Retainer

Last Updated: June 18, 2025

Retainer Overview

When intruders attempt to infiltrate the Dark Elves’ lair, those captured are taken to a chamber guarded by the Retainer – a master of manipulation who can hypnotize enemies into believing they fight for his side. While under this trance, the Dark Elves use these intruders as unwitting agents, gathering intel on their true purpose and turning their own plans against them.

Retainer is a Void affinity Rare champion from the Dark Elves faction. His kit centers around self-applying Counterattack and healing, allowing him to retaliate when hit with a chance to place Decrease Defence with his A1. However, in content like Faction Wars where Crowd Control is key to locking down enemies, relying on being attacked to apply a weaker version of Decrease Defence is far from ideal.

His standout skill is his A3, which decreases a target’s Turn Meter by 50% and places a Sleep debuff if the Turn Meter is fully depleted. This can be useful for controlling the likes of Spider or bosses in Faction Wars. Still, overall, Retainer feels underwhelming compared to other Void Rares, such as Coldheart in the same faction.

Retainer Ratings

Core 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.