It's not that hard, and she's pretty hardcore - Leela Patel

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Well, if you get agendas from centrals, that affects the remote. Maybe imp is a good idea for her. Bounce ice from a remote, and hit HQ with a feint, e shutdown whatever central ice is bothering you, then hit HQ with a legwork. If you can get first click accesses, turns like that are totally reasonable. R&D seems like Leela’s second favorite corporate hangout.

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Leela’s power turns are pretty compressed at it is, I want to spend it getting as many agendas as I can, I wouldn’t do feints and shutdown during those turns.

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I don’t know man, resource denial is pretty crazy, that can set the corp up for real bad times, not just that card no one plays. Except me sometimes haha.
Besides, it’s not like you know what the corp has in hand, but you always pretty much know their wallet. Food for thought.

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I’ve been wondering recently whether Snitch might be a good shout in Leela. With Snitch you can facecheck and fetch the right breakers without giving the Corp the chance to rez, so your ability will still have targets. Then when they score and you get a power turn you know exactly what you need to get in to any server and can maximally capitalise on the corp’s weakness. You could potentially even run Compromised Employees, Xanadu and/or Collective Consciousness, to turn rezzing into a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation for the corp.

Seems pretty solid in theory, though I’ve not tested this idea yet.

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She’s still sleeved up for me too, playing some goofy fun DLR milling out of her just for the heck of it. Confuses people to see the Red Milling cards out of a crim, I think. I like confusing people and I like milling cards and so it is a good time.

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I generally attack one server hard, and leave the others unrezzed/attacked. I’ll keep probing, and building cash. When they eventually score, you can assault the other Central(s).

Knowing how to play against her only goes so far. Agendas will start to pile up if they fail to push them, and you’ll find them eventually, starting the cascade.

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190

Are you running Desperado or Logos in your build?

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I primarily cribbed your list, @Cerberus. I was running a Logos build, but, honestly, kept forgetting the ability (I’m a shite player).

The only thing I’m leery on is the 1 QT. Maybe your usage of Mimic is better.

Shadow boxing

Leela Patel: Trained Pragmatist (All That Remains)

Event (23)

Hardware (7)

Resource (4)

Icebreaker (10)

Program (1)

15 influence spent (max 15)
45 cards (min 45)
Cards up to All That Remains

Deck built on NetrunnerDB.

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I’m running Logos in my Leela build. It does a good job finding the right piece needed when I bounce the card.

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Haven’t had the chance to play too much recently, but I see no reason Leela’d have gotten significantly worse. If opponents know how to play against her, that does all of what for them? Either they leave agendas on the table or avoid FA (which is bad if you can access remotes, especially for NBN)… or they play more-or-less as normal and still let things get bounced.

Even if they can replay something after you bounce it, you’re costing them clicks and credits to do so. That’s not nothing.

Gonna be honest, I think I’m missing the connection here.

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This is what I’ve come to after much iteration, @GreedyGuts can attests to the shambles this thing was in when it started. I went through a phase that used stealth breakers, that while decent, even a slew of recurring credits and Kati Jones didn’t ever feel like I had enough money. I still am not really on the Logos train, but here is what I’m running presently:

The Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique

Leela Patel: Trained Pragmatist (All That Remains)

Event (18)
3x Account Siphon (Core Set)
3x Dirty Laundry (Creation and Control)
3x Emergency Shutdown (Cyber Exodus)
3x Inside Job (Core Set)
3x Legwork (Honor and Profit)
3x Special Order (Core Set)

Hardware (7)
3x Doppelgänger (A Study in Static)
1x Plascrete Carapace (What Lies Ahead)
3x R&D Interface (Future Proof) ••••• •

Resource (9)
2x John Masanori (Opening Moves)
3x Mr. Li (Future Proof)
2x Same Old Thing (Creation and Control)
2x Security Testing (Honor and Profit)

Icebreaker (7)
1x Cerberus “Rex” H2 (All That Remains)
1x Corroder (Core Set) ••
3x Faerie (Future Proof)
1x Mimic (Core Set) •
1x Passport (Honor and Profit)

Program (4)
3x Magnum Opus (Core Set) ••••• •
1x Sneakdoor Beta (Core Set)

15 influence spent (max 15)
45 cards (min 45)
Cards up to All That Remains

Deck built on NetrunnerDB.

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195

Except with central only breakers that doesn’t happen as easily. No one is saying she’s bad now and not before, but adjusting decks and play to what your opponent now knows to do is always important and so far I’m still looking for the right balance.

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Opus seems tricky with only 5 MUs and a central-only breaker, but I can see how just hammering there would be good. Certainly looks like a nice way to get R&D lock on someone.

Still, I like being able to get in on the sides.

I feel like I might have identified the problem, then. If the breakers aren’t letting you get in where you need to be, you need to get breakers that are better.

I run one central-only breaker, Breach, because it puts in work on centrals vs Blue Sun, saves me the influence on a second corroder, and it can allow me to stay able to press R&D lock if I lose my corroder in some way. But it’s a back-up, not a primary.

If you don’t have non-centrals versions of your breakers for later, well… why not? It helps so much to be able to run into a remote server and snipe an agenda from it.

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Well if we’re still talking about the original list on top of this thread, it has 3 central only and 3 other breakers for each type of ice. Obviously you can’t rely to get the ones you need reliably and assuming since we’re trying to pressure remotes against a slow advancing opponent, we won’t be able to trigger Logos for the extra fetch either. So I’m not saying that it’s an impossible problem, I’m saying that since people now know more about the ability so it needs some rethinking.

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I’m messing around with passport, but I’m not necessarily sold on it, I’ve got Rex and I put Mr. Li to work tough enough that I can generally sit on at least one special order. Still, the right answer might be to drop an RDI for Zu.13 (which I had originally).

MO has worked quite well, fueling central runs to save my inside jobs, and generally keeping me threatening and not scraping for money every turn. I can’t say it’s the “best”, but it has been the most solid for me so far.

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Passport is beyond fine in this deck.

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I’m intrigued by having Opus in the deck, not sure about Doppelganger though as I don’t quite see the synergy.

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There’s a brief write up if you go over to nrdb. Basically, it’s so you can take 6 and still run twice, or be able to respond after you pick up an agenda, or you can boomerang an ice and hit another server. Options, basically. Leela has to be pretty fluid and able to respond to how the Corp is playing, and I’ve found doppelganger good for that, but it may prove worse than the raw economic workhorse that is desperado. Also helps with the RP matches, which have historically been the most difficult for me. That being said, the deck is not beholden to any one console, so you can play around with which one you use.

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Mimic is definitely worth while just so you don’t need to pay 7 or 9 credits to deal with the Architects, Roto’s etc.
The only thing that I feel the deck needs currently is card draw and I think fitting in 2 Earthrise is likely a good idea.

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Pull the Plas. XD