🩊 Ashen - 5* Holy / Yellow - Fox hero from Covenant Summon

New Fox hero is released: Ashen

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


Ashen

Rarity Element Class Mana Speed
:star::star::star::star::star:
Legendary
:sun_with_face:
Holy/Yellow

Cleric
F
Fast
Level Attack Defense Health

4/80
:crossed_swords:
1211
:shield:
1180
:heart:
2055
4/85 ? ? ?
4/90 ? ? ?
Origin Family
Covenant of Champions Fox
Image Aether Power Description
Fiend Resist At the start of each battle, this Hero is immune to new Fiends for 6 turns.
In battles with multiple waves, the effect is refreshed at the beginning of each wave.
:hourglass: Ability: Decreased Healing
All enemies get -50% healing.
:dizzy: Special Skill: Divine Light
  • If the caster is recovering Health:
    • Deals 300% damage to all enemies.
    • All enemies get lasting -40% attack. (This effect lasts until it is cleansed, replaced or removed.)
  • Otherwise:
    • All allies get lasting 200 health regeneration per turn. (This effect lasts until it is cleansed, replaced or removed.)
    • All allies get lasting +40% attack. (This effect lasts until it is cleansed, replaced or removed.)

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


:hugs: Fox Family Bonus

Heroes become stronger when teamed with other unique Heroes of the same family.

Bonus for 1/2 Heroes

  • This hero summons 1/2 Sly Fox Minions with 2% health and 100% attack inherited from the hero.
  • Sly Fox Minion has 80% chance to dodge incoming attacks.
  • When Sly Fox Minion dodges, it steals the latest dispellable buff from the atracker, and gives it to its owner.

:test_tube: Changes from Beta

  • Attack is decreased from 1256 to 1211.
  • Defense is increased from 1054 to 1180.
  • Health is increased from 1639 to 2055.
  • Damage is reduced from 460% to 300%.
  • Attack ailment is reduced from 50% to 40%.
  • Attack buff is reduced from 50% to 40%.

Beta Information: đŸ§Ș Early Information on Round 2 of Fox Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v71]


:thought_balloon: What do you think of Ashen ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Ashen.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

  • Is Ashen worth summoning for?

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

  • Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Ashen ?

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

  • Would you give Ashen Cleric Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

  • What do you think of special?

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

  • If you Summoned Ashen and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Ashen, 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 Ashen when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Ashen, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Ashen (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Ashen), so other players are presented with realistic experiences of the rarity of Legendary Event Hero.


:money_with_wings: Avoiding Overspending & Heartache :broken_heart:

More Insights & Reading

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

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. :slight_smile:


:thinking: 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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Feedback Poll - Ashen (post release)


:question: Is Ashen worth Summoning For?

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

:question: How many copies of Ashen 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
0 voters

:question: What do you think Ashen’s Primary Purpose is?

  • Damage Dealer (Immediate)
  • Attack Debuffer
  • Healer (Over Time)
  • Attack Buffer
0 voters

:question: What do you think of Ashen compared to other Heroes?

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

:question: How does Ashen’s Special Skill and Intended Purpose match Ashen’s Base Stats?

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

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

:question: Is Ashen worth giving Cleric Emblems to?

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

:question: Is Ashen worth giving Master Emblems to?

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

:question: In Defence, where do you think Ashen is best used?

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

:question: How do you think Ashen is best used?

  • PvP Raids/ War attack
  • Normal Defence
  • War Defence
  • Titans
  • Farming
  • Tournaments
  • Event Teams
0 voters
Choose up to 3 options

:question: What do you think is Ashen worth Limit Breaking ?

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

:question: If you would emblem Ashen 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)
0 voters

:question: What do you think about the artwork ?

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

Interesting one. I assume if it has (lasting) HoT it uses first bullet of that special. So first it makes team into permanent (until dispelled) repair mode and then fires for 460% AoE each time.

Fungustine will be very good friend of this one. Or GE.

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This hero would be an interesting addition because of my playstyle.

I will say that I am fearful that we’re growing the number of heroes that need to be vanquished FIRST to have any chance of winning the match on offense.

With enough of these heroes, there might not be any real chance to win—even with meta heroes—because the “lasting” effects are very strong or you get that Ice Ghost Fox everyone loves that brings back the hero you worked hard to get off the board.

Obviously, I could be wrong
but I hope we’re not going to get painted into a corner with hero abilities.

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It would Be great to either keep the Fox minions attack @100% or or increase the minions health to 10-15%.

Low enough that one actual ability can kill it, but high enough that they don’t instantly disappear.

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What’s this? Regenerate health or regenerate boost health or both?

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hot take: this looks bad

First special skill cast does basically nothing, second cast is ok but youre essentially at very, very slow speed by then

Fox passive is always useful of course

Pretty heavily nerfed since beta:

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What is this, is this a buff? Or a one time application. It is very confusing as there is no turns effect.
If this is a buff, it is very broken

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Lasting effects are permanent unless they are cleansed, dispelled, or replaced.

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Is the main effect a buff or it’s already implied as a lasting effect?

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The way I understand this hero to work is when they cast, if they have an HOT effect active, they will do 300% damage to all enemies and debuff their attack. If they don’t have an HOT effect active, they’ll instead cast one on all allies (for 200HP a turn) and buff their team’s attack as well.

The lasting effects are the attack buff and HOT, when they use that version of the special, and the attack debuff when they use the damaging version.

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Here is a beautiful combo
Vaishali gives the HoT, Ashen is doing the damage
Fast hit all 300%

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I guess its a lasting effect
So my next question is, does it have a hard cap per turn. What sources of recovery? E-links/HOT? Individual healing? Also heroes like shaal heal with each target he damages, so up to five times he allows his allies to recover health. So is this guy going to deal 1500% combined damage to all enemies?

By the way this guy and chunkyroi gonna be best buddies

The damage has been so nerfed since Beta.
It would be nice to use it with Wolfgang.

The damage isn’t a lasting effect that goes off every round or everytime he is healed. It’s 300% damage to all enemies that the hero casts as his special when he has an HOT effect active.

Essentially the hero has 2 versions of his special, which is fast speed. If he has HOT, he hits for 300% and debuffs attack. If no HOT is active, he casts lasting HOT and buffs attack.

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Was lucky to get her. Only form of healing to trigger the damage is healing over time. On defense i would pair her with some tanky (over-)healers (ott, fungustine etc. who block buff removal). You force the attacker to bring someone to cleanse and to dispell.
I m not sure if she is very good.
The healing and damage could be a bit higher in my opinion. But i will definetely max her because she fits a passive attacking style in my yellow team.

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I’m not talking about the damage, what I’m confused is the main effect. The first blue text, is that a lasting effect?