Who Exactly Is Satori?

*UPDATE*

(Please skip to the end of the article, if you just want to see who Satori is effective against.)

Ravenous Pack

So with the Satori event coming up, I thought that I would go ahead and do a write up for him.  As one of our members found out today, he can be quite impressive. 

To start off, let's take a look at his skills.

His White skill: Ravenous Pack

Looking at his Skills page, we see that Satori's base attack applies "Fox Fire Marks" to the enemy opponent in addition to dealing magic damage.  When Ravenous Pack activates, Satori at this level deals 10641 Magic damage for every Fox Fire Mark! So if an enemy has three marks, Satori would deal approximately 30K damage!  That can kill some heroes in one hit!

His Green Skill:  Spirit Banishment

 

This skill attacks all enemies and applies a Fox Fire Mark, tying back in to his White skill.  This is just going to amplify all of that damage that we talked about with his white skill.

His Blue Skill:  Centurial Wisdom

This is an interesting skill.  It steals intelligence with every successful base attack.  You know who's smart?  Your HEALERS, and most of your support heroes.  Lars and Krista also are intelligence based heroes.  After the intelligence is stolen, Satori recovers 200% of damage that he was dealt as health.  Hit him with 10K damage?  He just gained 20K health!

His Violet Skill:  Looming Justice

Satori applies NINE, yes NINE Fox Fire Marks to every hero that gains bonus energy.  This ties right back in to his first ability.  When it fires, our example Satori is going to deal someone 90K worth of damage!

Satori's main artifact will give the whole team increased magic attack.   

All right, so let's break this down.  Fox Fire Marks are where all of Satori's damage really comes from. Since his artifact increases Magic Attack, he's going to fit in best with Magic based teams, or hybrid teams.  Team composition for Satori could go something like this:  Astaroth (Big Magic Attack), Maya (She's a good healer, and has an awesome Magic Attack), Celeste (She also increases Magic Attack, and is a great Healer), and Martha.  This is one time where a three healer team makes a lot of sense.  Other suitable heroes are: Jorgen, Lars, Krista, Kiera, Aurora, Galahad, Faceless, Kai, K'arkh (only if he's paired with Faceless/Kai/Lars).  

The most important thing about Satori in a offensive situation is his fourth skill.  It will apply 9 Fox Fire Marks to any heroes who gain bonus energy.  So how do we define bonus energy?  Energy is gained by attacking, and being attacked most of the time.  Any energy gained by a way other than this is considered bonus energy.  You know who gives away bonus energy like it's going out of style?  Jorgen.  So when Jorgen steals energy and gives it to himself or his teammates, he's basically signing their death warrant.  Satori is our fabled Jorgen Killer.  Simply put, don't fight a team that has him with Jorgen, and bring him to the party every time you face a team that has Jorgen.

What you don't see here is what happened next.  Satori fired his White Skill and killed Cleaver, Jorgen, and Martha in ONE SHOT.  The battle ended shortly after.

So, it has been pointed out to me that it would be helpful to know who exactly Satori is useful against.

To discover who we can take Satori to defeat, we need to go back to what he does.  Satori's skill applies 9 Foxfire Marks to ANY heroes that gain bonus energy.  As we've already seen, that can be a very bad thing for teams that use Jorgen; because he gives everyone on the team bonus energy.  

So, let's try to understand energy generation itself first.  A hero receives 10% energy for any ability they use other than their white ability, or their violet ability, even if the opponent dodges the attack.  The second way that Heroes gain energy is through health loss.  They gain 1% energy for every 1% of max health lost.  Finally, a hero gains energy for killing an opponent.

None of these are considered bonus energy in the game.  Okay, so what is?  Well, if it isn't listed in the previous paragraph, it's considered bonus energy.  

A little known element of the game, bonus energy is gained every time a hero executes a dodge.  This means that Satori will damage/kill a good deal of the Agility based heroes.  Ishmael, Auora, and K'arkh are an example.  Other heroes that give themselves bonus energy are Ishmael in Demon Mode, K'arkh (again I know), and Orion for example.  I will add more as I find them.

Feel free to leave your questions in the comments!