I dont understand these creatures nowadays, Do they have different likes of items now? Do they naturally start with +20 backslash instead of +30? Why doesn't the shadow do a -10 backslash at the last round before it hits like it used to, I realized that my main question is that because the duelist101 is out of date on shadow creatures and the wizard101 central wiki doesnt have info on them, Can anyone help me how to properly handle them? and again, this is the topic of shadow creatures, not shadow spells. I don't even know what do the Dark Nova likes anymore, everytime I cast a blade, trap or attack, he doesn't like it and the backslash goes up by 10%, when the website specifically said he likes those
Personally I have not used Shadow Magic recently. In the past, I would use Dark Nova because it is a great single hit on a boss. I would use feints and that would lessen the backlash to where at the end, I had ZERO backlash.
I will try it again and test it out and reply what occurs.
If I find it happens the same way you explained, I will contact Kingsisle and they will fix the problem.