Shadowkin

Faction Crypt · 5 of 5 seats · 13 owned bodies

Upgraded

The Fight▾

Hotatsu (FW 5★) is the new backbone — Dec ATK + team Inc DEF/heal + 25% DEF aura; Fenshi (FW 5★) carries damage with DEF-ignore burst; Sachi revives and blinds; Jurojin provokes. Shu-Zhen the Valorous takes the fifth seat — TM control + an Extra Turn (with 50% ATK/30% C.RATE/30% C.DMG) handed to Fenshi for the burst.

Team

RoleChampionNoteTier

Dec ATK / sustain + aura

HotatsuMNEW — the faction's best FW body; all-battle DEF aura4★

Damage

FenshiFFW 5★ — poison-count DEF-ignore burst4★

Support / revive

SachiFATK buff + Dec ACC; passive revives a random ally when SACHI KILLS an enemy (not on ally death) — the safety net needs her landing killing blows4★

Tank / control

JurojinSSelf-shield Provoke + Dec ATK4★

Speed lead / TM control

Shu-Zhen the ValorousVNEW Legendary (6★ BUILT, FW 5★) — ±20% TM swing + A2 EXTRA TURN to Fenshi (with 50% ATK/30% C.RATE/30% C.DMG); SPD→ACC passive; exactly the upgrade the old lever promised for this seat6★

Role coverage

MDamageItinerant, Odachi, Fenshi, Jurojin, Hotatsu, Kunoichi, Burangiri, Tomoe, Gory, Genbo the Dishonored, Jintoro
SDecrease ATKJurojin, Hotatsu, Tomoe
MDecrease DEFJintoro
FControlSachi, Jurojin, Burangiri, Gory
VTM ManipFenshi, Sachi, Shu-Zhen the Valorous, Tomoe, Jintoro
FSustainOdachi, Sachi, Hotatsu, Kunoichi, Burangiri, Tomoe

Levers

›Build order: Hotatsu (queue #22, transforms the crypt) → Fenshi (queue #7 — his Fire Knight pin build covers this seat for free).
›Odachi rotates to the bench — Shu-Zhen's arrival closed the stopgap seat. His one swap-in case: Jurojin's seat on stages where his A3 team Block Debuffs matters more than a Provoke pin (his Inc DEF/self-shield are otherwise dominated by Hotatsu/Jurojin).
›July 2026: three new Shadowkin, all bench-worthy. KUNOICHI (Ayumi FW 5★) is the best of them — AoE Leech at 75% turns the whole team's damage into healing and her A3 puts 50% Ally Protection on everyone; she is the swap for Jurojin when a floor out-damages the team. BURANGIRI adds an AoE Stun and a passive that heals him 50% of MAX HP whenever ANY champion dies. TOMOE hands the top-ATK ally Counterattack (3 turns if Shadowkin — everyone here qualifies) plus team C.DMG/C.RATE and a 24% SPD crypt aura, and her passive boosts heals and TM fill by 20% on Shadowkin allies. Gory is the fourth and weakest: a Freeze specialist whose passive counterattacks whenever an ally is CC'd — real on debuff-heavy floors, but Ayumi rates him FW 3★ and this crypt is already five deep in bodies that do more.
›SEAT-ROLE CONTRADICTION FLAGGED 2026-09-01: Jurojin holds the fifth seat labelled 'Tank / control', and fresh HellHades FW-role data drops BOTH fw_cc and fw_dec_atk below 3/5 for him — his seat justification is no longer supported by the rating source. He is not obviously replaceable, but this record's own bench note calls KUNOICHI (Ayumi FW 5★) 'the best of them', with a 75% AoE Leech that turns the whole team's damage into healing and an A3 placing 50% Ally Protection on everyone. Kunoichi is the swap to evaluate when Jurojin's build comes up. No new champion arrived in this faction in the 2026-08-31 intake.
›RE-AUDITED 2026-09-01 against fresh HellHades ratings and FW-role data: ZERO seat changes. Faction Wars is faction-locked and the 2026-08-31 intake (The Cowardly Lion, Armanz, Artak, Starsage Galathir, Frolni, Dorothy Gale, Khamir Scald-Eye) placed champions in only seven factions — Barbarians, Skinwalkers, Dwarves, High Elves, Banner Lords, Orcs and Ogryn Tribes. This crypt receives nothing from it, and every seat re-derived unchanged.

Bench

Sources:HellHadesAyumiLove