The Cowardly Lion is the Fusion champion for the August 2026 Echoes of Oz campaign event, a DEF-based damage dealer of the Skinwalkers who specializes both with and against Fear and True Fear debuffs. His DEF-based scaling makes him unusually easy to gear without competing for stats against ATK or HP carries.
Core Strengths & Abilities
Guaranteed Skill Activation Under Fear: His passive, True Courage, ensures his own skills always activate while he's under Fear or True Fear, and whenever such a debuff lands on him, it instantly cleanses all his debuffs, resets his cooldowns, and grants an Instant Turn, turning a would-be lockdown into a powerful counter.
Team-Wide Counterattack Access: His A3, Strength In The Pack, grants all allies Counterattack and a 30% Reflect Damage buff for 2 turns, while those buffs let allies ignore Shield and Strengthen when counterattacking or reflecting, an incredibly rare team-wide utility historically reserved for far rarer champions.
AoE True Fear with Team Buffs: His A2, Primal Roar, grants all allies a 60% Increase DEF buff and Fervor for 2 turns, ignores 20% of enemy DEF, and has a 75% chance (100% booked) to place True Fear on all enemies for 2 turns, combining strong control with team-wide damage support.
Key Weaknesses
Damage Scaling Needs Ramp-Up: His A1's damage bonus, built from Fear and True Fear activations, likely requires longer fights like Hydra Clan Boss or extended Faction Wars stages to reach its full potential.
Counterattack Damage Falls Off Late Game: As players shift damage output toward dedicated hyper-carry nukers, the raw damage value of his team Counterattack buff diminishes compared to its strong early utility.
With ratings of 9-10 across virtually every category, including a 10 in Fire Knight, The Cowardly Lion is an excellent all-around pick for Fire Knight, PvP Mercurial counters, and general progression content.
Attacks 1 enemy 3 times. The damage inflicted by this skill increases by 10% for each skill successfully activated by allies and enemies under [Fear] or [True Fear] debuffs (stacks up to 100%). Each hit steals 5% of the target’s Turn Meter. Lvl.2 Damage +10% Lvl.3 Damage +10% Lvl.4 Damage +10%
| Effect | Kind | Action | Value | Chance | Booked | Turns | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fear | debuff | condition | |||||
| True Fear | debuff | condition |
Attacks all enemies. Before attacking, places a 60% [Increase DEF] buff and a [Fervor] buff on all allies for 2 turns. Will ignore 20% of each target’s DEF. Has a 75% chance of placing a [True Fear] debuff on all enemies for 2 turns. Lvl.2 Damage +10% Lvl.3 Damage +10% Lvl.4 Buff/Debuff chance +10% Lvl.5 Buff/Debuff chance +15% Lvl.6 Cooldown -1
| Effect | Kind | Action | Value | Chance | Booked | Turns | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increase DEF | buff | place | 60% | 100% | 100% | 2 | all allies |
| Fervor | buff | place | 100% | 100% | 2 | all allies | |
| True Fear | debuff | place | 75% | 100% | 2 | all enemies |
Places a [Counterattack] buff and a 30% [Reflect Damage] buff on all allies for 2 turns. [Passive Effect] While under these buffs from this Champion, allies will ignore [Shield] and [Strengthen] buffs when counterattacking. Allies will also ignore [Shield] buffs when reflecting damage. Lvl.2 Cooldown -1 Lvl.3 Cooldown -1
| Effect | Kind | Action | Value | Chance | Booked | Turns | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Counterattack | buff | place | 100% | 100% | all allies | ||
| Reflect Damage | buff | place | 30% | 100% | 100% | 2 | all allies |
| Shield | buff | ignore | self | ||||
| Strengthen | buff | ignore | self | ||||
| Shield | buff | ignore |
[Active Effect] Whenever a [Fear] or [True Fear] is placed on this Champion, removes all debuffs from this Champion, resets all cooldowns and activates an [Instant Turn] effect on this Champion. [Passive Effect] Whenever this Champion is under [Fear] or [True Fear] debuffs, their skills will always activate. Increases the chance of enemy skills not activating when they are under [Fear] or [True Fear] debuffs by 15%. If there are multiple Champions on the team with this skill, only one will activate. This skill will not activate on duplicate copies of this Champion, if this particular Champion is dead.
| Effect | Kind | Action | Value | Chance | Booked | Turns | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fear | debuff | condition | self | ||||
| True Fear | debuff | condition | self | ||||
| Instant Turn | buff | place | 100% | 100% | self | ||
| Fear | debuff | condition | self | ||||
| True Fear | debuff | condition | self | ||||
| Fear | debuff | condition | |||||
| True Fear | debuff | condition |