Ice Golem's Peak — Klyssus

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• Armanz the MagnificentM

  MINION UTILITY ONLY (audit 2026-09-01). HellHades gives 9/10 but the boss is immune to Stun, Block Active Skills and cooldown manipulation, and stages 21+ halve his Turn Meter theft. What actually works is his A2 against the two minions — real, but a support role rather than a 5-rating. Suggested rating: 3.

• Frolni the MechanistM

  UNVERIFIED RISK — check before ever fielding (audit 2026-09-01). His alt-form passive Ensorcelled Plate reflects 80% of damage received. [Reflect Damage] is a distinct buff from [Counterattack] and does not consume a turn, so it probably does not trip Frigid Vengeance — but this record's counterattack ban exists precisely because retaliation chains thresholds, and no source was found confirming reflect is safe. HH has him 8/10 normal and only 6/10 hard, so there is little upside in taking the risk.

• The Cowardly LionM

  BANNED FROM THIS DUNGEON (audit 2026-09-01), on two independent grounds, and this is the worst rating error the 34-team audit found. (1) Klyssus's Almighty Immunity names Fear and True Fear explicitly, killing A2's True Fear, A1's Fear-stacking damage bonus and his True Courage passive. (2) HIS A3 STRENGTH IN THE PACK PLACES [COUNTERATTACK] ON ALL ALLIES, and this record's first lever is 'No Counterattack buffs, ever — Frigid Vengeance counters chain into more thresholds until one side is dead.' He does not merely underperform here, he loses the fight. HellHades rates him 9/10; that rating does not survive contact with this boss's passive. Suggested rating: 1.

• Starsage GalathirF

  THE CLEANSE-SEAT ALTERNATIVE, recorded 2026-09-01 as a genuine two-way call rather than a swap. Bad-el-Kazar keeps the Ideal seat because Prey Upon gives every ally +20% damage against Poisoned targets — a flat multiplier across four poison seats on a fight the levers describe as a slow roll — and his two books bring the cleanse to CD 3, inside Numbing Chill's 4-turn cadence. GALATHIR IS THE ANSWER IF RUNS ARE BEING LOST TO MISSED CLEANSES: base-form A2 Stellar Embryo removes ALL debuffs from ALL allies natively on CD 4 with no books (this record's own Team Now note concedes Doompriest's Bolster is 'a per-turn probabilistic strip… not a guaranteed full cleanse'), heals the team 25% of HIS MAX HP, fills TM 15%, and layers Block Debuffs so Numbing Chill's 50% Decrease ACC never lands at all. His passive cuts damage 5% per 100 RES to a 25% cap and holds him at 1 HP on a fatal hit; A3 revives the team. Fresh HH 10/10 normal, 9/10 hard, overall 10. AURA CONSEQUENCE: if he is ever seated, re-run the leader decision — his 80 Ally RES in all battles is a materially different lead from Geomancer's 25% HP on a fight whose primary threat is a RESISTIBLE Decrease ACC. Two-form champion, so form state is not controlled on full auto.

• Bad-el-KazarF

  6★ built — HH 10/10 (tied best Ice Golem score on the account, re-verified 2026-08-26), Ayumi 4.5★. Passive Prey Upon gives ALL allies +20% damage against Poisoned targets, a flat multiplier on every tick this team produces; A1 Dark Sphere is a no-cooldown AoE that heals the whole team; A2 Malice removes all debuffs from all allies, adds two 15% Cont Heals and two 5% AoE Poisons that feed Akemtum. CORRECTION to the prior record: his cleanse is A2 on a 5-turn cooldown (7 tomes to shorten it), NOT an every-turn cleanse — only the A1 heal is every turn. Takes the Doompriest seat now that he is 6★ (2026-07-30) — booking Malice's two Cooldown −1s (5→3) is the remaining step.

• Keberon the UnderflameF

  NOW 6★ (2026-08-26) — and the burn lynchpin that makes the Hard Mode alt FIELDABLE for the first time. HH 9/10 Ice Golem normal AND 9/10 hard; Ayumi 5★ normal / 4★ hard (kit verified this audit). A3 Pyrenei Power: AoE with 75% chance of 2-turn HP Burn on all enemies + 50% Inc ACC on all allies + 20% TM per burn placed. A1 is 2 hits with a 75% chance of 60% Dec DEF, and re-fires (50% chance, once per turn) whenever an enemy's HP Burn activates; passive heals him 20% MAX HP per burn activation and places True Fear when a burn expires. Nothing on his kit is Counterattack. CAVEAT vs the old note: his damage is NOT purely ticks — the A1 re-fire is a direct 2-hit attack, so threshold discipline applies. In NORMAL mode he lost the burn seat to Geomancer on aura + Stoneguard (HH tie 9/10); first man off the bench there.

• Khamir Scald-EyeM

  6★ Legendary (July 2026 fragment fusion; full record added 2026-08-31). HH 9/10 IG normal / 8 hard; Ayumi 4★ normal / 4★ hard (kit verified this audit). A3 revives ALL dead allies at 50% HP / 50% TM + 60% Inc DEF + Strengthen; A2 fills team TM 25% + 50% Inc ATK + 30% Inc SPD; A1 heals all allies 2×5% of his MAX HP and restores destroyed MAX HP; +20% Ally SPD all-battles aura. NO cleanse anywhere in the kit, no Dec ATK, no DoT — which is why a 9/10 body holds no normal-mode seat in this comp. Fifth seat of the Hard Mode alt, and the account-wide insurance body when a run is dying to attrition.

• Dorothy GaleS

  6★ Legendary (Echoes of Oz login champion; full record added 2026-08-31). HH 8/10 IG / 8 hard. Her toolkit misses this fight: AoE buff strip with nothing to strip (Klyssus does not self-buff per the record), and her control lands only on minions through Almighty Immunity. Bench here — her HH 9/10s are Dragon, Spider, Fire Knight and Arena.

• JintoroM

  NOW 6★ (2026-08-26). HH 8/10 IG normal but only 5/10 hard — and he is a single-target direct-damage executioner: every hit rolls threshold risk, and nothing in his kit is DoT, cleanse or Dec ATK. Bench for this dungeon; his 10/10s are Clan Boss and Spider.

• Frozen BansheeM

  Lost her seat to Supreme Kael. Still a fine 6★ poison body for sub-20 farming and the cheapest +35 ACC all-battles aura on the account, but her engine is conditional and resistible: A3 Frost Blight must land 25% Poison Sensitivity (5-turn CD, 3 booked) before A1 poisons anything, and Numbing Chill's 50% Dec ACC blanks exactly that chain. HH 7/10, Ayumi 3★ normal / 1★ hard, and absent from Ayumilove's Ice Golem tier list.

• Crypt-King GraalM

  Queue #12 — the hard-mode burn end-state. HH 10/10 IG HARD (8 normal, re-verified 2026-08-26). A2 Death Fires is an AoE HP Burn (75%, 100% booked) that hits the minions too; A3 extends every HP Burn to 3 turns unresistibly and freezes burned minions (the boss is Freeze-immune); A1 is a GUARANTEED 50% Dec ATK into any burned or frozen target. Ayumi 5★ normal and 5★ hard. Aura +33% Ally HP in all battles. Still 5★ — takes the Khamir seat in the Hard Mode alt when built.

• Searsha the CharredF

  Queue #18 — HH 10/10 IG HARD (9 normal, re-verified 2026-08-26), Ayumi 4★ normal / 5★ hard. A2 Forest Fire strips all buffs and places HP Burns that are PROTECTED on Bosses, plus AoE Block Buffs; A3 carries 60% Dec DEF + 30% Dec SPD + Hex. Aura +19% Ally SPD in all battles. Still 5★ — takes the Aox seat in the Hard Mode alt when built.

• UrticataS

  DROPPED from the build queue 2026-08-14 — restores the 25% Poison Sensitivity amp the team loses with Frozen Banshee, and her passive procs bonus poisons off Akemtum's Hex. +15% SPD aura in all battles. HH 8/10, Ayumi 3★. Do NOT stack her Sensitivity with Myciliac Priest Orn's.

• HotatsuM

  Queue #22 — HH 9/10. AoE 50% Dec ATK stacks with Aox, team 60% Inc DEF + Cont Heal blunts the AoEs, passive self-cleanses the minions' junk. +25% Ally DEF aura. First-choice swap when a sustain seat opens.

• Gliseah SoulguideF

  6★ built. HH 9/10, Ayumi 4★ (the prior record's '5★' was too high). AoE Freeze locks the MINION waves only — the boss has Almighty Immunity to Freeze — and A3's Block Debuffs blanks Numbing Chill's Dec ACC for a cycle.

• VogothS

  6★/a1, HH 10/10. Provoke/sustain anchor with a +40 ACC all-battles aura — the aura pick if you keep a resistible debuffer in the comp. Outrates the Rector swap for this dungeon.

• Dhukk the PiercedM

  Queue #25 — HH 10/10. AoE 50% Dec ATK blunts the frost hits while crit-proc Dec DEF shreds; triple Provoke + self-Unkillable eats scary turns (Provoke lands on minions only).

• KaidenM

  HH 10/10 — AoE 50% Dec ATK on a 3-turn cycle once the A3 books land, plus a double revive that absorbs mistakes on 20+.

• Melga SteelgirdleS

  Queue #23 — HH 9/10, Ayumi 5★. Team Shield worth 20% of her MAX HP + 15% Continuous Heal + a revive. Shields are not Counterattack, so nothing here trips Frigid Vengeance.

• Countess LixM

  Queue #21 — HH 10/10. AoE Block Active Skills denies the MINIONS' scary casts (the boss is immune to Block Active Skills); Dec SPD + TM drain slow the waves, though Almighty Persistence halves TM effects on 21+.

• TaurusM

  HH 9/10, Ayumi 5★. Third AoE max-HP poison applier (four 5% Poisons on all enemies); self-Unkillable safely eats a Frigid Vengeance AoE. Magic — strong on IG-20's Spirit boss.

• Myciliac Priest OrnS

  Queue #31 — Poison Sensitivity + on-demand poison detonation, HP-scaled so the threshold AoEs do not delete him. Ayumi 4★; HellHades has a page for him but returns NO ice-golem rating, so the prior record's 'HH 10/10' is unverified. Do not stack his Sensitivity with Urticata's.

• Occult BrawlerS

  Queue #32 — Ayumi 5★ but HH is only 7/10 (the prior record's 'HH 9/10' was wrong). Pure single-target poison damage that crosses the thresholds safely, and his escalating A2 needs no team support to reach the DEF-ignore/always-crit tiers.

• Gwyndolin the SilentF

  Built 6★, HH 9/10 — A1 50% extend-ALL-debuffs + AoE Dec SPD/Dec ACC/Leech + A3 Inc ACC. Direct-damage nuker: her hits DO trigger thresholds, so slot her only with Dec ATK up.

• ExcruciatorM

  Block Revive route, and the mandatory minion answer in HARD mode where duplicated poison no longer works — one-shot the side-adds and lock them out; Block Revive needs no ACC. Maeve is the bench-tier backup.

• AnaxS

  Built 6★ fourth poison + Weaken/Dec DEF; feeds Akemtum's Hex re-fire. HH 7/10 — bench tier now that Supreme Kael holds the poison seat.

• SineshaF

  HH 9/10 — execute hits + skill-lock (A2) on the minions; HP-equalize answers the AoE chip.

• Umbral EnchantressV

  A3 AoE Provoke locks the minions (boss is Provoke-immune) + self-Unkillable soaks threshold AoEs; A2 Block Buffs. 4★.

• SachiF

  AoE Dec ACC blinds minion Heal Reduction/Dec DEF; ATK buff + TM fill for a nuke variant.

• Rector DrathF

  Built 6★ heavier direct healing if Doompriest's passive sustain isn't enough.

• FenshiF

  Poison-count DEF-ignore burst finisher — endgame nuke only; his direct hits trigger thresholds.

• KaelM

  Affinity/farm swap — AoE poison depth for sub-20 speed runs. Superseded by Supreme Kael everywhere it matters.