A sacrifice-based composition built around friendly damage, cleansing, healing, Pure Damage, Maximum Health growth and sustain. The strength of this lineup comes from how each Hero's mechanics feed directly into the next.
This team deliberately creates self and allied damage and then turns that sacrifice into an advantage. Cleaver can convert friendly damage into cleansing, Kendle can benefit offensively from it, Dorian and Aidan provide powerful recovery, and Byrna adds another layer of healing, cleansing, Energy generation and Maximum Health growth.
With Heavyweight upgraded to Legendary, whenever Cleaver or an ally takes damage from their own skill or an allied skill, negative effects are removed from that Hero while Cleaver remains alive. This turns the team's sacrifice mechanics into a defensive cleansing engine. Cleaver can also heavily reduce enemy healing through Miasma and Putrefaction.
Agony Surge causes Kendle to damage herself while attacking a ranged enemy with Pure Damage. Friendly damage can also increase her Pure Damage during Reaping Hour. Her sacrifice therefore contributes to both the team's defensive interactions and her own offensive pressure.
Blood Pact creates additional allied damage while strengthening Vampirism and healing. Fountain of Blood and Blood Seal provide major sustain, while Vampirism can also create temporary protection against stun and sleep. Call of Blood gives the composition another major layer by potentially resurrecting a fallen ally.
Phoenix Ritual and Bonds of Fire create more friendly damage, feeding the team's sacrifice mechanics. Fire Embrace can restore Health lost through friendly skills. When an ally becomes critically low, Flame Shield absorbs Physical and Magical Damage based on the total Maximum Health of the entire team.
Byrna adds another source of cleansing through Legendary Bear Cuddle, while Gift Spirit restores Energy. Most importantly, Living Heart can turn excess healing on a fully healed ally into additional Maximum Health. With Dorian, Aidan and Byrna generating substantial healing, that interaction can become extremely valuable — and the growing Health pool can also strengthen Aidan's Flame Shield.
Cleaver and Byrna can both contribute to removing negative effects, making control and debuffs less straightforward.
Dorian, Aidan and Byrna combine healing and Vampirism with mechanics specifically designed to recover sacrificed Health.
Byrna can convert excess healing into Maximum Health, giving the composition another way to become harder to finish.
Aidan's Flame Shield can protect critically low allies, with its durability scaling from the team's total Maximum Health.
Even securing a kill may not end the fight because Dorian can potentially return a fallen ally to battle.
Kendle turns the same sacrifice structure that supports the team defensively into additional Pure Damage pressure.
This composition does not necessarily require every Hero to have fully maxed Relics before important synergies begin to appear. Depending on the Hero, earlier Relic levels can already unlock valuable parts of the team's mechanics.
However, development can strongly influence consistency. Relic levels, Class Glyphs and Health thresholds can determine whether a Hero survives long enough to reach another heal, shield, cleanse or resurrection opportunity.
For this reason, total Power alone does not explain how effective the composition will be. The interaction between the five Heroes is the most important part of the team.
Cleaver, Byrna, Dorian, Kendle and Aidan form a
highly interconnected composition where sacrifice is not simply a
weakness to overcome — it is part of the engine.
Friendly damage can create cleansing and offensive benefits, healing
can become additional Maximum Health, that Health can strengthen
Aidan's defensive shield, and Dorian adds both major sustain and
resurrection potential.
The team has counters and requires meaningful development, but its
strength comes from forcing opponents to deal with several connected
mechanics rather than stopping one isolated ability.
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