Evelynn
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Excellent (8/10)
Low Investment
Rare Relics OK
Evelynn is a highly effective champion capable of clearing difficult encounters with minimal investment. However, her gameplay loop is frequently described as linear and repetitive, and her deck struggles significantly if she is not drawn early.
Optimal Consistency
Solves Evelynn's primary weakness by ensuring she is drawn consistently, while also reducing the cost of her champion spell.
Capitalizes on Evelynn's ability to level up multiple times, repeatedly stunning the enemy board to prevent counterattacks.
Provides a rally effect every time Evelynn levels up, allowing for multiple attacks in a single round to quickly close out the game.
Strategy
This build focuses on absolute consistency and board control. Echoing Spirit guarantees Evelynn's presence, which is mandatory for the deck to function, and reduces the cost of her champion spell.
Once she is deployed alongside a Husk, Tempest Blade and Crownguard Inheritance create a devastating loop of stuns and rallies. This allows you to dismantle the opponent's Nexus while they are completely incapacitated.
Zoe 10-Star Clear
Zoe Specialized
- Grants a Rally when Evelynn levels up, providing an immediate attack token for a powerful follow-up attack.
- Stuns all enemies when Evelynn levels up, clearing the board for a free and unhindered Rally attack.
Grants Overwhelm to Evelynn, ensuring that her powerful attacks can bypass enemy blockers and deal lethal damage.
Strategy
This build is specifically tailored for the 10-star Zoe adventure, focusing on a powerful level-up combination. Crownguard Inheritance grants a Rally when Evelynn levels up, providing an immediate attack token.
Tempest Blade stuns all enemies upon level-up, clearing the board for a free attack. The Troll King's Crusher grants Overwhelm, ensuring that Evelynn's attacks bypass stunned blockers and deal lethal damage directly to the Nexus.
Formidable Scaling
Synergizes perfectly with Evelynn's high health scaling, turning her defensive stats into offensive power.
Doubles the effectiveness of stat-buffing spells, significantly increasing her overall bulk and damage.
Grants Overwhelm to ensure her massive stats translate directly into Nexus damage.
Strategy
This build leverages Strength of Stone to turn Evelynn's high health into offensive power. Secret Technique doubles the effectiveness of stat-buffing spells, significantly increasing her overall bulk and damage.
The Beast Within provides Overwhelm to ensure her massive stats translate into Nexus damage. This setup is particularly effective because charmed enemy units do not inherit Formidable, preventing negative anti-synergies while Evelynn herself scales out of control.
Early Aggression
Deals damage to the enemy Nexus at the start of the game, instantly activating plunder effects.
Reduces Evelynn's cost by 2 due to the plunder activation from Swain's Raven Army.- Provides the necessary board control by stunning enemies upon her early level-up.
Strategy
This combination is designed to deploy Evelynn onto the board as early as the first turn. Swain's Raven Army deals damage to the enemy Nexus at the start of the game, instantly activating the cost reduction of Packed Powder.
Deploying Evelynn this early allows her to begin scaling her stats and generating Husks before the opponent can establish any meaningful board presence. Tempest Blade provides the necessary board control by stunning enemies upon her early level-up.
Zoe Defensive Control
Zoe Specialized
Ensures Evelynn is drawn consistently and provides early blockers.
Provides crucial SpellShield protection against Zoe's early removal and control tools.- The core control engine, stunning the board whenever Evelynn levels up.
Strategy
This defensive setup is designed for the 10-star Zoe adventure. Siren's Call ensures Evelynn is drawn consistently, while Black Shield provides crucial SpellShield protection against Zoe's early removal and control tools.
Tempest Blade remains the core control engine, stunning the board whenever Evelynn levels up to create safe attacking windows.
Other Relic Options
- Players disagree about Siren's Call. Some consider it essential for ensuring Evelynn is drawn and providing early blockers. While others find its impact too low compared to the consistency and spell discounts offered by Echoing Spirit.
Excellent for accelerating Evelynn's deployment, especially when combined with adventure powers that summon Husks at the start of the game.
Can be used to accelerate her mana curve if you can boost her base stats to the Titanic threshold, often paired with Luminous Orb or Strength of Stone.- Provides crucial protection against removal-heavy encounters and specific adventure modifiers that target vulnerable units, ensuring Evelynn survives her initial deployment.
Considered a trap by many players. While it triggers multiple times due to her level-ups, the summoned units quickly fill the board and cannot be consumed by Husks, hindering her scaling.
Evelynn's relic flexibility is relatively low, as her core strategy heavily relies on level-up triggers. Defensive relics should be considered when facing encounters with heavy removal.
Constellation
Evelynn's constellation upgrades solidify her early-game tempo, but she is already a formidable champion at three stars. Her upgrades focus on accelerating her deployment and scaling her stats rather than altering her core linear strategy. She is considered one of the strongest champions for newer accounts due to her low reliance on epic upgrades.
Peak of Ecstasy
When you level up an ally champion, grant allies everywhere +1|+1.
Love Eternal
+1 Starting Mana. The first time you kill an allied follower each round, create a Fleeting copy of it in hand.
Peak of Ecstasy II
When you level up an ally champion, grant allies everywhere +2|+2.
Biggledust Sprinkle
When you summon a created ally, grant it +1|+1.Review
Provides a minor stat boost to created allies and helps Husks survive. This is particularly useful for specific encounters where zero-power units might otherwise die at round end.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
A massive power spike that grants an extra starting mana gem. This allows Evelynn to be played on Turn 2, or even Turn 1 with cost-reduction relics, significantly improving her tempo and consistency.
Night's Kiss
When an allied Husk grants stats to an ally, it grants double the amount.Review
Causes Husks to grant double stats. While it offers incredible scaling, many players consider it a supplementary upgrade since Evelynn's core stun and rally loop usually secures the game before this scaling becomes strictly necessary.
Gameplay Tips
- Aggressive Mulligan Strategy
Always mulligan aggressively to find Evelynn. Her base deck lacks strong win conditions without her, making her presence on the board absolutely critical for success. If she is not drawn, the deck struggles to generate meaningful pressure.
- Optimal Deployment Timing
The ideal opening sequence involves playing a low-cost unit on the first turn to generate a Husk, followed by playing Evelynn on the second turn. This immediately triggers her level-up, granting her the Husk's stats and activating relics like Tempest Blade.
- Managing Board Space
Be cautious when selecting powers that summon multiple units or Husks at the start of the game. A full board prevents Evelynn from generating new Husks or charming enemy units, which can severely stall her progression and limit her effectiveness.
- Support Champion Synergies
Fiddlesticks is an excellent support champion because his signature item places him in the enemy deck, guaranteeing that you draw Evelynn. Conversely, avoid support champions with Ephemeral units (like Zed), as their deaths will unnecessarily advance Evelynn's level-up counter.
- Advanced Charm Tactics
If you charm an enemy follower, applying a Silence effect to it before it returns to the opponent will allow you to keep it permanently. Additionally, if you charm an enemy unit with Deathless and kill it, you will retain the revived version.