🦸‍♂️ Peñolite - 5* Holy/Yellow from Sanctuary of Gargoyles

[PlayForFun]

New Sanctuary of Gargoyles Hero is released: Peñolite

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

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Peñolite

Rarity	Element	Class	Mana Speed
Legendary	Holy/Yellow	Ranger	A Average

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80	832	762	1516
4/85	896	821	1633
4/90	1026	939	1869

Origin	Family
Sanctuary of Gargolyes	Gargolye

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: Every time this Gargoyle casts a Special Skill, their Stoneskin hardens. The next 4 times they receive damage, it is dropped to 1. This effect can’t be dispelled.

Special Skill: Radjant Rapid-Fire
Deals 245% damage to all enemies. Deals 490% damage against Minion and Fiend summoners. All enemies get -50% decrease for any healing received for 4 turns. Note: Druid class heroes are not conidered as minion summoners.

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.

Gargoyle family
Bonus for 1 / 2 / 3 Heroes:

Immune to Poison damage / Immune to Poison and Burn damage / Immune to Poison and Burn and Water damage

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Balance Changes

May 2022

@EmpiresPuzzles

• Stoneskin (Passive) durability now corresponds to Mana Speed

  • The slower a Gargoyle is, the more instances of incoming damage their Stoneskin will nullify; this value scales incrementally (Hero is Very Fast / Fast / Average / Slow / Very Slow = Stoneskin will block 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 instances of damage)

• Peñolite

  • Added to the Gargoyle Family (previously did not have a Family)
  • Attack: 811 → 817
  • Defense: 741 → 747
  • HP: 1458 → 1472

June 2022

@EmpiresPuzzles

• Gargoyle’s Stoneskin
  • Duration increased by 1 turn for all Mana Speeds faster than Very Slow
    • Very Fast/Fast/Average/Slow/Very Slow: 1/2/3/4/5 turns → 2/3/4/5/5 turns

Jun 2023 (Big Balance Update)

@EmpiresPuzzles

Penolite

• Stats increased
  • Attack: 817 → 832
  • Defense: 747 → 762
  • Health: 1472 → 1516

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Changes from Beta

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

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on New Legendary (Unknown Later Event) Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v43]

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What do you think of Peñolite ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Peñolite.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Peñolite worth summoning for?

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

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Peñolite ?

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

• Would you give Peñolite Ranger Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

• What do you think of special?

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

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

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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 New Legendary (Unknown Later Event) Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v43]

[PlayForFun]

Feedback Poll - Peñolite (post release)

Is Peñolite worth Summoning For?

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

How many copies of Peñolite 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 Peñolite’s Primary Purpose is?

• Damage Dealer
• Healing Debuffer

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

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

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

Is Peñolite worth giving Ranger Emblems to?

• 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 Peñolite is best used?

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

How do you think Peñolite is best used?

• PvP Raids/ War attack
• Normal Defence
• War Defence
• Titans
• Farming
• Tournaments
• Event Teams

Choose up to 3 options

[averagejoe33]

“Special Skill: Radjant Rapid-Fire”

Speed: Average

[L33tVortex]

Ohh I just love all the shiny new additions! Wish I had better luck in the portals. still, they are so nice to look at and dream about!

[NB15]

Op heroes like this are killing the game sadly.

[Cheds]

@averagejoe33

“Special Skill: Radjant Rapid-Fire”

Speed: Average

If it was any faster it would be super ridiculous. And she’s already just plain ridiculous.

Average down to 9 tiles and she’s into autowin mode.

[anon60742279]

her special is just an auto win feature. come on? for average speed? lmao… no more words bc it´s not like my opinion would make any difference.

[MirkoChan]

Oh no, there are so many Zulags, Glendas, Reubens, Bertillas and Ureauses shivering in dark corner because their shiffy [f → t] minions. And hey … all druids, cause they summon minions too xD

[Cheds]

Any minion or fiend summoner is just wrecked in 9. 9 tiles can come quick. I’ve been ruining people with Hel in 9 tiles. And this lady is a leap ahead of Hel in power.

[scyther]

omg it works agains all druids for the love of god :S

[Grajek]

Does it work vs C kadilen? or Inari?

[Noxyking]

Useful for those who dont have a heavy bench. Otherwise with 9 tiles, you win already.

[scyther]

think no as its not direct minion summon, but if we go by text then yes. Can anyone from beta confirm it?

[anon60742279]

They went too far in hit all heroes. Soon we’ll have a 800% damage to all fast hero. This hero is just the epitome of the ridiculous. Not even 95% of slow hit all heroes can do that much damage neither have those stats. Jesus.

[DrB]

@scyther

omg it works agains all druids

The extra damage should not affect druids, in general (unless they summon minions). Puss-in-boots does not summon a minion for druids, so Penolite should not do extra damage to druids

[DrB]

@Grajek

Does it work vs C kadilen? or Inari?

The answer should be “yes”. Puss-in-boots summons a minion for cKad, so I believe cKad is considered a minion summoner. Not sure about Inari, but it should be the same effect for Inari. Penolite is OP, IMO!

[PlayForFun]

@DrB

The extra damage should not affect druids, in general (unless they summon minions). Puss-in-boots does not summon a minion for druids, so Penolite should not do extra damage to druids

@scyther

omg it works agains all druids for the love of god :S

We have tested it and a fellow Beta Tester have also asked Staff about it in Beta area of the forum, and it will not work on Druids:

@heive

Druids are not considered as minion summoner

I have added clarification to the OP about this.

HoTMs with minion summoning Elemental Link (Glenda, Reuben, …) are considered as minion summoners.

[freetgy]

that ■■■■■■■ sux these heros are not the best heros already and now get worse?

the elemental link for minions is now a clear punishment, these heros would be better of not having an elemental link at all.

make it fiend summoners only.

[Tidyup]

To be fair, this is a 0.1% hero, Myztero level pull chance. So she’s gonna be OP

[Pompitous]

@Tidyup

this is a 0.1% hero

Yes, this is rare. Terrible odds…
Just like most other 5*
Only they get featured from time to time.

However,
I’m unable to find the "Myztero is OP" debate

Therefore,

@Tidyup

To be fair

Is the punchline