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It would be interesting if the hounds did not take up a spot in your team but were put in a storage area called a kennel and entered fights only when hound master abilities were used.

I don't understand why you waste a spot with a hound. Just give him the resist and accuracy he needs to be the mischief tank and do without the hound. He still brings hex, block buffs and taunt. He should be one of the best mischief tanks.

IDK, I'm just flashing back to initial Wixwell tests when everyone was mid about his shield growth before we understood how it worked. For example, I saw speculation that his passive hex might work for ALL ally attacks - so if you paired him with a Fat Man or Mikage then you get insane single target damage. At the very least I think he's probably worth it as a Hydra mischief tank - just build him high resist with no dogs until if/when they release a companion doggo for him. You can always try meme dog strats if that's your thing but he's fairly functional on his own.

Man, every time i see nergagante archer in peoples accounts, it just breaks my heart. She was my most wanted champion in this game, not because of her skills but because of how cool she looks. I am a free to play player, but back when raid did the whole collab with monster hunter and there was an event where it was a 10x chance to her from ancients and sacreds, i spent $575 trying to get her. That was my first time, and the only time i spent money on this game. Just makes me so upset when i see her

I'm skipping this guy without even a single doubt. Reason is simple, if they are going to release a few dogs to go along with him, you first need to pull them, until then the champ is pretty pointless. And we all know the odds of pulling the champs you need in this game. Who knows they may release some login champ or whatever to go with it, but I'm not gonna spend a single minute of effort on this unlikely event.

If you run a pain keeper with him you should have taunt up 100%. That means nobody gets eaten and you are almost guaranteed to reach the turn limit. He covers block buffs for you. So, throw in a provoke option and someone to heal/revive. The rest of the slots can be damage. Should make for a pretty high damage key on whatever difficulty you want to run. I currently use Emic and Nia or Emic and two pain keepers because Emic's taunt is on a 4 turn cool down. Packmaster being on a three turn makes it a bit easier to build a fully auto team that can run to the turn limit.

"Packmaster Shy'ek is BETTER THAN I EXPECTED!!!" Is the next video on my RU-vid. xD

They will probably release a legendary hound to go with him, in a path event or maybe deck event.

I think it really needs to be pointed out that the kit is very decent, even if no hound is around. A1 70% chance for 60% def down is a solid a1. A2 is a 2turn Taunt with 3turn cd (which is the best upkeep in the game right now) + self sustain with a big heal. A3 is a 25% turnmeter fill with Block Buffs (which hopefully places Block Debuffs first, and if so it is a good alternative to any other speed booster against Tormin Teams) Passive has a 100% chance, no cooldown hex when attacked. Yes, Buffs not being removable and Debuffs not being resistable is very good, but even without these skills are very solid.

I'm guessing that if they release a new leggo dog it would be a login champ. It lines up too since Adelyn chase is about to end.

They should just include other "canine" characters as Brakus, Teumisia and Fren´zi. They're not meta and wouldnt break the game, instead they'd have put this fusion on another level.

Interesting kit if there was a good hound to partner with - currently not even close! Plarium should confirm the new hound they clearly have in mind coming soon to allow people to make an informed decision about either going for this guy or skipping.

I missed out on Armanz and Wixwell... I can't take the risk again. Plarium be playing us for fools! Gonna do the fusion and just keep telling myself that the next daily log in champ will be an amazing dog... Honestly, it will. It will. It HAS to be!

2-turn AoE Block Buffs on 3-turn cooldown is solid. 2-turn personal Taunt+Shield+Reflect on 3-turn cooldown is solid. Ignore the dogs, pair him with Emic, and those 3-turn cooldowns can turn to 2-turn cooldowns, due to a skill with a 3-turn cooldown, and Emic has a 2-turn Taunt (on a 4-turn cooldown). This is where I see him being useful, and therefore will go for his fusion. Any Lego/Mythical dog in the future is icing.

I'm going to look forward to the new dog that will come around. Will fuse this champ. Don't want to kick myself like all the folks who didn't fuse Armanz

I think fellhound is only viable in hydra once someone punches up his stats to the max, be with Mithrala as she casts inc def and attack which dually help his damage, and have the max blessing for natures bounty, which is the one that would make his 15% Dec speed into a 30% Dec speed

Is worth mentioning that decapitated heads can’t attack him so he will never apply hex to the exposed necks. Still some to his hex ability but he’s not going to be giving that debuff, or the 20% damage boost, when it really matters for big damage numbers.

A fellhound in cursed, a fellhound in toxic, let the memes begin

u should try him with multiple fellhound maybe he trigger ally atk on all

I foresee a complete 180 in your future. Didn't even test him with a pack of dogs. This was a endgame test if anything. (FacePalm)

Surely this dude will be great fun with four fellhounds. All the fellhounds in stun sets for waves, or just pure damage.

No sir, HH. Plarium missed nothing by not making the prize for the new clan content a dog. Whatever we're supposed to do to get that new legendary prize, it seems like it's going to be a pretty intensive process. The last thing we want Plarium to do is make the prize a champion which requires a second champion in order to reach its potential, especially if the pairing is not that great.

I'd give him a 7/10 for flavour and a 4/10 for actual use. I don't think he'll be good. Think of it this way, a) you need to get the packmaster first of all which means you have to do the fusion, b) you need a whole other character for the packmaster to be of use, let's say the first void mythical works well with him, that means c) you have to get that champ first, which if it's a void legendary, void mythical or even an epic, is going to be incredibly difficult. Compare that to Rotos where all you have to do is get the champ and unleash him on the world in decent gear and you've got a winner. TLDR: Just like this post, there are too many hoops you have to jump through to get to the good stuff

Its a fragment fusion so I will go for him , people just want armanz type of champ all the time ,in my opinion he is a good champ first 2 taunt in 3 tuns so he is unique, I still have Ancora ,Supreme Elhain ,Zinogre , and a few more champs in the fragment pool waiting so he will be just another one there .

Another test please this time with 2-3 fellhounds if You can , i think that should be included too

Thank you, Simon, for being honest and not just towing the company line. I am certain that is what Plarium wants from the CC's.... so, thank you for not blowing sunshine and rainbows up the asses of the player base.

HH, maybe putting Fellhound on a provoke set would be enough to control Decay. + Block Buffs, + Taunt, + Small speed decrease (potentialy upgraded using the new blessing). It is not that bad on Hydra to be fair

Plarium messed up with the names. Correct names: Pack Master Wixwell and Vault Keeper Shy`ek

Everybody hated wixwell at first…! 😅😅

I don't know man. It would basically force me to commit into what ever skullduggery they're up to with the upcoming doggos. I don't like that.

Still might do the fusion if only for the speed aura in all battles. Might come in handy in Sintranos or other (new) content. I lack good aura's sometimes. And it happened a few times that missing a fusion was bad afterwards. I still miss certain options from not having Ankora, Dreng, Helicath (missed them on few fragments). Where others skipped or missed fusions (like on Razelvarg, Armanz, Emic, Gnishak) I am happy that I did them.

I think HH discounts the usefullness of a 2 turn taunt on a 3 turn cooldown for people who don't already have Emic. This isn't an account changing champion, but for a lot of people there's a place for them in their Hydra teams.

4 Fellhounds on a spider team sounds like it'd be a blast! I'm not going for this event, but if I ever pulled him I would definitely invest and build him as well as extra fellhounds just to play with for the shiggles. HH, give this guy to YST and I promise you he finds an awesome build/team setup that makes this guy so much fun to play with.

They said wix was trash because shield growth wasn't enough but look how that turn out. Fusion are the only truely guarantee champs in this game. Has long as you have scareds all fusion should be completed.

I like to see the dog hydra mechanic with multiple fellhounds, maybe it is possible to make a quite achieveable hydra team with him for mid/early game... With Drath (veil) and Hugo (block buffs and decrease def) on his side, you might have a mischief target and you are fast enough to kill the heads, and place maybe the provoke or more reliable hex with artifacts on the hounds (+Decrease Speed). The fellhound later are good in secret rooms and maybe the cursed city if you pull souls, with stun sets or use one as campaign farmer.

I already blew all my shards for Marichka and Gnuts progressive chance. Pulled Marichka, 2 Gnuts AND the last epic I needed to fuse Mikage. All I say now is WHAT FUSION???? 🤣🤣🤣

It honestly feels like more of an early - mid game helper champ, the dogs are more accessible and it could help people that have fewer champions, or maybe struggling with hard campaign?

Absolutely getting. Might see if i can get my fellhound in some slower provoke pieces with high crit dmg so he can still do campaign and use him in my easy/hard hydra team. I also just want an excuse to try the hound soawn+ hellfang duo and im almost certain well get another good hound before long. Might not take him to 60 right away, but way too much fun looking to skip.

Should really be testing him on Hydra with the full pack and not just 1 dog to see his kit utilised to the max, even if the run fails

The blessing nature's bounty (if it worked on buffs as well) could make fellhound very interesting actually

Its like you are trying a revolver without the right bullets. They will come HH! I will go for this fusion 100%

I've seen a few creators mention that "maybe they'll release more dogs that make him stronger." But what you aren't factoring in is that the dogs are listed by name, so to add a new dog means a change to the champion's skills. And that's a balance patch. And we all know Plarium doesn't do balance patches.

They should add a "Beast" tag to a bunch of heroes and make it work with this dude. Along the hounds, it could also include heroes like Vergumkaar, Tatura, Ba Satha, etc.

Well, after seeing this, I can confidently say that I am no longer in doubts that I went for the Incarnate and wasted resources instead of waiting for the next fusion. This one will be an easy skip for me. Maybe I get lucky and pull something better from shards. I have no need of another dps for hydra anyways. EDIT: Nub changed my mind. He's actually interesting. Might go for him, if I have the resources.

I originally was not going to go for him, but they made it a frag summon instead of a fusion. Frags take a lot less resources, and he may eventually be extremely good.

Seems like you would really want a Felhound in a cursed set to really help get those Hex's out there and get the boosted damage.

I reckon the advert is a lead into HH's new travel channel.

Packmaster should heal and cleanse the team - makes it a whole lot easier to make place for a hound! Also makes pack master very good as a stand alone champion - who can help upcoming players a lot. He is not going to be broken (trunda cough cough) due to a cleanse and heal but he will be very handy for a lot of players. P.S - will be doing this fusion as he has unique taunt and good block buff skills and his value can sky rocket with one good hound, even as a standalone champion - he can pair well with emic and it can be quite good. He has potential, just wish plarium weren't so stingy to make him super selfish on his A2

Maybe a dog as a new log in champion in the not too distant future? Who am I kidding. They’ll have some hero’s path right after the fusion with some legendary dog that’ll require loads of resources that most people spent during the fusion so the majority of us won’t be able to get it.

is the soundtrack in the backround of the hydra run something for fateless ?

Just curious, what are your favorite Gemmell books? I read Legend and Quest for Lost Heroes when I was younger and loved them.

Maybe a very, very stupid idea. But, what happens if you'd use packman with 5 Fellhounds, all in different gear sets? Make one dog extremely hardhitting, make one who does Hex, make one who does Poison, Make one who provoke (and is tanky) make one who does much healing (possibly with the new blessing) and have him prio the A2, and make any which of them to guarantee to land the debuff. IF all dogs are to be joining the ally attack, the gear set will proc often and and the healer can top up here and there while the damager does the... wel, damage

I see you need a kid that I can definitely get. I'm going to go for it and look forward to dogs in the future

So, currently his skill descriptions only mention certain current dogs. Once the newsronger dogs are released, his descriptions will be changed/updated to accommodate new doggos? stupid fomo design. Plarium will probably release 1 good dog maximum, to be the only viable companion, just like current champion pairs. They should have went for another angle, not hound master, but a beast master. then there would be a TON of options to tag in champions together, like Draco, Rhazin, Venomage, etc.

Maybe putting Fellhound in HEX or Provoke may work for Hydra

I have a feeling the next fusion will be a epic or legendary Dog Fusion

I'm going for him because he's got that DAAAWWWWGG in him. Also, a perfect champ to get allbfrags for and save for a rainy day. Either fuse him for points for a later event, or if a better dog is never released, then turn the frags in for Maud. Win. Win.

@ *HellHades, hi, i have seen in a video of cold brew gaming, that plarium will soon bring out a mythical hound. Really. So you are right, then with it, it would be very cool, nasty and maybe game changing* Lets wait and see. Cu

It is possible they include a dog as a reward right after the fusion in either a Hero's Path or Titan event, and that may add some value but the only fusion each year I 100% go for is the Halloween time fusion regardless of how good the champ is simply because it's my favorite time of year so I just play and see if I go for him or any other fusion until then.

Next free daily login leggo will be a dog

i really love the part that says "when this champion is attacked, ALL ally *dogs* counterattack."

I think building a high HP/Atk/CD% Fellfound in 6 piece (or more) Slayer gear could be good assuming there's enough acc to land the dec speed. The A1 is AOE and Slayer would ignore 30% def and boost 20% TM every time he attacks which would make up for the lack of speed.

Seems great for FK assuming you can get through the waves. His passive would be nuts for taking down the shield

Word, we appreciate content like this. It's honestly so costly for newer players to build each and ever champ. Even as a 3 year player, I just dont build champs like I used to because I just dont really need anyone else. I can only imagine your situation. I'm sure that you have a sufficient champ pool to do whatever you want and I think a lot of us are in that position at this point. I absolutely love raid, but the game has worked thru its progression ..... Its just not new any more.... there's nothing new to discover... :( FATELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm for sure going for him. The chances that they release a legendary champ that doesn't pair well with current dogs is minimal. Plarium has something planned.

That ally attack is just a very limited version what the skinwalker does. That also boosts the damage to balance the famage mitigation what counter and ally attacks suffering

This is nice for people who don’t have teams yet or other legends. They can build this dude with their campaign farmer and get some work done. New comer catch up mechanic maybe

I've already decided the fusions are coming too fast for me to handle without spending, so my default position on ALL fusions is "SKIP." This one is an easy skip, for me, because he's so specialized and will require so much work to get him supported properly--including the mystery Dog that may or may not be coming. I believe I already have a pretty good stable of Champions which, if I concentrate on developing them, will open up parts of the game for me that I currently can't play (i.e., Hydra). I concluded earlier this year that I have GOT to stop chasing the "shiny new" and work on my "OG."

Given his 2 turn taunt on a 3 turn CD (after booking), don't you see potential in using him with Emic in Hydra?

Not big on conditional champs, but looks like the direction raid is going, which in the long run is probably pretty smart since people will end up coming up with superteams, and then instead of hunting for somewhat interchangeable superchamps, spenders are going to need to get the right combinations.

I've done Eostrid, Wiswell, and the Incarnate back-to-back. This is an automatic skip for me. His fragments will feed my pursuit of High mother Maud. It will be good to stack some resources.

I love how I just happened to FINALLY pull Fellhound on my F2P account... ughhhh PLARIUM! I swear it's always intentional, maybe I'll go for him now just in case some day they do a dog fusion (because I can almost guarantee they will just to stick it in our faces to anyone that skipped this fusion).

The problem is that he needs certain champs to be usable. And at the moment, the only usable ones..... suck. It's also a lot more resources you have to use just to, not only max him out, but also any of the dogs you plan to use him for. All in all, atm he's not worth it. But I'm still going for him. I'm taking gamble and hoping they bring out 1 or 2 more hounds that would work with him more. And if he's a fragment event, well another lego summon for a tournament. The main thing I kind of worry about though is if this becomes a thing. Where they start releasing champs that require others to work. Like maybe a necromancer that needs skeletons like DK and UDK XD in order to do anything. It's just even more and more that might water down the summon pool even more.

Problem is painkeeper would need to be 2x the speed to basically have the skill on cool down

Thanks for this video. I was dead set on going for him, but this changed my mind. I decided to pull all my sacreds today and actually got a 2nd Gnut. I should be better off than even getting a top tier doggo along side this fusion.

Random thought about the freeze dog combo…FK hard early level

They should've added mezomel as a "dog" seeing as she can turn into a werewolf. I only say this cause mezomel is my only mythical and would give her more options if she could be used with the packmaster lol. Interesting concept of a champ tho!

*i wish i would also have test server access. To get alwyas the new champs without fusion very cool*

Dont think HH tested him properly.

I'm curious about two things, will the A2 cleanse work even if he is feared or will the fear proc waste that skill. Then he has a pretty descent skill set, so how would a comp do with him without a dog and all the shiny promises?

They will probably release the hound after the fusion and then do a targeted summons for it.

Ppl missing the point, he is easy upgrade/swap for emic-pk hydra team as he is 3 turns cd you could pair with demytha or any other block damage, unkillable champ, fellhound if used should be on provoke or cursed set easy cheese hydra team for all not even considering the new hound should really have synergy with him and could do the role of 2 spots in hydra for the price of one but if he is good expect a tournament and see him as first place prize for the mega Krakens only or if you get lucky someday, you should tune in till saph or yst do a video on him if they deem him as vault keeper then ill skip him

You could run him with a fellhound squad. each fell hound has a different reaction set. since you then get double attacks with each one. 2 with poison armor, one with provoke built tanky, one with deflection tanky. the debuff mutt squad. could be a fun build. Another would be to place all in stun sets high speed on the packmast and you get 6 chances to stun. that would be annoying.

U should watch other CCs like Nubs for example who tested him properly before doing a video, u might get some ideas and knowledge

I go for just about every fusion just bc its allows you to obtain easily 3 star soul but i usually go for 5star. That is the only reason i do these bc a star legendary is going to be good somewhere at this point

1/ They have to release a good dog champ (Plarium releasing good champ ?) or the pakMaster will stay really average. 2/ We need to pair at least 2 champ (pakM + Dog) to use the full kit, it takes 2 slots in the comp so these 2 really needs to bring something impactfull. 3/ The next Dog need to be Hydra focus to be paired properly with pakMaster and bring something relevant to the comp. 4/ The dog need to be somewhat garanteed somewhere the make this fuz worth considering. Seems a bit too much right ?

So basically he's a vastly inferior Emic that might be an inferior Emic if they release another champion and it's not behind a paywall?

honestly building a taunt loop with him seems quite easy. With one Painkeeper he keeps taunt up 24/7 and brings hex and block buffs. No dogs needed and can be really valuable for someone like me since he solves so much on hydra. Or maybe just make him superfast with reflex? I think I'm gonna go for him tbh seems A to B tier not bad at all. Just utility champ

I imagine a pack of Fell Hound. One in Hex gear, one or two in Provoke, the other just trying to it the hardest possible. Maybe.

This Fusion is a no-brainer. FOMO is real! Nub raids did an easy 200m Hydra team.

I got my second gnut today on my first sacred. I'm almost crying. :D

His skin is so cool tho. Well, I guess I can skip this one too since I already did the Emic event way back! 😅

how is Ba Satha not a hound? also i would of put fellhound in Hex or Provoke

So I was looking at my mezomel, (still think she needs buffed… built for dmg not much dmg…) BUT! Her werewolf form, A1, spirit of the pack!? If they made it so his pack summoned auto transformed her(grants extra turn anyhow so why not) then she A1s? Well that would be pretty cool I think. I might actually have set my mind to go for him if that was the case. 🤷🏻‍♂️

i means its a cool idea, i'll give them that

If you have 3 or 4 fellhounds, they all do AOE on their A1, only 1 needs accurancy for their speed debuff, the others can be kitted out with things like cursed, stun or toxic, and you masses of crowd control that all counterattacks whenever he is hit, and also ally attack on his A1.

Maybe run someone like a sandlash with him. She has a subpar provoke, yet she can extend buffs and has the ally protect. Maybe a good pair up?

im pretty sure the hell hades optimizer needs an update with the champions, because for the team optimizer when I go to team must include these champions, there is a lot of them that just don't show up, grand oak, crohnam, etc, who knows how many arent there. and they also don't show up for suggested teams either. like I have grand oak but it refuses to suggest him in any of my fireknight teams. and you'd think hed be #1 choice because of the inc spd and the full ally attack. imagine how many people think that they cant do a level because the optimizer isn't grabbing all the champions.

pulled Acrizia and second Gnut today. I don't need any more fusions !