📯 Skadi – New Season 3 Hero – 5* Ice/Blue: Thoughts, Discussion & Summon Results with Feedback

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New Season 3 Hero Releasing: Skadi!

Skadi
Rarity Element Class Mana Speed Mana CB
:star::star::star::star::star:
Legendary		 :snowflake:
Ice/Blue		 image
Monk		 A
Average		 5%
Level Attack Defense Health

4/80
+1 Costume		 :crossed_swords:
696
807		 :shield:
793
919		 :heart:
1411
1806
4/85
+1 Costume		 750
870		 854
990		 1520
1945
4/90
+1 Costume		 858
995		 977
1133		 1739
2225
Origin Realm
Season 3 Jotunheim
Image Aether Power Description
attack-up 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.
:dizzy: Special Skill: Iceberg Crush
  • Deals 220% damage to all enemies.
  • The damage is increased by 50% per each dead enemy.
  • Stack: all enemies receive 30 Frost damage per each killed enemy or enemy minion at the end of each turn. The maximum size of stack is 10.
  • Stack: all enemies get -6% mana generation per each killed enemy or enemy minion. The maximum size of stack is 10.
All-In-One Reference, courtesy of @Lumi
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:balance_scale: Balance Changes

Jun 2023 (Big Balance Update)

:test_tube: Changes from Beta

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

:balance_scale: Balance Changes

August 2020

June 2023 (Big Balance Update)

August 2023

:thought_balloon: What do you think of Skadi?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Skadi.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

  • Is Skadi worth summoning for?

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

  • Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Skadi?

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

  • Would you give Skadi Monk Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

  • What do you think of Skadi’s special?

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

  • If you Summoned Skadi and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Skadi, and whether/how you plan to make use of her.*

*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 Baldur when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Baldur, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Baldur (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Baldur), so other players are presented with realistic experiences of the rarity of Season 3 Heroes.

:money_with_wings: Avoiding Overspending & Heartache :broken_heart:
Or: How many summons are needed to get a Valhalla Featured Legendary Hero?
Below odds are current as of June 30, 2020. Odds will change as additional S3 5* heroes are added to the “non-featured” hero pool.

It’s important to remember that Season 3 Valhalla Heroes have EXTREMELY low summoning odds. No amount of summoning will guarantee a Season 3 Hero.

On average, in a 10-pull, you have a 1.43% chance of summoning Skadi.

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

Some useful insights:

  • 13 times out of 100, you’ll get Skadi by pull 100
  • 51 times out of 100, you’ll get Skadi by pull 500
  • 76 times out of 100, you’ll get Skadi by pull 1500
  • 89 times out of 100, you’ll get Skadi by pull 1500
  • 95 times out of 100, you’ll get Skadi by pull 2073
  • 99 times out of 100, you’ll get Skadi by pull 3186

Putting that in Perspective

  • 87 out of every 100 people won’t get Skadi by the 100th pull

  • If 1 Million players each summoned 100 times, 870,000 of those players wouldn’t get Skadi

  • 5 out of every 100 people won’t get Skadi by the 2073rd pull

  • If 1 Million players each summoned 2073 times, 50,000 of those players wouldn’t get Skadi

More Insights & Reading

I highly recommend reading these 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:

:link: Related Threads

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4 posts were merged into an existing topic: Sorry Moving Posts Around

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Feedback Poll - Skadi (post release)

:question: Is Skadi worth Summoning For?

  • Yes, absolutely
  • Only if you’re P2P
  • Yes, but only if you’re summoning for someone else.
  • Yes, but only when the Featured Hero
  • Not really
  • Not at all

0 voters

:question: How many copies of Skadi 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 Skadi’s Primary Purpose is?

  • Primary Damage Dealer
  • Support Damage Dealer
  • Mana Slow Hero

0 voters

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

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

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

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:question: Is Skadi worth giving Monk 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 Skadi is best used?

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

0 voters

:question: How do you think Skadi is best used?

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

0 voters

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Is he better than Vela?

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I have to admit, I am really liking his two stack abilities.
Especially Minions being such a pain, adding an extra 30 damage per minion and 6% mana per, will be fantastic, or potentially.

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Depends what at…

At flanking Telluria on Defence? Probably Not.

On offence against a Red Titan? Definitely not.

On offence against a minion heavy team (e.g. Telluria)? Probably… but you would be taking her in as a Weak Colour vs. tank

On offence against any other defence team which ISN’T minion heavy? Probably Not…

The biggest difference for me is that:

  1. Average Speed vs. Fast Speed

  2. Full impact needs dead enemies/ minions

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*she/her

(let’s start a gender debate hahaha :sweat_smile:)

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She has man-hands tenor

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she was once so pretty :scream:

she is the goddess of hunting… She used to hunt deers, now she’s Zangif’s girl friend, and she wrestles bears.

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For reference for anyone who cares:

Skadi is a her:

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after seeing all these interpretations of her, I dislike her even more. I wasn’t impressed with artwork in beta and now I’ve seen these, well I do not want to offend anyone with me views.

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And about gameplay? How does her special work exactly? It isn’t so clear by special description… Thanks! @Grumpigamer

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If you kill 5 Minions with the attack, every Enemy receives 150 Damage per Turn.
And because it’s a stack, it doesn’t expire (like regular skills).
So, the damage is applied until the heros are dead or the battle is over?

Do I understand that correctly?

That may seem just a little overpowered for my taste…

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It all depends on one thing: the stack is on skadi or on enemies? If on enemies it’s quite useless, if on skadi she is a beast in events and map stages

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Her stack mana regenerate reduce will be great problem. Even bigger than Tella. Another op hero.

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Only if you have Minions (like telluria’s defense)

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Just tried it on 1-1 …I think there’s a bug…no stacking at all…no changes before or after her SS

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I think so too. I just tried her a few times and no stacks.

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Same here. I have got a stack to happen but only if you kill an enemy with her special. I hope this is a bug and not intended because with her pathetic 135% damage it will only just about kill a minion… also the stack is on the enemy not skadi so will reset after every wave if doing map stages… doesn’t look good!

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Ohh, I think that’s not bug. I misunderstood her skill. With this mechanics it’s not imbalanced. But better don’t take cards with minions against her)