Lancer

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## Lancer

* Sprite
* Illustration

### Level 6 Buff

 Each skill use increases damage by 10%, stacking up to 5 times. Instantly gain full stacks when health drop to 1

## Skills

 Dragon Lance

The  **Lancer** is a playable character. He has dark blue eyes with black hair in a ponytail. He wears a blue traditional Chinese-style robe, a red sash, and a white cape.

Once unlocked, he can also be encountered during a run as an NPC. Upon interaction, he will follow and assist the player like a Follower for the current floor only, wielding the Dragon Fang (upgraded if the upgrade has already been bought). Lancer can use his Dragon Dive attack in combat.

## Unlock & upgrade

The Lancer can be unlocked at the cost of 12,000 gems.

Each upgrade changes the stats slightly.

1. +1 HP - cost: 500 gems
2. +1 Armor - cost: 1,000 gems
3. +20 Energy - cost: 1,500 gems
4. -2s Skill Cooldown - cost: 2,000 gems
5. Skill Upgrade - cost: 2,500 gems
6. Passive buff - cost: 5,000 gems
7. Enhance Starting Weapon - cost: 8,000 gems

## Alternate Skins

Lancer currently has 2 alternate skins, which include:

* 1 gem skin
* 1 paid skin

* Has visual art & card.
* Has a reskin **Dragon Fang** named **Valor Silver Lance**.
* Has unique skill effect for Dragon Lance.
* Has visual art & card.
* Has unique portrait.

## Dragon Lance

### Basic:

*Strike enemies using three moves: Dragon Dive, Dragon Flurry, and Dragon Slash.
Dragon Dive: Leap high and thrust towards enemies.
Dragon Flurry: Move swiftly and spin the lance to slash enemies.
Dragon Slash: Swing the lance to unleash a projectile, striking enemies from a distance.*

### Skill Upgrade:

**Attacking enemies accumulates Battle Will. When the Battle Will reaches full stacks, it activates Thunder Lance, attack speed, and enhancing the skill.
Dragon Dive can stun enemies.
Dragon Flurry can inflict electro-charged effect.
 Dragon Slash can deal more damage and inflict electro-charged effect.**

### Cooldown:

6 (5) seconds.

Basic
*Strike enemies using three moves: Dragon Dive, Dragon Flurry, and Dragon Slash.
Dragon Dive: Leap high and thrust towards enemies.
Dragon Flurry: Move swiftly and spin the lance to slash enemies.
Dragon Slash: Swing the lance to unleash a projectile, striking enemies from a distance.*
* Dragon Lance consists of 3 moves: Dragon Dive, Dragon Flurry, and Dragon Slash, corresponding with the 3 charges of the skill.
	+ Tap the skill button to perform one of the moves at a time, consuming 1 charge in the process.
	+ After activating Dragon Dive or Dragon Flurry, the player has 6 seconds to perform the next move before the skill CD restarts.
	+ After activating Dragon Slash (the last move), the skill CD will start after a 0.5-second delay.
* First move - Dragon Dive:
	+ Lancer jumps high and thrusts towards enemies, dealing 4 damage in a 2.5-tile radius area.
	+ Lancer can attack and take no damage when he is mid-air and landing. He can also change his jump direction mid-air.
	+ The jump targets the nearest enemy in sight. If there are no nearby enemies, he will always land 6 tiles away from where he jumps.
* Second move - Dragon Flurry:
	+ Lancer spins his spear, dealing 3 damage every 0.5 seconds to enemies within 4 tiles away from himself.
	+ Tap on the skill button again to cancel this attack and perform Dragon Slash. Else, it will last 2.5 seconds.
* Third move - Dragon Slash:
	+ Lancer swings the spear and launches a piercing projectile, dealing 12 damage to enemies.
	+ The projectile is 8 tiles wide and can pierce through walls and borders.
* This skill has a cooldown of 6 (5) seconds. It starts 0.5 seconds after the player activates Dragon Slash or 6 seconds after they activate Dragon Dive or Dragon Flurry.
	+ All 3 charges of the skill will be restored after 1 cooldown.
* Dragon Lance can be further enhanced when paired with the following Buffs:
	+ - Dragon Slash releases 2 extra smaller projectiles, each dealing half the damage of the main projectiles.
	+ - Greatly increases the radius of effect for Dragon Dive by 3 tiles.
	+ - Increases the radius of effect for Dragon Dive and Dragon Flurry by 1 tile.

Skill upgrade
*Attacking enemies accumulates Battle Will. When the Battle Will reaches full stacks, it activates Thunder Lance, attack speed, and enhancing the skill.
Dragon Dive can stun enemies.
Dragon Flurry can inflict electro-charged effect.
 Dragon Slash can deal more damage and inflict electro-charged effect.*
* Unlocks the Battle Will Bar located below the Energy Bar on the player UI.
	+ The Battle Will Bar's capacity is 100 points.
	+ Lancer gains 2 Battle Will points for every damage instance he deals to the enemies. He also gains 6 points for each skill activation.
* After reaching 100 Battle Will points, Lancer instantly and automatically enters the Thunder Lance mode. During 15 seconds of this mode, he gains the following effects:
	+ Battle Will slowly drains out, Lancer cant not gain new points during Thunder Lance mode.
	+ Critical Chance +30% (stacks with other sources).
	+ Fire rate +30%.
	+ Cooldown finishes 20% faster.
	+ Dragon Dive: damage increases from 4 to 6 and can inflict Stun.
	+ Dragon Flurry: damage increases from 3 to 5 and can inflict Electrify.
	+ Dragon Slash: damage increases from 12 to 15 and can inflict Electrify.

Mentor Upgrade
*Thunder Lance lasts longer.*
* Increases Thunder Lance's mode duration by 10 seconds.

## Quotes

### Interaction in the Living Room

* *"My lance requires sharpening."*
* *"Have you heard of a devastating lance technique that strikes from heavens?"*
* *"Have you seen my white cloak?"*
* *"I'm a lancer!"*

### During a run as an NPC

* *"Let me pave the way for you!"*
* *"Yes, master."*

## Trivia

* This character was added in Update 6.0.0, along with Sword Master.
* Lancer's Bare Hands attack is slightly smaller than other characters.