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Build Priority

The ranked 6★ queue, secondary projects, and the reasoning behind what got dropped.

Done at 6★MKaelSAnaxFRector DrathFGeomancerVValkanenFAox the RemembererSVogothVLightswornMApothecaryFGwyndolin the SilentVAkemtumMFrozen BansheeFDoompriestSSuzerain KatonnVSupreme KaelMMorrigaineSStag KnightFGliseah SoulguideFVarkos HeadsplitterFBad-el-KazarVRhaia the MournedVDemythaFHeiressMSeekerMRoyal GuardMAlureSLugan the SteadfastVShu-Zhen the ValorousSDorothy GaleMKhamir Scald-EyeFStarsage GalathirMFrolni the MechanistFKeberon the Underflame

Next, in order

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The Cowardly Lion
Skinwalkers
#1

NEW Legendary (2026-08-31, Echoes of Oz fusion) — the broadest champion the account has ever taken in, and it is not close: HellHades scores him 8/10 or better on EVERY content type it rates, with a 10/10 FIRE KNIGHT and a 9/10 CLAN BOSS. Those two numbers are the queue's two standing projects (the FK wall that Fenshi, Hilda and Pann are all queued for; the Clan Boss tune) answered by one champion, and the rest of the board — Dragon, Spider, Ice Golem, Iron Twins, Hydra, Chimera, Phantom Shogun, Arena, all 9/10 — comes free. The kit is a DEF-scaling nuker wrapped around Fear: A2 Primal Roar hits everyone for 4×DEF ignoring 20% of their DEF while pre-buffing the team with 60% Increase DEF + Fervor and landing a 75% AoE True Fear; A3 gives the whole team Counterattack + 30% Reflect Damage that ignore enemy Shield and Strengthen; A1 hits three times for 1.3×DEF each, steals 5% Turn Meter per hit and gains +10% damage for every skill activated by anyone under Fear (up to +100%). The account-specific kicker is his passive: any Fear or True Fear placed ON HIM is converted into a full self-cleanse, a reset of all his cooldowns and an Instant Turn, and while feared his own skills always activate. Ozilda the Wicked — the Echoes of Oz event boss being farmed at stage 20 until 2026-11-10 — True Fears and also triggers Fear whenever the team gains buffs, so her control mechanic is his fuel. Caveat that does not move the rank: Fear is blocked by Almighty Immunity on Doom Tower and stage-21 crypt bosses, where his damage and the Inc DEF / Fervor / Counterattack / Reflect package carry the seat instead.

Stars5/6★
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Armanz the Magnificent
Barbarians
#2

NEW Legendary (2026-08-31) — HellHades 10/10 overall, the highest-rated champion on the account, and a pure control engine. A2 Greatest Hits attacks all enemies, STEALS all of their Turn Meter and Stuns everyone not under [Sheep] (4→3 booked); A3 For My Next Trick! Sheeps one enemy and then rolls 75% to strip every buff from the entire enemy team, refunding him 5% Turn Meter per buff removed (5→3 booked, +25% chance); A1 rolls 35% to push a random enemy skill two turns deeper into cooldown; the passive maxes out a random skill's cooldown on any enemy whose Sheep expires, refunding 10% Turn Meter per turn added. That is a one-button reset of an enemy offence, which is why HH puts him at 10/10 Arena and 10/10 Spider with 9/10 on Dragon, Fire Knight and Ice Golem, plus 10/10 on both Astranyx and Iragoth in Doom Tower — and he brings a 28% Ally SPD arena aura on top. He ranks behind the Lion only on breadth: Clan Boss is 2/10 and the Iron Twins / Chimera / Sand Devil / Phantom Shogun family is 2/10, so his ceiling is enormous but his footprint is PvP, dungeon waves and floors. Two caveats for the build: he needs heavy ACC before anything else (Sheep, strip, Stun and cooldown push are all accuracy checks and he deals no damage of his own), and Almighty Immunity on Doom Tower and stage-21 crypt bosses blocks Stun/Sheep, blocks cooldown extension in the crypts and halves Turn Meter reduction — against those bosses only the buff strip fully survives. Barbarians has no dedicated control seat today and he is HH control 5/5 + tmManip 5/5, so the crypt is worth a re-audit.

Stars5/6★
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Artak
Orcs
#3

NEW Legendary (2026-08-31, Orcs/Magic/HP) — HellHades 9/10 overall with 10/10 on DRAGON, SPIDER, ICE GOLEM and HYDRA, 10/10 on Spider HARD and Ice Golem HARD, and 9/10 Clan Boss. He is the roster's third AoE HP Burn engine and the only one that DETONATES: A2 Dogs Of War instantly ACTIVATES every HP Burn on the enemy team before it attacks — turning queued tick damage into an immediate hit — and lands a 75% AoE 50% Decrease ATK on top. A3 Purifyre plants the 75% AoE burn and pays him back 10% destroyed MAX HP per burn placed (plus a 5% MAX HP heal for every burn the enemy blocks or resists); A1 extends burns by a turn. The passive is the engine: every burn tick destroys 5% of HIS OWN MAX HP (stacking to 50%) and each 1% destroyed becomes +1% DMG, C.DMG and DEF and +2 SPD and RES, so he compounds through exactly the long fights the Spider and Hydra plans are built around. Ranked above Maneater and Coldheart because the Spider record already names the HP-Burn engine as that dungeon's endgame AND names burn detonation as a missing tool — it currently points at Myciliac Priest Orn for that job, far down the queue; Artak is that tool at four 10/10s. One seating caveat that is not a rank issue: his payoff is DESTROYED MAX HP, so allies who restore it undo his scaling — Khamir Scald-Eye's A1 does exactly that, team-wide, every turn.

Stars5/6★
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Maneater
Ogryn Tribes
#4

NEW (2026-08-10 Void batch) — the champion this file was explicitly saving shards for: 'When shard-buying resumes: Maneater is the double-payoff target — completes the budget Unkillable CB comp (with Seeker + Pain Keeper) AND is the 5th Ogryn body for the FW crypt.' The Ogryn half is moot (that crypt reached nine bodies in the July intake); the Clan Boss half is exact. A3 Ancient Blood gives the WHOLE team Unkillable + Block Debuffs for 2 turns, paid for with 5% of his MAX HP per living ally; A2 fully strips a target's Turn Meter into his own; A1 lands AoE 50% Dec ATK on any critical hit (so C.RATE is a real stat on him, unusually for an HP body). HH 9/10 with 5★ on CB, Spider, Ice Golem and Iron Twins, plus a 33% HP aura in dungeons. Behind Demytha only because her dungeon spread is wider — the tune wants one anchor, not both.

Stars4/6★
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Coldheart
Dark Elves
#5

NEW (2026-08-10 Void batch, THREE copies) — HH 10/10 on BOTH Fire Knight and Spider, which is precisely the archetype the Spider team's levers named as the roster's missing piece ('Coldheart/Armiger/Royal Guard'). A3 Heartseeker fully strips one target's Turn Meter, carries +30% crit chance and scales its damage off the ENEMY's MAX HP — it kills dungeon bosses without caring how good your gear is. Add Minotaur 5★, Faction Wars 5★ and 5★ on all five potion keeps. And she is a RARE: the cheapest 6★ on the account, the cheapest book-out (Rare tomes are the abundant pool), and with three copies a guaranteed skill upgrade is free. Ranked directly above Royal Guard because she is the same fix at a fraction of the cost. One caveat: paper-thin HP and DEF — seat her behind a shield or a control body, and take Giant Slayer over Flawless Execution on a Clan Boss build because Heartseeker's damage is capped there.

Stars3/6★
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Vizier Ovelis
Dark Elves
#6

The elite Fire Knight + Clan Boss specialist (both 5★): Block Buffs + 100% Heal Reduction + Dec ATK on a spammable A2, plus AoE debuff-spread. Narrower than Katonn but best-in-class where it counts. ↑ if Fire Knight or Clan Boss is your active wall — and Alure (6★ BUILT) stacks with him there.

Stars5/6★
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Fenshi
Shadowkin
#7

The FK20 pin — added by the 2026-07-17 FK audit (card called his 6★ a direct farm-speed upgrade but he was missing from the queue). A2 3-hit, 75%/hit (booked) −15% TM on a 2-turn cycle is the crit-independent lock that keeps Fyro from ever taking a turn once the shield drops; 3-hit A1 Dec SPD feeds the break itself. Dragon 5★ / FW 5★ spillover. FK20 = the daily gear-income engine, so the pin seat ranks with the FK lockdown cluster (Vizier #7, with Alure now 6★ BUILT).

Stars4/6★
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Visix the Unbowed
Dark Elves
#8

NEW Legendary (2026-08-10 Void batch) — the Doom Tower answer the roster is thinnest on: HH 10/10 on Borgoth (Scarab King) and 9/10 on both Astranyx (Dark Fae) and Kuldath (Magma Dragon). Dark Fae is the Rotation-3 floor-120 final that Alure's entry names, and Scarab King is the exact fight Lugan the Steadfast is queued for — she outrates him on it. A1 hits twice for 80%/hit −15% enemy TM and pours it into her own; A2 is AoE 30% Dec SPD plus 50% Ally Protection on the rest of the team; A3 AoE Provokes and shields her for 20% of her MAX HP. DEF-scaled with no crit requirement, so ACC and SPD are the entire build. She also takes the Dark Elves crypt control seat outright (HH FW control 5/5) behind a 37% DEF crypt aura. Ranked below the Fire Knight cluster only because Fire Knight is this account's stated wall.

Stars5/6★
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Muckstalker
Lizardmen
#9

Placement is the audit's suggestion, not a derived rank — he unlocks one dungeon rather than broad progression, so move him if Artifact Oil is not what the account needs next.

Stars3/6★
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Rotos the Lost Groom
Undead Hordes
#10

NEW Legendary (2026-08-14 batch) — the strongest single champion in it. HH 9/10 overall with a 10/10 ARENA (joint-highest owned, level with Shu-Zhen) and a 10/10 ICE GOLEM, plus 9/10 on Clan Boss and Dragon. The arena rating is real rather than nominal because of one clause: A3 Fated Destruction ignores 60% of the target's DEF AND [Unkillable] AND [Block Damage], and blocks revives outright once he is fully fed — nothing else owned beats all three of those defences with one skill. A2 Vitality Plunder cuts 20% off an enemy's MAX HP and adds it to his own, which matters twice over because his multipliers are HYBRID (x ATK + y HP), so every steal raises his own damage. His passive caps any single incoming hit at 50% of his MAX HP and hands him an Extra Turn when it fires. Ayumilove 5★ on Arena Offense, Demon Lord, Faction Wars, Minotaur, Dragon, Ice Golem, Frost Spider and Celestial Griffin. Ranked here and not higher because he breaks no named wall — Fire Knight is still the account's stated wall and the FK cluster sits above him — but he is the broadest damage upgrade in the queue. Caveats to know before gearing: the MAX-HP theft is capped and RESETS between rounds, and Undead Hordes is already the deepest crypt owned, so none of his value is a faction gap.

Stars5/6★
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Jintoro
Shadowkin
#11

NEW Legendary (2026-08-14 batch) — HH 10/10 on BOTH Clan Boss and Spider, 8/10 overall, with FW damage 5/5 and tmManip 5/5. A3 Oni's Rage lands 60% Decrease DEF and 25% Weaken and hits FIVE times instead of once on every fourth use against the same target; A2 Blood Freeze steals 100% of a target's Turn Meter and cuts the A3's cooldown when the target is TM-immune, which is a clause written for exactly the Almighty bosses that halve TM reduction. His aura is 29% Ally ATK in ALL battles, second only to Rhaia's 35%. DIRECT TIE TO THE CLAN BOSS PLAN: HellHades' MythBusted unkillable-tune guide names him in its DPS shortlist for that comp, and his A3 supplies the Weaken the guide asks that seat for. READ THE CAVEAT BEFORE SLOTTING HIM THERE: the same guide warns that turn-meter effects break speed tunes, and Jintoro's Vigorous passive increases every TM fill he receives by 50% — Seeker's 30% team boost becomes 45% on him alone. He has to be modelled in DeadwoodJedi's calculator, not dropped into the published numbers. SEATED 2026-08-23: he IS the Unkillable 2:1 comp's DPS seat (teams.json Clan Boss card), taken over Geomancer, whose Stoneguard deflect is dead under Block Damage — his 6★ now unblocks that comp alongside the core three's tomes.

Stars6/6★
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Crypt-King Graal
Undead Hordes
#12

NEW Legendary (2026-07 pull) — HH 10/10 Spider and the second AoE HP Burn on the roster after Searsha, which is the burn engine both the Spider plan and Frost Spider Hard run on (she revives at 50% with full TM if she dies un-burned — that fight was flagged as the riskiest R1 wall precisely because Geomancer's single 75%/5-turn roll was thin). A2 burns everyone at 75% (100% booked); A3 Freezes every burning enemy and extends the burns to 3 turns UNRESISTABLY. 33% HP aura in all battles.

Stars5/6★
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Ursala the Mourner
Banner Lords
#13

NEW (2026-08-10 Void batch) — the most complete revive on the roster: A3 Requiem brings back EVERY dead ally at 75% HP with half a turn bar, then hands the whole team 60% Increase DEF and 25% Strengthen for 3 turns. Most revivers return allies at low HP with no turn meter; hers come back able to act immediately. Her A2 pairs AoE 50% Dec ATK with a 50% team Increase ATK on the same cast, so one seat covers debuffing and buffing — HH scores her 5/5 in BOTH the FW Decrease-ATK and FW sustain roles. HH 8/10 overall with Arena, Spider and Ice Golem 5★, plus a 24% SPD aura in Doom Tower, which is exactly where a full-team revive is worth the most. Reseats the Banner Lords crypt alongside Lugan.

Stars4/6★
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Conellia
Dwarves
#14

NEW (2026-08-23 batch) — the strongest champion in it on HellHades' own number (8/10 overall, against 6, 6, 5 and 4 for the rest) and the only one that earns a build. Her A2 Peace of the Deep [Sleep]s the ENTIRE enemy team at 80% base, and its attached passive rolls a further 50% to replace each expiring Sleep with [Fear] — two rounds of hard crowd control off one 5-turn button (3 once both Cooldown −1 books are in). Her A3 Revitalizing Rest is the unusual one: it Sleeps an ALLY, and when that Sleep ends the ally is healed 50% of MAX HP with 50% Turn Meter — doubling to a FULL heal and a FULL Turn Meter if an enemy wakes them by attacking. Because the debuff lands on your own champion it cannot be resisted, so the heal is unconditional in a way almost nothing else on the roster is, and being focused is an upgrade rather than a punish. A1 pushes a random enemy skill cooldown out 2 turns at 40%. Doom Tower is where this converts: HH scores her 9/10 on BOTH Agreth and Bommal and 8/10 on Borgoth, Grythion and Iragoth, and Ayumilove gives her 5★ on Doom Tower Floors, Nether Spider and Dreadhorn. Add HH 8/10 Arena and 7/10 on Dragon, Spider and Ice Golem. Ranked here and not higher because Visix (#6) is already the queue's named Doom Tower answer and the top eleven are dungeon and Clan Boss anchors this account has been building toward for two months; ranked here and not lower because nothing above her is a control body, and hard CC is the one archetype the queue is thin on. She is also the Dwarves crypt's missing control seat — HH control 4/5, Ayumi FW 5★, against a lineup (Geomancer, Melga, Grizzled Jarl, Fodbor, Gala Longbraids) that has none. FLAGGED for a crypt audit, not moved: her 18% Ally SPD aura would also have to beat Geomancer's 25% HP aura for the lead, and that is an audit's call, not an assumption.

Stars4/6★
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Stonebound Thisbe
Argonites
#15

NEW (2026-08-14 batch) — HH 8/10 with a 9/10 HYDRA, the highest Hydra score in the batch. Three things earn the rank. First, the aura: +40 Ally ACC in ALL battles, tied second-largest owned behind Gwyndolin's +60, on an account that pays an accuracy tax everywhere (crypt 21 at 250, Doom Tower Hard at 330). Second, the passive: Heir of the Gorgoa gives every ALLY +10% damage against enemies carrying HER debuffs, and her A2 debuffs the whole enemy team at once with Hex + Block Buffs — a team multiplier rather than a personal one. Third, the faction: she is the SIXTH ARGONITE, and that faction only reached five bodies on 2026-07-30 and is entirely unbuilt, so she is the first real depth its crypt has ever had. Her A3 also cuts every ally debuff by a turn, heals the team 15% MAX HP and fills all Turn Meters 20%. Books are load-bearing: 13 tomes take the A2 from a 5-turn 75% roll to a 3-turn certainty. HH returns no FW-role ratings for her yet, so her fwRoles are kit-derived and flagged for review.

Stars4/6★
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Miscreated Monster
Knights Revenant
#16

NEW (2026-07-30 pull) — Ayumilove S-tier and HH 8/10 with a 10/10 Spider, rating 5★ across Campaign, both Arena modes, Faction Wars, Minotaur, Fire Knight, Dragon, Ice Golem and Doom Tower floors. That breadth at Epic cost is the pitch. A2 AoE Stuns at 50% AND shields the whole team for 25% of the damage dealt (his offence feeds the team's defence), A3 puts 50% Ally Protection on everyone plus a big self-heal, and his passive Fears anything that attacks a protected ally. HP-scaled, so one stat covers damage and durability, and only 9 tomes to book. In the Knights Revenant crypt he covers control 5/5 and sustain 5/5 from a single seat.

Stars4/6★
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Madame Serris
Dark Elves
#17

NEW (2026-08-10 Void batch) — buff-strip AND 50% Dec ATK AND 60% Dec DEF from a single cast (A3 Midnight Ritual, 6→4 turns booked). That is the amplifier archetype this account already runs on Stag Knight and Katonn, except all three land off one button. Her A2 steals buffs, True-Fears whoever it steals from and gives the team Block Debuffs; her passive re-shields her every turn and Fears her attackers, so she survives without HP investment. HH 8/10 with nothing below 3, Ayumilove 5★ on Minotaur, Ice Golem, Doom Tower floors, Magma Dragon, Scarab King and all five keeps. HH rates her 5/5 in BOTH the FW Dec-ATK and Dec-DEF roles — no other owned Dark Elf does that.

Stars4/6★
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Searsha the Charred
Sylvan Watchers
#18

NEW Legendary (2026-07 pull) — post-rework HP Burn lynchpin: no-attack A2 strips all enemy buffs and plants protected HP Burns that bypass Hydra's Poison Cloud; A3 AoE Dec SPD + Hex (the Mischief-head answer). Hydra 5★ / Spider 5★ / Ice Golem 5★ / FW 5★. ↑ above Alure if Hydra is the weekly push; also half of the new Sylvan Watchers crypt core.

Stars5/6★
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Altan
Barbarians
#19

NEW Legendary (2026-07 pull) — the defensive lead the roster never had: 33% Ally DEF in ALL battles, on top of 60% team Inc DEF, a 60%-chance 50% Dec ATK A1, and a passive that revives a random ally at 30% HP every time he kills something. HH 9/10 Clan Boss and Ayumi 5★ on Arena, Minotaur, Dragon, Ice Golem AND Doom Tower floors. The 'stop dying' pick for CB tiers and DT Hard, and he does damage while doing it (DEF-scaled, so his own team buff feeds it).

Stars5/6★
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Shirimani
High Elves
#20

NEW Legendary (2026-07-30 pull) — HH 9/10 Spider, 8/10 Fire Knight, Ayumilove 5★ on Fire Knight AND both arena modes. Her A3 is an 80% AoE Freeze that refunds 10% of her own Turn Meter per enemy hit, and her A2 heals one ally 50% / the rest 20% of their MAX HP. The specific unlock is Fire Knight HARD: normal TM control does nothing to Tainted Fyro, but every Freeze placed insta-pops for −15% boss TM, and Gliseah was the only owned body that could do it. She also takes the High Elves crypt's control seat with FW control 5/5 + sustain 5/5 and a 33% DEF crypt aura. Caveat: frozen enemies take 20% less damage, so she is control, not damage — and she pulls against the Spider burn plan, which needs lings to take turns.

Stars5/6★
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Countess Lix
Demonspawn
#21

NEW Legendary (2026-07 pull) — AoE speed-control nuker with a tool nothing else on the roster has: A3 puts AoE Block Active Skills on the enemy team AND refreshes every ally cooldown by 1 (7→5-turn cycle booked). Six 5★ contents (Arena / Spider / Ice Golem / Minotaur / DT / FW) — the same breadth class as Gliseah. Takes the Demonspawn FW damage seat on day one; contests the arena AoE seat once built. _needsReview: Iron Twins is a 2-tier source split.

Stars5/6★
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Hotatsu
Shadowkin
#22

The survivability anchor (HH 8/10, Ayumi A-tier): Ice Golem 5★, Minotaur 5★, FW 5★, plus Hydra/CB 4★ and every keep 4★. AoE 50% Dec ATK + team 60% Inc DEF / Continuous Heal + self-cleanses CC, on a 25% DEF aura in all battles. The 'stop dying' pick for pushing CB tiers, Ice Golem 20+, and longer Hydra keys.

Stars4/6★
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Melga Steelgirdle
Dwarves
#23

NEW (2026-07 pull) — Ayumi S-tier and the best pure support in the batch: team Shield worth 20% of HER MAX HP + 15% Continuous Heal on one button, a 2-ally revive, an A1 that cleanses a random ally on every hit, and a 15% HP aura in ALL battles. HH 9/10 Ice Golem, Ayumi 5★ on Minotaur, Dragon, Ice Golem, FW and both Nether/Frost Spider. Nothing she does is Counterattack, so she is safe in Ice Golem where counters chain Frigid Vengeance.

Stars4/6★
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Hilda Arnorndottr
Dwarves
#24

The FK20 payload — added by the 2026-07-17 FK audit (same queue gap as Fenshi). A2 2-hit 100% Heal Red with +10% dmg per debuff cashes in the team's debuff stack, A3 pre-buffs +50% team ATK, and her passive gives allies +15% into her Heal-Red/Stun targets; 3-hit 10%-DEF-ignore A1 feeds the break. FW damage/control + 20% all-battle ATK aura. Below Fenshi: damage payload is more replaceable than the TM pin.

Stars4/6★
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Dhukk the Pierced
Orcs
#25

NEW (2026-07 pull) — DEF-scaling debuff anchor: AoE 50% Dec ATK + 60% Dec DEF-on-crit on a 3-turn booked cycle, plus triple Provoke with self-Unkillable. Dragon / Spider / Ice Golem / Minotaur 5★ and single-handedly transforms the Orcs crypt — your weakest FW faction — from 3★-rare filler to anchored. Build hinges on 100% C.RATE (the Dec DEF procs on crits only).

Stars4/6★
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Ghrush the Mangler
Ogryn Tribes
#26

NEW (2026-07 pull) — the Ogryn Tribes crypt lead. That faction was the last one blocked behind a body count (4/5, waiting on a Rocktooth campaign farm); this batch took it to nine and Ghrush is the one who makes it a real team: 30% Ally-DEF Faction Crypt aura, AoE Dec ATK, AoE Continuous Heal, and a Leech debuff that converts the team's damage into healing. Ayumi FW 5★. With Argonites still one short, Ogryn is the Arbiter gate's last movable piece.

Stars4/6★
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Pann the Bowhorn
Sylvan Watchers
#27

NEW (2026-07-30 pull) — a Fire Knight specialist for the wall this account keeps naming: Ayumilove 5★ normal FK, 4★ FK HARD, HH 8/10, and its listed usability is literally 'Fire Knight Hard'. The mechanic that carries him up the hard ladder is unusual — both his A1 and A3 ignore 50% of the target's RESISTANCE whenever he is faster than the target, so SPD doubles as a debuff stat and the boss's climbing RES stops mattering. A3 hits 3× with 75% True Fear, or a 25% Weaken against bosses. His 20% dungeon SPD aura speeds every farm run he joins. Ranked below the other FK bodies only because Royal Guard, Fodbor and Wuzgar all rate higher on normal FK.

Stars4/6★
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Skullcrusher
Ogryn Tribes
#28

NEW (2026-07 pull) — the classic budget Clan Boss counterattack anchor: team-wide Counterattack + 50% Ally Protection with self-Unkillable (CB 5★ / FK 5★ / Minotaur 5★). Unlocks a whole alternative CB tune (counterattack comp with Warmaster carriers) if the current speed tune plateaus; also the Ogryn crypt's 4th body with a +45 RES crypt aura.

Stars4/6★
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Sepulcher Sentinel
Knights Revenant
#29

NEW (2026-07 pull) — HH 9/10 Clan Boss: team-wide Block Debuffs on a 4-turn (3 booked) cycle blanks Crushing Force outright, which is a different and more permanent answer than cleansing it, and it stacks with 60% team Inc DEF on the same cast. His passive has a 25% chance to null ANY incoming hit on ANY ally, once per turn, and he carries a 25% DEF aura in all battles. Caveat: the Inc DEF scrambles CB stun-targeting exactly like Lightsworn's.

Stars4/6★
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Fodbor the Bard
Dwarves
#30

NEW (2026-07 pull) — HH 10/10 Fire Knight and 9/10 Spider: a triple-hit A1 that rolls 100% Heal Reduction (shield break and Fyro's heal shutdown on the same button), AoE 60% Dec DEF, and an 80% two-buff steal that converts to a Stun on a clean target. Spirit, so he hits STRONG into the FK20 Force boss where Royal Guard (Magic) does not.

Stars4/6★
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Myciliac Priest Orn
Sylvan Watchers
#31

NEW (2026-07 pull) — HH 10/10 on BOTH Dragon and Ice Golem. He is the roster's third Poison Sensitivity carrier (behind Frozen Banshee and Urticata) and Sensitivity does not stack with itself, so his real edge is the part nobody else has: A2 instantly ACTIVATES two poisons on the target, converting queued ticks into immediate damage. That is a purple-bar answer on Dragon and a threshold-crossing tool on Ice Golem that never triggers Frigid Vengeance. HP-scaled and self-healing per poison. Rank him here, not higher — though note Urticata was DROPPED from the queue 2026-08-14, which leaves him as the roster's only queued 25% Poison Sensitivity carrier. He covers the Sensitivity half — field them in different comps.

Stars4/6★
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Occult Brawler
Ogryn Tribes
#32

NEW (2026-07 pull) — HH 9/10 Clan Boss and Ayumi 5★ on Dragon, Ice Golem, Minotaur and Scarab King: he self-poisons every turn to escalate his own A2 through DEF-ignore → Block Revive → guaranteed crit → 30% lifesteal → Extra Turn, and his passive poisons a random enemy every turn on top. Zero team dependency. Never give him Immunity gear or pair him with a cleanse tune — the self-debuffs ARE the engine.

Stars4/6★
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Fayne
Skinwalkers
#33

NEW (2026-07 pull) — HH 10/10 Clan Boss: 60% Dec DEF AND 25% Weaken for THREE turns off a single skill, plus two Poisons and 50% Dec ATK from the other. Every debuff is single-target, which is exactly right for Demon Lord and wrong for waves. The cheapest way to add a second full debuff stack to the CB tune without touching the poison core.

Stars4/6★
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Umbral Enchantress
Demonspawn
#34

Control specialist — Ice Golem 5★ / Hydra 5★ / FW 5★. The Ice Golem-20 + Minotaur control body and the Hydra heavy-control swap (FW21 too). Narrow but best-in-slot for those specific walls — though Gliseah now covers most CC jobs from a bigger body.

Stars4/6★
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Ostrox Boneglaive
Undead Hordes
#35

Hydra Block Buffs / Inc ACC / cleanse anchor — Hydra 5★ / Minotaur 5★ / Dragon 5★ but spiky (no 4★ filler). Top under-leveled Hydra body. ↑ several ranks (with Searsha) if Hydra is the weekly push.

Stars4/6★
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Zargala
Orcs
#36

NEW (2026-07 pull) — Ayumi 5★ on Doom Tower floors, Arena, Minotaur, Dragon and Ice Golem: A3 hits everyone 3× and lands 60% Dec DEF, and A2 auto-fires that A3 whenever it kills — a self-chaining wave clear. Carries a 40 ACC aura in ALL battles, which pays part of the tower's accuracy tax behind Gwyndolin, and she anchors the Orcs crypt's shred seat.

Stars4/6★
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He-Man
Sacred Order
#37

Flexible Legendary Magic nuker — Dragon / Hydra / Arena 5★ + a 4★ spread and an Arena SPD aura. Demoted: Varkos supersedes him as the Arena damage project; still the AoE-wipe seat in the go-first arena comp and real Dragon/Hydra depth.

Stars5/6★
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Vallaryn the Equalizer
Undead Hordes
#38

Legendary generalist — straight 4★ across CB/Dragon/Spider/FK/Ice Golem/Iron Twins/Hydra/Arena with a +28% Ally ATK aura + 100% Heal Reduction + AoE Weaken/Leech. No 5★ standout, so depth rather than a wall-breaker. _needsReview: Ayumilove rates Arena/FW 0★ vs HH's strong Arena.

Stars5/6★
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Gala Longbraids
Dwarves
#39

Arena tank-killer + Minotaur / FW 5★. Lower under a dungeon focus; ↑ for an Arena climb (though Varkos now leads that lane).

Stars4/6★
S
Vergis
High Elves
#40

Doom Tower 5★ / FW 5★ survival support with a broad 4★ dungeon spread. Reliable filler, no single wall it breaks.

Stars4/6★
S
Jagg Bonesaw
Orcs
#41

Legendary luxury Arena / Doom Tower buff-stripper nuker (strip-all-buffs AoE + TM steal + self-crit passive). Straight 4★, no 5★, and sources split (HH 8/10 vs Ayumi 'situational'). A want, not a wall-breaker — but he now also holds the Orcs crypt damage seat at whatever level he's at.

Stars5/6★
S
High Khatun
Barbarians
#42

Universal speed lead / Hydra speed backbone — fine at 5★, low urgency now that Morrigaine supersedes her as the premium speed/TM lead and Alure takes her Fire Knight seat.

Stars5/6★

Skill-tome priority

Skill tomes come in three non-competing rarity pools — spend per pool, and only on champions you're committing to 6★. Kael and Aox are the only fully-booked champions so far. Tomes drop mainly from Clan Boss (Nightmare = Epic tomes, Ultra-Nightmare = Legendary), Doom Tower, Faction Wars, and events. Note: Doompriest is deliberately absent — she's a bookless value pick, and Alure is deliberately LOW in the Epic pool for the same reason (her A1 needs no books).

Rare tomes

Cheap & abundant — book freely as you 6★ them. Two of the three entries here are cooldown/consistency fixes that gate a whole comp, so they punch above their rarity.

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    Now 6★ — the classic Rare-tome sink; books tighten her Poison / Poison-Sensitivity uptime → the whole Banshee → Akemtum → Urticata engine (CB / Dragon / Ice Golem / Minotaur). Highest ROI per Rare tome on the account.

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    FHeiressBook now

    Now 6★. Four Rare tomes into A2 Exhortation and nothing else — the Buff/Debuff Chance steps take her team Increase SPD from a 60% coin flip to 100%, and in a speed-tuned unkillable comp a missed buff is a broken rotation, not a small loss. Cheapest mandatory booking on the account, out of the abundant pool. Her A1 books are damage on a champion you are not fielding for damage; skip them.

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    VColdheartOn 6★

    NEW (queue #5). She functions completely unbooked, which is why she is not rank 1 — but Rare tomes are the abundant pool and she is the cheapest 6★ on the account, so book her the moment she ascends. A3 Heartseeker Cooldown −1 (5→4) first; then A1 Flurry of Arrows' two Buff/Debuff Chance books, which take the Heal Reduction from 25% to 35% per hit across four hits. You own three copies, so one feed is a free guaranteed upgrade on top.

Epic tomes

The contested pool. Book the already-6★ anchors first, then the poison core + amplifiers as you 6★ them, ahead of finishing Vogoth / Lightsworn.

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    SAnaxBook now

    CB-5 anchor + poison-team debuffer; booking his Dec DEF/ATK/Weaken cooldowns compounds every Clan Boss key.

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    FGeomancerBook now

    Widest dungeon workhorse — CB / Spider / FK / Ice Golem / Iron Twins / Hydra all 5★.

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    FRector DrathBook now

    Minotaur / Force Keep / Hydra / FW / DT sustain anchor; books cut his revive/heal cooldown.

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    VAkemtumBook now

    Now 6★ — poison-team damage carry (HH 9/10). Books cut his Hex / poison-apply cooldowns so the Hex-spread stays online; book in step with Frozen Banshee as she comes up.

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    Poison amplifier (25% Poison Sensitivity, DEF-ignoring ticks); books tighten her extend/proc loop that multiplies every poison in the core.

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    VDemythaBook now

    Now 6★. Her A3 Channel the Bloodline has two Cooldown −1 books (5→3) and they ARE the champion — a 3-turn cycle turns team-wide Block Damage from an opener into a rotation, which is the whole point of the unkillable Clan Boss tune. A2 Light of the Deep's Cooldown −1 (4→3) second. Cooldown gear (Reflex/Impulse/Relentless) stands in until the tomes arrive, so she is usable before she is booked.

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    VManeaterOn 6★

    NEW (queue #4). A3 Ancient Blood's two Cooldown −1 books (7→5) are mandatory, not optional: the Unkillable buff lasts 2 turns and an unbooked 7-turn cooldown cannot cover a rotation. A2 Syphon Cooldown −1 (4→3) after that. Book in step with Demytha — whichever anchor you commit to is the one that gets the tomes.

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    MRoyal GuardBook now

    Now 6★. 12 tomes, and A2 Takedown is the target: the MAX-HP scaling is what kills bosses, and the books are straight damage. His A1 Dec DEF chance books matter second.

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    NEW (queue #23). 15 tomes — expensive, but A2 Sheer Grit's shield-size books (+5% ×4) and its cooldown are the champion. Book only once she is the committed sustain body.

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    SStag KnightBook now

    Now 6★ — AoE Dec DEF/ATK universal amplifier, and the books are the whole upgrade: A2 Huntmaster chance 70%→95% + Cooldown −1 gives a 3-turn cycle that keeps 2-turn debuffs permanently up. You own 3 copies, so a guaranteed-fed commit; a 2nd only for parallel dungeon+FW pushes.

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    NEW. 12 books, and they matter: booked, his A2 (AoE Dec ATK + crit-proc Dec DEF) hits a 3-turn cycle — that loop IS the champion. Book when he 6★s for the Orcs crypt + dungeon shred seat.

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    FSkullcrusherOn 6★

    NEW. One book target: A2 Cooldown −1 → 3-turn cycle = near-permanent team Counterattack + Ally Protection. That single tome unlocks the CB counterattack tune.

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    MTaurusOn 6★

    2nd AoE-poison applier feeding Akemtum's Hex; book A2/A3 to cut cooldowns (Dragon / Ice Golem / CB).

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    MHotatsuOn 6★

    Survivability anchor (HH 8/10) for Ice Golem 20+ / Hydra / CB tiers; books shorten his Dec ATK + team-DEF/heal cycle.

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    MSeekerBook now

    NEW. Two tomes are the whole champion: A2 Tailwind Cooldown −1 ×2 (5→3) → the TM/ATK/Extra-Turn engine cycles. Cheapest high-impact book target in the pool.

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    NEW (queue #13). A2 Waves of Grief is the target — four Buff/Debuff Chance steps take the AoE Decrease ATK from 75% to 100% and the Cooldown −1 puts it on a 3-turn cycle, which is what makes her a debuffer as well as a reviver. A3 Requiem's single Cooldown −1 (6→5) after that.

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    NEW (queue #17). A3 Midnight Ritual's two Cooldown −1 books (6→4) are the whole champion — buff-strip plus 50% Dec ATK plus 60% Dec DEF on a 4-turn cycle is a rotation; on 6 turns it is an opener. A2 Tricks and Treats' Cooldown −1 (4→3) next.

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    NEW (queue #15). 13 tomes and they are the champion, not polish: A2 Fangs of Quarts takes the AoE Hex + Block Buffs from a 75% roll to 100% AND drops its cooldown 5→3, and A3 Heart of Flint drops 5→3 as well. Unbooked she is a five-turn coin flip; booked she is two 3-turn team buttons. Her +40 all-battles ACC aura costs zero tomes and works from the moment she is seated.

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    MAlureHold

    NEW — deliberately LOW despite being 6★: her A1 (the whole kit) needs ZERO books. Book A2's Dec DEF/Sleep chance only after the core anchors are done. The cheapest 6★ project on tomes.

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    SVogothHold

    Demoted — tanks tolerate under-booking; book after the bodies above.

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    Dropped from the queue and outclassed by Stag Knight for Dec DEF/ATK — book last.

Legendary tomes

Your scarcest pool — hold, and commit one at a time. Only book a champion you're 6★-committing.

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    Now 6★ — book A2 first: unbooked the Dec DEF shred is a 45% coin flip (100% Weaken / 75% Dec DEF booked). Widest-coverage Legendary: Minotaur / FW / Force + Spirit Keep 5★ (Spider & Arena 4★).

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    VSupreme KaelBook now

    Now 6★ — Worth the full 12 tomes: A2 chance books guarantee the triple-poison placement, A3 books cycle the team ACC/RES-strip. The rare legendary who justifies emptying the pool.

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    MMorrigaineBook now

    Now 6★ — Book Velocimancy (5→4) + Shriek (4→3) to tighten her TM-control loop. Enabler value > raw nuke — supersedes High Khatun as speed lead.

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    Now 6★ — books de-RNG her control: A3 Everwinter chance +10%/+15% takes the AoE Freeze from 75% to 100% and Cooldown −1 (5→4), plus A1 spread-chance 30%→50%. Chance-based CC is a coin flip unbooked, so she contests Morrigaine for the next Legendary tomes.

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    Seated 6★ that the pool had never listed. Deliberately BELOW Gliseah: Gwyndolin's load-bearing contribution is her +60 ACC all-battles aura, which costs zero tomes, and her damage works unbooked — her books buy incremental uptime (A2 Sickle Boomerangs to 100% Dec SPD/Leech + Cooldown 4→3, then A3 Cooldown −1 for the 3-turn Inc ACC / Block Debuffs steal). Book her after Gliseah, whose books fix a reliability hole rather than adding polish. A1 extension books are the Hydra/DT luxury tier.

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    TM-control specialist — Fire Knight / CB / Minotaur / DT. Book if Fire Knight or Clan Boss is the active wall.

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    FBad-el-KazarBook now

    NOW 6★ — and only 7 tomes, the cheapest high-impact Legendary book on the account. A2 Malice is the whole champion (full-team cleanse + double Continuous Heal + double AoE Poison) and its two Cooldown −1 books take it from 5 turns to 3.

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    NEW (queue #12). 12 tomes; book A2 Death Fires first — 75%→100% AoE HP Burn is the difference between a burn engine and a coin flip, and Frost Spider Hard punishes the coin flip with a full boss revive.

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    NEW (queue #8). Two book targets and both are reliability, not polish: A2 Sinister Allies' chance books take the AoE Decrease SPD from 75% to 100% and its Cooldown −1 (4→3) keeps it up permanently; A3 Single Combat's single Cooldown −1 (4→3) does the same for AoE Provoke. Her A1 chance books (80%→100% TM cut) are the luxury tier. She functions unbooked as a Doom Tower body — book her once she owns the Scarab King / Dark Fae seats.

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    NEW (queue #10). Two Cooldown −1 books are the floor out of his 13: A2 Vitality Plunder (3→2), so the MAX-HP theft compounds faster and his own hybrid ATK+HP multipliers grow with it, and A3 Fated Destruction (4→3), so the ignore-Unkillable / ignore-Block-Damage execute comes up every rotation instead of every other one. The rest can wait.

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    MJintoroOn 6★

    NEW (queue #11). Only two of his 12 tomes are structural and both are Cooldown −1: A2 Blood Freeze (4→3) and A3 Oni's Rage (4→3). The A3 one compounds oddly in his favour — the skill hits five times instead of once on every FOURTH use against the same target, so cycling it faster reaches that burst sooner. Book him only once you have decided whether he is the Clan Boss unkillable DPS, because his Vigorous passive means committing him also means re-tuning.

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    MAltanOn 6★

    NEW (queue #19). 9 tomes but he functions unbooked — the A1 Dec ATK is already 60% and the passive needs nothing. Book the A2 cooldown if he becomes the committed CB/DT defensive lead.

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    NEW. Four cooldown books are the floor: A2 Purging Petals 5→3 and A3 Charge of the Valorous 6→4 — the Instant-Turn engine and TM swing on cycle.

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    MCountess LixOn 6★

    NEW. The two A3 Cooldown −1s (7→5) ARE the champion — AoE Block Active Skills + team cooldown refresh on cycle. Book those two first when she 6★s; the rest of her 13 tomes can wait.

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    NEW. Cooldown sets (Impulse/Reflex/Relentless) substitute for her books early — build first, book only once she owns the Hydra seat.

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    NEW. 9 tomes but the retaliation kit works unbooked (counters and ally-joins don't wait on cooldowns). Book A3 only if he becomes the committed Arena carry.

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    Book only once he's a committed Arena / Doom Tower nuker — luxury buff-stripper, not a team enabler. HH 8/10 vs Ayumi 'situational'.

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    Sources split on Arena/FW; don't sink scarce Legendary tomes here yet.

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    Already 6★ but low book-urgency for a single-target nuker; hold the Legendary pool for enablers.

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    NEW. FW sustain does its job at lvl 50-60 unbooked; her books only tighten heal cooldowns. Never a priority for the scarce pool.

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    NEW, arrived 6★ (2026-07-30). 11 tomes. Book A2 Legacy of Despair first — its chance books (+10%/+15%) take the Weaken to 100% and the Cooldown −1 puts the DEF-ignoring, Block-Damage-piercing hit on a 3-turn cycle. A3's two Cooldown −1s (5→3) come next: that skill supplies the Increase ATK her Corrupted Majesty passive needs, so cycling it faster is what keeps the no-death/unresistable condition live.

Secondary projects

NEW (2026-08-23 batch) — the two shield bodies, and they are not the same champion. PHARSALAS GRAVEDIRT is the better one: his A3 Coffin Bulwark shields the whole team for 30% of EACH ALLY'S own MAX HP, so it scales with the rest of the roster's gear instead of his, and it carries 15% Strengthen on the same cast (5-turn cooldown, 3 with both books). His passive makes him outright immune to [Fear] and [True Fear] while Fearing anyone who drops an ally below 50% HP and True-Fearing the whole enemy team at 75% whenever an ally dies. A2 Necrosis is AoE 100% Heal Reduction at 75% (90% booked) — covered several times over on this account, so it is a bonus, not the reason. Ayumilove gives him Faction Wars 5★ and Spirit Keep 5★; HH scores him 9/10 on Amius AND Borgoth and 8/10 on the Mimic, which is exactly where a Fear-immune shield body belongs. He also carries a 30% Ally DEF aura in Faction Crypts, which CONTESTS Rector Drath's lead seat in the Knights Revenant crypt — flagged, not moved, because only the leader's aura applies and Rector is that crypt's only 6★. Level him and re-audit. ILYSINYA is the narrower of the two: her Shield is only 20% of HER OWN MAX HP, so it lives or dies on her gear, though her passive refunds 30% of her MAX HP every time it ends. Her one uncommon line is the A2's 50% chance to REMOVE [Block Debuffs] from every enemy before it hits, which is why HH puts her Hydra at 8/10 — her best score by a clear margin and a genuine Hydra tool rather than a generic AoE. Stonebound Thisbe (queue #15) is the account's higher-rated Hydra answer, so Ilysinya is the second body there, not the project. High Elves is already five deep and sustain-heavy.

NEW (2026-08-14 batch) — two more Banner Lords, and GISCARD CONTESTS A SEAT rather than sitting behind one. HH scores him FW damage 4, control 4 and sustain 4 — three roles from one body — against Sir Artimage's damage 4 and nothing else, and Ayumilove gives him 5★ on Faction Wars, Minotaur, Dragon, Ice Golem, Doom Tower Floors, Magma Dragon, Frost Spider, Eternal Dragon and four keeps. His A3 Field of Strength puts 60% Increase DEF AND 50% Increase ATK on the whole team, on a 3-turn cycle once its two Cooldown −1 books are in (15 tomes total) — the only team buff that faction owns, in a crypt whose recorded strategy is explicitly 'sustain is MITIGATION, not recovery'. A2 AoE Provokes while shielding him 25% of his MAX HP; his passive refunds 15% Turn Meter every time a Provoked enemy attacks him. Level him and RE-AUDIT that crypt — I did not move the seat on an assumption. HORDIN is the batch's weakest champion (HH 5/10, nothing above 7) and is here only for his 20% Ally SPD Faction Crypt aura and Ayumi's 5★ Minotaur/Ice Golem; note that only a SEATED champion's aura applies, so using it means displacing a better body.

NEW (2026-08-14 batch) — the cheapest support commitment on the account: SIX tomes books him out completely, and both of the ones that matter are Cooldown −1 on A2 Prayer of Prowess (5→3). That skill removes 1 random debuff from ALL allies and extends every ally buff by a turn on the same cast, which is Heiress's cleanse and Demytha's buff extension in one Epic body — worth checking against any speed-tuned comp, though he supplies no Increase SPD himself so he cannot replace either of them outright. A3 fully heals one ally and gives the team 30% Increase C.RATE + 30% Increase C.DMG; his aura is 25% Ally HP in ALL battles. HH 6/10 overall but 8/10 Clan Boss and 8/10 Phantom Shogun, with Ayumi 5★ on Demon Lord, Faction Wars, Spider, Doom Tower Floors and three keeps. Sacred Order sits behind Gliseah (6★). Level to 50–60 and book him — the tome cost is trivial and the ceiling is real.

NEW (2026-08-14 batch) — HH 7/10 with FW decreaseDef 5/5 and a clean 8/10 across Dragon, Spider, Fire Knight, Ice Golem and Chimera. His A2 self-buffs 50% ATK then lands AoE 60% Decrease DEF at 75% (100% booked, CD 4→3), and his A3 self-buffs 30% C.RATE + 30% C.DMG before a nuke with 30% Decrease SPD. Held out of the queue on OVERLAP, not quality: Stag Knight (6★, top of the Epic tome pool) already delivers AoE 60% Dec DEF plus 50% Dec ATK from one seat, and Madame Serris now lands both shreds off a single cast with no chance roll at all. Where he is genuinely wanted is the Ogryn Tribes crypt, which Ghrush anchors at queue #26 and where no other body carries a 5/5 shred role. His 24% C.RATE aura is Doom-Tower-scoped.

NEW (2026-08-10 Void batch) — the arena pair, held out of the queue on FIT rather than quality. Fortus is a Legendary Fear engine: AoE True Fear at 80%, an A1 that always crits into feared targets, a secret-skill A3 that ignores 30% DEF and scales with every Fear in the round, and a passive that prevents his own death and full-heals him. Ayumi 5★ on both Arena modes with a 25% Arena C.RATE aura — and nothing above 4★ in PvE (every potion keep is 1★). Genbo steals Increase ATK unresistably, shaves a turn off all enemy buffs, and IGNORES Unkillable buffs while he is under an Increase ATK buff, which is the answer to unkillable arena defences nothing else on the roster has (HH 10/10 Arena, Ayumi FW 5★ + three keeps 5★). Both are level-to-50-60 bodies while the queue is ranked by PvE progression; promote them the moment arena rank becomes the stated push, as openQuestions already allows for Shu-Zhen.

NEW (2026-08-10 Void batch) — Dark Elves crypt control with a 22% Ally SPD Faction-Crypt aura. A2 is AoE 50% Dec ACC at 80% for 2 turns; A3 stacks AoE 30% Dec SPD with a flat 40% Turn Meter cut. Held out of the queue on overlap, not quality: Gwyndolin (6★) already anchors Dec ACC for Iron Twins and Bowf holds it for Dragon hard, while Morrigaine and Gliseah cover TM control. Level her to 50 — the crypt aura and the opener are worth having behind Madame Serris and Visix.

NEW (2026-08-10 Void batch) — two crypt bodies, neither a 6★ project. Cardinal revives every dead ally with FULL Turn Meter (A3, 7→5 booked) and heals + 60% Inc DEF on A2; she is straightforwardly outclassed by Ursala the Mourner, who revives the whole team AND lands AoE Dec ATK AND buffs team ATK — so Cardinal is Sacred Order crypt depth behind Gliseah. Rowan brings a +50 Ally ACC Faction-Crypt aura, which pays a fifth of the 250 ACC floor crypt 21 charges, on a SPD-scaling multi-hit kit (her A1 multiplier is literally 1.9 + SPD/100); her Heal Reduction is five-times covered and HH rates her 5/10, so the aura is the reason to level her. Both to 50, for the Sacred Order and Banner Lords crypts respectively.

DROPPED FROM THE QUEUE 2026-07-26 (his own entry predicted it): Spirit Keep heal reduction is triple-covered by Katonn, Morrigaine and him, and the July batch added two more Heal Red bodies (Fodbor's triple-roll A1, Corpse Collector's AoE). He does the budget job around lvl 50 and never needs 6★.

NEW (2026-07-30) — HH 9/10 Spider and FW damage 5/5, held out of the queue on FIT not quality: Sylvan Watchers is now the deepest crypt on the account (Searsha, Lady of Ireth, Rhaia, Mistrider Daithi, Wyrennon) and single-target TM control is already triple-covered by Alure, Shu-Zhen and Fenshi. Book his A2 (both riders 75%→100%, CD 4→3) and he is a real Spider/arena body at lvl 50–60; the Perfect-Veil-ignores-Shield passive is genuine arena tech against shield defences.

UPDATED — Sylvan Watchers went from 'barely fieldable' to a real crypt in one event: Searsha (queue #18) + Lady of Ireth (first-pull SW legendaries) join Wyrennon/Locwain. Ireth is the FW sustain anchor (HH Defensive Support 9/10) and does her job at lvl 50-60 — she does NOT need 6★; crit-heal build (HP% + C.RATE gauntlets). Level Ireth → Wyrennon → Locwain; Searsha rides her queue build.

Banner Lords FW reseat pair: Artimage (A1 carries 60% Dec DEF + 30% Dec SPD; Spider 5★ / FK 5★ — the best epic damage bench outside the queue) and Warcaster (AoE Block Buffs + the Roshcard-style unkillable-CB enabler). Both replace 3★ rares in the crypt at lvl 50. UPDATED 2026-08-10: this used to say Warcaster's Legendary upside 'only unlocks if you ever run an unkillable CB tune' — that tune is now buildable (Demytha / Maneater), so his Block Damage seat is live, and a SECOND Warcaster arrived in the same batch (feed it into the first for a guaranteed skill upgrade; his A3 −2 CD and A2 −1 CD are the whole kit). Note the Banner Lords crypt also gains Ursala the Mourner (queue #13) and Rowan from this batch.

NEW — Dark Elves FW depth: AoE 50% Dec ATK + double revive in one seat (HH 5/5 on both FW roles), plus Ice Golem 5★ / Minotaur 5★. Level when the DE crypt or Ice Golem 20+ demands him; cooldown sets (Relentless/Reflex) are the build.

AUDIT ADD — held no priority bucket despite two team texts leaning on him: now seated in Force Keep (buff-steal takes the boss's Inc DEF + 60 ACC aura) and named the eventual chimera Dec RES fix. Level/book his A2/A3 cooldowns; 5★ terminal is fine.

AUDIT ADD — both sit in main seats (Spider five / Demonspawn crypt + FK 5★ swap) while absent from every priority bucket. Paragon is the Spider lineup's admitted build gap (3★ → 50-60 + the two A2 cooldown books); Skimfos wants lvl 50 + ACC.

AUDIT ADD — Dragon 5★ (hard-mode Toxic Incineration tech: AoE Dec ACC + poison mitigation + cleanse) and the named successor to Gwyndolin's Iron Twins seat. Level to 50-60.

NEW — accuracy/sustain glue at lvl 50: Pestilus gives team 50% ACC + 30% C.DMG (Minotaur 5★, +50 ACC DT aura); Thenasil is the High Elves FW sustain swap (FW 5★ — AoE 60% Inc DEF + 25% MAX-HP team heal). Utility bodies, never 6★ projects.

NEW — Barbarians FW revive depth behind Djamarsa: single-ally revive + 15% team heal on one skill, 20% SPD aura that works in FW only. DEF-scaling; bench until the Barb crypt needs a second sustain seat.

Poison-core adjacency watch: Aeshma's Languish AND Erinyes's A2 both extend ALL enemy debuffs (stretching Banshee/Akemtum/Urticata poisons); Erinyes adds a 90% A1 Poison + Block Buffs of her own. If the CB poison tune wants a 6th body or a debuff-extension seat, they're the candidates — Erinyes is the cheaper build (ACC/SPD only).

Argonites FW core (faction at 4/5 bodies). Galatea is a FW 5★ Block Revive executioner; Xanthe brings the 30% FW DEF aura + Dec ATK sustain and a Spider 4★ seat. Level when the 5th Argonite arrives.

AoE Provoke on a 3-turn cycle + 30% Arena DEF aura + 25%-chance-halve-damage passive. Arena-defense troll core and Dwarves FW/DT control at lvl 50-60.

Offensive support — 50% team ATK buff + 20% team TM fill on crit + revive. Ice Golem 5★; a budget buffer/TM-filler and Shadowkin FW body.

AoE Dec DEF + Dec ATK + 25% dungeon SPD aura; Spider-dungeon 5★. Overlaps Stag Knight but the SPD aura keeps him bench-relevant; holds the Dark Elves FW strip seat.

Second AoE poison applier + team Weaken (Dragon 5★, Ice Golem 5★). Skinwalkers like Akemtum — his AoE poison feeds Akemtum's multi-target passive. A poison-core supplement.

Generalist AoE cleanse-healer (Hydra / Doom Tower / Fire Knight 4★). Rises if Hydra is the push.

Arena-offense nuker/buffer (Arena/FW/DT 4★) — team C.DMG/ATK buff + TM fill on kill. Weak in dungeons. Banner Lords FW body + Arena flex.

Dec ACC / Inc ACC utility Rares for Spider + Dragon. Iron Twins framing CANCELLED by audit: both sources rate Dilgol IT 2 (coin-flip uptime), and Kurzad's team Inc ACC feeds the boss +10% TM per buff — Gwyndolin (built 6★) anchors Dec ACC there instead.

UNKILLABLE CB COMP UNBLOCKED 2026-08-10. This entry used to read that the support shell was owned (Seeker engine + Pain Keeper compression + Warcaster's 1-turn Block Damage) but 'the multi-turn anchor is not: Maneater (Ogryn Tribes), Demytha (unobtainable), or Roshcard'. The Void batch landed TWO Demythas and a Maneater, so the anchor exists twice over and both are now 6★ BUILT (2026-08-14). Pain Keeper still needs only lvl 50 + her A2 cooldown book — do that alongside whichever anchor you build.

Foundational AoE Decrease DEF — superseded by Stag Knight / Spider. Affinity or second body only.

NEW (2026-07) — S-tier KR hybrid (FW 5★ damage+control+sustain in one seat, Spider/IG/Minotaur 5★): takes the KR crypt damage seat from Aeshma on record. Build at 50-60 with the 9-tome A2/A3 spend; queue-worthy if KR FW or Spider becomes the push.

NEW (2026-07) — CB 9/10 Dec ATK anchor (AoE 50% Dec ATK + MAX-HP strip + team Block Debuffs + 100% Heal Red A1) and HH 5/5 in BOTH Dwarves FW roles (decATK+sustain): takes Rock Breaker's crypt seat on record. Build at 50-60; queue-worthy if CB tiers become the push.

NEW (2026-07) — Lizardmen FW damage seat (epic body replaces the Slasher stopgap) + arena-offense nuke bench (self-buffing AoE, works unbooked turn 1). Lvl 50 covers both jobs.

Dropped

  • Ethlen the Golden

    NEW (2026-08-10 Void batch). Kept for the aura, not the champion: +40 Ally ACC in ALL battles is the second-largest all-battles accuracy aura owned, behind only Gwyndolin's +60, and this account pays an accuracy tax everywhere (FW21 at 250, Doom Tower hard). The champion himself is a source split — HH 7/10 with FW damage 5/5 against Ayumilove's C-tier 'situational' and no rating above 4★ — and his AoE Block Active Skills is real but 6-turn. High Elves crypt already has Shirimani for control. Bench body; do not spend a build.

  • Faceless

    NEW (2026-08-10 Void batch). HH 6/10, Ayumilove B-tier situational, and 1★ on Clan Boss, Spider, Iron Twins and Hydra. His A3 ignoring Shield, Block Damage and DEF at once is genuine arena tech, but the Knights Revenant crypt is already anchored by Doompriest, Sinesha, Miscreated Monster and Aeshma. Keep as a Void affinity-flex arena body.

  • Wysteri Vineguard

    NEW (2026-08-10 Void batch). 25% Ally ATK aura in ALL battles on a mid-tier nuker — HH 6/10, ceiling of 4★, and 2★ across Spider, Ice Golem, Iron Twins and Hydra. Sylvan Watchers is the deepest crypt on the account (Searsha, Lady of Ireth, Rhaia, Mistrider Daithi, Wyrennon, Locwain, Kellan, Pann), so there is no seat to win. Aura bench.

  • Hexia

    NEW (2026-07-30). HH 5/10, Ayumilove C-tier, no 5★ content anywhere, and the Undead Hordes crypt is already marked complete with five 6★ bodies. Her kit also inverts against this roster: every skill scales with debuffs ON HERSELF, so Immunity gear and Doompriest's per-turn cleanse — which runs in most owned comps — actively weaken her. Feed or deep bench.

  • Karam

    NEW. Niche poison-detonation nuker (A3 triggers all Poisons instantly) — needs a dedicated poison feeder team AND detonation damage caps (~75k) gut CB/endgame value. The poison core doesn't need him; bench.

  • Valla

    NEW. Durable DEF-based bruiser with unreliable Dec DEF (30% per hit) — Warmaiden and Stag Knight already cover AoE shred. Barbarians FW bench body; Borgoth DT tech at most. Magic-keep 5 on record — that keep's bench now carries Searsha/Warcaster/Alure instead (Valla is Spirit = weak into Krila).

  • Atur

    NEW. One real job: perma-provoke Kuldath (Magma Dragon) in Doom Tower — his crit-triggered heal/counter passive makes him the dedicated tank there. Park until that floor walls; Barb FW control depth otherwise.

  • Ursine Ironhide

    NEW. Tempo-denial epic whose passive skill-lock needs an ally applying Dec C.RATE (Ursine Icecrusher — also unbuilt). A two-champion combo the account doesn't need; Skinwalkers crypt already covers Dec ATK. _needsReview on his FK rating.

  • Defiled Sinner

    Keep-wave AoE specialist (A1 goes AoE only vs 5+ enemies) — falls off vs bosses, and Undead Hordes FW is already covered by three 6★ bodies. Bench depth.

  • Lady Etessa

    C-tier on both sources; was the only Sacred Order control until Gliseah arrived — Gliseah's AoE Freeze takes that job. Bench unless SO FW needs a 2nd control body.

  • Jurojin

    Niche self-shielding provoke-tank/nuker (CB 4★, Ice Golem 4★ — Ayumi disputes IG). Single-target, no team support. Situational CB/arena body, not a build priority.

  • Endalia

    (High Elves, not Sylvan Watchers as briefed.) Niche AoE Dec ATK + Provoke tank — Hydra Head-of-Decay 4★, Doom Tower. Build only for a specific Hydra/DT control seat. (Holds a High Elves FW seat with Thenasil as the named swap.)

  • Grunch Killjoy

    Ogryn Tribes FW cleanser (FW 5★ with 30% DEF aura) — build only for an Ogryn Tribes Faction Wars push; outclassed elsewhere.

  • Maeve

    (Barbarians/Epic, not High Elves/Legendary as briefed.) Low tier (HH 5/10) — niche Ice Golem block-revive. Bench piece.

  • Torturehelm

    Dragon-only specialist (Dragon 5★, else 1–3). Build only if Dragon is a specific wall; holds an Orcs crypt seat meanwhile.

  • Bergoth the Malformed

    Niche AoE Provoke + team-heal support (HH 4/10). Outclassed as a KR sustain body by Doompriest — and now loses his crypt seat to Aeshma. Doom Tower filler only.

  • Suwai Firstborn

    CB debuff role now covered by Aox (6★) + Anax. Void affinity-flex / Arena shred only. (Holds the Barbarians FW mitigation/2nd-Dec-DEF seat — the drop is from the 6★ queue, not the crypt.)

  • Rugnor Goldgleam

    AUDIT ADD — Minotaur/Spider 5★ but both are farm-tier content already covered by built bodies; keep as gear-check depth, never a build priority.

  • Baroth the Bloodsoaked

    NEW (2026-07). C-tier HP-scaling utility — his one trick (50% Dec ATK + 60% Dec DEF + strip on one skill) is real Barbarians FW / Fire Knight bench depth, but both benches are already deep. ~8–12 tomes to function; not worth them now.

  • Delver

    NEW (2026-07). Spirit Keep 5★ farmer with a self-contained shred chain, mid-tier everywhere else — build to 50 for keep days; DE crypt bench. _needsReview: sources disagree on her kit-chain order (verify in-game).

  • Hellgazer

    NEW (2026-07). Keep-farmer Epic (Force Keep 5★) with a +27% crypt ATK aura — cheap potion-day and Demonspawn FW bench body, 5 tomes to function. Not a build priority.

  • Snorting Thug

    NEW (2026-07). Guaranteed 2-buff steal + all-battle ACC aura = Magic Keep 5★ and Skinwalkers FW bench utility; HH rates nothing else above 2/5. Bench.

  • Balthus Drauglord

    NEW (2026-07). B-rank DEF-scaling provoke tank — UH FW/Ice Golem bench behind three built 6★ anchors. NOT the missing Ogryn.

  • Steelskull

    NEW (2026-07). Budget CB Warmaster carrier + Skinwalkers FW sustain bench (27% crypt DEF aura) — outclassed by the built core; keep, don't build.

  • Urticata

    DROPPED 2026-08-14 by Paul's call — she no longer matters against the newer additions. She entered the queue at #1 as the poison-engine amplifier (25% Poison Sensitivity multiplying Banshee/Akemtum's DEF-ignoring ticks), but the account's damage plans have moved off pure poison: Spider's endgame is the HP-Burn engine (Keberon/Graal/Searsha), the Clan Boss push is the Demytha/Heiress/Seeker unkillable tune, and Myciliac Priest Orn is a second 25% Poison Sensitivity source if that lever is ever wanted again. Still owned at 4★ and still a Fire Knight 5★ shield-breaker with a 15% all-battles SPD aura — bench body, not a build.

  • Arwydd Quivergrass

    NEW (2026-08-23 batch). Kept as an arena body, not a build. Three separate lines on his card key off the same condition — no active debuffs on him — which is elegant: A3 Ax Leap gains 30% damage and ignores [Unkillable], the passive hands him +50 ACC, and A2 self-cleanses to restore the condition every four turns. The problem is that VALKANEN already provides Unkillable-ignore at 6★ and covers [Shield] and [Block Damage] as well, so this is redundancy rather than a new capability. His 30% Ally ATK Faction Wars aura is blocked the same way: only the leader's aura applies, the Sylvan Watchers crypt leads with Rhaia the Mourned (the faction's only 6★), and Sylvan Watchers is the deepest crypt on the account. Source split worth recording — HH scores his FW damage 4/5 against Ayumilove's 2★ Faction Wars overall, and HH's 5/10 is the second-lowest in the batch. Bench body.

  • Pitiless One

    NEW (2026-08-23 batch). The weakest champion in the batch on HH's own number (4/10) and the only one with no utility of any kind — no debuff, no buff, no control, three skills total. Two things keep him off the feed pile. Ayumilove rates him 5★ on Campaign, where a crit-lifesteal AoE that refunds its own Turn Meter farms unattended: A1 refunds 5% per crit, A2 refunds 15% per crit, and the passive heals him 15% of every critical hit's damage — which also means C.RATE comes BEFORE ATK% on him, since the whole kit is crit-gated and at anything under 100% he is a worse Kael. And his aura is 19% Ally C.RATE in ALL battles, thin coverage on this account and a stat every farming and arena team wants. HH does give him Spider 8/10 and FW damage 5/5, but the Spider queue is already deep (Coldheart #5, Keberon BUILT 6★, Crypt-King Graal #12, Miscreated Monster #16, Shirimani #20). Keep for the aura; do not spend a build.

Open questions

  • ?QUEUE CHANGE 2026-09-01 (34-team audit): KEBERON THE UNDERFLAME removed from the queue and added to Done — he reached 6★ on 2026-08-26 during the Ice Golem audit and had been sitting at #6 as a build target ever since. Everything from the old #7 down moved up one, and all 155 queue-rank citations across teams.json, faction-teams.json, champions.json and this file were re-derived from their championId rather than by arithmetic. TWO RECORDS WERE ACTING ON THE STALE STATE: the SPIDER team's central lever still read 'the only owned 6★ with any HP Burn is Geomancer, and his is single-target', so its Team Now was built around a constraint that had already expired — Keberon now holds that seat and the burn engine, which is that dungeon's win condition, is fieldable today; and the FW ARGONITES crypt's build order opened with him.
  • ?AUDIT 2026-09-01 — ALL 34 TEAMS RE-DERIVED (18 content + 16 Faction Wars crypts) against fresh HellHades ratings and Ayumilove kits, after the 2026-08-31 intake. ELEVEN LIVE SEAT CHANGES: Clan Boss Vogoth→Khamir (gated on an ACC check), Spider Katonn→Keberon, Minotaur Rector→Khamir, Sand Devil Rector→Khamir (stages 1–20 only), Spirit Keep Apothecary→Khamir, Arcane Keep Rector→Khamir, Arena He-Man→Gliseah, FW Dwarves Gala→Frolni (+lead), FW High Elves Apothecary→Galathir (+lead), FW Banner Lords Arndulf→Dorothy, FW Orcs Torturehelm→Artak, FW Ogryn Tribes Wuzgar→Khamir. THE THREE FINDINGS THAT WERE NOT ABOUT THE NEW CHAMPIONS: Keberon's stale 6★ status (above); URTICATA, dropped from this queue on 2026-08-14, was still seated in THREE Ideal comps — Clan Boss, Dragon and Fire Knight — all of which were therefore unbuildable by definition, now rebuilt; and fahrakin-the-fat carried a curated Sand Devil 5 against a fresh HellHades 2/10, the largest single rating error in the file.
  • ?RESOLVED 2026-09-01 (Paul): the Clan Boss ACC question raised by the 34-team audit is MOOT. The audit flagged that swapping Vogoth out for Khamir costs a +40 ACC aura that Geomancer (200+) and Aox (210+) may need — but the account keys the UNKILLABLE 2:1 comp (Heiress / Demytha / Seeker / Akemtum / Jintoro, battle-proven 2026-08-26, full auto, every affinity), not the five in the Clan Boss `slots`. Those five are the non-unkillable alternative, so the ACC check gates nothing; run it only if they are ever actually fielded. Khamir is separately BANNED from the Unkillable comp — his ally TM fill and 30% Increase SPD buff break the speed tune, whose published speeds assume Akemtum's 18% Ally SPD aura.
  • ?CLOSED 2026-09-01: the potion-keep rating gap the 34-team audit surfaced is filled. HellHades publishes NO keep ratings at all (verified against the raw API — 59 rating keys, zero keep fields), so all five keeps come from Ayumilove per champion. Pulled fresh for the 15 champions that were missing them — the six 2026-08-31 arrivals plus nine already seated in keep comps (Stag Knight, Frozen Banshee, Rector Drath, Aox, Doompriest, Geomancer, Morrigaine, Valkanen, Vallaryn) — filling 71 previously-null ratings. Three existing values were confirmed unchanged and one 1-tier disagreement (Morrigaine spirit-keep, curated 5 vs Ayumilove 4) was left as curated, since she is the Spirit Keep lead.
  • ?SCHEMA RECOMMENDATION from the 2026-09-01 audit: champions.json carries a single doom-tower 1–5 rating, but HellHades has no single Doom Tower score — it rates the 8 rotating bosses individually and the spreads are extreme. Starsage Galathir is 10/10 on Magma, Nether, Frost and Eternal Dragon but 2/10 on Dark Fae; Armanz is 10/10 on Dark Fae and Eternal Dragon but 1/10 on Bommal; Artak is 10/10 on Frost and Eternal but 1/10 on Magma. A single number cannot carry that, and scripts/hh_champion.py already returns the per-boss block — worth a doomTowerBosses field on the Champion schema.
  • ?QUEUE CHANGE 2026-08-31 (second intake, 3 champions): ARTAK added at #3; STARSAGE GALATHIR and FROLNI THE MECHANIST are MYTHICAL, so they arrive at the 6★ floor and go straight to done rather than taking a queue seat. Artak (Orcs/Magic/HP, Legendary) is HH 9/10 with 10/10 on Dragon, Spider, Ice Golem and Hydra plus 10/10 on Spider and Ice Golem HARD: an AoE HP Burn engine that also DETONATES burns (A2 activates every burn on the enemy team before attacking) and lands a 75% AoE 50% Dec ATK, with a passive that converts his own destroyed MAX HP into DMG, C.DMG, DEF, SPD and RES. He ranks above Maneater and Coldheart because the Spider plan already names burn detonation as its missing tool. GALATHIR is the headline of the whole day: HH 10/10 overall — the account's highest — with 10/10 on Arena, Dragon, Spider, Ice Golem, Iron Twins, Chimera and Phantom Shogun and 10/10 on eleven of sixteen Doom Tower bosses, a full-team revive under Perfect Veil, a full cleanse, a cheat-death passive and an Alternate form that strips every enemy buff and Blocks Active Skills. He is flagged as a seat-changer for Arena, Chimera, Iron Twins, Phantom Shogun and Doom Tower — none of those records have been re-audited against him. Everything from the old #3 down shifted by one; the queue is now 43 deep, and all rank citations across the four data files were re-derived from championId with scripts/sweep_citations.py.
  • ?QUEUE CHANGE 2026-08-31 (2 champions): THE COWARDLY LION added at #1 and ARMANZ THE MAGNIFICENT at #2 — the first intake to displace the whole queue rather than slot into it. The Lion (Echoes of Oz fusion, Skinwalkers/Magic/Defense) is HellHades 9/10 with 8+/10 on EVERY content type it rates — Fire Knight 10/10 and Clan Boss 9/10 are the queue's two standing projects answered by one champion — and his passive converts any Fear placed on him into a cleanse, a full cooldown reset and an Instant Turn, which makes him a direct counter to Ozilda (Echoes of Oz, farmed at stage 20 until 2026-11-10) because she both True Fears and triggers Fear whenever the team gains buffs. Armanz (Barbarians/Magic/Support) carries the higher headline number — HH 10/10 overall, the account's highest, with 10/10 Arena and Spider — but a 2/10 Clan Boss and a 2/10 Iron Twins / Chimera / Sand Devil / Phantom Shogun family, so breadth put the Lion first. Everything from the old #1 down shifted by two (Maneater #1 → #3); the queue is now 42 deep and all rank citations across priority.json, champions.json, teams.json and faction-teams.json were re-derived from championId. Two crypts are FLAGGED rather than rewritten: Barbarians (Armanz is HH control 5/5 + tmManip 5/5 and the crypt has no control seat) and Skinwalkers (the Lion is HH FW Damage and Ayumi FW 5★).
  • ?QUEUE CHANGE 2026-08-23 (mixed intake, 5 champions): CONELLIA added at #12 — the only build in the batch. HH 8/10 (the rest are 6, 6, 5, 4), an 80% AoE [Sleep] that converts to [Fear], an unresistable ally-targeted heal worth up to a full HP bar and a full Turn Meter, and HH 9/10 on both Agreth and Bommal. She is placed under Visix (#6, the queue's named Doom Tower answer) and under the dungeon/Clan Boss anchors at #1-#11, but above everything else, because hard crowd control is the archetype the queue is thinnest on. Everything from #12 down shifted by one; the queue is now 40 deep and all live rank citations were re-derived from championId across the four data files. PHARSALAS GRAVEDIRT and ILYSINYA go to secondary projects, ARWYDD QUIVERGRASS and PITILESS ONE to the bench. TWO SEATS ARE FLAGGED, NOT MOVED: Conellia contests a Dwarves crypt seat (HH control 4/5 against a lineup with no control body) and Pharsalas contests Rector Drath's LEAD seat in the Knights Revenant crypt (30% Ally DEF Faction Crypt aura); both deserve a team-audit rather than an assumption. Note also that SIKARA and LODRIC FALCONHEART were named in the same intake but were already on record from an earlier batch — their entries were left as curated, not duplicated.
  • ?QUEUE CHANGE 2026-08-19 (Sand Devil audit): MUCKSTALKER added at #7 — he was absent from the queue entirely while being the top lever on the Sand Devil record. He is a Rare at 3★ and takes the Sleep-gate seat from Maeve (Epic, 4★, in `dropped`), so he is the cheaper finish as well as the better champion. Rank is a suggestion: he unlocks Artifact Oil rather than broad progression, so re-rank freely. Everything from #7 down shifted by one and all rank citations were re-derived across the four data files.
  • ?QUEUE CHANGE 2026-08-14 (second pass, Paul's call): LUGAN THE STEADFAST (was #12) and SHU-ZHEN THE VALOROUS (was #17) are 6★ BUILT and moved to done — queue is 38 deep. Both were seated in Faction Wars lineups at 5★ (Banner Lords and Shadowkin respectively); those slot tiers now read 6. Remaining work on both is books, not ascension: Shu-Zhen's four cooldown books (A2 Purging Petals 5→3, A3 Charge of the Valorous 6→4) are what her Chimera, Doom Tower and Shadowkin-crypt seats are waiting on. Rank citations across all four data files re-derived against the 38-entry queue.
  • ?QUEUE CHANGE 2026-08-14 (Paul's call, applied to all four data files). FIVE PROMOTIONS: Demytha, Heiress, Seeker, Royal Guard and Alure are 6★ BUILT and moved to done — the Ultra-Nightmare Clan Boss project (Demytha + Heiress + Seeker) is complete as a build, so what remains there is gear, the A3/A2 cooldown books and a speed tune, not ascension. ONE DROP: URTICATA, previously #1, is dropped — the account's damage plans moved off the pure-poison core (Spider's endgame is the HP-Burn engine, the Clan Boss push is the unkillable tune), and Myciliac Priest Orn (#31) carries the same 25% Poison Sensitivity if the amp is ever wanted. She stays owned at 4★ as a Fire Knight body and a 15% all-battles SPD aura. CONSEQUENCE TO WORK THROUGH: six team records still seat her in an 'Ideal' comp — Clan Boss, Ice Golem, Dragon, Chimera, Void Keep and Fire Knight — and those cards are now gated on this call being reversed or the seat being re-audited onto Orn. The queue is 40 deep after the change and every rank citation across teams.json, faction-teams.json, champions.json and priority.json was re-derived against it.
  • ?BASELINE 2026-08-14 (7-champion mixed-affinity intake; supersedes the 2026-08-10 Void baseline, which stands as history). Not a Void batch this time — four Magic and three Spirit, so no single shard source explains it. Three entered the queue. ROTOS THE LOST GROOM (#8) is the standout: HH 9/10 with a 10/10 Arena and a 10/10 Ice Golem, and an A3 that ignores 60% DEF, [Unkillable] and [Block Damage] together — the arena-defence answer nothing else owned provides. JINTORO (#9) is HH 10/10 on BOTH Clan Boss and Spider and is named by HellHades' own MythBusted guide as a DPS option for the Demytha unkillable comp, with a turn-meter passive that has to be tuned around rather than ignored. STONEBOUND THISBE (#12) brings a +40 all-battles ACC aura, a passive giving every ally +10% damage into her debuffs, and the first depth the Argonites crypt has ever had. Giscard, Hordin, Anchorite and Siegehulk went to secondary projects. STAR LEVELS ARE ASSUMED at the rarity floor (Legendary 5★, Epic 4★); correct any that arrived ascended.
  • ?OPEN — TEAMS THIS BATCH WOULD MOVE, not yet audited. (1) BANNER LORDS CRYPT: Giscard the Sigiled contests Sir Artimage's seat outright — three FW roles at 4/5 against Artimage's one, plus the faction's only team Increase DEF + Increase ATK buff. He also makes the crypt's aura decision four-way (Lugan 38% HP / Rowan +50 ACC / Giscard 27% DEF / Hordin 20% SPD). (2) ARGONITES CRYPT: Stonebound Thisbe is the sixth body for a five-body, all-unbuilt faction. (3) CLAN BOSS: Jintoro is a HellHades-named DPS for the Demytha unkillable comp — but his Vigorous passive amplifies every Turn Meter fill on him by 50%, and that guide explicitly warns TM effects break tunes. (4) ARENA: Rotos at HH 10/10 contests the lineup Shu-Zhen currently leads. (5) HYDRA: Thisbe at 9/10 is the batch's best Hydra body. Run the team-audit skill per team rather than assuming any of these.
  • ?BASELINE 2026-08-10 (16-champion VOID-SHARD intake; supersedes the 2026-07-26 baseline). Every champion in this batch is Void, which is what makes it unusually top-heavy: six entered the queue and two of them landed at #2 and #3. The headline is that the Clan Boss unkillable comp is no longer theoretical — this file had been holding Seeker, Pain Keeper and Warcaster for an anchor it described as 'Maneater (Ogryn Tribes), Demytha (unobtainable), or Roshcard', and the batch delivered TWO Demythas and a Maneater. Coldheart (#4) is the other structural fix: HH 10/10 on both Fire Knight and Spider, she is the enemy-MAX-HP archetype the Spider levers named as the roster's gap, at Rare cost, three copies deep. Visix the Unbowed (#10) is the Doom Tower Legendary (10/10 Scarab King, 9/10 Dark Fae), Ursala the Mourner (#12) is a full-team revive plus AoE Dec ATK in one seat, and Madame Serris (#15) strips buffs and lands both shreds off a single button. Urticata stays #1 — nothing here finishes the poison engine. AMENDED after the Clan Boss audit: HEIRESS (owned, not previously on the record) entered at #3 and SEEKER moved #30 → #4, because the audit established that Demytha + Heiress + Seeker are one indivisible project rather than three separate builds. STAR LEVELS ARE ASSUMED at the rarity floor (Legendary 5★, Epic 4★, Rare 3★) because they were not stated; correct any that arrived ascended.
  • ?DUPLICATES from the 2026-08-10 batch — three Coldhearts, two Demythas, a second Akemtum and a second Warcaster. In RAID a duplicate fed into its original is a GUARANTEED skill upgrade, which is the cheapest tome substitute available. Recommended: feed the second Akemtum into the built 6★ Akemtum (he is Epic-tome rank #4 and the books are queued anyway); feed the second Warcaster into the first (his A3 −2 CD / A2 −1 CD are the whole kit); build one Demytha and feed the second into her (the A3 cooldown books ARE the champion). Coldheart is the one exception worth pausing on: build one, keep a second as a parallel/affinity body if you ever run two dungeon teams at once, and feed the third. None of this is recorded as done — it is a call for you to make.
  • ?TEAM RESEATS DONE 2026-08-10 (six audits run with the team-audit skill). CLAN BOSS: Team Now unchanged; the Unkillable card was rewritten from 'gated on a pull' into a real build-toward comp (Heiress + Demytha + Seeker + Akemtum lead + Geomancer) off HellHades' MythBusted tune. SPIDER: Team Now unchanged; MANEATER replaces Paragon in the Ideal (team-wide Unkillable + Block Debuffs beats self/ally Unkillable, and Block Debuffs blanks Enfeeble's Sleep), plus a new 'Stage 20 speed-farm' card built on Coldheart + Royal Guard. FIRE KNIGHT: no seat changes — Coldheart was tested against Hilda's seat and lost, because A1 hits are already surplus (14 vs 10 needed) and Heal Reduction is already double-covered; she is the first sub and the cheapest body in the plan. DOOM TOWER: Visix takes three boss cards — Scarab King (in for Tidemaster Dexikos, HH 10/10), Magma Dragon (in for Atur, the one boss Provoke works on) and Dark Fae (in for Lady Quilen, where the clones are not Almighty so her whole kit is live). DARK ELVES CRYPT: two seat changes — Spider → Madame Serris and Fang Cleric → Visix; the crypt's own chase list had named Visix and Coldheart, and both arrived. BANNER LORDS CRYPT: Ursala the Mourner replaces Warcaster and closes the gap that crypt's levers called its one real problem — no owned Banner Lord could heal or revive. STILL OPEN: the other eleven boss teams and fourteen crypts have not been re-audited against this intake.
  • ?RESOLVED 2026-08-14 — all three are 6★ BUILT and off the queue. The entry read: CONTENTIOUS CALL 2026-08-10 (Clan Boss audit): queue seats #2, #3 and #4 — Demytha, Heiress, Seeker — are a single Ultra-Nightmare project, not three independent builds. HellHades' MythBusted tune says of BOTH Demytha and Seeker, verbatim, 'No Alternative for this comp!', and Heiress supplies the cleanse-plus-Increase-SPD that Demytha's A2 extends. Building one or two of them buys almost nothing; building all three unlocks a full-auto UNM clear that works on every affinity, which is the account's route to the Legendary tome pool this file repeatedly calls its scarcest constraint. THE REVERSAL CONDITION: that cluster is only worth #2–#4 if UNM Clan Boss is the push you want. If it is not, drop all three behind Royal Guard and Coldheart — nothing else in the queue depends on them, and Heiress in particular is a one-comp champion whose other ratings top out at 4★.
  • ?MANEATER IS THE BACKUP ANCHOR, NOT THE PRIMARY (Clan Boss audit 2026-08-10). Ayumilove's BatEater setup lists a 'Fast Maneater' at 265–275 SPD AND a 'Slow Maneater' at 239–252 — it wants TWO copies, and only one arrived. That is why the queue read Demytha #2 and Maneater #5 rather than the breadth-based ordering the intake first gave them (UPDATE 2026-08-14: Demytha is 6★ BUILT and Maneater is now queue #4): Demytha's comp is buildable with one copy and Maneater's is not. Pain Keeper's cooldown compression serves the Maneater route specifically; the Demytha route does not need her, so she stays parked until a second Maneater or a Roshcard arrives.
  • ?BASELINE 2026-07-26 (SUPERSEDED by the 2026-08-10 baseline below — kept as history; the rank markers it originally carried have been removed because they no longer point anywhere). Re-ranked after the 49-champion July intake; previous baseline 2026-07-22. Shard buying was paused, so the queue was the roadmap. The original spine (Stag Knight → Urticata → Gliseah → Morrigaine) was three-quarters done — only Urticata was left, and she still finishes the poison engine. What changed: the intake added three Legendaries and a stack of Epics that outranked most of the old middle of the queue, so Bad-el-Kazar and Royal Guard moved directly behind her — Bad-el-Kazar because his passive multiplies the poison core you already built (+20% team damage vs Poisoned targets) on top of a full team cleanse, Royal Guard because he is HH 10/10 on Fire Knight AND the exact enemy-MAX-HP body the Spider levers named as the roster's gap. Stag Knight and Gliseah were both still unbooked — their tomes continue to outrank new 6★ projects.
  • ?CONTENTIOUS CALL in the 2026-07-26 re-rank: Shu-Zhen dropped from #3 to #10 and Baerdal left the queue entirely. Neither got worse — the Fire Knight and poison-engine clusters simply got deeper, and ranking is impact-only. If arena rank (and the gem/resource income behind it) is what you actually care about this month, move Shu-Zhen back above the FK cluster; she is the only entry whose rank is a preference call rather than a content-progression one.
  • ?ARBITER GATE CLOSED 2026-07-30: Keberon the Underflame (then queue #6, 6★ BUILT as of 2026-08-26 and now out of the queue) is the fifth Argonite. That faction was the last one under five bodies, so all 16 crypts are now fieldable on paper — the remaining work is build state, not roster. The Argonites five (Galatea, Dexikos, Xanthe, Acolyte, Keberon) are all 4★/5★ and unbuilt, so treat this as the gate being unlocked rather than cleared.
  • ?NEW PULLS 2026-07-30 (second batch): Lugan the Steadfast and Shirimani both entered the queue high; Kellan the Shrike went to secondary projects and Hexia to dropped. STAR LEVELS ARE ASSUMED at the rarity floor (Legendary 5★, Epic 4★) because they were not stated — correct them if any arrived ascended, the way Bad-el-Kazar did. (Their live ranks moved again in the 2026-08-10 re-rank; read the queue, not this note.)
  • ?ROSTER CORRECTION 2026-07-30: Bad-el-Kazar is 6★ (recorded at the 5★ Legendary floor and ranked queue #2 — both wrong) and RHAIA THE MOURNED, also 6★, was missing from the roster entirely. Both moved straight to done, which is two Legendaries of progress the queue never had to pay for. Consequence to work through next: neither is seated anywhere yet — Bad-el-Kazar is a swap on eleven teams and Rhaia on none, because both were written up as build-toward bodies rather than fielded ones.
  • ?Is Fire Knight the wall? → UPDATED 2026-08-14: Alure is 6★ BUILT and Urticata was dropped from the queue, so the FK20 farm core is now Alure (built) + Vizier Ovelis (#6, the remaining jump) + Fenshi (#7); Urticata still owns a Fire Knight 5★ rating as an unbuilt 4★ body if that call is ever reversed.
  • ?Is Hydra or Ice Golem 20+ the next push? → UPDATED 2026-08-14: with Alure built, the jumpers are Searsha (#18) and Ostrox (#35); Hotatsu (#22) above both for survivability.
  • ?Is the Arbiter/FW gate active? → Sylvan Watchers is now a REAL crypt (2 legendaries + Wyrennon engine) and Orcs gets anchored by Dhukk (#25). Leveling Ireth/Wyrennon/Locwain to 50-60 outranks queue progress for that goal.
  • ?Second Rector Drath is a DUPLICATE (you have him 6★, Knights Revenant): only real use is a 2nd Hydra sustain body (multi-key rotations) once Hydra is a push — build him then. Don't sacrifice him as food; one copy covers all sequential content.
  • ?Gliseah faction CONFIRMED in-game 2026-07-16: Sacred Order. Varkos still worth a skill-card glance before gearing: sources say every multiplier scales off DEF despite the Attack typing (gear plan is DEF%, never ATK%) — day-one data, ratings may drift a tier. Hilda faction RESOLVED 2026-07-17: Dwarves (confirmed vs Ayumi).
  • ?AUDIT 2026-07-26: (1) The Rocktooth campaign farm is CANCELLED — Ogryn Tribes went from 4 bodies to 9 in the July intake, so that crypt is fieldable and Ghrush (queue #26) is the build that makes it good. (2) ARGONITES is now the ONLY faction short of five bodies — nothing in the batch was an Argonite, so it is still blocked on Bladerider / Crimson Pegason / Sunken Sentinel from a shard. (3) Lizardmen epics (Jizoh/Basilisk) and a few seated bodies (Hellborn Sprite, Skimfos, Odachi) still have NO faction-wars rating on record — author them on the next deep-dive refresh. (4) He-Man still lacks a spirit-keep rating despite holding that seat on affinity logic.
  • ?RESOLVED 2026-08-10: this entry used to read 'When shard-buying resumes: Maneater is the double-payoff target — completes the budget Unkillable CB comp (with Seeker + Pain Keeper) AND is the 5th Ogryn body for the FW crypt.' Maneater arrived in the Void batch and sits at queue #4. The Ogryn half was already moot (that crypt reached nine bodies in the July intake); the Clan Boss half stands, and Demytha (now 6★ BUILT) arrived in the same batch as a second, broader anchor for the same comp. Build ONE of them for the tune — they do the same job — and let the other's dungeon spread decide which.