Immortal Preview: Atalanta

Introduction

Howdy Infinity Kingdom Community! Today we are going to preview the officially announced immortal to come in patch 1.9, Atalanta will be the new member of the Wind team, and she is going to be the very first immortal to have row piercing normal attacks, this will make her another big hitter in the wind backline, and maybe a viable alternative to Baldwin. In this article we are going to cover Atalanta's ability, how we will most likely be able to obtain her, and which skills can have good synergy with her.

How to Obtain

Atalanta will most likely follow a pattern that recently released immortals have followed, each element that did not have an immortal obtainable through King of The Hill event(KotH), is now receiving one (With exception of Shadow and Holy). I personally believe this is a great implementation because this will make so people can be more focused about KotH, and prepare for the ones that are more relevant to them, instead of trying to compete for every KotH and displace the people that really need the immortal of the round.

The King of the Hill is a five stages event, where players obtain points in each stage and in the end the total score of each stage is added together and ranked, if the player reach the top 20, he or she will gain enough fragments to summon the immortal of the round, in this case Atalanta. If you want a complete guide on how to overcome each step of the King of the Hill event, you can check my complete guide in here: How to Win King of the Hill. It is also of great importance for players to know that the only way to obtain Atalanta's fragments besides events, is by purchasing them with Mysterious Pearls obtained from daily deals packs.

Atalanta's Ability

Sniper's Stance will put Atalanta in a mode with 25% reduced attack speed and with 50% more normal attack damage, and every normal attack will have up to 100% chance of piercing the first target and also hit the opponent behind the first target. This is the first ability of its nature, and it has many implications, specially when it comes to synergy with other Wind immortals such as Qin Emperor, which has an ability that will increase the attack speed of all units by up to 25% and add cleave to his fellow wind immortals with up to 50% additional damage. It remains to be seen how well she will work with Hannibal and Saladin, but one can expect for it to become one of the most aggressive wind teams.

Good Skills

Atalanta's ability will enable her to take advantage of skills that trigger with normal attacks, such as Cleave that has a 75% chance per normal attack of causing up to 75% extra damage to 2 nearby opponent units. If you are using your wind team as your third march, you combo can also be a very good skill, it will have 30% chance every normal attack of causing extra physical damage to your opponent. Anger will be great to boost any of the other two skills, by increasing your physical damage by up to 30% in battles. If you wish, you can also add an aura such as Coercion, which has tremendous synergy with wind teams, because it will reduce the dodge rate of all your opponent's troops by up to 20%.

Conclusion

Infinity Kingdom has been adding many immortals in the last couple patches, and Atalanta is another great addition, this will offer a less costly alternative to Baldwin in wind marches, it is also a great thing that they are adding very different abilities for the new immortals, which is great for variety, specially when they have good synergy with skills that are not very popular, I can't wait to test her. If you have any questions or you would like to share your opinion, please leave a comment below.