Mathias Blackflail is a Legendary HP champion from the Sacred Order faction, a feared prison guardsman whose flail has extended the Order's influence beyond its borders. His kit centers on Taunt tanking, reflected damage, and a self-sustaining counterattack loop.
Core Strengths & Abilities
Taunt & Reflect Tanking: Face the Blackflail (A3) grants allies a 50% Increase RES buff and a 30% Reflect Damage buff, then places Taunt on himself, a strategy that can enable a Permanent Taunt setup in Hydra to protect marked champions from being consumed.
Counterattack Loop: His passive, Red Mist, triggers a counterattack using Darken the Sky whenever he's hit while under his own Taunt, and that same skill hits 3 times with a 30% chance per hit to strip a random buff, useful for depleting the Fire Knight's shield counters.
Key Weaknesses
Debuff-Reliant DEF Ignore: Deathwhirl's bonus hit only ignores 20% DEF against unbuffed enemies, so its value depends heavily on what's already been stripped from the target.
His strongest rating in Fire Knight reflects how well his multi-hit counterattacks and reflect damage punish that boss's shield mechanic, with solid secondary value in Hydra as a Taunt tank.
Attacks 1 enemy 3 times. Each hit has a 30% chance of removing 1 random buff from the target. Each hit also heals this Champion by 20% of the damage inflicted. Level 2: Damage +5% Level 3: Damage +5% Level 4: Damage +10% Level 5: Buff/Debuff Chance +10%
Attacks all enemies. Places an extra hit on enemies under no buffs. The extra hit will ignore 20% of the target’s DEF. Each hit also heals all allies by 20% of the damage inflicted. Level 2: Damage +10% Level 3: Damage +10% Level 4: Cooldown -1
Places a 50% [Increase RES] buff and a 30% [Reflect Damage] buff on all allies for 2 turns. Also places a [Taunt] buff on the Champion for 2 turns. Level 2: Cooldown -1 Level 3: Cooldown -1
| Effect | Kind | Action | Value | Chance | Booked | Turns | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increase RES | buff | place | 50% | 100% | 100% | all allies | |
| Reflect Damage | buff | place | 30% | 100% | 100% | 2 | all allies |
| Taunt | buff | place | 100% | 100% | 2 |
Counterattacks with the Darken the Sky skill when hit while under a [Taunt] buff placed by this Champion.
| Effect | Kind | Action | Value | Chance | Booked | Turns | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taunt | buff | condition | self |