A Warrior who is skilled at dealing AoE damage and becomes stronger under his enhanced mode.
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Valen profile has been last updated at: September 18th, 2024.
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Profile
Skills
Ultimate
Thunder Swordwork
Unlocks at level 1
Cooldown: 0s
Range: Global
Initial Energy: 0
Valen selects a tile and launches 7 Swift Strikes at the selected tile and adjacent tiles. Each strike deals 70% damage to all targets. Valen is Invincible while striking. After striking, Valen gains Invigoration for 12s, which increases Valen's ATK by 20%.
Unlocks at level 51: Increases damage to 75%.
Unlocks at level 111: Increases damage to 80%.
Unlocks at level 171: Increases damage to 85%.
Unlocks at level 231: Increases damage to 90%.
Skill I
Unseen Blade
Unlocks at level 11
Cooldown: 9s
Range: 1 tile
Valen slashes the target 3 times. Each slash deals 100% damage. During Invigoration, Valen generates forked lightning with every slash and deals the same amount of damage to the target and up to 2 surrounding enemies within 2 tiles.
Unlocks at level 71: Increases damage to 105%.
Unlocks at level 131: Increases damage to 110%.
Unlocks at level 191: Increases damage to 115%.
Skill II
Fury Thunder Strike
Unlocks at level 31
Cooldown: 11s
Range: 2 tiles
Valen can only cast his lightning strike when he gains Invigoration, dealing 190% damage to all surrounding enemies within 2 tiles.
Unlocks at level 91: Increases damage to 200%.
Unlocks at level 151: Increases damage to 210%.
Unlocks at level 211: Increases damage to 220%.
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
Eternal Thunder
Unlocks after reaching Mythic+
Cooldown: -
Range: Global
Invigoration status becomes permanent. When casting an Ultimate during Invigoration, Valen permanently gains 10% ATK bonus from Invigoration, up to 10 stacks.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +5: Increases each stack of ATK bonus to 12%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +10: Valen's normal attack triggers the lightning strike when he gains Invigoration, dealing the same amount of normal attack damage to a surrounding enemy within 2 tiles.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +15: Increases each stack of ATK bonus to 13%.
Enhance Force
Enhance Force
Unlocks after reaching Supreme+
Affects: Skill 2
Valen inflicts 3s stun using Fury Thunder Strike.
Season 2 Charm
To check the Charm's set bonus for Valen go to our Season 2 Charms guide.
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Review
Review
Valen is an A-level Warrior from the Lightbearer faction. He is this game's embodiment of an Achilles' heel. Great DPS performance but doesn't have the survivability capability to output it consistently making you drop him the moment you get into midgame onwards.
His ult 'Thundering Swordwork' has amazing scaling, range, and the invulnerability he gets while doing it. He also gains 'Invigoration' for a good amount of time which increases his ATK and amplifies his other skills.
Unlocking Valen's Exclusive Equipment makes 'Invigoration' permanent and also gives him +10% ATK every time he uses 'Thundering Swordwork' which sounds good on paper but unlike 'Seth' he cannot reliably stack this without dying, one of the main reasons why he isn't being used. 'Unseen Blade' is a decent damaging skill for one enemy that can chain lightning to the nearest 2 enemies if Valen has 'Invigoration' active.
Reaching lvl 3 of his Exclusive Equipments fires lightning strikes whenever he uses normal attacks which is good. 'Fury Thunder Strike' is also another skill that is only usable when Valen has 'Invigoration' active which has good damage and range but lacks utility until reaching Supreme+ which gives it a stun to damaged enemies. 'Hero Focus' of ATK is welcome for a DPS.
And now you might be asking "Good so far, why is he bad?" and that's because he is a melee hero that doesn't have ways to stay alive in the frontline. He has great damage output and potentially good utility as well but if he is dead before he does any of those it doesn't matter.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Great damage potential if all goes his way.
Cons
Which happens very rarely.
Lacks any defensive measures in his kit.
Needs investment to become consistent even if you found a way to not let him die instantly.
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.
