Card Tips:Ballista of Rampart Smashing

"Ballista of Rampart Smashing":

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• This card can be searched by "Hidden Armory", "Armory Call", "Vylon Cube", "Power Tool Dragon", "Ashoka Pillar", "Noble Knight's Spearholder", "Tool Box", "Infernoble Knight - Roland", "Gearbreed", "Vylon Delta", "Mikanko Rivalry", "Iron Blacksmith Kotetsu", "Power Tool Braver Dragon", "Vylon Sigma", "Fairy Tail - Rella", "Courageous Crimson Chevalier Bradamante", "Glory of the Noble Knights", and other generic searchers.

• Equip this card to "Inferno". That way you can inflict damage with the effect of "Inferno".

• Equip this card to a monster that deals Piercing damage.

• Equip "Big Bang Shot" to the same monster that you equip this card to.

• This card can be particularly useful when combined with an effect to force the opponent's monster(s) into face-down defense position, such as "Swords of Concealing Light", "Book of Eclipse" or "Book of Moon".

• A good card to equip this card to would be "Blackwing Armed Wing".

• Chain this card to Big Bang Shot and "8-Claws Scorpion" to allow it to deal Piercing damage when attacking monsters with a DEF higher than 2400.

• Flip your "Tsukuyomi" face-up and flip one of your opponent's monsters into face-down Defense Position; then, tribute "Tsukuyomi" and another monster to Normal Summon "Ancient Gear Golem", equip it to this card and attack. This combo will deal up to 4500 damage to your opponent.
  • You can also use "Limiter Removal" and deal a 7500 damage.
    • Do the strategy above using "Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem" and this combo will probably do an OTK, by dealing up to 10300 damage.
      • You can also activate "Ancient Gear Explosive" and deliver an 2200 damage, besides the 10300 one.
        • Due this combo's high probability of making an OTK, its useful to negate cards like "Bottomless Trap Hole", "Torrential Tribute", etc, with "Trap Stun" or "Royal Decree".