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Athalia profile has been last updated at: April 4th, 2025.
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Profile
Skills
Ultimate
Unbroken Retribution
Unlocks at level 1
Cooldown: -
Range: Global
Initial Energy: 300
Passive. When Athalia is defeated, her unyielding resolve manifests as a lance that continues to attack enemies on the battlefleld, with her ATK reduced by 35%.
Active. Athalia leaps into the air and strikes the enemy with the highest cumulative damage dealt, dealing 150% + 27% true damage plus extra true damage equal to 30% + 3% of all enemies' total HP lost she has recorded. The extra true damage cannot exceed 1500% + 150%. Enemies hit are knocked down for 0.5s, and Athalia remains invincible while casting this skill. After using this skill, she resets her record of enemies' HP loss to zero.
Unlocks at level 51: Increases the true damare dealt to 180% + 27% when this skill is used actively.
Unlocks at level 111: Increases the true damare dealt to 210% + 27% when this skill is used actively.
Unlocks at level 171: Increases the true damare dealt to 240% + 27% when this skill is used actively.
Unlocks at level 231: Increases the true damare dealt to 270% + 27% when this skill is used actively.
Skill I
Vengeance Charge
Unlocks at level 11
Cooldown: 7s
Range: Global
Athalla targets the enemy with the highest cumulative damage dealt and dashes to the tile behind them. The dash deals 360% + 40% damage to the target and 280% + 30% damage to enemies in its path. Athalia is invincible during the dash.
Unlocks at level 71: Increases the damage dealt to the target to 400% + 40%.
Unlocks at level 131: Increases the damage dealt to the target to 400% + 40%.
Unlocks at level 191: Increases the damage dealt to the target to 480% + 40%.
Skill II
Vanguard's Renewal
Unlocks at level 31
Cooldown: 10s
Range: 1 Tile
Athalia transforms into a lance, striking adjacent enemies 6 times, with each hit dealing 20% + 3% damage. While casting this skill, Athalia becomes unaffected, reduces damage taken by 60% + 2%, and recovers 150% + 15% HP.
Unlocks at level 91: Each hit deals 25% + 3% damage.
Unlocks at level 151: Each hit deals 30% + 3% damage.
Unlocks at level 211: Each hit deals 35% + 3% damage.
Hero Focus
Hero Focus
Unlocks after reaching Legendary+
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 tile
Increases Crit by 12 during battle. When dealing damage to the enemy with the highest cumulative damage dealt, Crit is further increased by 30.
Level 2: Increases Crit by 16 during battle. When dealing damage to the enemy with the highest cumulative damage dealt, Crit is further increased by 40.
Level 3: Increases Crit by 20 during battle. When dealing damage to the enemy with the highest cumulative damage dealt, Crit is further increased by 50.
EX. Skill
Divine Verdict
Unlocks after reaching Mythic+
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 Tile
Every second use of Vengeance Charge, Athalia's dash simultaneously unleashes Sacred Slashes, striking the two straight paths with the most enemies. Each slash deals 200% damage to all enemies in its paths. These slashes prioritize straight paths that do not overlap with the dash path of the Vengeance Charge that triggers them.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +5: Increases the skill damage dealt to 240%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +10: Increases the skill damage dealt to 280%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +15: While casting Vengeance Charge, Athalia increases her Execution by 50. Whenever she assists or defeats an enemy or uses her Ultimate. the cooldown of Vengeance Charge resets immediately.
Enhance Force
Enhance Force
Unlocks after reaching Supreme+
Affects: Skill 1
Vengeance Charge and Sacred Slash can reduce the target's shield value, up to 800%.
Season 3 Charm
To check the Charm's set bonus for Athalia go to our Season 3 Charms guide.
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Review
Review
Athalia is an S-Level Rogue of the Celestial faction who specializes in quickly taking out the enemy carry, and reviving as a Lance and still being capable of doing damage after she dies.
Athalia’s Ultimate has both passive and active components. The passive ability is that Athalia revives as a Lance after death, but with 35% reduced attack. The active ability deals massive single target damage to the enemy carry, usually killing them outright in PVP.
Her first skill also deals high damage to the enemy carry, dealing damage similar to Vala’s Ultimate.
Her second skill allows her to strike adjacent enemies, dealing multiple low-damage hits, while reducing her damage taken and recovering HP.
Now, for a quick overview of her performance in the various game modes:
Story and AFK stages – While Athalia can deal decent damage at high investment, for Low Deficit stages, there is very little reason to run her instead of the usual AFK Stage staples due to lack of HP% damage causing her to fall off at High Deficit.
Dream Realm – Athalia’s kit is based on burst damage, while bosses favour sustained damage. Although she still deals Marilee-tier damage on most bosses, that is not good enough to justify adding her to Dream Realm teams in most situations.
PvP – Athalia’s kit offers a very valuable combination in PVP - Survivability, Burst Damage, and little Ultimate reliance. She can potentially snipe any enemy carry at the start of the battle, but that alone doesn’t make her the absolute menace that she is, as we already have Vala and Silvina who do the same. The fact that her kit remains powerful even with her Ultimate disabled, makes her extremely powerful when used alongside Dunlingr. While she can counter top contenders such as Cryonara or Dionel, there is some RNG involved, and the same characters can counter Athalia as long as they get their Ultimates out.
Investment
Athalia, being a DPS carry, does not work very well at 1 dupe.
Legendary+ gives her increased Crit.
Mythic+ adds an extra attack that deals damage in two straight paths to every second use of her sniping skill.
EX +15 massively increases the damage she deals to enemies below 50% HP, and also allows her to chain her sniping attacks after assisting/defeating an enemy or using her Ultimate.
Supreme+ gives sniping skill some Shield Pierce.
Recommended investing in her up to S+ EX+15, and from there, up to Paragons, as she is a Main DPS.
Conclusion
Athalia is a powerful and resilient assassin for PVP modes, but she does require a lot of investment to reach her maximum potential, including a fully maxed out niche Celestial PVP hero. Pull for her if you already had Dunlingr from running Dionel’s team, for example, as she is a whale’s choice, just like him. Outside that she is an easy skip for PVE modes.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Kit does not rely on Ultimates.
High Burst, Very good at sniping enemy carries in PVP.
Has Shield Pierce at S+.
Can continue fighting as a Lance after death.
Cons
Squishy, she and her team will die to enemy carries if they get their Ultimates out first.
High investment required, relies on Dunlingr for top PVP performance.
Poor PVE performance due to lack of HP% Damage
Has almost no CC in her kit
Ratings
General Ratings
A
AFK Stages
S+
PVP
A
Dream Realm (Overall)
Dream Realm Ratings
A
Snow Stomper
A
Lone Gaze
A
Orson
A
Crystal Beetle
A
Shellbrute
A
Creeper
A
Illucia
A
Thalassa
Guides
EX Investment
The EX investment information were created with the help of Seas0n, the creator of the
AFK Analytica community that supports AFK Arena and AFK Journey.
You can find their website here and their discord here.
Since the
Temporal Essence
and
Twilight Essence
are very hard to obtain, you have to be really careful with the using them to upgrade the EX weapon. And in this guide we ordered all characters by the priority when it comes to how much they need investment in their EX weapon to work well and where should you stop to get the best bang for your buck.
Why does the +8 breakpoint appear so often?
Because the raw stats you get from upgrading the EX weapon help you more than the passive in some cases. Also, to upgrade the EX from +5 to +8 you need only 30x
Temporal Essence
, while the remaining two levels require additional 45x
Temporal Essence
. So you get the best bang for your buck stopping at +8.
Color explanation:
+0 - the base investment for the character,
+5/8 - the next step that you should do when investing into that character,
+10/15 - the final step you should do when investing into that character - you can go beyond that later though once you have the Essences to spare.
