Ranking all 24 spirits in spirit island (2021)

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[@3MBG]

I apologize for the video being a lot more rambly and less edited than our normal content. With Steph in hospital last week, i decided to make something a lot quicker and easier than a 3 minute recap. And yes, a 45 minute video like this is less work than a normal recap, as weird as that sounds. Stephs feeling a lot better now, so things should be back to normal soon.

[@3MBG]

And if you want to use the ranking tool, it is here. tiermaker.com/create/spirit-island-spirits-jagged-earth-559774 Made by @0vermind98 on twitter

[@Koshak87]

Get well and stay well!

[@yaycooo]

Glad she’s better! Maybe a follow up video can be the two of you talking about the best two spirit combinations?

[@musicisthelove]

I love your concise 3 min videos but for a game like spirit island, that I am heavily invested in, this discussion based format lends itself perfectly. I am very happy for the length because I can appreciate your reasoning. The editing is good for me, so no issues there. Hope you both stay well and thanks for making this video :)

[@icefyre45]

I am here to predictably say Ocean should be higher!

[@richardlemmon1849]

I am so glad that I'm not the only person who looked at Unexpected Tigers and immediately thought, "I don't even care what this power does, this is my new favorite card."

[@Koshak87]

Do we need more tier lists? Nah. Do we need more Spirit Island? Yes, please =)

[@mydemon]

Thank you for this! The girlfriend and I never quite 'clicked' with Spirit Island, until we tried it one last time tonight by following your suggestion (Thunderspeaker/River Surges In Sunlight) and we had a BLAST! THANK YOU!

[@AzureIV]

That combo is insanely powerful.

[@sheledon3272]

Ocean is by far my favorite. I absolutely wreck with him. When I play him we can ensure that there is absolutely nothing alive on the coast. He is really good with support spirits that move things around.

[@Iamwrongbut]

The strongest two spirit combos I have found in the game are 1. Ocean and River. Water + Water = Win. River pushes into the ocean, powering up ocean, which gives River energy through its starting card which powers up River, which then pushes more into the ocean until game over. 2. Volcano and Rampant Spread of Green. Getting volcano’s presence out faster means you can hit a mid level explosion (6 presence) quite early, or an enormous explosion (10+) mid game and potentially win the game on that turn. It is so fun to bide your time, waiting for the invaders to build up and then erupt and kill an entire board at once, generating dozens and dozens of fear.

[@littlej211]

If there is a third player, put them in as Lightnings Swift Strike. Speeding up River's innate while benefitting massively from Boon of Vigor. With all that energy lightning can easily assist Ocean's backline

[@jpwfilmarchives8076]

This sounds awesome I wanna try rampant/volcano now

[@Desocupad0]

You need finder + stone. It's so broken it hurts.

[@itskeeler21]

4 player game, the strongest combination I have ever seen is River Surges in Sunlight, Ocean's Hungry Grasp, Spread of Rampant Green, and Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island. Seriously. You cannot lose. Another combo that I have not personally seen but could understand why it might be better, is sub out Rampant for Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves. If that combo gets to late game, it's game over

[@levthedevil6405]

I played the volcano with the two spirits from Horizon - the one adds explorers instead of buildings during build which kept the cities to the other end of the board - the other boosted our range and added energy like crazy. We ended up lining up the volcano to take out all the cities in a single eruption + a few minor powers to finish off. It was fantastic.

[@Brainstrain]

Ocean requires other people to push your stuff. Once they do, you can continually drown invaders with an amazing pace. But by yourself, very very difficult.

[@truemrfu9673]

Just a piece of advice, solo you need to get minor powers early, and can actually get a major power pretty quick because their energy creation is so good from drowning when solo.

[@ezraelstein9609]

Ocean+bringer=fear+destruction

[@Dehalove]

Shadows Flicker like Flame having a mellow identity is actually something I love! It also has great energy acceleration allowing you to pick up on swingy, expensive cards and build around them. He also helped me appreciate slow cards. Thunderspeaker was actually my least favorite because she felt very slow and unimportant.

[@cabalpaxiarch7239]

Εven though Ocean is by far my favorite spirit to play, I can see why some people don't get it. It's not easy to get in sync with it's rhythm and style of play. It starts very slow and it takes a lot of effort to build up to it's power spikes, not to mention that bad timing can set you back 2 whole turns. At first I simply enjoyed it because it made pushing so much more powerful for the entire team. But the more I played it the more I appreciated it's nuances and unique abilities. It's not for everyone and limiting yourself to mostly coast areas can feel restrictive but for anyone who finds their plays getting repetitive and are looking for something totally unique and new I wholeheartedly suggest trying it out.

[@RatchetSly]

I've wanted to play Spirit Island for ages - hopefully 2021 is the year I can give it a shot!

[@the_Zinabi]

It's a great game. It solo's really well, so even in these tricky times it's possible to get it to the table.

[@jasonminer9871]

I’m in the same boat. Hoping to get it this year.

[@HasekuraIsuna]

You can play it in Tabletop Simulator!

[@hootsmcgee7896]

hopefully you made it happen... theres still time this year!

[@RatchetSly]

@@hootsmcgee7896 I found it in a local game shop 7 months ago, and I've managed to get multiple games in since! It's great \o/

[@magus1]

Great stuff, thanks for sharing your experience with these spirits! Part of the beauty of this game is how different each spirit plays and how every person will experience them differently. My personal top 5 favorite to play are: 1. Mists: Vanishing things. 2. Fractured: The master of time. 3. Trickster: Fun troublemaker! 4. Finder: Magical portals everywhere. 5. Ocean: Respect the sea. Don't know if they're the strongest but certainly the most fun to me, and we usually play difficulty 9 or 10. I know there are already lots of spirits but I wish there were even more! Love this game so much, highly recommended to anyone out there looking for a fun co-op challenge.

[@BeingFriends]

We literally filmed our own Tierlist video for all the spirits right before you uploaded this!! 😆😂 Excited to watch your list and share my own!

[@HoldenHarrisVideos]

My favorite game and one of my all time favorite youtubers! So excited!

[@Lynaliaplop]

Ocean C WHAT ? WHAT ? you really need to play it more xD Because the ocean is really a beast :D

[@madad0406]

Yeah, Ocean is incredibly strong.

[@Z1DM0]

Drowning owns with two or three otherwise layers. Because you just push everything to the coasts and bye-bye

[@AzureIV]

Ocean with Lure is a death trap. Either you are swallowed by the Ocean or lost in the Wilderness.

[@littlej211]

Ocean is S+++

[@danielmarlett1421]

Playing Guard the Isle's Heart Oceans is a turn one drown a coastal city. He is super strong.

[@3MBG]

Oh, and if you want to use the ranking tool yourself, it is here tiermaker.com/create/spirit-island-spirits-jagged-earth-559774

[@TheHexyBeast]

i been waiting for some more spirit island content from you. Great Video! Stay Hexy!

[@InRealTime769]

I see a lot of people defending the Ocean with push spirits, but I also apply that logic to Volcano. If you can stack up invaders in and around Volcano's starting area, you can very quickly rack up consistent insane turns.

[@danielmarlett1421]

My favorite modern board game. I wanted a video like this. Thank you

[@AndrewWhise]

Many Minds Move as One is my favorite! Sooo strong when those event cards with Beasts show up (which seems to be all the time). Also coolest theme: a badass swarm of bees and gulls? What's not to like?

[@Jaxser]

Starlight is my absolute favorite spirit, and that has a lot to do with how it can draw a major power turn 2 and basically play it every turn thereafter due to the flexibility of the growth options. The identity of Starlight becomes that major power for the game, and after some customization it even gets the thresholds with each play. Just look through the major power deck and for each card imagine how awesome it would be to play it each turn for an entire game (it has to be about 5 energy cost or less to work out without help from other spirits). I have yet to have it happen, but just imagine Strangling Firewines turn 3 (with threshold) and onwards! The initial draw of major powers is indeed horribly random, but part of the fun is using all the spirit's options to adapt to whatever you pick. Just as a few examples, I had a game of playing Unrelenting Growth every turn which led to unprecedented acceleration, and a game with Sea Monsters together with Fangs that was completely nuts. Every game with Starlight is unique, and that is the true strength of the spirit.

[@3MBG]

Interesting, sounds a lot like my plays with shifting memory of ages which go that way. I'll keep trying with starlight to see how she grows on me

[@Pryde551]

Great video. Ocean's Hungry Grasp is my favorite. Such a powerful and thematic spirit. If you can draw into Tsunami it's gg for the invaders. Thunderspeaker never clicked well for me so it's cool to see different perspectives on what other people prefer. The rest of my picks would be similar to yours.

[@johnboi3933]

Love how different this list was! Keep up the SI content this was great. Also I would suggest trying River and Ocean paired together. Both begin to shine when they team up! And it helps understanding the power OHG can possess.

[@3MBG]

I can see that working, more shifting stuff closer to oceans for him to nom on.

[@johnboi3933]

@@3MBG yea and River can literally just push dudes into the ocean and they drown. Basically turns River into a god of destruction. All the while giving Ocean energy. It’s silly.

[@bumptiousbuffoon7824]

@@3MBG Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares is another classic/amazing Ocean combo. Ocean lets it actually destroy stuff! You get the fear from the pushing as well as from the drowning

[@3MBG]

Playing them on the app right now

[@mbalazs3544]

I think Green is the strongest spirit of the game and he is support too, Thunder deserves S level too :D I love the base game characters so much lol

[@3MBG]

Spirit island is great for not having later options just be better, some of the originals are just so good and useful.

[@MrTroxel]

Like all your longer videos, I really enjoyed this one. I was especially happy to see angry tree grandpa, my "signature spirit" as you say, put into S-tier. I haven't been able to play my Jagged Earth expansion because of this ****ing pandemic, but I was personally really looking forward to the volcano spirit, so I did put my hands over my ears and go "LALALALALA" during that section :P Again, great video, sorry it had to happen why it did but I really enjoyed it!

[@3MBG]

Hahahahaha. I hope you enjoy him. We played another game with him recently and he was a bit of a rock star in that one

[@EntroxLicher]

Great video! I enjoyed the different format, and I adore everything Spirit Island. It seems we have pretty differing tastes and opinion about a lot of these Spirits, which I personally find to be awesome; one of the things I love about this game is that there is so much diversity that every person can come at it a totally different way and have a great time all the same. While I could probably ramble on for hours and discuss it point by point with you, for both our sakes, I’ll just go with some highlights 😆. Thunderspeaker (and to a lesser extent Fangs) I find myself reaching to play with less often because despite being very fun and powerful, the analysis paralysis is massive; I’m pretty guilty of AP in general, but Thunderspeaker brings it out in me the most. Curiously, I experience almost none with Starlight; I usually just go with the flow of the first few power cards I get, it’s a very zen experience I find. Even though Ocean is my heart and soul since the first time I opened the box, I can totally understand your hesitation with it and why you might shy away, because the tidal ebb-and-flow gameplay can be tricky to master. I have a similar reaction with Vengeance; I tried and tried and could not get a good game with it, but I had this sneaking feeling it could be really cool in the right hands (so I’m happy to hear that’s the case). I’ve found Trickster to consistently feel amazing to play, without being too over-the-edge (*cough Keeper cough*) powerful. Strife is an awesome mechanic because it is by nature not as strong as things like disease, but the fact that you can use it to fix something RIGHT NOW, makes Trickster feel like he’s saving the day in the nick of time pretty consistently (plus his Uniques allow for some interesting planning around strife too). I’ll stop there before I go into detail on all of them, but cheers, love Spirit Island content, and thanks for another quality video! 😃

[@3MBG]

Cool thoughts. I'm very good at spatial stuff, which is probably why Thunderspeaker and co work for me. Oceans, i guess i just need to communicate better with the team while playing him, because i've occasionally got quite starved for power. Vengeance, yeah, seems like a similar issue, but he clicked with me out of the box for some reason. And, i felt weird saying trickster was dependable, but weirdly he is, and your point about strife nails it. The number of times trickster just stops a hot spot from ravaging is a lot. Great thing about this game, the truly great thing, is that the spirits are so varied and that everyone who gets the game will naturally fit better in different playstyles.

[@PsychikPenguins]

My man the ocean got done dirty 😔 🌊🌊Your coasts are not safe🌊🌊

[@Euryptus]

Ocean is strong, but in my experience does need to be fed by other players. Power can be an issue, but once you get there - Fear the Sea. 😁

[@3MBG]

I have friends who love Oceans, i just can't personally get him to work for me well

[@fazzi4019]

@@3MBG I haven't tried him yet but I imagine he works at best with 4 players?

[@3MBG]

Not sure to be honest

[@FredrikM]

@@fazzi4019 I'd say 3 players is the sweetspot for ocean, since it needs to have presence on a board to have drowning activated on it it's just a easier time to be able to reach all from the start and then start contributing asap . But yes as mentioned it's a bad time to get rolling if teammates don't have a lot of pushing mechanics in starting hand

[@alexmillette1054]

After watching this video, Spirit Island is going directly on my table after a while not playing it. Love this game. I received Jagged Earth as a gift from my girlfriend and i can’t wait to unwrap it...but there was one condition : a challenge of 28 days without drinking any India Pale Ale. Talk about a poison gift because here in Quebec it’s the paradise of awesome IPA. Anyway, great video man and yes thunderspeaker and rampant green are a threat.

[@westhefitting4105]

“Spread of rampant growth is like the bass player” Me, the bass-playing rampant growth main: =]

[@3MBG]

I'm also a bass player :) Hence why i got a much better player than me to record the channels intro track and its slap!

[@ObsessiveGamer]

This just makes me want to start playing Spirit Island again. We have not played it in over a year (two?) because we tend not to play anything else when we do. In the same regard we avoid Thunderspeaker because she's everyone's favorite around here. I guess when we start again it will be a lot of Thunderspeaker spririt combos until we force ourselves off the habit again. If I'm introducing the game to new players I usually play Strength of the Earth so I can be a safety net of sorts and it usually puts other spirits in the driver's seat, if there ever really is one in any game.

[@3MBG]

I tend to teach with thunderspeaker or sharp fangs, just to "firefight" and let the new players build up so they can have the big power card plays at the end

[@HorstDerHoden22]

randomize your spirits!

[@3MBG]

For new players? No. Just no.

[@pippajohnston1810]

I love Ocean, I have a soft spot for location-limited spirits, so I like Volcano more than most, honestly. I love having one specific area and wrecking the hell out of it. I also like Oceans on bigger boards, because you're jumping around, interacting with everybody, and you go from shoving all your power into a little space into being a fire-fighter for other spirits that are less powerful on the coast. It's a great dynamic, changes a lot with player count, and I also find their innate powers simple but effective

[@pippajohnston1810]

Not sure about volcano's powers but stacking 8 presence on top of each other is absolutely an S tier experience

[@3MBG]

Have played Volcano more since, and yes. Max volcano explosion is god tier fun

[@boardgametime3727]

This was great, thanks for this! :)

[@brianphelps2415]

Great video! I can't say I agree with every decision, but once I got around that personal play style was a factor I got a lot more comfortable. I think I just don't have the head for the movement charactors like thunderspeaker and sharp fangs. Glad my favorite (Rampant Spread of Green) made S tier though Spirit Island is my favorite board game and this is my favorite review channel (even over SUSD), It was a pleasure to watch!

[@3MBG]

Yeah, these lists will always be heavily influenced by personal style. Definite bias from me towards more mobile spirits. I also suspect thats a little from me being, quite often, the most experienced player at the table, and wanting to help out people by moving to cover them. Thunderspeaker, sharp fangs, downpour are all that sort of style.

[@xintrosi6829]

I disagree with some of your statements but appreciate that's how you've experienced the game. I'm just happy to see Spirit Island!

[@3MBG]

Ha, cheers. And yeah, because we all play differently and thinkg differently, no ones lists will be quite the same

[@MeanNoZarm]

Love the list, but I cant help being a little heartbroken to see my favourite spirit Starlight right down the bottom. I feel in love with the concept since before Jagged Earth's release and they've been my go-to pick ever since. I do understand your reasoning, and I agree that they're definitely a handful on the first try, but I have to disagree with them never seeing a starring role. With a little tinkering you can play as fast or as slow as possible, and you can shine at whatever stage of the game you're needed. Most importantly, you're never stuck in the dreadful situation of gaining a card and not getting a single element you need. Every element is yours, and you can genuinely consider taking whatever cards you want or need. Granted if you're trying to pick something that will fit a certain role then Starlight is sure to disappoint, but if you're indecisive like me then it's a delight to just be able to gain a ridiculous number of cards and roll with it. Not here to say you have a wrong opinion, just wanted share some perspective and give a little love to my favourite stellar speck. Thanks for getting me and many others into this game, and keep up the good work.

[@3MBG]

She's definitely one of the 3 very complex spirits that i think i've only just started scratching the surface with, thats for sure. (Probably doesnt help one game played was with a dude with bad analysis paralysis, so having the spirit in slowed the game down a heap)

[@Dreadnote-pf7of]

Yeah, I like Starlight too - you could get some amaizing combo with him even on solo-spirit Map! You could go as wide and as high with him as you want and he... or she... they is truly an amaizing everchanging and evolving beast that, yeah, maybe not always good at something particular (but it mostly depend on your cards and major powers), but definetly could make a job done. So yeah, I too don't intend to critisize 3min. top by that, amaizing video nontheless and SI is definetly an amaizing game, atleast for my expiriense :)

[@elihorowitz1143]

I definitely agree. I see starlight as the missing link in any game as she can fill in any role that is needed such as damage (like you said), defense and healing, or control. So if a team has a critical weakness in their formation, starlight can fill that role.

[@jdmc9538]

Shroud of silent mist + keeper of the forbidden wilds is crazy Shroud can place 2 presence start of turn then keeper can play the card that gives a player a power card and that player gets an energy if keeper targets an ally. Also shroud has a power where once per turn if they gain a power card without fire element it gains 1 energy so u can potentialy gain a power card and 2 energy on top of being able to add 2 presence. Its epic cause u can do this *every* turn and just ramp presence for the whole game. It is so fun.

[@patrickhickey4047]

Shadows Flicker Like Flame is in this weird category where against certain opponents it's in really bad shape, but against others it is potentially overpowered. The key is Darkness Swallows the Unwary. If the invaders explored into previously empty lands last turn, meaning that there's only one explorer, even the first level of Darkness Swallows the Unwary can cancel an entire build/blight cycle in the fast phase of the round it started. At level two, if the invaders explored into two previously empty lands and those lands are adjacent, you can cancel the entire invader cycle for that exploration. The problem is that some invaders spam buildings during setup, or, explore with more than one explorer or with towns. A Spread of Rampant Green is one of the strongest spirits in the game, and can make anyone overpowered. But it's particularly strong when paired with spirits like Shadows. Shadows essentially gets one of the strongest "deal with the early game board" powers in the game in the form of level 1 or ideally level 2 Darkness Swallows the Unwary. But it's hard to get there before the board is overrun and the power isn't as good. Green shifts that dramatically. Finder of Paths Unseen is best paired with someone like Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds, Stone's Unyielding Defiance, or River Surges in Sunlight. Keeper has so much damage that he sometimes runs out of things he can reach to kill, so, late game Paths just mails him invaders to slaughter in his spare time. Stone's Unyielding Defiance doesn't really care how many invaders are present. Quantity isn't important to Hold the Island Fast, and Let them Break Themselves does damage proportional to the invaders ravage damage, so it automatically scales when there are more invaders. And River's late game flood just does damage based on the number of opponents. Open the Ways means you can not only push invaders from one end of the island all the way to the other to let these types of allies kill them, but you can also let your allies do the same thing. You can let River or someone similar push invaders through your adjacency portal into a kill zone. Downpour is strong for a lot of reasons but one low key reason is that it doesn't matter what elements are on Downpour's power cards. Early game you can take a power that's good but doesn't have your elements because you'll probably just discard it anyways, so it doesn't matter. Late game you can use the eight water on your track and your growth action to get four repeats of a power card that isn't normally part of what river does. Four repeats of a card that causes three fear can win the game at the right moment, or four repeats of a card that cures a blight.

[@lp9092]

Lol! You foretold the Volcano essay!! Hahaha I played my first game with Volcano the other day... and cleared two boards with little effort. So much so, I thought the game was broken! I’ll have to play a few more with him. I dunno, maybe I just had perfect card draws. But heavens he dominated! -Singed a few Dahan along the way though. ;) What’s also funny is agree 100% about Earth. He’s vanilla and slow. I stopped playing him for a long time. Then out of the blue I took him out again.. and he was great! absolutely blasting invaders by the end. I had a great time with him. Such a good game. Cheers.

[@Oaklestat]

Excellent video, thanks

[@michaelnau3815]

To each his/her own experience of the game of course, so here is a bit of mine. At lower difficulty games (3 or less) we (my gamer pals and me) found all spirits to be viable somehow with, perhaps, Thunderspeaker and Rampant Green Shining very bright. At higher difficulty games (from 4 and up to max level adversary+a scenario) many of them wouldn't scale very well or just be dead on arrival, depending on the win/lose conditions. Overall though, we found River to be unviable/card dependant at higher difficulty games unless paired with the Ocean, Thunderspeaker not to scale very well and be very dependant on the cards he'd draw (as soon as his 3Def card doesn't really work anymore), Claws to be on the weaker side due to his blight restrictions, Lightening something to be atrocious unless his accelerating mechanic would help the others break the game enough to save him by round 2 or 3, Bringer of Dreams to be a headache to survive, Shadow Flicker (specially some of his aspects) to be incredible in almost every situations/scaling, Time to vary between difficult and amazing (more often the later), Sparrow to be decisive in mid to late game win (once you've stacked everything on one or two lands, you just destroy everything with one card) though oftens truggling in early games, Rampant green to go from god on earth to..."ok, I'll help you now so you may save me by mid game), Keeper to be struggling in early games then god tier, the rock guy that doesn't care for blight to be god tier, the rain bird to be ultra god tier, Mist something to be struggling hard from start to finish, Volcano to scale very very well because his mechanic basically gives an extra action, Plague something not to scale very well and Wild Fire to scale well unless special rules kill his mobility by adding more blight. Serpent to be God tier in late game if offered a good synergy with other's sacrifice for his card that protects everything around is quickly rendered useless unless he absorbs other's presence quickly as well. Other spirits... depends. Usually card/events/senario/adversary dependant as soon as you go over difficulty 3 or 4. Again, each table probably has its own experience and this has been ours so far.

[@Reggie1408]

River really only has one bad lvl 6 matchup (England because of the extra building health).

[@HuNgerforrock]

I haven't played too much SI yet, so it is just an opinion, but as other mentioned Ocean is insane, especially with that inner power generating 4 fear per turns alone. Push and gather spells generally involve more invaders than damage/kill cards, turning those into invader killer is amazing. Bringer of Dreams and Nightmare is also absolutely terrific in some circumstances, I personally love to know fear cards in advance, it can be amazing to plan with those. I would also debate that defense cards with dahans are anyway taking a great chunk of invaders out, so it is not always a matter to kill them with spells. What is also amazing how you can put your presence where it is needed with 4 range where either are dahan or invader. What is fun is actually playing with Bringer and Ocean together, as Ocean fixes Bringer's problem of only pushing, and both generating tremendous amount of fear.

[@tomasxfranco]

I like seeing you a lot more than the stylized dude in the logo, to be honest.

[@benign_oracle8875]

It is nice seeing some different thoughts on various spirits. My favorites are Shroud, Shifting Memory, Trickster, and Keeper for my go to plays. I usually try and pick spirits to balance out allies for high success rate. The spirit that I was disappointed by was Burning Plague since I was looking forward to a disease base spirit but the playstyle did not suit me.

[@3MBG]

Vengeance clicked with me for some reason, no idea why

[@JendersGaming]

Great video!

[@fyng.1582]

So funny to hear you say Many Minds can be weakened by the event deck. Without the event deck he loses a lot of his power. When you get a "Beasts Prowl" event with Many Minds that generates 2 fear cards by itself it's just *chef's kiss*

[@3MBG]

Weird, i thought i said the opposite of that. Weakened when playing without it.

[@3MBG]

Ah, double checked what i said, and yeah, it really makes them more swingy. Had a couple of games where animal tokens in the event deck did not go my way just before doing this video, and it did expose many minds vulnerability to that

[@sebastiang.5032]

Great video,great game

[@michaelhill6453]

Brilliant. Really enjoyed the discussion and the strategy suggestions too. I wouldn't mind seeing more of those. :-)

[@CandyOnAChopstick]

Excellent video but putting my boy Shadows at D tier is straight heresy. The ability to move Dahan into a territory then have them absorb all damage and massacre everything in the revenge attack is so good. Plus that melts through the fear deck with 3+ each turn.

[@MFAgency]

I think personally Green should be in its own S+ tier. By far the most scalable defenses, arguably the best card in the game (gift of proliferation), I would argue that Green is so good because everybody's favorite partner is Green (except maybe Oceans and Rivers). This game is balanced by growth limitations scaling with the invaders expanding and Green invalidates that on Turn 1.

[@jonlocke7112]

Ocean is weird. Solo, really hard to win a game. But cooperative, Ocean does some damn fine work. I would say with a competent team that knows all the powers of each spirit makes Ocean an S tier.

[@3MBG]

yeah, main reason i put him lower is he just doesn't click with me for some reason. I know others get really good mileage out of him, but i always just do ok. And I do play on higher difficulties and multi-hand the game solo. Just something about his tempo doesn't click with me.

[@jonlocke7112]

@@3MBG that’s completely understandable. Speaker doesn’t speak to me at all for some reason but everyone loves her.

[@3MBG]

Lol, whereas speaker is one I can go to town with. Played her more than my next 2 spirits combined for sure. Mostly because when i teach the game, i play her to help with the early game so the newbies can learn the flow of the game before powering up.

[@Drossus]

I love ocean's hungry grasp. That they encapsulated the tides into the way it does presence is just some ridiculously tight game design. That and thunderspeaker are my current go-tos. Wrap in wings of sunlight + thunderspeaker for a dahan paratrooper squad is some of my funnest times in the game.

[@3MBG]

Wrap in wings of sunlight is one of my fav cards too. SUDDENLY DAHAN! That and the one that does 2 damage per dahan, but if you have the elements you can push 2 first, potentially damaging 3 regions

[@nathanvanrij8625]

Paratroopers! Love that card. Yeah, I really like oceans too - it basically transforms 'push / gather' to become 'destroy and give energy to player' when played on coastal lands, which is kinda awesome. The appeal for me is that it buffs all the characters, so works well in larger games (where a couple of extra inland lands is an easy tradeoff for the extra assistance on the coasts)

[@mbalazs3544]

42:37 River can move things around well and can do a focused execution of things, I love how it can remove time to time 10-15 power of invaders from the board. this bird i just can see it. (also only 3 card play from evolution mehh bad)

[@Wakkowolf]

Just coming out of my first game with Finder of Paths Unseen where I realized I could just push a whole block party of explorers and towns to one land and flush them off the coast for just one presence. Washed like 15 tokens away for 8 fear. Felt really good when that all clicked.

[@3MBG]

That sounds mighty.

[@RedReVenge007]

Some weird choices. Surprised Volcano, and Ocean are so low and Fangs and Shroud so high. Otherwise, decent list.

[@3MBG]

One cool thing about Spirit island is its variety/ Every player has preferences in play style and the rankings here reflect mine. I'd love to make a promo spirit for the game

[@mbk4395]

I love playing fangs though it's offen pretty difficult to catch up with the invaders

[@BratatataRoel]

Nice list. Not enough love for Ocean's Hungry Graps. Would like to see a tier list of best or funnest (2/3) combo's. Ocean's Hungry Grasp + River Surges or Serpent slumbering beneath the island + Spread of Rampart Green make for some great combo's that are amazingly fun.

[@3MBG]

We played an amazing cmobo recently. Trickster, Sharp fangs and million minds. I think we had like nearly 20 animal tokens down at one point. We joked spirit island was basically Australia, with the wildlife eating everyone

[@confuzed6]

Excellent video. Any idea how the new aspects for the basic spirits altered their power level? Might be a good short video to produce...

[@3MBG]

That's a cool idea. I really want to try out the alternate power for lightning that turns him into a high power low card monster

[@dylogysminter]

you putting vulcano in D tier is the weirdest thing for me. It is one of the most aggressive and strongest spirits of the game.

[@3MBG]

Its grown on me since and would probably be higher now.

[@lautaroaguirre5474]

Long time listener, first time caller. Just got into the game two weeks ago thanks to your recommendation, and it's my favourite cooperative so far. I love the asymmetry and the theme to mechanics melding. I wanted to ask you what is the app you use to play it electronically. Thanks for your work, love the short reviews and long form content too.

[@3MBG]

Its the official spirit island PC game on steam. It's quite new so only has up to promo pack 1 on it right now. But that's the first 10 spirits on this list.

[@AzureIV]

As a person who plays Spread of Rampant Green, River Surges in Sunlight, and Ocean's Hungry Grasp all the time, I feel offended that River and Ocean's is so far down your list. They are A tier at least.

[@3MBG]

Ha, don't be offended. This is all about how they play for me. Different players bring different skills to the table. One of my regulars loves Oceans and does well with him. I don't.

[@stevecollins9993]

This list confirms my suspicion that Jagged Earth is excellent. Would love to see a follow-up after getting more comfortable with the crazy looking spirits. As per usual... LONG LIVE SPIRIT ISLAND!

[@matpingar3617]

I still have to wait 3 months for the german version! And the promo pack (I call it the Wingspan Expansion) will be even months later. So hyped. I enioy the spirits with either a lot of movement or a balance of risk and potential - Fangs, Thunderspeaker, Wildfire. Looking forward to vengeance and the three birds (well, the two birds and the swarm), but I like all of them. And shadows gives me cool guerilla vibes with their constant small attacks and reach.

[@mbk4395]

Finally it's here and I immediately started playing all of the spirits solo. Absolutely great experience. Liebe Grüße

[@jobodumb]

I really like both Shadows and Bringer because I mostly play solo, and it is super easy to churn through the fear deck before the invaders become a problem. But playing with more spirits makes the fear strategy much harder to pull off (in my experience)

[@3MBG]

Yeah, bringer is a beast in solo. Easily flipping through 1-3 fear cards a turn

[@GlennKarlsenCurlyfied]

This has made it even harder to hold back on picking up jagged earth. I'm rather new to the game, so I want to savour the game by holding back on purchases. (got b&c tough) Not sure how much you solo this game, but I would be interested to see a list of favourite solo spirits. (when playing with a single spirit) PS. Hope Steph is feeling better. Take care!

[@3MBG]

There is so much in the core game that you needn't rush, get branch and claw first as well. And yes, Steph is much better already after a week of bed rest after surgery. Thank you

[@troylow6229]

Have you tried any custom spirits and adversaries yet? on the bgg spirit island variants section. They seem to be really nice done, with great art and creative ideas!

[@3MBG]

No, but i am tinkering around with my own idea for a custom spirit right now, so i should check to see if the idea has been done or not. Don't want to share it, because i want to see if i can make it work first.

[@gidiyaniv82]

Thanks for the great review! Does it applies to so as well? Do you usually play with 1 spirit when playing solo?

[@3MBG]

3 is my preferred solo

[@Bansheeeable]

Gracias!

[@danielprivett6155]

Starlight is probably the most skill-based spirit in the game. When other spirits say high complexity, they mean it may take a while to understand or execute their role. But with Starlight you also need to be able to see the long game, find your role and develop your spirit to suit the board state. In the hands of a highly experienced player Starlight will become exactly what the game needs every time and will always be something unique and different. Also Ocean and Nightmare being so low hurts my soul, but it is fair to say that they are both dependent on your team. As pure solo in a vacuum, you're probably right on where you placed them, but hey try a two-spirit game with just Oceans and Nightmare and see how fun it is to terrify the Invaders into Ocean's loving embrace. Before any expansions this was my favorite combo to play in the game by far. Edit: Nah, Oceans should be at least a notch higher if only because he enables any spirit's control card to become a situational "destroy" card. Nightmare is probably fine there though.

[@3MBG]

I've been training with oceans, the rating is all about the effectiveness and use i've gotten out of him and hes never quite clicked for me

[@QBG]

Ain't it funny how when you get Jagged Earth, you go from really liking Spirit Island to "playing _a lot_ of Spirit Island"?

[@marcodavi777]

I played starlight ones, the game was turning into a lose, blight was a bit too fast, even though I was focusing on my water soothes innate. I went fishing for minor powers and found a blight removal. Sure, I'll take it, in my experience at higher level SI is about survival until you tip the scale in your favor, so a couple of turns more could help. Next growth, next minor, another blight removal. Oh wait, here we go, a couple of turns more and the board is cleaned. The other innate I chose was wood seeks, so I had damage in my back pocket, and at that point the game was just a rush against the invader deck, I think we managed to win the same turn we would have lost by empty deck. Surely the lack of the draw helped, giving me exactly what I wanted, but starlight definitely shined that game

[@joerihessels8230]

Great video! I really need to play more Jagged Earth, have only tried half of the Spirits yet. My favorites are quite different from yours, I like Oceans, Bringer, Volcano & Mists most! What difficulty do you usually play at? With some of the harder Spirits I have a feeling I usually underpreform the first game, which makes it hard to climb in difficulty!

[@3MBG]

First time out, default diff on thematic map with events. I only push up the difficulty solo or if everyone at the table knows the game well

[@joerihessels8230]

@@3MBG Ooh thematic map nice! I usually do not play with event with new players as they introduce some more rules to an already complex game, but they are fun! Last time I introduced someone we went up against Prussia lvl 5, we had an extremely close game, but managed to pull off a win. The new player loved the game but we sure had a hard time, their entire island was blighted quite quickly (which is a bit to be expected with Lightning) :) Epic ending, as we won due to the last of 3 fear cards, otherwise we would have lost either to ravage or to explore (no more invader cards). We got lucky!

[@xiaoyingchen8560]

We need a new list with the third expansion and horizon spirits included!

[@3MBG]

I've been asking for a copy of the expansion for a while now

[@bumptiousbuffoon7824]

I'd be curious to see your thoughts after more playtime with Jagged Earth. Sometimes its a matter of learning the spirit to be able to enjoy it properly. For instance, I don't care for Fangs much - find it too one dimensional and slow - but absolutely love Many Minds and find it absolutely broken at times. I think the most common issue with Many Minds is not prioritizing adding beasts early, which leaves the spirit underpowered and vulnerable mid-late game. Otherwise you can generate stupid amounts of fear/defense in late game, and the mobility makes it as engaging as Oceans or Thunderspeaker. It's fascinating how much variation there is in tier lists, even among the best players. Starlight isn't my cup of tea and feels inconsistent, but I see more experienced players (people who almost always play difficulty 10+) carry 6p games with it so I suspect it's my approach that's the issue. My personal tier list has constantly evolved as I keep playing: e.g., Keeper went from being my least favourite to one of my favourites after figuring out its rhythm. I love seeing others experience this same phenomenon.

[@3MBG]

yeah, my tastes have changed over time as well. Wildfire would have been d tier for the longest time until he clicked for me an i got his rhythm. Which is probably why i picked up plagues quicker than most people it seems. Because id been toying with skirting blight levels with wildfire a bunch

[@gbdomingo]

I'm playing a lot on the app, and I hope the claws expansion will come out as a DLC (a must buy for me). Unfortunately, I'll have to wait for the physical boardgames for a while! If you have strategy videos, that would be great! I want to break through difficulty 6 consistently...

[@3MBG]

Heck, i don't break 6 consistently. :)

[@Iamwrongbut]

If you want to see some solo gameplay that is consistently above that difficulty, check out SoloPlaythroughs Spirit Island content. He tends to play at least at Adversary lvl 4-5 in most of his videos and explains his thought process each turn. He is the one who taught me how to really play the game

[@moewolf5195]

Bringer and ocean on c.. So different can experiences be. They are a amazing team. Bringer "destroys" something, creates fear and moves it into the ocean to create more fear plus energy for the ocean player. But both work great in other combination and ocean is my favorite solo spirit. Though not the easiest to get started with.

[@3MBG]

Those 2 really need some more work from me i think.

[@willbeplayin]

Didn't even realize there were so many!

[@3MBG]

8 in the core game, then 16 more in the 2 expansions and promo packs

[@Shot007]

Bought the game a while ago and working our way up to it (seems complex) which spirits would you recommend for first time players? On the basis of being easy but also being good - 2 players.

[@3MBG]

Just go with the low complexity spirits. Lightning and Earth are a good starter duo

[@Imperaldra]

Im still not sure if i should get the game. Gameplay, Theme and Design are amazing. But im quite cautious about the difficulty. My "hardest" game i played were Aeons End and Blood Rage. Is the learning/Difficulty curve good or is it way too frustrating for a casual player? Keep the good work up. You are amazing!

[@3MBG]

I think if you can handle blood rage you will be fine for sure. I'd also recommend following the learning recommendations in the book. Start with low complexity spirits and fixed powers, then move on when you are comfortable.

[@TsukimiyaKun]

Is there a reasonable way to acquire the promo packs for those of us who can only afford to buy the game/expansions at retail? Spirit Island is one of my favorite tabletop games, but it feels like a slighted experience without the bonus content.

[@3MBG]

Not sure sorry. Board game atlas will have prices and stuff on there if you are in the US. I got my copy sent to me of the promo pack 2, and a friend picked up promo pack 1 for me via gencon years ago

[@REricReuss]

If the difficulty is availability / high secondary-market prices: they're both being reprinted right now! Promo should be back in stock soon, Promo 1 this spring. If the difficulty is shipping / not being available via normal retail channels, that's trickier, but you could always email Greater Than Games ([e-mail]) and tell them that you'd really like to see some sort of retail product/packaging for the promo spirits.

[@st0ox]

Quality content

[@cecillegagne6900]

You got to play ocean's hungry grasp with bringer of dreams and nightmares! such an awesome combo, so much fear!!! Its awesome

[@3MBG]

I've played them together, and they hum. But i'm a much better Bringer player than an Ocean player.

[@cecillegagne6900]

@@3MBG nice! Im the opposite im better with oceans. That’s why I love this game though all the spirits are so unique

[@coloringbooks3295]

My top spirits are Oceans, Fangs, and Volcano! Oceans is so fun to drown invaders, I get really into the theme. The oceans must turn red! Fangs is so fun to follow the beasts and summon more then see what they do with the event cards. Volcano is super fun thematically like oceans for me. I love watching the invaders build up around me, knowing I'm going to erupt in their face!

[@3MBG]

With Volcano, do you feel the rest of the team has to carry him between those blow up moments? That was my issue with him.

[@coloringbooks3295]

@@3MBG yes and no. his beginning is definitely rough and you will probably need some assistance, but early in the game I find people don't mind spreading their presence throughout the board more to have more control for the rest of the game. take advantage of the +1 power card range you get from his 3 presence stack and don't get any overly expensive powers (his energy track is less important than his element track), his power is all about the explosion, the power cards should mostly be for support such as push/pull enemies into the explosion radius. The juggle is also getting power cards with his elements, he is huge on his elements more than others imo. Also don't worry too much about spreading to other mountains early on. Once built up enough you should have the elements you need for a large explosion and recovery. By then you'll also get power cards easily with his slow innate if you need more utility or elements. He is definitely no solo spirit though, he pairs well with Paths Unseen who push invaders into his radius. Also ask your buddies to help with blight control, cause you'll let it rip.

[@3MBG]

Cheers, good stuff, will keep in mind next time i give him a go

[@mbalazs3544]

Rock and Lightning are my 2 faws its not easy to play them to their full potential but that makes them good for beginners and pros. as for rock Ritual pay it with the Gather card copy the gather card and you have solid destruction incoming :D

[@3MBG]

What do you think of the lighting change in jagged earth, that halves cards but doubles power?

[@atomicpasta7073]

You sold Shifting Memory so well and didn’t even mention his preparing elements effect lol

[@3MBG]

I kinda did, because i talked about how he can use collected elements on major powers to give them the extra oopfh. But yeah, didnt specifically call out the power.

[@atomicpasta7073]

@@3MBG Ah okay, I’m seeing it now He’s definitely been my favorite JE spirit so far

[@bendfocuspro]

You list similar to mine. Interesting to hear about different play styles. Sharp fangs is one of my favorites to play, but the weakest spirit in my opinion. Ocean is A tier on my list. Trickster has always been the worst in our games. Volcano is amazing. Clutch victories with the exploding volcano.

[@3MBG]

I find trickster always has something useful to do, played a steamrolling game with trickster and the 2 animal spirits. It was embarrassingly one sided :)

[@bendfocuspro]

@@3MBG I will give that a shot and see how it goes. What level of difficulty are you regularly playing at?

[@3MBG]

Depends on the group, but most of the time default with thematic map and events. I push it up only if everyone at the table is comfortable with that. As we have been learning a lot of new spirits lately, we've most dropped back down to that level

[@blueseqperl]

I look forward to seeing how you would update your tier list with the Horizons and Nature Incarnate spirits and new aspects.

[@3MBG]

Me too, i really am ;)

[@blueseqperl]

As you are trying to create more easier to produce content, would you consider revisiting this Spirit tier list with all the new content (with or without the Apocrypha spirits).

[@amansparekh]

Try a major build starlight where you get an early major then build towards it

[@3MBG]

Will do.

[@petergallai469]

@11:47 So you mean to tell me that Ocean's Hungry Grasp belong to the "Sea" tier? :D

[@3MBG]

LOL

[@heart.9889]

I feel like ranking spirits so generally is really difficult, I feel like they vary strongly based on how many spirits you're playing and the combo you choose. While the green is always powerful, others become just riddiculously strong in the right combo. Would love to see a list of your favorite spirit combos for different player numbers.

[@3MBG]

That would be a super complex video. A more fun one might be "10 great combinations of spirits" for different player counts.

[@blueseqperl]

@@3MBG may I suggest wildfire and defiance are a wonderful combo which leads to a very blighted board, but things are in a good place

[@masterthief4219]

Keeper of forbidden wilds at 9 energy plus energy from last turn and growth phase: UNLIMITED POWER!!!!

[@hofical]

You probably haven't seen Fractured Days play out properly. It has some "Meh" effects, like the passive and the way "time" is quite unvieldy at first but there is a lot going on on the plus side: The past returns again power lets you do a lot of stuff at once: a) you can skip level 2 card special effects which can ie. potentially prevent the buliding of 6 villages against Austria in the early game. b) you know precisely what is coming (!) c) Whatever card is coming to places where you probably annihalated invaders before d) You can choose the type of terrain that you want from those already gone Do this 2-3 times and it's a real gamechanger. The other power is pour time sideways...man you can do a lot of things with that. To be able to not defend an entire board for a turn is also an A+ utility effect. And that's not even very expensive. Used in the right time you have just skipeed 2 ravages, have 2 less lands where you have to defend against that lonely explorer and have prevented 4-6 HP from being built. Also have you seen the passive? :D You can easily grant reclaim 1, play one more card and grant a slow power to somebody. I don't think it gets any better than that when it comes to a utility spirit. The miriad ways an offense spirit with limited card plays can abuse that...man... Now if this is not enough he can look at the event deck with his passive. It is usually luckier to look at the card which comes second, because now again, you know on the second round what is coming your way and if you think about how many times you've heard "Sh** if I knew this was coming I wouldn't have defended/pushed/gathered/whatevered" you know how valuable that is. I think why this spirit looks weird is that it does not derstroy or defend much. It's real power lies in the things that do not happen in a given game! (And well, thematically speaking that is one huge WOW going to the designers! )

[@3MBG]

Oh for sure, when i did this video i'd had Jagged earth for about 6 weeks, and while we mainlined games aplenty in that time, my experience with everything before Jagged Earth is 10-20 plays of each spirit more.

[@dv2483]

how do the 'nature incarnate' spirits fit in?

[@3MBG]

I have no idea, i don't have a copy of Nature incarnate yet

[@Speedyolrac]

I am sad to once again seeing Shadows so low. It is a spirit I enjoy playing more than others.

[@3MBG]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on Shadows. As i said, i really want to love him, i do :)

[@richardlemmon1849]

I also really enjoy playing Shadows. I'll grant that he can sometimes be a bit frustrating to play because of his slow growth progressions. However, I feel like his ability to effectively deal with explorers (and thus prevent builds fairly reliably) is matched only by Lure of the Deep Wilderness. Unfortunately, Shadows does rely pretty heavily on getting power cards with moon and fire. If he gets a bad draw or two, it's not super fun. I feel like Shadows combos really well with spirits like Rampant Green and River Surges in Sunlight. I'm not going to try to argue that he's one of the top spirits, but I definitely wouldn't put him in the D tier. Also (last thing; I promise) I absolutely love his new Amorphous aspect. The amount of flexibility it gives him for targeting powers is just crazy.

[@adamtwice6166]

What did you say..ask your King what he calls me

[@adamtwice6166]

??? Go ahead coward

[@amansparekh]

Stone is really good against high level adversaries, easily beat England 6 and Habsburg 6 by just negating the bad effects of blight, and picking up power cards that added blight to my lands

[@3MBG]

Yep, used him a bunch more since making this vid and Stone is totally "the sin eater", just sitting on heavy blight and eating it and punching back hard.

[@LifeUntilLove]

It is funny you mentioned how you were gendering the spirits because I was wondering that too. Especially since it was all male other than Thunder Speaker, who is pretty clearly female. No critique here since I'm sure it is unintentional, but is interesting to see people default to male even of characters that are non-gendered or female. It is so bake into the way people seem to see the world without even thinking about it.

[@3MBG]

Normalizing non-gendered nouns for non-gendered things would help. But yeah, its pretty baked in from 40 years of socialization on my part.

[@cwb95k]

Great job and this fantastic :)

[@eduardsiger1860]

Ocean is definitely top 5 strongest

[@3MBG]

Quite possibly, its just a spirit that doesn't gel with me personally.

[@Brian0033]

To me, vengeance feels undertuned . Like he was too strong at one point in development and the people that could milk him for everything he was worth were doing bonkers stuff and so they dialed him back and now he can be really strong if you pilot him perfectly, but if you only do alright in your choices you find yourself in a hole you can't get out of. Thats all just theory from me, but i have seen other people play him and do a lot of impressive stuff with him (well, impressive as in they are slinging out the kind of things other spirits do with a lot less trouble, I've never seen him outshine anyone) but for me its just awful time and time again. I really, really want to like him

[@3MBG]

me too, but he always feels on a knife edge of failing and doing more harm than good. Im yet to get him humming on high difficulties too

[@nathanvanrij8625]

I'm not entirely sure Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds is a good example of a spirit that goes well with a Spread of Rampant Green? If keeper is prepared to sacrifice the first turn by just playing a 1 cost card, then Keeper can get 2 presence out every turn for most of the game, so the extra presence from Green every turn or three isn't that significant (max 25% more presence)? On the other hand, if you're playing with Serpent Slumbers or even better Vital strength of the earth, they are only getting 1 presence out max a turn, so the extra presence is twice as significant (50% more presence - or event up to 100% more if you use it with Earth's gift of strength)?

[@nathanvanrij8625]

That's just a comment on minutiae - I should also comment on the rest of the video, enjoyed hearing your thoughts on the other spirits. e.g. star seeks it's form - I've spent way too many games irritating my partner by trying to make it work, so relieved when you put it in D teir 🤣 - I think I might take your suggestion and just play other spirits 😊

[@3MBG]

Legit, just played a high diff game with Serpent, green and earth (Rivers was the 4th spirit), the extra presence gain was immense. Earth got indomitable presence early as well, so had no trouble getting all the presence out. Rivers was the last to max out :)

[@xiuyoalli]

Dude I love you , and love your videos but Ocean in C , really mean that you need to play more this game :)

[@3MBG]

Different tastes =/= different skills though.

[@EliEliopulos]

You said play on the app…which app would that be?

[@3MBG]

This one store.steampowered.com/app/1236720/Spirit_Island/

[@tzeentchian]

Volcano is definitely s tier, ocean is also definitely near the top. Memory is too boring to be that high

[@tzeentchian]

And starlight is probably the strongest and most interesting spirit in the game

[@3MBG]

I dunno, major powers are pretty damned fun. Raising another island on turn 3, yes please.

[@3MBG]

yeah, starlights just one i'm still getting to grips with. Huge potential as i mentioned, but the list was about how they work for me.