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Overwhelming Strike + Power of Skill + Battle Awareness

The "Night at the Roxbury"
Heroic Tier.

Ever see the SNL skit where those dudes get on either side of some girl on the dance floor and bounce the poor girl back and forth with chest bumps and grinds? It's like that...

Overwhelming Strike + Fury's Advance-- for FA damage rider.

Using cell number pad for positon reference, visualize:

A) Your flanker on '1'.
B) Your enemy on '4'
C) You on '7'.

Overwhelming Strike, sliding back to '*', and sliding the target to '7'.
Fury's Advance to push the target back to '4'.

Variants:
Depending on the situation, you can either opt to 'follow' the target, using FA's built-in move to finish on '7', or you can forgo the self-move portion of Fury's Advance, ending on '*'.

"The LeBron James" (for non-basketball fans, he gets away with travelling a few times a week).

Distant Vengance + Closing Pledge + Distracting Flare for safely traversing a Large Distance in one turn.

Arcane Implement Proficiency (so you don't have to pull out a crappy wand)

Ah!  In that case, let's mock up something that'll really get the blood going!

Round up the Infidels!

Requirements:

Int Avenger
Learned Spellcaster (Wizard MC feat)
Adept Power (Power Swap 9th level power for Visions of Ruin)
Arcane Implement Proficiency (so you don't have to pull out a crappy wand)
Splinter the Formation

Tactics:

Spend AP (for whatever other benefits).  Position OoE enemy with Fury's Advance.  Hit OoE enemy with Splinter the Formation.  Arrange every other enemy in a close burst 2 into a nice 3x3 area.  Shift.  Hit them with Visions of Ruin.

• Attack your buddy, triggering Battle Awareness which is used as in "Oh no you don't" to shift to 8 and slide the target to position 7, negating the attack on your buddy.


• Attack you, triggering Vengeful Parry where after your attack (but before the OoE target's attack is resumed) you shift to 0 leaving your OoE target where it is, thus negating the attack!

Here's some fun stuff for our Avenger/Student of Caiphon fans...

"Wings of... WHAT THE **** WAS THAT?!-- requires access to a level 6 Warlock utility.

set up-- you need to be positioned where you can see the faces of everyone else at the gaming table.

Execution.

(minor) Wings of Vengance
(move) Racing Fire of Ulban -- fly 14 squares without 'running' penalties. *You can fly 18 squares if you do this after using Aspect of Might.

Hey folks!  What am I doing wrong?  I've got a 5th level Isolating Avenger and I just did 7 hp with Bond of Retribution...
Are there some basic tactics I need to use or are Avengers all about the Encounter/Dailys?

Balderdash:

It is.  It's an implement Int vs. Will Illusion attack that disallows any target it hits from voluntarily leaving the designated 3x3 area while also blocking LOS for them (save ends).  If you miss, you hedge them in and block LOS until the end of your next turn!

It's possible for your AoE controllers to have Visions of Ruin, but I think it's much better if they can spend every action they have nuking that 3x3 square to smithereens.  It won't last forever.  It may even last for just one turn.

“Why did you leave me this way?”
Heroic Tier (Pursuit Avenger only)

Avenging Echo/Aspect of Fury/RoS/Etc + Relentless Stride + Fury’s Advance + AP

Do you know that giddy feeling you get when your OoE target finally walks away from you? This is how you make the best of it:

Minor Action: OoE
Move Action: Walk over
Standard Action: Avenging Echo (or Aspect of Fury, RoS, Executioner’s Cloak, etc.) to encourage your OoE target to move away.

Immediate Reaction: Relentless Stride

Minor Action: Fury’s Advance
Standard Action: Attack with whatever you like (in paragon: blade of astral hosts)
AP: Attack with something else you like

Effect:
You got to apply your censure bonus four times while it got triggered only once!

“Off to a good start…”
Epic tier (Pursuit)

Eager for Blood + Avenger’s Readiness + Angelic Alacrity + AP + Bond of Foresight + Fury’s Advance + Lethal Intercession + Battle Blessing + Vengeful Parry + Battle Awareness + Power of Skill

Although the requirement list above is long enough to make it look more like a build than a trick, the core of it is available from early paragon (with eager for blood, bond of foresight,  fury’s advance and intervening blades instead of lethal intercession). The goal of the trick is to do as much damage as possible in the first round (and show the critics that avengers can spike).

No Action: Avenger’s Readiness
When needed delay until after the first opponent
Free Action: Shift 3
Minor Action: OoE on a target that hasn’t acted yet
Standard Action: Angelic Alacrity for 2[W]+1[W]
Minor Action: Fury’s Advance for 1[W]+1[W]
AP: Bond of Foresight for 2[W]+1[W]

Opponent’s turn:

• Target moves: Lethal Intercession as OA with Battle Blessing for 3[W]+1[W]+1[W]


• Target shifts: Lethal Intercession as OA with Battle Blessing for 3[W]+1[W]+1[W] and Battle Awareness for 1[W]+1[W]


• Target attacks you and hits or misses: Lethal Intercession as OA with Battle Blessing for 3[W]+1[W]+1[W] and Vengeful Parry for 2[W]+1[W]


• Target attacks someone else with ranged attack: Lethal Intercession as OA with Battle Blessing for 3[W]+1[W]+1[W] and Battle Awareness for 1[W]+1[W]


• Target attacks someone else with melee attack: Battle Awareness for 1[W]+1[W]

Result:
Somewhere between 10[W] and 16[W] in the first round of combat! Taking a level 21 Pit Fighter with a +4 Vicious Fullblade, Iron Armbands +4, Gauntlets of Destruction, 2 Rings of Giants, Expertise, Weapon Focus, Painful Oath, Reserve Maneuver for Lethal Intercession, Hand of Divine Guidance and 18 starting Wis in addition to the above, this would give a DPR of somewhere between 191.3 and 260!