Grunch Killjoy

Last Updated: April 6, 2026

Grunch Killjoy Overview

Grunch is a niche support epic who offers a full team cleanse with healing and limited Bomb utility, making him mainly useful for Faction Wars progression and specific challenges, but his heavy book cost and narrow role limit long term value.

Grunch Killjoy was introduced as part of Raid’s Christmas 2020 additions, joining the Ogryn Tribes faction. His kit is focused on supporting allies while applying Bombs.

He would arguably be better suited as a pure support champion, though the interaction between his Bomb detonations and passive can provide improved turn cycling. In Faction Wars Hard, Stage 11 includes a challenge requiring enemies to be defeated using Bomb debuffs, and with the faction having limited access to this effect, Grunch can help fulfil that requirement when timed correctly.

One of his biggest drawbacks is the heavy book investment across his skills, requiring 18 tomes in total, while most of his value comes from his A3. This ability provides a full team cleanse and applies Continuous Heals for each debuff removed, making it particularly useful in encounters such as the Nether Spider, even without needing books if frequent uses are not required.

Grunch is unlikely to see much late game play, but he can serve as a progression option for Faction Wars or niche situations where a full team cleanse and Bomb utility are needed.

Grunch Killjoy Ratings

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Core Areas

Dungeons

Doom Tower

Hard Mode

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.