Champion

	Champion that which you love. He who fights for nothing dies for nothing.

The Champion is an Ascendancy class for Duelists.

Overview

The Champion is a class that is both offence- and defence-oriented, with some capability for supporting allies. The Champion's signature asset is a permanent maximum Fortitude effect that extends to nearby allies, greatly simplifying defence and uniquely allowing non-melee builds to maintain Fortification. The Champion also has access to improved impale damage scaling, unconstrained valour generation for placing multiple banners, and a strong adrenaline boost when brought to low life. For enemies, the Champion can apply several useful debuffs, including intimidate, taunt, and the inability to evade attacks.

Passive skills

Minor skills

This class has the following minor passive skills:

Name	Stats
Armour and Evasion, Attack Damage	15% increased Evasion Rating and Armour 10% increased Attack Damage [1]
Armour and Evasion, Attack Damage while Fortified	15% increased Evasion Rating and Armour 10% increased Damage with Attack Skills while Fortified [1] [2]
Armour and Evasion, Aura Effect	15% increased Evasion Rating and Armour 5% increased effect of Non-Curse Auras from your Skills [1] [2]
Armour and Evasion, Impale Chance	15% increased Evasion Rating and Armour 10% chance to Impale Enemies on Hit with Attacks [1]
Armour and Evasion, Taunt Duration	15% increased Evasion Rating and Armour 20% increased Taunt Duration [1]

Notable skills

The class has the following notable passive skills:

Skill	Modifiers	Prerequisite	Preceding Passive
Inspirational	30% increased effect of Non-Curse Auras from your Skills When you leave your Banner's Area, recover 30% of the Valour consumed for that Banner You and Allies near your Banner Regenerate 0.1% of Life per second for each Valour consumed for that Banner		Armour and Evasion, Aura Effect
Worthy Causes	Having a placed Banner does not prevent you gaining Valour Banner Skills have 100% increased Duration	Inspirational	Armour and Evasion, Aura Effect
First to Strike, Last to Fall	Your Hits permanently Intimidate Enemies that are on Full Life Gain Adrenaline for 20 seconds when you reach Low Life Remove all Ailments and Burning when you gain Adrenaline Recover 25% of Life when you gain Adrenaline		Armour and Evasion, Attack Damage
Fortitude	You have your maximum Fortification Nearby Allies count as having Fortification equal to yours		Armour and Evasion, Attack Damage while Fortified
Unstoppable Hero	3% increased Attack Speed per Fortification above 20 3% more Armour and Evasion Rating per Fortification above 20	Fortitude	Armour and Evasion, Attack Damage while Fortified
Worthy Foe	Enemies Taunted by you take 15% increased Damage Enemies Taunted by you cannot Evade Attacks Taunt on Hit		Armour and Evasion, Taunt Duration
Master of Metal	Impales you inflict last 1 additional Hit If you've Impaled an Enemy Recently, you and nearby Allies have +1000 to Armour You and nearby Allies deal 6 to 12 added Physical Damage for each Impale on Enemy		Armour and Evasion, Impale Chance

Version History

Version	Changes
3.26.0	The Worthy Foe Ascendancy Passive Skill no longer requires Conqueror, and now has You Taunt on Hit. The Conqueror Ascendancy Passive Skill has been replaced with the new Worthy Causes Notable, that grants Having a placed Banner does not prevent you gaining Valour, and Banner Skills have 50% increased Duration. Requires Inspirational.
3.25.0	The Unstoppable Hero Ascendancy Passive Skill has swapped positions with Fortitude.
3.22.0	[Ruthless-specific] The Unstoppable Hero and Fortitude Ascendancy Passive Skills have swapped position on the Champion Ascendancy in Ruthless.
3.15.0	The small passives prior to and after Unstoppable Hero no longer have 5% increased Effect on Fortify on you. They now have 10% increased Attack Damage while you have Fortify.
3.13.0	A small passives leading to Fortitude (Armour and Evasion, Attack Damage) replaced with Armour and Evasion, Fortify Effect
3.5.0	New Notable - Master of Metal: 20% chance to Impale Enemies on Hit with Attacks. Impales you inflict last 2 additional Hits. If you've Impaled an Enemy Recently, you and nearby Allies have +1000 to Armour. You and nearby Allies deal 4 to 8 added Physical Damage per Impale on the Enemy. Added a small passive leading to Master of Metal which grants 15% increased Evasion Rating and Armour, and 8% increased Impale Effect. Inspirational now also causes your Banner skills to reserve no mana, recover 20% of planted Banner Stages when you cast a banner while you have a banner planted, and causes you and nearby allies to recover 0.5% of maximum life per Banner stage when you plant a banner. It also grants 15% increased effect of Non-Curse Auras from your Skills.
3.2.0	All instances of the minor node Armour and Evasion, Melee Damage with Fortify replaced with Armour and Evasion, Melee Damage. Replaced minor node Armour and Evasion, Attack Speed with Armour and Evasion, Melee Damage.
2.3.0	All instances of the minor node Armour and Evasion, Fortify Effect replaced with Armour and Evasion, Melee Damage with Fortify.