Kelpy Shells

Fast Plant Healer

Gold Hero

Element:

Water
30% vs

Fire units
-25% vs

Nature units

Excess Tokens:
1 Token → 30 Aether

Unlocked	Background Waterlogged? There's no such thing as too much water!
Abilities & Traits &
Attack Speed	Fast
Attack Range	Ranged
Damage	Water
Epic	The Magic Conch
Buddy Synergy	None
Combat Style
Her plants have been known to rip through metal and rapidly rust anything it touches.
Damage	(7/9)
Toughness	(6/9)
Team Support	(8/9)
Crowd Control	(8/9)
Synergy	(5/9)
See Hero Rating for more details about this.

Statistics	Total	Bonus¹	Traits²	Epic	Base
Attack (ATK)	+130%	+115%	-20%	+20%
Defense (DEF)	+130%	+115%	-	-
Skill (SKL)	+245%	+115%	+20%	+30%	0
Max Health (HP)	+176%	+115%	-	+20%

Crit Chance (CRIT)	5%	+0%	-	-	5%
Crit Multiplier	200%	-	-	-	200%
Dodge Chance	0%	-	-	-	0%
Damage Penetration	0%	-	-	-	0%
Damage Reduction	0%	-	-	-	0%
Chaos Damage Reduction	0%	-	-	-	0%

¹Bonus (ATK, DEF, SKL, HP) includes Hero Stars (★★★★★★) and Hero Rarity.
²Stats affecting Traits: Fast

Resistances
Fire Burned	0% 0%
Nature Poisoned Wounded	18% 18% 18%
Water Frozen Chilled Cryosleep Frostbitten	33% Immune 33% 33% Immune

Light	0%
Lightning Shocked Paralysis	0% 0% 0%
Dark Diseased Banished	0% 0% 0%
Spirit Feared Stoned Possessed Marked	6% 6% 6% 6% 6%

Abilities (Active)		Traits (Passive)
	Wash Out		Fast
	Waterlogged Field		Insulated Woolies
	Algae Wash		Plant Growth
	Growth Swell		Dryad Ice
			Cleansing Aura
			Mutual Help
			Reed Guard

First Ascension	Second Ascension
Abilities & Traits &	Abilities & Traits &
Required Hero Stars and Evos
2x Coldfire Evo 12x Dark Evo 15x Nature Evo Monarch 45x Water Evo Evo Cost Index: 2740	8x Caveborn Evo 40x Dark Evo 4x Valkyrie Evo 35x Water Evo Monarch Evo Cost Index: 8200

Epic	Part 2	Part 3
Epic Kelpy Shells	Effect: Chance to deal 3x damage, grow allied Plants, and add Backsplash to all enemies. Release Date: March 11, 2020

The Magic Conch	Reedy Wand	The Conch
If you have Kelpy Shells at level 50 or higher and fully ascended, you can make this hero Epic. Doing this raises it's Skill/Max Health/Attack by a set percentage, as well as adding a special effect to it's Basic Attack.
Check Epic Heroes for more information.

Kelpy Shells tokens: Heroic Summon Events
There are no Dungeons in which Kelpy Shells tokens are available.

Rune Slots:

(standard)

Kelpy Shells has the standard rune slots for a

Water hero.

Water	Water	Fire	Light	Dark

Abilities & Traits:

&

Wash Out

Basic Attack (None)

Basic Ranged Water attack on target enemy with a chance to add Drenched on CRIT.
Effects | Drenched

Waterlogged Field

Special Attack (5 turns, AoE)

Ranged Water attack on all enemies, lifestealing for all allies. Reduces enemy healing and a chance to add Drenched for 3 turns.
Effects | Reduced Healing | Lifesteal | Drenched

Algae Wash

Special Attack (3 turns), requires 1st Ascension

Recovers health split between all allies and cleanses all debuffs. Grows allied Plants and Water allies become Plants. Starts Powered.
Effects | Cleanse | Heal | Starts Powered | Growth

Growth Swell

Special Attack (4 turns, AoE), requires 2nd Ascension

Ranged Water attack on all enemies. Purges two buffs from enemies, cleanses one debuff from all allies, and Grows allied Plants.
Effects | Purge | Cleanse | Growth

Fast

Trait (Passive)

Attacks first, but Attack is reduced by 20% and Skill is boosted by 20%. (Heroes sharing the same Speed go in order of positioning, left to right, as chosen at the beginning of the battle. See Attack Speed for details.)

Insulated Woolies

Trait (Passive)

Cannot be Frozen, Chilled or Frostbitten.
Effects | Freeze Immune | Chill Immune | Frostbite Immune

Plant Growth

Trait (Passive)

This plant grows, increasing Max HP and ATK at the end of each round. (Stacks up to 8 times and resets each encounter. When a hero with Plant Growth moves from one room to another in a Campaign dungeon, they uproot themselves, setting their stacks back to 1 in the new room. Stacks are set to 0 on death.)
Effects | Growth

Dryad Ice

Trait (Passive), requires 1st Ascension

Starts dungeons in Ice Block, reducing damage taken (90% Damage Reduction) and Debuff immune until their first turn. Can't be stolen, copied, or purged.
Effects | Ice Block | Shapeshift | Damage Reduction | Invulnerable

Cleansing Aura

Trait (Passive), requires 2nd Ascension

If the Hero can act at the end of the round, cleanses 1 Debuff on all allies.
Effects | Cleanse

Mutual Help

Trait (Passive), requires 2nd Ascension

Whenever an ally uses an ability that applies a debuff, the Hero will heal 15% of their base Health.
Effects | Heal

Reed Guard

Trait (Passive), requires 2nd Ascension

Plant allies gain DEF for each stack of Growth.
Effects | DEF+

Buffs & Debuffs:

Chill Immune - immunity (Status Effect)

Can't be Chilled which would stop the regeneration of the energy to use special attacks.

Cleanse - effect (Status Effect)

This effect instantly removes 1+ debuff(s) from the target ally.

Damage Reduction - effect (Damage/Damage Reduction)

The damage suffered is mitigated by certain percent. Damage Reduction is capped at 90% and applied multiplicative.

DEF+ - buff (Defense)

Target has boosted DEF.

Drenched - debuff (Attack)

AoE attacks deal less damage.

Freeze Immune - immunity (Status Effect)

Can't be Frozen.

Frostbite Immune - immunity (Status Effect)

Can't be Frostbitten.

Growth - buff (Stack/Health/Attack)

The plant hero grows (max 8 stacks). Growth increases Max Health (~38% for the first 4 stacks to a max of 150%) and Attack (5% for each stack, max 40%). The number indicates their growth level. Purge resets the the counter to 0, and let them shrink. Entering a new room resets it to 1. Can't be copied or stolen.

Heal - effect (Health)

Recovers HP for the target ally.

Ice Block - buff (Shapeshift/Damage Reduction/Status Effect)

Target has +90% Damage Reduction and cannot be buffed or debuffed until their first or next turn. This ability cannot be stolen, copied, or purged.

Invulnerable - buff (Status Effect)

Target is immune to all debuffs.

Lifesteal - effect (Health)

Target heals, or recovers HP, for a % of the damage dealt during an attack.

Starts Powered - effect (Energy)

This Ability has full energy and can be used at the beginning of the battle.

Purge - effect (Status Effect)

This effect instantly removes 1+ buffs from the target.

Reduced Healing - debuff (Health)

Target's healing rate is reduced by 50%.

Shapeshift - effect (Shapeshift)

This hero can take an alternative form, mostly for defense. For a detailed description check out the Hero's traits/buffs and the other effects of the Shapeshift category.

Immunities & Damage Reduction: Under construction, see above 'Buffs & Debuffs'

Ascensions: (2740) = + & (8200) = +
First Ascension			Second Ascension
	Coldfire Evo	2x		Caveborn Evo	8x
	Dark Evo	12x		Dark Evo	40x
	Nature Evo Monarch	15x		Valkyrie Evo	4x
	Water Evo	45x		Water Evo Monarch	35x
	Algae Wash (Special Attack/3 Turns)			Growth Swell (Special Attack/4 Turns)
	Dryad Ice (Trait/Passive)			Cleansing Aura (Trait/Passive)
				Mutual Help (Trait/Passive)
				Reed Guard (Trait/Passive)

Synergies of Plant heroes (Family):

can get following passive buffs when teamed up with other Heroes:

Plant Heroes get the following passive buffs:

(Trait) by

Allies heal at the end of the round for each stack of Growth on this character. Plant allies also heal for each stack of Growth. (This trait replaces 'Rapid Regrowth' when the Epic is unlocked.)

(Trait) by ,,,,

This plant grows, increasing Max HP and ATK at the end of each round. (Stacks up to 8 times and resets each encounter. When a hero with Plant Growth moves from one room to another in a Campaign dungeon, they uproot themselves, setting their stacks back to 1 in the new room. Stacks are set to 0 on death.)

(Trait) by

Plants gain a chance to poison on basic attack per stack of growth.

(Special Attack) by

Allies gain Damage Reflection and life steal for [40% base+0.5%/level] of damage on all attacks for 3 turns. Grows allied Plants. Nature allies become Plants until end of dungeon.

(Special Attack) by

Ranged Nature attack on all enemies that grants team Evasion and buffs their DEF for 2 turns, Grows allied Plants.

(Special Attack) by

Ranged Nature attack on all enemies for [40% ATK] base damage and absorbs health for allies, reduces enemy healing, and Grows allies Plants for 3 turns.

Synergies of Water heroes (Element):

can get following passive buffs when teamed up with other Heroes:

Water Heroes get the following passive buffs:

(Trait) by

Increase DEF by [10%/15%/20%] for all Water allies. The boost increases with the rank (I/II/III) of this trait.

(Trait) by

+20% Max HP for self and Water allies.

(Trait) by

Boosts damage vs Frozen targets for all Water allies.

(Trait) by

ATK increases for each Water ally.

(Trait) by

Water allies gain +15% Damage Penetration.

(Trait) by

Starts dungeons with +1 Energy and +10% Max Health for EACH other Water ally on the team.

Synergies of Healer heroes (Class):

Other Synergies of Heroes:

can get following passive buffs when teamed up with other Heroes:

All Heroes get the following passive buffs:

(Trait) by

Allies and self gain Haste after using a single target Melee Physical attack once per round.

(Trait) by

Grants team +1 Energy on CRITs.

(Trait) by ,

If the Hero can act at the end of the round, cleanses 1 Debuff on all allies.

(Trait) by

Allies gain immunity to burn and take 50% less damage from fire attacks.

(Special Attack) by

Buffs team +ATK, then does a Ranged Dark attack on enemies.

(Trait) by

Whenever a Burn debuff is applied to an enemy, all allies gain +5% max health.

(Special Attack) by

Ranged Fire attack on all enemies, with Rage adding an additional chance to Burn. Grants team Burning Touch (chance to Burn on Basic attacks).

(Trait) by

Grants the team a chance to Chill on Melee Physical attacks.

(Basic Attack) by

Melee physical attack on target enemy, OR heals target friendly construct, OR target ally gains a class-specific buff (Tanks get DEF+, Healers get CRIT+ and SKL+, Casters get +1 ENERGY, all others get ATK+.)

(Trait) by ,

Each ally healed will gain Impervious (Cannot be Poisoned, Burned, Frozen, Chilled, Shocked, nor Diseased) for two turns.

(Trait) by

Self and allied single target abilities deal 100% more Damage on CRITs.

(Trait) by

Heal Team for [50% ATK] on CRIT. Triggers when landing a critical hit from a basic attack.

(Trait) by ,

This hero gains +10% Damage Reduction for each other living ally.

(Trait) by

Allies take significantly reduced damage from non-Physical (-60%) and Chaos attacks (-20%).

(Trait) by

All allies take 50% reduced Chaos Damage.

(Trait) by

Allied Heroes gain Shell protection (allies cannot be Burned, Frozen, Chilled, Paralyzed or Shocked).

(Trait) by

When killed, remaining allies gain an Aegis Shield.

(Trait) by

Allies Melee attacks have a chance to purge a buff on basic attack and can’t be retaliated against by Melee attackers.

(Trait) by

When at full HP, this Hero heals the team for a % of his HP every turn.

(Trait) by

Self and allies are immune to Exhaustion (=Energy Loss that is caused by use of abilities). Note: Passive traits like epic Malice "All Hope is Lost" can still drain energy.

(Trait) by

Boosted CRIT damage for all allies. CRIT Multiplier is increased by [50%], percentage increases slightly with SKL.

(Trait) by

Heals allies when Venom is applied on the enemies by Cobressa. The heal amount increases with the rank (I/II) of this trait. Enemies immune to Venom prevent the heal effect.

(Trait) by ,

Allies start dungeons with [1/2/3] stacks of Foresight.

(Trait) by

All allies and self gain an additional [5%/10%/15%] Chaos Damage Reduction (max 50%), depending on the rank of this trait (I/II/III). Skill increases the percent value.

(Special Attack) by

Silences all enemies and Buffs allies' Damage. This Hero gains stacks of Storm Power equal to the number of Light or Honorbound Heroes on the team. Starts Powered. (The Empowered Buff to applied to all allies and the caster to double (2x) their damage.)

Counters:

can be countered by making use of the following traits and special attacks:

Plant Heroes are vulnerable to:

(Special Attack) by

Melee Physical attack on target enemy with 75% splash damage that inflicts Nerve Damage on hit. Deals 3x damage to Flying and Plant enemies.

Non-Armored Heroes are vulnerable to:

(Trait) by

2x damage against non-Armored targets.

(Special Attack) by

3 Melee Physical attacks on target enemy that deals 3x damage to non-Armored targets. If target dies, all other enemies' HP is set to 75% of their current HP.

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Kelpy Shells joined on December 2, 2019 during day 7 of the Fantastic Feasts 2019 event. She, the Water Plant, is the 98th Hero in the game.

Kelpy Shells

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