Rank 1 pounce does all of the above.

Let's pretend level 4 rank 1 yeti rank 1 pounce Sedna duels rank 2 pounce Sedna, and they each have 2 other skills.  They can each pounce each other, they can each run away, they can each do pretty much whatever they want.  They certainly aren't going to kill each other as one will always run away first.  Since yeti damage over time can keep up with the 7 second cooldown of 1 extra rank pounce anyway, it will be the high pouncer who runs out of mana.  Those 2 other skills points go into aura and healspeed most likely.  Combined with the obligatory 2 priests, I will heal through your pounce damage without even casting a full heal (which I have yet to skill into).  If somehow I'm completely wrong about the AA damage and there's actually a chance of getting killed by this pouncing, replace 1 skill from healspeed into heal.  Now you pounce, I heal.  I spend less mana, and stay at full health.  Meanwhile, my yetis are still out there whereas your pounce was completely useless.  I'm actually outdamaging you, especially per mana spent.

Let's look at it from another angle.  Is god strength good for a rook?  50 damage...hmmm 2 yetis x 30 damage damn I can't do this in my head but I think it's better than rook right?  God forbid Sedna gets buffed and receive 8 yetis or something insane with 50 damage at 400 mana so a single initial attack would be 400 damage.  Wait a minute:

They're already that good!  If you decrease the mana and/or increase the count, take cover.  Okay, not entirely accurate, armor will likely cut those values in half at end game, where pounce will still do a "solid" 1/6th of a player's hps (-25% damage however for shield of awesome or whatever it's called).  An amount that will be insta healed by priests unless you picked up counter heal because you have infinite skill points so even though you're implying max the lolskills you somehow fit in a max aura and max speed and max heal and max pounce and max silence?

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You then mention healing being a primary function of Sedna in a team battle.  Where does pouncing fit into all of this?  How can you safely execute a pounce with the range you have and 1. survive 2. not have to waste heal on yourself 3. have time because you didn't have to heal your teammate 4. have the pounce accomplish something meaningful 5. have enough mana to waste instead of on a heal 6. have one extra skill point make the difference between effective and non-effective pounce that couldn't have gone into yetis because 800 damage was already enough.  Multiply 1-6 to get the chance that it made sense to get that higher rank pounce.

Except kill someone with 600 hp.

This is so loaded I don't know what to say.  Sedna mirror match?  Try some real examples.  You know, with team mates, and other heroes.  For example - 2 Sednas pouncing 1 target (a gank) is infinitely better than a swarm of Yetis descending upon the fleeing target.

I get God Strength last.  Plus autoattacking is free.  It's also one point per 50 damage.  How many points do you need for those Yetis again?

Pouncing is damage.  Healing is healing.  You can get both.  Getting Yetis instead of Pounce reduces your damage.  Getting Yetis instead of healing increases your damage at the cost of the healing which is more important.  That's why no one gets Yetis and will continue to not get Yetis.

Step 1. Pounce

Step 2. Heal

Step 3. Pounce again when cooldown finishes.

Step 4. Heal again when cooldown finishes.

Step 5. Repeat as necessary as mana permits.

I think by now we can stop debating with Seanner about this. I don't see how else we can demonstrate, aside from a real match, that Yetis is Sedna's worst skill and needs some love.

If he wants to believe that Yetis are good, well, that's his opinion, just don't play with him on your team. LOL

Theorycrafting doesn't work. Yeti's simply aren't a viable option.

1 target is not obliged to wait for Sednas to approach to basically melee range.

You're kidding!  1 pt in yetis gives 2 yetis x 30 damage = 60 damage.  I guess when I left off the number of the calculation you screwed it up and got a different number.  Yes, 2x30=60.

Your opponent is afk?  Where are his abilities and how do they fit into this?  You go ahead and pounce the invincible Oak while 10 spirits attack you.

And to the person who says nobody can anymore argue with me, I forewarn you this is what happened in the DoW forums.  Ir0nclad, a top player and former WC3 expert, posted a strategy guide with attached replay involving a space marine contain with heavy bolters and snipers after a fast armory in tier1.  There was the mass bandwagon +1 karma equivalent there too, so I immediately jumped in and pointed out how flawed of a strategy it is to buy a heavy bolter instead of a marine when they do the same dps except you receive no hps on a weapon upgrade AND you have to purchase the armory for precious early power resources...an extra marine is straight up better than a HB.  He also failed to get a force commander for 7 minutes, to which I appended no less than 6 thousand exclamation points to emphasize how incredibly awful that was..and would've been destroyed by an AI opponent that typically makes mass marines!  I continued with how mass marines are in fact quite powerful and, with a force commander, can take down listening posts very fast and quickly win.  Of course, everybody disagreed and referenced Ir0nclad's skill and history and the fact that just because marines may work vs the AI (which I didn't actually say, I said the AI would beat him with that, which should be nothing less than hilarious, though mass marines will beat the AI's mass marines because their build order and capping strategy is faulty) or blah blah....anyway fast forward a couple weeks and the forums have posts like "nerf marines" and "mass marines imba" and no strategy because all you have to do is mass marines...

I hate resorting to I'm right because I say I'm right, but since you've stated you aren't going to argue with me anymore, all I can do is mention the above, and the next one:

Back when everybody was claiming that warlocks sucked--VERY LONG TIME AGO--I was winning nearly every world PvP whether I was ganked or vice versa, and tearing up battlegrounds.  Why?  Because chain fearing with DoTs is completely overpowered.  The obviousness of the strategy is what amazes me, that people didn't figure it out apparently even though I didn't even start playing until years after WoW came out.  I dare not say I invented chain fearing, yet somehow they thought warlocks couldn't compete in PvP.  Since then times have changed and between trinkets and skill changes and nerfs and buffs, who knows where balance is--I stopped playing.  But anyone who's played WoW knows how ridiculous warlocks can be.  I guess the earlier days had people stuck on lolnuke with shadowbolt and whining that they couldn't outdps a rogue on them (no kidding).  I mean, a nuke...nothing beats a nuke??  Lolpounce ftw!  North Korea ftw!

Sorry kid, I'm not really in to Pokemon.

Just to state the obvious: Demigod is a game about map control, not killing other demigods. Yetis are good because, combined with sedna's uberpriests and other minions, they're pretty much unkillable (since they can be resummoned, not too difficult once you get mana gear) unless you kill Sedna.

Yeti builds are the ultimate in staying power. As long as you can keep Sedna alive (which isn't hard given that you have uberpriests, heal, high hp/s regen, and giant tanks to fight for you), you can stay in the fight. It's a strange playstyle to get used to, but it's definitely viable.

Yeti's are a bad choice because Sedna has so many other, better skills.

QoT minions are fine. Remember shamblers are ranged and AOE, so the concentrated drain they can do over a battle is quite good if you focus on damage output items. I think the problem is people try to do too much with QoT. Pick a build; AoE and Shield + Goddess of Thorns or Minions and shield IV + keep your flower closed the enitre battle.

I do think Shamblers IV is a waste of a skill point though. If you lose 4 shamblers at once you did something wrong. If you lose a couple, fine, but don't pay 975 mana to build 4 when 2 replacements for 625 will do to fill out your squad again, and dont wait until all 4 are dead before replacing. 

I think the should be buffed

You got the order wrong then.  You heal when the Oak is invincible.  You pounce when he's not.  I'd think this is elementary but....

Holy crap this guy is some kind of internet superstar or something.  We were fools to ever think he was wrong!

We have no chance to survive IV, we must make our time.

Apparently the reign of the Yetis is upon us.

Where does penitence fit into this whole heal strategy?  Surge of faith?

If this argument were reversed, you'd be winning with Oak vs Sedna because I'd have mistimed my silence or something.

So tell me, when you play your clone with that matchup, which DG wins?

Seanner I got to say you managed to completely destroy any credibility of your arguments

I think Yetis need a buff, however, I think Sedna can be validly played as a minion general still in the right conditions. There are some positives to the build, however an assassin build will always be preferred by a team. I think it is slightly flawed that heal is seen as so powerful, 1500 HPs towards the end game is not really a lot, Reg can crit that in one shot with Ashkandor. If a team mate is being alpha'd then the heal does very little.

Playing Sedna front line should really rely on stacking HP and armour, however, if you go Pounce and Heal then you have to stack at least 2 mana items.

Heal is really at its most powerful early to mid game. By End game it is like most skills, fairly useless compared to Auto Attack.

So he has 10 spirits, invincibility shield, Pentitence and Surge of Faith?  What kind of mythical Oak is this?

I was under the assumption that we were talking about attacking a non-invincible enemy? Because there is no Yeti build that would be able to damage a shielded Oak either.

Also, while Yeti stats are not completely horrible, it's mainly their pathfinding that's the problem. With Pounce you can go anywhere you want and not get stuck, but Yetis have to find their way around grunts and other minions.

My point was that you obviously feel quite solid about your belief that Yetis are good, and that it doesn't sound like you'd be convinced by any of our arguments, so a debate would be moot.

penitence, surge of faith, invinc, 10 spirits (calculating....calculating....) = 7 skill points

very mythical Oak indeed, especially as by level 10 he will have 3 extra

Please do answer the question though.  When you fight yourself Oak vs Sedna, who wins?  I won't be back until Monday but I already have the clever reply prepared...

Quick, please Stardock, delete the thread

I find it pretty difficult to fight myself, however, I would maintain that the better player wins. This game is pretty well balanced as it is, some DGs are harder to play than others. In relation to the topic, I think a minion centric Oak would win against a minion centric Sedna.

The Spirits and the Oak buff will far out DPS Sedna and her minions, assuming they all just focus fire on each other. Mainly because Spirits will be hitting Sedna, while the Yetis will be wailing on some random minotaur.

Oh so it's level 1 pentitence, level 1 surge, a 2 sec shield and no damage autoattack boost Oak?  Yeah I'm not worried.  My Sedna has level 3 Pounce and Level 2 Heal.  No problem.

Just stop the theorycrafting.

Another good point.  The Yetis autoattack suffers from all the same bugs the heroes do due to bad pathing and randomly losing target.  The spirits have no such issues, probably because the losing target is caused by pathing issues and spirits have none.