Near them their sisters three, the Gorgons, winged
Their genealogy is shared with other sisters, the Graeae, as in Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, which places both trios of sisters far off "on Kisthene's dreadful plain": The three Gorgon sisters-Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale-were all children of the ancient marine deities Phorcys (or "Phorkys") and his sister Ceto (or "Keto"), chthonic monsters from an archaic world. The 2nd-century BC novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya, where Herodotus had said the Berbers originated her myth as part of their religion.Īn archaic Medusa wearing the belt of the intertwined snakes, a fertility symbol, as depicted on the west pediment of the Temple of Artemis on the island of Corcyra In classical antiquity, the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion.Īccording to Hesiod and Aeschylus, she lived and died on Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who then used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, although the author Hyginus makes her the daughter of Gorgon and Ceto. Those who gazed into her eyes would turn to stone. In Greek mythology, Medusa ( / m ɪ ˈ dj uː z ə, - s ə/ Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα "guardian, protectress"), also called Gorgo, was one of the three monstrous Gorgons, generally described as winged human females with living venomous snakes in place of hair. The Hesperides, Sthenno, Euryale, The Graea, Thoosa, Scylla, and Ladon However, those stacks of accuracy debuff can quickly cripple enemies’ damage in return.įor consistent performance, Medusa is not the answer, but she certainly can be considered for some interesting applications.Classical Greek gorgoneion featuring the head of Medusa fourth century BC Support HGs and other support ARs are already able to provide far more DPS than Medusa can usually provide. But on the flip side, against enemies that ignore evasion entirely or don’t have evasion themselves render Medusa’s stacks worthless, making her role in teams specific and niche.Īll in all Medusa is a support AR that seems uniquely focused on supporting evasion tanks more than anything. While highly evasive enemies are rather rare, against them Medusa can quickly reduce their main form of survival and let her teammates burn through those specific foes. She still contributes by lowering their accuracy and evasion, but part of her skill becomes useless. Medusa also shares an issue with stun grenadiers, in that her ability to stun is entirely ignored by certain units and bosses. This can lead to painful consequences for the tank. She also falls off harder with more enemies, as she will spread her stacks too thin to make a significant impact. It spreads out the debuffs more evenly, but due to rng, Medusa can fail to put enough stacks onto the most dangerous target in the fight. This can be both a benefit and a problem. Medusa’s random targeting also makes her first prioritize attacking enemies she has not previously attacked, making sure she spreads out her stacks as well as possible. The stun will only work once on each unit, making things such as permanently stunning enemies not possible. Upon active skill, enemies with those stacks are stunned and take increased damage for the duration of the number of stacks they have. The first part of her skill that reduces enemy accuracy and evasion is a passive that stacks up to 5. Medusa is pretty clearly a support AR, from her debuff-centered skill to her tiles.
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