You don’t need an activator for Xuen like Double Strike requires, so this does allow for some different builds. In many cases Xuen felt like a more linear, bigger-number Samuro– a 4 Speed Fighter, but with less range (no Immunes, no Mirror Images). Unlike Lokholar, Xuen doesn’t really do anything particularly insane or counter a broken strat. Like Lokholar from the last set, this is the Mercenary that can hit PvP with a minimum of investment. Xuen was my “starter Pokemon” from this bunch and felt like a good Merc to grind early. Xuen’s Maxed Stats, Abilities, and Equipment Xuenīest Equipment: Celestial Chestplate (Level 30)įinal Equipment Unlock: Heroic Ivus (5.10) Long’xin, Xuen, and Yu’lon all deserve attention before Chi-Ji! As long as you can do them before the end of the Lunar event on March 8th, Chi-Ji should hit a level that’s fun to try out. Step 2: Blazing Band 4 (425C) is the Equipment that enables your whole kitĬoins Priority: Low– Chi-Ji is coming with an entire Quest Chain of Tasks that will dump Coins on you during the Celestials event.Step 1: Blazing Song straight to Rank 5 (475C).Malfurion’s Liferoot Staff is probably the “best” target to add Healing Power to– small, consistent heals benefit best from a flat increase– but I’m not sure if “Malf + Chi-Ji + X” is going to be good enough. The best bet is to go all-in on Blazing Song with Blazing Band for your Equipment to stack Healing Power. That’s what keeping Chi-Ji’s hopes in good spirits, because their abilities seem medium without the Hopium. Now we’ve come to understand the strength of heals– from Malfurion to Anduin to Sinestra to Cookie, manipulating your own health can be extremely strong. “Heal Power” is a new keyword– and their entire kit basically has to deal with Healing. Everyone could count up the strict damage numbers and realize when things died, but healing was too hard to grasp in theory.
Chi-Ji’s Maxed Stats, Abilities, and Equipment Chi-Jiįinal Equipment Unlock: Heroic Kazakus (5.12)Įarly on in the history of Mercenaries no one knew how to evaluate healing. When Long’xin can be used on their own or with Dragons, Beasts and Arcane comps, it’s hard to go wrong. The alternative “best Equipment” can use some love too: Band of Burning Novas could do some absolutely wild stuff with Mukla+ starts.
But one of the best new decks on HSReplay is actually a full Dragon opener, alongside Yu’lon and Sinestra. Full Dragon backlines involving Sinestra and Yu’lon are also starting to tick up in popularity, forfeiting Cookie in favor of a new option. Most initial comps that included Long’xin saw to see him coming in off the bench.
The offensive spells aren’t too fast, the defensive spells aren’t too slow, and flexibility is high! (Did you know Celestial Breath can crit a Protector, roll over to another Protector, and crit a crit?!) Epic and funky design, every number is Good Enough, and each piece of their kit is Useful and Competitive.
In my opinion Long’xin is an amazing example of a Legendary Mercenary. Though their power level might not be as high as Lokholar and Balinda, some of these crazy new Beasts and Dragons do look like welcome heroes.īefore we start talking, here’s a quick pronunciation guide:įirst up is our big baddy Caster Legendary (finally not a Fighter): Long’xin! Long’xin’s Maxed Stats, Abilities, and Equipment Long’xinīest Equipment: Bottle of Infinite Stars (Heroic Ichman)įinal Equipment Unlock: Heroic Ichman (5.8) Mercenaries got its first official event! Flavored with Lunar New Year energy, five new Celestial Mercenaries should be showing up on battlefields near you. Check out this guide to understand how to play and pronounce everything from Chi-Ji to Xuen!
Another month, another five new Mercenaries.