Cairnage — the Named Synergy Target in Batomon Showdown's 1.3.0 Notes

What did the official patch notes say about Cairnage?

Two entries across two patches — the second one not even a Cairnage balance line, and still the strongest thing the record says about it:

The 1.2.0 line is a 20% cut to the conversion engine, unannotated. The 1.3.0 line is history of a different kind: the Opalion page reads the two patches together, and the conclusion is that 1.2.0’s quiet nerfs were aimed at the community’s one-shot line all along — 1.3.0 just said so out loud.

The one-shot line, with its labels

The comp comes from one durable thread — “have you figured out a Talonite build?”, 16 replies — whose top answer proposed Opalion + Cairnage + Talonite behind the Painter trainer. The pieces, each with its evidence status:

• Opalion — real, officially Jinto-filed, and now officially the synergy’s nerf target (its own page).
• Cairnage — real, with exactly one ability line on record: the Shield-to-Damage multiplier this page tracks.
• Talonite — real and Contested: the patch called its 1.1.0 rarity bump a nerf, yet the build thread keeps it on shortlists.
• The Painter link — official ability (“additional types”), community pairing.
• The line as a whole — never tested on record. No match, replay or win-rate datapoint exists.

Then the patches answered: 1.2.0 cut two of the three monsters (Opalion’s Cooldown 8 → 9, Cairnage’s multiplier down 20%); 1.3.0 handed Opalion’s Cooldown back but halved its Rock-allies trigger — “Changed to weaken the Cairnage synergy.” The converter now fires from a weaker engine than the thread proposed.

What is still unknown

• Cairnage’s cost, attack, health and trigger rules — the multiplier is the only card line on official record.
• Whether the one-shot line survives its two-patch haircut in practice — no public test exists.
• What else pairs with the conversion: any Cairnage line that is not the Opalion one-shot is undocumented.

The monster list files Cairnage under the Jinto pool, the Opalion page and the Talonite page carry the one-shot line’s other pieces, and the Batomon tier list tracks both patch rows in context.