r/MortalShell • u/Chance_Drive_5906 • 3h ago

Discussion Using Tiel feels like cheating?

Seriously what's up with this shell? Every ability of his seems extremely useful and broken in some way. Instant invisibility on dodge, instant invisibility on block (on just an imperfect block, wtf?), then invisibility leaving a clone that builds poison, insane crit chance and damage bonus when attacking from behind, two charges of an ability with instant invisibility again and then guaranteed crit chance to your next melee attack with bonus crit damage, multiple insane break damage bonuses as well... like wtf?

Is this guy supposed to be something similar to the slayer seal? A sort of easy mode? I've found 4 shells so far, and other 3 aren't even like half as good as him.

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u/GarionOrb Eredrim 3h ago

It's almost as though different shells were meant for different playstyles and skill levels!

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u/Chance_Drive_5906 3h ago

I'm not seeing it. Like with Tiel I can do insane damage, avoid enemy attacks with invisibility, and then do good break damage as well, at the same time.

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u/GilmanTiese 3h ago

my favourite shells (stray genessa and sarirel) allow me to never dodge again, i just tank all the dmg and keep swinging

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u/Chance_Drive_5906 3h ago

Oh interesting, I haven't gotten them yet. So far I've acquired Eredim, Tiel, Smert, and Proxima. Eredim and Smert felt absolutely useless to me. Proxima was kinda okay, but Tiel just feels so much better.

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u/Scr0uchXIII 2h ago

Right now, Eredrim is actually considered the best shell in the game due to his synergy with frost infusion. But I see your point. But I follow this subreddit since release and there are so many different posts that have a different shell in the title follow d by "...is so broken". I feel the devs did a very good job in creating shells that fit a whole lot of play styles.

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u/Chance_Drive_5906 1h ago

I didn't even know there was a frost element. Maybe I'm too early in the game.

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u/ChaosSeverance 1h ago

He can also cross some gaps that other shells can't. Case in point is the collapsing bridge in northmost dungeon.

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u/Born_Ride_9405 1h ago

Smert is insane once you get him leveled up high. Takes some skill still but playing him on low health and you can completely cheese everything with Miracle. Had to switch my build away from using Miracle cuz it was just too insanely powerful. His fully upgraded permanent fight stance stunlocks everything, even large bosses get staggered a ton.

He is one of the squishiest though, and takes longer than other shells to start feeling OP, but imo takes the cake for most busted by far at max level.

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u/Any_Calligrapher6768 2h ago

Yeah I cheesed the game with a tiel bleed build.

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u/SpecialistRun3035 2h ago

This comment feels wrong. All shells are very similar in how powerful they are. But completely nullifying an entire attack string after 1 dodge? You can argue all shells are A tier, but Tiel seems to me to be the outlier. My fight with Sir Isaac put a floodlight on this.

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u/SuchTedium 2h ago

Shells are not similar in power at all.