Garrote Squad

The Garrote Squad is an Endless War tactic used in Season 1. It exploited an overpowered mechanic of the Garrote wire. Several small players would group together, equip the Garrote and attack a large player all at once in order to kill them with very low risk of anyone losing substantial slime on their end. It is no longer possible to use as the ancient technique to craft Garrotes of the power required has unfortunately been lost to history.

How It Worked
The critical hit of an ancient Garrote was instant death, regardless of how much slime the attacker or opponent actually had. Even if a player with 100 slime attacked a player with a Megaslime, if they got a critical hit they would win immediately. The catch was that the chance of getting a critical hit with the garrote is rare, 1% to be exact. It wouldn't be practical or timely to attack an average of 100 times before the opponent died, especially at a slime disadvantage. The garroter would be killed long before they got the crit. The solution was to have multiple people attack at once at minimal slime. If 5 people were doing it than each individual only had to attack 20 or so times. Even if they were killed, they could !revive, quickly !mine a modest amount of slime, !enlist, !equip, and continue the attack. It only took a minute and they wouldn't lose anything important.

Usage
This strategy was used on two occasions to kill major players Kanman (Pictured right) and Krak on May 15th and 18th respectively. At the times of their death they were both by far the largest player on their team and it was a huge loss when they died.

The death of Kanman was especially tragic as he was the second biggest player in the game, excluding kingpins, and was the last Ground Floor Boi outside of Investor, who would soon gamble his fortune in response to this.

Due to the extreme overpowered nature of this tactic, the Garrote was nerfed soon after these two kills, so a Garrote crit only did 100x damage. This tactic has never been usable since. Even if we rediscovered the technique for crafting the garrotes of old, the time it takes to go from death to slime with garrote equipped is too great for the tactic to be as powerful as it once was.