Clan Boss — Demon Lord

Swaps

• ArtakM

  HARD-BLOCKED FROM THIS COMP (audit 2026-09-01), and worth recording why. On paper he is excellent here: HP Burn ticks scale off the boss's MAX HP and ignore DEF, burn is NOT poison so it does not compete for the saturated poison slots, A2 Dogs Of War instantly activates the burn, and the same skill lands a 75% AoE 50% Decrease ATK. But (1) the five have exactly one damage seat and Geomancer holds it on Stoneguard's unconditional 15% team damage reduction, which Artak does not replicate; (2) his passive grants +2 SPD per 1% of destroyed MAX HP to a 50% cap — up to +100 SPD mid-fight — which disqualifies him from any speed-tuned comp including the Unkillable 2:1; and (3) he cannot share a team with Khamir Scald-Eye, whose A1 restores destroyed MAX HP to all allies every turn and erases Artak's entire passive. Since this audit seats Khamir, Artak is out of the Clan Boss five. His homes are Spider, Ice Golem, Dragon and Hydra.

• The Cowardly LionM

  NOT A MAIN-FIVE SEAT, but the new engine for the Counterattack comp (audit 2026-09-01). HellHades rates him 9/10 Clan Boss; that rating does not survive this boss, because Demon Lord is immune to Fear and True Fear (HellHades' Ultimate Clan Boss Guide), which kills A2's 75% AoE True Fear, kills A1's '+10% damage per skill activated by champions under Fear' before it can start, and kills his True Courage passive, which needs Fear placed ON him. WHAT SURVIVES IS STILL WORTH A COMP: A2 Primal Roar is a 4×DEF AoE that pre-buffs the team with 60% Increase DEF + Fervor, and A3 Strength in the Pack puts [Counterattack] AND 30% [Reflect Damage] on ALL allies for 2 turns — which is the Skullcrusher archetype on a Legendary body. Field him in the Counterattack alt, not the main five. 5★, no gear plan authored.

• VogothS

  THE ACC-AURA FALLBACK (audit 2026-09-01). Held the sustain/lead seat until Khamir Scald-Eye took it. His +40 Ally ACC in all battles is the reason to bring him back: if Geomancer's HP Burn or Aox's Dec ATK starts missing without it, he is the fix. His Leech passive also heals all allies for 50% of the damage HE takes, which is the one heal on the roster that SCALES UP with Gathering Fury — a real argument on long UNM keys. What he does not do: no revive, and his A2 Provoke is dead here (Demon Lord is CC-immune), so that skill is Dec ATK only and duplicates Aox. 6★/a1.

• ManeaterV

  QUEUE #4 - HH 10/10 Clan Boss and the BACKUP anchor. A3 Ancient Blood gives the whole team Unkillable + Block Debuffs for 2 turns on a 7-turn cooldown (5 booked), paid for with 5% of his MAX HP per living ally; A2 Syphon 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 despite the HP typing. CORRECTION 2026-08-25: a single Maneater DOES have a fully documented comp - DWJ's 'Ultimate Budget Unkillable' (Maneater 256-257 TRUE speed, Pain Keeper 222-226, two DPS at 187-189 and 179-185, plus a designated STUN TARGET at 129; all affinities, same speeds on NM and UNM, syncs turn 3; stun target wants the team's highest HP but no more than 125% of Pain Keeper's HP with DEF as low as possible, ideally Void; no Relentless, and no counterattack accessories on Pain Keeper). The two-copy 'BatEater' (Fast Maneater 265-275 / Slow Maneater 239-252 per Ayumilove) remains the variant that needs a second pull. WHY HE IS STILL THE BACKUP, NOT THE PRIMARY: he and Pain Keeper are both UNBUILT while the Demytha five was 3/5 built before Jintoro's seat was even decided, the tuned Myth-Fu comp (2026-08-25) spends zero seats on a stun eater, and on the TM-immune Demon Lord his A2 Syphon steals nothing (inert - same immunity class as Geomancer's and Jintoro's TM clauses). 33% Ally HP aura in dungeons.

• HeiressF

  6★ BUILT (2026-08-14) - a RARE at HH 9/10 Clan Boss and the tune's cleanse-plus-tempo engine. A2 Exhortation removes 1 random debuff from ALL allies (the Crushing Force answer) and places a 30% Increase SPD buff on the whole team, on a 3-turn cooldown. Her A2 chance is 60% UNBOOKED - four Rare tomes take it to 100%, and in a speed tune a missed buff breaks that rotation, so those books are mandatory rather than incremental. Reference speed 264-266; she moves first every rotation. Her Avenger passive counterattacks whenever an ally is attacked, which is free Warmaster procs against a boss that swings three times a cycle - but it is uncontrolled damage, so verify it against the tune. Aura is 16% SPD in DUNGEONS, which loses the leader slot to Akemtum's 18% in all battles.

• DemythaV

  6★ BUILT (2026-08-14), THE UNM ANCHOR - HH 10/10 Clan Boss. Two abilities do the work: Channel the Bloodline (A3) puts Block Damage on all allies for 1 turn on a 3-turn cooldown once booked, and Light of the Deep (A2) increases the duration of all ALLY buffs by 1 turn, decreases all ally DEBUFF durations by 1, and heals the team scaling with how many durations it moved. You cannot extend Block Damage itself - you extend the Increase SPD buffs that hold the 2:1 ratio together. She lands nothing on the enemy, so she needs ZERO accuracy: SPD tuned to the rotation, then bulk. 20% Ally DEF aura in ALL battles. Considered and rejected for the MAIN comp's cleanse seat: she out-rates Doompriest (10/10 vs 9/10) and is Void rather than Force, but her debuff-duration cut is a 3-turn cycle against Doompriest's every-turn strip - she only wins that seat inside a tune, and inside a tune you are building the unkillable comp instead. TWO copies owned; feed the second for a guaranteed skill upgrade.

• Bad-el-KazarF

  6★ BUILT AND THE IDEAL'S FIFTH SEAT (audit 2026-07-27). HH 9/10 CB, Ayumilove Demon Lord 5★, and he functions unbooked. Malice removes ALL debuffs from all allies (a second, bigger answer to Crushing Force alongside Doompriest's random single strip), places two 15% Continuous Heals and two 5% Poisons; Dark Sphere heals the whole team for 20% of its damage; Prey Upon gives every ally +20% damage against Poisoned targets (ally ATTACKS only — not poison ticks, not Warmaster/Giant Slayer). Force body, so strong on the Magic phase. CORRECTION: his Poisons are ordinary debuffs with no 'cannot be resisted' clause — he DOES need ACC. Malice is CD 5 base with two Cooldown −1 books (→3) that are worth taking.

• AkemtumV

  CORRECTED 2026-07-27 — he is a poison APPLIER on Demon Lord, not a damage carry. Hex Blood only fires 'whenever their allies receive damage from [Poison] debuffs', and the Demon Lord has no allies, so the duplication never triggers on this boss (his A1 Debuff Spread is equally dead on a single target). What survives: a 3-hit A1 at 40%/hit for 5% Poisons — a reliable applier that needs no Poison Sensitivity uptime, unlike Frozen Banshee — plus an 18% SPD aura in all battles. Still a strong body for Hydra/Dragon/Ice Golem where the passive does work. 6★ built; ACC 150–200, SPD 180+; Void = neutral every phase.

• AnaxS

  The old Dec DEF seat — 6★ debuffer (unbooked; ~8 tomes to floor). Now an alt-comp body: he anchors the Counterattack card as a 2-hit Warmaster carrier. Swap him back into the main comp only if the tune misses his 60% Dec DEF more than Supreme Kael's poisons add. Affinity flex; ACC 91 on record is the blocker.

• UrticataS

  DROPPED from the build queue 2026-08-14 (owned, 4★, unbuilt) — the Ideal below still names her poison-amp seat, so that comp is gated until the call is revisited or Myciliac Priest Orn takes it. A2 Poison Agonist (CD 3, 3 hits × 30%) places 25% Poison Sensitivity, which multiplies every DEF-ignoring tick — a better amp than Dec DEF in a DoT comp; A1 extends 2 Poison durations per hit; A3 lays Hex, and her Blood Borne passive drops bonus 5% Poisons on crits against Hexed enemies. 15% SPD aura in ALL battles = the Ideal comp's leader aura. Sensitivity does NOT stack with itself, so never field her alongside Frozen Banshee or Myciliac Priest Orn for the Sensitivity slot.

• Frozen BansheeM

  The interim poison engine and Urticata's first sub — 6★ but UNBOOKED, which is why she is not a Team Now seat: her A1 only places poisons while a Poison Sensitivity debuff is up, and her own Frost Blight is CD 5 against a 2-turn Sensitivity (books take it to 3). Booked, or seated next to another Sensitivity carrier, she is 2 poisons per turn.

• Supreme KaelV

  SEATED — Anax's successor, done. Unresistible triple Poisons, unresistible +1-turn extension on ALL enemy debuffs, unresistible 50% Dec RES and a team 50% Increase ACC buff, all with ZERO accuracy needed on his own kit; Void body ends the Magic-phase problem. Only Anax's Dec DEF was lost, which DoT ticks never used. Book A2 first (75%→100% and CD 4→3).

• FayneS

  Queue #33 — HH 10/10 Clan Boss and BOOKLESS: Flowing Style lands 60% Dec DEF and 25% Weaken for THREE turns off one skill and self-heals per debuff on the target; Flower's Tears adds two Poisons and 50% Dec ATK. Single-target only, which is exactly right here. The best owned answer if the tune ever wants Dec DEF back without Anax's book bill. Spirit body — a Force/Void-phase seat, weak on the Magic phase.

• SeekerM

  6★ BUILT and NON-NEGOTIABLE for the Demytha 2:1 tune - HellHades states 'Seeker - No Alternative for this particular comp!'. Tailwind fills all allies' TM 30%, grants team +50% ATK and gives HIM an Extra Turn; the TM boost is what keeps the tune's speed requirements reachable and buys the extra turns the 2:1 rotation needs. 5-turn cooldown that books to 3 (2 Epic tomes). Reference speed band 185-188.

• SkullcrusherF

  Queue #28 — CB 5★ (HH 10/10): team Counterattack + 50% Ally Protection on all OTHER allies with a 1-turn self-Unkillable. Unlocks the classic counterattack tune (everyone counters with Warmaster) as the alternative to the current speed tune — one Epic tome (A2 CD 4→3) makes the buff near-permanent.

• HotatsuM

  Second AoE 50% Dec ATK carrier + team 60% Inc DEF/Cont Heal + self-cleanses CC; 25% DEF aura — survivability anchor while gearing. Same Inc DEF stun-targeting caveat as Lightsworn.

• Wyrennon the SilkenS

  Tempo alt to Khatun/Apothecary: team 15% TM fill + 30% Inc SPD on a booked 4-turn CD, plus revive insurance for speed-tune slips.

• High KhatunS

  Inc SPD + TM-fill tempo (5★ — fine there); the tempo swap for Doompriest once the stun stops killing runs. Spirit body — a liability on the Magic phase.

• Vizier OvelisF

  Queue #6, 5★ Lego (HH 10/10 CB): spammable Dec ATK + Block Buffs (blanks the boss's affinity-phase Inc ATK) + A1 debuff-extension; his Heal Reduction is dead weight on CB.

• ApothecaryM

  Tempo alternative to High Khatun (Inc SPD + TM + heal); Magic = neutral on the Magic phase. Terminal 5★ build, no further investment planned.

• Suwai FirstbornV

  Void affinity-flex debuffer (Dec DEF/ATK/Weaken), neutral in every phase — the auto-safe body (preferred over Rugnor per his own record).

• Gwyndolin the SilentF

  Built 6★ damage flex — her A1 hits 3× with a 30%-per-hit chance to extend ALL debuffs, and her C.DMG scales off ACC. HH 8/10 CB; better spent on Hydra/DT, but she is the emergency extension body.

• Tidemaster DexikosM

  Magic-phase sustain — revive ×2 + AoE heal + Perfect Veil.

• Rector DrathF

  Healer alternative to Vogoth (6★/a1) — but CB 3/5 and no ACC aura, so a downgrade in the current lead slot.

• Pain KeeperV

  UNM unkillable enabler for the MANEATER route only. The Demytha 2:1 tune does not use her, so she stays parked until a second Maneater or a Roshcard arrives - her A3 Combat Tactics (-1 turn to all ally cooldowns) exists to loop Ancient Blood's 7-turn CD.

• WarcasterV

  CB 5* unkillable-tune enabler: A3 Invincible Aura is a 1-turn AoE Block Damage on a 6-turn CD (books to 4). He was the OWNED half of a comp with no anchor; the anchor now exists, but the Demytha tune supplies Block Damage from Demytha herself on a 3-turn cycle, so he is redundant to it rather than part of it. His seat is a Roshcard-style multi-turn comp, or Banner Lords FW. A second copy arrived 2026-08-10 - feed it in for a guaranteed skill upgrade, since his A3 -2 CD and A2 -1 CD are the whole kit.

• ErinyesF

  Budget poison-core glue: her A2 is a +1 turn to every enemy debuff (broader than Urticata's poison-only extension, but a 75% roll on a 5-turn cooldown until booked) plus a 90% A1 Poison + Block Buffs. Force body — safe on the Magic phase. ~7 epic tomes to function, and Supreme Kael already provides an unresistible version of the same effect for free, so she has slipped to a bench body.

• SteelskullS

  Counterattack-tune body: double-hit A1 Warmaster carrier + solo full-cleanse (backup stun answer) + team 60% Inc DEF/20% heal. Seat him next to Skullcrusher in the Counterattack card; the Inc DEF carries the same stun-targeting caveat as Lightsworn.

• AeshmaM

  Budget extension alt to Erinyes: Languish is +1 turn to all enemy debuffs, plus AoE Weaken and a passive self-heal off every poison tick. Her Weaken went redundant the day Supreme Kael was seated, so she is behind Erinyes, who is herself behind SK.

• Grizzled JarlM

  Queue-adjacent secondary — CB 9/10: AoE 50% Dec ATK is the budget Aox alternative if Aox parks at Chimera, and team-wide Block Debuffs timed to Crushing Force blanks the stun outright, a different answer than Doompriest's cleanse. Caveats: his 100% Heal Red A1 is dead weight (boss never heals) and his AoE 60% Inc DEF scrambles stun-targeting exactly like Lightsworn's.

• Occult BrawlerS

  Queue #32, HH 9/10: self-poisons every turn to escalate his own A2 (DEF-ignore → Block Revive → always-crit → 30% lifesteal → Extra Turn at 5 debuffs), and his passive poisons a random enemy every turn at 70%. HARD CONFLICT WITH THIS COMP: Doompriest's Bolster strips a random ally debuff every turn and will eat his self-poisons — never run him behind a cleanser tune, and never give him Immunity gear.

• Sepulcher SentinelF

  Queue #29, HH 9/10: team-wide Block Debuffs on a 5-turn (booked 4) cycle blanks Crushing Force outright, the same answer as Grizzled Jarl but on a Force body with a 25% DEF aura in ALL battles. Same caveat as Lightsworn: his 60% Inc DEF scrambles stun-targeting.

• AltanM

  Queue #19, HH 9/10: 60%-chance 50% Dec ATK A1 (the survival debuff) plus 60% team Inc DEF, and a passive that revives an ally on every kill — the revive half is inert on a single boss, so value him for the aura and the Dec ATK. 33% DEF aura in all battles is the biggest defensive lead on the roster. Magic body — neutral on the dangerous Magic phase.

• Myciliac Priest OrnS

  Queue #31 — second 25% Poison Sensitivity source after Urticata/Banshee, and the only one that also DETONATES two poisons on demand (A2). Sensitivity does not stack with itself: run him where Urticata is not. NOTE: HellHades returns no content ratings for him at all as of 2026-07-27, so his curated CB 5 is Ayumilove-only and unverified.

• KunoichiF

  HH 9/10: AoE Leech at 75% base turns the whole team's damage into healing (an alternative to Lifesteal gear), plus 50% Ally Protection and a Block Damage passive under 50% HP. DEF-scaled, so no crit-gear conflict with the debuffers.

• TrumborrS

  HH 9/10: 50% Ally Protection on everyone + a per-cast cleanse of one debuff from every ally, which answers the stun turn without spending the Doompriest seat. Spirit body — Magic-phase liability.

• Fahrakin the FatS

  HH 9/10 and a one-body debuff bundle: A1 60% Dec DEF, A2 HP Burn + two 5% Poisons, A3 team C.RATE/C.DMG into an ally-join attack. The cheapest way to re-add Dec DEF + HP Burn if Geomancer is ever pulled for Hydra. Spirit — Magic-phase liability.

• Corpse CollectorF

  AoE Heal Reduction (dead here) + 50% Dec ACC (dead here) + a 75% triple-hit Poison A3. HH dropped him to 8/10 CB (tier 4) — bench body, poisons only.

• Lugan the SteadfastS

  NEW Legendary — HH 9/10 Clan Boss. A2 is the package: 60% team Inc DEF + 50% Ally Protection + a Shield worth 30% of his MAX HP, on a 4-turn cycle that books to 3, and his A1 heals the whole team for 25% of the damage it deals. His passive counterattacks every time a shielded ally is hit, which on a boss that AoEs twice a rotation is free Warmaster procs. Caveat: the team Inc DEF scrambles stun-targeting like Lightsworn's, and his A3 Block Active Skills does nothing to the boss.