solomendonca

I think the yo-yo acts more like a shield and it has to react to an attack.  

Here's a screenshot of it in action: http://imgur.com/a/zwZTm

 

The Giant Walein was at full strength at and mintyfish had been knocked down to 169 or so by the start of the round. The walein attacks, the yo-yo defends, and also heals mintyfish 35.

 

The battle report shows the damage from the icicle to the walein, but his health is actually down more than that.  (35 points).

 

If the conditions hadn't been right, say mintyfish wasn't down more then 35 hit points, then the yo-yo would just defend 4-6 icons.

I see, so you need for it to defend something for it to work, unlike the Cursed Elixir.

Let me try it out.

Edit:

Nope, still not working.

http://imgur.com/a/asOjd

Is the drain stat reliant? I.e. perhaps I need a minimum of a certain stat for it to work? Sort of how like Crisp Blue Tunic requires at least 750 INT for it to drain 100...

For 1P, get a Yooyu Knuckle Duster before they skyrocket in price. 14 icons for 99,999 is absolutely insane. 14 iconers usually are in the 2M price range. I wouldn't worry about the icon spread because it is 1P after all.

The next strongest weapon that even comes close to YKD on shop wiz is Rusty Pitchfork/Multi-barbed Ice Spear/Scroll of Knowledge at 11 icons.

Don't settle for 8-9 iconers like RHBH or SoU.

Have you figured out when it does heal? If this is not true, I'd like to update the Battlepedia, but I need to know what to write.

I does heal (I use it all the time) however, you have to have 35 points of damage against you. If you're only down 10 hit points, it won't bring you back to 100%.

Also, I've noticed that it only heals if your opponent has more than 35 hit points at the moment in combat that the yo-yo fires. So, if you do 25 points of damage at the beginning of the round, and that brings your opponent down to 30, the yo-yo will just defend at the end of the round.

I use it in the first round or two when I start the fight wounded or in later rounds where my opponent has healed themselves and refuses to die despite my best efforts.

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update - I did some 2 player tests.

 

The healing only kicks in if you're wounded and your opponent has 35 points for you to steal.  You do not have to be blocking anything else for the stealing/healing to work.  For example, I used a lens flare, which meant there wasn't any attack for me to defend against, and it still worked.

 

Once it does the healing trick, it disappears for the rest of the battle but not forever.  It's still equipped for the next fight.

 

Also, it normally defends with 2 fire icons against a fire attack unless the attack also includes a physical attack.  Then it defends against 4 fire icons.  There may be other attack combinations that increase the fire defense that I haven't tried yet.

 

Also, the water or earth icons have stayed at 2 so far.

 

I did use the 35 point healing trick and the 15 point faerie healing dust in the same battle.   That's pretty nifty. 

 

As a new addict to the battledome, I have to say that the yo-yo is a great prize.  

 

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It's probably not random.  I've only tested it in 1-player mode, so I can't see exactly why it does things (2 vs. 4 fire icons, for example).  I'm sure it was waiting for me to be wounded or something before healing me, but I haven't tested it properly to say that f or sure.

I don't think it heals 35 hp under these circumstances. I've used it enough to find out I'm not being healed at all.