Overall
Fawkes operates through a network of invincible Spirit Caskets placed around the battlefield. He starts the fight hidden inside his own casket, deploying four caskets near enemies before emerging. Each casket periodically pulses with Deathrattle, dealing defense-ignoring damage to nearby enemies and healing nearby allies. He enhances caskets over time, boosting their output and his own attack power — and enhanced caskets chain their pulses to trigger neighboring caskets. Enemies get pulled directly in front of caskets and take amplified damage. If Fawkes takes fatal damage, he consumes a casket’s enhancement to revive from another one, keeping him in the fight. With his awakening skill active, Deathrattle triggers accumulate into stacking buffs that increase Fawkes’ attack and health while reducing enemy attack. Graveborn and Lightbearer allies amplify these bonuses further, rewarding faction-aligned teams.
Skills
Crypt Chant
AwakeningAccumulated Deathrattle triggers reduce enemy attack while boosting Fawkes’ attack and max health, stacking up to 4 times. Graveborn or Lightbearer allies amplify these bonuses. The effect can be dispelled.
Veiled Expanse
UltimateStarts battle invincible, summoning 4 Spirit Caskets before emerging. Active deals AoE damage, dispels enemy buffs and ally debuffs periodically, triggers all Deathrattles, and enhances a casket.
Deathrattle Casket
ActiveInvincible caskets periodically pulse Deathrattle, dealing defense-ignoring damage to nearby enemies and healing allies. Enhanced caskets deal more and chain Deathrattles to neighbors. Active repositions or enhances a casket. Fawkes gains attack and HP based on proximity. Damage scales with max health growth.
Spectral Fetters
ActivePulls enemies in front of the nearest casket; enhanced caskets pull an extra target. Affected enemies take increased damage from Fawkes and caskets, amplified further by Fawkes’ Magic Pierce.
Forbidden Rebirth
PassiveEach enhanced casket boosts Fawkes and casket attack power. Fatal damage consumes a casket enhancement to revive at high health from another casket, which becomes enhanced. Once all caskets are enhanced, all allies gain a large attack boost.
Signature Item, Furniture, and Engraving effects are baked directly into this hero's skill upgrades. See the Skills tab for the full progression.
For every 2 times the Deathrattle effect is triggered on each Spirit Casket, the Attack Rating of all enemy units will be reduced by 9%, while Fawkes’ Attack Rating will be increased by 10% and his max health will be increased by 11% for 15 seconds (capped at 4 stacks). This effect can be dispelled. For every 1 Graveborn or Lightbearer hero deployed, Fawkes gains an extra 20% bonus to these attributes.
Passive: At the start of battle, Fawkes lies inside his Accursed Casket, invincible and untargetable. Every 2 seconds, he summons a Spirit Casket near a random enemy hero. After summoning 4 Spirit Caskets, he uses this skill actively and exits his Accursed Casket to join battle. Active: Fawkes deals damage equal to 250% of his Attack Rating to all enemies while dispelling most buffs from all enemies and dispelling most debuffs from all allies every 1 seconds for 5 seconds. Fawkes also triggers the Deathrattle effect on all Spirit Caskets 1 times, finally emerging from one of the caskets and enhancing it. Enhanced Spirit Caskets gain extra effects.
Passive: Spirit Caskets are always invincible and untargetable. Every 3 seconds, Deathrattle is triggered 1 times, dealing damage equal to 100% of Attack Rating to nearby enemy units and healing nearby allied units for health equal to 100% of Fawkes' Attack Rating. Spirit Caskets can be enhanced, after which they will deal 65% more damage. Active: When there is a Spirit Casket with no enemy units nearby, Fawkes will move that casket to a better position. If no caskets need to be moved, then Fawkes will enhance an unenhanced casket, causing it to trigger Deathrattle 1 times.
Fawkes summons soul chains from the nearest Spirit Casket, selecting the 1 farthest enemy heroes and pulling them in front of that casket. If the casket is enhanced, 1 extra enemy heroes will be selected. Affected enemy heroes will take 30% more damage from Fawkes and Spirit Caskets for the next 9 seconds.
For every 1 Spirit Caskets that have been enhanced, the Attack Power of Fawkes and Spirit Caskets will be increased by 12.5%. When Fawkes takes fatal damage, he consumes the enhancements of 1 Spirit Caskets to evade that strike of damage and then reappears from inside another Spirit Casket with at least 70% max health to continue battle. In addition, any Spirit Casket whose enhancement is consumed in this way cannot be enhanced again, but the Spirit Casket from which Fawkes reappears will be enhanced.
Accursed Casket
Enhances: Deathrattle CasketDeathrattle’s damage is increased to 125% of Attack Rating, while its healing is increased to 125% of Attack Rating.
Deathrattle’s damage ignores enemy Defense and Damage Reduction.
Fawkes’ Attack Rating and max health are increased by 10%, and the closer he is to any Spirit Casket, the more the attributes are increased (capped at a boost of 40%).
When an enhanced Spirit Casket triggers Deathrattle, other Spirit Caskets within range will trigger theirs an extra time. Each Spirit Casket can trigger this effect up to 2 times every 6 seconds. This effect does not chain.
Deathrattle damage is increased by 30%. The damage can be further boosted based on how much higher Fawkes’ current max health is compared to his initial max health (capped at a boost of 80%).
Enhances: Spectral Fetters
The damage affected enemy heroes take from Fawkes and Spirit Caskets is increased by 50% for 9 seconds.
Additionally, for every 1 points of Magic Pierce Fawkes has, the damage and health loss affected enemy heroes take will be increased by 1% for 9 seconds (capped at an increase of 75%).
For every 1 Spirit Caskets enhanced, the Attack Power of Fawkes and Spirit Caskets will be increased by 22.5%.
After all 4 Spirit Caskets have been enhanced, the Attack Power of all allied heroes will be increased by 40% (capped at 160% of Fawkes’ Attack Rating).
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