Hellebore — guide

In short

Hellebore is an Uncommon Support from the Ogryn Tribes with the Magic affinity. His whole kit is an A1 with a 20% chance to place Freeze for 1 turn, plus an A2 that drains an ally's Turn Meter and heals for 50% of the amount drained (minimum 10%). The site author's verdict is blunt: food — not worth investing in for any content.

Strengths

• A1 can land Freeze for 1 turn — a free extra control roll when there is nothing better to press.
• His A2 is a real heal: early game and early Faction Wars it is better than having no healer at all.
• Uncommon rarity: cheap to rank up, duplicates come often, and feeding him away costs you nothing.
• Magic affinity lines up well against Spirit — some Faction Wars waves are simply easier for him.

Weaknesses

• Poor base stats: 96 SPD and 716 DEF means he is neither a tank nor a fast healer, and he folds quickly.
• The heal costs the ally their turn: you drain their Turn Meter to heal them, and if the bar is nearly empty the heal drops to 10%.
• Almost no reliable control — 20% on A1 is a coin flip, and he has no Accuracy in his base kit.
• Ratings say it all: 0.5 in Clan Boss, Hydra, Chimera, Arena, Dungeons, Hard and Doom Tower; 1.5 only in Faction Wars.

Where to use

The only place he scores anything is Faction Wars (1.5): early on you can slot him into an Ogryn Tribes team as a second healer/placeholder until better champions show up. Everywhere else — Clan Boss (0.5), Hydra (0.5), Chimera (0.5), Arena (0.5), Dungeons (0.5), Hard (0.5), Doom Tower (0.5) — he just wastes a slot.

Stats and gear

Priority: Speed → HP% → DEF%. Rough targets for early Faction Wars: about 150–180 SPD, 30–40k HP, 1.5–2k DEF. Accuracy only matters if you seriously want the A1 Freeze to land, in which case around 100–150 ACC — but those substats are usually better spent on HP. There is no recommended set list from the author, so general advice: Speed and HP sets (or Immortal) with HP% and SPD substats; HP%/DEF% gloves, Speed boots.

Masteries and blessings

No mastery list is provided either. The logic is simple: skip Offense entirely since he deals no damage, and take Defense (survivability) plus Support (healing, Resistance). Key nodes are anything giving HP/DEF and staying alive; Offense tier 6 picks like Warmaster or Giant Slayer are pointless on him. Blessings require Awakening — on a food champion that is wasted resources, so skip them.

Tom es

Do not spend Tomes: they are scarce and belong on Legendaries and Epics. If you truly have nowhere else to put them, book the A2 to level 4 first (cooldown −1 and more healing), and only then the A1 for the extra +10% Freeze chance.

Verdict

Food. Keep one copy in the Vault in case you need to fill an early Ogryn Tribes Faction Wars team, and give him neither Tomes nor gear.