Originally published at: https://gemsofwar.com/a-new-mythic-approaches-champion-of-rot/
New Mythic Troop: Champion of Rot Champion of Rot will be the only Mythic Troop available in Glory, Gem, Guild & VIP Chests for the next 7 days.
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Is the description proper? I assume the damage dealt is boosted by the poisoned/diseased enemies, and not the amount of gems created?
It’s correct. boost ratio in-game works for gem creation. it functions like a king gobtruffle with more damage but no extra turn guarantee.
For what it is, Champion of Rot is pretty good.
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Champion of Rot has good synergy with Corrupt Troll. (You could use the extra reds for Mother of Darkness, but I like building another team around for her). Thrall and jar of eyes (or essence of evil) for more mana and to hold down the line. (The ice storm helps Corrupt Troll a bit too).
The new mythic (kind of?) makes knights stronger, but I always used Gard’s Avatar and other troops. But it feels like they were trying to make an “upgraded” Magnus. Inflicting a random status effect on all enemies when matching 4 or more gems would have been pretty funny and OP.
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Seems like a garbage mythic to me and entirely skippable. Good cause I need to replenish my keys
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Maybe not garbage but i do feel people hype up new mythics a little 2 much.
Seems ok. Like a truffle substitute for impatient people. Like those who do queen beatrix with truffle n mix true n physical cuz they cant wait
I gotta mess with it tho ima try going down knight route instead next
Seems like a b tier at best tho and when there are takshakas n kafrus n ironhawks n zargs that u need 3 of sometimes if you aint got the keys these are the ones you are supposed to skip (rot) to be able to get 3 of the aforementioned
I bet people out there getting 2 of this thing that cant actually afford to
The new Mythic seems average, at least useful in some scenarios.
He has good synergy with Corrupt Troll and even Mother of Darkness because of the reds he creates. You could also get extra turns with Thrall because of this, and I actually prefer him over the cosmic dragon.
Knights were always about Gaard’s Avatar/ Sir Quentin Hadley with a knight class for banishment, and the new mythic doesn’t really change that. He gives more diversity to Darkstone (even though I prefer my own personal team of EOE, Thrall, and Mother of Darkness because it’s really good).
Gobtruffle/Beetrix is replaced with Corrupt Troll/Champion of Rot, making me wish the new mythic was a Giant/Knight.
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Wow, tough crowd. Something that hits damage-wise very close to the original 6 gem dragons and also has a high chance to loop or at the very least get the turn back when the boost ratios are used and is also impervious to make it even harder to stop is considered garbage..
I guess at that point everything may as well be Takshaka, but then people also complain about power creep. 
Is it going to replace Stellarix/Chrysantherax/Takshaka? no, but I wouldn’t be upset to use this thing if I had to.
you don’t even need 3 zargs or khafrus. 3 ironhawks and 3 takshakas would be luxury items and function fine with 2. even if a new player pulled this thing, it’d still be from Darkstone so it would help with their kingdom power.
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I’ve had success with it on the Daemon side, using Kura/EKura/Bane of Mercy to land curses to get Disease/Poison to stick in non-PvP settings where as CoR is a strong Knight, but there’s no other Knight I really want to stick this troop with..
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I wouldn’t use it in a Knight team. But as a Daemon it’s pretty good. I tested it on explore 12 and it was pretty effective. So no complaints from me at all. 
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After thinking about it some more, the knight typing doesn’t really make sense, and making him a daemon makes much more sense now. (I have messed around with him some more, but The Void Dragon in a dark storm is…so damn good).
Make Champion of Rot a Giant/Daemon. Case closed. Of course the developers will never read this or even care.
Personally I would have liked to see the troop as a Daemon/Orc. It’s about time we get a orc that does damage to all enemies.
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Okey dokey get a champion of rot which no one will remember in 2 months instead of holding keys for troops LIKE FOR EXAMPLE the ones i mentioned that are way better that you need MULTIPLE of
Better sir technically?
ps. before it’s reported, the flavor text on this troop is intentionally “IDK” - I already let the team know that it reads like placeholder text.
You know what. Sure. Whatever it takes to get them to make more Mythics troops worth owning multiples, because right now, that’s so far apart, you’d have nothing to show for it.
Zarg Boom Pile: July 2025
Pharoah Khafru: August 2024
Takshaka: March 2024
Eye of Arges: May 2023 (a troop that isn’t needed, but works better in multiples)
Ironhawk: February 2021
What else do we need multiples of? I’m open to anything of note.
If I was a new player and had to wait for once a year to open keys because some guy told me to wait for a mythic worth pulling multiples for, this game would be unplayable.
Back in reality, Champion of Rot is still a very useable troop for more inevitable Knight or Daemon Journeys, Darkstone events like the Underspire, and more.
Very high chance I’ll be using it in Summer Isle or Broken Lands Knight PvP category the few times it shows up as an Impervious option isn’t weak. How much more can I demand from a monthly Mythic?
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