Blackfeather

Information
Hero’s Stats
Health | Health Regeneration | ||
Energy | Energy Regeneration | ||
Weapon Damage | Attack Speed | ||
Armor | Shield | ||
Attack Range | Move Speed |
Hero Abilities
A
Description
Attack Cooldown | Attack Cooldown (Rounded)* |
Attack Delay |
Attack Delay (Rounded)* |
No Stutter Step Penalty |
Attack Speed Modifier |
Perfect Stutter Step Damage Boost |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 100% | 18.18% |
*Vainglory servers run at 10 tickrate; thus, all numbers related to time are rounded up to the nearest tenth. Client-side, time is tracked precisely, so any time lost by rounding will be made up for with an extra basic attack once enough lost time accumulates.
Blackfeather CP Jungle
Credits
This guide was created by Swan, T10 Silver, EU, and Emoxen, T10 Silver, EU.
This guide is meant for the 5V5 game mode.
General
Difficulty: Medium
Strengths
High poke damage
B
Sustain
B (barrier), C (Fortified Health)
Mobility (A, C 2 charges)
Blackfeather has 3 dashes with relatively short cooldown
Negative Status Effect Immunity (C, 2 charges)
Area Of Effect Damage (A and C)
Sticky (A and C)
Weaknesses
Top Blackfeather needs a highly skilled player who can consistently land his B, clear waves, and survive until he reaches his B overdrive at 8 to be able to out trade carries
Falls off late game
Power Spikes
CP - Stormcrown, Spellfire, Halcyon Chargers, Shatterglass, Broken Myth, Aftershock, Aegis/Slumbering Husk
Skills: 1 B, 2 A, 3 B, 4 B, 5 A, 6 C, 7 B, 8 B, 9 C, 10 A, 11 A, 12 C
Start with Stormguard Banner, sell it later.
You can replace Aftershock with Eve of Harvest if you will mainly poke and want some extra sustain, or another Shatterglass (which will do more damage if you are just going to poke, rather than using your normal attacks/A/C to trigger Aftershock's passive)
Blackfeather is countered by
Weak Against
Blackfeather is a counter to
All heroes except the ones in the counters list
Blackfeather is strong against
All compositions cause he is very flexible
Blackfeather CP Top Lane
Credits
This guide was created by Swan, T10 Silver, EU, and Emoxen, T10 Silver, EU.
This guide is meant for the 5V5 game mode.
General
Difficulty: Medium
Strengths
High poke damage
B
Sustain
B (barrier), C (Fortified Health)
Safe laning phase due to the B's barrier and negative status effect immunity from C
Mobility (A, C 2 charges)
Blackfeather has 3 dashes with relatively short cooldown
Negative Status Effect Immunity (C, 2 charges)
Area Of Effect Damage (A and C)
Sticky (A and C)
Weaknesses
Falls off late game
Slow wave clear
Good Junglers can abuse this and push with their Bot Laner, making you lose turret very early and also limiting your ability to rotate.
Top Blackfeather needs a highly skilled player who can consistently land his B, clear waves, and survive until he reaches his B overdrive at 8 to be able to out trade carries
Power Spikes
CP - Spellfire, Halcyon Chargers, Shatterglass, Broken Myth, Aftershock, Aegis/Slumbering Husk
Skills: 1 B, 2 A, 3 B, 4 B, 5 A, 6 C, 7 B, 8 B, 9 C, 10 A, 11 A, 12 C
Start with Book Of Eulogies and Crystal Bit, or Light Armor in place of the Crystal against Caine and Kestrel.
You can replace Aftershock with Eve of Harvest if you will mainly poke and want some extra sustain, or another Shatterglass (which will do more damage if you are just going to poke, rather than using your normal attacks/A/C to trigger Aftershock's passive)
Blackfeather is countered by
Weak Against
Blackfeather is a counter to
All heroes except the ones in the counters list
Blackfeather is strong against
All compositions cause he is very flexible
Blackfeather WP Bot Lane
Credits
This guide was created by Swan, T10 Silver, EU, and Emoxen, T10 Silver, EU.
This guide is meant for the 5V5 game mode.
General
Difficulty: Medium
Strengths
Sustain
B (barrier), C (Fortified Health)
Safe laning phase due to the B's barrier and negative status effect immunity from C
Mobility (A, C 2 charges)
Blackfeather has 3 dashes with relatively short cooldown
Negative Status Effect Immunity (C, 2 charges)
Area Of Effect Damage (A and C)
Sticky (A and C)
Weaknesses
Can be out sustained
Power Spikes
CP - Serpent Mask, Halcyon Chargers/War Treads, Bonesaw, Breaking Point, Aegis & Slumbering Husk
Skills: 1 B, 2 A, 3 A, 4 A, 5 B, 6 C, 7 A, 8 A, 9 C, 10 B, 11 B, 12 B
Max B first against ranged top laners, then A.
Blackfeather is countered by
Due to his base damage and sustain he can easily bully Blackfeather in lane in the early game.
Grumpjaw massive damage reduction and base damage make him a very hard opponent to deal with in the early game.
Blackfeather is a counter to
All heroes except the ones in the counters list
Blackfeather is strong against
All compositions cause he is very flexible
Patch History
Vainglory Version 4.11
HEARTTHROB (PERK)
- Bonus Crystal Damage
- 15% → 18%
ROSE OFFENSIVE (C)
- Damage
- 100 / 150 / 200 → 120 / 170 / 220
- Crystal Power Ratio
- 50% → 60%
4.6
ROSE OFFENSIVE (C)
- Focus Cost
- 60 / 40 / 20 → 45 / 30 / 15
4.5
Blackfeather hasn’t seen a lot of success in recent days. These changes should help him get into back the fight and stay there assuming that he is, uhhhh ‘On Point’ about landing his B Ability.
FEINT OF HEART (A)
- Base Damage
- 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 → 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240
ON POINT (B)
- Barrier Strength
- 125 / 175 / 225 / 275 / 325 → 125 / 200 / 275 / 350 / 425
4.3
ON POINT (B)
- Barrier Duration
- 1.2 → 2
4.2
In conjunction with changes to the Blackclaw Rush speed boost and all boot items, we are buffing up Hero base movement speed to keep things crisp and let your skills take center stage.
3.5 → 3.9