🏰 Alvar – 5* Holy / Yellow from Clash of Knights

[PlayForFun]

New Clash of Knights hero is released: Alvar

This thread is for discussing strategy related to Alvar, as well as your thoughts on Alvar.

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Alvar

Rarity	Element	Class	Mana Speed
Legendary	Holy/Yellow	Sorcerer	A Average

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80	1165	1106	1730
4/85	1256	1192	1864
4/90	1437	1363	2133

Origin	Family
Clash of Knights	Stag

Image	Aether Power	Description
	Defense Up	At the start of each battle, this Hero gets +20% defense for 6 turns. In battles with multiple waves, the effect is refreshed at the beginning of each wave.

Ability: Health Recovery on Buff Received This character recovers 5% health when they receive a buff or a positive stack.

Special Skill: Scroll of New Beginnings
Lifts all cleansable status ailments from all allies and randomly distributes tehm on enemies. The duration of status ailments is reset for all enemies. Deals 350% damage to all enemies. All enemies reflect status effect buffs to a random character on the opposing team for 4 turns. (Only dispellable buffs are reflected.

All-in-one still under construction. Card image to be added when available.

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Family Bonus

Families give bonuses for each unique Hero of the Same Family in Battle.

Stag Family
Bonus for 1/2/3 Heroes:

• All received attack status ailments will be replaced by a +40% / +60% / +70% attack buff for 3 turns.

Event Hero Bonus:

• The members of this family have additional perks in the Clash of Knights event.

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Changes from Beta

• Attack is increased from 1161 to 1165.
• Defense is decreased from 1110 to 1106.

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on Round 6 of Clash of Knights Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v68]

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What do you think of Alvar ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Alvar.

Based on preferences Forum members have expressed, please try to stick mainly to Alvar and not wander off topic too much to other heroes.

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Alvar worth summoning for?

• Would you use Alvar on Defense? Offense? War? Quests/Events? Titans?

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Alvar ?

• What heroes would you take when facing Alvar as an opponent?

• Would you give Alvar Sorcerer Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

• What do you think of special?

• What do you think of Alvar’s character design?

• If you Summoned Alvar and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Alvar, and whether/how you plan to make use of them.*

*NOTE: Summon Results posted without any commentary/feedback at all should be flagged as Off Topic and removed, based on preferences expressed by the Forum community. Please include some comments about what you think of Alvar when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Alvar, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Alvar (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Alvar), so other players are presented with realistic experiences of the rarity of Legendary Event Hero.

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Avoiding Overspending & Heartache

More Insights & Reading

I highly recommend reading these three threads for more information and context on summoning odds:

• How much should I spend?- HotM cost, and odds, analysis

• [WARNING] A Summons Experience - Chasing Guardian Panther - A Warning for Chasing Heroes

• https://forum.smallgiantgames.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-gacha-read-before-posting-things-about-unfair-pulls/29490?u=playforfun

If you’ve read them a million times before, you may consider reading them again before deciding on your budget for summoning. A little time spent deciding on how much money you want to risk on summoning goes a long way to avoiding disappointment, frustration, and regret later.

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Wondering About Your Personal Situation?

Feel free to discuss your team and roster here, and ask for advice from other Forum members.

If you’d like more extensive advice on sorting out your particular roster, I recommend creating a new thread in Gameplay Help & Tactics, and posting screenshots of your hero roster, along with your questions.

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Related Threads You May Be Interested In

• 🧪 Early Information on Round 6 of Clash of Knights Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v68]

[PlayForFun]

Feedback Poll - Alvar (post release)

Is Alvar worth Summoning For?

• Yes, absolutely
• Only if you’re P2P
• Yes, but only when featured.
• Not really
• Not at all

How many copies of Alvar would be useful to keep & Level?

Note - this is roster space dependent & isn’t the same for everyone!

• Zero
• Just one
• 2
• 3
• All of them

What do you think Alvar’s Primary Purpose is?

• Ailment Lifter and Distributer
• Ailments Duration Reseter
• Damage Dealer (Immediate)
• Buff Reflecter

What do you think of Alvar compared to other Heroes?

• Over Powered (OP)
• Little stronger than Most
• On Par with Most
• Little Weaker than Most
• Completely Broken (Under Powered)

How does Alvar’s Special Skill and Intended Purpose match Alvar’s Base Stats?

Note this means Alvar’s Class, Attack, Defence & HP Stat

• Perfectly
• Better than Most
• On Par with Most
• Worse than Most
• Terribly

Is Alvar worth giving Sorcerer Emblems to?

• Yes absolutely
• Depends on who else you got
• Hmmmm, not sure yet
• No I don’t think so
• No… Not at all.

In Defence, where do you think Alvar is best used?

• Left Wing
• Left Flank
• Tank
• Right Flank
• Right Wing
• Not on defence at all.

How do you think Alvar is best used?

• PvP Raids/ War attack
• Normal Defence
• War Defence
• Titans
• Farming
• Tournaments
• Event Teams

Choose up to 3 options

What do you think is Alvar worth Limit Breaking ?

• Yes, but only once
• Yes, twice
• No

If you would emblem Alvar then which Emblem Path would you select ?

• Sword path
  (Selecting Attack talent nodes when possible)
• Shield path
  (Selecting Health and Shield talent nodes when possible)

What do you think about the artwork ?

• Amazing
• Refreshingly new
• It’s ok
• It could be better
• Very bad

[L33tVortex12596]

Sounds interesting. Like a updated version of my favorite puppy Ferdinand I’ll have to take another look at him after release.
Good luck everyone!

[JAWS_3D]

When an ability like this says “lifts” will that trigger secondary effects from Pepperflame, Pophit, etc?

[Kenzo]

Yep it does, similar to how it works with Meg Giry unfortunately

[JAWS_3D]

Bummer. Surprised to see new heroes with such glaring non-OP features

[Nightmare2048]

Dammit now I want to play Might and Magic VIII again, which had a region called Alvar and it was the one I liked the most because it was fun to explore.

[Callous]

Alright, let’s go?

[stevenhuang33]

Nope. My testing shows the lifting does not trigger the secondary effect.

[stevenhuang33]

Meg does not trigger the secondary dmg effect either.

[Kenzo]

Are you sure about that? My testing indicates that it does - I can share a screenshot if that would help. I tested it several times after I read a post on Meg Giry’s thread about her special triggering the secondary effect.

[Kenzo]

@PlayForFun if possible can you please enable the poll for this hero? Thank you in advance

[Litzor1989]

It does not. I constantly use meg giry on war equalizers to lift pepperflame/starwalker effects and it does not trigger them.

[Kenzo]

If you’re seeing something different, can you share a screenshot? As it could be a bug if Meg works differently to Alvar

EDIT: Okay I’ve now also tested Meg Giry and same thing happens @Litzor1989? The only explanation I can think of is maybe they updated the “lift” effect since the last time you tested it?

[PlayForFun]

Sorry, I have forgotten to do it yesterday.

Now they are enabled.

[StroopwafelJack]

Good for cleansing and hitting

[Ship]

With my free coins! I did about 12 pulls before tho. I needed a good yellow

[stevenhuang33]

A new generation of healers like Meg and Alvar that can list ailments do not incur lots of secondary dmg like the first generation such as Gazelle and Ariel. The dmg is way less. I tested many times and arrived at this conclusion. ‘Lifting’ is not the same as ‘removing’.

[stevenhuang33]

It does trigger but the dmg is minimal

[Kenzo]

What do you mean the damage is way less? The damage from the secondary effect is whatever is stated on the card (it’s not variable but constant) and same whether it’s a lift or cleanse. The reason why it’s low in my screenshots is because I tested it on an unlevelled Pophit, but on a fully level Pophit it would have been much higher. Do you mind explaining?