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A vine Competitor with no passive and damage-capped hits — a Moss-Pole climber that walls as a native, races as an invasive.
English Ivy is a vine card. Native to Europe and western Asia, it plays a buffer; across the Pacific Northwest and other temperate parts of North America, where it blankets ground and trees, it plays an attacker. See nativity.
Vine kit: level-1 starter, level-10 free ability, level-18 advanced attack — but vine attacks are damage-capped, so its ceiling hits land a little softer than an uncapped Competitor. Native moves deal baseline power; invasive moves still gain the roughly 1.75× multiplier, just against that lower cap.
Vines have no always-on passive. See abilities.
As a climber, English Ivy is Moss Pole eligible — the Moss Pole is a signature vine field gear fit. Beyond that, pick defensive gear for the native wall and offensive gear for the invasive attacker. No poison-rider or thorns unless the infobox flags them.
Moderate HP and level-scaling Def, light Sun, and a cheap 10-Sun retreat. Native → HP ×1.15 cushion and bench HP overshield; invasive → ATK spike (against the damage cap) with Faustian bench self-damage per damaging attack.
Vine → Competitor group: ×1.5 into Ruderal (annual-forb, grass, aquatic, bulb); ×0.667 into Specialist (succulent, conifer, fern, epiphyte).
The damage cap and missing passive make ivy a modest attacker — fine for PvE grinding but not a standout, and it leans on a bench and on the right gear (a Moss Pole) to shine. Its cheap retreat is its best trait, letting it rotate out of Specialist matchups. Mainly a collection card and a serviceable native wall.