Best skills for Harald | IK - Best Skills Series

Hello everyone, here is Tauriel once again with a new guide for you! For this guide I will be showing some of the best skills for Harald, and in which situations you should use them. This guide is part of the "IK - Best Skills Series", I've already covered Attila, Merlin and Yoshitsune, and if you wish to check it out, just click in their name and you will be redirected to the desired guide.

Harald is by nature of his ability, a supporting immortal, Glacier Incursion will cause up to 400% physical damage to the row of enemies that Harald is fighting against, then they will have up to 35% of their Physical Defence reduced, in addition to that there is a 55% chance of causing suffocating to the immortals affected by the ability, which will cause more 300% every 3 seconds for 6 seconds. The immortal the will benefit the most from Harald's ability is Yoshitsune, but Attila can also get great benefit from it if you build him in an offensive way.

There are many ways in which you can effectively build your Harald, the most standard way is by using supporting abilities, so the other immortals in your team can better perform their function. The basic template that I use for Harald is the following: one aura skill, and two grace skills. My favourite aura is always Malice, which will reduce the critical rate of all your enemy immortals by up to 20%, this aura is particularly good because most people always pick the "Clutch Shot" talent, which will increase their immortal's critical value by 30%, with malice you will be mitigating some of that.

For the grace buffs there are many possibilities, the standard one is usually Oaken Guard, which will reduce up to 50% of all physical damage received by 3 random allied units for the first 18 seconds of the battle. This Grace is particular good against Lightning teams, because they have great Physical damage output, and reducing their initial burst is specially effective.

The second grace is more of a personal choice, and circumstantial, if you are not utilizing it in any other march, you can make use of Resist, which will reduce by up to 50% the magical damage taken by three random allied troops for a period of 18s. I particularly enjoy using Resist, because it is very effective against some of the most powerful magical DPS characters in the the game, as Merlin, Empress Wu, Cleopatra, Baldwin and Himiko.

Some people prefer a more offensive strategy, and they utilize Weakness aura to further boost Merlin's damage potential, this aura will reduce all enemies Resilience Rate by up to 20% and is very effective to increase the overall damage output of your team.

It is hard to make a specific measure of how well a supporting immortal performs, but what I try to do is to evaluate how the immortals supposedly supported by the immortal perform when I change the abilities, and by adding Weakness I notice that my chances of winning against Earth teams is considerably increased:

Harald can also take on an offensive role if you decide to add an attack skill instead of a 2nd grace, with this strategy your team will put further pressure on the enemy, specially after your Water dragon abilities are more developed, because when your Ice Breath is maxed, it will have about 45% chance of freezing up to 3 random enemy troops, and that will stop them from attacking, moving or recovering energy for 8 seconds, this will provide some breathing room for more offensive skills. One good offensive skill for Harald is Garrote, which has a 40% chance of causing enemy units to take up to 150% damage, and up to 75% damage every 3 seconds for up to 6 seconds. Here are some examples of how effective this strategy can be in the late game:

I always like to remind that you will need to learn how to identify which strategy will work best for you in every circumstance, if you are facing too many strong lightning opponents, you should always have Oaken Guard equipped in your Harald, but if you are facing too many Earth teams, maybe Resist can be the better option. I hope you had a good time reading this guide, and please let me know if you have any advices not mentioned here. ^-^