Yarn Granny
Hero Skill
Deals 600% ATK DMG each to 1 enemy Hero and 2 nearby enemy Heroes near them every second for 4s, and inflicts Confine on them for 4s. During these 4s, each time these enemy Heroes are attacked, there is a 45% chance they cannot receive any healing for 4s. (Skill Cooldown: 6s) Passive Effects: 1. Reduces DMG taken by 70% 2. This Hero is Sturdy - This Hero cannot receive DMG per hit that exceeds 15% of their HP. 3. Fast Energy recovery 4. Each time Yarn Granny releases a Skill, she gains 1 layer of Weave Star effect. When the Weave Star effect stacks to 2 layers, it explodes: Frighten all enemy units for 5 seconds (ignoring immunity to conditions), dealing 8% of Max HP as DMG per second during these 5 seconds, and increase DMG taken by 55% (if killed by this DMG, cannot Revive). 5. When Yarn Granny releases a Skill for the first time, cause 1 friendly Hero to enter the Companion Star state. While in this state, each time the Hero releases a Skill, it will add 1 layer of Weave Star effect to Yarn Granny.
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Yarn Granny build analysis
Yarn Granny is an epic crowd control hero. Compared with the other 11 epic crowd control heroes in the database, Yarn Granny leans durable, with base HP near the top of its class while ATK sits lower. Among top players, the most settled part of the build is trait (Accuracy, 73.8%) and the least settled is pet (Earth Roots (M), only 7.9%), 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. Yarn Granny's top talent, Revive, is picked 38.7% of the time, which is 14.2 points more settled than the typical hero (median 24.5%).
| Slot | Top pick | Runner-up | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talent | Revive (38.7%) | Revitalize (7.7%) | clear favourite |
| Insignia | Revitalize Insignia (38.5%) | Survival Insignia (15.5%) | clear favourite |
| Square Insignia | Winged Rebirth Insignia (56.4%) | Fairy Circle Insignia (8.1%) | near-universal |
| Equipment | Holy Conviction (31.7%) | Abyss Seal (10.0%) | clear favourite |
| Trait | Accuracy (73.8%) | HP (9.6%) | near-universal |
| Pet | Earth Roots (M) (7.9%) | Earth Roots (5.5%) | 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 crowd control heroes
| Stat | Yarn Granny | Peer median | Rank vs peers | Rank overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base ATK | 400 | 400 | 5 / 12 | 41 / 208 |
| Base HP | 14,800 | 13,500 | 1 / 12 | 8 / 208 |
| ATK growth per level | 20 | 20 | 3 / 12 | 25 / 208 |
| HP growth per level | 310 | 310 | 4 / 12 | 33 / 208 |
| Attack interval (lower is faster) | 1,400 ms | 1,400 | 5 / 12 | 117 / 208 |
| Move speed | 300 | 315 | 9 / 12 | 95 / 208 |
Across all 208 heroes of every rarity, base ATK ranks 41st of 208 and base HP ranks the 8th-highest (top 10%). Its skill has a 6s cooldown. It also has passive effects that work without using the skill, listed in the skill description above.
Heroes with similar builds
17 other heroes share Yarn Granny's core pairing of Revive + Revitalize Insignia: Commodora, Drakhaira, Evil Butcher, Atlanticore, Succubus, Hellbrute, Bone Butcher, Chronos, and 9 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 Yarn Granny's:
- Bone Butcher (epic, crowd control): overlap score 321, same top talent (Revive)
- Red Queen (epic, crowd control): overlap score 317, same top talent (Revive)
- Drakhaira (epic, offensive): overlap score 310, same top talent (Revive)
- Cyclonica (epic, offensive): overlap score 300
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.