Monk

Primary Attack: A Melee Physical Slash Attack dealing damage. Secondary Attack: A Ranged Magical Projectile Attack dealing damage. Usable Weapons: Polearms Lore: As a student of martial arts, the Monk thrives in combat, commanding the ebb and flow of the battlefield. He supports his allies with radiant auras of Chi energy that boost the potency of defenses, electrocutes careless enemies, and heals fellow heroes. No hero deck is complete without his wisdom. Hero Damage Scalar: 0.35 Hero Health Scalar: 1.2 Base Damage Reduction: 0%

Information

• Abilities
• Defenses
• Shards
• Mods

	Pole Smash: The Monk slams his weapon into the ground, dealing Crushing Physical Damage to nearby enemies and knocking them into the air.
	Chi Blast: The Monk sends forth a gust of Chi energy in a piercing line, dealing Magical Damage and knocking enemies backwards.
	Heroic Wave: The Monk emits a wave of stabilizing energy that Heals all nearby Heroes and increases their Hero Power for a time.
	Heal Self: The hero channels healing energy, regenerating a portion of their Health each second. The channel is broken if the hero moves or takes damage.

List of Monk-specific Defenses:

Tower		Type	Description	Additional info
				Mana cost	Damage Type	Targets
	Flame Aura	Aura	Summons forth waves of fire to scorch enemies within. Empowering Aura shard can be used to Buff nearby Hero DPS.	30	Fire	First 10
	Boost Aura	Aura	Boosts the Defense Power and Defense Critical Damage of Non-Boosting defenses inside its area by a 10% of its own Defense Power and 25% of its own Defense Critical Damage.	40	None	None
	Sky Guard Tower	Tower	Fires a projectile at each nearby airborne enemy, dealing magical damage. Any enemy struck is slowed for 5 seconds.	50	Magical	Flying
	Lightning Strikes Aura	Aura	Deals powerful storm damage to a single enemy within its radius. Electric Arcing shard can be used to increase target limit to 5.	20	Storm	First 1

List of Monk-specific Item Shards:

Name		Effect (Gilded value in brackets)	Item
			GearSlot	Shard Pack
	Betsy’s Zapper	Every 8 seconds, secondary attacks spawn a lightning ball dealing 125-325% (365%) Ability Power as storm damage 2.5 times per second for 1-5 (6) seconds.
	Heroic Boost	Increases Heroic Wave's healing done by 3-39% (52%).
	Heroic Convergence	While Heroic Wave is active, you gain an additional 10-58% (70%) Hero Damage and 4-20% (24%) Ability Power. However, the damage boost of Heroic Wave is reduced by 30%.
	Heroic Power	Increases Heroic Wave’s hero damage boost by 4-40% (52%).
	Pole Power	Increases the damage of Pole Smash or Chi Stomp by 4-40% (52%).
	Smashing Fists	Pole Smash or Chi Stomp spawns a Fist dealing 20-620% (740%) Ability Power as damage. After a short delay, another Fist emerges dealing 20-1220% (1460%) Ability Power as damage.
	Boosted Blockade	Boost Aura increases blockade health by 2-20% (26%).
	Boosted Grasp	Enemies move at 90-60% (48%) speed when they are within the Boost Aura.
	Boosted Power	Increases the power of the Boost Aura by 2-20% (24%).
	Crippling Blow	Sky Guard Tower has a 10-17% (19%) chance on hit to stun the target for 0-3 (4) seconds.
	Electric Arcing	Increases the number of targets for the Lightning Strikes Aura by 4, but does 90-80% (76%) less damage.
	Encroaching Flames	Flame Aura has a 6-30% (38%) chance to deal 12-104% (135%) more damage.
	Rippling Explosions	Enemies that die inside the Boost Aura have a 5-25% (29%) chance to detonate, dealing 20-80% (92%) of the Boost Aura's Tower Damage stat as damage in a small area around the enemy.

List of Monk and Initiate Shared Item Shards:

Name		Effect (Gilded value in brackets)	Item
			GearSlot	Shard Pack
	Call Of The Kobold	Defeating an enemy grants a charge. Secondary attacks consume charges and shoots a firework at your target for 20%-320% (380%) of your ability power.
	Concussive Chi	Secondary attacks have a 1-25% (25%) chance to stun targets for 1-4.6 (5.8) seconds.
	Crane Stance	Each secondary attack increases the damage of the next primary attack by 10-90% (106%). Stacks up to 6 times.
	Dragon Stance	Each melee primary attack increases the damage of the next ranged secondary attack by 10-90% (106%). Stacks up to 6 times.
	One With Chi	Increases the damage of Chi Blast or Crippling Chi Wave by 3-39% (52%).
	Empowering Aura	Flame Aura and Water Aura increase the Hero Damage and Ability Power of heroes standing inside them by 5-25% (29%).

General Shards

List of General Shards that any Hero can equip.

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List of non-hero-specific Item Shards: Name Effect (gilded value in brackets) Item GearSlot Shard Pack Defensive Critical Damage Increases the Defense Crit Damage of the affected tower by 4-20% (24%). Fortification Increases Defense Health of the affected tower by 2-34% (41%). Construction Increases repair and upgrade speed during Combat Phase by 25-75% (95%). Drenching Strikes Your primary attacks have a 2-30% (38%) chance on hit to drench enemies for 3-7 seconds. Retribution When you take damage, you have a 2-20% chance of dealing 125-425% (485%) of your Armor as damage to your attacker. Speed Boost Increases your movement speed by 100-500 (700). Worm Scarf Reduces the damage you take from enemies by 3-15% (19%). Destruction Increases Defense Power of the affected tower by 2-34% (42%). Annoyance Taunts nearby enemies for 1-4 (5) seconds every 8 seconds. Bulwark Increases armor by 3-39% (52%). Critical Strike Increases your Hero Crit Chance by 3-10% (14%). Haunting Primary attacks generate 1 ghost stack. At 10 stacks you unleash ghosts for 3 seconds, each dealing 10-250% (298%) of your Ability Power as damage. The effect has a cooldown of 5 seconds. Defensive Critical Strike Increases the Defense Crit Chance of the affected tower by an additional 2-15% (19%). Panic Fire When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-15% (19%) chance to increase it's Attack Rate by 50% for 1-4 (5) seconds. Does not work with Auras and Traps. Press Your Luck When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-15% (19%) chance to increase it's Critical Hit Chance by 30% for 1-4 (9) seconds. Does not work with Auras and Traps. Quake You have a 10-50% (58%) chance when landing to deal 50-250% (290%) of your Ability Power as earth damage to nearby enemies. Deadly Strikes Increases the Defense Range of the affected tower by 3-39% (52%). Shielding Guard When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-25% (29%) chance to gain a shield for 50-250% (290%) of it's Defense Health for 5 seconds. Does not work with Auras or Traps. Jackpot You have a 2-10% (14%) chance when picking up gold to quadruple the amount. Overwhelm Your attacks have a 7-15% (19%) chance to stun one enemy for 1-3 seconds. Can only affect one enemy at a time. Defense Rate Increases the Attack Rate of the affected tower by 9-33% (41%). Beacon Of The Storm Once per second your primary attack spawns a lightning ball that deals 10-50% (58%) of your Hero Damage as storm damage. Bounces up to 3 times. Electric Retribution When you take damage, you have a 2-20% chance of dealing 125-425% (485%) of your Armour as storm damage to your attacker. Explosive Guard When the affected tower takes damage, it has 3-35% chance to trigger an explosion and deal 140-500% (580%) of its Defense Health as damage to nearby enemies. Does not work with Auras or Traps. This does not destroy the tower. Vampiric Empowerment Increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 4-60% (76%) of its Defense Health. Anti Air Deals 4-40% (52%) additional damage to flying enemies. Burning Strikes 2-20% chance on hit to burn target for 20-180% (212%) of your Hero Damage stat as magical fire damage each second for 1-5 seconds.. Health Pylon Increases the Defense Health of nearby Towers to 102-130% (136%). Does not buff the Tower that equips this shard. Sharpened Spikes Blockade has a 2-30% (38%) chance to stun enemies hit for 1-3 seconds. Brain Of Confusion When you take damage you have a 3-15% (19%) chance to confuse nearby enemies for 3 seconds. This effect has a 15 second cooldown. Flaming Retribution When you take damage, you have a 2-20% chance of dealing 125-425% (485%) of your Armor as fire damage to your attacker. Power Pylon Increases the Defense Power of nearby defenses to 102-120% (124%). Does not buff the Tower that equips this Shard. Life Leech Your primary attacks heal you for 0.2-1% (1.2%) of your max health. Mage Gambit Increases your Ability Power by 10-50% (58%), but increase damage taken from enemies by 60-20% (12%). Power Gambit Increases your Hero Damage by 10-50% (58%), but increase damage taken from enemies by 60-20% (12%). Ravenhost Your primary attacks generate Raven stacks. Once you reach 10 stacks, the stacks are depleted to fire a magical Raven dealing 10-210% (250%) of your Ability Power as damage. Bounces 5 times. Water Elemental The affected tower has has 5-25% (29%) chance on hit to drench enemies for 3 seconds. Lightning Touch Your primary attacks have a 30% chance to deal an additional 5-29% (37%) damage as storm damage. Pumpkinator Primary attacks Pumpkin enemies. When a pumpkined enemy dies, they explode doing 10-210% ability power as damage. Melee attacks against pumkined enemy increase Crit by 3-33% (39%) for 5 sec. Radiant Power Increase the Defense Power of nearby defenses by 5-10% (14%). Regeneration Restores 0.25->1.25% (1.65%) of your Max Health every 5s. Serpent God's Fury When you crit with a primary attack, reduce the cooldown of all your abilities by 0.1-1 (1.2) seconds. The effect has a cooldown of 1 second. Sundering Blow Your primary Attacks reduce enemy's resistances by 5-20% (24%), increasing damage dealt to them. Taser Suit When you take damage you have a 1-16% (20%) chance to electrocute enemies in a small area around you, stunning them for 3 seconds. Wave Of The Storm You have a 4-40% chance when landing on the ground to deal 10-210% (250%) of your Ability Power as storm damage to nearby enemies. Auto-Repair System Restores 0.5-4% (5%) of the affected tower’s Max Health every 5s. Only active during Combat Phase. Critical Empowerment Increases your Hero Crit Damage by 5-16% (20%). Radiant Empowerment Increases the damage of nearby heroes by 5-10% (14%). Run and Gun Your primary attacks have a 10-32% (41%) chance on hit to increase your movement speed by 600 for 3s. Tamer's Gambit Pets deal 20-250% (296%) more damage, but Hero Damage and Ability Power are reduced by 70-30% (22%). Tank Gambit Take 6-26% (30%) less damage, but deal 45-25% (21%) less damage. Venomous Strikes 2-20% chance on hit to poison a target for 20-180% (212%) of your Hero Damage stat as magical poison damage each second for 1-5s.. All For One Increases Defense Health, Power, Range, and Attack Rate of the affected tower by 2-34% (42%) if only one is built. Coup de Grace Increases your Hero Crit Damage by 10-43.33% (50%), but reduce your Crit Chance by 6%. Power Transfer Increases the Defense Critical Chance by 2-30% (38%) and reduces Defense Health by 30%. Radiant Rate Increases the Attack Rate of nearby defenses by 4-16% (20%). Range Pylon Increases the Defense Range of nearby defenses to 102-120% (124%). Does not buff the Tower that equips this Shard. Double Time Reduces build time for Defenses during Combat Phase by 10-50% (58%). Icy Strikes Your primary attacks chill enemies for 7 seconds making them move at 90-52% (40%) movement speed. Long Shot Increases damage the further you are from your target, up to 5-23.75% (30%) more damage. Resolute Armor Limits potential damage taken from any one hit to 95-90% (87.5%) of your maximum Health. Stand Your Ground While standing still, Hero Damage and Ability Power are increased by 10-25% (30%), and you take 8-20% (24%) less damage. Tranquil Haste Increases your movement speed by 200-600 (800). Not active during Combat Phase. Weakness Targeting Increases damage by 2.5-7.5% (10%) for every status effect on the enemy, with a maximum increase of 30%. List of Item Shards which can be used by multiple, but not all heroes: Name Effect (Gilded value in brackets) Item Compatible Heroes GearSlot Shard Pack Bunny Hop Gives the ability to double jump! And increases your movement speed by 0-100. Channel Restores 11-25 (29) of your ability resource every 5 seconds. Charged Restoration Charged secondary attacks restore 1-7 (10) mana. Can only activate once per second. Charged Shot Your primary attacks have a 5-25% (33%) chance to fire a fully charged secondary attack. Can only occur once per second. Cluster Nades When attacking flying enemies, you have a 10-50% (58%) chance on hit to drop a bomb beneath them that deals 110-310% (350%) of your Ability Power stat an Damage in a small area. Hasten Increases attack speed by 10-30% (35%). Howling Feast Your Primary attacks generate 1 Feast stack, while at 10 stacks, increase your Hero Damage by 2-30% (38%). One stack wears off every 3 seconds. Inspiration Reduces the cooldown of your abilities by 4-39% (52%). Inspiring Strikes Primary attacks reduce the cooldown of your abilities by 0.1-0.3 (0.5) seconds. Mana Capacitor Increases your maximum ability resource by 10-100 (120). Meditation Increases the base cooldown of Heal Self to 30s. After using Heal Self, gain 8-20 (24) mana per second over 5 seconds and gain a shield equal to 400-1,000% (1200%) of Ability Power for 10 seconds. Power Of Storms You have a 4-10% (12%) chance on hit to restore 20 mana per second for 1-3 seconds. 10 seconds cooldown. Struck by Inspiration Hero attacks have 3-5.33% (7.67%) chance to reset all ability cooldowns. Can only activate once every 5s. Superconductor Reduces ability costs by 1-19% (24%).

Hyper Shards

List of Hyper Shards that any Hero can equip.

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List of All Hyper-Shards Items : With the introduction of mastery mode, several new hyper shards have been introduced to the game. Shards unlock as you earn stars in mastery mode. Each hyper shard can only be obtained once in Mastery mode. As of the Prime Incursion Update, completing all maps within a prime region awards a hyper shard. Completing all seven regions awards the last hyper shard. This allows you to obtain a second set of all the shards. Note that the order that you obtain hyper shards in Prime Incursions is different than that of Mastery mode (e.g. the first prime region doesn't award Mass Destruction). Name Effect Upgr. levels Slot Aquisition Mastery Stars C8+ Prime Incursions Mass Destruction Increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 2-70% . 34 50 Stars Complete all Regions in either Chaos 8, 9, or 10. Vicious Strikes Increases the Defense Range of the affected tower by 175-2275 units. 12 155 Stars Prime VI Radiant Critical Power Increases the Defense Critical Damage of nearby defenses by 0-5% and Defense Critical Chance of nearby defenses by 3%. 5 260 Stars Prime IV Explosive Shielding Guard When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 3-35% chance to gain a shield for 50-250% of its Defense Health for 5 seconds and to trigger an explosion that deals 140-500% of its Defense Health as damage to nearby enemies. Does not work with Auras and Traps. This does not destroy the tower. Does not stack with Shielding Guard or Explosive Guard. 20 365 Stars Prime II Thunderstruck Your primary attacks have a 2-26% chance on hit to drench enemies for 3-7 seconds and your primary attacks deal an additional 16-40% damage as storm damage. Storm damage has a 3 second cooldown. 12 470 Stars Prime III Destructive Pylon Increases the Defense Power of nearby defenses to 102-138% and increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 2-34%. Does not stack with Destruction or Power Pylon. 18 575 Stars Prime I Automation Each time your defense attacks, it heals for 0.2-2% of its max health. Cooldown of 0.7 seconds. 20 680 Stars Prime V Juggernaut Increases the Defense Health of the affected tower by 2-70% and increases damage resistance by 2-20%. 16 785 Stars Prime VII Genie King's Blessing Gain 1-3 defense mana upon defeating an enemy, up to 100 enemies per Combat Phase. 5 880 Stars Complete all Prime Regions in Chaos 9. Tandem Strike After damaging an enemy, all Defenses deal 5-25% more damage to that enemy for 5 seconds. 20 975 Stars Complete all Prime Regions in Chaos 10.

List of Monk-specific Mods:

Name	Effect	Item
		Weapon	Helmet	Chest	Boots	Gloves	Relic
Drain Aura	Boost Aura damages enemies for X.
Tidal Wave Chip	Heroic Wave deals X damage to nearby enemies.
Stunning Wave Chip	Heroic Wave stuns enemies for X seconds.

List of Monk-specific Wayfarer Weapons:

Name	Fixed Mod	Effect
Glaive of the Storms	StormRider	Ride a cloud that changes your attacks to lightning dealing X Ability Power as Storm Damage for 15s. Enemies under get drenched and are hit for X% of Ability Power as Storm Damage every 2s.
North Pole	Pole Launcher	Secondary Attacks fire additional North Poles that deal X% Hero Damage as Frost Damage, pierces 2 enemies and slows them by 40% for X seconds.
Sky Dragon's Fury	Sky Dragon's Fury	Secondary attacks spawn a lightning ball dealing x% Ability Power as Storm Damage 2.5 times a second for y seconds. Ocurs every 8 seconds.