Champions

Champions are the playable characters in Paladins. Each one has their own unique abilities and fighting style. There are currently 45 playable champions in the game.

Champions are organized into 4 different classes: Front Line, Damage, Support and Flank.

Information

Abilities

Every champion has a unique weapon, 4 abilities, and a special ability called an Ultimate. Ultimate Ability are not subject to cooldown, but instead have a meter that must be charged before they can be used. This meter passively gains a 1% charge every 3.33s, but can be actively increased by dealing damage to enemies and restoring the missing health of allies. Landing a Killing Blow on an enemy with a high Killstreak grants an additional 10% ultimate charge for each kill streak after the 5th. Using an ultimate will deplete the meter fully, allowing it to recharge.

Deck Building

Each champion possesses 3 unique Talents. Talents grant access to different playstyles by providing strong boosts to certain aspects of the champion, with some talents even causing radical changes to the way their weapon or skills work, usually at the cost of some counterbalancing penalty.

Champions use Cards to increase their performance and enhance their skills, and Items to help them adapt to specific situations in every match.

Unlock Champions

New players start with 6 champions unlocked by default: Cassie, Jenos, Lex, Ruckus, Seris and Viktor. Players also gain temporary access to 4 champions from a rotating free champion schedule. Every Wednesday 2 champions will be changed that remain in free rotation for two weeks. Flank and Support or Front Line and Damage are always exchanged alternately.

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Free Rotation
Furia Khan Moji Strix
May 25-31, 2020

Additional champions can be purchased for either Gold or Crystals. The majority of the cast costs 30,000 / 200 to unlock, while the most recently released champions cost 60,000 / 300 . A few champions (such as Buck and Grohk) cost 15,000 / 100 instead.

The Founder's Pack includes the Champion Pack, which automatically unlocks all current and future Champions in the game without any additional costs.

Mastery Level

Each champion has their own Mastery Level, which increases the more they are played. Achieving new levels with a champion grants special rewards and Cosmetic Items.

Access Ranked

Players are required to have at least 14 playable champions to access Ranked (the 4 champions in Free-Rotation counts / champions in Event-Free-Rotation does not count).

Champions

A List of Champions with publication date can be found here.

Front Line

These champions are the best at maintaining control of objectives and protecting their teammates through shields, personal force fields, or just by taking fire. Front Line champions gain 100% more Credits for standing near an objective.

Ash

Atlas

Barik

Fernando

Inara

Khan

Makoa

Raum

Ruckus

Terminus

Torvald

Damage

These champions can consistently deal high amounts of damage. Damage champions gain 100% more Credits for dealing damage to enemy champions.

Bomb King

Cassie

Dredge

Drogoz

Imani

Kinessa

Lian

Sha Lin

Strix

Tiberius

Tyra

Viktor

Vivian

Willo

Support

These champions offer a wide range of utility, both offensive and defensive. However, they specialize in healing and causing chaos in enemy attacks. Support champions gain 100% more Credits for healing allies. They gain eliminations from healing a target that gets the killing blow on an enemy. Support champions also gain ultimate charge from healing done to teammates besides themselves. Healing that restores 0 Health (for example, healing someone who is at full health) won't provide ultimate charge.

Corvus

Furia

Grohk

Grover

Io

Jenos

Mal'Damba

Pip

Seris

Ying

Flank

These champions excel in both damage and mobility to help them in combat as well as chase and confirm kills from the enemy's rear. However, their low health makes them vulnerable to getting overwhelmed by multiple enemies. Flank champions gain 30% more Credits from landing killing blows on enemies.

Androxus

Buck

Evie

Koga

Lex

Maeve

Moji

Skye

Talus

Zhin

Trivia

• All players that participated in the game's closed beta before April 7, 2016 were given all champions that were available back then for free.
• Most champions have a distinct crystal encrusted in their weapons and/or outfit.
• There was a way to purchase Champion mastery levels with Gold (every 20 experience points costing 1 ). It was removed with the Paladins 3.02 update.