Xiron the Ruby

Xiron the Ruby is the most recent Nemesis Monster released, which means he costs cash money

Overview
Xiron the Ruby has one of the fastest Speeds in the entire game, making him the best Denier in the game, due to having 7, I repeat SEVEN Guaranteed deny skills (not including Stardust)

Ruby Explosion and Implosion, Laying Odds, High Wage, Total Exhaustion and Mineral Blood, 2 of those are AOEs, but wait, what about the 7th Skill? Well, the 7th skill is Control Dice, the Wiki says 50% but it's actually 100%, 3 AOE Deny Skills is actually stupid and the only thing better than this is Samael the Plague Carrier (disputable though)

Positives

Negatives
 * Multiple AOE Deny Skills
 * Super Fast
 * Really tanky for a denier
 * Amazing Trait
 * Ruby Explosion/Implosion have a 75% chance to immobilize Monsters with the trait Bulwark
 * Stardust combines 2 Moves that at one point defined the Metagame in Monster Legends (Stamina Devourers + CDs Activated)


 * High Stamina Costs on his best moves

Movesets
LET ME MOVE I FUCKING HATE YOU

Deny the entire enemy team for 3 turns (if you're lucky you could deny them for 4 or 5 turns) and one for 4 turns (again, if you're lucky, make that 5 or 6 turns, or if they have high CDs on all of their moves then make that 6-8 turns), this is probably the best Monster on Defense
 * Ruby Explosion
 * Laying Odds
 * Control Dice
 * Ruby Implosion/Mineral Blood (Ruby Explosion is recommended over Mineral Blood, however Mineral Blood is worthy of a mention for being viable)

Counters
How does counter Xiron the Ruby?

Your best bet is to use Blob and hope your opponent has lower level runes (or if you have the same level runes, hope they have less team speed than you) and drain Xiron's Stamina over and over but then again if Xiron gets a turn Blob's trait is shit so rip, that's only a check that doesn't work most of the time

if you use Samael the Plague Carrier there's a 25% chance you wont be denied (or 50% chance if the AI is dumb) or if they use Ruby Implosion on not Samael then you can get a turn in and use Samael Warrior on your attacker and if they didn't get denied by Xiron they can wreck, but that wont work if both your allies get denied or Samael gets denied, so that works very rarely

You can also use Metalisha to outspeed Xiron and give an Extra Turn to your attacker, but since she doesn't give Precision your attacker can miss

There are no counters to Xiron the Ruby, only checks which wont work 100% of the time

Book Analysis
Good Legions

His only competition in that book is Kihaku and 115 Scrap Warrior Spirits
 * Viability Rank: SS (10/10)
 * Effectiveness: 10/10
 * Comparison to Competition: 10/10

Xiron faces stiff competition from Samael the Plague Carrier/Samael the Fever Scatterer and Llum the Magical Matriarch, his Magical Speed allows him to tie with the aforementioned Llum the Magical Matriarch and outspeed the likes of Samael, Baba Yaga, Montauk Creature, Uru, Tempest and Glitch, all good options in the Spirits Book, however, there are many monsters with Immunity to Control Effects, a few monsters with Tough, a few with Hardened and Sammy and Llum have Bulwark. OVERALL RANKING: 9.5/10
 * Viability Rank: SS (10/10)
 * Effectiveness: 9/10
 * Comparison to Competition: 9.5/10

Exclusive

Xiron faces competition from, again, Sammy, Llum, but now it's in the same book as Warthak, who is Immune to Stun, Freeze and Possession, essentially nullifying Xiron's denying capabilities and being able to one shot Xiron with Two-Handed Mountainsplitter/Sunbringer, Xiron still has a 75% chance of immobilizing Sammy, Llum and all the VIPs, however he can't immobilize Ingenica's helpers, but they're Epics so nobody will use them if they have a Vanoss Monster or a PopularMMOs Monster. OVERALL RANKING: 9/10
 * Viability Rank: SS (10/10)
 * Effectiveness: 8.5/10
 * Comparison to Competition: 9/10