Hippierion was Ingenica's final project at Monster School. She had meant to create a warrior, but something went wrong with the circuits at the last minute, and she didn't have time to fix them before her deadline. Hippierion turned out to have impressive skills but a chill attitude.
Overview
Role: Support/Curser
Hippierion is an interesting support monster to say the least. He can support his teammates by healing them and filling their stamina full. He can also inflict negative effects such as accuracy debuffs and a unique form of denial: Total Damage Reduction, which can prevent attackers from doing their job. However, monsters affected by it can still get a turn and inflict status effects or remove lositive or negative statuses (much like Phantom/Space-Time immune only to damage except its a negative status effect), so his teammates can still be denied, debuffed, etc., which is the only thing keeping him away from higher ranks, along with his average health.
Pros:
- Good speed
- Skills cost very, very little stamina
- Amazing trait
- Special is impressive
- Great debuffs (Blind, Daze, Total Damage Reduction)
- Lots of AoE moves, which counters Taunt
Cons:
- Health is average
- Can't do any damage
- Some skills heal the enemy team (although this can be countered if they're affected by Negate Healing / Reverse Healing)
- Cooldowns can be a bit much
- Only form of denial is Total Damage Reduction, so status effect can still go through (e.g. Poison, Stun, etc.)
Recommended Moveset
Namaste (Full Support)
- Peace Pipe (AoE Blind + Daze, 17s, 1-turn CD)
- Deep Rest (Ally 50% heal + 100% stamina, 8s, 4-turn CD)
- Relaxing Smoke (AoE Total Damage Reduction, 8s, 4-turn CD)
- Needed Rest (Ally 20% heal + 40% stamina, 14s, 2-turn CD)
Since he's an artifact, he can only be denied by CDA (which no monster in the epic has) and Stamina drain. Use Peace Pipe first, which is basically Saika's Bake Eyes except without the sunburn effect, to decrease your enemies' accuracy. It also has a low cooldown so you can spam it again and again. Then use Relaxing Smoke, to suppress the enemies' damage output entirely for a turn. Your support moves is Deep Rest, which instanly heals an ally by 50% and regain their stamina by 100%, and Needed Rest, much like the aforementioned support move but with lower benefits and low cooldowns.
Recommended Runes: 3 Team Speed
Savasana (with TDR)
- Passive Resistance (AoE Total Damage Reduction + 25% heal, 20s, no CD)
- Deep Rest
- Pacific Resistance (AoE Total Damage Reduction + 30% heal, 14s, 2-turn CD)
- Needed Rest
Recommended Runes: 3 Team Speed
(Note: This is a bit of a gimmicky set. Only use this if you have a monster that can apply AoE Reverse Healing or Negate Healing.)
Recommended Allies
- Since some of his skills can also heal the enemy team, any monsters with access to Reverse Healing, like Dr. Marihelson, or Negate Healing like Cybele and Semargl are strongly recommended to pair him up.
Counters
- Good attackers can take him out due to his life. Control and Curser monsters are useless against him, as he is an Artifact. Burning Rogue would be good to do this job.