6 Star (Red Star) Hero Skills

Once you are able to take a 5* hero to enhancement level +5 and then upgrade them to a 6 star hero (also known as ‘Red Star’) you will unlock their final hero skill. The hero skills are used in the match 3 aspect of gameplay, (not troop based battles). There are currently 4 skills that can be unlocked and are on all 6* heroes. This topic covers those 4 skills, what they mean in battle, and I’ll also have a list of each hero that the skill applies for. Just remember you do have to level up the heroes to a sufficient level for each of their skills to take effect.

Combat Skill: Increases Critical Rate by 30% Critical rate can be defined as how often a heroes normal attack does ‘critical’ or extra damage. Usually a multiplier of normal damage and could range from 1.5x to 3x normal damage. The exact multiplier is not specified in game. However, Combat Skill increases the chance of landing a Critical strike causing extra damage. This can be very useful for adding damage to normal attacks.

Iron Will: Increases Critical Resistance by 30%. Critical resistance can be defined as a heroes ability to avoid a critical hit. This skill is a counter to Combat Skill. This is a very useful skill especially for healers (which are the only heroes it currently applies to) in that it helps prevent extra damage from a critical hit.

Unbending: Increases block rate by 30%. Block rate can be defined as the ability to block all or some of the damage from an attack. Best case scenario all of the damage from the attack is blocked. However in some situations if the attacker has high enough damage or a high enough hit rate, the damage will still land but some of it will be blocked. Unbending increases the odds of a hero blocking some if not all of the incoming damage.

Target Weakness: Increases Impale Rate by 30%. Impale rate can have different meanings based on how the developers implement it. How I would define Impale rate for Puzzles & Survival is, the ability to ignore an enemies block rate. So if a hero has a high block rate, impale rate can lower that rate so that attacks are more successful more often and damage is not blocked at all or blocked to a lesser degree. This is the counter to Unbending.