Lightning Rod

Defragment

Focus scaling is essential to make the delayed Lightning orbs from this card impactful. Increasing Focus ensures that the passive damage dealt over the next two turns is substantial enough to justify the initial energy cost.

Tesla Coil

This card requires active Lightning orbs to trigger its high-damage effect, which Lightning Rod provides reliably over multiple turns. It allows the player to bank orbs passively and then unleash them for a concentrated burst of damage.

Thunder

As Lightning Rod populates orb slots over time, it naturally leads to more frequent Evokes as new orbs are channeled. Thunder converts these inevitable Evokes into powerful area-of-effect damage, complementing the card's slow-burn nature.

Data Disk

Starting combat with Focus ensures that the orbs generated by Lightning Rod are powerful from the moment they are channeled. This synergy helps compensate for the card's low base block by increasing the immediate offensive pressure of the resulting orbs.

Gold-Plated Cables

This relic doubles the passive triggers of the rightmost orb, which is often where the newly channeled Lightning from this card will sit. It maximizes the value of the delayed channeling by doubling the damage output of those specific orbs.