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Az here with another installment of Quick Cuts featuring FC Shufraken.
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Let's get into it.
As usual, we will start off with his skills.
Skills
Passive:
Thrust 3
His main passive is Thrust 3.
When Shufraken receives Damage, he will retaliate and stun the target for 5 turns.
He gains 1 Mana if his target is above 80% health or below 30% life.
Mana Flows
Like all other Generals, he has a passive which grants Mana.
His one affects the front row.
Fear of the Abyss
Fear of the Abyss is his unique passive, marking Enemies with lower defense than himself.
Should a marked target have 10% or lower HP at the end of turn, Fear of the Abyss will deal 65% damage to all heroes in the same row.
Harbinger of Awakening
His FC is part of the Awakening Theme and thus FC Shufraken has the Harbinger of Awakening passive.
If an enemy kills your ally he will be Marked with Mark of Revenge and it activates the Awakening of all allies if you damage or kill the marked enemy with another Harbinger of Awakening Hero.
Awakening: Dragon Emperor
His Awakening passive is Dragon Emperor.
For each death ally, he will gain 1 mana on his turn.
As all other Awakening passives, his speed will be increased by 25 and he gains damage immunity for 4 turns when his Health is below 30% HP.
Woah, a lot of passives on this guy.
Let's get to the active skills.
S1:
His S1 is a single target ability, which deals 300% damage.
If the target is under the Fear of the Abyss effect, you will punish them with Despair, dealing 50% damage every turn and causing a Mana Burn for Mana per turn.
It costs 1 Mana.
S2:
His S2 targets the back row and deals 210% damage.
It afflicts Freeze for 7 turns. Additionally, it deals 150% damage for each Self-Harm stack on the enemy.
This ability costs 5 Mana.
Gear and Stats
His passive is directly benefiting from Defense, so the bottom row should be your top priority when upgrading gear.
For a defensive unit, he has quite high amount of attack, increasing his damage significantly. He has decent speed at 76 and overall very balanced stats.
PVP
He used to be the King of the Meta before the First Guardians came and he made a swift return to the top once FC Iris was released. He is super suppressive with his Thrust ability, Mana Burn and Freeze.
Additionally, you need to be very careful in having units at low health.
Since he has usually more defense than the back liners, it can be very dangerous keeping them on low health, due to Fear of the Abyss.
This would be enough for a decent PVP unit, however he also enables other units.
Namely Ramge and Valentina.
Ramge will inflict Self-Harm onto the enemies, which in turn lets Shufraken deal more damage. Paired with Ramge's Heal reduction, you have very little ways of combatting Fear of the Abyss.
Luckily for us, Valentina only has Single Target abilities. Her Mana Burn removes all Mana from the target, rendering it pretty weak.
Her Silence could also come into effect, disabling cleansers or healers even more.
This all makes him incredibly strong for PVP.
The FC version just tacks onto this. Gaining so much mana per turn, when his allies are dead, makes it super dangerous letting him live. If you knock out his allies, he will gain more mana and have more potential to freeze you.
And with Fear of the Abyss, he can slowly but surely knock out your entire team.
PVE
In PVE he is a solid Hero. Besides him the only dark Defensive unit is Buck.
Shufraken offers so much for Special Dungeons because he has a Freeze and Thrust too.
The Mana burn also helps, because it reduces the enemy's chances of casting a high damage ability.
Overall, if you have him and are still working on your Special Dungeons, definitely put your resources into him.
In Chapter 11 he is decent, but not the best.
For Chapter 11 he doesn't have the right element to break Guardian Stones and due to the high Defense Scaling, you will be hard-pressed to apply Fear of the Abyss.
In the Path of Trials, he can definitely be a help along the way.
Especially since a lot of us have FC Lepin, activating all the Heroes Awakening passives can be pretty crazy.
Element Enhance
Currently, there isn't a strong requirement to break multiple dark stones at once, so you can wait for a little with him.
Awakening
For Attackers, I am strongly against Awakening at this point, because we don't have the gear available to increase Substats like Crit, Speed, and Hit.
However, on a defense unit like Shufraken there can be made the case to do it.
We have two of the bottom slots available, which are the most important for Shufraken.
If you awaken him, you definitely want to do it with 2 Frost sets, improving his Defense by a lot.
Be sure to have 2 R1 pieces ready at 60 to equip on him right away.
Conclusion
He is an amazing Hero. Period.
For PVP he provides your team with so much pressure, it's kinda unreal.
No other defensive Hero provides this much damage Potential and Harm to the Enemy as him.
If you would compare him directly to Garff, they are literally light and dark.
Garff being the more supportive Hero for your team, and Shufraken being the oppressive Hero.
Usually, I don't really talk about appearance in Quick cuts, but I guess I will add it.
He looks hella Dandy without the FC and amazing with the FC.
His abilities also look crazily good in both versions.
I prefer the darker look from the FC, but I would hold it against nobody if they chose the regular version.
I'm really happy that I pulled him and think I can have a lot of fun, playing around, and testing him in the various areas and teams.
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Let me know in the comment, if you have Shufraken and which one you prefer.
As always it was a pleasure to have you here and I will see you in the next one.
Until then, enjoy the Grind.
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