Spirit Blossom Evelynn
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Poor (5/10)
High Investment Required
Epic Relics
Spirit Blossom Evelynn is widely considered the weakest of the Spirit Blossom champions and can be inconsistent to play. However, her unique ability to steal enemy units provides a powerful, albeit niche, control playstyle that excels in specific high-difficulty adventures like Zoe.
Infinite Combo
Zoe Specialized
Provides the Augment keyword, which is essential for constantly increasing Evelynn's power from repeatedly playing created units, and grants Overwhelm at 10+ Power.
Enables early summoning of Evelynn by reducing her cost for each ally on board, facilitating quick combo setup.
Provides consistent access to the 1-cost combo piece by guaranteeing a draw and reducing its cost.
Strategy
This build leverages an infinite combo to rapidly scale Spirit Blossom Evelynn's power, allowing for a one-shot Nexus kill. It relies on acquiring the 'Wild Inspiration' power and a 1-cost unit with the 'Spirit Stone' item, which reduces its cost to 0.
Chosen by the Stars provides the Augment keyword, which is essential for constantly increasing Evelynn's power from repeatedly playing the created 0-cost unit. It also grants Overwhelm at 10+ Power for a definitive Nexus strike. Disciple of Shadows enables early summoning of Evelynn by reducing her cost for each ally on board.
Lux's Incandescent Baton is the ideal third relic, providing consistent access to the 1-cost combo piece (like Zaunite Urchin or Clump of Womps) by guaranteeing a draw and reducing its cost. When executing this loop, avoid challenging enemy units with a high-power Evelynn, as challenging flips enemy units and can remove crucial keywords from her targets.
Standard Scaling
Her signature relic provides consistent health drain, ensuring she maintains the health advantage required for her charm mechanic.
Converts her massive health pool into offensive power via Formidable.
Ensures you have the spell mana required to cast her expensive champion spells and maintain board control.
Strategy
A traditional approach that leverages her signature relic, Siphoned Sorrow, to consistently drain health and manage large threats. This ensures she maintains the health advantage required for her charm mechanic.
Strength of Stone converts her massive health pool into offensive power via Formidable. Hidden Tome ensures you have the spell mana required to cast her expensive champion spells and maintain board control.
Formidable Steal
- Provides the necessary sustain and synergizes excellently when multiple copies of Evelynn are on the board.
Provides excellent value for extra scaling and card draw, synergizing well with her 'Star of Discovery' power.- Accelerates her deployment, allowing you to establish a strong board presence early.
Strategy
This build focuses on scaling and stealing enemy units in high-difficulty encounters. Stacked Deck provides excellent value for extra scaling and card draw, synergizing well with her 'Star of Discovery' power.
Siphoned Sorrow provides the necessary sustain to keep Evelynn's health above her targets. Disciple of Shadows accelerates her deployment, allowing you to establish a strong board presence early and begin stealing high-value enemy units.
Aggressive Scaling
Doubles all stats gained from spells, allowing Evelynn to grow rapidly.
Ensures a steady supply of her champion spell by creating discounted copies in the deck.
Provides the Overwhelm necessary to push lethal damage through enemy blockers.
Strategy
An aggressive scaling build designed to leverage stat-doubling for powerful attacks. Secret Technique doubles all stats gained from spells, allowing Evelynn to grow rapidly.
Echoing Spirit ensures a steady supply of her champion spell by creating discounted copies in the deck. The Beast Within provides the Overwhelm necessary to push lethal damage through enemy blockers.
Other Relic Options
Offers card draw and cost reduction, synergizing well with her 6-star power to generate additional board presence.
Highly effective when placed on support champions to duplicate stolen units, though it functions poorly on Evelynn herself due to her recall mechanic.
Can accelerate her game plan by leveraging units dying and the Deathless keyword.
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. While her base kit at 3 stars is effective, she truly shines with higher star levels that enhance her stealing mechanics and provide the stats necessary to charm large enemy champions.
Be Mine
When an ally strikes, create a Beckoning Gaze in hand, or reduce its cost by 1 if you already have one.
Temptation
+1 Starting Mana. Stolen allies have +2|+0.
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 rallies that are highly effective for maintaining offensive pressure, though she is generally considered weaker than other Spirit Blossom champions at this investment level.
Bathe in Blood
When an ally dies, grant allies in hand +0|+1.Review
Performs better than expected, providing necessary stats and flexibility to start stealing enemy followers earlier in the match.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.
Throes of Passion
When you steal an enemy, give it Overwhelm and double its Power this round.Review
While not visually flashy, this upgrade is incredibly powerful. It allows her to steal massive enemy champions and frees up a relic slot that would otherwise be needed for Overwhelm, enabling one-shot victories against bosses like Zoe.
Gameplay Tips
- Beware of Vex's Power
Avoid the Vex encounter or power if possible. It prevents champion spells from granting HP, which completely shuts down Evelynn's scaling.
- Utilize Nab Effects
In the Zoe adventure, drafting "Nab" effects is highly effective for stealing crucial enemy spells like Deny and Minimorph, disrupting Zoe's win conditions.
- Avoid the Abyss
Evelynn struggles significantly in encounters like the "Abyss" where there are no enemy followers to steal, rendering her core mechanic almost worthless.
- Optimize for Infinite Combos
If attempting the infinite combo with Lux's Incandescent Baton, aggressively cut all 2-cost or lower units from your deck at healer nodes to guarantee drawing your combo piece. When using Zaunite Urchin in the loop, always skip its card draw effect to prevent accidentally milling your own deck.
- Leverage the Husks Power
The "Husks" starting power is exceptionally strong for Evelynn, especially at lower star levels, as it provides early board presence and stats.
- 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.
- Beware the 7-Star Bug
There is a known issue at 7 Stars where units stolen via her abilities incorrectly lose the Overwhelm keyword granted by the "Great Overwhelm Defy" power.