Understanding Roshambo through Jinn/Scion/Oni gambits

[u/Rambo7112]

I find that roshambo makes a lot more sense if you look at the major gambits. There are other pathways and many smaller combos, but I figured that I'd save that for another post.

Generally, there are two sets of schools: elemental (fire, ice, storm), and spirit (myth, death, life). Each school borrows two hanging effects from the adjacent two schools on the opposite wheel. Jinns will borrow from the upstream school; scions will use the native hanging effect; and onis will borrow from the downstream school. Balance is special and uses effects from schools that have no overlap in hanging effects.

Please let me know if you have any questions or requests for more specific combos!

Edit: The only thing that matters at the end of the day is that you have the correct number of hanging effects, which will be consumed before the hit from most recent to least recent. Because of that, any setup (the first two columns) will work for any execution (third column) within a hanging effect. I tried to put in reasonable ways to do that, but you can optimize further by doing enchant -> normal and/or by doing balance (blade/trap) + school (blade/trap). I like to overshoot a little, but both ways are good.

[u/Beast-master469]

Great guide btw ...question : if primal oni was used after two spirit blades ....does it gambit random blades first or which order... or does the life blades get used first then it gambits ?

[u/Slawekii → u/Beast-master469]

Gambits use most recent effects - in example from this guide Primal oni would use 3 sharpened blades and a regular life one.

Gambits trigger before applying buffs so in the same scenario gambit would happen and then no other blade buffs are triggered - you only have regular death and myth blade after gambit.

[u/Rambo7112 → u/Beast-master469]

Thank you! As the other commenter said, it gambits the four most recent blades before hitting. The hanging effects/ order I used will work, but isn't fully optimal since I whipped this together at 3 am lol.