Knave of Hearts

Last Updated: January 16, 2025

Knave of Hearts Overview

The Knave of Hearts was banished to the underworld by the Queen of Hearts after she discovered his betrayal. Once her trusted ally, he secretly despised the Queen, manipulating her for his own ambition to seize the power she possessed. Now, bound by her sorcery, his heart is chained as a constant reminder that she holds the power to crush his soul at any moment. The Knave of Hearts is a Legendary HP champion from the Undead Hordes Faction.

Knave excels at applying Heal Reduction, healing allies, and stripping buffs from enemies. His Stout Defence A3 swaps HP with a target, applies Heal Reduction, equalizes ally HP, and grants Increase Defence to his team. This provides strong sustain and can leave a target in a weakened state, though the HP swap doesn’t work on bosses. The protected Heal Reduction is especially valuable for encounters like Amius the Lunar Archon, preventing the base form from replacing it with Continuous Heal.

With his A2, Knave steals two buffs from enemies, applies Continuous Heal to allies, and grants himself Unkillable and Taunt. This makes him a strong Mischief tank for Hydra and an effective Enfeeble tank for the Phantom Shogun, while also drawing enemy attacks to set up his HP swap. Additionally, his passive restores destroyed HP, destroys 20% of an attacker’s HP [up to 50%], and with his A1 he can Provoke a target, making him a good choice for encounters like Decay and Magma Dragon.

Knave of Hearts Ratings

Key Areas

Dungeons

Hard Mode

Doom Tower

Faction Wars

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.