Abyss Apostle

Abyss Apostle

EpicOffensive Heroes
ATK370
HP12,000
ATK SPD1,500
Move SPD315
Range10
ATK/Lv+18
HP/Lv+320

Hero Skill

Cryptic Sermon
Cryptic SermonLv.10

Summons 1 Sermon Circle on 1 enemy unit, with this unit at the center of the area of effect (Cooldown: 6s). *Sermon Circle: All enemy targets within the Sermon Circle receive 400% ATK DMG every second for 5s, and their basic attacks increase their next Skill's cooldown by 0.4s (ignores immunity to all conditions). When the Sermon Circle is in play, increases all Friendly Heroes' ATK by 20% (can be stacked). Passive Effects: 1. Immune to Silence and Demon Seal 2. Reduces DMG received by 70% 3. Every 6s, this Hero enters Sermon State for 3s. During Sermon State, the cooldown of his Active Skill becomes 1s, and he recovers HP equal to 10% of his Max HP.

Recommended Attributes

Community builds for Abyss Apostle

Submitted, reviewed and voted on by players in the Clasher Codex. These are recommendations from experienced players, often for a specific game mode, and are separate from the IGG top-player data above.

Abyss Apostle build analysis

Abyss Apostle is an epic offensive hero. Compared with the other 41 epic offensive heroes in the database, Abyss Apostle sits in the middle of its class on raw stats. Among top players, the most settled part of the build is trait (Accuracy, 42.0%) and the least settled is pet (Fragmented Time, only 4.1%), so the pet slot is where you have the most freedom to adapt.

How settled is each slot?

The pick rate of the most popular option shows how much top players agree. Abyss Apostle's top talent, Sacred Light, is picked 26.3% of the time, which is about the same as the typical hero.

Slot Top pick Runner-up Verdict
Talent Sacred Light (26.3%) Revive (10.6%) contested
Insignia Empower Insignia (33.5%) Revitalize Insignia (10.5%) clear favourite
Square Insignia Winged Rebirth Insignia (28.9%) Blood Barrier Insignia (7.5%) contested
Equipment Holy Conviction (13.5%) Abyss Seal (5.5%) no consensus
Trait Accuracy (42.0%) HP (23.4%) clear favourite
Pet Fragmented Time (4.1%) Fragmented Time (M) (3.1%) no consensus

Near-universal is 50% or more, clear favourite 30–50%, contested 15–30%, no consensus under 15%. When a slot is contested, the runner-up is usually a reasonable substitute if you don't own the top pick.

Stats compared with other epic offensive heroes

Stat Abyss Apostle Peer median Rank vs peers Rank overall
Base ATK 370 415 39 / 42 75 / 208
Base HP 12,000 12,000 20 / 42 59 / 208
ATK growth per level 18 20 33 / 42 64 / 208
HP growth per level 320 300 4 / 42 16 / 208
Attack interval (lower is faster) 1,500 ms 1,400 30 / 42 157 / 208
Move speed 315 325 28 / 42 56 / 208

Across all 208 heroes of every rarity, base ATK ranks 75th of 208 and base HP ranks 59th of 208. Its skill has a 6s cooldown. Part of its skill ignores immunity, so enemies that are normally immune to conditions can still be affected. It also has passive effects that work without using the skill, listed in the skill description above.

Heroes with similar builds

21 other heroes share Abyss Apostle's core pairing of Sacred Light + Empower Insignia: Ripper, Grief Harpist, Jewellee, Lightchaser, Soul Seeker, Electroranger, Michael, Phobos, and 13 more. If you're rebuilding one of them, the same talent and insignia usually carry over.

Looking at every slot, not just talent and insignia, these heroes' builds overlap most with Abyss Apostle's:

  • Soul Seeker (epic, offensive): overlap score 249, same top talent (Sacred Light)
  • Shysickle (epic, offensive): overlap score 240
  • Mako Warrior (epic, multiclass): overlap score 237
  • Electroranger (epic, offensive): overlap score 236, same top talent (Sacred Light)

Overlap score adds up the shared pick rate across all six slots. 0 means nothing in common, and 600 would mean identical builds.

Data source: base stats, skill text and pick rates come from IGG's official Castle Clash hero data, which reports what top players equip. The rankings, consensus ratings and similarity scores above are calculated by CastleClash Builds. See the methodology for details.