Executioner Karkanis

A stealth monster that hits like a truck. Drops tier 5 epic items:

• Rage Set Armor
• Speed Set Speed Boot (Best Drop)
• Immunity Set Helmet

The battle consists of the following enemies:

• Executioner Karkanis (Flame Element) – 108,900 Hp
• Karax Scout x2 (Earth Element) – 71,000 Hp

Calmness (Passive) – When attacking, caster is granted stackable increased Attack and Speed. Increases chance of evading attacks from debuffed enemies, and counterattacks following a successful evasion while dispelling any debuffs inflicted on the caster. Counterattack will make a Critical Hit.

Note: Don’t bring earth units against him.

Death Sentence (Passive) – Increases Attack and Speed of the caster permanently when Health falls below 40%. Activates Crush after using Slice if cooldown of Crush is reset.

Shadow (Gains Stealth)

Shadow (Passive) – If the caster’s Health is less than 70%, caster is granted an extra turn and casts stealth for 2 turns at the end of the turn. If the caster is stealthed at the beginning of the turn, recovers Health and grants permanent stackable Attack and Speed increases. Stealth effect can only activate once every 2 turns.

Slice (Basic Active) – Cuts the enemy, decreasing Defense for 2 turns.

Crush (Active)[2 Turn Cooldown] – Rushes towards the enemy and attacks, stunning for 2 turns. If the target’s Health is less than 50%, they will lose 99% of their current Health. If silenced, this skill will not be activated and cooldown will be increased. The skill only activates when the caster’s Health is less than 40%.

Note: Very deadly when your character is defense debuffed. 

Battle Tips

Karakanis and his minions are actually very fast and you will need speed (about 150+ should be good) on your team or else you will get lapped and they end up getting 2 turns before you get one. Having a speedy combat readiness pusher will help here. Arky is also the preferred guardian for burst damage. You also need to bring at least one AoE attacker to break his stealth.

There are basically 2 phases in which Karkanis will get stronger:

• Under 70% Hp: he will stealth at the end of every 2 turns. If stealthed at the start of its turn, it will heal a large amount of HP and gain a stacking attack buff.
• Under 40% Hp: he will gain an extra turn and use its ultimate (unless silenced). Stops going into stealth.

Hard hitting basic attack + ultimate

The 2 Karax Scout are pretty much invincible so it is pointless to try and kill them. They can dispel up to 2 buffs and apply attack down at a 75% chance. So that means your buffs will be stripped quite often in this fight.

Only focus on the boss and use the scouts as a punching bag when you are debuffed. They key gimmick here is the boss will counter attack at a very high chance when you “miss”. That happens when he has elemental advantage and when any of your characters attack him while having a debuff on. His counter attacks always is a critical hit and cleanses any debuff off him. His basic attack applies defense debuff for 2 turns.

Once you get him to 70% health, he will start to stealth and this is where you need an AoE attacker to take him out of it. It is best to bring 2 AoE attackers so in case one of them gets debuffed, you still can use the other one to get him out of stealth. If you cannot do that, then he will heal and get stacking attack and speed buff, making the fight harder.

When under 40% Hp, he will use his ultimate and it will stun the target. If target is under 50% Hp, they will be put to 1% Hp. Keeping your team healthy and having about 8000 hp and about 550+ defense will help stay above the 50% threshold.

The key tip here is to get him to about 45% heath, activate Arky guardian to get it below that threshold. It will not activate his passive + ultimate until one of your team members hit him with an attack.