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Skills
Ultimate
Frostveil Domain
Unlocks at level 1
Cooldown: 0s
Range: Global
Initial Energy: 0
Cryonaia summons the domain of Eternal Winter, trapping up to 3 enemies and their summons in the domain for 12s, cutting them off from the rest of the battlefield. The skill prioritizes enemy heroes who have dealt the highest cumulative damage. In Boss fights, Cryonala traps all enemies in the domain of Eternal Winter.
When Cryonaia casts her Ultimate, she gains a Frost Shield for the duration of Eternal Winter and absorbs up to 1400% + 250% damage. While the shield is active, Cryonaia becomes immune to control effects, her Haste increases by 60, and her ATK increases by 60%. The shield also prevents Cryonala from being defeated, Eternal Winter will end early if all trapped enemies are defeated or if the Frost Shield is destroyed
Unlocks at level 51: Increases the value of Frost Shield to 1800% + 250%.
Unlocks at level 111: Increases the value of Frost Shield to 2200% + 250%.
Unlocks at level 171: Increases the value of Frost Shield to 2600% + 250%.
Unlocks at level 231: Increases the value of Frost Shield to 3000% + 250%.
Skill I
Icicle Tempest
Unlocks at level 11
Cooldown: 12s
Range: Global
Cryonaia summons a powerful ice storm that sweeps across the battlefield for 6s, dealing 40% + 7% damage every 0.5s to enemies in its path and 20% + 3% damage to enemies within 1 tile of the storm. After casting her Ultimate, Cryonaia stops using this skill actively. Instead, she creates a full-sized ice storm and two smaller storms at the center of the battlefield, which persist for the duration of her Frost Shield. The smaller storms deal 20% + 3% damage every 0.5s to enemies caught in their path.
Level 2: Enhances the full-sized ice storm to deal 50% + 7% damage to enemies within 1 tiles and 25% + 3% damage to enemies 2 tiles away. Also increases the smaller ice storms' damage to 25% + 3%,
Unlocks at level 71: Enhances the full-sized ice storm to deal 50% + 7% damage to enemies within 1 tiles and 25% + 3% damage to enemies 2 tiles away. Also increases the smaller ice storms' damage to 25% + 3%,
Unlocks at level 131: Enhances the full-sized ice storm to deal 60% + 7% damage to enemies within 1 tiles and 30% + 3% damage to enemies 2 tiles away. Also increases the smaller ice storms' damage to 30% + 3%,
Unlocks at level 191: Enhances the full-sized ice storm to deal 70% + 7% damage to enemies within 1 tiles and 35% + 3% damage to enemies 2 tiles away. Also increases the smaller ice storms' damage to 35% + 3%,
Skill II
Frigid Edge
Unlocks at level 31
Cooldown: 10s
Range: 5 Tiles
Cryonaia creates and launches 5 ice shards at an enemy, with each shard dealing 140% + 20% damage to the enemy hit. While the Frost Shield is active, reduces the cooldown of this skill to 3s.
Unlocks at level 91: Increases the damage dealt to 160% + 20%.
Unlocks at level 151: Increases the damage dealt to 180% + 20%.
Unlocks at level 211: Increases the damage dealt to 200% + 20%.
Hero Focus
Hero Focus
Unlocks after reaching Legendary+
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 tile
Cryonaia increases her ATK by 7% during battle. For every 2s that the Frost Shield remains active, her ATK increases by an additional 1%, stacking up to 6 times.
Level 2: Cryonaia increases her ATK by 10% during battle. For every 2s that the Frost Shield remains active, her ATK increases by an additional 1.2%, stacking up to 6 times.
Level 3: Cryonaia increases her ATK by 12% during battle. For every 2s that the Frost Shield remains active, her ATK increases by an additional 1.5%, stacking up to 6 times.
EX. Skill
Frozen in Time
Unlocks after reaching Mythic+
Cooldown: -
Range: 3 Tiles
Cryonaia deals 60% damage to enemies each time they are brought into the domain of Eternal Winter. Only Cryonaia can use Ultimate while within the domain.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +5: Increases enemies' damage taken to 130%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +10: Increases enemies' damage taken to 200%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +15: The biting cold of Eternal Winter freezes time itself. Cryonaia can stop the battle time for up to 30s with Eternal Winter.
Enhance Force
Enhance Force
Unlocks after reaching Supreme+
Affects: Ultimate
While the Frost Shield if active, Cryonaia instantly freezes and defeats enemies within the domain of Eternal Winter if their current HP is below 300% of her ATK and their HP percentage is lower than 15%.
Season 3 Charm
To check the Charm's set bonus for Cryonaia go to our Season 3 Charms guide.
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Review
Review
Cryonaia is an S-Rank Hypogean Mage who can freeze time and the battlefield, isolating enemies in her domain of Eternal Winter to swiftly defeat them.
Cryonaia’s skills are basic damaging attacks, that is, until she unleashes her Ultimate, which grants her a shield, Control Immunity, Haste and Attack, ending early when her shield breaks.
But although her Ultimate is very powerful, she is vulnerable until she can cast it.
Now, for a quick overview of her performance in the various game modes:
Story and AFK stages – Cryonaia is a very effective AFK stage pusher thanks to being able to freeze time, as well as execute enemies below a certain HP threshold with her Supreme+ upgrade, but she does get completely shut down against high burst damage enemies that can kill her before she gets her Ultimate out.
Dream Realm – Cryonaia is a viable choice in Harak teams. Normally, her kit would be ill-suited for Dream Realm bosses, considering the fact that she effectively debuffs her own team after her time frozen limit is used up, but if Harak manages to consume her after she has cast her Ultimate a few times, the rest of the team can once again use their abilities freely, making her a good addition to Harak teams that can mitigate her main downside.
PVP – Cryonaia’s Ultimate is one of the most powerful for PVP, and if she gets her Ultimate out, she is almost guaranteed to win the battle, as she quickly charges her Ultimate after the first one through killing the enemy team, allowing her to cast it again while the enemy is helpless to fight back. But she does have some notable counterplay, namely, she can be killed before she gets to cast her Ultimate at all, making her easily counterable on defense depending on attacker unit roster, and being an Ultimate-reliant hero, Lily May is an ever present threat capable of cancelling Cryonaia’s Ultimate, but the sheer power behind her Ultimate makes these weaknesses less relevant.
Battle Drills – Cryonaia is a great option for mob stages, and pairs well with Harak against bosses.
Investment
Legendary+ gives her extra ATK
Mythic+ makes her the only one capable of using her Ultimate in the domain of Eternal Winter, as well as dealing some damage when enemies are brought into her domain.
Her EX +15 is notable here as it extends the duration of her domain from 12s to 30s.
Supreme+ allows her to instantly defeat enemies under a certain threshold.
Cryonaia is quite squishy at 1 copy, and prone to having her Ultimate interrupted, so she does not perform very well.
Ideally, she requires relatively high investment, up to S+ and EX +15 to unlock both her execution and extend her Ultimate’s duration, and being a DPS hypercarry, she greatly benefits from Paragon tiers.
Conclusion
Cryonaia is not an essential character to have, rather, she is more of a luxury pull and often requires other Hypogeans/Celestials to shine and is the most impactful for PvP. Pull for her if you want to climb in PvP, or possibly enhance your Harak bossing teams, otherwise, she is safe to skip.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Unique Ultimate combining the best of Dunlingr (Ultimate Denial) and Scarlita (Instant Elimination).
Can freeze the stage clock.
High Damage
Can buff herself
Cons
Squishy, especially before and after casting her Ultimate , lacking defensive skills.
High Investment required.
Highly reliant on her Ultimate.
Effectively debuffs her own team if Harak is not there to take her out of battle, especially for Dream Realm.
Ratings
General Ratings
S
AFK Stages
S+
PVP
S
Dream Realm (Overall)
Dream Realm Ratings
S
Snow Stomper
S+
Lone Gaze
S
Orson
S+
Crystal Beetle
A
Shellbrute
S+
Creeper
S
Illucia
S
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.
