🧪 Early Information on Round 3 Christmas Heroes (Santa's Challenge) [Part of The Beta Beat V72]

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This thread is to provide early insights and discussion on the initial release of the Round 3 of Santa’s Challenge Heroes.


Don’t get too attached

Details from Beta, especially brand-new Beta content, don’t tend to be very reliable for actual release.

It’s incredibly common that features are changed during Beta testing, or sometimes even after testing but before release. That is, after all, the purpose of Beta testing.

So I wouldn’t get too attached to any of this — it’s not unheard of for entire portions of features to be removed or reworked, or for radical changes to functionality to be made.


:tophat: Santa’s Challenge Heroes

*There are a total of two (2) new heroes added to Beta for testing; these have been indicated to be for Santa’s Challenge.

*The names of the new heroes are:

  • Legendary: Albin, Ottilia

:hugs: Family Bonus

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

Winter Family
Bonus for 2 / 3 heroes:

  • +2% / +3% health for Minions
  • +5% / +10% attack for Minions

5 :star: – Legendary Heroes

  • Albin - Hot Chocolate Connoisseur
  • Ottilia - Gnome Decorator

Albin -- Click for Beta Information (Extremely Likely to Change)

Albin – Beta Info & Stats (extremely likely to change)

Rarity: Legendary/5*
Gender: Male
Power: 1070

Attack: 1079
Defense: 1071
HP: 1917

Class: Paladin
Element: :sun_with_face: Holy (Yellow)

Mana Speed: Slow
Family: Winter
Aether power: Defense Up

Special Skill: A Cozy Break

  • Deals 260% damage to all enemies.
  • The duration of buffs is reset for all allies.
  • Summons 3 Elf Minions for each ally with 10% HP and 10% attack inherited from the caster.

Ottilia -- Click for Beta Information (Extremely Likely to Change)

Ottilia – Beta Info & Stats (extremely likely to change)

Rarity: Legendary/5*
Gender: Female
Power: 1070

Attack: 1110
Defense: 1050
HP: 1882

Class: Ranger
Element: :fire: Fire (Red)

Mana Speed: Fast
Family: Winter
Aether Power: Attack Up

Special Skill: Mistletoe Medley

  • Deals 440% damage to the target.
  • Copies all dispellable buffs from the target to the caster.
  • The caster recovers 8% health per copied buffs, up to 40% health in total.
  • Summons an Elf Minion with 10% HP and 10% attack inherited from the caster.

:mantelpiece_clock: Beta Updates

  • October 30, 2024 – added for first look testing.

:link: Related Threads

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Useless heroes, they are just here to lower chances to get more usefull Christmas Heroes

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SG, Give us Pengi constume!

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@Cerevan_the_Omni

Your Christmas wish is granted…

Seems you’re on the ‘nice’ list :santa::grin:

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Albin = garbage, even at Average speed he wouldnt be amazing, and slow is just silly.

Ottila = mediocre, buff copying is nice but 440% damage just isn’t enough for a single target sniper. It could easily be 600% without her being OP tbh.

Seems the trend of underwhelming event heroes continues, I thought they might at least have included one good one for Christmas.

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Albin is :poop:, if you have decent minions you would like then Albin cannot play on the team because 3 minions of 10% / 10%, WTF, single minions have more than 30% HP, this hero is there to feed Pengi, that is all. Great for Skadi owners, 10% HP at 3 deep means her stacks will crush the enemy immediately.

Would love to find this hero on defense…doubt I ever will outside of the seasonal event.

[EDIT]: Granted, it works beautifully to get rid of problematic fiends which can be helpful. Prefer Arco but this is another option, at slow mana.

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I don’t get why they are releasing these seasonal heroes that are just a little better than a HotM. It’s a tendency from a while already (Easter, Beach, Morlovia…). It’s not like Epic Tokens are everywhere and easy to get.

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Dear Devs,

Even if you gave us these heroes in our inbox as a free gift they would still be total trash. Come on, y’all can do better than this surely. At least pretend you’re not just trying to water down the portal

Game Well :sunglasses: :mechanical_arm:

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So every ally can get 3 minion?

It seems that Alvin as slow is silly. When he charges, the buffs will have expired or been removed and there won’t be anything to reset. Am I missing something?

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Ugh. 2 horrible heroes to dilute the poll.

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These two are really bad and bring very little of new or value to the E&P hero pool

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Make a costume for the older heroes tinsel, cookie , augsutin and ginger, they are all useless now

At least give them a useless costume just for stats boost

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Remember when the Christmas Seasonal portal was the best portal to use your Epic Hero Tokens? Pepperidge Farm remembers…

Also, it really has become a dull portal every since Mother North became available in Fated Summons.

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Buddy, Carol, Rudolph, and Frosty could use costumes. I think even whatever gnomes were added two years back could use costumes now.

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Closed as both heroes are live.

Discussion can be continued in their own topics.