Swarmspeaker Zyclic

Emerging from the forbidden caves of the Dark Elves’ lair is a legend who has spent centuries raising and commanding his creatures. Now, he rises once more, harnessing the power of unity to unleash his swarm in battle alongside his fellow elves, giving himself and his allies a power they’ve never felt before. Swarmspeaker Zyclic is the Faction Unity Legendary of the Dark Elves.

As a Faction Unity champion, Swarmspeaker wields the ability to activate unity skills when fighting alongside Dark Elves, unlocking up to three additional effects on both his passive and A3. At his core, his skills focus on inflicting heavy damage and punishing enemies when they receive debuffs or lack buffs. His A3, a double hitting attack, scales its damage by 10% for each debuff placed on enemies, resetting after each use. With the full Faction Unity bonus, this skill gains a 50% chance to trigger whenever enemies attempt to place buffs, enabling further attacks. Each kill with this ability increases his ATK by 30% [up to 120%], resets its cooldown, and fills his Turn Meter, enabling him to cycle through turns faster. While his damage potential shines in content such as Arena, it becomes less effective against bosses without minions to capitalize on his scaling mechanics from kills.

Leading into his Ravening Multitude [A2], this single target attack grants him an extra turn if it kills an enemy, or, if the target survives, it places an additional hit on all enemies. This provides great flexibility, allowing Swarmspeaker to either snowball his attacks or still contribute value if the kill isn’t secured. Through his passive, he ignores 12% of enemy defence when no buffs are active, and with his third Faction Unity bonus, he places Block Buffs on all enemies at the start of each round to ensure this condition. If buffs still make it through, Swarmspeaker can steal one with his A1 or rely on allies to remove them, enabling him to deal 50% more damage on his next attack. Additionally, with just one Faction ally, your team benefits from reduced damage taken, with even greater reductions when enemies have no buffs, making this a strong form of universal damage mitigation.