Dark Kael

Last Updated: June 4, 2025

Dark Kael Overview

Dark Kael is a Dark Elves unit who combines Poison damage, Poison detonation, and powerful crit-rate suppression, making him exceptional for boss fights and highly valuable for non-unkillable PvE teams.

For a long time, Dark Athel and Dark Elhain have wondered what happened to their brother Dark Kael. Turns out he was hiding in the Doom Tower! Dark Kael finally joins his fellow Dark starters as part of a Fragment Collector and is only obtainable from completing Doom Tower Secret Rooms and will not be available from Shards.

Dark Kael is clearly designed as a Clan Boss champion however he will likely have uses in a large amount of content due to his passive. Firstly his A1 has the ability to explode 2 poisons or 1 poison and 1 HP Burn on a single target. As a triple hit ability, this makes him Giant Slayer mastery viable. He also has the ability to increase debuff duration on the target by 1 turn on his A2 alongside placing Decrease Attack. This certainly won’t displace Vizier Ovelis however it’s a luxury addition to his Kit. Finally, he can place Poison Sensitivity and 3 Poisons on his A3.

His passive takes him into new territory as he is able to reduce the critical rate of all enemies under 2 or more Poison Debuffs by 15%. All PvE content generally has 15% critical rate on enemy heroes and bosses unless they buff themselves. Specifically in Clan Boss – this means he will never critical hit your champions which is normally the cause of early failures in most non-unkillable comps.

He is extremely good for boss content bringing a lot of poisons and good defensive options.

Dark Kael 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.