Acelin The Stalwart

Last Updated: June 4, 2025

Acelin The Stalwart Overview

Acelin is a defensive Banner Lords legendary built around Faction Unity, offering powerful protection through shields, Ally Protection, healing, and crowd control that scales heavily as you add more same-faction champions, making him a versatile tank for both PvE and PvP.

Behold the latest member of the Banner Lords alliance, and with the power of unity, he has become the master of protection! Acelin The Stalwart is a Legendary Defence champion, and is the first warrior to bring Faction Unity bonuses to Telaria.

Although Acelin has a great skill set on paper, his true potential comes from unlocking all faction unity bonuses. As he’s the first champion that has this, you can upgrade these bonuses by having up to 3 champions from the same faction in your team, granting an extra benefit for each of those you utilise. However, if you’re in a Hydra battle [as an example] and you’re also using champions not from his faction, those champions will also gain those benefits granted you have others to enable the unity in the first place. Acelin has skills that are desirable, by placing Ally Protection, Shields, heals & Stuns he can be used universally as a tank for your team. In areas such such as The Clan Boss, this is a great synergy to keep your team alive, especially as it coincides with a passive to reduce incoming damage by 10% while under Shield buffs. However, you may want to be weary of activating his A2 in this instance as these shields will be removed to inflict more damage! Therefore putting your team in a vulnerable situation if not timed correctly. Outside of Clan Boss, he will be great for Faction Wars, Arena, or simply the Doom Tower & Sintranos as a damage dealer / tank.

Once we start unlocking the Unity bonuses this champion really comes to life. Starting with Behold The Banner [A3], he will instantly activate this skill upon revivals, places a Block Damage on himself, followed by protecting buffs placed by this skill [granted you unlock all effects]. When considering the head of mischief, or simply the Scarab King [As examples], they will no longer be able to take these buffs from your team! Whilst giving your revived allies a better chance at survival post activation. Leading in to the passive unity bonus, your allies will become immune to crowd controlling debuffs, followed by a chance for allies to counterattack when hit, coinciding with an increased value of shields by 100%. Whether you want to disable the provokes from The Head Of Wrath, or simply want to tank the Stun of the Clan Boss [As examples], this synergy can be extremely powerful universally.

Acelin The Stalwart Ratings

Core Areas

Dungeons

Hard Mode

Doom Tower

Faction Wars

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Arena Roles

Understanding Arena Roles

Champions normally form specific roles within an arena team. Our ratings define the roles that the champion fits and rates them on their ability to perform the roles. Below you can see a breakdown of all of our roles.

Cleanser

Champions with the Cleanser role will use their skills to remove debuffs and keep them from being re-applied.

Crowd Control

Champions with the Crowd Control role will use their skills to place soft (i.e. Provoke or Taunt) and hard (i.e Freeze or Stun) debuffs to disable enemy champions.

Damage

Champions with the Damage role will have skills that deal significant damage and are designed to defeat enemy champions.

Damage Absorption

Champions with the Damage Absorption role will have skills or effects that reduce the incoming damage your team takes. This can be through passive damage reduction or by applying skills such as Strengthen or Shields.

Healer

Champions with the Healer role will have skills that restore your champion's Health including Continuous Heals.

Debuffer

Champions with the Debuffer role will have skills that place debuffs that don't fall into Crowd Control or Skill Manipulator roles i.e. Decrease Defence. These champions may also have skills that remove Buffs.

Revive

Champions with the Revive role will have skills that bring your ally champions back from the dead including Revive on Death buffs.

Skill Manipulator

Champions with the Skill Manipulator role will have skills that increase enemy skill cooldowns or reduce your ally skill cooldowns.

Speed Manipulator

Champions with the Speed Manipulator role will have skills that affect the turn meter of your allies or enemies. This includes speed buffs and debuffs aswell as direct turn meter effects.