The Teacher

* Red
* Blue

## Statistics

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 200

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130

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1.00x

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1.00x

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1.00x

## Weapons

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One-handed

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N/A

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## Additional Statistics

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Melee Unit

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Enemy

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Early Access 0.2.0

## Characteristics

The Teacher is a skillful swordsman with the ability to parry or dodge incoming melee attacks. They will always parry when possible, and dodge if it is unfeasible or risky to only parry. Certain weapons are much easier to parry before the Teacher gets overwhelmed. As skillful as the Teacher is, some parryable attacks may be too fast or well-aimed to ward off completely. Their reaction speed may also prove slow at times to dodge incoming attacks.

Unlike other units who charge blindly, the Teacher will maintain a good distance, avoid their adversary's attack and strike when the opportunity arises. This approach plays it safe, but makes the Teacher unable to fight back effectively if their adversary's weapons are unparryable, undodgeable or simply has a long attack range. This also makes them utterly useless against ranged units as the distance they insist on maintaining is just beyond their sword's reach.

## Appearance

This unit is a Wobbler with a long renaissance looking hair with a triangular beard (Similar to portraits of Shakespeare). They wear renaissance garments including a jacket with a large square jabot and dark pants with little black shoes. They wield a sword similar to that of a Spadroon, a fancy one handed blade.

## Unit Voice

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 Death Vocals

## Strategies

### Usage

This unit should be used as a part of an army due to its low cost. It is effective at dealing with weaker units (like Clubbers) and also at distracting and holding off units, thanks to its blocking and parry abilities. The blocking ability does not have any cooldown.

Their rather average HP and slow attack speed makes it lackluster in comparison to other melee specialists like Chieftain for example. It shouldn't be underestimated though due to what it is capable of, as a single Teacher can take on up to 10 Squires single handedly, as long as it's not surrounded on all sides.

## Changelog

 Early Access 0.2.0
* The Teacher was added to the game.

 Early Access 0.3.0
* Made the Teacher maintain a distance of 3 WM from their opponents.

 Early Access 0.6.0
* Decreased the cost of the Teacher from 300 to 200.

 Early Access 0.9.0
* Made the Teacher lunge toward their adversaries when attacking, allowing them to hit from a longer distance.

 Early Access 0.9.0
* Removed the Teacher's lunge ability, making them unable to hit stationary units once again.

 Early Access 0.13.0 Beta
* Changed the color of the Teacher's hair and pants.
* Gave the Teacher a pair of Da Vinci's shoes.
* Replaced the Teacher's old sword with a new shiny spadroon.

 Full Release 1.0.0
* Added new unit voice for the Teacher.

## Trivia

* The Teacher is among the only three units that can parry, the others are: Pirate Queen and Captain.
* Dodging will reduce their weapon's cooldown period to half a second.
* The Teacher can parry the Skeleton Giant's sword, even though it is **much** larger than their Spadroon.
* When possessing the teacher, it is not possible to parry any attacks except the last unit parried by the teacher before possessing them.
	+ This still applies even after the enemy unit is dead.
* The Teacher used to share the same voice as the Squire.
* Even though The Teacher was given a new weapon in an update, their Unit Icon still has the image of their old weapon.
* During the Legacy update, there was a bug where the teacher had no shoes.
* Despite being found on Ancient 2, The Teacher cannot be defined as an Ancient unit, because its sword and outfit are anachronistic to Antiquity and is a Renaissance-themed Secret unit.
	+ Interestingly, the unit came out before the Renaissance faction came out.
* The Teacher's ability of parrying is probably reused from the previous version of TABS, which would allow *all* units to block and parry.
* It has the hair of the Ballooner and the beard of the Apple Thrower.
* It used to cost 300 at some point.

## Gallery

The UI icon of the TeacherClose-up of a Red TeacherClose-up of a Blue TeacherThe original look of the TeacherA teacher blocking a fencerThe teachers redesign as of the UC betaLET ME TEACH U GOOD SIRA Teacher criticizing a hostile Painter’s art