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Ambush is a team modification, currently only appearing as the evolution modification of the ILB's Hades Tigers.
Overview
In Season 12, the decree Based Evolution passed. This decree stated that on a team's third championship win, the Team and its Players would evolve. While the Baltimore Crabs were the first team to win the championship thrice, the Crabs ascended in Season 10, before the Based Evolution decree was passed.
The Hades Tigers won the championship in the ILB's 2nd, 3rd and 12th season and were the first to evolve, confirming the effects of Based Evolution. Every active player on the Tiger's championship roster reached Base 1 evolution, raising those player's minimum stat threshold. The team was granted a new team modification, Ambush.
Ambush
"When a Player is incinerated in a game this Team is playing, a Hall of Flame Player will join their Shadows."
Ambush is a team modification that activates when a player is incininerated in a Hades Tigers game, regardless of team. Due to the Tigers having the team modification Fireproof, Ambush has only activated by incinerations of active players from opposing teams. It is currently unknown if team incinerations would activate Ambush.
When Ambush activates, the incineration text is changed. In addition to the text declaring a player is incinerated and their replacement, the following text is appended, with the Ambushed player's name in place of "Player Name".
An Ambush.
Player Name enters the Tigers' shadows.
Upon Ambush, three events appear on the Ambushed player's feed. The first two events are unique to the Ambush modification, the third is the standard shadow boost whenever a player enters a team's shadows.
Player Name exited the Hall of Flame.
Player Name joins the Ambush.
🐅+ Player Name, Shadows
Player Name entered the Shadows.
Currently, the Ambushed players appear to be completely random. It is unknown if their standing in the Hall of Flame has any bearing. In addition, the modification is not restricted to players from the Internet League Blaseball or to revealed teams.
This was shown on Season 22, day 24 when Archie Lampman was Ambushed upon the incineration of Yong Wright. Unlike the previous Ambushes, Lampman was a shadows player for then ULB's deceased Mallorca Whales. At the time, none of the Mallorca Whales' entries the Library had been revealed, making them the first ULB team discovered by Ambush. Previously, Lampman had haunted player Kennedy Loser, but this did not reveal their previous team. As their death was likely due to the Whales getting incinerated as a team, their player page also had a unique event:
Archie Lampman was pulled from the incinerated Whales.
❓- Archie Lampman
After the Mallorca Whales were uncovered, the emoji changed to the Mallorca Whales' whale emoji (🐋).
Ambushed Players
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