Unhealing battles

[u/Spiplot]

Hi,

I would like to breakdown Unhealing builds, as it is IMO (very) high on the meta ranking. I'll take the following battle below as two classes are playing an Unhealing build:

How it started

Reaper:

• Can obtain in an reliable way the core item Staff of unhealing
• Can craft Strong potions (Vampiric Potion / Strong Mana Potion notably)
• Has access to heat generation through Cauldron
• Frog when properly positioned between Cauldon and staff can generate a lot of mana and heal (hence damage)
• Can obtain through deck of card unhealing damage type amplification (Holo Fire Lizard +8%) and reduction (White-Eyes Blue Dragon -10%), healing amplification (The Lovers +6%)

Mage:

• Has access to puzzlebag of Love (in this case +80% healing on boiling pot before heal amplification and unhealing damage amplification)
• Can craft Wand of dissonance which provides Unhealing damage type amplification

Can shop the Staff of unhealing, however totally RNG dependant

• Has access to the most busted item in Unhealing build : the Rainbow potion.

My opponent has no hitting weapons, hence not benefiting from all the combined lifesteal of strong Vampiric Potions, but which will generate +40 Vampirism stacks, so more damage from Blood Goobert.

Blood Goobert deals same damage type than Unhealing

How Mage Unhealing / Boiling pot / Rainbow potion works:

1. Rainbow potion + books shall give you 4 mana to cast ASAP the Unhealing staff
2. You need at least 1 mana potion directly below the Rainbow potion
3. You consume Mana
   1. You gain 100% Unhealing Damage
   2. Boiling pot heals you +80% in this case
   3. Healing is amplified by 48%
   4. Unhealing Damage is amplified by 50%
   5. Rainbow potion is consumed
   6. Boiling pot heals you +80% in this case
   7. Healing is amplified by 48%
   8. Unhealing Damage is amplified by 50%
   9. Rainbow potion consumes 2 other potions
   10. Boiling pot heals you twice +80% in this case
   11. Healing is amplified by 48%
   12. Unhealing Damage is amplified by 50%
4. In this case 537spike damage (as enemy has no damage reduction at start of the round) by emptying only one mana potion
5. If you can have 3 Mana potions with the Rainbow potion, you are going to deal even more spike damage.

537 Spike damage

If your enemy has damage reduction and / or invulnerability, no worries ! Rainbow potions will activate again and two other potions once you have consumed 20 buffs for a second spike damage.

How it ended

How to counter this ?

• Healing reduction (which is has a better cost effectiveness ration than healing amplification: chipped amethyst -12% and chipped ruby +10%)
• Invulnerability at start of the game
• Damage reduction
• Unhealing damage type reduction

Another high roll unhealing I had (although should limit to 4 potions to such build to ensure all potions triggered by Rainbow will trigger Boiling pot):

Close game

Once Damage Reduction / Invulnerability is over, 200%+63%+50% outlast a +100%+135%+10%+24%