Ranking ALL the Spirits from Spirit Island | One Pip Wonder
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Ranking the many Spirits from the board game Spirit Island with Jona and Daniel.
Share your favorites in the comments!
00:00 Into
00:17 How We Will Rank Them.
01:15 Let The Ranking Begin!
38:01 Outro
Thank you for watching!
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Host: Jona Minotto
Photography, Filming and Editing: Jona Minotto - Hry
I've been really enjoying playing as the Thunderspeaker. I really enjoy strategically working with the Dahan! I'm looking forward to exploring the others though so thank you for making this ranking!
Thunderspeaker is going to be considerably more interesting when the future Dahan expansion gets released.
Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves is an extremely powerful spirit.
But also a very unforgiving spirit. You really need to get the innate 'Ranging Hunt' every single turn to get the most out of it.
As a beasts spirit it does have a bit more chaos to it with the events either making you devastating or fizzle out but this spirit excels at the early game. If you prevent the right explores and builds your board will almost also be the first clean island tile.
Juggling the (Pick Two) growth option is also very important. That and understanding the critical moments to transform a presence into a beast or moving your presence with beasts.
You're on slim margins, if you make mistakes early you quickly fall behind - but easily one of the best spirits in the early game.
I would say Lightning and Thunder speaker are way more powerful in the early game cleaning out their inner board. I also feel some of the Fangs cards should be powerful, Shadow can pick up explorers from its ability, but the main fast card only blocks a build instead destroying the explorer entirely (that is what is on the picture) and it costs one energy, true it can do it form its ability, but i think the card should do this. Its 0 slow power kills one exporter. The reining 2 cards are bout push, so it rely on its ability to destroy houses. Green dos this way better, it counter buildings from presents sacrifice, and deals more damage to buildings without cost of "Beast's" Sharp fans is a okay spirit but at best avarige, with a limited late game.
He is good but not top tier I knew I’d find this comment down here lmao
WOW. There are so much disparities between what you think and what I think. SO MUCH. Keeper is major apocalyptic, Sharp Fangs is at least supernatural maybe hand of god. Downpour is extremely powerful (repeating rain of blood 4 times for example is amazing). Trickster is one of the most powerful (6 level adversaries win without a single blight added by ravage). Vital Strength I usually don’t get. Much lower for me. Lightning is the same. And more. But a great vid.
Downpour is the best and is more consistent thanks to his ability to repeat free minor powers so easily (which can basically turn it into a major power de facto :D). It's very interesting to see that the many spirit ranking videos show so many differences!
Agree on your list. Downpour also has passive defense and he moves presence consistently so he is very flexible.
Though i havent played a lot of sharp fangs, and dont really appreciate him so he is pukka for me lols
Keeper is considered one of the strongest spirits to come out until Jagged Earth.
It is still ranked very highly.
It is great to hear both of your perspectives on spirit preferences. It is interesting how various content creators put spirits in different tiers. I do like how it provides context on creator's taste. Keep up the excellent work!
I've been having a hard time getting my hands on Jagged Earth due to the shipping crisis..but finally today im having a copy delivered to my door and im already excited but this video just makes me even more so! :D
This video looks so cool. I’ll have to check this out later.
most of the list I agree expert the ones i already commented lol this was fun thx, pls make more spirit island videos :D
Nice one!! My absolute favorite is Thunderspeaker, I just love manipulating the Dahan, it feels like a native revolution :)
I completely agree with you for Many minds and Thunderspeaker, but I think I see a pattern; Downpour and Sharp Fangs are spirits that use minor powers almost exclusively by design... They aren't weak; Downpour is a monster when you repeat Fear powers 2, 3, 4 times! At some point I even thought I had made a mistake when playing with Downpour, but nope, it's a spirit that can be powerful without major powers!
I wanted to put downpour higher but we ended with compromise😋 I like its unique ability to repeat cards. Gonna keep him on the rotation for sure.
In my opinion:
1. Sharp Fangs should be force of nature. But you need to turn your presence into Beast agressively
2. Shadows and Stone are Natural disasters, but better with Aspects
3. Downpour is Apocalyptic or Hand of God
4. Shifting Memory should be Pooka since he's so swingy depending on the luck of Majors.
5. Vengeance is a disaster for me, maybe Pooka
6. And Keeper is Apocalyptic, probably the strongest spirit besides Green
Shifting Memory is one oft he most powerful spirits of the game, sooner or later a good power comes up, its the only spirit in the game that can bring out the full power of a card, can block/stall with one card and its ability and build or support with the other. I had a test run with Vital strength as duo expecting one of them will be better or feel better but to decide which slow guy is better, they actually worked well together. It was l sow and long Lv2 game but fun and fulfilling. Ages with the right pair, River or Lightning was brutal smack down of invaders. With the right pair his support shines, and stalls to build up like Vital. When you experience in a game an amplified Tsunami, than you can trow out every turn you earn what power is in this game :D That ages in a nutshell. I would not deny him from Apocalipse but strongly hand of god.
@@mbalazs3544 He did feel powerful until we started playing on Adversary Levels 5 and 6. Then he just felt random. If he gets a good Major on time, then he'll probably rock house. If not, you're probably dead. I'm not an expert on SI, this is just my experience.
@@Kentchangar on 5 or 6 anything feel week :D I saw someone beat England 6 with Vital strength and some luck. It was uglie, leve 5-6 was not to meant to be pretty or fun :D, In test Ages is not any way inferior to Vital strength. (they are alike) Is there really any spirit that beats level 6 adversary without luck?:D Something is bound to come up. Thing is with ages if you don't draw a good card you can give particles to someone where dos and over charge that spell to break the game, or some don't even need it. Ages&Lightning a team I made 5 arias fast phase exterminated with Lightning That is record in wide destruction i doubt i ever do again, Ages made it possible. Ages is also a first time I ever encountered in ANY game (and i played a lot) that is flat power destroy character that dos good sport for literally free (his defense is from rock that comes from its sport cards) that is just flat out broken. And i love it: D (he is my 5th faw)
@@mbalazs3544 Thunderspeaker, Keeper, Can beat Level 5-6 adversaries without relying on getting a near perfect major on time.
@@Kentchangar Thunderspeaker is top level. If you say so I belelve you had no bad experience with her. Still as powerful she is (4th on my list) she has risks things go bad especial with more people (Dahans die out), and has the weakness vs buffed military, not to mention conversion (Sweden) if unlucky she can't make more Dahan that she relies on. With skilled ally's she is apocalypse, but same goes for ages. I don't consider Ages more powerful than TS by any means. (Both are apocalypses level TS much more easily)
Haven't scene a struggles good LP on keeper, but from its card's+ability's looks like a Green&Vital fusion to me. Keeper Is the last of those power player spirits (Ages,Vital,Keeper) I haven't got into enough yet so i cant debate it well:D. He indeed has damage potential built in but that needs a build up, he cant have Dahan on spirits sights to defend. From what i see he is slow too. I feel to beat adversary even on 3-4 (max i played so far for I'm no masochist) One kinda needs 5-8 damage at a point in the game. (Easy for Thunder speaker) I don't see that is keeper but if you say so I belíve you. I don't debate Keeper cant be apocalypses level. But i don't see how he wont struggle to get there like the other 2 power players (Ages,Vita)
Ages can with ease spam Tsunami every turn amplified if he gets it that's a damage potential no other character can do in the game. (if not Tsunami other power house cards) It dos not need to be perfect hence its ability to amplify anything. (Pillar of living Flame,Cleansing Flood,Rust and Atrophy,Indomitable Claim, Talons of lightning, Warp in wings, Vigor of dawn ) 5 turns he can get 20 draw that bound to have something good.
I haven expandered unlucky with him yet. I just feel that the risk with ages worth the immanence reword of over charge-ing ANYONE'S ability or cards (someone is bound to draw a good card) spell or ability for a win. Or just add Lighting,to the team that there is no such risk. That's Apocalypses enough for me.
Thank you!
Does anyone of you plays solo as well?
Any recommendations?
Like your video and your arguments and most ratings but you underestimated River.
He is clearly Apocalypse,
He is one of the very few spirits who can trigger the strongest ability just with the starting hand. He steamrolls almost every scenario.
Can control und multiply Dahan, can control Invaders, and can cause endless damage. I played more than 100 games with River and have the highest win rate. Get a defense card and you cannot loose…
At least he ended in hand of god 😁
Oh and even if sharp fangs is difficult to understand - once it clicks he is super strong! Only weakness: You need to find a way to remove blight…
My win ratio in the app version: 84 wins 4 losses…
I agree River is apocalypse level in potential, do many adversary step on its bobles England for one. :D I would rate it apocalypse -0,5 he is my 7th faw 4/5 (there are 9 spirits i rate0/5) so 4/5 is high
Fangs is certainly not apocalyptic but is useful, offensive and very fun. I play more true solo which skews my experience but he can handle France 6 and Brandenburg 6 alone. You have to start destroying your presence early and often. Mid game you should go to 3-4 presence early you should maintain 2-3 presence. And he benefits the whole group from his fear generation. His only limiting factor is having some difficulty dealing with blighted lands, but you can plan you terrifying chase there with minimal effort. Half the minor deck contains useful cards for his innates. Play him and destroy presence most turns, three strong growing directions, rushing to reclaim one then 4 plays and 5 plays reclaim 2. Largely placing presence and and gaining minors. Or rush to 2 energy making ranging hunt more flexible. Turning you presence into beasts either way. You can do damage with ranging hunt from turn 2 going forward with little exception and with need little help one energy. 3rd favorite option for me gain card/place presence (plays track), gain energy/place presence (plays track) make sure you have 3 animal and 2 plant turn 2 for an attacking ranging hunt, reclaim place presence. 3rd is most consistent, subverts unlucky power draws and probably the best opening to learn to play fangs effectively. The heavy plays card gain is more aggressive and can leave it tricky to afford the 1 cost reclaim.
Grabbing a mid game major or near early on is a legit tactic if you can afford to pass on presence placement and gain a card and do the energy growth.
Unless they’re perfect elements or solve a big problem, he’s tricky to target sacred sites.
Presence place at far range in any jungle, with up to 5 plays and a lot of card gains means you can paratrooper in, play a card and on a later turn decide to give that board an extra beast if you would like.
I liked the video and don’t agree on a few picks but it’s all highly subjective… except Fangs ;)
I'd put Serpent as Apocalyptic. If you have other players ramping the Serpent up and can reach the late game with it, it has a ridiculous power ceiling. Also, the defend 2 + track is one of the best cards in the game for defense. Similarly, giving other players an energy of there choice for a presence can be game changing, and some spirits don't rely heavily on presence and/or have an excess of them on the board. The innate powers of the serpent also really ramp up, and they're given to teammates too so they greatly boost everyone's progression if played right
River is the best spirit in the base game, every type of composition for 3p, 4p he can fit into and perform well, hes just supersolid, its not like he carry the game by himself, but he can suport any other spirit in the game, lightning is hand of god when he have suport, and the serpent is absolute broken in 3p,4p games, his ability to defend in AoE is soo OP!!! In 2p he sucks yes, but 3p,4p hes apocaliptic for sure
I have yet to play a 5p or 6p game. But when I do I would like to give Serpent another try. I didn't enjoy him much at the 3p count, and only played 1 four player game with him. Since he/she's a force multiplier style gameplay, I'd imagine it being a blast to play with 6 players
@@DanielMinottoII 6 players games are bad, you need everyone to be familiar with the game and is still too long because of the communication of who attacking where, defending what, who will get the suport etc
Lightning can carry the game alone especially with support (my best play with ages sprouting was destroying 6 lands with invaders there in one turn), Green can buf anyone to make the beasts, Thunder speaker if well played is unstoppable, River is good but he is limited in damage, and power. River is powerful but by far not he best in the base game.(it can be called a top class with the mention 4 do) they are all differently powerful characters
1:26 What do you think about the Aspects for Shadows Flicker Like Flame?
Ever since I have used the Foreboding Aspect and the Madness Aspect, Shadows has actually been really good.
Foreboding lets you use any Fear card to push everything out of lands and generate even more Fear.
Madness gives you some control with Strife when placing presence and more Fear if your presence is Destroyed in Ravages.
It massively buffs Shadows to keep up with Adversaries.
Sharp fangs a dud???? 😱 😱 😱 Maybe you play at a harder difficulty than I do and it doesn't perform as well against some high level adversaries, but I love Fangs! That spirit has tremendous mobility, it can prevent so many things from the start; I end up having quarantined the coast in many games. If you like major powers, you won't see much of that with Fangs, but you'll definitely be an asset to the team by how much you prevent initial invader development!
Well, I'm sure you play him better than I do, but whenever I'm playing adversaries that add buildings during set up I was overwhelmed by Stage II. Against England I can't get him to do enough in the beginning to isolate anything. Also, against the new adversary where you can't kill all the explorers with an action (can't remember the name atm) he's so helpless; or maybe I'm just hapless :D
@@DanielMinottoII I'm not a fan of England, and indeed with Fangs against England, there's not much that can be done from a certain level... But he's not helpless at all against Prussia or France for example! I just find him genuinely fun and satisfying to play (nothing compares to the moment you get an event that causes fear or destruction for each beast on the boards...)
I find it better to play Volcano with tons of small explosions, instead of building up for a major explosion.
Many Minds is definitely in the top 5 with Thunderspeaker and Keeper.
With Starlight, you can do so much with it, that I find it best to develop a few strategies before you even sit down to play. It definitely makes it easy to do all the adversaries if you know which way to grow that counters that specific adversary.
Stone is a very strong offensive/defensive spirits. Definitely top 10.
Oooh hello! :-)
You're tempting me to do this myself as a live stream! How do you do the Tiermaker thing - is it basically straight off the website and you simply add the images in advance?
Also Bringer of Nightmares is awesome! Sharp Fangs is also awesome, though takes more skill to utilise best, how dare you call my TIGER a dud! I would drop Thunderspeaker a tad because if you don't get the Dahan in the right place or pick up some Dahan focused powers from the deck, she falls apart. She's so hard to play right.
I knew you would have something to say about that! Sorry! He is just not that good for us. Of all the spirits we ranked I did not think he would be the one everyone would take issue with. He is very loved.... just not by us. 😂Much rather play Many Minds personally. Can't wait to see your rankings!
@@onepipwonder915 Many Minds is great and more powerful in general I admit. But more love for the kitty. 🐱
@@TheBrokenMeeple totally a wolf🐺😋
@@onepipwonder915 I bet they drew him purposely vague to satisfy both cat and dog lovers..
Ahh there it is! The Nightmare love! I'm not surprised people like Downpour (because if you're lucky enough to pull that 1 minor card that is exactly what you need it can feel great), but I'm very shocked at the lack of Nightmare enthusiasm! Like we said in the video, they're all great to play and much of it depends on personal style, but I stand by everything I said about the Tiger! :P I tried so hard to like it but unless your playing against Brandenburg, I truly feel he's a dud.
But hey! That's why I love this game so much. There's so many ways to approach it. I'm just glad I wasn't in charge of all the playtesting. I'm sure if you strip away the theme and the rp, there's more basic mathematics behind it all, but I don't like to thing about that sort of thing with my favorite game. Kinda ruins the fun for me :)
oh nooo how dare u say this about sharp fangs Daniel ... he is a good boy lol Stay Hexy!
River is insanely strong. By far the strongest of the "Low Complexity" spirits and definitely in the top 10 strongest spirits in the game.
Thunderspeaker is considered top 5 definitely.
Serpent requires a lot of practice but is also really, really strong throughout the entire game.
Always go bottom track on Wildfire and use its innates.
Fangs requires incredibly aggressive plays and always switching out your presence to make it work. It is very easy to not be good with it.
Keeper can get set up on its own and be crushing it in only a few turns if you know what you are doing. And was considered the strongest spirit before Jagged Earth.
6:08 You should play Lightning Swift Strike with the Pandemonium Aspect.
Sure, you lose the innate destroying towns and cities, but you gain a lot of Fear and Strife (Strife is your defense). If you manage to get all the kickers, that is 11 Fear and 4 Strife!
And you can get a lot of town and city destruction through card plays.
6:12 Wood and Lightning should be apacolipse, I played Lightning with ages as a duo Lightnin destroy in one turn at turn 4-5 not 2,3 but 5 arias:D i never felt so powerful in this game as than before. :D Is he not you your favorite? :D Alone he is strong with allies he breaks the game, Wood breaks the game alone and make allies do that :D
I am noticing the pattern that you guys don't like minors and really want the majors.
This is totally the opposite of me, who tends to love to play tons of minors.
Some of the strongest plays in this game are playing tons of minors.
Downpour is strong with minors.
Fangs and Wildfire require a thinner margin for error but a high success rate if done well, I’ve been able to get fangs running very powerful, still poor with wildfire.
Fangs of put in your third tier given this
Oceans should be apocalyptic if you are playing a 4 player game with 3 other spirits that don't use push you'll have a bad time, but pair him up with a spirits like River, Wildfire or Keeper and you'll basically control half the island on your own with a little push help from the other spirits.
For fun's sake my list :D (Apocalypse 5/5, Power House 4/5, Fun and works 3/5, Limited but strong 2/5, not my cup of tea 0-1/5 )
Villám - Lightning's Swift Strike 5/5 (5/6 win) (A,B,C,D)
Time - Fractured Days Split the Sky 5/5 (original 3mana 3play WSL 4 mana 3P) (6/6 win) (A,B,D,AB,BD)
Thunder Nyanynan 5/5 (2/2win) (A,B)
Ages - Shifting memory of Ages 5/5 (5/5 win) (A,B,AC,AB)
Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds - A tiltott rengeteg örzoje 5/5 (7/7win) (A,C,D,C4s,AB,CD) - (B one loss)
Green/Wood - Dus Növényzet Terjedése 5/5 (5/5 win) (A,B,CB,DC)
River Surges in Sunlight - Verofényes Folyami áradás 4/5 (4/4 win) (A,B,C,D)
Erath - A Föld Élteto ereje - Vital Strength of the Earth 4/5 (4/4 win) (A,B,C)
Dream 3/5 (3/3win) (D,C,B)
Shadow 3/5 Fixed (5/5win) (A,B,C*,D*,D*)
Ocean 2/5 Limited Range but coast advantage
Many Minds Move as One (not yet evaluated probably good)
Stone's Unyielding Defiance 3/5 (6 mana 4 play same track)
Lure of the Deep Wilderness 1/5 (5 mana 5 play) Your Presence may only be added/moved to lands that are Inland.
Sharp Fangs Behind Leaves 1/5 (4 mana 5 play) week cards (Thunder,Villam better rush, Wood and Shadow in Block)
- My Black list spirits are : (0/5)
~ Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble (3 mana 5 Card) too random too passive too dahan costly
~ Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island (1 mana 2 play > 12 mana 5 play) Garbage Grow unplayable in the beginning
~ Vengeance as a Burning Plague (4 mana 4 card) Blights the island to work, terrible base cards
~ Heart of the Wildfire (Start 0/1, Max 3 mana 4 card) Blight the island with every presence, 1 card play, bad late game
~ Volcano Looming High (5 mana 4 play) Your can be only on Mountain, 1 card play for too long. Limited to on Square.
~ Shroud of Silent Mist (2 mana 5 play) lacks power 2 mana generates fear if "NOT kills"
~ Downpour Drenches the World (2 mana 3 play) lacks power 2 mana
~ Finder of Paths Unseen (6mana 3card) if kills destroy presents
~ Starlight Seeks its form (4 mana 3+1max play) Garbage Cards, bad Grow, garbage Inative powers
I like fangs more than you do. 😉
Oh my god putting fractured anywhere except apocalyptic feels totally wrong. Could be the best spirit in the game for sure. You can easily turn around a normally lost game with them.
Downpour is a top tier spirit nooooo haha. I say he is apocalyptic
Time: just to correct everything you guys told wrong about Fractured days Split the sky (I cal him Time)
28:40 NOP its more he can make land non exist (and repeat it in ever turn hence the return one card ability for almost free) meaning Explores Wont happen that are adjacent of that land if the land has the only invaders adjistent to Explore lands.
28:51 NOP "Gain card from days never ware" meaning as an grow you get 4 thins one of them a card from your pile. (no spirit gains so much from one upgrade) in this case 3 times 2 energy (max 6) or 3 Times 1 time counter (3 time), one sun for the round, and you can move one of your presence. (ages gets 9 energy as a grow, Time with 1 card +6 energy that alone worth more than what the most power gainer spirit gets in a turn)
29:19 NOP He can create 2 Dahan's with a card, Remus Blight, Make another spirit or him return a card to his hand, play it and make it in the fast phase in one turn :D in the game meaning anyone can play any card in the fast phase like Tsunami :D and from his 6 energy gain he has the power to do so. He is the only spirit that can make anyone play more cards than they can:D Than return any card after plays to the owners hand ? After wood he is the most powerful support in the game.
29:19 NOP Not insightful :D? he can check the next explorer card :D and even change it, he can put Phase 1 cards swap them to phase 2 cards or do that to phase 3 cards swamping them to phase 2 cards or even do it 2 times :D because he can replay things :D it needs build up but he can make phase 1 card happen in phase 3 :D
29:26 so that everyone can have an easy time in Phase 2 and 3 like its phase 1 making adversary ability oblesleet :D that is why :D
28:20 ahh my second favorite after lightning :D well i downloaded bit buffed / fixed version but one max energy cant be that huge difference :D (still S level :D he dos everything I like in my top 4 spirits, lightning just destroy so much better XD)
The only spirit that can generate 2 Dahan with one spell and send them to battle like meat bags they are XD ahh yes it turns the user antant Dahan social XDD (well when you have infinite army you don's care if thy die, and if you can generate army and remove blight not even pollution is a thing :D) He also can stall infinitely :D while sutporting other military spirits with an army :D
Shadow Flicker like fire : how to fix it. Add a custom card that stabilizes its early game. hawing the flowing things:
Card "Where Shadows live" 1 energy cost, 1 moon, fast, 0 range (worth his ability he can hit anywhere where are Dahan)
- Push 2 invaders, Generate 1 fear, put down a presence from your board,than forget this power.
Its one time play effect but it fixes shadow grates flaw of his reach without looseness his combo or fear engine. With this he become a fun LV2 beater spirit I would range it now Supernatural. Originally he was unplayable, and sadly one of the coolest looking beginner luring strips that almost made some my friends hate the game for good. It needed this fix.
You should play with Foreboding Aspect. It massively buffs Shadows.
As a reference what difficulty are you playing at?
adversary level 3 of higher, depends of the combination of spirits and adversary we are playing.
@@onepipwonder915 Thx for answering on this old video. Loved the list :)
@@dylogysminter thanks!
I mostly agree with our One Pip Wonder…but…Lure? That is the one time in the marriage that you must admit Daniel was right! Very powerful.
I also don’t see how you both did not like Sharp Fangs but heaped praises on Many Minds. I expected them both to go similarly due to no event play. One of these days you might want to try a 2 player Fangs + Many Minds game, one of the strongest combos.
I maybe wrong, but I still wont play Lure 😆 We played Fangs and Many Minds recently and it kind of sealed the deal for us. Felt like Fangs was holding us back, he totally pooped out midgame and left Many Minds hanging. That's how it worked out for us, but I am sure I could learn a lot from seeing others play him.
@@onepipwonder915 Totally understand :) Sharp Fangs is really boosted by events because they often activate beasts, so I think the lower rating there makes a lot of sense too. But Lure is my biggest point of difference. He is like Oceans, except has 5 lands instead of 3 and a better Energy/Presence track. The thing is you have to trigger the innate Forsake consistently though, and Never Heard From consistently after the first couple of turns. Totally understand it not being your jam though!
One day I will create my list and be sure to share it with you (over on FB since I can’t really on here)!
@@mrsamtheman80 that would be awesome, please do :)
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You said some things I really liked, so I subbed! Then you put downpour in pooka. I'm hovering the unsub....
what did we say that you liked??
I paired Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves with Many Minds Move as One in a two-Spirit game. What an incredible combo - they play off each other well. I never added a major power for Sharp Fangs. Just used its maximum innate ability Ranging Hunt (all three: Gather, Damage, Push) turn after turn. And working in tandem with Many Minds innate ability to gather beasts (The Teeming Host Arrives) and the Fact that Many Minds Sacred Site counts as as Beast.
This duo just obliterated the adversaries.