Overall
Athalia is a dive assassin who isolates and executes high-value targets. She generates Sacred Blades passively through repeated damage, then dumps them all at once with her ultimate, which traps the strongest enemy in a Judgment Sphere — locking them in place while knocking everyone else away. Ripping Slash lets her dash through enemies while fully invincible, and during a Judgment Sphere it focuses entirely on the trapped target with escalating hits. Her damage naturally increases the healthier she is relative to her target, so she hits hardest when finishing wounded enemies. Kills reset her dash cooldown and generate more blades, feeding the cycle. With her awakening skill active, accumulated Sacred Blades permanently buff her entire team's damage and physical pierce. Enemies who apply crowd control to allies are punished with retaliatory damage and temporarily lose energy regeneration, discouraging disruption.
Skills
Piercing Aura
AwakeningEvery 5 Sacred Blades permanently boosts allied damage and Physical Pierce, stacking up to 3 times. Enemies who crowd-control allies take retaliatory damage and lose energy recovery briefly.
Divine Descent
UltimateCreates a Judgment Sphere on the highest-attack enemy, immobilizing them and knocking others away. Hurls all Sacred Blades at the trapped target. Dispels most buffs, resets Ripping Slash cooldown, and forces it to focus the target with multi-slash.
Ripping Slash
ActiveDashes invincibly across the battlefield slashing the three highest-attack enemies, dealing escalating damage per slash with bonus damage based on target’s lost health. Teleports to the strongest enemy afterward. Kills halve this skill’s cooldown and grant Sacred Blades.
Dancing Blades
ActivePassive: reduces all damage and health loss from behind. Active: deals multi-hit area damage with full directional mitigation and control immunity. Dispels most of Athalia’s debuffs; afterward her next several hits deal bonus magic damage. Lower health increases passive Damage Reduction.
Sword Crafter
PassiveGenerates Sacred Blades through repeated damage dealing, holding up to 6. Damage scales with health disparity, hitting wounded enemies harder. Allied ultimates periodically grant blades; ally deaths grant extra. Each blade gained deals defense-ignoring damage to the highest-energy enemy and drains their energy.
Signature Item, Furniture, and Engraving effects are baked directly into this hero's skill upgrades. See the Skills tab for the full progression.
Every 5 Sacred Blades Athalia receives permanently increase damage dealt by and Physical Pierce of her allied heroes by 10% and 6 points respectively. This effect can be stacked up to 3 times. When an allied hero receives a control effect, the attacker takes damage equal to 200% of Athalia’s Attack Rating and is unable to recover Energy in the next 4 seconds. This effect can only be triggered once every 10 seconds by each allied hero.
Athalia descends from the heavens and creates a Judgment Sphere that lasts for 5 seconds targeting the enemy hero with the highest Attack Rating, dealing damage for 350% of her Attack Rating to the target while knocking back all other enemies within range to the edge of the battlefield. Then, she uses al her Sacred Blades to attack the target, with each blade dealing damage for 200% of her Attack Rating to the target. When a Judgment Sphere is active, the target cannot move and Athalia prioritizes attacking them, while the Judgment Sphere continues to knock back enemies other than the target. A battlefield can only have one Judgment Sphere, which disappears when its target dies.
Athalia traverses the battlefield at high speed, slashing 3 enemy heroes with the highest Attack Rating for 3 times, dealing damage for 220% of her Attack Rating to the target and enemies in her path. When the skill ends, Athalia teleports to the enemy hero with the highest Attack Rating. During the skill, Athalia is invincible and untargetable.
Passive: All damage and health loss suffered by Athalia from behind is reduced by 45%. Active: Athalia deals damage for 180% of her Attack Rating to enemies within a certain range 3 times, while the skill’s passive effects mitigate damage and health loss from all directions for 5 seconds. During the skill, Athalia is immune to control effects.
For every 6 times Athalia has dealt damage, she receives 1 Sacred Blade. This effect can only trigger up to 4 times every 8 seconds, and Athalia can hold up to 6 Sacred Blades. Damage dealt by Athalia is increased based on her and her target’s current health percentage. The greater the difference between her and her target’s current health percentage, the more the damage increase, by up to 40%.
Bringer of Light
Enhances: Ripping SlashWhen an enemy suffers multiple slashes, each round of damage they receive from the skill this time is increased by 30%.
A slash from this skill deals additional damage equal to 10% of the health already lost by the target, up to 400% of Athalia’s Attack Rating.
The number of slashes this skill can inflict is increased by 1 times.
After Athalia kills an enemy hero, the cooldown time of this skill is reduced by 50% and she immediately gains 2 Sacred Blades.
The number of slashes is increased to 2 times.
Enhances: Dancing Blades
This skill dispels most of Athalia’s debuffs. After the skill ends, Athalia will deal additional magic damage equal to 125% of her Attack Rating for the subsequent 5 times she deals damage.
The lower Athalia’s health percentage, the higher the Damage Reduction from the skill’s passive effects, which can go up to 65%.
Enhance the skiill Sword Crafter, when an allied hero uses their Ultimate skill, Athalia receives 1 Sacred Blades. This effect can only be triggered once every 5 seconds by each allied hero. When an allied hero dies, Athalia receives 2 Sacred Blades.
Enhance the skiill Sword Crafter, when Athalia gains a Sacred Blade, she deals damage for 180% of her Attack Rating to the enemy with the highest Energy, ignoring the target’s Defense and reducing their current Energy by 20% or at least 100 Energy points.
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