A determined Warrior who doesn't hesitate to charge at enemies in front.
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Kafra profile has been last updated at: September 18th, 2024.
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Profile
Review
Guides
Profile
Skills
Ultimate
Gale Thrust
Unlocks at level 1
Cooldown: 3s
Range: 1 tile
Initial Energy: 0
Passive. Kafra prioritizes attacking the enemy who carries Forest Mark. Kafra inflicts a Forest Mark on an enemy when casting Ultimate and launches a mighty strike, dealing 500% damage and knocking them back for 2-tile. Only 1 Forest Mark exists per attack.
Unlocks at level 51: Increases damage to 510%.
Unlocks at level 111: Increases damage to 520%.
Unlocks at level 171: Increases damage to 530%.
Unlocks at level 231: Increases damage to 550%.
Skill I
Relentless Sword
Unlocks at level 11
Cooldown: 2.5s
Range: Global
When a marked enemy is out of Kafra's attack range, Kafra charges towards the enemy, dealing 280% damage and stunning them for 1.5s. If there's no marked enemy, Kafra marks the nearest enemy and casts the skill.
Unlocks at level 71: Increases damage to 290%.
Unlocks at level 131: Increases damage to 300%.
Unlocks at level 191: Increases damage to 320%.
Skill II
Wind Mark
Unlocks at level 31
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 tile
The Forest Mark reduces the enemy's Phys DEF by 6%. When a marked enemy is defeated, Kafra and allies within 2 tiles of this enemy recover 100% of his ATK as HP every 0.375s for 1.125s.
Unlocks at level 91: Reduces Phys DEF by 9%.
Unlocks at level 151: Reduces Phys DEF by 12%.
Unlocks at level 211: Reduces Phys DEF by 15%.
Hero Focus
Hero Focus
Unlocks after reaching Legendary+
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 tile
Increases ATK by 12% during battle.
Level 2: Increases ATK by 16% during battle.
Level 3: Increases ATK by 20% during battle.
EX. Skill
Exiling Strike
Unlocks after reaching Mythic+
Cooldown: 3s
Range: Global
When a marked enemy receives healing from other enemies, Kafra jumps to the healer and attacks them, dealing 250% damage and reducing their Haste by 40 for 5s. Kafra is unaffected during the period.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +5: Kafra gains a shield that can block 350% damage (of Caster's ATK for 5s while casting this skill.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +10: Increases damage to 260%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +15: Increases damage to 270%.
Enhance Force
Enhance Force
Unlocks after reaching Supreme+
Affects: Skill 1
The damage of Relentless Sword's first casting in battle is increased to 520%
Season 2 Charm
To check the Charm's set bonus for Kafra go to our Season 2 Charms guide.
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Review
Review
Kafra is an A-Level Warrior from the Wilder faction. On initial inspection, he is written off as mediocre and perhaps one of the worst characters in the game, after actually testing him however, we found him quite a bit better than people make him out to be.
The key part of his kit is "Wind Mark", which reduces the Phys Def of the enemy marked with Forest Mark. When this enemy dies, a burst of healing applies to all allies near that target. This outputs a surprising amount, and can potentially be a key factor in sustaining melee-oriented teams. His other skill, "Relentless Sword", allows him to quickly rush into the enemy team, allowing him to easily keep up with any melee fighters on the team.
His Ultimate, "Gale Thrust" is the most unimpressive part of his kit, being a simple 1-target nuke with a knockback. Still, a 500-550% modifier is not to be underestimated, and Kafra can output a decent amount of burst (we've all seen the overleveled Kafra enemies in AFK Stages rushing our entire teams down).
His Exclusive Weapon grants Kafra access to "Exiling Strike", which causes him to specifically target enemy healers, deal damage to them, and reduce their Haste. Not only is this decent for stalling potent healers like Rowan or Hewynn, at +5 he also receives a shield when casting "Gale Thrust", helping him survive on the frontlines.
On first read and try he doesn't do much, a bit of damage and some random healing, but through testing we've found that Kafra is capable of keeping up with genuine Supports in terms of healing output over the course of a fight, assuming he's running in melee oriented teams with units like Seth, Shakir, Satrana, Valen etc. In addition, his healing is entirely reliant on opponents with his Forest Mark dying, so he struggles in content where the idea isn't to kill a bunch of ads. As such, while still not great, he is nowhere near as useless as made out to be and certainly has a niche he can fulfill.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Remarkably high healing output in melee teams rivaling that of actual Supports.
Decent single-target damage.
Cons
Loses functionality when not run in almost exclusively melee comps.
Doesn't really do anything besides healing and damage with some minor debuffing on the side.
Ratings
General Ratings
C
AFK Stages
C
Battle Drill
C
PVP
C
Dream Realm (Overall)
Dream Realm Ratings
C
Skyclops
C
Croaker
C
Necrodrakon
C
Snow Stomper
C
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.
