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Packmaster Shy’ek Overview
Packmaster Shy’ek is a Legendary HP Champion from the Orcs faction who breaks away from traditional tank design by relying on the ferocity of his pack. Instead of serving as a simple frontline tank, he thrives when supported by his hounds, turning his kit into a blend of sustain, disruption, and offensive pressure. He brings unstrippable buffs, irresistible Block Buffs to counter enemy strategies, and punishing Hex debuffs that amplify ally damage. This combination makes him invaluable in Hydra, Arena, and endgame PvE encounters where control and buff manipulation decide the outcome. With Shy’ek, you are not just fielding a tank, you are commanding an alpha whose strength grows through the pack at his side.
His A1, Kill Command, is the foundation of his offensive pressure. It hits a single target with a chance to place Decrease DEF, then calls his beasts — Terrorbeast, Goremask, Hound Spawn, Hellfang, Stitched Beast, and Krokhad the Throatripper to join in with their default skills. This turns what would normally be a single-target strike into a devastating coordinated assault. In Arena, it can collapse defensive anchors in one exchange, especially with Krokhad adding immense damage. In PvE, Kill Command excels in Fire Knight, Hydra, and Doom Tower waves, where multiple hits and consistent Decrease DEF give your team faster battle tempo and tighter control over enemies. Combined with his passive, which punishes enemies who attack him, Shy’ek ensures there is constant pressure on the battlefield, whether it is his turn or not.
His survival and control tools come through Pack Alpha and Blood Howl. Pack Alpha cleanses every debuff from him, heals half his max HP, and converts excess healing into a Shield. With a pack ally beside him, his shield and buffs cannot be stripped or stolen, making him one of the most reliable anti-debuff tanks available. He then applies Taunt and Reflect Damage, forcing opponents to attack into his defenses, triggering retaliation from his hounds and amplifying damage through Hex. Blood Howl accelerates your team with a 25% Turn Meter fill while applying Block Buffs to enemies for two turns, which cannot be resisted if one of his beasts is present. His passive, We Hunt As One, ties everything together: each time he is struck, he places a Hex on the attacker, allowing allies to deal 20% more damage, while his pack counterattacks in unison. This creates a cycle where every enemy move only fuels more retaliation, steadily breaking down even the toughest bosses or PvP opponents.
Packmaster Shy’ek Skills
Kill Command
Attacks 1 enemy. Has a 50% chance of placing a 60% [Decrease DEF] debuff for 2 turns. Then, teams up with any ally Terrorbeasts, Goremasks, Hounds Spawns, Hellfangs, Fellhounds & Stitched Beasts to attack. The allies joining the attack will use their default skills.
Level 2: Damage +10%
Level 3: Buff/Debuff chance +10%
Level 4: Damage +10%
Level 5: Buff/Debuff chance +10%
Damage Multiplier: 0.2 HP
Pack Alpha (Cooldown: 5 turns)
Removes all debuffs from this Champion and heals them by 50% of their MAX HP. Then, places a [Shield] buff on this Champion for 2 turns. The value of the [Shield] is equal to any surplus heal. The [Shield] buff cannot be removed, stolen, or transferred if at least one Terrorbeast, Goremask, Hounds Spawn, Hellfang, Fellhound, or Stitched Beast is on the same team.
Finally, places a [Taunt] buff and a 30% [Reflect Damage] buff on this Champion for 2 turns. These buffs cannot be removed, stolen, or transferred if at least one Terrorbeast, Goremask, Hounds Spawn, Hellfang, Fellhound, or Stitched Beast is on the same team.
Level 2: Cooldown -1
Level 3: Cooldown -1
Blood Howl (Cooldown: 4 turns)
Fills the Turn Meters of all allies by 25%. Also has an 80% chance of placing a [Block Buffs] debuff on all enemies for 2 turns. This debuff cannot be resisted if at least one Terrorbeast, Goremask, Hounds Spawn, Hellfang, Fellhound, or Stitched Beast is on the same team.
Level 2: Buff/Debuff chance +10%
Level 3: Buff/Debuff chance +10%
Level 4: Cooldown -1
We Hunt As One (Passive)
When attacked, places a [Hex] debuff on the attacker for 1 turn. Ally attacks on targets under a [Hex] debuff placed by this Champion deal 20% more damage. When this Champion is attacked, all ally Terrorbeasts, Goremasks, Hounds Spawns, Hellfangs, Fellhounds, Stitched Beasts, and Krokhad the Throatripper will counterattack.
Packmaster Shyek Build Guide
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Recommended ArtifactsPvE: Impulse, Reflex, Relentless |
Stats AllocationWeapon (ATK) |
Stats PriorityDebuffer: ACC, SPD, HP%, DEF% Supporting RolesAlly Tanker |
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Recommended RelicsPvE: Temporal Stagnator, Hand of Uncreation, Hallowed Hilt, Harp of Kasbiel, Infernal Polytope, Infernosphere, Royal Digit, The Deathdealer, The Fleshrender Champion SkillsHeal |
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Packmaster Shy’ek Masteries Guide
Arena, Clan Boss, Doom Tower, Faction Wars
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Campaign, Dungeons
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Support
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Packmaster Shy’ek Reference
Packmaster Shy’ek Hydra Build
To optimize Packmaster Shy’ek for Hydra Clan Boss battles, equip him with the Guardian Set. This setup allows him to absorb damage meant for his allies, enhancing their survivability. Focus on the following stats for his artifacts: Resistance: Prevents the Mischief Hydra Head from stealing and spreading his buffs to other Hydra heads. Accuracy: Ensures he can apply the Block Buff debuff, which stops the Hydra from using Poison Cloud to gain offensive and defensive buffs. Health and Defense: Vital for Shy’ek to endure Hydra attacks and absorb damage from his allies. Speed: Should be kept low to allow the cooldown reduction champion to act twice as often, ensuring Shy’ek’s skills are ready when needed. This build ensures Packmaster Shy’ek can effectively protect and support his team in Hydra battles.
Packmaster Shy’ek Champion Lore
It is said that Packmaster Shy’ek’s birth was heralded by the howling of a hundred Deadlands horned wolves and that he crawled from his crib to play with his clan’s Terrorbeasts when he was scarcely two weeks old. From his earliest days, he preferred canine company to that of his fellow Orcs, including his parents, even adopting habits and mannerisms from the fierce, snarling pack. Though the hounds could have torn young Shy’ek limb from limb, as they had done to other children who wandered too close, they accepted Shy’ek as one of their own. The Crushing Bite clan’s Shaman was convinced the child bore a wolf’s soul misplaced into an Orc’s body.
Growing to adulthood did not diminish this bond. Indeed, it became stronger and by unanimous agreement, Shy’ek became the Packmaster of the clan’s Goremasks and Terrorbeasts when he came of age. He claimed that, by long association and spiritual kinship, he could feel the thoughts and desires of his hounds: their hunger and pain throbbed within him, their eagerness for the hunt hummed behind his eyes and he could send his commands to them with a thought. He even claimed to be able to see through their eyes and channel their incredible sense of smell. Not all believed him but Shy’ek demonstrated uncanny empathy and command over the pack, rousing them to vicious fury or calming them with equal ease.
When his clan’s elder passed away, Shy’ek, then in the prime of adulthood, became the new leader — partly from respect, partly from fear, and partly for the vital role he and his hounds played defending the clan from beasts. Shy’ek was cruel and uncompromising toward his followers, but never his beloved canines. He was yet more vitriolic toward the outsiders that encroached on his hunting grounds and obstructed the nomadic paths which he led his clan down, following seasonal waterways and herd migrations. Travelers, surveyors, prospectors, and High Elf colonists soon feared him and his legendary hunting-pack, the strongest and most favored of which acquired their own infamy: Jakkla the One-Eyed, a Terrorbeast hoary and scarred; Garmar Red-Maw, a Hound Spawn of Anathraad uncontrollably bloodthirsty without Shy’ek’s guidance; and the Rotter, a Stitched Beast taken from a slain necromancer and broken by Shy’ek’s iron will. These and other chosen companions accompanied him at all times as he ate, slept, and fought, while the rest of the pack was never far away.
When his sporadic attacks on individual wayfarers failed to deter Aravian colonists, Shy’ek spurred his clan to raze the Elves’ settlements. Aravians investigating battle sites were baffled to find valuables left scattered amid the carnage, livestock and steeds slaughtered rather than stolen, and fortifications left to crumble rather than occupied by Orcs. Shy’ek would not allow a single trapping of civilization to muzzle or despoil the Deadlands, nor baubles and wealth corrupt the hearts and minds of his people. He loved the wild, untamed freedom of the Deadlands’ canyons and scrubland, how the beasts and the terrain challenged him for his very survival and made him feel alive. He would permit no one to tame that beautiful wilderness with fields and cities.
After months of campaigning, rumors reached Shy’ek of another Orc warlord to the south-east, one unlike any other: a towering inferno of fire-blooded spite called Gharol Bloodmaul. She, too, bore a grudge against a certain bastion of so-called civilization: the necromantic hellhole of lreth. Intrigued, Shy’ek dispatched message-hawks to Gharol and learned that she and her clanmates had been captured and experimented upon by the twisted sorcerer-lords there, only for Gharol to escape to seek revenge. Shy’ek was appalled to hear of the abuse that canines and other innocent animals suffered to satisfy the flesh-crafters’ curiosity, and sympathized deeply with Gharol’s rage and shame at being imprisoned. lreth’s magical pretensions reminded him of the Elven colonists and their own magic, which they loftily proclaimed as superior to all other forms and the path to enlightened prosperity. Given the mage-city of lreth had fallen into amoral corruption, surely it was only a matter of time before the Elves perpetrated something similar near Shy’ek’s own homeland, he thought.
Shy’ek soon departed with a contingent of hounds and warriors to personally meet with Gharol and verify her story. He left the rest of his pack behind in the care of a hardened apprentice with a stern warning that he could sense the hounds’ thoughts and feelings even hundreds of miles away. He would be watching and listening through their eyes and ears for the slightest sign of mistreatment or rebellious sentiment. If the apprentice tried to flee, Shy’ek would track his scent to the ends of the earth.
Packmaster Shy’ek Updates
Packmaster Shy’ek Videos
Bronko: DID U THINK PACKMASTER SHYEK IS THAT USEFULL IN HYDRA?
Skratch: Packmaster Shy’ek Can Do This!! Champions Showcase Raid
Boozor: HES NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED! PACKMASTER SHY’EK PLAY TEST
@Daniel: This refers to speed tuning for Packmaster in a Hydra team. The goal is to set speeds so that Packmaster takes 1 turn while your other champions take 2 turns. For example, if Packmaster’s speed is 120, then your champions who reset skill cooldowns need to be at least double that — 240 or higher. To make the rotation stable, it’s best to add an extra 15 speed above the doubled rate. So in this case, the champion should have 240 + 15 = 255 speed to guarantee they always take two turns for every one of Packmaster’s turns.
Hola ! No entiendo en la referencia del jefe de manada, cuando hablas sobre la velocidad. Lo podrias explicar de otra manera? Gracias !
any update since Kro’khad introduction?