Hansel Witchhunter

Last Updated: September 11, 2025

Hansel Witchhunter Overview

Hansel is a Sacred Order damage dealer built around cooldown disruption and buff bypassing, excelling in Arena and wave content, with devastating synergy alongside Gretal that turns him into an irresistible, defence ignoring nuker.

After escaping the clutches of an evil witch in the Mistwood forests, Hansel vowed to eliminate others like her, earning the title of The Witch Hunter. As the counterpart to Gretal Hagbane, the Halloween Fusion champion, Hansel’s powers grow even stronger when they fight together, wiping out anyone in their path. Hansel Witchhunter is an Attack champion from the Sacred Order faction.

Hansel’s abilities focus on dealing heavy damage while disrupting enemy skills with his Baneful Burst. His A3 is an AOE attack that ignores 15% of the enemy’s Defence and increases the cooldown of a random skill by 2 turns. When paired with Gretal, this becomes even more powerful, ignoring 30% Defence, increasing all enemy skill cooldowns, and becoming irresistible. This combination not only prevents enemies from using their dominant effects, but also allows you to manipulate the skills of high resistance targets.

Hansel’s A2 inflicts a double hit on a single target, ignoring Shields and Unkillable buffs, and grants an Extra Turn if the target is killed. This is particularly useful in Arena for taking out champions like Leorius, allowing Hansel to chain his attacks and potentially wipe out the rest of the team with his A3.

Hansel’s passive allows him to reflect any Fear or True Fear debuffs placed on him, and this extends to Gretal when she’s on the team. This makes him an excellent counter against champions like Ultimate Deathknight and Harvest Jack, as well as Hydra’s Head of Torment. The active part of his passive automatically triggers Baneful Burst [A3] when Gretal is killed, forcing enemies to reconsider killing her.

His A1 can also apply Weaken, which pairs with Gretal’s Decrease Defence, and becomes AOE when they’re together, making it effective against both waves and bosses. Additionally, Hansel lands extra hits on enemies that are already under debuffs with this skill. While primarily an Arena champion, he’s also effective for clearing waves, Faction Wars, Siege battles, and even stages in the Cursed City.

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Hansel Witchhunter 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.