Acolyte — guide

In short

Acolyte is a Rare Support champion of the Force affinity from the Knights Revenant, and his whole kit is turn-meter play: 25% for himself on A1, a 50% cut on the enemy on A2, a full-team debuff cleanse on A3 and a 30% ATK Arena aura. He functions even at 5★ on throwaway gear, but build priority is low — the site verdict is blunt: food.

Strengths

• Absolution strips every debuff from all allies — unusual utility for a Rare.
• Dark Exhaustion cuts the target's Turn Meter by 50% at a 75% base chance, up to 90% with books.
• Eternal Fury gives him 25% of his own Turn Meter, so he cycles back to A2 and A3 faster.
• 30% ATK aura for Arena — the one thing that gets him picked in PvP.
• His value sits entirely in the skills, not the stats, so he doesn't need 6★ to do his job.

Weaknesses

• Both damaging skills scale off ATK while his role is Support — he neither deals damage nor tanks.
• Thin base stats: 104 SPD, 15,195 HP, 30 RES, so any AoE folds him.
• The Turn Meter reduction is single-target and chance-based, not real control.
• Rare Tomes are scarce and the payoff is tiny; almost anyone else deserves them more.

Where to use

His best rating is Clan Boss (3.0), and even there he is only justified in the very early game as a debuff cleanser with the occasional Turn Meter cut. Arena (2.0) is his second home — the 30% ATK aura plus a cut on the key target. Doom Tower (2.5) and Faction Wars (2.5) are filler slots in a Knights Revenant squad. Hydra (2.5) is weak; Chimera (1.5) and Hard mode (1.0) — skip him.

Stats and gear

Priority: SPD → ACC → HP%/DEF%. Rough targets: 170–200 SPD, 150+ ACC if you actually run him in dungeons or Doom Tower for the cut, everything else into survivability. Sets: Speed and Perception; from the recommended build, the relic Tempus Sanguinis. Treat this as a filler build, not an investment — don't chase perfect Speed boots on him.

Masteries and blessings

Support tree: Sniper for the debuff landing chance, Gathering Momentum from the recommended list, plus defensive nodes to keep him alive; Offense tree with Giant Slayer only if you genuinely use him on Clan Boss. Skip blessings — the champion isn't worth the resources.

Tomes

If you must book someone here, start with Absolution for the cooldown reduction — it's the biggest single upgrade in his kit. Then Dark Exhaustion up to the 90% chance. Realistically, your Rare Tomes belong to other champions.

Verdict

Acolyte is an early crutch for Arena and your first Clan Boss attempts, nothing more. Don't invest gear, Tomes or levels — he's food.