🏴‍☠ Costumed Finley – 5* Ice/Blue from Pirates of Corellia

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New Pirates of Corellia Costume is released: Costumed Finley

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

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Costumed Finley

Rarity	Element	Class	Mana Speed	Mana CB
Legendary	Ice/Blue	Fighter	F Fast	5%

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80 +1 Costume	788 945	727 872	1273 1718
4/85 +1 Costume	850 1020	783 939	1371 1850
4/90 +1 Costume	972 1166	896 1075	1569 2118

Origin	Family
Challenge Festival	Pirate

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

Ability: Poison on Special Skill When this character casts their Special Skill, all enemies receive 512 Poison damage over 4 turns.

Special Skill: Commodore’s Malice
Deals 420% damage to the target. If the target has buffs and is hit, targets another enemy with buffs. If none of of the other enemies have buffs, targets a random enemy. The damage is reduced on each consecutive hit. Each enemy can only be hit once. All hit targets get -56% defence for 3 turns.

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

Pirate Family Bonus

Challenge Event Heroes have a Family Bonus when multiple unique heroes are used on the same team.

Family Bonus for 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 Heroes:

• +3% / 6% / 10% / 15% Attack
• +2% / 4% / 7% / 12% mana generation

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Balance Changes

Jun 2023 (Big Balance Update)

@EmpiresPuzzles

Finley (Costume)

• Stats increased (due to Costume Bonus increase)
  • Attack: 825 → 841
  • Defense: 761 → 775
  • Health: 1400 → 1438

August 2023

@EmpiresPuzzles

Challenge Festival I Families (Pirate, Guardian, Wonderland, Grimforest, Avalon)

• OLD: +8% attack / +8% defense / +12% health / +5% mana generation
• NEW: +17% attack / +17% defense / +30% health / +5% mana generation

Dec 2023

@EmpiresPuzzles

Pirate

• Poison on Special: On Special Skill cast, all enemies receive Poison damage over 4 turns.

Apr 2024

@EmpiresPuzzles

Challenge Festival I

Costume Bonus increased for legendary heroes of Pirate, Grimforest, Avalon, Guardian and Wonderland families:

• OLD: +17% attack/+17% defense/+30% health/+5% mana
• NEW: +20% attack/+20% defense/+35% health/+5% mana

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Changes from Beta

• Damage increased from 365% to 420%
• Defense down is increased from 44% to 56%
• Attack is increased from 809 to 825
• Defense is increased from 746 to 761
• Health is increased from 1349 to 1400

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on Challenge Event Hero Costumes [Part of The Beta Beat v44,v48]

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What do you think of Costumed Finley ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Costumed Finley.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Costumed Finley worth summoning for?

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

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Costumed Finley ?

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

• Would you give Costumed Finley Fighter Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

• What do you think of special?

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

• If you Summoned Costumed Finley and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Costumed Finley, 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 Finley when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Costumed Finley, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Costumed Finley (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Costumed Finley), 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

• What exactly is a Gacha? (Read before posting things about "unfair pulls")

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 Challenge Event Hero Costumes [Part of The Beta Beat v44,v48]
• 🏴‍☠ Finley – 5* Ice/Blue from Pirates of Corellia

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Feedback Poll - Costumed Finley (post release)

Is Costumed Finley 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 Finley 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 Finley’s Primary Purpose is?

• Damage Dealer (Immediate)
• Defense Debuffer

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

Note this means her Class, Attack, Defence & HP Stat

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

What do you think which version of Finley is better ?

• Normal Finley
• Costumed Finley

Is Costumed Finley worth giving Ranger 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 Finley is best used?

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

How do you think Costumed Finley 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 this costume worth Limit Breaking ?

• Yes
• No

If you would emblem Costumed Finley 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)

[nani81]

Hero always sought and never arrived … I hope to see him come out of the calls that I will make …

[PlayForFun]

Petri has announced his arrival this week during the Challenge Festival event.

[Chadmo]

I’d use the heck out of him. But on defense I still think the ranger talent is better breaking through reflect and rispote.

[Stl4life101]

They just changed him to a fighter and added some stats. This might be the most noncreative costume they’ve done yet.

[Sarmale]

Finley used to serve on a frigate but now sails on a Corellian cruiser.

[Tidyup]

C black Knight says hi.
At least Finley’s 44% DD is applicable to many situations

[Ferhat]

These statistics are an insult to Finley.

[A-Sweden]

C.Finley and C.Kong are product of laziness in my view. Lack of imagination and I don’t see the point compare to all other modern heroes.
It is not the case that you have higher probability to draw in this portal.

Happy gaming

[Ferhat]

he will never anchor to the left again

[Nightmare2048]

I have Morel (x2 in fact) so not that necessary but I do like both of his designs and -44% against all if buffed defense is great, which gives him an upper edge over Morel in some cases. Also he’ll have about 822 TP with new changes, and with that attack there is a potential to hit like monster. Not necessary for Morel-owners, but not bad to have either.

[Rheysia]

Finley is now live and his costume now does more Damage (420%) und more Defense Down (-56%) than his original version.

I think it is the first time a costume has the same special with just flat out better effects…

Just remains the question: WHAT THE HELL SGG?

[Tidyup]

Okay I did not expect this. -56% DD!? Wtf

[A-Sweden]

They changed the costume since yesterday?

[PlayForFun]

@Tidyup

Okay I did not expect this. -56% DD!? Wtf

Not just that is increased since Beta, but these other properties too:

@PlayForFun

• Damage increased from 365% to 420%
• Defense down is increased from 44% to 56%
• Attack is increased from 809 to 825
• Defense is increased from 746 to 761
• Health is increased from 1349 to 1400

The OP is updated with these.

[Ruskin505]

-56% defense at fast speed…
Congrats to those who get him

[NB15]

$G are a joke. Just buffing heroes before release without even bothering to run it through beta first. What’s the point of even using his regular version when the costume is just better in every single way?

[Tidyup]

Everyone has been using normal Finley, just that his name is morel

[ferg]

Bad joke.

• Well designed costumes are those where players will in different situations either use the costume or the base hero. Both have value.

• Bad designed costumes are those where players will mostly use only 1 version because it’s so much better than the other. But there may be still someone who likes the other version better or some super niche situations where the not favored version is useful.

• And than there is failure. Both versions are exactly the same but one gets a lot more % for every part of the special skill and better stats. Just ridiculous…