Chani — guide

In short

Chani is an Epic Attack champion of the Dark Elves with Magic affinity. Her selling points are an AoE debuff extender and a self-buff that adds Attack and Accuracy before a big single hit with HP Burn on crit. Build her only for a specific job — Dungeons, hard content and Faction Wars; otherwise she is a vault champion.

Strengths

• Torrent of Misfortune hits all enemies and, at up to an 80% chance when booked, extends every debuff on them by 1 turn — great next to poison, HP Burn and Poison Sensitivity.
• Soul Fire grants herself +50% Attack and +50% Accuracy for 2 turns, then hits for 5.5×ATK; on a crit it places HP Burn for 2 turns.
• The passive adds 0.05% Crit Rate per point of Accuracy — 400 ACC is a free +20% Crit Rate — and makes her immune to Accuracy Down.
• Aura gives +40 Accuracy in all battles, which is a nice bonus for an early dungeon or Faction Wars team.

Weaknesses

• Base Attack is only 1432, low for an attacker, and 947 Defence makes her very squishy.
• HP Burn only lands through a crit, so she has to be built for Crit Rate rather than pure damage.
• The debuff extension is not guaranteed — only 50% before books.
• 96 base Speed is poor; without Speed gear she rarely acts in time to extend anything before it expires.

Where to use

She performs best in Dungeons (3.0), hard content (3.0) and Faction Wars (3.0). In Clan Boss, Hydra, Chimera and Arena she is a solid middle-of-the-road pick (2.5), and in Doom Tower she is weak (2.0) — that mode wants either hard utility or far more damage.

Stats and gear

Priority: Accuracy first (it also feeds Crit Rate through the passive), then Crit Rate to 100%, then Crit Damage and Attack, with enough Speed to actually take turns.

• Accuracy: 250–300 for Dungeons and Faction Wars, 350+ for hard content and high floors.
• Crit Rate: 70–100% total — the passive adds another 15–25%.
• Crit Damage: 150%+, Attack: 3000+.
• Speed: 170–200 as a comfortable baseline.
• Sets: Savage or Cruel for damage plus Perception for Accuracy and Speed.

Masteries and blessings

Go Offence plus Support. From the list take Pierce Defenses, Pouncing Strike and Boss Slayer — that is the nuke package for single-target and boss damage — and fill the rest with standard damage and Accuracy masteries. Blessings: Phantom Touch for extra damage, or Cruelty if the team needs Defence Down. Relics: Irethi Coronet and Arachnelixir.

Tombs

If you actually play her, book Torrent of Misfortune first: the extension chance goes from 50% to 80% and her whole value depends on it. Then Soul Fire for the cooldown reduction, and Hidden Arrows last.

Verdict

An interesting kit on weak base stats. The site author's call is blunt: vault her (fusion).