Hoopoe

What it can do

Good at: Research & Intelligence · PR & Communications · Strategy & Leadership

Pathfinding: Finds the most likely place where an answer lives before searching for the answer itself.

Its weakness

The catch: Navigation can become a bottleneck when the answer is already obvious.

Less suited to: Finance · Legal & Risk

Never does: Searching when the way is clear.

How it fights — your starting playbook

Its role: The Guide of the Seven Valleys — finds the way to the door and goes straight to it

First move: Work its furthest piece; reveal its hidden work only when its lead is at the door and nothing else can be worked.

Attack — Before You Knock: Finds the piece at your door and turns it back.

Guard — The Thirty Birds: While it stands, none of its work can be turned back.

This is where it starts. In the league you steer it — when to attack, when to defend, how hard.