A resilient Tank who can withstand attacks and become more offensive in battle.
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Ulmus profile has been last updated at: September 18th, 2024.
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Profile
Review
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Profile
Skills
Ultimate
Ancient Tenacity
Unlocks at level 1
Cooldown: 0s
Range: 1 Tile
Initial Energy: 0
Passive. When Ulmus' HP ratio drops below 30% for the first time, he retreats to the backline and takes root to recover 30% + 2% HP. While rooted, Ulmus is Unaffected and unable to move. His normal attacks become ranged and deal an additional 50% damage to enemies surrounding the primary target.
Active. Ulmus attacks an enemy, knocking the target and adjacent enemies into the air. dealing 200% + 20% damage plus an extra 4% damage. This skill prioritizes the area with the most enemies within his attack range.
Unlocks at level 51: Increases the damage dealt to 210% + 20%.
Unlocks at level 111: Increases the damage dealt to 220% + 20%.
Unlocks at level 171: Increases the damage dealt to 230% + 20%.
Unlocks at level 231: Increases the damage dealt to 240% + 20%.
Skill I
Verdant Barrier
Unlocks at level 11
Cooldown: 14s
Range: Global
Ulmus gains a 25% + 3% shield that lasts 10s. When the shield breaks, it deals : 160% + 15% damage to surrounding enemies. If Ulmus is rooted, he will grant the shield to the frontmost ally instead.
Unlocks at level 71: Increases the shield value to 28% + 23%.
Unlocks at level 131: Increases the shield value to 32% + 23%.
Unlocks at level 191: Increases the shield value to 35% + 23%.
Skill II
Way of the Forest
Unlocks at level 31
Cooldown: -
Range: Global
Passive. Ulmus recovers 3.5% + 20.5% of his lost HP per second. When rooted, he will instead recover 30 + 4 Energy per second.
Unlocks at level 91: Increases the HP recovered per second to 4% + 20.5%, or the Energy recovered to 32 + 4.
Unlocks at level 151: Increases the HP recovered per second to 4.5% + 20.5%, or the Energy recovered to 34 + 4.
Unlocks at level 211: Increases the HP recovered per second to 5% + 20.5%, or the Energy recovered to 36 + 4.
Hero Focus
Hero Focus
Unlocks after reaching Legendary+
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 tile
Increases max HP by 17% during the battle.
Level 2: Increases max HP by 23% during the battle.
Level 3: Increases max HP by 29% during the battle.
EX. Skill
Prowling Roots
Unlocks after reaching Mythic+
Cooldown: -
Range: Global
Ulmus extends his roots to trap vulnerable enemies on the battlefield. Whenever an enemy target is knocked down, knocked into the air or affected by other displacement effects, Ulmus binds the target to the ground, increasing the knockdown duration by 2s and dealing 80% damage. This effect can only affect the same enemy once every 10s.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +5: Increases the damage dealt to 100%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +10: Gains 60 Life Drain when dealing damage with this skill.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +15: Increases the damage dealt to 120%.
Enhance Force
Enhance Force
Unlocks after reaching Supreme+
Affects: Skill 1
Ulmus knocks back adjacent enemies by 1 tile when the shield granted by Verdant Barrier breaks or vanishes.
Season 2 Charm
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Review
Review
Ulmus is an A-level Tank from the Wilder Faction. While he can sub out to be a damage dealer after he receives enough damage, he is not a character that you can rely on unless you have him and Phraesto at high dupes.
His ultimate, Ancient Tenacity, passive part activates when Ulmus' HP goes below 30% for the first time in battle. He retreats to the backline and takes root, recovering 30% of his max HP plus an additional 2%. While rooted, Ulmus is unaffected, cannot move, and his normal attacks become ranged, dealing 50% bonus damage in a splash. The active part of this ultimate is that Ulmus slams the ground to knock up enemies, and it's still true to his rooted form, the range sadly is still melee for the rooted ult.
Verdant Barrier makes Ulmus gain a shield equal to a percentage of his max HP. The shield lasts for 10 seconds and, upon breaking, deals damage based on Ulmus' ATK to surrounding enemies. If Ulmus is rooted when using this skill, he grants the shield to the frontmost ally instead. Way of the Forest allows Ulmus to recover a good amount of his max HP every second. If Ulmus is rooted, he will instead recover 30 Energy plus 4 Energy per second. This gives Ulmus a lot of survivability when he is tanking and also gives him energy for when he is rooted. Hero Focus of max HP is amazing for him.
Then his EX skill, Prowling Roots, When an enemy is knocked down, knocked into the air, or affected by other displacement effects, Ulmus binds them to the ground, increasing their knockdown duration by 2 seconds and dealing damage equal to 80% of Ulmus' attack. This can only effect the same enemy every 10 seconds.
His Enhance Force makes it so that upon the Verdant Barrier shield breaking or vanishing, adjacent enemies are knocked back by 1 tile.
Conclusion
This may be excellent on paper, but to make Ulmus work, you need to give him a lot of dupes, mainly for the stats. Also, at the moment, the only team that he is the best at is a team where Phraesto needs to be Supreme+. In PVP, Eironn Ulmus Alsa is a strong combo that makes the enemies grouped and crowd-controlled, leading to them being easier to kill.
Seasonal of Strife Skill
Lock-on Projectiles is decent for some more damage when Ulmus does his crowd control on enemies, including his EX skill, Prowling Roots.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Great synergy with various CC characters like Eironn or Alsa,
Shines in PVP where he can set up a killing field.
Cons
Useless against bosses,
While he can be used in high deficit teams to push AFK Stages, he isn't the first pick there and just another option available.
Ratings
General Ratings
S+
AFK Stages
C
Battle Drill
A
PVP
C
Dream Realm (Overall)
Dream Realm Ratings
C
Skyclops
C
Croaker
C
Necrodrakon
C
Snow Stomper
C
Lone Gaze
C
Alpha Bear
C
Orson
C
Crystal Beetle
Guides
EX Investment
The EX investment information were created with the help of Seas0n, the creator of the
AFK Analytica community that supports AFK Arena and AFK Journey.
You can find their website here and their discord here.
Since the
Temporal Essence
and
Twilight Essence
are very hard to obtain, you have to be really careful with the using them to upgrade the EX weapon. And in this guide we ordered all characters by the priority when it comes to how much they need investment in their EX weapon to work well and where should you stop to get the best bang for your buck.
Why does the +8 breakpoint appear so often?
Because the raw stats you get from upgrading the EX weapon help you more than the passive in some cases. Also, to upgrade the EX from +5 to +8 you need only 30x
Temporal Essence
, while the remaining two levels require additional 45x
Temporal Essence
. So you get the best bang for your buck stopping at +8.
Color explanation:
+0 - the base investment for the character,
+5/8 - the next step that you should do when investing into that character,
+10/15 - the final step you should do when investing into that character - you can go beyond that later though once you have the Essences to spare.
