In this post, I will provide a detailed explanation of the hero Victor Blackwood, covering how to obtain him, upgrade his skills and talent tree, and integrate him with other heroes.
How to get Victor?
The only known method of obtaining his fragments is by using gems or buying packs at the Survivor Roulette. This event occurs infrequently, possibly once a month, and each month features a different hero. For example, the first time it was Bianca, and the second time it was Victor. I believe Bianca will be featured in the next Survivor Roulette.
Talent trees
Victor is a leader-type Hero, best suited to lead mixed troop types. His secondary abilities are garrison and defense. Victor is primarily a garrison hero and should be exclusively used for garrison purposes. He may not excel on the battlefield as most of his skills have bonuses related to garrison. I recommend using him as the garrison leader of your shelter due to his squad stats bonuses on his armaments and his skills. For tower garrison, his effectiveness depends on the troops inside the tower. I advise you to use the same talent tree as Thunder.
Skills
- His first skill is called Body Weapon. It deals 12,500 damage factor and increase his skill damage by 15% if in garrison.
- His second skill is called Evolutionary Leader and it increases the squad ATK and HP by up to 17%.
- His third skill is called Supervisor Privileges. It reduces the skill damage taken by up to 17% and increases the squad ATK by up to 20% if you have at least 2 troop types in the squad. You always have these additional 20% when you use him to defend your shelter.
- His fourth skill is called Survival Of Fittest. It increases the squad HP only in garrison and for each basic attack you have a 20% chance to deal an additional damage factor of 1920. 20% chance on basic attack is 2 damage factors every 3 rounds. One round is composed of 5-6 basic attack and 1 skill damage.
- His awakening skill is called Natural Evolution and it’s a skill enhancement of his first skill. The damage factor has been increased from 12,500 to 13,750 and the skill damage in garrison increased to 20%.
How to upgrade his skills?
For every fighting hero, you need to upgrade the 1st skill, the raging skill, first. I recommend upgrading the 2nd skill next, followed by the 3rd, and finally the 4th. The suggested order would be 1, 2, 3, 4. The second skill applies all the time, then the third, a part of it is only for skill damage reduction, and finally the fourth because the extra damage factor occurs only twice every 3 rounds.
How to combine Victor?
Victor is probably one of the best garrison captain for your shelter. I would pair him any other good garrison hero such as Thunder, Riven or Louis. Raigoro or Tom can also be used if you don’t have the previous heroes. For a better understanding of how to combine these heroes for garrison, I suggest reading my post on the best garrison heroes.
Conclusion
Victor is undoubtedly a great hero for garrison but for garrison only. Therefore, I would not recommend spending your legendary fragments on him. He is also challenging to obtain for a free-to-play player, as it requires a lot of gems to obtain his 10 fragments. I advise you to spend your fragments on a more versatile hero like Thunder, whom you can use in both garrison and battlefield scenarios.