The Brute has the biggest health pool in the game and the worst defensive kit: a single protective spell, no invisibility, no way to escape. They do not need one. They close the distance, break their opponent’s legs, and count on the match being decided before they fall.
The more hurt you are, the harder you hit and the better you hold: +11% damage dealt and +3% resistance per 10% slice of health lost, that is +99% damage and +27% resistance at best, at 10% HP or less.
At half health the Brute hits 55% harder; at 200 health left, 77%. The bonus rises in steps, a whole 10% slice of lost HP at a time, and caps at +99%. It is the only passive in the game that rewards having been hit, and it completely changes how you read the health bar: a Brute at 300 HP is not a Brute about to die, it is a Brute hitting 66% harder.
The resistance climbs far more slowly than the damage: 15% at half health, 18% at 300 HP, and 27% only at 98 HP or less. It cushions the end of the fight without turning it around: Rage is still a race first. A Brute that commits too early dies with its best bonus active.
31 to 44 damage on an adjacent enemy, and the target loses 12% resistance for 2 turns: everything that hits it afterwards hurts more. The effect does not stack — a second hit only refreshes the duration. So it is an opening spell, not a spell to repeat.
You rush in a straight line to the tile next to the enemy, then hit them for 23 to 34. You have to see the target; an entity, a hole or a trap on the way stops you short of it — the blow still goes off, but you do not reach melee. Six tiles covered without spending a single MP, and no cooldown: it is the best gap-closing tool in the game, and the spell your whole placement is built around.
17 to 24 damage to everything inside a cross of 2 tiles around the target point, allies included (not you), all of which you recover in full as health, then pulls each target 2 tiles towards the centre. The damage is low; the pull is not. Aim at the tile where you want your opponent to end up, not the one they are on.
17 to 24 damage that you get back entirely as health, and the target loses 2 to 4 MP during its next 2 turns (it can partly resist). A maintenance spell: it heals you, it slows them, and it reaches 5 tiles — so it works even on the turn you could not close.
Lays a trap your opponent cannot see. It goes off as soon as someone walks, is pushed or is pulled within 2 tiles, and stops them dead: everything in the area at that moment — you and your allies included — takes 22 to 34 damage and loses 2 to 4 MP, at once and for its next 2 turns. It lasts 8 turns. Its 2-tile area makes it the widest trap in the game: placed in a corridor, it is almost impossible to avoid.
30 to 42 damage to everything within 2 tiles of you, allies included, and each target loses 1 to 2 MP on its next turn. The only spell in the class that also costs a movement point: count it in your movement, not just in your AP.
No damage: pulls the target one tile towards you, and it deals 20% less damage during its next 2 turns. Three AP to cut a fifth off two turns of enemy attack is the best deal in the class — and the tile you gain is often enough to put your opponent inside Stomp’s area.
70% damage resistance until your next turn, added to Rage’s own up to the 75% cap. Your only protective spell, and it lasts a single opponent’s turn: do not cast it as a precaution, cast it on the turn you have just closed in on someone who still has all their AP.
Every spell slot has a second version, and so does the passive: before the fight, in the grimoire, you pick one version per slot. The Brute’s variants call beasts — two at most at a time — and lead them; her base kit doesn’t change. The choice is locked when the fight starts, and your opponent sees it. All of them are available, in every mode.
Replaces Rage.
A living pack hits harder. Your beasts have 25% more HP. In return, you have 10% less HP: 880 instead of 980. Each living beast gives you and your beasts +6% damage when it arrives, then +6% more on each of your turns it is still there, up to +20% per beast (+40% with two) — the full bonus on your fourth turn with it. A beast that is killed takes its bonus with it, the next one starts again at +6%, and its call goes back on full cooldown.
Replaces Mace smash.
A whip crack at an enemy in sight, up to 3 tiles away, twice per turn: 22 to 30 damage, multiplied by 1 + the number of your beasts next to the target (×2 with one; with two, the ×2.5 cap). With all your damage bonuses combined (beasts next to the target, Rage, Pack leader), the hit never goes above ×2.5, critical hits aside.
Tip. On its own it is a small ranged hit; with one beast next to the target it doubles, with two it triples. So place your beasts first — Rush moves them up — then strike. Its catch: with no beast next to the target, you pay a lot for little.
Replaces Charge.
Summons a boar (110 HP, 6 MP) that you control on its turn: it charges in a straight line at an enemy 2 to 4 tiles away (20 to 28 damage, every other turn) and, in melee, lands a tusk strike (16 to 22 damage, pushes back 1 tile). It stays on the field with no turn limit. At most 2 beasts at a time, and only one beast called per turn. Cooldown: 4 turns, which restart from zero if the beast is killed.
Tip. The beast that catches a runner: it charges them in a straight line and, in melee, pushes them back. Line it up with its target before its turn. Its catch: you no longer have Charge to get there yourself, and a killed beast restarts its whole cooldown.
Replaces Quake.
Summons a stone golem (160 HP, 4 MP, 50% resistance to AP/MP removal): in melee, it strikes (20 to 28 damage) and shakes the ground (8 to 12 damage, −2 MP). It stays on the field with no turn limit. At most 2 beasts at a time, and only one beast called per turn. Cooldown: 4 turns, which restart from zero if the beast is killed.
Tip. The golem holds a tile and slows what it touches: put it between the enemy and you, or next to the target to feed Wild whip. It is the beast that best soaks up Pack bond. Its catch: it is slow — summoned too far away, it never arrives.
Replaces Roar.
Summons a raven (95 HP, 8 MP): it pecks up to 3 tiles away (10 to 15 damage, −1 MP) and strikes with its beak in melee (18 to 24 damage). It only looks like it flies: it walks the map like everyone else. It stays on the field with no turn limit. At most 2 beasts at a time, and only one beast called per turn. Cooldown: 4 turns, which restart from zero if the beast is killed.
Tip. The beast that harasses from afar and chips away at enemy movement: perfect against a class that keeps its distance. Keep it out of area spells. Its catch: it is fragile, and you lose the heal from Roar.
Replaces Pit.
Your beasts gain 1 MP and 15% damage for their next 2 turns. The damage bonus counts right away, Rush included. No beast, no effect.
Tip. Cast it on the turn your beasts are about to strike, not before: the bonus only covers their next turns. With two beasts alive, it is one of the best deals in the kit. Its catch: with no beast, the AP are wasted.
Replaces Stomp.
Each beast moves 1 tile towards the nearest enemy, then strikes it if adjacent: 22 to 30 damage. The hit is the beast’s own: its damage bonuses count, not your Rage, and it costs the beast neither AP nor MP. No beast, no effect.
Tip. One more attack for each beast, outside its turn — and the way to get them next to the target before Wild whip. Its catch: each beast moves towards the enemy nearest to it, not necessarily the one you are after.
Replaces Intimidate.
You swap places with one of your beasts, up to 6 tiles away, even without line of sight. Nothing anchored can be swapped.
Tip. Your way in and your way out: send a beast ahead and take its place, or leave melee and leave it behind. It works without line of sight. Its catch: nothing anchored can be swapped, and the beast taking your place takes the hits too.
Replaces Stoneskin.
Until your next turn, the damage taken by you or by any of your beasts is split equally between you and each of your beasts: half each with one beast, a third with two. Each share goes through the resistances of whoever receives it, and is never split a second time. No beast, no effect.
Tip. Your beasts become your health reserve: cast it before a big enemy turn, while they are still healthy. Its catch: against an area spell that hits the whole pack, sharing changes nothing, and a beast that dies takes its damage bonus with it.
With her variants, the Brute no longer fights alone: she calls beasts, two at most, which play on their own turn, and the whole kit revolves around them. A beast plays right after you, on the very turn you call it, but it still has to reach its target: this is a plan that pays off on the second and third turn, not the first.
Everything rests on positioning: a beast that is not next to the target does not count. The remaining AP go to Pack instinct, cast first: it strengthens your beasts further for their next turns.
The opponent ends up next to a beast, not to you, and every hit they land is split between all of you.
All your AP go into it and you have 5 MP left. That is deliberate: keep them to end the turn on the right side of your opponent, out of the firing line of any retreat.
No big damage this turn, and that is exactly the point: your opponent starts theirs with less MP, less damage, and the Pit on their way back — it goes off at their first step backwards.
Quake is the only Brute spell that moves the enemy towards a chosen point rather than towards themselves. Centred on a Pit already placed, it does the work on its own — provided you stand more than 2 tiles away from it: it would hit you too.
These lines are the ones that come up most often, and pay off most, across several thousand training matches played by the game’s automatic opponents at their best level. For each one: the spells in order, what you need, what you get out of it, the most common follow-up, and when to do without it. A sequence missing from this list is not necessarily a bad one.
Stoneskin (3 AP)
Pit (4 AP)
Quake (3 AP)
Charge (4 AP)
Mace smash (4 AP)
Mace smash (4 AP)
Quake (3 AP)
Charge (4 AP)
Stomp (4 AP)
Mace smash (4 AP)
Charge (4 AP)
Wild whip (4 AP)
Wild whip (4 AP)
Pack bond (3 AP)
Against the Arcanist, the Brute is the favourite if they close early: their 980 health absorbs two turns at range, and once in melee the enemy’s Focus pays nothing any more. Against the Shade, the problem is not hitting them but following them — keep Roar to punish them the moment they reappear 5 tiles away.
Against the Warrior, you hit harder but they cover themselves in armour: Mace smash, which lowers their resistance, is worth more once they have raised a Bulwark. Against the Clockmaker and the Artificer, never stay lined up with what they have placed, and accept spending a turn destroying an Automaton or a charge rather than chasing the hero.
With or against the variants, your bearings change. Against a Warrior under Anchor, nothing moves them, or anything adjacent to them: your beasts can surround them, but a beast next to them can no longer swap places with you. Against a variant Arcanist, kill the Healer bunny first, and do not stay bunched up with your beasts under Soothing chant. Against the Clockmaker’s rifts, beware of Collapse: it hits everything standing around a rift, the pack included. Against the Artificer’s turrets, send a beast at the healing turret and keep Wild whip for the hero.
The Brute is played by closing the distance as early as possible with Charge: 4 AP, 7 tiles in a straight line, no cooldown. Once in melee they chain Mace smash, which strips 12% resistance from the target for 2 turns, then Stomp. Their 980 health lets them absorb the two turns of approach that the other classes do not survive.
The Brute has 980 health, the biggest pool in the game, with 12 action points and 6 movement points. Their Rage turns every point lost into damage and resistance: +11% damage and +3% resistance per 10% slice of missing health, up to +99% and +27%. A Brute at half health therefore hits 55% harder, with 15% resistance.
For every 10% slice of health lost, Rage gives +11% damage dealt and +3% damage resistance, that is +99% and +27% at most, at 10% HP or less. It heals nothing: it makes the Brute more dangerous and harder to finish off as it goes down. It is the only passive in the game that rewards having been hit.
AP removal: with 20% resistance, this is the most vulnerable class in the game on that front, and the Clockmaker’s Hourglass costs them whole turns. Their Charge also needs a straight line and a clear view, which an opponent who plays the angles denies them. And Stoneskin only covers one opponent’s turn in four.
Yes, it is the most forgiving class for learning Solwaris. Its 980 health forgives placement mistakes, and its eight spells do exactly what they say, with no chain to keep alive and no hidden resource to count.
Summon early: with the Pack leader passive, every living beast raises your damage and the pack’s, and that bonus grows on each of your turns. Two beasts at most at a time, which you play on their own turn. Protect them: a killed beast takes its bonus with it and restarts the whole cooldown of its call.
The Brute forgives beginner mistakes better than any other class: it is the best one for learning the game.
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