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Overview
👑 HERO OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND 🪽 Freya is the powerful Fighter known as the Valkyrie of the Northern Vale, whose new skill set focuses on using a resource called Sacred Orb to chain attacks. 🪽 She swore a sacred oath to protect the land, and her combat prowess has been renewed, giving her a major boost in mobility and sustained damage. 🪽 She is now an agile, high attack speed hero who can initiate fights from a distance with her Ultimate and deal massive ranged, area of effect damage. 👑 HERO'S ROLE IN THE GAME 🪽 Primary Role: Fighter. She is a top-tier duelist and skirmisher. 🪽 Lane Role: Best played as the EXP Lane hero or as a Jungler. 🪽 Specialty: High Sustained Damage (DPS), excellent Chase Potential, and powerful team fight initiation. 🪽 Playstyle: Aggressive and Continuous. She is designed to stay in the fight, constantly generating and spending Orbs to keep her skills (especially S2) active. 🪽 Team Fight: Her Ultimate lets her fly in over walls to land on enemies, immediately turning her basic attacks into ranged, splash attacks for area damage. 👑 HERO'S FARMING ROUTE 🪽 EXP Lane (Sidelane): Use her Passive and Skill 2 to clear the minion wave quickly. She is always ready to rotate or fight when the Ultimate is ready. 🪽 Jungler (Core Role): Her Skill 2 has no cooldown but requires Orbs, making her jungle clear extremely fast. 👑 HERO SKILLS 🪽 Passive: (Power of Einherjar) Freya gains Sacred Orbs from Basic Attacks. Consuming Sacred Orbs increases her Attack Speed. 🪽 Skill 1: (Leap of Faith) Freya leaps to the target area, dealing Physical Damage, gaining a shield, and knocking enemies Airborne. 🪽 Skill 2: (Valkyrie Slash)Freya slashes forward, dealing damage and slowing enemies. This skill has no base cooldown. 🪽 Skill 3: (Valkyrie Descent) Freya dives down to the target area and enters the Valkyrie state. Her Basic Attacks deal splash damage with bonus damage and recover HP for 12s.
Strengths
🌾 LANING OR FARMING 🪽 Fast Clear: Quickly clears minions and camps using her Passive's Attack Speed boost and her dash-based Skill 2. 🪽 High Sustain: Orbs regenerate out of combat, ensuring she is ready to fight or farm without needing to recall often. 🪽 Excellent Chase: Her repeated dash (Skill 2) makes it hard for enemies to escape her in the lane. 💥 TEAMFIGHT 🪽 Distance Initiation: Her Ultimate allows her to fly over terrain to initiate deep into the enemy backline. 🪽 Area Damage: Once the Ultimate is active, her Basic Attacks become ranged and deal splash damage to multiple enemies. 💎 GAME STAGE 🪽 Early: Strong duellist who can easily gain a gold and level lead (snowball). 🪽 Mid: High threat due to fast rotations and strong burst damage once core items are complete. 🪽 Late: Maintains high damage and survivability due to her ranged Ultimate and heal in each basic attack. ✅ FAVORABLE HERO CHARACTERISTICS 🪽 High Mobility: Can rapidly close gaps and reposition using her Sacred Orb-fueled Skill 2. 🪽 Aggressive Playstyle: Designed to be a durable initiator and continuous attacker. 🪽 Scales Well: Benefits highly from items that increase Attack Speed and Physical Attack.
Weaknesses
🌾 LANING OR FARMING 🪽 High Cost of Mistakes: If she uses her dashes (Skill 2) aggressively but fails to secure the kill or Orb regeneration, she is left with few escape tools. 🪽 Vulnerable to Poke: Freya is a melee hero who can be easily harassed by ranged EXP Laners, which forces her to use her scarce Orbs defensively or lose health. 💥 TEAMFIGHT 🪽 Ultimate Dependency: Her power spike and ability to deal AoE damage are completely tied to her Ultimate; without it, her threat level in a major team fight is low. 🪽 Punishable Initiation: Her Ultimate jump is strong but can be easily read and countered by enemy stuns or suppress skills, often leading to her instant death upon landing. 🪽 Single Target Focus: Her damage outside of her Ultimate state is largely focused on one target, making it harder to pressure multiple squishy heroes in a disorganized brawl. 💎 GAME STAGE 🪽 Early: Requiring more focus on basic attacks and orb management to trade effectively. 🪽 Mid/Late: She struggles significantly against team compositions with high, chained Crowd Control (CC), as CC prevents her from generating Orbs and casting her vital Skill 2. ❌ UNFAVORABLE HERO CHARACTERISTICS 🪽 Orb Reliance: If she is constantly denied the chance to use Basic Attacks (due to being kited or stunned), her mobility and damage output are severely crippled. 🪽 Susceptible to Kiting: Her primary damage source is melee/short-ranged (outside of Ultimate), meaning high-mobility heroes can easily keep their distance and wear her down. 🪽 Build Constraints: The current kit often forces her to prioritize Attack Speed items to generate Orbs, which can compromise her survivability if she ignores defense items.
👑 BEST BUILD
✨ TOUGH BOOTS: The CC reduction helps Freya survive her initiation jump. ✨GOLDEN STAFF: Highly recommended. This item guaranteeing faster Orbs, and Heal (each basic attack in Ultimate form) and higher damage output from her Ultimate. ✨ BLADE OF DESPAIR (BoD): Must-have item. It provides the highest Physical Attack in the game, which is massively amplified by your Weapon Master talent. ✨ ENDLESS BATTLE: Provides Physical Attack, Heal for sustain, and the crucial True Damage effect after using a skill (which Freya does constantly). ✨ MALEFIC ROAR: Provides high Physical Penetration, allowing you to bypass a huge amount of enemy armor, especially late-game tanks. ✨ IMMORTALITY: For extra survivability.
EXP LANE/JUNGLE EMBLEM
✨ Assasin Emblem is best for Freya to deal more damage 🪽Rupture: Provides early Penetration, allowing her damage to bypass enemy armor immediately so she can win early duels and snowball effectively 🪽 Weapon Master: This is the core. It massively amplifies the Physical Attack gained from her items (like Blade of Despair), giving her huge damage scaling, especially to her Ultimate's splash attacks. 🪽 Weakness Finder: Adds crucial utility by giving her Basic Attacks a chance to slow the enemy. This helps her counter her biggest weakness (being kited) and lockdown targets for guaranteed eliminations. ✅ Seasoned Hunter: (Jungler) To deal extra damage to Creeps and for faster farming.
Battle Spell
🪽 VENGEANCE: By activating Vengeance just before or right after using her Ultimate jump, she significantly reduces the burst damage she takes upon landing. This lets her survive the initial focus fire and start generating lifesteal from her Ultimate's splash attacks 🪽 RETRIBUTION: As a Jungler, you need Retribution to secure the Turtle and Lord objectives and clear your jungle quickly. Using the Ice Retribution version on enemy heroes also steals Movement Speed, making it easier to chase down targets for your kill combo.
🌲 LANING PRECAUTIONS
🪽 Mind the Orbs: Do not engage aggressively without at least 4-6 Sacred Orbs ready. You need them to chain Skill 2 dashes for offense or retreat. 🪽 Avoid Poke Damage: Freya is still a melee hero; do not stand close to the enemy EXP laner (especially ranged ones) waiting for minions. Clear and Rotate quickly. 🪽 Skill 2 for Clear: Use your Skill 2 to clear minion waves fast, utilizing the dash to reposition and the Passive's Attack Speed boost to secure the farm. 🪽 Save Skill 1 CC: Try to save the enhanced Skill 1 for enemy ganks or to secure the final kill, rather than using it just to trade early damage. 🪽Early Turtle Focus: Freya has high early damage and sustain. When playing EXP lane, prioritize rotating to the first Turtle objective to fight and get the gold lead.
💥 TEAM FIGHT STRATEGIES
🪽 Be a Late Initiator (Usually): Do not be the first one to walk into a 5v5 unless you are using your Ultimate. Wait for your Tank/Roamer to engage or for the enemy team to use crucial Crowd Control (CC) skills. 🪽 The Ultimate Dive: Use Valkyrie Descent (Ultimate) to jump over walls or obstacles directly into the enemy backline (Mage/Marksman). This is your primary initiation tool. 🪽 Maximize AoE Damage: While the Ultimate is active, your Basic Attacks deal splash damage. Position yourself to hit as many enemies as possible, not just one. 🪽 Watch the CC: Freya is still highly vulnerable to chain CC. If the enemy team has multiple stuns (e.g., Kaja, Chou, Atlas), wait for them to miss or use those skills before diving in.
Best With Atlas
100% co-op win rate
Atlas can initiate with his Fatal Links (Ultimate), grouping all enemies together. This is the perfect setup for Freya to dive in with her Ultimate and deal massive splash damage to the entire clumped team.
Watch Out For Minsitthar
20% counter win rate
His Ultimate, King's Calling, creates a field that prevents Freya from using her dashes/blinks to exit. This traps her and stops her entire Skill 2 combo.