Willow Swift

Fast Elf Rogue

Bronze Hero

Element:

Nature
30% vs

Water units
-25% vs

Fire units

Excess Tokens:
1 Token → 5 Aether

Unlocked	Background In return for their safety, the Great Eagles offer their feathers as fletchings for her arrows.
Abilities & Traits &
Attack Speed	Fast
Attack Range	Ranged
Damage	Physical
Epic	Swiftwind
Buddy Synergy	None
Combat Style
That's Willow Swift! She's deadly with a bow, and only uses ONE eye!
Damage	(3/9)
Toughness	(2/9)
Team Support	(2/9)
Crowd Control	(1/9)
Synergy	(2/9)
See Hero Rating for more details about this.

Statistics	Total	Bonus¹	Traits²	Epic	Base
Attack (ATK)	+60%	+100%	-20%	-
Defense (DEF)	+140%	+100%	-	+20%	1206
Skill (SKL)	+184%	+100%	+22%	+20%	1326
Max Health (HP)	+192%	+100%	+16%	+30%	3609

Crit Chance (CRIT)	38%	+33%	-	-	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 Nature Heart

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

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)
	Shoot		Elven Grace
	Sniper Shot		Fast
	Evasive Shot		Nature Heart
	Arrow Barrage		Agile

First Ascension	Second Ascension
Abilities & Traits &	Abilities & Traits & N/A
Required Hero Stars and Evos
2x Light Evo Larva 5x Nature Evo Larva 2x Nature Evo Evo Cost Index: 110	4x Earth Sisters Evo 15x Light Evo Larva 7x Nature Evo Evo Cost Index: 2290

Epic	Part 2	Part 3
Epic Willow Swift	Effect: Chance to do 2 attacks each dealing 2x damage on target enemy.

Swiftwind	Enchanted Vines	Perfect Arrow
If you have Willow Swift at level 50 or higher and fully ascended, you can make this hero Epic. Doing this raises it's Max Health/Defense/Skill 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
1-2 Tangle of Claws	4	5	3	6	Forest		JadeHowl
3-2 Permafrost Mines	8	5	4	10	Ice Cave		Norgen Hillwatch
5-7 Timeless Frost	13	5	4	12	Ice Cave		Hashima
8-3 The Second Wave	22	5	5	16	Lava Cave		Nalthune, Major Bradox
10-1 The Inferno	26	5	3	9	Lava Cave		Insatiable Brogg
14-1 Flooded Camp	35	5	4	14	Forest		High Priestess Fiora
16-7 Bone Blight	42	5	5	16	Lava Cave		Utica the Forgotten
20-2 Aurora Glade	54	5	5	20	Forest		Magnus

Rune Slots:

(standard)

Willow Swift has the standard rune slots for a

Nature hero.

Nature	Nature	Water	Light	Dark

Abilities & Traits:

&

Shoot

Basic Attack (None)

A Basic Ranged Physical attack.

Sniper Shot

Special Attack (5 turns)

Critical Armor-Piercing Ranged Physical attack that purges 1 Buff.
Effects | Purge | crit guarantee | Armor-Piercing

Evasive Shot

Special Attack (4 turns), requires 1st Ascension

Armor-Piercing Ranged Physical attack that grants self Evasion.
Effects | Evading | Armor-Piercing

Arrow Barrage

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

Ranged Physical attack on all enemies.

Elven Grace

Trait (Passive)

Takes significantly reduced damage from CRITs and deals 2x damage to Flying enemies.
Effects | Boosted Damage | Damage Reduction

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.)

Nature Heart

Trait (Passive)

+15% Max HP for self and Nature allies.

Agile

Trait (Passive), requires 1st Ascension

25% chance to Dodge Ranged attacks.
Effects | Agile

Buffs & Debuffs:

Agile - buff (Defense)

This Hero has a 25% chance to Dodge Ranged attacks.

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.

crit guarantee

Damage Reduction - effect (Damage/Damage Reduction)

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

Evading - buff (Dodge/Defense)

Target has a boosted Dodge Chance for 3 turns.

Purge - effect (Status Effect)

This effect instantly removes 1+ buffs from the target.

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

Ascensions: (110) = + & (2290) = +
First Ascension			Second Ascension
	Light Evo Larva	2x		Earth Sisters Evo	4x
	Nature Evo Larva	5x		Light Evo Larva	15x
	Nature Evo	2x		Nature Evo	7x
	Evasive Shot (Special Attack/4 Turns)			Arrow Barrage (Special Attack/6 Turns)
	Agile (Trait/Passive)

Synergies of Elf heroes (Family):

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

Elf Heroes get the following passive buffs:

(Trait) by

Self and allied Elves gain Dark Shroud for 1 turn (takes reduced damage and are immune to all Debuffs).

Synergies of Nature heroes (Element):

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

Nature Heroes get the following passive buffs:

(Trait) by

Boosted CRIT Chance for self and Nature allies..

(Trait) by

+15% Max HP for self and Nature allies.

(Trait) by

Self and Nature allies deal 2x damage to Armored enemies.

(Trait) by

+15% ATK for self and Nature allies.

(Trait) by

+15% DEF for self and Nature allies.

(Special Attack) by

Ranged Spirit attack that drains 1 energy, steals all Buffs, and adds them to the caster. Adds 1 energy and increases DEF of all Spirit and Nature allies for 3 turns.

Synergies of Rogue heroes (Class):

Other Synergies of Heroes:

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

Ranged Heroes get the following passive buffs:

(Trait) by

Ranged Allies take 25% reduced damage from basic and epic attacks.

(Trait) by

Self and allies have a chance to Burn on Ranged Physical attacks.

(Trait) by

Allies' ranged physical attacks have a chance to purge a buff on hit.

(Special Attack) by

Ranged physical attack for [85% ATK] base damage that marks the target (mark increases ranged damage dealt to that enemy), and all allies with ranged basic attacks do a follow-up attack against the target.

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:

Dodger Heroes are vulnerable to:

(Trait) by

Cannot Miss and enemies cannot Dodge this Hero's attacks. Boosted damage against targets with a high Dodge chance.

(Trait) by

Cannot Miss and enemies cannot Dodge this Hero's attacks.

(Trait) by

Armored Hero that cannot Miss or be Dodged.

(Basic Attack) by

Undodgeable Melee Physical attack that Provokes target enemy.

(Special Attack) by

Ranged Poison attack with a chance to Poison.

Ranged Heroes are vulnerable to:

(Trait) by

25% chance to Dodge Ranged attacks.

(Trait) by

Armored allies have a chance to Dodge Ranged attacks for their first turn.

(Trait) by

Extensive Training provides +40% chance to Dodge Ranged attacks and WILL dodge any attacker that is Paralyzed or Off-Balance.

(Trait) by

Reflects 50% of Ranged attack damage back at the attacker and will cleanse one Debuff at the end of each round.

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)
Elf Willow

How to Use this Hero

A combination of ascending her and raising her star level will increase the damage output of her attacks, which can ultimately one-shot heroes. Her passive Agile trait allows her to dodge ranged attacks from deadly Heroes like Lady Nimriel.

Skill Breakdown

Willow Swift's primary objective is to deal as much damage as possible in a short period of time. Her Fast passive ability gives her the chance to start first, giving her the advantage of attacking at least once before a retaliation. Her Sniper Shot, which ignores armor, deals a significant amount of damage to anyone that isn't Fire based. It can away strip away an enemy buff like Taunt, which could help your party kill off another enemy with very little life.

Her Evasive Shot deals a lot of damage too, while giving her an immediate benefit of dodging subsequent attacks. Should she survive her first round of attacks in a PvP defense, then her follow up skill Evasive Shot will increase significant her survival rate for subsequent attacks. Of course, this ability is very helpful for Boss fights in Dungeons.

Finally, her Arrow Barrage is an icing on the cake and is mostly used in larger groups of Enemies. It deals relatively little damage compared to her other single-targeted skills. However, it will quickly dispatch a lot of Water based enemies or enemies with very little health.

Synergy With Other Heroes

She works very well with other heroes using area of effect (AOE) attacks. Black Diamond is one example with an AOE that works by reducing the entire enemies' team life, and Willow Swift quickly dispatching the rest of them.

In addition, other heroes with passives affecting Nature Heroes such as Tsume's Spirit of Nature boost to attack, Rocky's Nature's Fury boost to CRIT, or Chief NubNub's Stout Team skill will greatly enhance the strength of an all-Nature team. Adding Tsume will undoubtedly push the damage of Sniper Shot to devastating levels, ensuring that she will one-shot a hero. Using Rocky the Shiitake will guarantee a critical hit from each of her skills. In addition, her own Nature Heart passive will increase the health of other Nature allies, giving heroes like Bovus and other hard hitting warriors an even greater chance in survival.

Pairing her up with another hard hitting Fast hero like Shadowblade will help your team eliminate a hero that is considered dangerous to your team.

Uses in PVP

Willow Swift is a common defender of the game. She not only provides a first turn attack with a Sniper Shot, but she also acts as a common target for the AI to take out almost immediately. When used as a defender, keep in mind that her job is to target one hero and unleash her Sniper Shot. If thinking in terms of exchanging blows within the fight, then her job is successfully completed if she successfully launches off her first attack. Have a reason to add her into your party-pair her up with Shadowblade if your job is to eliminate a specific hero like Yokozuna or Bovus El Doro. If you intend to attack Tsume, then make sure that you can eliminate him before his Soul Shred attack.