Inkulinati

This will not be a full step by step guide as there is way too much RNG in this game. Instead this will be tips, tricks and advice to help you out. This WILL require some luck. It took me 5 runs to finally beat Death including over a dozen restarts of battles. Let’s begin with the basics.

1. You can exit to the main menu and then Continue Journey if you mess up or are about to lose. This will restart the battle allowing you to choose different units, finger actions or strategies.Use this always. If you can win a battle using a few less units and saving some health that’s everything in Master mode.
2. Always look ahead to see what path you have for battles. In order you want Beast Battles (Free Boredom Reduction), Tiny VS Elite Beasts (Elite as you need more beasts, once capped then do normal fights), then Tiny VS Beast Lair (Can be the Most Difficult)
3. For opponents as well. Skeletons, Water Beasts and Devils are the most difficult..
Ranged is OP. Ranged units are incredibly strong for any battle. I will get into which units are best later on. You can target enemy Tiny's from 2-3 levels below them and with the Devil unit can cause bleeding then stall out the opponent (does not work on Death).
4. Use as few units as possible. Boredom can stack FAST in Master and you already have little ink to start with .At worst choose 1 unit to draw 3-4 times. Next battle, choose a different main unit and so on. Then in a few battles they will be back to 0.
5. Do not underestimate Quills. If you are getting close to the end but have high boredom and little health you may have to take a loss. This will reset you back to full health and 0 boredom. Always have 2-3 Quills. MAKE SURE you save 1 for the final fight.

Money/Prestige
- This is a fine balance. The most important items are quills and boredom reduction.You need at least 200-300 prestige to unlock the discount which allows you to get Quills from shops for 150 gold.
- I always had at least 150 gold for Quills and 200+ prestige for unlocking extra options. Make sure you have enough gold to purchase quills and/or boredom reductions.

Ink/Health/Healing
- I always went with increasing starting ink, then health, then healing. In that order
If you keep your prestige high enough you can choose better options. Go for Quills, -
- Starting Ink and Starting Health. Again you should plan your entire route from start to the boss fight so you know what to save for.
- Healing is not as important as you can get perks/hand actions that heal you.

Units
- I did not choose Skeletons even though they are the best unit. I went with Devils and stacked my perks to create as much fire/sparks as possible on the field. Make sure you have a perk making your Tiny immune to sparks or infection if you went with Skeletons.
- The Devils ability to bleed and devour is incredibly useful for every fight (except Death, will get into that later).
- The best units to get are Any Ranged, Devils, Skeletons and Water Beasts. ALWAYS choose the ranged options first. I was lucky and managed to pick up the Ranged Flute Skeleton about halfway through. If you start with Skeletons try and get the Ranged Hatchet Devil.
- Wolf Pilgrim and Sheep Devotee are also strong.
- Other than that only get 1-2 expensive units. With the lack of Ink you’ll only use the expensive units in Beast Battles.

Perks/Hand Actions
- This is where it gets more complicated. Your perks will depend on what kind of style you play. By far the most important perks are anything that heals your tiny, wake up beasts and gives ink/armor. Otherwise this is a personal play style on what beasts you start with.

Death Fight
- The hardest part. Cheese strategies such as pushing off ledges, dance, bleeding etc do not work. You have no choice but to win this legit. I won by killing off his beasts so he could not get anymore ink. Eventually he could not draw beasts and it was an easy win. Almost every part of the map was covered in fire which stacked with my perk of ink gain per spark.
- Right off the start position 2 ranged units on the bottom platform and get them across within range of attacking Death ASAP. You can attack up to 3 floors above with most ranged units.I drew 3-4 ranged units right off the start (on all ink blobs) for chip damage.
- If you can get Death to below half health, even if you lose and use a Quill to restart he will start at half health. Very useful to abuse.
- Take advantage of every turn. Push actions are especially important for moving units around early. Hope you have a healing action/perk as enemy skeletons will target your tiny if possible. Be careful of getting moved into a door from Dance or Infected.

Other than that, I hope the RNG gods are with you.