The Assassin (LWOTC)

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Now a close-combat menace, the Assassin is a juggernaut that will run towards you and slash you whenever possible. Her initially-low, but ever-increasing damage cannot be underestimated.

Basic Abilities

List of the chosen's basic abilities

Slash Attack an adjacent target with your sword. Uses one action.	Infighter Gain 40 dodge against attacks within four tiles.	Parting Silk Perform a dashing melee attack.
Vanishing Wind The assassin will enter concealment and gain 50% mobility bonus.	Harbor Wave Send a psionic wave that deals guaranteed damage. This attack is boosted by Blood Thirst. 3-turn cooldown.	Blood Thirst (Chosen) Every time you attack with your melee weapon, get a stackable damage boost to your melee attacks. Resets upon a successful kidnap.
Impact Compensation After taking damage, gain a stacking 25% Damage reduction until the end of your turn up to a maximum of 4 stacks.	Hit and Run Once per turn, gain an additional action after taking a standard shot at a flanked or exposed target with your primary weapon. Cannot trigger on the same turn as Close Encounters.	Unstoppable This unit's mobility cannot go below 7.
	Mountain Mist Throw a mountain mist that blinds targets caught in the blast radius for 2 turns. 2-turn cooldown.	Moving Target Gain 15 defense and 50 dodge against reaction attacks.

Strengths

Possible Chosen strengths they can train.

Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3
Blast Shield Damage taken by explosive attacks is reduced by 50%.	Return Fire When targeted by enemy fire, automatically fire back with your primary weapon once per turn.	Bladestorm Free melee attacks on any enemies that enter, exit or attack from melee range on enemy turns.
Damage Control After taking damage, gain 2 armor through the end of the turn.	Close Combat Specialist Fire a free reaction shot with your primary weapon at any visible enemy within four tiles who moves or fires.	Hazmat Vest Become immune to environmental effects.
All Seeing Detect concealed units within vision range.	Psychotic Rage Deal 35% additional damage when below 50% HP.	Blood Bath Harbor wave cone is wider by 2 tiles, and each enemy hit by it grants a blood thirst stack.
Sprinter Gain 1 mobility.	Misty Madness The radius of your mist grenade is increased by 2.	Impenetrable Impact Compensation Stacking limit is increased by 1.
Instant Reaction Time Gain 2 dodge per tile from the attacker.	Hero Slayer Attacks deal +35% damage against hero classes.
	Unbreakable All Rupture Effects inflicted on you will be instantly removed.

Rank 1 Stats

Difficulty	Health	Armor	Aim	Crit Chance	Flanking Crit Chance Bonus	Defense	Dodge	Mobility	Will	Detection Radius (tiles)
Rookie	14	0	70	0	33	0	0	9	50	8
Veteran	18	0	75	0	33	0	0	9	50	8
Commander	22	0	75	10	40	0	0	9	50	8
Legend	27	0	80	10	40	0	0	9	50	8

Weapon	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Other
Chosen Shotgun	4	2	4	+25 Crit Chance
Chosen Sword	3	-	-	-

Rank 2 Stats

Difficulty	Health	Armor	Aim	Crit Chance	Flanking Crit Chance Bonus	Defense	Dodge	Mobility	Will	Detection Radius (tiles)
Rookie	18	0	70	0	33	0	0	9	50	8
Veteran	24	0	75	0	33	0	0	9	50	8
Commander	29	0	75	10	40	0	0	9	50	8
Legend	36	0	80	10	40	0	0	9	50	8

Weapon	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Other
Chosen Shotgun	5 - 6	2	4	+25 Crit Chance
Chosen Sword	3 - 5	1	-	-

Rank 3 Stats

Difficulty	Health	Armor	Aim	Crit Chance	Flanking Crit Chance Bonus	Defense	Dodge	Mobility	Will	Detection Radius (tiles)
Rookie	24	0	70	0	33	0	0	9	50	8
Veteran	32	0	75	0	33	0	0	9	50	8
Commander	38	0	75	10	40	0	0	9	50	8
Legend	48	0	80	10	40	0	0	9	50	8

Weapon	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Other
Chosen Shotgun	7	4	4	+25 Crit Chance
Chosen Sword	3 - 6	2	-	-

Rank 4 Stats

Difficulty	Health	Armor	Aim	Crit Chance	Flanking Crit Chance Bonus	Defense	Dodge	Mobility	Will	Detection Radius (tiles)
Rookie	24	0	70	0	33	0	0	9	50	8
Veteran	32	0	75	0	33	0	0	9	50	8
Commander	40	0	75	10	40	0	0	9	50	8
Legend	64	0	80	10	40	0	0	9	50	8

Weapon	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Other
Chosen Shotgun	8 - 9	4	4	+25 Crit Chance
Chosen Sword	5 - 7	3	-	-

Rank 5 Stats

Difficulty	Health	Armor	Aim	Crit Chance	Flanking Crit Chance Bonus	Defense	Dodge	Mobility	Will	Detection Radius (tiles)
Rookie	43	0	70	0	33	0	0	9	50	8
Veteran	56	0	75	0	33	0	0	9	50	8
Commander	68	0	75	10	40	0	0	9	50	8
Legend	85	0	80	10	40	0	0	9	50	8

Weapon	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Other
Chosen Shotgun	10	5	4	+25 Crit Chance
Chosen Sword	7	3	-	-

Tips

• She takes further and further reduced damage with each successive attack, so try to cram as much damage as possible into as few attacks as possible as early as possible.
• The Assassin's base mobility is very low so having mobile soldiers can help more easily avoid their attack range. Abilities that reduce their mobility such as poison can be helpful in limiting her effective range. Be careful not to be completely out of range as it may encourage her to Vanishing Wind or have methods to reveal her.
• If she is standing next to a soldier or rebel at the time, she will use her turn or Chosen reaction to slash. Thus it is recommended to mainly bring soldiers decently capable of attacking her from outside her movement range.
  • If, however, she is not adjacent to a valid slash target during her turn or action, she will use her actions in order to move closer to a target. With this, it is best to make sure units that are close by still have actions remaining to run away if she does get close to limit the amount of attacks.
• The assassin can gain both Close Combat Specialist and Bladestorm thus it is best to fight at range or have ways to ignore reaction attacks. Lightning reflexes is not sufficient as she will always guarantee a hit with her katana and the shotgun at close range will still have a chance to hit.