Black Widow

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- Every turn target loses 2% (bosses - 1%) Vigor and Sanity.
- «Spider Venom» power can be increased up to 5 times.
^ Note: On a target, this Debuff. effect is always counted as 1 Debuff., no matter how much it stacks.

**Black Widow** is a minion that players can create, adding to Iratus' army of undead.

## Unlocking Condition

Complete the game on More Pain difficulty or higher.

## Abilities

Spider Pack     | +5

- Ignores Armor.

- Target loses 12 Armor and 12 Resistance for 2 turns.
- Target loses 12 Armor and 12 Resistance for 2 turns.
- Target loses 18 Armor and 18 Resistance for 2 turns.

Silken Bondage     | +2

- Doesn't stack.- Ignores Block.
- Doesn't stack.- Ignores Block.
- Doesn't stack.- Ignores Block.- Target loses all Block and Ward.

- Target loses 16 Luck and 16 Evasion for 2 turns.
- Target loses 12 Luck and 12 Evasion for 2 turns.
- Target loses 12 Luck and 12 Evasion for 2 turns.

- After each minion or enemy action, the Widow recovers 4% Vigor.- Provides a 100% chance to redirect any attack targeting a minion behind her to the Black Widow.- Any enemy that deals damage to the Black Widow receives 75% physical damage.
- After each minion or enemy action, the Widow recovers 4% Vigor.- Provides a 100% chance to redirect any attack targeting a minion behind her to the Black Widow.
- After each minion or enemy action, the Widow recovers 6% Vigor.- Provides a 100% chance to redirect any attack targeting a minion behind her to the Black Widow.

- Targets lose all Initiative for 2 turns.
Cost: 30
Cost: 30
- «Spider Venom» is enhanced by 2 times.
Cost: 30

## Strategy

***Role******: Physical, magical damage dealer  - Stress dealer  - Tanker  - Guard***  ***- Self-healer***  ***- Debuff*** ***support - Defense remove - Position disrupt  - Movement disable***

***Upgradable Stats:*** Attack , Dread , Vigor , Armor , Resistance , Initiative , Accuracy , Luck

***Best Positions:***

Black Widow is a tanky minion that mainly occupies the front to be effective. Similar to Bone Golem, she lacks any kinds of defense, but has high Vigor  and self-sustainability. The Widow is a valuable support-type tanker, considering that she has high Accuracy  and rich utilities but very minimal Attack and Dread . With high Initiative , she has a good chance to act before most enemies and support her squad in various ways, by inflicting Debuff, dragging a target to the front, stopping movement , guarding a minion ,... Many of her abilities can reach targets in position 3, save for the very last position. Despite being a front-liner, she has very few ways to move forward when pushed to the back.

Her offensive abilities are ineffective in terms of lethality due to her low Attack , but all of them inflict Spider Venom Debuff  that ignores defenses and wear down a target gradually. Some inflict Debuff on enemies that weaken them. ***Poison Spit*** is good against hardy targets, reducing their Armor  and Resistance  with each hit up to a maximum of -16 to each stats with ***Acid Spit*** upgrade. ***Spider Strike*** affects Luck  and Evasion  stats of enemies that are high on such stats: Conscript, Trader, Elven Ranger, Spellthief,... The high Luck Debuff from ***Spider Impaler*** makes dangerous foes less likely to score crits and potentially more vulnerable to critical attacks if combined with said Debuff caused by Mummy .

***Fatal Bondage*** upgrade of ***Silken Pull*** drags a back liner to the front, applies a damage Debuff and strips all Block  and Ward  from a target, which allows other minions to follow up with easy hits on it or expose it to a powerful hit from Volley of Spears spell. Some annoying enemies that spam Block  and Ward  like Trader or Oracle can be dealt with this way. If they stand in position 4 at the start of combat, use Lost Soul's ***Doomed to Heroism*** to move them to position 3, then the Widow will be able to target them with ***Fatal Bondage***. If pulled to the front, Oracle will not use her double-damage Mark but instead attempt to spam defense for her squad.

***Spider Web*** is only good for certain situations when one needs to prevent multiple enemies from getting to their effective positions. Heavy Firethrower, Demolition Expert, Rock Golem are such examples. Note that this ability wouldn't go well with ***Silken Pull*** or other similar abilities.

***Invigorating Cocoon*** truly makes her a durable tank. During the Stance, she quickly heals a portion of her Vigor  every time an ally or enemy spends an action. Since the healing amount is based on percentage %, increasing her base Vigor  will also increase this amount. With high enough Vigor  and Relentless Evil talent, she might heal up to more than 20 Vigor  for each action, giving even high-damage enemies a hard time to wear her down, not to mention that Lost Soul can assist in healing her if necessary. ***Spiky Cocoon*** allows her to deal damage and heal at the same time. Blood Phantasm 's ***Aura Of Retribution*** can draw more attention to the Widow, making enemies taking even more damage if they target her. The Stance also allows the Widow to redirect  attacks aiming at a fragile minion standing behind her to herself, as long as the attacks don't hit both the Widow and the minion.

The Widow might have problems using this ability in early stages against enemies like Hunky or Mad Mage. Hunky can cause knock-back effect and has high chance to stun. Mad Mage 's squad nuke bypasses redirect effects and if dragged to the front, he has a move to push Widow to the very back. In general, try to avoid enemies that can cancel Stance or quickly deal with them first before using the cocoon ability.

## Dialogue

* **Starting turn:** *"Your death will be slow."*
* **Killing an enemy:** *"Your death brings me happiness..."*
* **Ally gets killed:** *"I do not care."*
* **Getting hit by critical attack:** *"M-my turn now..."*
* **Delivering a critical attack:** *"I will bathe in your blood!"*
* **Enemy** **flees:** *"Run, little prey."*
* **Buffed by Iratus:** *"Such wonderous wrath!"*
* **Vigor** **gets low:** *"If I die, I die killing!"*

## Trivia

* In real life, Black Widow is a species of spider widely known to be extremely venomous, and for their common practice of female spiders cannibalizing the males after mating. For this reason, the term "Black Widow" is used to address a woman who killed her husband in popular culture. It is stated in the game that the preferred hosts to create Black Widows are also women who committed such acts.