Overview
Do you suck at roasting in general? Are you struggling to make the jump from average player to master roaster? You’ve gone to the right place, as this guide will tell you not only how make basic roasts, but on how to become a truly fearsome opponent as well.
Very Important Things To Know About This Guide!
As I want to keep this guide as simple, yet also understandable and not boring to read, I will be using words such as “nouns” and “verbs”. Here’s what I use them as:
Nouns: Basic insult components that tell who or what you’re going to describe.
Ex: You, Your dad, Woody Allen’s coffee breath
Verbs: One of the two ways you can describe a noun. It always requires another noun to be properly used.
Ex: was cast as, is, geeks out on Golden Girls with
Adjectives: The second way to describe a noun. These don’t require another noun to work, but if you try to use one anyway, you get a grammer mistake.
Ex: can buy and sell you, drank your milkshake, screams into pillows
Conjunctions: Not insults, per se, but serve as ways to extend your roast.
Ex: and, but
Endings: These insult components are one-of-a-kind and close up a roast.
Ex: have you even seen the movie?, but you didn’t read the script!, and I have to live forever with that!
The Absolute Basics: The 3 Rules
You cannot become a master roaster if you can’t even create a roast in the first place! Here’s 3 rules that all roasts MUST follow:
1. It must start with a noun.
2. It must describe this noun either using a verb and another noun or an adjective.
3. In order for your roast to deal damage, it has to be a complete sentence. If you don’t finish it, it will deal ZERO DAMAGE.
Continuations And Conjunctions
Continuations are symbols marked as (…) that may appear in the hand or the board. If you select these, it will stop you from building your roast any further for this round and will allow you to continue on next round with your previously built roast. This is very useful if you’ve found yourself in a situation where you cannot complete your roast. NOTE HOWEVER, if your opponent’s roast deals 16 or more damage, you will forget your lines and not be able to carry on with your roast! So, only use it if you’re sure your opponent doesn’t have a high damaging roast.
Conjunctions are extremely important from making a “Meh” roast into a “I’ll have to rethink my life now that I’ve heard that!” roast. Conjunctions currently in this game are the words “and” and “but”. “And” can be used to:
– Continue your roast after you’ve described your noun
– Put two nouns at the beginning of your roast to describe two nouns at once!
– Make verbs more useful by adding two nouns after them
“But” can be used to
– Continue your roast after you’ve described your noun
Endings
Endings are special components that can be found either in your hand or the board or in the form of a comeback (we’ll talk about comebacks in a bit). They add extra damage to your roast by adding a spicy finisher and are always found with punctuation. You can only use endings to end your roast, just like the name implies.
Combos: The Huge Damage Booster
Unlike how it works in real life, repeating nouns in your roast can make you or your co-star deal much more damage than normal. If you said, “You drank your milkshake!” last round, and you find “you” as a usable component: TAKE IT! Now anything that involves describing the noun “you” will now deal x2 damage! It can stack up, too, and deal x3, x4, and so forth.
You should also try to prevent your co-star from getting combos. If they said, “Your dad is your mom!” last round, and “your mom” appears, use it before they do so they can’t deal extra damage to you.
How To Use Comebacks Effectively
Comebacks are a new addition to the Oh… Sir! series. You can find them right under the end sentence button and above your hand. When you take damage, the meter fills up. When you take a total of 20 damage, one bar out of the three fills up. When at least one bar is filled up, you can use it and it will give you an ending that deals an amount of damage depending on how many bars were filled up when you used it.
1st Bar: A weak comeback that deals 4 damage. Not very damaging, but still can be used.
2nd Bar: A mediocre comeback that deals 10 damage. This deals 2 more damage than if you used two weak comebacks, so if you’re able to use this instead of two weak comebacks, then do of such.
3rd Bar: A strong comeback that deals a massive 18 damage. That in itself already will break a continuation.
Basically, try to use the better comebacks instead of spamming weak comebacks. If you are quite sure you’re going to defeat your opponent this round, you should use your comeback just to make sure their pride goes down to 0.
Knowing Your Characters And Scenes
You have to know who and where you’re fighting. Certain insult components deal extra damage to certain opponents, and only some phrases can be said while playing as a specific character or when playing in a certain scene. For example, only The Greasy Wizard can say “my crusty robe”, and only in the Fool of Wall Street can you mention “these dolla dolla bills”. Know what your character’s weaknesses are and don’t let your co-star take advantage of it, and also use theirs against them.
Here’s a guide made by me that details all the characters and their weaknesses:
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Taking Advantage Of Who’s Going First/Second
Many times we find ourselves wondering how the game determines who’s going first each round. Well… it’s rather simple: it just rotates each round! Knowing this, we can take advantage of this system.
Here’s the advantages of going first:
– You get to pick the best noun on the board.
– You’re the one who has the best chance of getting “and”.
– Going first makes it possible for you to recover AFTER USING a continuation.
Here’s the advantages of going second:
– You get to use grammar mistakes depending on what they do
– You can take an adjective if they take a verb to get ahead of them in the race to the conjunctions.
– You’ll be going first next turn, so continuations are much more viable to USE.
A Race To The Pennant
This is where the real battle begins: Who can get to the conjunction first? It always depends on how the board is set up. Surprisingly enough, it follows a pattern. The patterns are..
– Starts with at least 3 nouns.
– Contains at least one adjective.
– Always has, at minimum, 3 verbs.
– The final two spots are completely random, and can be anything. However, they have a higher chance of being either a continuation or a conjunction.
Usually, there’s one continuation and one conjunction. However, sometimes there is no continuation and two conjunctions. As long as it follows the rules above, it can happen.
Back to the race at hand: “and” and “but” are extremely important. You should try to be the first person to use them while also preventing your co-star from using them. While “but” is not as versatile as “and” is, it’s hard for the person who’s going second to obtain it. If there’s two “and”s, it’s pretty much fine for both of you to share the load and get one “and” each. But, if there’s only one conjunction, BE THE FIRST TO GET IT!
Grammer Mistakes: Who Needs To Be Good At English When You Can Roast?
Did you know that in order to be good at the game, you have to act terrible? Introducing grammer mistakes! You can take components off the board even if it won’t fit your current roast. It deals 3 damage to you, but if it means preventing them from getting a combo or using “and”, it can be worth the damage. You can take it even further by taking nouns off the board and using adjectives in your roast to possibly even force them to use a continuation or even end their roast prematurely and make it deal ZERO damage. It’s always a risky move, but if you know what you’re doing, it will be much harder for your co-star to even make a decent roast.
To make it more clear, here’s when you can/should use grammer mistakes to your advantage:
1. If your co-star has used a continuation, you’re going first, and there’s only one conjunction on the board, use a grammer mistake on it. This will prevent them from doing really too much of anything.
2. If there’s two conjunctions, then take one quickly and use the grammer mistake on the other one before they can use it.
3. If you’re going second and there’s only one “and” as a conjuction (and the opponent used “and” immediately after selecting their first noun) you could take one of the nouns, then use a grammer mistake on the other noun. This may throw them off-guard, as they must use their hand to get their second noun (as seen previously that there is only 3 nouns on the board, except in rare situations). Now, take the adjective off the board (no grammer mistake here). This forces them to again come up with another noun or adjective to even finish their insult. Just take note that this doesn’t work all the time, and is the riskiest when it comes to using grammar mistakes.
Just remember: Grammer mistakes DON’T fill up your comeback meter. Using them too much can hurt you in the long run!
Thank You For Reading
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