New Champion: Aerion Targaryen
Greetings House Leaders,
Cruel, calculating, and driven by the delusion of his own dragon blood, Prince Aerion Targaryen has arrived to scorch all who stand before him. Read on to learn more about this new Legendary Champion, and play now to test out this Champion’s might!
New Champion
Aerion Targaryen
Rarity: Legendary
Faction: Targaryen
Class: Renowned Marksman
Gem Color: Green
Aerion Targaryen is an executioner who hunts the enemy's weakest link and punishes them for every burn and cut they already carry. Living in an era without living dragons, he believes himself to be one, and fights with physical strikes that ignore TAUNT entirely. Aerion marks the Weakest enemy with DRAGON FOLLOWER, strips their STEALTH, and hits far harder when that target is already afflicted with FIRE or BLEED - hardest of all when they carry both. As his team clears the field, BRIGHTFLAME stacks turn the whole roster into a rising threat
Skill
Not Clever Enough? – Aerion ignores TAUNT to afflict the Weakest enemy with DRAGON FOLLOWER and strikes them for ATK Physical Damage. If that enemy is already afflicted with BLEED or FIRE, he deals additional ATK Physical Damage, doubled if the enemy is afflicted with both.
Trait
A Trial of Seven – Aerion carries a Power Buff until he uses his Skill for the first time, then trades it for STEALTH for several turns. Whenever an ally afflicts FIRE or BLEED on an enemy, Aerion has a chance to apply the other debuff. At higher ranks he also has a chance to regain STEALTH whenever an enemy marked with DRAGON FOLLOWER is defeated.
Leader
A Matter of Targaryen Honor – All team members start combat with 1 BRIGHTFLAME and gain more BRIGHTFLAME whenever an enemy is defeated; each stack is an indefinite Power Buff.
Champion Strategy
Aerion is a single-target executioner whose damage lives or dies on debuff setup. Because his Skill auto-targets the Weakest enemy and ignores TAUNT, he reaches the fragile backline that Protectors are built to hide. The play pattern is to apply FIRE and BLEED first, then Skill: both bonus strikes land and the additional damage doubles. His Trait helps close that gap on its own, converting a single FIRE into BLEED or vice versa, so even one debuffer can set up the full payout. As Leader, every kill he sets up raises the whole team's Power through BRIGHTFLAME, so House Leaders should open on the Weakest target and snowball, while keeping allies alive since ally deaths burn stacks off the team.
Synergies
Three Champions:
Alicent Hightower (Queen Dowager) - Alicent's Skill sets every enemy on FIRE, so whichever champion ends up Weakest is already burning by the time Aerion goes hunting. His Trait can then add BLEED on top, which is the condition that doubles his bonus damage. Her healing is a bonus you'll feel as Leader, since allies dying strips BRIGHTFLAME off the whole team.
Osha (Wildling Guardian) - Osha stacks several BLEED onto a single enemy and grants your whole team STEALTH on the way out. Use her skill on the lowest-HP enemy and his Trait can flip it into FIRE so both bonus strikes land. The team-wide STEALTH also layers onto the STEALTH Aerion gains after his first Skill, letting him execute and then disappear.
Daenerys Targaryen (The Mother of Dragons) - Your FIRE engine. Dracarys! hits the entire enemy team and gets bigger for every FIRE stack on each target, and her Passive adds more FIRE whenever she crits, giving Aerion's Trait plenty to convert. Run her as Leader instead of Aerion and every enemy starts the battle already burning, so Aerion's very first Skill can pay out in full.
Best Team
Aerion Targaryen (The Brightflame)
Alicent Hightower (Queen Dowager)
Osha (Wildling Guardian)
Walder Frey (Lord of the Riverlands)
Drogon (The Winged Shadow)
Best Battle Modes
Raids
In Raids, Aerion can deal huge damage when the Weakest enemy is marked with both BLEED and FIRE. His Leader snowballs the team when they can defeat enemies, preferably the DRAGON FOLLOWER, quickly. He is the first new champion to join the Way of Whispers faction, and his dual faction Targaryen identity makes him a unique combination of BLEED & FIRE.
Legendary Assault
In Legendary Assault, Aerion is one of the best champions in the game against Rhaegal. With Rhaegals weakness to both BLEED and FIRE, players can now build the strongest FIRE-and-BLEED dual-faction Targaryen–Way of Whispers team with Aerion is the centre of it dealing huge damage from his Skill and applying Debuffs through his passive.
New Summon
October 21, at 4 a.m. ET – November 18, at 2 a.m. ET
The Brightflame – Featuring Legendary Champions Aerion Targaryen, Osha, Walder Frey, Rhaenyra Targaryen, Alicent Hightower, Egg. This summon will require exalted tokens.
New Proving Grounds
October 21, at 4 a.m. ET – November 1, at 2 a.m. ET
Master Aerion Targaryen’s skills and test his might in the Brightflame Proving Grounds. Battle your way through various challenges to learn new strategies to defend your allies, defeat your enemies, and learn how best to use Aerion’s abilities to the utmost!
– The Game of Thrones: Legends Team