Demolitionist

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**Demolitionist** is a character class from Jaws of the Lion. As with all the classes from that game, it can be also transferred into Gloomhaven to participate in its campaign instead.

## Story

The Demolitionist is one of a group of Quatryls of this title, who, like so many of that race, has used their ingenuity to equip themselves for their uniquely destructive job. Namely, the Demolitionist is outfitted with rocket boots, many bombs, and piston fists. It is said that sometimes the only path forwards is one a Demolitionist creates, and that in such cases it is best to stay out of their way. At some stage, the Demolitionist found herself in Gloomhaven working a job destroying old buildings and serving as a "one-Quatryl wrecking crew". Later, she joined the Jaws of the Lion.

## Themes and Playstyle

The Demolitionist is a reasonably simple class to play, with very little extra resource management as part of its playstyle. However, she has some of the most specialized cards in Jaws of the Lion, which coupled with a small hand size means she most of all should carefully consider the cards she brings to each scenario. Core themes include destruction of obstacles, interactions with the resulting rubble tokens, and empowered melee attacks against targets adjacent to a wall. With abilities to self-strengthen and self-bless through obstacle destruction, obstacles themselves in a way become the Demolitionist's form of resource to manage, and she can often plan ahead which cards to use where for each obstacle. With the smallest hand size in Jaws of the Lion, she must take care to avoid exhaustion, so should ration her loss cards wisely and play them late.

## Ability Cards

* lvl. 1-4
* ⚠️[SPOILER] lvl. 5+

## Perks

* Jaws of the Lion
* Frosthaven

The Demolitionist has the following perks available to edit her attack modifier deck:

* ☐ Remove four  cards.
* ☐☐ Remove two  cards.
* ☐ Remove one  and one  card.
* ☐☐ Replace one  card with one  **MUDDLE** card.
* ☐ Replace one  card with one  **POISON** card.
* ☐☐ Add one  card.
* ☐☐ Replace one  card with one  card.
* ☐☐ Replace one  card with one  card.
* ☐☐ Add one  "*All adjacent enemies suffer 1 damage"* card.

The following lists the Demolitionist's rebalanced perks for if imported to Frosthaven:

* ☐ ☐ Remove two  cards
* ☐ Remove four  cards
* ☐ Remove one  and one  **POISON** card
* ☐ ☐ Replace one  card with one  **MUDDLE** card
* ☐ Replace one  card with two one  cards
* ☐ ☐ Replace one  card with one  card
* ☐ ☐ Replace one  card with one  card
* ☐ Add two  "*All adjacent enemies suffer 1 damage"* cards
* ☐ Ignore scenario effects and remove one  card.
* ☐☐ **Remodeling:** Whenever you rest while adjacent to a wall or obstacle, you may place an obstacle in an empty hex within Range2 (of you)

The Demolitionist has the following masteries which upon completion for the first time award her a perk mark:

* ☐ Deal 10 or more damage with each of three different attack actions
* ☐ Destroy at least six obstacles. End the scenario with no obstacles on the map other than those placed by allies.

## Tips & Strategy

* The Demolitionist's perks (along with the Red Guard) allow her to reduce the size of her attack modifier deck to a greater degree than other classes, to an absolute minimum of 10. This fact, should she choose to pursue these options, makes her a particularly attractive target for **BLESS**, as with a smaller modifier deck she will be statistically much more likely to draw the bless cards. The Demolitionist can even **BLESS** herself using the bottom action of *The Big One.*

## References

1. ↑ https://youtu.be/4iu8O8ELazA?t=3371
2. ↑ https://youtu.be/4iu8O8ELazA?t=3426
3. ↑ Demolitionist character mat
4. ↑ https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t2VZUGusJWDXTNsq\_LKv\_zSaD9q3A3Bm?usp=sharing