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So I'm currently having a lot of trouble with Rasputina. I run Nico and its not working out really well.

I'm not looking for a direct counter, but what other masters from any faction would be a good match up to fight raspy? Also looking on what second master I should purchase

Any master is a good matchup. You just need to prioritise threats, check if the board is in her favour, and try to play to schemes and strats.

My best experience fighting her is to deny her attack vectors by killing or engaging things, and throwing even middling or weak models in her face can really mess her up, since her defenses are so horrible.

Nicodem seems like he'd have very good odds, since he's got a strong summoning game.

Other than that, anyone with strong threat range and some relatively disposable models to throw in her face should cause her trouble.

She's a master where I find quantity over quality of attacks often works best.

And yes, avoiding her is always a possibility depending on objectives.

She has one defensive trick. Denying attack activations. Anything that denies triggers is laughing. An executioner to her face would make her break. Or Sybelle. Belles in general would make her cry.

I don't even deny her kills, I just feed her. She can kill, but if you can keep your hand to the point where she has to spend her entire activation to do so, her glacial walk of 3 will keep her out of the game at the end when it counts. The only issue with this is if she's running the snow storm taxi, in which case you just need to kill that thing. As a resser, you shouldn't have a problem isolating it.

 thedarkavenger wrote:
She has one defensive trick. Denying attack activations. Anything that denies triggers is laughing. An executioner to her face would make her break. Or Sybelle. Belles in general would make her cry.

The Students AKA Iron Zombies AKA Transmortis Set are all things that deny triggers, making them invaluable for taking on Arcanists. Mech Rider without triggers, denying Collette her Triggers, and Raspy's sub zero are all things I'd want them to not be able to declare.

Since Nicodem can summon them, they're pretty handy to have in the toolbox.