Flail Knight

• HP: 101 (Ascension: 108)
• Act: Path of Glory
• Passive: None

A buff-focused elite that shouts War Cry to buff up before attacking. The opening move being a buff turns that window into an obvious damage opportunity. HP 101 is standard for an elite — a decent damage deck can finish it before the buffs matter.

After War Cry stacks Strength, it follows up with Flail and Charge. Post-buff, Flail's 9 and Charge's 15 each gain Strength as bonus damage, so more buffs mean more incoming damage.

• War Cry turns are the biggest damage windows since no attack is incoming. Skip Block entirely and swing hard. Damage here sets the tempo of the whole fight
• HP 101 is within speed-kill range. Killing it over the War Cry turn plus the next turn means barely eating any buff damage
• Charge's 15 can break 20 with buffs. When Charge is intended, stack enough Block
• Flail at 9 is light without buffs, but after 2 War Cries it's 15+. Don't slack on defense after buffs stack
• Weak offsets the buff scaling. One Weak can effectively nullify the Strength boost in some cases
• In multi-enemy fights, War Cry may buff the whole group. Focus on removing one target first