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Ultimate Deathknight

Legendary·Magic·Undead Hordes

Overall rank

S

Overall score

4.0/ 5

Early game

4.3Top 50% of Legendary champions

Standing

Top 25%of 1,049 rated

Ultimate Deathknight rates highest in Arena (5.0/5), Faction Wars (5.0/5) and Minotaur (5.0/5).

Ultimate Deathknight ratings by content

Scored out of 5 across all 34 tracked areas.

Campaign

Campaign
4.0

Arena

Arena
5.0

Clan Boss

Clan Boss
4.0

Hydra

Hydra
4.5

Core Bosses

Chimera
3.5
Amius
3.5

Faction Wars

Faction Wars
5.0

Dungeons

Minotaur
5.0
Spider
4.5
Fire Knight
2.5
Dragon
5.0
Ice Golem
5.0
Iron Twins
3.0
Sand Devil
1.0
Phantom Shogun
1.5

Hard Mode Dungeons

Hard Spider
3.0
Hard Fire Knight
1.0
Hard Dragon
4.0
Hard Ice Golem
3.5

Doom Tower

DT Floors
4.0
Magma Dragon
5.0
Nether Spider
1.0
Frost Spider
3.0
Scarab King
4.0
Celestial Griffin
4.0
Eternal Dragon
4.0
Dreadhorn
2.5
Dark Fae
2.0

Potion Keeps

Arcane Keep
5.0
Void Keep
5.0
Force Keep
4.0
Spirit Keep
1.0
Magic Keep
4.0

How to build Ultimate Deathknight

Gear

  • DEF% chest and gloves; add C. RATE once DEF is solid.
  • Speed boots, and SPD in every substat you can get — gear without SPD is not worth upgrading early.
  • It places debuffs, so it needs ACC in its substats for them to land.

Role: Defense · damage scales with DEF · heals and shields scale with DEF

Books and ascension

Takes 10 skill books to max. 3 of them cut a cooldown — book A2 and A3 first.

  • Ascension 3★ Unlocks a new passive

AoE damageDecrease ATKFearHealingProvokeShield

Ultimate Deathknight skills

A1

no cooldown
  • Attacks 1 enemy (3.5 × DEF).
  • Places a Provoke debuff on the target for 1 turn.

Books: Damage +10% · Buff/Debuff Chance +10% · Damage +10% · Buff/Debuff Chance +10%

A2

cooldown 4 turns
  • Attacks all enemies (4 × DEF).
  • Places a Decrease ATK 50% debuff on the target for 2 turns.
  • Places a Fear debuff on the target for 1 turn.

Books: Damage +10% · Buff/Debuff Chance +10% · Buff/Debuff Chance +10% · Cooldown -1

A3

cooldown 5 turns
  • Places a Shield buff on all allies for 2 turns.
  • Places a Continuous Heal 15% buff on all allies for 2 turns.

Books: Cooldown -1 · Cooldown -1

Passive

passive
  • Heals this champion.

Passive

passive
  • Passively changes this champion's stats.

Skill effects summarised from the champion's fully ascended kit; conditions and chances are simplified.

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