🦹‍♂️ Costumed Dark Lord – 5* Dark/ Purple from League of Villains

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New League of Villains costume is released: Costumed Dark Lord

This thread is for discussing strategy related to Costumed Dark Lord, as well as your thoughts on Costumed Dark Lord.

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Costumed Dark Lord

Rarity	Element	Class	Mana Speed	Mana CB
Legendary	Dark/Purple	Sorcerer	F Fast	5%

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80 +1 Costume	850 1190	706 988	1336 1870
4/85 +1 Costume	916 1282	761 1065	1440 2016
4/90 +1 Costume	1049 1468	871 1219	1648 2307

Origin	Family
Challenge Festival 2	Villains

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: Curse on Special Skill When this character casts their Special Skill, all enemies receive 473 Curse damage over 4 turns, starting low and increasing every turn.

Special Skill: Pulsarstrike

Deals 560% damage to the target. Reduces the duration of the target and nearby enemies’ buffs by 2 turns. (The duration reduction affects both dispellable and undispellable effects. If the duration of any effect is reduced to zero, the effect is considered as having expired naturally.) The target and nearby enemies receive Corrosive Poison for 4 turns. The Corrosive Poison deals 285 Poison damage and lowers the target’s mana generation by -15% each turn. Deals extra damage against heroes with Minions or a Mega Minion. (Affects only mana generated from matching tiles or mana gained by the defense team at the end of their turn.)

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

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Family Bonus

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

Villains Family
Bonus for 1 / 2 / 3 Heroes:

• 10% / 30% / 50% chance to heal for 15% / 35% / 70% of dealt damage when attacking an enemy.
• +40% / +80% / +120% more damage dealt against Minions.

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Balance Changes

November 2024

@EmpiresPuzzles

Villain Family

• New Family Bonus effect: Increased damage against Minions

December 2024

@EmpiresPuzzles

Corrosive effects updated

• All Corrosive effects now deal extra damage against Minions and Mega Minions (previously only the Corrosive Burn of the Nidavellir Realm Heroes did so)

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Changes from Beta

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

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on Round 9 of Challenge Event Hero Costumes (League of Villains costumes) - Dark Lord [Part of The Beta Beat v72]

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What do you think of Costumed Dark Lord ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Costumed Dark Lord.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Costumed Dark Lord worth summoning for?

• Would you use Costumed Dark Lord on Defense? Offense? War? Quests/Events? Titans?

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Costumed Dark Lord ?

• What heroes would you take when facing Costumed Dark Lord as an opponent?

• Would you give Costumed Dark Lord Sorcerer Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

• What do you think of special?

• What do you think of Costumed Dark Lord’s character design?

• If you Summoned Costumed Dark Lord and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Costumed Dark Lord, 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 Costumed Dark Lord when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Costumed Dark Lord, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Costumed Dark Lord (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Costumed Dark Lord), 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 9 of Challenge Event Hero Costumes (League of Villains costumes) - Dark Lord [Part of The Beta Beat v72]
• 🦹‍♂️ Dark Lord – 5* Dark/ Purple from League of Villains

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Feedback Poll - Costumed Dark Lord (post release)

Is Costumed Dark Lord worth Summoning For?

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

How many copies of Costumed Dark Lord 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 Costumed Dark Lord’s Primary Purpose is?

• Damage Dealer (Immediate)
• Buff Duration Reducer
• Damage Dealer Over Time (with Mana Generation Debuffer)

What do you think of Costumed Dark Lord 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 Costumed Dark Lord’s Special Skill and Intended Purpose match Costumed Dark Lord’s Base Stats?

Note this means Costumed Dark Lord’s Class, Attack, Defence & HP Stat

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

What do you think which version of Dark Lord is better ?

• Normal Dark Lord
• Costumed Dark Lord

Is Costumed Dark Lord worth giving Wizard Emblems to the original hero?

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

Is Costumed Dark Lord worth giving Master Emblems to the original hero?

• 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 Costumed Dark Lord is best used?

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

How do you think Costumed Dark Lord 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 Costumed Dark Lord worth Limit Breaking ?

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

If you would emblem Costumed Dark Lord 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

[BEARDY_FOX]

Summoned it… don’t like it, not impressed at all

[Tidyup]

I think he’s the best one of the three featured

Oh wow he actually removes buff duration by 2 turns as well, this is actually very good. Yeah, easily the best hero in this batch of featured

[Kenzo]

Agree, I would love to pull him

[Tidyup]

Got him in my second pull. My DL becomes relevant again

[Tidyup]

Damn it, I wished the costume was commander grey, not this anticlimactic average costume. Such a letdown

[Mattia64]

Am I wrong or is this a straight up better version of the regular Dark Lord? More damage, more buff reduction, more poison… anyway, it looks pretty good and the Costume is awesome.

[Tidyup]

Yup, the costume is better in every metric, except for the class and aether power.

[matzulainen]

Pulled him and I am happy

[Baron]

He seems great because with a level 29 Magic Troop and a Bard, he is ready in 6 tiles if I am not mistaken and that seems kinda strong!

[SAgamekiller]

Curse damage to all plus poison damage to target and nearby on top of his snipe is a lot of damage!

[PlayForFun]

The polls are now enabled.

[tobovian]

This guy will hit Harder than Sartana (except against yellows). New king of dark snipers

[Gerg]

I kinda like the darker, Dark Lord

OG

costume

Cue the Imperial March.

[Violent.Wounds]

Got him
Reducing dispellable + undispellable buff duration by 2 turns would be quite handy…! (looking at you Fungustine )

Monster snipe + corrosive poison+ curse damage… sounds deadly! Looking forward to leveling him and watching him wreak havoc!

[Chadmo]

Costume doing some to nearby enemies is nice but primarily it’s still a sniper. Good to have for war depth but not a go to hero IMO.

[rebelsouljah]

That would be a game changing twist for those who started playing back in the Dark Ages…before all these events

[tobovian]

I actually find myself using snipers more and more since Lego troops, and this guy is great vs todays most annoying opponent, the hated Sludgus

[Chadmo]

Great point Tobo, and a LOT of yellow tanks need snipers. With sludges or C Viv I take Darkfeather, Acidfire, deadboot and Khonshu. Still need tiles with all that firepower to kill those 2.

I love different perspectives!