and high cost. By itself it is a cost-efficient attacker, extremely vulnerable in case of breach, but what really defines it is the tech investment it requires; that combined with its ability will let you center your strategy around it to increase the pace of the game greatly through fast constant damage.

The most straightforward red strategies use only a single Animus, and are played on low economy. Lucina Spinos builds are different, as its cost forces you on a rather high economy and its supply only lets you buy one. This sounds impractical because the would go to waste after buying the single Lucina Spinos. The catch is that if your opponent doesn't counterattack immediately, you will actually be able to make use of it.

Lucina Spinos is best built in sets with no rushers, burst or chill, otherwise the risk of early attack or breach is too great, read the set with care. In those situations players may choose to go for a rather high economy build, since there is no way to easily threaten that path. Lucina Spinos, however, is a way to do just that. If you manage to build a Lucina when they start econing up, your opponent will have little attack available and a lot of defense to build to answer for the sudden 4 it provides. That will give you time to build Tarsiers or other red attackers (Shadowfang, Immolite) before having to focus on defending yourself.

When your opponent starts dealing damage back, Lucina Spinos's ability will start proving invaluable. You should click it every turn, without attempting to replace the Drones; the point of building Lucina isn't to win with econ on the long term, but rather to overwhelm your opponent as fast as possible. Since you have to avoid getting breached at any cost you will soon have to devote most of your resources to defense (in the form of Rhinos, or possibly Blood Pacts or Husks). The Perforators produced can both defend and threaten to make use of the leftover for damage. In practice it seems often more preferable to let a Rhino with Stamina charges left die in defense rather than lose a Perforator, since it will likely be able to attack more times. The point is that both the Perforators and the Rhinos will threaten damage to your opponent, forcing them to defend heavily without much resources available to fight back.

As stated above, Lucina Spinos's main build has rather strict requirements on the set. It is weak against:

• Chill units, such as Frostbite or Endotherm Kit, which will let your opponent bypass your defense and snipe Lucina.
• Burst units, such as Cluster Bolt or Tia Thurnax, which will simply breach your red defense and kill it.
• Rush units, such as Electrovore or Grimbotch, which won't let you gather enough gold and red to buy Lucina as you will need to defend early.
• Apollo.

On the other hand, Lucina Spinos does very well combined with:

• red support units like Corpus, Nitrocybe, or Immolite which will help simplify your defense, sink tech, or put out damage even faster. The combo with red sink units however is a lot smaller than it is with most other double Animus units as Lucina also comes with built-in tech sink.
• red attackers requiring lots of red resource to build (Shadowfang, Vai Mauronax), as you will already have the infrastructure required.
• Alternative, stronger gold generating units, such as Doomed Drone or Auric Impulse, which can push pressure costs quickier, or provide support.

Openings

Often it seems desirable to rush Lucina as your first attacker since she is so efficient and puts on so much pressure that you could easily find yourself locked out of getting her at all if your opponent gets her first. An extremely fast build is available to Player 1:

1. DD
2. DD
3. DDA
4. A (float 6)
5. Lucina Spinos

Player 2 usually rushes her via the following:

1. DD
2. DDE
3. DDD (float 4)
4. DAA (float 3)
5. Lucina Spinos

There is also a slower build for Player 1:

1. DD
2. DDE
3. DDD
4. DDD (float 5)
5. DDDAA
6. Lucina Spinos

Strongest fast build for Player 1 using Doomed Drone and Auric Impulse. Doomed Drone is needed for Defense.

1. 2x Doomed Drone (float 2)
2. Auric Impulse + Doomed Drone (float 5) or 2x Auric Impulse (float 4)
3. AA + 2x Auric Impulse
4. Lucina Spinos
5. ?Block with Doomed Drones

A fast Player 2 rush enabled with Perforator. It may be delayed a turn for high econ on turn 3.

1. DD
2. DA
3. D + 2x Perforator (float 2 )
4. A (float 7)
5. Lucina Spinos

Change log

• April 6th, 2018
  • Click ability now costs in addition to sacrificing a Drone.
• February 15th, 2015
  • Cost decreased from 18 to 17.
• October 11th, 2014
  • Ability's activation cost changed from to sacrifice a Drone.
  • Limited stamina of 6 has been removed.
• September 29th, 2014
  • Cost increased from 16 to 18.

Unit types
Colorless