A witty Support who is skilled at providing high Energy and HP recovery for allies.
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Rowan profile has been last updated at: January 19th, 2025.
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Profile
Review
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Profile
Skills
Ultimate
Fatal Greed
Unlocks at level 1
Cooldown: 0s
Range: 1 tile
Initial Energy: 400
Rowan moves up to 1 tile and throws coins upon reaching the destination, providing surrounding allies within 2 tiles with 250 Energy.
Unlocks at level 51: Increases Energy recovery to 260 points.
Unlocks at level 111: Increases Energy recovery to 280 points.
Unlocks at level 171: Increases Energy recovery to 300 points.
Unlocks at level 231: Increases Energy recovery to 320 points.
Skill I
Smart Stall
Unlocks at level 11
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 tile
Rowan places 2 health potions on his trolley when a battle starts. Allies within 2 tiles with HP ratio below 50% automatically uses a potion to heal for 40% of their max HP by up to 800% of Rowan's ATK. Each ally can use up to health potion every 6s.
Unlocks at level 71: Increases the recovery amount of health potion to 42% of allies' max HP.
Unlocks at level 131: Rowan also places an energy potion when a battle starts. He automatically uses the potion to recover 400 Energy when the Energy of an ally within 2 tiles exceeds 600.
Unlocks at level 191: Increases the recovery amount of health potion to 45% of allies' max HP.
Skill II
Quack Waltz
Unlocks at level 31
Cooldown: 3.25s
Range: Global
Rowan calls on Bradduck to attack an enemy, dealing 150% damage and absorbing 70 Energy.
Unlocks at level 91: If all health potions have been used up, this skill no longer attacks but instead replenishes the trolley with a health potion. This effect can be triggered once every 3 times of Quack Waltz.
Unlocks at level 151: Increases damage to 190%.
Unlocks at level 211: Increases damage to 230%.
Hero Focus
Hero Focus
Unlocks after reaching Legendary+
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 tile
Rowan increases his Haste by 7 during battle. His Haste is increased by an extra 6 until he replenishes a health potion using Quack Waltz.
Level 2: Rowan increases his Haste by 10 during battle. His Haste is increased by an extra 8 until he replenishes a health potion using Quack Waltz.
Level 3: Rowan increases his Haste by 12 during battle. His Haste is increased by an extra 10 until he replenishes a health potion using Quack Waltz.
EX. Skill
Great Bargain
Unlocks after reaching Mythic+
Cooldown: -
Range: Global
Once per battle, after selling 3 health potions, Rowan places a super health potion that restores 60% of an ally's max HP and permanently. Increases their Phys DEF and Magic DEF by 30%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +5: The health potion recovers 65% of the user's max HP, permanently increasing their Phys DEF and Magic DEF by 35%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +10: Once in a battle, when Bradduck replenishes the health potion, it turns into a super health potion.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +15: The health potion recovers 70% of the user's max HP, permanently increasing their Phys DEF and Magic DEF by 40%.
Enhance Force
Enhance Force
Unlocks after reaching Supreme+
Affects: Skill 1
Rowan places 1 more health potions when a battle starts using Smart Stall.
Season 3 Charm
To check the Charm's set bonus for Rowan go to our Season 2 Charms guide.
Rowanimages aren't available yet. They will be added soon.
Review
Review
Rowan is a S-Rank Lightbearer Support who specializes in charging ally Energy, allowing them to use their Ultimates faster. This makes him one of the best supports in the game, and his utility ensures he remains viable across all game modes for a long time.
Fatal Greed is his Ultimate ability, which allows him to move a tile or so and shower nearby allies with Energy, helping them use their Ultimates faster. This Ultimate offers a wide range of use cases and synergies. To facilitate the use of Fatal Greed, Rowan starts with 400 Energy and has Quack Waltz, a low-cooldown ability that deals damage and absorbs an additional 70 Energy.
Rowan also provides utility through his Smart Stall where he stores 2 Health Potions, which activate when an ally’s HP drops below 50%. This can heal the same ally again after a short cooldown. Additionally, Rowan stores an Energy potion that an ally can use once their Energy reaches 600, enabling them to unleash their Ultimate immediately. If there's no Health Potions left on Smart Stall, casting Quack Waltz will replenish a Health Potion up to 3 times in battle.
Hero Focus of Haste which increases further each time he retrieves a Health Potion through Quack Waltz. This added Haste allows Rowan to use Quack Waltz more often and gives him more Energy, enabling him to cast Fatal Greed more frequently to support his allies effectively. Upon unlocking Mythic+, after Rowan uses 3 Health Potions on allies, he places a Super Health Potion that restores more HP and permanently boosts the ally's defensive stats. At Supreme+, Rowan starts the battle with an additional Health Potion.
Performance in Various Game Modes:
Story and AFK/Talent Stages - This is where Rowan shines the most, as the ability to help allies consistently use their Ultimates can make or break a team in high-deficit AFK Stages.
Dream Realm - Rowan isn't a top pick here, as there are better options for directly boosting damage, which is often crucial for Bossing. However, he's not entirely useless and can still provide utility in certain situations.
PVP - Rowan is still pretty viable in PVP for his utility, more often so in Supreme Arena more than PVP Arena. In PVP Arena he is too slow to get immediate value from his utility where in Supreme Arena where you can have more leeway with Mauler or Lightbearer focused teams.
Battle Drills - Rowan is a decent choice here due to his Energy-boosting utility, though he isn’t always the first pick. Overall, he can still perform well in this game mode.
Conclusion
Rowan is a great hero even at base with no dupes, but investing in him is highly recommended. Unlocking Mythic+ grants him the Super Health Potion. Leveling his EX Weapon to +10 allows Quack Waltz to replenish a Super Health Potion once instead of a normal one. Supreme+ is more of an enabler for him to heal allies more frequently and start battles with his Mythic+ ability already placing a Super Health Potion.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Grants other allies Energy.
Big emergency heals.
Permanently increasing defensive stats.
Cons
Lack of Damage boosting type of utility.
Doesn't heal often.
Ratings
General Ratings
S
AFK Stages
A
PVP
B
Dream Realm (Overall)
Dream Realm Ratings
B
Snow Stomper
B
Lone Gaze
B
Orson
B
Crystal Beetle
B
Shellbrute
B
Creeper
B
Illucia
A
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.
