Hotatsu

Last Updated: June 4, 2025

Hotatsu Overview

Hotatsu is a Shadowkin Epic defender ideal for traditional Clan Boss teams, bringing AoE Decrease ATK, Increase DEF with healing, and Leech support, offering strong mitigation and sustain when paired with complementary debuff champions.

A winged demonized Oni from the shadow realm has taken up residence amongst the dark walls of Telaria. Hotatsu is an Epic defence champion from the Shadowkin Faction.

Amongst the greatest of clan boss champions, when seeking versatility for traditional teams, Hotatsu is a great option. Although his A1 isn’t a 100% chance to place leech, this Debuff allows champions to heal by 18% of the damage inflicted which can scale off mastery hits (Warmaster and Giant slayer), therefore pairing him in Counter attack, Ally attack, or 2:1 compositions (using sniper masteries) is optimal for consistency. Nothing like title of his A2 (Rushing Death), he acts as the opposite granting a 80% chance to place an AOE Decrease attack debuff, mitigating the brute force of the demon lord, or wave based content such as faction wars.

Hotatsu’s A3 is basic yet effective, placing a 60% Increase defence for 2 turns, and a 15% continuous heal for 1 turn on all allies. This form of protection on a 3 turn cooldown is ideal for most speed tunes, whilst being one of few epics who can grant this on a desired cooldown. His passive ability can be tricky optimising its potential, however this 3 turn cooldown form of self cleanse can be universally useful.

To conclude, Hotatsu is great for traditional clan boss team builders, but with his Decrease attack not being 100% consistent, it is recommended to pair him with other champions with similar issues (Such as Rearguard Sergeant) to keep this up consistently.

Hotatsu 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.