Celidana – 5* Holy / Yellow - October 2022 HOTM (Hero of the Month) -- Initial Release

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New HOTM Release for 2022 October: Celidana

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

Celidana
Rarity Element Class Mana Speed
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Legendary		 :sun_with_face:
Holy/Yellow		 image
Cleric		 S
Slow
Level Attack Defense Health

4/80		 :crossed_swords:
733		 :shield:
797		 :heart:
1483
4/85 790 859 1598
4/90 904 982 1828
Origin Family
Hero of the Month Legends 2022
Image Aether Power Description
special-armor Special Armor At the start of each battle, this Hero gets +40% defense against Special Skills for 6 turns.
In battles with multiple waves, the effect is refreshed at the beginning of each wave.
:hourglass: Ability: Boost Health on Enemy Special
When an enemy casts their Special Skill, this character has a 50% chance to boost this character’s health by 100.
:no_entry_sign: Resist: Resist Max Health Reduction
Ths character has innate resistance against max health reduction.
:dizzy: Special Skill: Sacrament of Salvation
  • Boosts health of the caster and nearby allies by 800. Boosted health can exceed max HP.
  • The caster and nearby allies get +50% defense as long as caster has boosted health. This effect can’t be dispelled.
  • The caster and nearby allies resist max health reduction for 5 turns.
  • Element Link gives all Holy allies immunity to new Fiends for 4 turns.

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

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:hugs: Family Bonus

Heroes become stronger when teamed with other unique Heroes in the same Family.

Legends 2022 Family
Bonus for 1 / 2 / 3 Heroes:

  • +10% / +15% / +20% attack.

Bonus for 2+ heroes:

  • Elemental Link affects all allies.

:balance_scale: Balance Changes

Jun 2023 (Big Balance Update)

:test_tube: Changes from Beta

There appear to be no changes to Celidana from last-seen Beta stats, skill, and design.

Beta Information: 🧪 Early information on the October 2022 HOTM -- Celidana [Part of The Beta Beat V50]

:thought_balloon: What do you think of Celidana ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Celidana.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

  • Is Celidana worth summoning for?

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

  • Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Celidana ?

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

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

  • What do you think of special?

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

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

:money_with_wings: Avoiding Overspending & Heartache :broken_heart:

Or: How many summons are needed to get a HOTM?

_Special thanks to @Garanwyn & @zephyr1 for assistance on summoning odds and proofreading for this section.

It’s important to remember that HOTM have very low summoning odds. No amount of summoning will guarantee a HOTM.

On average, in a 10-pull, you have a 12.3% chance of summoning the HOTM.

But that statistic can lead our minds astray in exactly how our odds play out as we continue summoning.

Some useful insights:

  • 73 times out of 100, you’ll get a HOTM by pull 100
  • 95 times out of 100, you’ll get a HOTM by pull 229
  • 99 times out of 100, you’ll get a HOTM by pull 352

Putting that in Perspective

  • 27 out of every 100 people won’t get the HOTM by the 100th pull

  • If 1 Million players each summoned 100 times, 270,000 of those players wouldn’t get the HOTM

  • 5 out of every 100 people won’t get the HOTM by the 229th pull

  • If 1 Million players each summoned 229 times, 50,000 of those players wouldn’t get the HOTM

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.

:link: Related Threads You May Be Interested In

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Feedback Poll - Celidana (post release)


:question: Is Celidana 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 Celidana 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 Celidana’s Primary Purpose is?

  • HP Booster (Immediate)
  • Defense Buffer
  • Max Health Reduction Blocker

0 voters

:question: What do you think of Celidana 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 Celidana’s Special Skill and Intended Purpose match Celidana’s Base Stats?

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

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

0 voters

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

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

0 voters

:question: How do you think Celidana 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 Celidana worth Limit Breaking ?

  • Yes
  • No

0 voters

:question: If you would emblem Celidana then which Emblem Path would you select ?

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

0 voters

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Slow healer to 3 heroes? Guess they were scheduled to make some bad HotM again

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I wonder in what order this works with a damage dealing special. And I’m wondering because of this line

So, say Celidana has 2101/1800 health. Enemy special fires, hits for 400 damage. If passive fires before damage, she will go to 2201, then damage down to 1801 and keep this buff active. If the damage applies first, she will go down to 1701, lose the buff, then increase to 1801.

Curious to see how it works out

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I’m ready for the pink twin-drills :rofl:

There’s a spot waiting for her between Ludwig and Mother North

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Till december the worst hotms, no need to pull unless they buff…

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what a cutie character, any full pic of her? :kissing_heart:

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I kind of think with Pity Counter over three weeks away and… this HotM, it’s kinda looking like #NoSummonOctober :confused:

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Hadn’t seen information about the Pity Counter, but surely if it starts in over three weeks, it’s going to take a lot longer than just October to fill it up…

To the hero in question, I’ve never figured out how to use a heal-three hero effectively. So she kind of goes into the pile with Zulag – interesting on paper, but impossible to really get use out of her.

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Please, don’t ruin the game by introducing childlike characters like Celidana, it’s horrible. Personally, I don’t like characters with that look at all. Like the Egyptian cat that they have introduced. I don’t see them as attractive and also, they don’t match the rest of the characters in the game.

I don’t want her even if you give it to me.

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I like her, she is cute, i will draw my eht and hope to get her when fated summon release.

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I’m sure she’s very cute, but for another game, in this one, she honestly doesn’t fit.

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i think she could be a pain to deal with in very fast tournaments as tank

Not dispellable defense is good skill.

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She has good synergy with Baldur. And other overhealers, of course, but Baldur is attacking continously while having boosted health

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I think she seems meh. Her skill doesn’t seem good even for rush war. Ptolemy may be able to do more than her in the normal wars and even Faiez can do more in the rush war. Or can she be good for the defense team in the rush war? I don’t know. She doesn’t have cleasing, so I won’t change my Prof. Lidenbrock (flankler for rush war) into her. If I had, I don’t know, over 50 darts, I would probably max her, but I have no dart now, so she will remain 1.0 in my roster. Very nice illustration for collectors, though. Do you have any strategies for her?

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“Fated Summon” Beta thread

The point being that every summon that could, but doesn’t, give a 5* gives credit toward a pity count that eventually gives a choice of 5* off a limited list — creating a strong incentive to hang onto EHTs, coins, etc to do summons only after the Pity Counter goes live, so that every Brienne and Friar Tuck at least gets you 1% closer to some 5*

Then I can assume that summoning for, or beating up on, pet-themed heroes isn’t going to be your cuppa tea either.

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Thanks. So I have to hold onto my EHTs at least until that goes live. That may be torture once the new Halloween heroes hit.

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For me, she’s a mixed bag. I couldn’t get enough out of her in raids but she looks great for rush/map/events. I wrote a blog post about her for those interested:

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I got her from dunes coins going to level and max her. I think she will be a star on fast war and tournament and my yellows are weak though I just got the cyclops so will be a while until I start on her.

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