All the AFK Arena Heroes – Stats, Mechanics & Heroes List

AFK Arena heroes are divided into 7 factions, 5 classes, 3 types, and several roles. There is one exception to this rule: Legendary Tier heroes do not possess a class but have two roles, a primary and a secondary.

Speaking of Legendary Tier, there are two hero tiers in AFK Arena: Ascended and Legendary. Legendary heroes can only reach up to the Legendary Tier when you power them up while for Ascended heroes there are 3 more tiers: Mythic, Mythic+, and Ascended.

While you are here make sure to also check for the latest AFK Arena codes.

AFK Arena Factions

AFK Arena heroes belong to one of the following factions:

Lightbearers	Maulers	Wilders	Graveborn	Celestials	Hypogeans	Dimensionals

Factional Advantages

There are also offensive factional advantages:

• Lightbearers deal up to 25% more damage to maulers.
• Maulers deal up to 25% more damage to Wilders.
• Wilders deal up to 25% more damage to Graveborns.
• Graveborns deal up to 25% more damage to Lightbearers.
• Celestials and Hypogeans mutually deal up to 25% more damage to each other.
• Dimensionals are similar to a “void” faction that doesn't have a factional advantage or disadvantage.

Note: As I mentioned, the factional advantages are offensive only. If faction A is strong against faction B, it doesn't mean faction A heroes take less damage from faction B.

Hero Rarities

The portraits of the heroes have frames of different colors based on their rarity:

Green	Common
Blue	Rare	Rare+
Violet	Elite	Elite+
Yellow	Legendary	Lengendary+
Red	Mythic	Mythic+
Silver	Ascended

Basic Stats

Damage Types

Plate & Leather heroes deal physical damage, including skills. Physical damage takes an extra calculation of accuracy and evasion.

Cloth heroes deal magical damage, including their auto-attacks. Magic damage isn't affected by accuracy and evasion.

A small number of heroes have “cause enemies to lose X amount of health,” which ignores defense and damage reduction effects. This damage also ignores shields to deal direct damage. This is similar to “true damage” in other games

Interrupts

A hero will be interrupted when taking large amounts of damage even if the damage source doesn't have a specific interrupt effect. This threshold is roughly 10% of the hero's maximum health.

This is not the same as the hero being stunned

Shields

Shields will prevent damage and do not allow damage taken effects to trigger. A shield's value is typically determined based on a hero's health, but shield strength is decided by the hero's defense. This means that shields on heroes with high defense will receive less damage.

However, damage reduction and item effects do not affect shields. This translates to a shield value of 500,000 being weaker than a health value of 500,000, i.e., the shield will go down faster.

Note: Shield effects stack.

Insight & Tenacity

When a character is about to fall under control effects, if the defender's tenacity is greater than the attacker's insight, the defending hero gains a 2% chance to resist the control effect for each point of difference. If the attacker's insight is higher or equal to the defender's tenacity, the control effect has a 100% chance of application.

Control Resistance Chance = (Tenacity – Insight) * 2%

Health

Determines how much damage a hero can receive. Health is removed based on the attacker's attack rating after considering the defender's defense rating and any damage reduction effects.

Attack

Determines how much damage a hero can deal. The actual damage is based on the attacker's attack rating and attack multiplier, along with the defender's defense rating and damage reduction effects.

Critical Rating

This is the chance at which a hero triggers a critical hit, dealing double damage. Every 1 point of critical rating is equivalent to 1 critical hit chance, so for instance, a hero with a 71.2 critical rating (like my Ainz) has a 71.2% critical chance.

Crit Amplification

Crit Amplification is what we call Critical DMG% in other games. When a critical hit occurs, the damage is increased based on the difference between attacker's crit amplification and defender's crit resistance.

The formula for Critical damage goes like this.

If (Critical Amplification – Critical Resistance <= 30):

Critical Damage = (Critical Amplification – Critical Resistance) * 0.5

else

Critical Damage = 15% + (Critical Amplification – Critical Resistance – 30) * 2%

Up to a maximum of 75% extra critical damage.

Given that the base critical damage is 200%, a 75% critical damage increase will increase critical damage to 275%, while a -75% critical damage will increase critical damage to 125%. In the first case the Crit Amplification – Critical damage value is 60 or more, while in the second case it is -60 or less.

Attack Speed

Every 1% increases normal attack frequency by 1% (applies 1% to both animation speed as well as CD).

Attack speed applies to normal attacks only (unlike haste).

Final Attack Speed = Base Attack Speed*(100 – Attack Speed)/100

Normal Attacks

Normal attacks occur once in 1.8s for most heroes.

Ultimate Animation

Ultimate Animations freeze the battle timer and time for all other heroes except for the one casting their ultimate. During the animation time passes at an 1x rate.

Defense

Defense affects the amount of physical or magic damage a hero receives

The formula is

Damage (Pre Damage Reduction effects) = (Attack x Attack Multiplier) * (1 + 1/(Attack x Attack Multiplier)) / (5xDef)))

Damage Reduction is applied after the above formula is calculated.

Health Regeneration

This is in essence healing bonus %. For every 1 point of health regeneration, the healing of a character's skills is increased by 1%.

Received Healing

This is received healing bonus %. Every 1 point increases received healing by 1%.

Consequently

Amount Healed = Base Healing * (1 + Caster's Health Regeneration + Target's Received Healing)

Recovery

This is what you would call health regeneration.

Accuracy

Accuracy increases the hit rate of heroes that deal physical damage. Magic attacks cannot miss.

Dodge

Affects the chance of dodging a physical attack. Again, magic attacks cannot be dodged.

Magic / Physical Resist

This stat reduces the damage a hero receives from magic/ physical sources.

Every 1% of resistance gives the hero 1% damage reduction against the declared damage type.

Once again, the damage reduction is calculated after the Damage formula.

Haste

I'm pretty sure everyone knows the importance of haste as it affects:

• Active skill cooldowns.
• Animation speed.
• Attack speed.
• Movement speed.

Note: Haste effects stack.

Life Leech

Every 1 point of life leech gives 1% lifesteal to all active attacks that take out an opponent's health % (DoTs and Shield damage do not lifesteal).

Energy Mechanics

All heroes' energy is capped at 1000 points This means most heroes activate their ultimate at 1000 energy. There are rare cases like Skreg's signature, allowing him to activate his ultimate earlier.

There are 3 types of energy recovery methods, namely active damage, damage taken and on-kill recovery.

Given Damage

This includes damage from normal attacks and skills, and every hero has their own recovery amount.

Normal attacks recover 70-120 energy, and melee heroes recover more energy than ranged heroes.

Received Damage

Heroes also recover energy when taking damage and that's why we place heroes that need to cast a lot of Ultimates (e.g., Saurus) at the frontline. The energy recovered depends on the attacking skills, but it only occurs when the skill takes out actual health. Shields, dodges and immunity effects negate energy recovery as no damage is dealt.

Kill Energy Recovery

When a hero kills an enemy, they recover a fixed 200 energy.

Hero Skills

Skill Order

Every skill has a cooldown applied at the start of a match that determines the order in which heroes activate such skills. Skills activatable at the same time will have priority orders that dictate which gets activated first.

Since most heroes don't have instantly activated skills (e.g., Lyca's Haste), their position on the field and haste affect their normal attacks, affecting their skill order.

Skill Priorities

Skill activation is determined by skill animation speed and the skill cooldown.

When a skill animation is complete, the game determines the next skill to use from the list of skills that are not on CD, and it picks the one with the highest priority.

There is one exception, though, Ultimate skills, as they get cast instantly when a character reaches the maximum energy threshold (1000 for almost every character, with Skreg's SI being one exception).

Crowd Control

Crowd control effects are interesting as some rely on damage being dealt to apply themselves. One such example is Soren‘s Frighten which can be avoided with shields.

Crowd Control Effects

• Stun: Stuns the enemy and interrupts spellcasting.
• Move: Causes a position change.
• Freeze: Essentially, this is a stun with higher priority. Explanation below.
• Fear: An interrupt that causes random movement while taking away all other actions.
• Silence: Can interrupt casters and prevents them from casting spells or skills.

Crowd Control Priorities

Freeze > Move > Stun > Fear

While all effects are applied, only the one with the highest priority triggers. For instance, when Eironn freezes a target, his Cyclone won't move until the freeze ends.

AFK Arena Hero List

All usable heroes are listed below.

 Lightbearers

Rarity	Icon	Name	Type	Class	Role
Ascended		Estrilda – Knight Of Valor	Strength	Warrior	Burst Damage
Ascended		Belinda – Beam Of Hope	Intelligence	Mage	AoE
Ascended		Raine – Death's Denier	Agility	Support	Buffer
Ascended		Rosaline – The Kind	Intelligence	Support	Buffer
Ascended		Lucius – Lightbringer	Strength	Tank	Regen
Ascended		Thane – The Exalted	Agility	Ranger	Assassin
Ascended		Fawkes – Death's Defeat	Agility	Ranger	Control
Ascended		Hendrik – The Defender	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		Rowan – The Roamer	Intelligence	Support	Buffer
Ascended		Gwyneth – The Fair Maiden	Strength	Ranger	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Rigby – The Brewmaster	Strength	Warrior	Tank
Ascended		Cecilia – Purger of Sins	Agility	Ranger	Assassin
Ascended		Oscar – The True Gentleman	Agility	Ranger	Assassin
Ascended		Eluard – Protector of Souls	Intelligence	Mage	AoE
Ascended		Peggy – The Precious Pearl	Intelligence	Support	Regen
Ascended		Walker – The Lone Ranger	Strength	Warrior	Continuous Damage

Rarity	Icon	Name	Type	Role 1	Role 2
Legendary+		Hogan – Knight Of The Kingdom	Strength	Tank	Control
Legendary+		Angelo – Song Of Dawn	Intelligence	Regen	Buffer
Legendary+		Morvus – The Far Stalker	Agility	Assassin	Debuffer
Legendary+		Mirael – The Burning Light	Intelligence	Burst Damage	AoE
Common		Merek	Intelligence	Regen	Buffer
Common		Ulric	Strength	Control	Buffer

 Maulers

Rarity	Icon	Name	Type	Class	Role
Ascended		Brutus – The Blood Claw	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		Khasos – The Unruly	Strength	Warrior	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Vurk – The Devious	Agility	Ranger	AoE
Ascended		Numisu – The All Seer	Intelligence	Support	Regen
Ascended		Warek – The Untamed	Strength	Warrior	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Skreg – The Cunning	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		Safiya – Daughter of the Desert	Intelligence	Mage	AoE
Ascended		Satrana – Flame Weaver	Intelligence	Mage	Burst Damage
Ascended		Antandra – Desert Fury	Agility	Warrior	Tank
Ascended		Tidus – Shadowmane	Agility	Ranger	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Skriath – The Wise One	Intelligence	Mage	AoE
Ascended		Anoki – The Blood Guard	Strength	Warrior	Control
Ascended		Drez – The Quicksand Recluse	Agility	Ranger	Burst Damage
Ascended		Kren – The Fanatical	Agility	Ranger	Continuous Damage

Rarity	Icon	Name	Type	Role 1	Role 2
Legendary+		Ankhira – Deceptive Beauty	Intelligence	Control	Debuffer
Legendary+		Golus – The Bladestorm	Strength	Tank	Control
Legendary+		Saveas – Strongheart	Agility	Continuous Damage	Burst Damage
Common		Bloodsnarl	Strength	Continuous Damage	AoE
Common		Arkadios	Intelligence	Continuous Damage	Debuffer

 Wilders

Rarity	Icon	Name	Type	Class	Role
Ascended		Nemora – Nature's Heart	Intelligence	Support	Regen
Ascended		Kaz – Hand Of The Wood	Agility	Ranger	Assassin
Ascended		Lyca – Keeper Of Glades	Agility	Ranger	Buffer
Ascended		Ulmus – Aldermarrow	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		Gorvo – The Indomitable	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		Eironn – Stormsword	Agility	Ranger	AoE
Ascended		Tasi – Dreamhopper	Intelligence	Support	Control
Ascended		Seirus – Savior of the Sea	Strength	Warrior	Tank
Ascended		Lorsan – Wind Whisperer	Intelligence	Mage	AoE
Ascended		Solise – The Floral Wonder	Intelligence	Mage	Control
Ascended		Saurus – The Risen Warrior	Strength	Warrior	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Pippa – The Muddled Magician	Intelligence	Mage	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Respen – The Windchild	Agility	Ranger	Burst Damage
Ascended		Raku – The Rascal	Agility	Ranger	Burst Damage

Rarity	Icon	Name	Type	Role 1	Role 2
Legendary+		Ira – Rogue of the Forest	Agility	Continuous Damage	Debuffer
Legendary+		Ogi – Nature's Strength	Strength	Tank	Control
Legendary+		Arden – Nature's Voice	Intelligence	Control	Burst Damage
Common		Dreaf	Intelligence	Continuous Damage	Debuffer
Common		Eletha	Strength	Continuous Damage	AoE

 Graveborns

Rarity	Icon	Name	Type	Class	Role
Ascended		Grezhul – The Corrupted	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		Shemira – The Corpsemaker	Intelligence	Mage	AoE
Ascended		Oden – Bitterblight	Intelligence	Mage	AoE
Ascended		Isabella – The Taken Soul	Intelligence	Mage	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Ferael – Doomwhisper	Agility	Ranger	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Thoran – The Fallen King	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		Kelthur – Plaguegrip	Agility	Ranger	Assassin
Ascended		Nara – Heartcarver	Strength	Warrior	Assassin
Ascended		Baden – The Abomination	Agility	Warrior	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Izold – The Forgotten Champion	Strength	Warrior	Tank
Ascended		Torne – The Wandering Corsair	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		Daimon – The Forsaken Child	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		Theowyn – The Wailing Widow	Agility	Ranger	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Silas – Augmented Death	Intelligence	Support	Buffer
Ascended		Desira – The Sinister Siren	Intelligence	Support	Regen

Rarity	Icon	Name	Type	Role 1	Role 2
Legendary+		Niru – The Whispering Doom	Intelligence	Tank	Continuous Damage
Legendary+		Silvina – The Taken Breath	Agility	Assassin	Burst Damage
Legendary+		Vedan – The Demise	Agility	Tank	AoE
Common		Steixius	Strength	Continuous Damage	Debuffer
Common		Sezis	Strength	Continuous Damage	Control

 Celestials

Rarity	Icon	Name	Type	Class	Role
Ascended		Athalia – Harbinger of Justice	Agility	Ranger	Assassin
Ascended		Elijah & Lailah – Celestial Twins	Intelligence	Support	Buffer
Ascended		Flora – The Serene Promise	Intelligence	Mage	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Orthros – The Seer of Origins	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		Talene – The Rising Phoenix	Agility	Support	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Wu Kong – The Monkey King	Strength	Warrior	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Zaphrael – The Righteous	Intelligence	Mage	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Alna – The Frozen Mother	Agility	Warrior	Debuffer
Ascended		Morael – Queen of Star	Intelligence	Mage	Continuous Damage

 Hypogeans

Rarity	Icon	Name	Type	Class	Role
Ascended		Ezizh – Hellborn	Strength	Support	Debuffer
Ascended		Mehira – The Mind Cager	Intelligence	Mage	Control
Ascended		Zolrath – Voidbinder	Agility	Warrior	Assassin
Ascended		Khazard – The Frozen Terror	Intelligence	Mage	Control
Ascended		Mezoth – Abysmal Butcher	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		Lucretia – The Betrayed	Agility	Ranger	Assassin
Ascended		Mortas – The Insidious	Agility	Support	Regen

 Dimensionals

Rarity	Icon	Name	Type	Class	Role
Ascended		Arthur – Pendragon	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		Nakoruru – Nature's Guardian	Agility	Ranger	Burst Damage
Ascended		Ukyo – Wandering Swordsman	Agility	Warrior	Continuous Damage
Ascended		Ezio – Auditore da Firenze	Agility	Ranger	Assassin
Ascended		Ainz Ooal Gown – Magic Caster	Intelligence	Mage	Burst Damage
Ascended		Albedo – The Pure-White Devil	Strength	Tank	Tank
Ascended		JOKER – Leader of Few Words	Agility	Ranger	Continuous Damage
Ascended		QUEEN – Courageous Tactician	Strength	Warrior	Continuous Damage

And that's it with our AFK Arena heroes list. You can also check our Genshin Impact characters, Among Us characters, and Danganronpa characters lists.