Gremlin Nob

**Act 2**

* 1 Taskmaster  The Colosseum

The **Gremlin Nob** is an Elite enemy found primarily in Act 1. However, one also appears in Act 2's  Colosseum Event alongside a Taskmaster, provided the player opts to fight. The enemy may seem to have low damage values for an elite, but the  buff it grants itself combined with the  Skull Bash's applied  make for a tough fight for most decks.

### Move

 Rush
 Skull Bash
 Deal 8 3+ damage and apply 2 .

### Pattern

Always starts with  Bellow. Afterwards, has a 33% chance of using  Skull Bash and a 67% chance of using  Rush. Cannot use  Rush 3 times in a row.

At  Ascension 18+, uses  Skull Bash on the 2nd turn and uses  Rush twice afterwards. Repeats this pattern for the entire fight.

## Tips

* With the exception of the first turn, where it has yet to apply , playing Skills will make the Gremlin Nob much more threatening. Since most -granting cards are also Skills, it can be worth more to **not** play them and take the damage instead. Before using a Skill to mitigate damage, consider how much longer the fight might take.
	+ With the Ironclad's Basic deck, the fight is about being as aggressive as possible until the very end. Use  to apply  as much as possible, and play every  attack you're dealt. When you feel the Nob will only have one turn left to live, it can be beneficial to play a  versus a  Skull Bash.  will absorb some of the impact of the fight at the end.
	+ With the Silent's Basic deck, the fight becomes more painful. The objective, however, does not change.  helps to mitigate some of the damage. Taking 4 or 10 damage should be much more manageable. Otherwise, lay in with  whenever possible.
	+ With the Defect's Basic deck the fight plays out similar to the Silent. Despite the strength gain it may be worth it to cast  early in the fight (especially if you traded away your ) and  late in the fight.  often lets you finish him off a whole turn earlier, making the strength gain irrelevant.
	+ With the Watcher's Basic deck, focus on maintaining aggression and play strong offensive cards. It is usually worth to take damage as the Watcher's style of gameplay can deal excessive amounts of damage in a single turn. Playing cards which enable  or  such as  or  to deal a large amount of burst damage can easily finish off the Gremlin Nob.
	+ Powers and Potions can both be effective at mitigating damage in place of Skills.
* If the player is fighting the Gremlin Nob in the  Colosseum event, it is probably better to kill the Gremlin Nob before the Taskmaster; the Gremlin Nob will continue to gain  when you play Skills.

## Trivia

* The Gremlin Nob is a reference to the Ork Nob from Warhammer 40k.
* According to the flavor text of the  relic, Gremlin Nobs maintain consistent growth from birth to death.
* The second fight of the Colosseum event used to contain two Gremlin Nobs. On 17 January 2019 this was changed to one Gremlin Nob and a Taskmaster instead.
* The Gremlin Nob wields a skeleton of a creature which is extremely similar to the rat-like rodent infested by the Fungi Beast. However, there are no rodent monsters in the game.

## Update History

* Slay the Spire 1.0: Farewell Early Access
	+ Colossuem Nob fight ordering swapped so that the Nob can apply Vulnerable.
* Weekly Patch 56: The Collector
	+ Colosseum event's second fight is now a Gremlin Nob + Taskmaster (rather than 2 Gremlin Nobs)
* Weekly Patch 41
	+ Colosseum Nobs no longer play double music.
	+ Killing a Colosseum Nob no longer causes the music to stop.
* Day 1 Patch
	+ Gremlin Nob gets a minor nerf.