A Warrior who has magic arms and is skilled at dealing high damage to ranged enemies.
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Korin profile has been last updated at: November 3rd, 2024.
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Profile
Review
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Profile
Skills
Ultimate
Demonseal Spear
Unlocks at level 1
Cooldown: 0s
Range: 2 tiles
Initial Energy: 0
Korin sweeps his spear to enemies within 2 tiles, dealing 70% damage 4 times and immobilizing them for 2s. When the skill hits adjacent enemies, the targets are knocked back 1 tile.
Unlocks at level 51: Increases immobilize duration to 4s.
Unlocks at level 111: Increases damage to 75%.
Unlocks at level 171: Increases damage to 80%.
Unlocks at level 231: Increases damage to 85%.
Skill I
All-round Tactic
Unlocks at level 11
Cooldown: 9s
Range: Global
Korin jumps next to the weakest ally, granting both of them a shield that blocks 300% damage (based on Caster's ATK) for 5s. Korin then dashes to the closest enemy, dealing 180% true damage.
Unlocks at level 71: Shield value is increased to 320%.
Unlocks at level 131: Increases damage to 200%.
Unlocks at level 191: Increases damage to 220%.
Skill II
Air Strike
Unlocks at level 31
Cooldown: -
Range: Global
Korin deals a guaranteed critical strike to enemies 1 tile beyond. For every 1% of his crit rate, his critical damage is increased by 1%.
Unlocks at level 91: For every 1% of his crit rate, his critical damage is increased by 1.2%.
Unlocks at level 151: For every 1% of his crit rate, his critical damage is increased by 1.5%.
Unlocks at level 211: For every 1% of his crit rate, his critical damage is increased by 1.6%.
Hero Focus
Hero Focus
Unlocks after reaching Legendary+
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 tile
Increases Haste by 12 during battle.
Level 2: Increases Haste by 16 during battle.
Level 3: Increases Haste by 20 during battle.
EX. Skill
Vine Arms
Unlocks after reaching Mythic+
Cooldown: -
Range: Global
When Korin and the allies within 2 tiles cast their Ultimates 3 times in total, Korin's arms feel nature's power and enchant his spear with Wilder magic, dealing additional true damage equal to 2% of the targets' max HP for 8s with follow-up attacks, and the extra damage cannot exceed 40% of Korin's ATK.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +5: Increases the ATK SPD by 60 during the skill.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +10: Increases the additional true damage to 2.5% of the targets' max Points.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +15: Increases the additional true damage to 2.8% of the targets' max Points.
Enhance Force
Enhance Force
Unlocks after reaching Supreme+
Affects: Skill 2
Damage dealt by enemies 1 tile beyond is reduced by 25%.
Season 2 Charm
To check the Charm's set bonus for Korin go to our Season 2 Charms guide.
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Review
Review
Korin is an A-Level Warrior of the Lightbearer faction. His role is split between offense and defense, and he performs decently in both aspects, good enough to be considered for actual teambuilding.
His most obvious skill is "All-round Tactic", whereby Korin jumps to the weakest ally and grants them a shield before dashing to the nearest enemy and dealing True damage. It's simple, it's sweet, grants him mobility, and deals decent damage. His other skill, "Air Strike", is a bit more subtle, and the attack is a guaranteed Crit on his target, increasing in Crit DMG for every point of Crit available.
His Ultimate is called "Demonseal Spear" and it causes him to sweep enemies within 2 tiles of him, immobilizing them and knocking away other enemies. This is great for getting annoying melees like Seth and Shakir off your team, or simply to interrupt dangerous casts like Hewynn's Ultimate.
Korin's Exclusive Weapon unlocks "Vine Arms" which, after allies collectively cast 3 times, Korin becomes enchanted and starts dealing True damage based on his target's Max HP as follow-up attacks to his allies. It is temporary, but in teams with quick enough Energy generation it is an extremely powerful tool to deal large amounts of damage to large HP targets (like Dream Realm bosses).
Korin does require this unlocked to deal ANY meaningful damage (it is a very dramatic increase), but that shouldn't be too hard considering his rarity, and he does his job decently without it.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Deals with role split effectively - provides both good defense and offense, especially after unlocking EX.
Surprisingly high single-target damage.
Easy to invest in due to rarity.
Cons
The majority of his damage potential is locked behind EX.
Can struggle early game due to defense not being needed and his offense being weak.
Ratings
General Ratings
C
AFK Stages
A
Battle Drill
B
PVP
A
Dream Realm (Overall)
Dream Realm Ratings
A
Skyclops
A
Croaker
A
Necrodrakon
S
Snow Stomper
A
Lone Gaze
A
Alpha Bear
B
Orson
B
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.
