A Graveborn Mage who specializes in life rituals and is able to deal a lot of ranged damage.
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Viperian profile has been last updated at: December 21st, 2024.
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Profile
Review
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Profile
Skills
Ultimate
Spiritual Viper
Unlocks at level 1
Cooldown: 0s
Range: Global
Initial Energy: 250
Passive. Viperian burns HP as much as possible when a battle starts, sending Darkviper's to possess all enemies until his HP is below 60%. During this skill, he is Unaffected while losing 7% max HP for each Darkviper deployed. Every possessed enemy drops 20 Energy on Hit, losing 1% HP per second to sustain the survivability of the Darkviper on them. Viperian calls a Darkviper back to recover 14% HP when his HP ratio is below 30%.
Active. Viperian deals 280% damage to all possessed enemies. He inflicts the nearest enemy with the same effect and Darkviper possession if no enemy on the battlefield is possessed.
Unlocks at level 51: Increases damage to 290%.
Unlocks at level 111: Increases damage to 300%.
Unlocks at level 171: Increases damage to 310%.
Unlocks at level 231: Increases damage to 320%.
Skill I
Vitality Extract
Unlocks at level 11
Cooldown: 8s
Range: 5 tiles
Viperian drains HP from the healthiest enemy, dealing 210% damage and recovering HP that equals the damage dealt.
Unlocks at level 71: Increases damage to 220%.
Unlocks at level 131: Increases damage to 230%.
Unlocks at level 191: Increases damage to 240%.
Skill II
Ecnhantment Fang
Unlocks at level 31
Cooldown: 15s
Range: Global
Passive: Darkvipers launch Tearing Bite once every 3s during the battle, dealing 65% damage once to all the possessed enemies.
Active: Viperian burns 10% max HP to enhance the next Tearing Bite, dealing 140% damage to the target and reducing their Energy by 60.
Unlocks at level 91: Increases Common Tearing Bite damage to 75%.
Unlocks at level 151: Increases Enhanced Tearing Bite damage to 150%.
Unlocks at level 211: Reduces the target's Energy by 100.
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
Crimson Waltz
Unlocks after reaching Mythic+
Cooldown: 30s
Range: Global
Viperian burns 30% HP 10s into a battle if his HP ratio is above 90%, dealing 420% damage to all enemies. He is Unaffected during the skill casting. This skill can be triggered once every 30s.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +5: Increases damage to 450%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +10: Dark vipers gain 2 enhancements after the skill is cast.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +15: Increases damage to 480%.
Enhance Force
Enhance Force
Unlocks after reaching Supreme+
Affects: Ultimate
Darkvipers return when the possessed enemies are defeated, recovering 14% HP and 80 Energy for Viperian.
Season 2 Charm
To check the Charm's set bonus for Viperian go to our Season 2 Charms guide.
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Review
Review
Viperian is an A-Level Mage of the Graveborn faction. His kit revolves around balancing his HP to sustain the Darkviper debuff he inflicts on the enemy team long enough for him to trigger them with his Ultimate.
The passive part of his Ultimate: "Spiritual Viper" forms the basis of his kit. At the start of the fight, he begins consuming his own HP to inflict his Darkviper debuff on enemies one-by-one. Once deployed, they begin dealing a small amount of DoT damage and return to Viperian if his HP drops too low to heal him. The active part of his Ultimate causes Viperian to nuke all enemies affected by Darkviper.
The rest of his kit is centered around AoE damage and healing. His "Vitality Extract" skill is a simple life-steal attack that helps Viperian battle his constantly lowering HP while "Enchantment Fang" makes him consume HP to increase the damage of his Darkvipers while also causing them to lower the Energy of their target.
Viperian's Exclusive Weapon causes him to nuke all enemies at the start of the fight, consuming HP in the process. While it may not seem like much, it adds to Viperian's surprising amount of damage dealt over the course of a fight, and he can recast this every 30 seconds.
Flying under a lot of players' radars, Viperian is often disliked for how much he deals damage to himself, causing him to require a constant stream of healing that would otherwise (usually) go to the Tank of the team. Despite this, Viperian's high damage output and constant DoT applied over the entire enemy team stack up quite nicely, and he is generally worth it if you need a Graveborn Mage.
Decreases enemies' energy, allowing your team to win the Ultimate race more easily.
Has self-sustain in his life-steal and Darkviper debuffs.
Can do high map-wide burst damage with his Ultimate and Exclusive Weapon.
Cons
Requires a constant application of healing due to self-damaging mechanics.
Can be quite flimsy even though he has some CC immunity built into his kit.
As a Mage his Ultimate takes a while to charge.
Ratings
General Ratings
B
AFK Stages
C
Battle Drill
B
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.
