Piercing
"Damage in excess of the target's armor is applied to health."
Attack Accuracy applies
Remarkable Interactions
- Units with piercing help to get through your opponent's front line - opening up their team for devastation.
Notable Modifiers
- Armored Up - Pierce through your opponent's armor and attack their health directly.
- Heavy Hitters - All units gain knockout - double damage to stunned enemies. When coupled with piercing, this attack on a stunned unit could take them out of the battle.
Notable Abilities
- Inspire - all friendly units receive +1 melee attack. Combined with piercing, your melee units may be able to kill with a single strike.
- Rust - Reduces the armor of all enemy units. If your opponent is likely to stack armor heavily upon their units, piercing and rust will help you break through it.
Summoners with Piercing:
Elias Max Pruitt is a Legendary Dual Element Tactics Summoner from the Rebellion set. Elias is an airdropped reward for participating in Conflicts. Able to call forth units from both Water and Life Elements, enjoy +1 melee attack and +1 armor for the whole team! Choose between granting 1 unit Cleanse and Repair, or 1 unit Armored Strike and Piercing. Ensure your team is well-buffed with armor for additional attack power and sustain!
Conqueror Jacek gives +2 speed, Scattershot, and the Piercing ability to all friendly Units. Combined with ranged Units equipped with blast, he can devastate your opponent's backline and render armor useless.
With a mana cost of 3, Qid Yuff is an exceedingly useful archon for low mana cap battles. Try pairing him with Grum Flameblade to trigger the Bloodlust ability!
Units with Piercing
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- Javelin Thrower - Level 1
- Sacred Unicorn - Level 2
- Silvershield Sheriff - Level 3
- Imp Bowman - Level 4
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