MarileeInformation and Guide

Introduction

Marilee is an A-Level
character from the Marksman
class who belongs to the Lightbearer
faction. Their auto-attack range is 5.

A deft Marksman who is better positioned farther from enemies.

To learn more about Marilee check the sections below. Use the tabs to quickly switch to the kind of information you're looking for.

Last updated

Marilee profile has been last updated at: December 21st, 2024.

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Profile

Review

Guides

Skills

Ultimate

Mid-Air Shot

Unlocks at level 1

Cooldown: 0s

Range: 3 tiles

Initial Energy: 0

Marilee moves up to 2 tiles in any direction, dealing 125% damage to 2 enemies closest to her initial location.

Unlocks at level 51: Increases moving distance to 3 tiles in any direction.

Unlocks at level 111: Increases damage to 135%.

Unlocks at level 171: Increases damage to 145%.

Unlocks at level 231: Increases damage to 155%.

Skill I

Mighty Arrow

Unlocks at level 11

Cooldown: 0s

Range: 5 tiles

After every 2 normal attacks, Marilee briefly charges up before her next normal attack, dealing 160% damage and inflicting stun for 0.5s.

Unlocks at level 71: Increases damage to 170%.

Unlocks at level 131: Increases damage to 180%.

Unlocks at level 191: Increases damage to 190%.

Skill II

Hyperfocus

Unlocks at level 31

Cooldown: -

Range: 1 tile

Marilee increases ATK by 4% and ATK SPD by 25 when there's no enemy within 2 tiles.

Unlocks at level 91: Increases ATK by 11%.

Unlocks at level 151: Increases ATK by 14%.

Unlocks at level 211: Increases ATK by 17%.

Hero Focus

Unlocks after reaching Legendary+

Cooldown: -

Range: 1 tile

Increases Crit DMG Boost by 30 during battle.

Level 2: Increases Crit DMG Boost by 40 during battle.

Level 3: Increases Crit DMG Boost by 50 during battle.

EX. Skill

Battlefield Learning

Unlocks after reaching Mythic+

Cooldown: -

Range: 1 tile

Marilee's ATK is increased by 5% when other allies cast an Ultimate, up to 6 stacks. Her normal attacks deal true damage after reaching max stacks.

Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +5: Gains an extra stack of Battlefield Learning when the Hyperfocus takes effect for every 10s.

Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +10: Increases each stack of ATK bonus to 7.5%.

Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +15: Increases each stack of ATK bonus to 8.5%.

Enhance Force

Unlocks after reaching Supreme+

Affects: Skill 2

The required no-enemy range for triggering Hyperfocus is shortened by 1-tile.

Season 2 Charm

To check the Charm's set bonus for Marilee go to our Season 2 Charms guide.

Charms - Season 2

Gallery

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Review

Marilee is an A-Level Marksman of the Lightbearer faction. Her kit revolves around staying a good few tiles away from her target, inflicting consistent (and high!) damage while kiting them.

Her bread and butter is the "Hyperfocus" skill, which increases her ATK and ATK SPD if there are no enemies within 2 tiles of her. This makes staying as far away from the opponent as possible key with Marilee, as she loses these buffs when enemies move close to her. This is done either passively in Dream Realm or through the use of her Ultimate "Mid-Air Shot", which causes Marilee to flip to the targeted tile and attack enemies as she passes by.

Her other skill, "Mighty Arrow", is a simple damage skill that also inflicts a short stun (used to interrupt opponents from moving in too fast). This helps with her kiting but is otherwise unimpressive.

Her Exclusive Weapon is where it's at, though, as it unlocks "Battlefield Learning". This skill grants Marilee a stacking ATK bonus whenever allies cast an Ultimate and upon reaching max stacks, her basic attacks begin to deal True damage. This combined with "Hyperfocus" and any Support that in some way boosts her ATK SPD turns Marilee into a scaling monster that mows down health bars so long as nothing enters within her "Hyperfocus" range. This is most often utilized in Dream Realm, as those bosses don't move and allow Marilee to hit them from basically anywhere.

Pros & Cons

Pros

High consistent single-target damage so long as "Hyperfocus" conditions are met.
Further improvements to damage output with EX Weapon.
Low rarity so more easily invested in.

Cons

Relies on a tiny stun and Ultimate to get away from enemies that manage to get in.
Is in the Lightbearer faction so struggles against high-prio targets like Cecia/Thoran/Carolina and gets blown up by Silvina.

Ratings

General Ratings

AFK Stages

Battle Drill

PVP

Dream Realm (Overall)

Dream Realm Ratings

Skyclops

Croaker

Necrodrakon

Snow Stomper

Lone Gaze

Alpha Bear

Orson

Crystal Beetle

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.

Marilee

Medium

PVE investment

+8 → +10 → +15

PVP investment