Kobal the Pestilent

Arcane Caster

Bronze Hero

Element:

Dark
30% vs

Light units

Excess Tokens:
1 Token → 5 Aether

Unlocked	Background One gets the impression he was not a popular child. Even still, a little doom and disease can spell victory in a pinch.
Abilities & Traits &
Attack Speed	Normal
Attack Range	Ranged
Damage	Dark/Spirit
Epic	Darkheart Wand
Buddy Synergy	None
Combat Style
Kobal sure does have a lot of ways to cause disease! Yuck! Spread that to your enemies with some Evos and tokens!
Damage	(6/9)
Toughness	(3/9)
Team Support	(1/9)
Crowd Control	(4/9)
Synergy	(3/9)
See Hero Rating for more details about this.

Statistics	Total	Bonus¹	Traits²	Epic	Base
Attack (ATK)	+100%	+100%	-	-	1402
Defense (DEF)	+160%	+100%	-	+30%	1103
Skill (SKL)	+100%	+100%	-	-	1293
Max Health (HP)	+140%	+100%	-	+20%	4237

Crit Chance (CRIT)	47%	+32%	-	+10%	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: None

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

Light	0%
Lightning Shocked Paralysis	0% 0% 0%
Dark Diseased Banished	33% 33% 33%
Spirit Feared Stoned Possessed Marked	6% 6% 6% 6% 6%

Abilities (Active)		Traits (Passive)
	Wand		Mystical III
	Pandemic Swarm		Plague Spreader
	Arcane Bolts		Your Loss My Gain
	Contagion Control		Dark Deception
			Diseased Heart III

First Ascension	Second Ascension
Abilities & Traits &	Abilities & Traits &
Required Hero Stars and Evos
17x Dark Evo Larva 6x Dark Evo 6x Fire Evo Larva Evo Cost Index: 350	12x Dark Evo 15x Fire Evo Larva 4x Stormwind Evo Evo Cost Index: 2390

Epic	Part 2	Part 3
Epic Kobal the Pestilent	Effect: Chance to do 5 attacks on target enemy.

Darkheart Wand	Dark Energy	Abyssal Strand
If you have Kobal the Pestilent at level 50 or higher and fully ascended, you can make this hero Epic. Doing this raises it's Defense/Max Health/Crit Chance by a set percentage, as well as adding a special effect to it's Basic Attack.
Check Epic Heroes for more information.

tokens:

x8 +

Main Campaign Dungeons: (8)
Chapter	Lvl.		Rooms	Enemies	Area	Evos	Boss
1-5 Bramblelurk Trail	5	5	4	11	Forest		Bahdizzle Shambottom
4-1 The Land Beneath	10	5	3	6	Lava Cave		Avaricious Snork
6-1 Plagued Land	18	5	4	10	Lava Cave		Uno Hexium
9-4 Shadow Gate	25	5	4	11	Crypt		Greater Frost Titan
11-5 Plagued Sewers	29	5	5	17	Crypt		Mutters, Howling Mad Jibbers
14-4 Raiders Camp	36	5	4		Dark Forest		Cobalt Ten
16-9 Blazing Inferno	43	5	6	20	Lava Cave		Bloodtusk, Hunkar
19-6 Demon's Hoard	53	5	4	13	Crypt		Okori Tempest

Rune Slots:

(standard)

Kobal the Pestilent has the standard rune slots for a

Dark hero.

Dark	Dark	Fire	Nature	Water

Abilities & Traits:

&

Wand

Basic Attack (None)

A Basic Ranged Spirit attack.

Pandemic Swarm

Special Attack (5 turns, AoE)

Ranged Dark attack on all enemies with a chance to Disease.
Effects | Diseased

Arcane Bolts

Special Attack (4 turns, AoE), requires 1st Ascension

Armor-Piercing and Shield-Piercing Ranged Spirit attack on all enemies.
Effects | Shield-piercing | Armor-Piercing

Contagion Control

Special Attack (6 turns, AoE), requires 2nd Ascension

Ranged Spirit attack on all enemies that lowers their DEF and deals 2x damage to Diseased targets.
Effects | Diseased | DEF-

Mystical (I/II/III)

Trait (Passive), upgrades with Ascensions

I: 1.25x damage against Tanks and Slow targets.
1st Ascension:
II: 1.5x damage against Tanks and Slow targets.
2nd Ascension:
III: 1.75x damage against Tanks and Slow targets.

Effects | Boosted Damage

Plague Spreader

Trait (Passive)

Chance to Disease on CRIT.
Effects | Diseased

Quick Starter (I)

Trait (Passive)

1st Ascension:
I: Starts dungeons with +1 Energy.

Effects | Extra Energy

Your Loss My Gain

Trait (Passive), requires 1st Ascension

Gains 1 Energy on each death blow.
Effects | Energy Gain

Dark Deception

Trait (Passive), requires 2nd Ascension

Kobal and Dark allies start dungeons with +1 Energy. This ability replaces Quick Starter.
Effects | Extra Energy

Diseased Heart (III)

Trait (Passive)

2nd Ascension:
III: Diseases all enemies when killed.

Buffs & Debuffs:

Armor-Piercing - effect (Damage/Damage Reduction)

Armor-Piercing attacks ignore the target enemy's Armor.

Boosted Damage - effect (Damage)

This hero deals boosted damage against certain targets or under certain circumstances. See the description of the respective Trait or Ability for details. If you see this icon during events, it means that the hero gets a special event buff.

DEF- - debuff (Defense)

Target has reduced DEF.

Diseased - debuff (Health/Attack)

Halves ATK and healing received, and negates their CRIT Chance.

Energy Gain - effect (Energy)

The hero gains some extra energy, which is required to use their special attacks/abilities.

Extra Energy - effect (Energy)

The hero starts the dungeon with extra energy, which is required to use their special attacks/abilities.

Shield-piercing - effect (Shield)

A shield-piercing attack ignores any magical shield like Aegis Shield, Ethereal, Unbridled Rage, as well as Damage Reflection Shields, Unbreakable Heart and Shrouded. In result an Aegis Shield doesn't collapse, Damage Reflection doesn't hurt the attacker, full damage is dealt to the target, and the target can die.

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

Ascensions: (350) = + & (2390) = +
First Ascension			Second Ascension
	Dark Evo Larva	17x		Dark Evo	12x
	Dark Evo	6x		Fire Evo Larva	15x
	Fire Evo Larva	6x		Stormwind Evo	4x
	Arcane Bolts (Special Attack/4 Turns)			Contagion Control (Special Attack/6 Turns)
	Mystical ii (Trait/Passive)			Dark Deception (Trait/Passive)
	Quick Starter i (Trait/Passive)			Diseased Heart iii (Trait/Passive)
	Your Loss My Gain (Trait/Passive)			Mystical iii (Trait/Passive)

Synergies of Arcane heroes (Family):

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

Arcane Heroes get the following passive buffs:

(Trait) by

Self and Arcane allies deal 1.25x damage and gain 1 Energy on killing blows.

(Trait) by

Arcane Heroes' attacks have a chance to buff other allies' ATK.

Synergies of Dark heroes (Element):

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

Dark Heroes get the following passive buffs:

(Trait) by

Shade and Dark allies take reduced damage and are immune to all Debuffs for their first turn.

(Trait) by

Kobal and Dark allies start dungeons with +1 Energy. This ability replaces Quick Starter.

(Special Attack) by

Ranged Spirit Attack that Haunts the enemy team, with a chance to Fear the initial target (Haunted enemies receive 2x damage from Dark Heroes).

Synergies of Caster heroes (Class):

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

Caster Heroes get the following passive buffs:

(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

When on a team with Pontifex Mortis, Selwyn and allied Casters gain +1 Energy at the end of each round.

(Trait) by

Gains 1 stack of Intellect for each Buff applied on Iris, each stack granting +5% SKL. When at 5 stacks, Intellect is removed and allied Monsters and Casters gain Hive Mind (+25% Damage Penetration, +25% Damage Reduction, and +25% SKL).

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.

(Trait) by

All allies heal [25/35/50]% of their maximum health when inflicted with Frozen. Enemy and ally skills inflicting Frozen on allies will trigger this effect. The gained health depends on rank (I-III) of this trait.

(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:

Caster Heroes are vulnerable to:

(Trait) by

2x damage against Casters.

(Special Attack) by

Melee Physical attack that deals 2x damage against Casters.

Dark Heroes are vulnerable to:

(Trait) by

Light allies are immune to Dark elemental bonuses.

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.

Skins: (1)
Kobal the Pestilent Dark Mage Kobal

Notes and Tips

Quick Starter is replaced by Dark Deception at Kobal's second ascension. If no dark energy rune is owned, Kobal can be used in combination with Shade, so that Shade's very powerful special attack, Spirit Link, will be ready on the first turn.

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