Any thoughts how to beat Cairne in an arena match? I faced him last week and the charge/crit/ instant kill seems hard to beat w/ no respawns.

building a team around higher armor will most likely help.. remember that on average cairne will roll 5 successes of his 7 dice.. and unless the team is built around him getting an instant crit (which i can't imagine why it wouldn't in this game scenario) you probably won't end up losing a figure to the crit, if you can roll at least 2-3 successes in defence

however there are always those fluke games that even with a 4 armor character.. the cairne could roll a whopping 7 successes with crit and you flop on all 4 of your defence dice

but that's just the luck of the dice

that being said you shouldn't worry so much about the opposition as much as worrying about what kind of team you're going to build that can make quick kills with ease

 

I was under the impression that arena was 18 honor, 3 characters, no legendaries, no respawn. Am I wrong?

-Ben

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Isgee is, by definition, a snob.

That's what we were playing at the Arena events at World's.   If you are going to allow Cairne, you may want to try Amalar, since he can't be moved and has 4 armor.

Another option is sideboarding Foreman's Reinforced Helmet

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I was under the impression that arena was 18 honor, 3 characters, no legendaries, no respawn. Am I wrong?

-Ben

I believe arena is what you make it. You can set the honor limit and the legendary on/off to whatever, as long as everyone is playing the same rules.

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Master Tactician and Rexxar...

I wonder if trying to set the number of ABCs to 5-7 would be more fun. After all, that would be balanced out by the fact that you rarely get to use all of them in a matchup.

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That's what we were playing at the Arena events at World's.   ..

also in DMF LV.