New Hero Wars Hero First Look: Lyria!
- Charlie-HWC
- 16 hours ago
- 3 min read
The Next New Hero Wars Dominion Era Hero is Coming Soon!
Lyria's Role
Warrior
Front-Line
Strength Based
Lyria's Skills
Ultimate (Gray Ability)
Soul Reaper
Lyria collects a soul every time someone dies on the battlefield. Once activated, Lyria opens a portal to the real of the dead, unleashing vengeful spirits. The portal releases at least 3 spirits, with each of them dealing one strike. The number of extra spirits scales with the number of reaped souls but cannot exceed 7.
Each extra hit consumes one reaped soul. All hits target the enemy with the lowest health.
Charlie's Notes:
While we do not yet know the damage scaling, or damage type, this will target the high-damage low health enemies; if it's a physical attack, you hope it targets a mage or support/healer/control hero. If it's pure or magic damage, the target won't matter as much.
Does this skill ALSO block Astaroth/Rufus revive?
Green Ability
Bonds of Alliance
Lyria binds herself to the ally with the highest physical attack for 12 seconds. Both Lyria and the bonded ally receive a vampirism bonus.
While the Bonds of Alliance are active, vampirism restores health for them both. If the the bonded ally is Undead, they both get a physical attack bonus.
Charlie's Notes:
The obvious initial idea is to pair Lyria with the available Undead heroes, Corvus, Morrigan, and Phobos. This green skill would then bind to Corvus, giving him bonus healing on top of Morrigan's Undead healing (Moonlight) and defense (Bone Armor).
Remember that Keira is not Undead until she dies in combat. I'd probably won't Phobos, as there are stronger mage/control heroes to level up that would be just as effective as a 4th slot hero. Additionally, she will pair well with any high physical attack hero, such as Keira, Dante, Ishmael, Karkh, or QingMao.
Blue Ability
Children of the Grave
Lyria summons 3 Spirits. The spirits chase the enemy who has dealt the most damage in the last 10 seconds.
The effect lasts 10 seconds. While the spirits are present, the chased hero cannot attack anyone except them(spirits), while other heroes cannot target the spirits.
Charlie's Notes:
Paired with the Ultimate (Gray) ability, we again are targeting the enemy who's put out the most damage. Now not only are we doing extra damage to them, we are taking them out of the fight completely for 10 seconds. What type of control effect is this? Can it be blocked by Sebastian? Can it be removed by Nebula or Celeste? Note that Phobos' Paralysis Ult skill has a similar functionality...
Violet Ability
Shackles of Doom
Passive Skill
The hero (Lyria) exudes an aura that decreases the dodge stat of all enemies with the area of effect. All effected enemies receive additional physical damage from physical attacks.
The size of the aura scales with the number of undead units in the allied team.
Charlie's Notes:
And here is the final skill of Lyria: a built-in dodge counter. There are 4* undead heroes: Corvus, Morrigan, Phobos, and now Lyria. Keira only becomes undead when she dies. We can assume Lyria won't count as an "ally."
Since Phobos doesn't do physical damage, my guess is that we will most commonly see Lyria grouped with Corvus and Morrigan, or added to another high physical attack hero like Keira.
Lyria's Artifacts
Armor Penetration Artifact Weapon
Armor + Magic Defense Book
Ring of Strength
Lyria's Glyphs
(not verified 100%)
Armor Penetration
Magic Defense
Armor
??????
Strength
Lyria's Skins
Default Skin - Strength
Early Lyria Combo Ideas
Straight Undead (Corvus/Morrigan/Lyria)
Heavy physical attack (Lyria/Dante, Lyria/Keira, Lyria/Karkh)
Early Lyria Counters
Any non-dodge, anti-physical attack Teams
double armor artifacts
magic or pure damage teams
"Blender" style attack teams (QM/Neb/Seb/Lara)
Stun, or other Control Teams (Arachne, Lian, Ninja Turtles)