An Assassin who excels at dodging damage by hiding in shadow and dealing damage to isolated targets.
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Berial profile has been last updated at: December 21st, 2024.
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Profile
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Profile
Skills
Ultimate
Scared Swamp
Unlocks at level 1
Cooldown: 0s
Range: 10 tiles
Initial Energy: 0
Berial flies beneath the enemy, hiding within their shadow and dealing 36% damage every 0.25s, absorbing 15 Energy, lasting up to 5s. Berial is Invincible during the effect. Then he jumps out from the shadow, dealing 320% damage to adjacent enemies and frightening them for 4s.
Unlocks at level 51: Deals 38% damage to enemies every 0.25s when hiding in the shadow.
Unlocks at level 111: Deals 40% damage to enemies every 0.25s when hiding in the shadow.
Unlocks at level 171: Deals 42% damage to enemies every 0.25s when hiding in the shadow..
Unlocks at level 231: Deals 45% damage to enemies every 0.25s when hiding in the shadow.
Skill I
Shadow Trick
Unlocks at level 11
Cooldown: 20s
Range: 10 tiles
Berial hides within the shadow, and becomes Invincible while hidden. If there are isolated enemies on the battlefield, Berial will move to each isolated target in turn, dealing 300% damage to each target. Otherwise, he will stay in the shadow, recover a total of 300% HP before returning to his original tile.
Unlocks at level 71: Increases the damage dealt to the isolated targets to 310%.
Unlocks at level 131: Increases the damage dealt to the isolated targets to 320%.
Unlocks at level 191: Increases the damage dealt to the isolated targets to 350%.
Skill II
Devil's Contract
Unlocks at level 31
Cooldown: 0s
Range: 1 tile
Berial hides within the shadow for 10s after being defeated. However, during which, if a non-summoned enemy is taken down, Berial will revive from the vanquished enemy and return to the battlefield with 40% of his max HP. This effect can only be triggered once per battle.
Unlocks at level 91: Increases Berial's restored HP to 45% of his max HP after revival.
Unlocks at level 151: Increases Berial's restored HP to 50% of his max HP after revival.
Unlocks at level 211: Increases Berial's restored HP to 60% of his max HP after revival.
Hero Focus
Hero Focus
Unlocks after reaching Legendary+
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 tile
Berial reduces the damage dealt by an isolated enemy by 6% and increases their damage taken by 3%.
Level 2: Berial reduces the damage dealt by an isolated enemy by 8% and increases their damage taken by 4%.
Level 3: Berial reduces the damage dealt by an isolated enemy by 10% and increases their damage taken by 5%.
EX. Skill
Shadow Reflection
Unlocks after reaching Mythic+
Cooldown: -
Range: 10 tiles
If non-summoned enemies remain isolated for over 3s, they lose 180 Energy and generate a Silhouette that inherits 50% of Berial's ATK, HP and 100% of other stats. This Silhouette loses 8% of its max HP per second. This effect can only be triggered once on the same target within 20s, and the Silhouette can only deal damage by normal attacks.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +5: The Silhouette inherits 70% of Berial's ATK and HP.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +10: Enemies lose 40 Energy when they receive damage from the Silhouette.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +15: The Silhouette inherits 80% of Berial's ATK and HP.
Enhance Force
Enhance Force
Unlocks after reaching Supreme+
Affects: Skill 2
Increases the hiding duration after being defeated by 10s.
Season 2 Charm
To check the Charm's set bonus for Berial go to our Season 2 Charms guide.
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Review
Review
Berial is an S-Level Assassin of the Hypogean faction. His kit is tailored to deal with Isolated enemies, meaning enemies with no allies within a 1 tile radius of them. This often includes backliners such as healers, DPS, but also other Assassins that dive into your team.
"Shadow Trick" is the core of Berial's kit, causing him to go Invincible and bounce between Isolated opponents to deal damage. If there are no Isolated enemies, he heals himself instead. This combined with "Devil's Contract" which allows him to resurrect himself once if an enemy is killed while he is dead makes him a deceptively hard unit to get rid of.
His Ultimate "Scared Swamp" further adds to his 'annoying' kit, absorbing Energy continuously from a target and causing a big explosion that Frightens enemies hit at the end of the channel (during which he is also Invincible). This is a large contributor to Berial's disruptive kit, though this type of kit allocation does mean that Berial, on average, deals considerably less damage than standard Assassins or even other typical DPS.
His Exclusive Weapon grants him access to "Shadow Reflection" which causes enemies that remain Isolated for extended periods of time to lose Energy rapidly and summon a Silhouette of Berial to attack them.
Berial is all about disruption, and while he is often looked down on for being weak in the damage department (especially for an 'assassin') he has his niches, such as dealing with other Assassins (Silvina, Vala) and exploiting poor positioning. His constant Invincibility also means he is great at dodging high-threat attacks in PVP, being very hard to take down while killing his enemies one by one.
Pros & Cons
Pros
'Neutral' faction means he is versatile in his teambuilding options.
A lot of disruption if the situation is right for it.
Great in PVP.
Cons
Low personal damage early on and when conditions to make his kit work aren't there.
Disruption is applied situationally and relies on enemy placement or unit mistakes.
Needs more investment than you realistically want to give him.
Ratings
General Ratings
B
AFK Stages
A
Battle Drill
A
PVP
C
Dream Realm (Overall)
Dream Realm Ratings
C
Skyclops
C
Croaker
B
Necrodrakon
C
Snow Stomper
B
Lone Gaze
C
Alpha Bear
C
Orson
C
Crystal Beetle
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.
