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Spirit Blossom Evelynn

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Good (6/10)
High Investment Required
Epic Relics
Paid Relics
Spirit Blossom Evelynn is considered a unique but inconsistent champion. While her unit-stealing mechanics offer high strategic potential, she requires significant constellation investment and struggles against high-stat enemy champions.
Formidable Scaling
  • Strength of Stone icon
    Provides Formidable, allowing Evelynn and her units to utilize their high health pools for combat damage.
  • Secret Technique icon
    Doubles the health gained from her spells, significantly accelerating her scaling and ability to charm large targets.
  • Siphoned Sorrow icon
    Her signature relic provides consistent health drain, ensuring she maintains the health advantage required for her charm mechanic.

Strategy

This build focuses on maximizing Evelynn's health to ensure she can consistently charm enemy units. Strength of Stone converts this massive health pool into offensive power. Secret Technique synergizes perfectly with her champion spell to provide rapid scaling. Opinions are divided on Siphoned Sorrow; some consider its passive health gain essential for maintaining her charm threshold, while others find its random targeting inconsistent in difficult encounters.
Spell Duplication
  • Echoing Spirit icon
    Reduces the cost of her champion spell and increases consistency by adding copies to the deck.
  • Frozen Tomb icon
    Protects Evelynn upon summon and allows for multiple copies to be established on the board.
  • Siphoned Sorrow icon
    Provides passive health drain that scales with multiple copies of Evelynn.

Strategy

This setup leverages Echoing Spirit to discount her champion spell, allowing for frequent casting. Frozen Tomb ensures Evelynn safely enters the board and facilitates strategies involving multiple Evelynn copies, which multiplies the passive health drain from Siphoned Sorrow.
Titanic Ramp
  • Starforged Gauntlets icon
    Provides an essential starting mana gem when Evelynn meets the Titanic threshold.
  • Luminous Orb icon
    Grants the necessary health to activate Starforged Gauntlets while improving her charm threshold.
  • Strength of Stone icon
    Converts the high health from Luminous Orb and her base stats into combat power.

Strategy

Spirit Blossom Evelynn's base kit is slow, making early mana acceleration critical. This build guarantees an extra starting mana gem, allowing her to deploy earlier and establish board control before enemy threats scale out of reach.
Accessible Control

Strategy

A rare-only build designed to sustain Evelynn through longer encounters. Archangel's Staff and The Grand General's Counterplan work together to guarantee she can cast her champion spell every round, gradually scaling her health and controlling the enemy board.
Other Relic Options
  • The Beast Within icon
    Provides Overwhelm, which is crucial for pushing Nexus damage before reaching her 6-star upgrade.
  • Spectral Scissors icon
    Highly effective when placed on support champions to duplicate stolen units, though it functions poorly on Evelynn herself due to her recall mechanic.
  • Found Fortune icon
    Offers card draw and cost reduction, synergizing well with her 6-star power to generate additional board presence.
  • Disciple of Shadows icon
    Can facilitate early deployment by sacrificing generated units, though it requires specific powers to be consistently effective on turn one.
Players disagree about the effectiveness of Spectral Scissors on Evelynn. Some consider its ability to duplicate stolen units highly valuable, while others note that her mechanic of swapping with the challenged unit causes the relic's effect to fail if equipped directly to her.
Constellation
Spirit Blossom Evelynn requires significant constellation investment to overcome her slow early game and high mana costs. Her performance is heavily reliant on acquiring the 'Spirit Armor' (+0/+3) adventure rune, which synergizes perfectly with her health-based charm mechanic. Without high star levels, she struggles against encounters featuring large enemy champions.
  • Icon for Be Mine

    Be Mine

    When an ally strikes, create a Beckoning Gaze in hand, or reduce its cost by 1 if you already have one.
  • Icon for Temptation

    Temptation

    +1 Starting Mana. Stolen allies have +2|+0.
    Review
    Considered highly ineffective. The Impact damage does not stack efficiently if multiple copies of Evelynn are on the board, and she rarely levels up before the outcome of the match is already decided.
  • Icon for Be Mine II

    Be Mine II

    When an ally strikes, create a 6 cost Beckoning Gaze in hand, or reduce its cost by 1 if you already have one.
    Review
    Provides a necessary cost reduction to her primary spell, allowing her to interact with the board earlier in the match.
  • Icon for Bathe in Blood

    Bathe in Blood

    When an ally dies, grant allies in hand +0|+1.
    Review
    Opinions are divided on this upgrade. While it provides passive stat scaling to units in hand, the generated 1-cost units can quickly clutter the board, preventing Evelynn from having the open space required to charm enemy units.
  • Icon for Manaflow

    Manaflow

    Game Start: Get a mana gem.
    Review
    Crucial for her viability. The additional starting mana is necessary to correct her slow tempo and allows her to establish a presence before being overwhelmed by aggressive encounters.
  • Icon for Throes of Passion

    Throes of Passion

    When you steal an enemy, give it Overwhelm and double its Power this round.
    Review
    A massive power spike that resolves her lack of finishing power. By granting Overwhelm and doubling the stats of stolen units, it turns her charmed targets into definitive win conditions and frees up relic slots that would otherwise be dedicated to Overwhelm.
Gameplay Tips
  • Manage Board Space Carefully
Spirit Blossom Evelynn cannot charm an enemy unit if your board is full. Avoid over-committing small units or generated poros to ensure you always have an open slot for a high-value stolen target.
  • Understand Charm Limitations
Her charm ability requires her to have strictly more health than the target. Be cautious when blocking with Evelynn, as taking damage reduces her health pool and limits her ability to charm larger threats on subsequent turns.
  • Enemy Champions Revert on Theft
When you successfully charm a leveled-up enemy champion, it will revert to its Level 1 form upon joining your side of the board. This makes her less effective at neutralizing fully scaled boss champions in high-difficulty adventures.
  • Optimize the Starting Deck
Consider cutting 'Withering Wail' and 'Stirred Spirits' at healer nodes. Withering Wail is often too expensive for its impact, and Stirred Spirits can create awkward timing issues with her core game plan.
  • Control Charm Targeting
If you do not want to charm a specific enemy unit during combat, simply avoid challenging that unit with Evelynn. Her charm only activates on the unit she directly challenges.