I feel people are sleeping on Lifetaker and on Assassin. Lifetaker has a 30% (40 when booked) 2 hit A1 with a 100% Heal Reduction. She has a 3 hit 4 turn (3 Turn when booked) A2. Each hit has a 50% chance (75% when booked) of decreasing the target's Turn Meter by 10%. Third hit has a 50% chance (75% when booked) of placing 30% Decrease Speed debuff for 2 turns. She's good for Fire Knight. Then Assassin. He's got a 10% Speed Aura, which is great if you don't have one other than High Khatun. His A1 does has a 50% chance (75% booked) applying a 5% poison. A2 has a 50% chance (75% booked) to increase all debuffs on the enemy by 1 turn. His A3 has a 75% chance (100% booked) to apply a 15% weaken. This guy could help Clan Boss.

Ash, this is the content I am here for. As a newish player at around 100 days, it is incredibly helpful to know the best champs in each faction as I begin working on my faction teams. Also the edits are top notch as always :)

I second Odachi being worth building out. Took the clan quest to kill ice golem with all Shadowkin champions and failed miserably until I maxed out Odachi and put Ninja in regen gear. Odachi in a reflex+immortal gear set combo and warmaster mastery did nearly as much damage as Ninja, and blocked the debuffs from the ice golem adds very well.

Would love to see this for every faction even a faction war tips for each faction

Plarium needs to pause new champ releases and rebalance some of the older ones. Many legacy legendaries pale in comparison to some of these new epics.

You should do that kind of video for every factions (PS: still waiting for this Nogdar review :) )

I feel like Hotatsu easily deserves to be an A tier champion (regardless of rarity). He is probably the guy you want to bring if you want to keep your team alive; he has increase defense, decrease attack, leech and continuous heal and an aura that works everywhere. The only other defensive thing he doesn't have is Strengthen when it comes to mitigation but few champions have that anyway. If I got him before my rather extensive roster, I would have definitely built him out without hesitation - I'd say there are very few champions that not only helps reduce the damage your team takes but also heals them.

I maxed out Oboro and her steal all buffs on the A2, helped me a bunch starting out in magic keep and arena. It's a bummer that it's conditional on being under perfect veil, but it can boost her damage and survivability a lot. Awesome video Ash!

y'all need to really revisit Gory. everyone's issues with Gory was always the conditional aspects of his kit that required targets to be under freeze, and then they gave everyone ninja for free which is a 100% AoE freeze within this faction. Gory is going to be a cleanup specialist when paired with ninja, especially for faction wars when it drops.

Good information in the video. So far Shadowkin is a shadow of a shadow. I built Ninja up to 6 60 with all 4-6 star 16 artifacts and accessories. Really looking for 6 star speed boots to replace the 4 star level 16 speed boots. Speed right now would go from 171 to 186 because I booked his stats in masteries. Artifacts: 2 perception sets 1 Divine Life set that has crit rate 60% Looking to get a crit damage amulet Overall an ass-kicker in Clan Boss, Doom Tower, Tag Team Arena and Faction Crypts. Good for campaigns and dungeons. M'shalled is another one of the big guns. I have him dying in first round of every Classic Arena, then he gets revived by Scyl O. T. Drakes and by the end he is the only one left standing and he's taking down the other side. He has done same in Doom Tower Bosses. Working to at least get a team together of Shadowkin for Faction Crypts.

Love these kind of videos. Would love to see some faction wars guides with ranking of champs and good team make up

For FW I intend to use Gory as a glass cannon who pairs well with Ninja's freeze and gets revived by Sachi. It the fears from that revive seem useful, I might build out Nobel and see if that's a good ticket to victory.

Great vid, would love to see more videos like these for other champions.

people are sleeping on Chonoru - she's a beast of a campaign farmer with her A3 that resets each round when you level 4 mobs.

This is really helpful, i'm still new and pulling loads of random champs so guides like this are really helpful when deciding who to upgrade next. thank you

Hubby and I went to the movies last week for the first time since before the pandemic and like you we also had the theater to ourselves! That aside thanks for the video. All my shadow kin so far are level 40-50 and while I have Lydia already, I still want to complete shadowkin when it's done.

Thanks ASH, I needed this confirmation that most of my Shadowkin are going to be food. The good ones my accounts have are Ninja, Jenbo, and Oboro on FTP1 then Ninja, Burangiri and Odachi on FTP2.

You skipped past Sachi's resurrection. I don't have her, but I've had the tables turned on me in arenas by her a few times just by her killing one of my guys and then passively resurrecting one of hers plus putting fear on my group when she does it. It's like a 3 for 1 deal. So if I go in it's 3 to 1 and I'm almost done with the fight, but she hangs on, she kills one of my guys and rezzes, makes it 2 to 2, and then fears my group giving her the go ahead on another turn.

Oboro has been my hands down favorite epic from the Shadowkin Faction. Her skills with miscreated monster, blind seer and roshcard the tower together are by far beautiful and consitent. I run this team in just about anything. i do switch blind seer in and out though for high katun, or my gala longbraids. Depending on situation.

i keep coming back to your vids.., really enjoy them

I love Toragi, the biggest issue is I can't use him and Draco at the same time for CB because they put so many poisons on that other debuffs get blocked. So I ended up swapping in Rotos to pair with him.

Use the rare sickle chick, in fire knight. Works pretty good and you get the added benefit of sounding like you just took down a AT-AT on Hoth. I ended up building two and the booked 5s does surprisingly well in life drinker, speed. The only downfall is the turn she does nothing but veil herself. (Must be on Cool down)

Great video Ash! Hey can you do a video on Countess Lix & Astralon as a pair, due to the 10x chance this weekend for Astralon (on Saturday) and Countess Lix (on Sunday). Tnx. 💜 your channel.

Big movie fan, went to school for film and video game production! Just saw 'Free Guy' and 'Old' both great movies!

Ash!!!! 2:11 I spit out my drink bro! Lol

Jintoro in an unkillable clan boss team is crazy, also helps in the spider dungeon stopping her have a turn

Lifetaker is a good early game FTP team filler for fire knight while you're still assembling your roster. Both active skills are multi hits, + a reflect damage and heal reduction.

I watched it Ash!! And then when you mentioned it today, I went back and watched it again! It was beautiful. Keep up the great work man!

Love the vids keep it up!!!

Oboro is a beast! Almost have her fully booked and will max out her masteries when I get the gems. She can crush it in the arena.

I really like Oboro - she was among the first Epics I ever pulled, and because I already had Stag Knight (my FIRST Epic ever) and pulled Bad el Kazar around the same time period (my first LEGO ever), I was able to exploit the crap out of her A1 in Arena. Stag would drop INC ATK & DEF, then BeK would drop two poisons, and if even one opponent got all four debuffs, that was enough for me to target them and make Oboro's AoE kick in. The only reason I don't use her in Classic Arena anymore is because I whaled for Genbo during his 10x event, and LAWD does he chew through PvP. She is still the cornerstone of one of my 3v3 teams, though. :) On top of that, her A2 is an amazing game saver on Auto runs when there are Unkillable or Block Damage champs in the waves, and you bring too much turn meter control with you (for the boss) to ever let that one last champ have a turn. She always does her A3 first to put her Veil up, which activates the second ability of her A2, and then she steals every buff the target has with it.

First I have to say it's a shame this review hadn't been out earlier. I went stupid crazy on all the lower level players, booked and leveled them up to 4*, not to 6*, but still. Now I have Ninja 6* and Odachi 5* and both is awesome. Ninja is a little squishy still which I'm trying to figure out. Odachi was great in campaign paired with Elhain. I took the both all the way from Normal through Brutal and they just killed it. Now I just have to figure out how to get some of those good players you mentioned. Thanks for your insights. And yes I did get the reference to Burangiri. LOL

Could say so many things - But the Vagabond edit deserves the 2021 Internet Award - by far!!! hahaha!!! I watched horror movies for years - And that edit was the best out of them all! Cheers mate!

I use Fenshi for Clan-Boss. He did unbooked more damage than my nearly fully booked Kael AND Kael's equip was better. (1/4 - 1/2 of Ninja's damage) I'm running Fenshi in Toxic to buff his A3 even further. His survivability is an issue... he dies first everytime. Currently I'm booking him and got new equip from the Dragon for the Tourney, so he will be even better.

where do you find multipliers from and how do you read them?.. if from ayumilove. that is very confusing to understand/read.. is there another place?

Ashe, question: Is Riho Bonespear better than Duchess Lilitu? Because I keep reading their specs and convincing myself she is, yet a bunch of peopler argued I am incorrect. You have both(I am assuming), which do you use more?

I've got Fenshi in Relentless on my FTP and he's a monster. The only issue with him is his survivability; I've got him paired with Uugo so that helps quite a bit but he's a bit on the squishy side

Chonoru is better than you say, sir. I built her out (no books) and she is fun for waves. Are there better? Absolutely. But I think she will be a solid FW choice.

Genzin will be god tier in Faction Wars since he's the only AoE Dec Def in the faction. If you don't have him the waves are going to be really painful. Sachi as well, all attack a1 perfect for stun set and only reviver.

I built Chonoru as a campaign farmer because of the reset on the A3, works like a charm!

I'd love to get some of the shadowkin champions but every time I use a blue shard or a purple shard I get a trashy champion or a duplicate and I've been running about the same 5 champions for everything besides ninja hes only in my clan boss team

I do use Fenshi in my budget unkillable team as stun target & hes amazing getting me around 8-10mil (depending on the other DPS I use)

I'm doing 18m with Harima in my UNM slow unkillable clan boss (she ties with Corvis for max damage). Just pulled Jintoro, and I don't have a dedicated (full time) decrease defense champ (only Fahrakin the Fat who is unreliable, even fully booked)...so I'm really, really, really kind of torn here whether to build him and replace her. I'm also wondering if he's good enough, if I can simply replace Corvis, as I have no use for decrease attack (unkillable) or his passive damage mitigation...while his full time decrease defense will help my Helicath, Harima, Nia, and Fahrakin do more overall damage. Bleh.

Vagabond has 6xatk multiplier, he's actually very good as well as being scary. and Maurader is quite good as well, looks trash on paper but using him he surprised me - i built two now. I attempted FK21 with all rare shadowkin elite quest and Maurader was the star of the show - needed lifetaker for the multi hits but he was key to keeping her up and actually did a surprising amount of damage on his aoe.

I am SO glad I finally have a champion (Scyl of the Drakes) that is featured in all of Ash's videos on at least ONE account it feels really weird to finally be able to use her got her to lv 40 so far will be raising her further. She seems to be missing the "Boundless life" feature but I've yet to entirely explore the champion I have a strong suspicion it might involve ascending her or a mastery. For Shadowkin my most prized is Toragi the frog rank 1, Burangiri rank 2 and rank 3 is Ninja in that order.

I've used Fenshi in CB while still at level 50 and he works well although he is usually the first to die. Needs a good healer/ resurrector to work. Used him with Frozen Banshee. Will probably take him to 6 stars eventually.

Haha, Paw Patrol for mornings In The Night Garden for settling down time. 😉💙

So what's your view on vagabond? You mentioned his looks but that was it

I think it would be a good idea to compare how good they are booked vs unbooked. Cause on a ftp im only booking the best of the best champs. So id like to know how good you feel lady kimi (for example) is booked vs unbooked. And the same with all the other champs. Cause obviously someone who has decrease def on a 100% land rate after books is good but if their not a godtier champ i dont think the books are worth it so how good are they unbooked.. does that make sense?

I run Oboro as my defense down/nuker on fire knight 25. She’s a MONSTER.

I built Genzin out and he hits really hard but he can't be speed tuned for anything.. I've noticed one wave he'll go third and the next wave he goes first. It's weird.

I've got Ninja, Gory, Burangiri and 3 Fenshis. I think that will be enough to progress to the second boss of FW, but after that missing def down and revive is really going to hurt.

Im so excited just got jintoro ! Then came to watch this vid after i pulled him

Burangiri suddenly clutch in Doom Tower…. Nice style of Video Ash. Thanks.

I think you overlooked Genzin's A1 is a triple hitter that fills TM by 18%, also Sachi passive is a revive if you kill enemy, good for FW

I have oboro Jintao....and jinsteau and other epic forgot name any worth it?? Ninja

that scary "mommy" audio during the vagabond overlook gave me flashbacks to over a decade ago when we used to use it to prank ppl late at night at scary places such as a cemetery hah..

Marauder is a great rare. Look at that hp…I put him in a shield set and he helped me clear spirit rare hard doom tower secret rooms. Way harder content than fw waves there

How to build Fenshi for Fire Knight?

Odachi what’s the mastery build for him

I use Fenshi in Clan Boss fights, he brought me from 6 mil to 8-9 mil on brutal mode. And hes not built out yet. Level 12 gear, and not many books. I cant imagine what he ll do booked and geared out. He was a game changer for me. Fenshi.

Am I going to the movies? I have been to 13 in the past 3 months, 4 of those in the last 2 weeks. Almost every showing was empty, so go enjoy them. Don't allow movie theaters with thier 50'-100' foot screens and unparalled surround sound disappear because you want to stream it on a pansy 55" TV with a soundbar at home. Nothing beats the movie theater experience. Movies I saw the last couple months: Tennet, Croods 2, Wrath if Man, Finding You, F9: The Fast Saga, Boss Baby 2, Black Widow, G.I.Joe Snake eyes, Jungle Cruise, The Green Knight , The Suicide Squad, Respect, Free Guy

Also, Gory might be useful on the new Rhino boss in Doomtower with his freezes. :)

When do they open faction for them ?

Can I use Odachi at clan boss instead of Sepulcher Sentinel? Odachi can block debuffs at every 3 turns while Sentinel can do it once at 4 turns. Or the only solution is making Sepulcher Sentinel fast enough to catch a 4:3 turn ratio?

I maxed out Oboro and I use her in my arena team when I go up against Duchess. Even before I put masteries on her, she was one-shotting the ever so annoying Duchess and even when Duchess does not have DEF down or weaken, Oboro strips away at least 85% of her health. I highly recommend Oboro as a single target nuker against Duchess

Hatatsu and Fenshi are my faves from from those mentions tho. Fenshi really fun to use.

Just got Sachi and life taker. Hope one of them is good, can't wait to see!

3:51 This made me laugh so hard. I love your content Ash!! I always have fun watching your videos!!! 👍❤️

awesome vid!!!!!

Oh-dah-chi And for sachi you forgot to mention her passive. Which, if you're beginning the game, can bump your spider team up several levels

So where is the download link to get Chonoru??

Where is the link to get the free champ?

Chonoru is a campaign farming beast ash. You have to revisit. Stat threshold is very low too I was at about 4500 attack 210 CD and felt I could go lower.

Hey Ash. I'm replying in reference to the Scarab King 100 on normal Doom Tower. I have Lyssandra, Armiger, Miscreated Monster, Metalshaper, and Visix. I'll have shield up on all allies and the Scarab King removes the shield and starts provoking us all to death. I have speed tuned and manually played and can't beat him. Help please.

Sachis one of my most used epics in the game she’s sooooo good. My resistance gear is junk so the decrease accuracy keeps debuffs off me, the -crit keeps bad RNG off my champs, leech heals. Increase attack and TM. She is so underrated.

i've pulled nobel in last x2. I think i will make some use for him as force champion in team with elder skarg (my 1st leggo

Looking for that link for Chonoru... I must collect them all!

4:05 I GOT SERIOUS CHILLS FROM THAT

Ok So Odachi is ACTUALLY valuable for non food purposes thank god because I was beginning to question whether I should use him for some kind of fusion or use him for food and I'm glad I didn't do either.

I'm going on 1yr and still have not even hit lvl 20 of any of the dungeons..Fireknight is the hardest to play still at lvl 13 there, any advice?

@ASH we need a book mixer like the potion mix; where say, 5 rare books will make you 1 epic book, 5 epic books will make you 1 legendary book

The last pronunciation for Odachi was pretty good, Ash.

Toragi is awesome. My first SK to 60 and an essential member of my CB team. Got some of the others so might have a team, although only legos are Ninja and Yoshi. Epic team looms?

JUST pulled odachi and came straight back here 60 seconds later to double check him. Thanks again ash for all you do!

I seriously love Sachi. I use her literally everywhere and she hits hard.

Does this faction have a person that can revive died ally?

huge movie fan here ash used to go to the theater every week before the apocalypse lol

What is the link to get the free champions when I start a new account? I was going to start an f2p account.

I built up genzhin, did not regret at all, he just cleared 12-7 NM in 2minutes for the shard, he's on my fast FK20 team and 3v3s team. 10/10 would build out.

F yeah, so needed. Thanks homie

I kind of like Marauder. A1 25% stun, A2 is AOE Dec atk, and he hits pretty hard for an HP champ. He has provoke as well, but it places a shield on him to go with it directly, which in better than Odachi in my opinion. It also throws a reflect damage up, making a possible FK champ on top of it. 21k Base HP. Only downside is that the % landing is 100, but he is a rare after all, they can't ALL be Warmaiden.

Hey ash were is your link for your other account man?

Problem with adding new champions is that Plarium does not increase the base chance of pulling them from shards. Therefore our chance of getting any particular Champ goes down.

bunigiri is doing wonders for me with his, vogoths and sun wu kongs passives, with a cheeky runic warder thrown in because he just keeps working. he doesnt be sheep, and punches wukong hard along with alot of other ppl. my 1st 5 purple star champ, and i think im going to take him further.

Thanks for the advice (after I already maxed Chonoro) - hahaha!

ill argue with you aon two of the rares vagabond and lifetaker are fairly solid lifetaker for fire knight and vagabond for a general buffer like they arent god tier but i think they are pretty solid

Hi there . Did anyone noticed how Ninja(boy) when killed in arena , flies back behind everyone like piece of paper , while every other champion falls down very close to where they were originally staying before killed ? sorry if you already mentioned this , I didn't see it .... for me that blue haired kid is aesthetically the worst looking character(not champion) in the game , like if you put that pinky power ranger to fight alongside Bruce Willis in Die Hard . Am I evil ? Should Ninjas look more Ninjous ?

I took Chonuru to 60 as soon as I got her (soon after her release). I was greatly disappointed. One of those I will regret. Should have done apothecary instead.

Life taker is slept on. Solid Multipliers turn meter Control and Good for Fire Knight with that multi hitter....also Blood Mask Hits Hard on my account??? So...also Marauder is solid