Yssylla

Yssylla was once a Nyss oracle serving the ephemeral dragon, Everblight. Her young mind was corrupted by the dragon's otherworldly consciousness, and for years she believed serving him was a privilege and her destiny. When the apocalypse came, the dragon's voice vanished, and Yssylla has only broken memories of what followed.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Cold Immunity
• Template:Corrosion Immunity
• Template:Stealth
• Template:Magic Ability
• Template:Unleash the Arcane

Weapons

• Template:Unarmed

Spells

{{Category: Template:Puppet MasterTemplate:Shatter Storm ActionTemplate:Toxic Blizzard }}[[Category: Template:Puppet MasterTemplate:Shatter Storm ActionTemplate:Toxic Blizzard ]]

Theme Forces

• Template:Children of the Dragon
• Template:Oracles of Annihilation

Thoughts on Yssylla

Yssylla in a nutshell

Yssylla is the mysterious blighted Nyss coming in the new Riot Quest Wintertime Wasteland starter box (pledge now on Kickstarter!). No one knows exactly who she is under the mask, but in the Riot Quest timeline we know that she escaped "whatever happened up north" and has shattered memories of the event. She doesn't like to talk about it to much, but something in her has changed.

She was clearly an Ice Witch of sorts, but her magic is now corrupted with toxic properties. She can't summon a simple blizzard anymore, instead she summons a whirlwind of frozen acid that clings to skin, melts, and dissolves.

Yssylla has lower end defensive stats as she isn't really wearing any armor, but she does has constant Stealth to help protect her. Her main strength lies in her capable arcane abilities. At Magic Ability 8, Yssylla can land her two offensive spells (Puppet Master and Toxic Blizzard) with ease. Support wise she is rocking both Puppet Master (when used non-offensively) and first the first time ever not on a caster ... Shatterstorm.

Note, this Shatterstorm can't be upkeep, as its not on a caster and Yssylla has no resource mechanic, but it still functions the same for the duration it lasts. This spell is great on the new Nyss Archers when they have their command attachment, thanks to the whole unit always having ROF 2 now if the Ammo Porter is in play at all.

While Yssylla can definitely hang back and just be a support model, her Unleash the Arcane means you can get a bit of double duty out of her. Once per turn when she lands an offensive spell, she can immediately cast another spell. This could be two offensive Puppet Masters, two of the Toxic Blizzard AOEs (which Virtues love, in case they are combating an enemy that they can't shoot for any number of reasons) or one of those spells followed up by a potent Shatterstorm.

Combos & Synergies

• Toxic Blizzard is great for tagging as many enemy models as possible with Corrosion, which set them up to be torn apart by Virtue Hosts and Virtue Champions.
• Shatter Storm is great on any model with multiple attacks, such as Typhon, an Archangel, Blighted Nyss Raptors or the aforementioned Blighted Nyss Archers.
  • The Throne of Everblight gets special mention since it can cast every time if destroys or RFPs a model with it's melee attacks, of which it has four. So it can potetially mince four single wound infantry, let them blow up, and then get four casts out of it.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Painfully squishy and reliant on Stealth to keep her alive. Watch out for Anti-Stealth stuff.
• Liable to spell hate, as any spellcaster is bound to be.
• Low POW on her offensive spell and no way to boost the damage on it. It's mainly there to spread corrosion to set up Virtues.
• Unarmed, and if she uses her only offensive spell in melee she might kill herself with blast damage.
• She's basically an anti-infantry specialist: Shatterstorm hard counters a lot of recursion, and a 4" AOE Toxic Blizzard kills infantry. But if there's no enemy infantry around she is just an expensive Puppet Master.
  • If all you want is a Puppet Master, you can get one for five points or three for seven points.

Tricks & Tips

• You'll probably die the turn after you Unleash the Arcane unless your turn is absolutely overwhelming - so treat her as a backline caster who can move forward.
• Unleash the Arcane triggers on a hit not just on a direct hit - really useful with Toxic Blizzard as you only need to clip a model with that 4" AoE.

Other

Trivia

• Released 2020.12