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The Cowardly Lion

The Cowardly Lion

Skinwalkers · Magic · Legendary

Stars
5★
In teams
0
Best tier
S
Role
Defense

DEF-scaling nuker built around Fear, and the broadest champion on the roster: HellHades scores him 8+/10 on EVERY content type it rates — Fire Knight 10, Clan Boss 9, Dragon/Spider/Ice Golem/Iron Twins/Hydra/Chimera/Phantom Shogun/Arena all 9. A2 Primal Roar hits all enemies for 4×DEF ignoring 20% of their DEF, pre-buffing the team with 60% Increase DEF + Fervor and landing a 75% AoE True Fear; A3 hands the whole team Counterattack + 30% Reflect Damage that IGNORE enemy Shield and Strengthen; A1 hits 3× at 1.3×DEF, steals 5% Turn Meter per hit and gains +10% damage per skill activated by anyone under Fear (caps +100%).

The Echoes of Oz fusion payoff, and the account-specific case is stronger than the ratings alone. His passive True Courage turns any [Fear] or [True Fear] placed ON HIM into a full self-cleanse, a reset of ALL his cooldowns and an [Instant Turn] — and while feared his skills always activate. Ozilda the Wicked (Echoes of Oz event dungeon, live to 2026-11-10, currently farmed at stage 20) both True Fears directly and triggers Fear whenever the team gains buffs, which means the boss's own control mechanic hands him free turns: he is a hard counter to the event this account is actively running. Second: Fire Knight 10/10 and Clan Boss 9/10 hit the two projects the queue keeps naming — the FK wall (Fenshi / Hilda / Pann) and the CB tune — from one champion. Caveats: his True Fear is dead on Doom Tower bosses and Faction Wars stage-21 bosses (Almighty Immunity blocks Fear/True Fear outright), so against those his damage, team Inc DEF/Fervor and the Counterattack/Reflect package carry the seat, not the control; and his A1 Turn Meter steal is halved on DT bosses like everyone's. HellHades' own skill text for him is a pasted draft (it still contains ChatGPT markup), so the kit here was cross-checked against Ayumilove line by line. | RATINGS RE-DERIVED BY THE 34-TEAM AUDIT 2026-09-01, and the pattern matters more than any single number: HellHades scores him 8–10 almost everywhere, but EVERY boss in this game carries Almighty Immunity covering Fear and True Fear, which kills three of his four skills — A2's 75% AoE True Fear, A1's '+10% damage per skill activated under Fear' (which can never start), and his True Courage passive (which needs Fear placed ON him). WORSE, HIS A3 TEAM [COUNTERATTACK] IS AN ACTIVE LIABILITY IN THREE CONTENTS: Ice Golem (this record's first lever is 'No Counterattack buffs, ever' — counters chain Frigid Vengeance until one side is dead, so he is rated 1 and BANNED), Sand Devil (every counterattack is a HIT, burning the Slumber counter the whole comp exists to conserve), and Hydra (15 hits flips Wrath to +300% Vengeance). Iron Twins adds a third failure mode: his 60% Increase DEF buff LENGTHENS your own Ironbrand, whose duration is ranked by DEF across your team, and every buff he applies hands the boss 10% Turn Meter. HE IS GENUINELY EXCELLENT IN EXACTLY THREE PLACES: FIRE KNIGHT (HH 10/10 and 10/10 hard, kept at 5 — Fyro's debuff immunity lasts only while Divine Shield is up, and his team Counterattack + Reflect is the shield-break tech this account's record already prices), ARENA (kept at 5 — enemy champions are not CC-immune, so the whole Fear engine works), and DOOM TOWER (kept at 5 — 108 of the 120 floors are WAVE floors against ordinary champions with no Almighty Immunity, which is the largest of his three real homes). Minotaur stays 5 on waves with a boss-phase caveat. Spider drops to 4 rather than lower: Fear is dead on Skavag but team Counterattack against an endless spiderling swarm is a real extra-hit engine.

GearSavage · Cruel · Lethal · Relentless · Reflex · Lifesteal · Zeal
StatsDEF% › C.RATE › C.DMG › SPD › ACC
BuildEvery damage line on him scales off DEF (A1 1.3×DEF per hit × 3, A2 4×DEF), so DEF% is the ATK% of this build — crit-cap on top of a big DEF pool, then C.DMG, and enough ACC that the 75% AoE True Fear actually lands (that debuff is both the control and, through his A1 bonus and passive, a damage multiplier). Ayumilove lists Bloodthirst/Lifesteal/Reflex/Relentless for PvE and Zeal for PvP; Savage + Cruel is the straight nuker route given his A2 already ignores 20% DEF. Do NOT gear him as a tank — DEF here is an offensive stat.
BlessingHeavencast
Skill floorTen upgrades total, and the two that matter are A3 Strength in the Pack's twin Cooldown −1 books (5→3) — team Counterattack + Reflect Damage is a 2-turn buff, so unbooked it is up half the time and booked it is up two turns in three — and A2 Primal Roar's Lvl.6 Cooldown −1 (4→3) plus its two Buff/Debuff chance books (75%→100% True Fear).
HellHadesAyumiLove

Content ratings — where this champion earns their roster slot

Masteries — the build path; capstones highlighted

Deadly PrecisionKeen StrikeShield BreakerRuthless AmbushSingle OutBring it DownCycle of ViolenceMethodicalKill StreakPinpoint AccuracyCharged FocusSwarm SmiterCycle of MagicHeart of GloryLife DrinkerLore of SteelHelmsmasherLasting GiftsWarmaster

Appears in

Clan Boss
Swap — NOT A MAIN-FIVE SEAT, but the new engine for the Counterattack comp (audit 2026-09-01). HellHades rates him 9/10 Clan Boss; that rating does not survive this boss, because Demon Lord is immune to Fear and True Fear (HellHades' Ultimate Clan Boss Guide), which kills A2's 75% AoE True Fear, kills A1's '+10% damage per skill activated by champions under Fear' before it can start, and kills his True Courage passive, which needs Fear placed ON him. WHAT SURVIVES IS STILL WORTH A COMP: A2 Primal Roar is a 4×DEF AoE that pre-buffs the team with 60% Increase DEF + Fervor, and A3 Strength in the Pack puts [Counterattack] AND 30% [Reflect Damage] on ALL allies for 2 turns — which is the Skullcrusher archetype on a Legendary body. Field him in the Counterattack alt, not the main five. 5★, no gear plan authored.
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Dragon's Lair
Swap — DO NOT FIELD (audit 2026-09-01). HellHades gives him 9/10 normal and 9/10 hard, but FEAR IS NAMED EXPLICITLY IN HELLRAZOR'S ALMIGHTY IMMUNITY LIST (this record's own fight prose, from Ayumilove's guide): A2's 75% AoE True Fear cannot land, A1's '+10% per skill activated under Fear' damage bonus can never start, and his True Courage passive needs Fear placed ON him. What is left is a 4×DEF AoE plus team Increase DEF / Counterattack / Reflect — real, but not a seat in a poison race. Suggested rating: 3.
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Spider's Den
Swap — BENCH, WITH ONE REAL USE (audit 2026-09-01). HellHades gives him 9/10 but Skavag is fully CC-immune with Fear and True Fear named explicitly, so A2's True Fear, A1's Fear-stacking damage bonus and his True Courage passive are all dead — the same disqualification as Clan Boss and Dragon. UNLIKE those fights, he is not worthless here: A3 Strength in the Pack puts [Counterattack] on the whole team, and against an endless spiderling swarm that is a genuine extra-hit engine. Suggested rating: 4, with the Fear caveat recorded. 5★.
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Ice Golem's Peak
Swap — BANNED FROM THIS DUNGEON (audit 2026-09-01), on two independent grounds, and this is the worst rating error the 34-team audit found. (1) Klyssus's Almighty Immunity names Fear and True Fear explicitly, killing A2's True Fear, A1's Fear-stacking damage bonus and his True Courage passive. (2) HIS A3 STRENGTH IN THE PACK PLACES [COUNTERATTACK] ON ALL ALLIES, and this record's first lever is 'No Counterattack buffs, ever — Frigid Vengeance counters chain into more thresholds until one side is dead.' He does not merely underperform here, he loses the fight. HellHades rates him 9/10; that rating does not survive contact with this boss's passive. Suggested rating: 1.
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Fire Knight's Castle
Swap — SEATED IN TEAM IDEAL AND IN THE NEW HARD-MODE COMP (audit 2026-09-01). THIS IS HIS BEST CONTENT IN THE GAME: HH 10/10 Fire Knight and 10/10 Fire Knight Hard, and the only major content where his kit is not gutted by immunities — Fyro's debuff immunity lasts only while Divine Shield is up. 3-hit A1, a 4×DEF AoE with a team 60% Increase DEF buff, and A3's team [Counterattack] + 30% [Reflect Damage], which this record already prices at up to 4 extra shield hits per boss AoE. 5★, queue #1, no gear plan authored — worth writing one.
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Iron Twins Fortress
Swap — DO NOT FIELD (audit 2026-09-01), despite HH 9/10 and a curated 5. Three independent mechanics turn him from an asset into a liability here. (1) BUFF PUNISHMENT: A2 buffs all allies with 60% Increase DEF + Fervor and A3 buffs all allies with Counterattack + 30% Reflect Damage — up to four buffs across five champions, and at 10% boss Turn Meter per buff received one rotation can hand the twins two extra turns. (2) INCREASE DEF ACTIVELY WORSENS IRONBRAND, whose duration is a rank order by DEF across your own five — buffing team DEF lengthens your own brands. (3) His A1 hits 3 times into this fight's −50%-per-subsequent-hit penalty. Suggested rating: 2.
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Minotaur's Labyrinth
Swap — WAVES ONLY (audit 2026-09-01). Ayumilove rates him Minotaur ★★★★★ and on the waves that is fair — a 4×DEF AoE with a 75% True Fear is real clear speed on farm content. Against the BOSS his entire Fear engine is dead: Fear and True Fear are both on the immunity list this record quotes from Ayumilove (page updated 2026-07-26). Keep the 5 rating, add the waves-only caveat.
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Sand Devil's Necropolis
Swap — DO NOT FIELD (audit 2026-09-01). Fear and True Fear are on Al-Naemeh's immunity list in BOTH the awake and asleep states, so the whole Fear engine is dead. A1 hits 3 times into a hit-budget fight. Worst of all: A3 places [Counterattack] on all allies, and EVERY COUNTERATTACK IS A HIT — it burns down the Slumber counter the entire team exists to conserve. Second dungeon after Ice Golem where his signature buff is actively counterproductive. Suggested rating: 2.
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Chimera's Lair
Swap — NOT SEATABLE (audit 2026-09-01) despite HH 9/10. The Chimera's immunity list names Fear, True Fear, Enfeeble AND Berserk, so the Fear engine is dead. His A3's team Counterattack + Reflect are useful buffs against Transfixing Presence's buffless tax, but Consume Matter (CD 3) removes all your buffs and gains +10% damage per buff removed — his are not 'cheap' buffs. Suggested rating: 3.
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Hydra
Swap — A TRAP HERE (audit 2026-09-01) despite HH 9/10. Fear and True Fear are both on the head immunity list. Worse: HIS A3 GIVES THE WHOLE TEAM [COUNTERATTACK], and this record's playbook says 'don't feed Wrath multi-hit spam — 15 hits flips it to +300% Vengeance'. A team-wide Counterattack against four simultaneous heads generates hits faster than anything else owned. Third dungeon where his Counterattack is the disqualifying clause, after Ice Golem and Sand Devil. Suggested rating: 3. He remains usable in a key that does not face Wrath.
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Doom Tower
Swap — HIS DOOM TOWER VALUE IS STRUCTURAL AND NO RATING CAPTURES IT (audit 2026-09-01). He is HH 8/10 on five of the eight bosses with his Fear engine dead against ALL of them — Fear and True Fear are in the Almighty Immunity list every DT boss carries. BUT 108 OF THE 120 FLOORS ARE WAVE FLOORS against ordinary champions with no such immunity, where A2's 75% AoE True Fear stops waves acting the way Gliseah's Freeze does, A1 gains +10% damage per skill activated under Fear, and True Courage grants him free turns whenever a wave enemy Fears him back — and on 3-wave carryover floors that compounds. This is the third content after Fire Knight and Arena where his kit actually functions, and the largest of the three. A wave-core Ideal candidate once built. 5★, queue #1.
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Best for

Fire KnightClan BossEchoes of Oz — OzildaDoom TowerArenaFaction Wars (Skinwalkers)