Valkanen

Swap — DEMOTED from the nuker seat (2026-07-27 audit). Ayumilove rates him only 4★ Force Keep vs Supreme Kael's 5★, and single-target burst is the wrong tool against a 4000-DEF wall that Poison simply ignores. Still the biggest single-target hit on the roster if you want to delete the boss after the shred lands — disable A3 on auto.

Single-target damage — 6★ — biggest built nuke on the roster; ignores Shield / Unkillable / Block Damage. Void = neutral into Spirit. Disable A3 on auto.

Nuke (ignore shield) — 6★, Void (neutral — no weak hits). A1 Dread Scythe bypasses Shield buffs, so he damages her HP even in the window before a strip lands; secret skill Malice Unleashed ignores Shield / Block Damage / Unkillable / Ally Protection and steals all buffs unresistibly. Highest single-target damage on the roster.

Swap — 6★ and fully geared, but Ayumi Void Keep 4★ — every multiplier is ATK-scaling, which is the wrong currency against a big MAX-HP pool on a race clock. Displaced from the Nuke seat by Supreme Kael; keep him for Hydra / Arena / Doom Tower Floors / Faction Wars.

Swap — Displaced from the nuke seat (Ayumi 4★). Still the biggest single-target hit owned if you only care about the boss wave, but he adds nothing to three trash waves and his +30% SPD aura is Arena-only. His 'ignores Shield/Block Damage' edge is irrelevant here — Gallaroth has neither.

Execute — 6★ unbooked — acts last. Default line into Katonn-shredded targets is A2 Hex of Blades (4cd, hits every enemy individually, +10% damage per debuff on the target, ignores 20% RES per dead ally). The big hit — Malice Unleashed, 7.5 ATK, steals all buffs unresistably, ignores Shield / Block Damage / Unkillable / Ally Protection, and applies Block Revive on kill — is a SECRET SKILL and is not free: it unlocks only after A3 Death's Bargain, which KILLS a living ally (or heals him for 50% of an already-dead ally's MAX HP). A3 also fills his own Turn Meter by 75%, so the sacrifice and the execute chain in one cycle — spend an ally who has already acted. A3 additionally lands unresistable 25% Weaken + True Fear on all enemies. Void, so never a weak hit. His +30% Arena aura is inert here — Shu-Zhen holds the lead slot. tomePriority hold: his A3 cooldown books only matter in multi-round grinds, not a one-round alpha.

Swap — 6★, Void — displaced starter. Ayumi rates him Chimera 3★ against HH's 7/10, and the kit explains the gap: Malice Unleashed is gated behind A3 Death's Bargain, which KILLS a living ally — and every ally death stacks unremovable Necrosis on the survivors during Viper. Keep him for Clash burst only if you can afford the death.

Hex (anti-Mischief) + debuff spread + Exposed-Neck burst / digestion rescue — 6★. A2 Hex of Blades puts Hex on ALL four heads (80%→100% booked, CD 4→3) — that is the counter to Mischief's 75% attack redirect — and hits each head with single-target damage that grows 10% per debuff on it; his A1 then spreads 2 debuffs from the target onto every Hexed head. Also the roster's top single-target damage for the +200% Exposed-Neck window and the 150–250k digestion-bar rescue, and his ~250% sheet C.DMG deliberately takes the opening Consumption mark — planned rescue, not avoidance. DISABLE A3 ON AUTO: Death's Bargain kills one of your own allies, and its True Fear rider is dead on heads.

Swap — REVERSED BY THE 2026-07-27 AUDIT. The old note called him a boss-floor hammer and a poor wave body — both sources say the exact opposite: Ayumi Floors 5★, but 1–2★ (H 2–5) on ALL EIGHT bosses. He is a FLOORS champion, and he was mis-seated in three boss alts (Celestial Griffin, Bommal, Dark Fae) — all three replaced. Keep him for waves, never for a boss key.