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For those who frequently climb the ranks, Airi is a common sight in any match. With her petite and adorable appearance, paired with her incredibly powerful skill set, she attracts any gamer who loves assassin heroes in Arena of Valor. Although mastering the playstyle of Airi in Arena of Valor is anything but simple, this is a common trait among assassin heroes in the game when it comes to climbing ranks.
For assassin heroes in Arena of Valor, the task is to support teammates by disrupting enemies, ganking early, and ensuring a stable amount of farm and kills, which not everyone can accomplish. Therefore, if you're new to Arena of Valor, we don't recommend choosing this hero. However, you can still refer to the article below to learn about the strengths, weaknesses, and how to counter if Airi - the dragon ninja is your opponent.
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Guide on how to play Airi in Arena of Valor, gearing up the Dragon Ninja.
Advantages of Airi:
- High agility, with the ability to move and approach targets quickly.
- Possesses the ability to generate armor through target skills.
- Ability to stack damage to quickly finish off opponents.
- Has the ability to crowd control multiple targets thanks to Ultimate.
- Skills do not consume energy so they can spam crowd control skills against opponents.
Drawbacks:
- Being an assassin, she's paper-thin in terms of health, easy to die.
- Doesn't have an advantage in engaging in overall combat.
- Difficult to play, easily becomes a 'burden' for the team if unable to efficiently utilize skills.
Guide to playing Airi in Arena of Valor, skill enhancement, and Airi's gem chart.
Airi's skill set focuses on physical damage, with short cooldowns and an innate skill that continuously replenishes Airi's Sword Energy.
- Sword Energy Innate Skill: Each basic attack reduces the cooldown of Sword Energy by 1 second.
- Sword Energy Skill (Cooldown: 8 seconds): Swings Sword Energy forward, dealing damage vertically and stunning targets hit.
- Sword Mastery Skill (Cooldown: 8 seconds): Glide towards the enemy and deal physical damage. Can glide up to 3 times in a row before Sword Mastery enters cooldown.
- Supreme Skill: Dragon Blade (Cooldown: 40 seconds): Inflicts physical damage on nearby targets, slowing and stunning those hit. Additionally, each enemy hero affected by this ultimate ability grants Airi a layer of armor and increases her running speed by 100% (gradually decreases over 2 seconds), along with a 30% attack speed boost for 8 seconds.
Airi Skill Leveling Order
Airi's Support Gem Chart
- Red Gems: Physical attack is the top choice to optimize Airi's damage output.
- Purple Gems: Prioritize maximum health and critical rate for a bit of randomness and survivability.
- Green Gems: Physical attack and armor penetration are two indispensable stats for an assassin hero.
Common Ways to Play Airi in Arena of Valor
This is the standard way to play Airi in Arena of Valor, balancing offense and defense, suitable for those new to playing Airi.
- Frequent Breaks: Ability to break through enemy armor while also speeding up Airi and reducing cooldown time by 10%.
- Hermes' Shoes: Increases Airi's running speed, crucial for chase scenarios.
- Longinus' Lance: Essential equipment for any assassin with armor penetration and reduced cooldown time.
- Frost Cape: Adds health for squishy assassins, reduces cooldown time by 10%. The innate skill allows enemies to receive an additional 150 damage every 3 seconds of cooldown, along with a 30% slow effect.
- Troy's Medal: Adds 1000 health, reduces cooldown time by 10%, and adds 360 magic defense, an essential equipment if you want to endure longer in combat. Additionally, every 15 seconds, you receive a layer of absorbing armor (300 + hero level *60).
- Immortality: Allows resurrection with 40% maximum health, activation time is 3 minutes after each use. The most lethal equipment in Arena of Valor that you need to get.
How to Play Airi in the Jungle in Arena of Valor
This is the advanced and popular playstyle when climbing ranks, requiring your Airi skills to be higher and more agile when supporting the team.
- Soulreaver: A common jungle item, increases attack speed by 25% and lifesteal by 10%. Additionally, when killing a jungle monster, it adds 3 physical damage, accumulates 15 times. This is an indispensable item for jungle assassins.
- Hermes' Shoes: Increases Airi's running speed, crucial for chase scenarios.
- Frequent Breaks: Ability to break through enemy armor while also speeding up Airi and reducing cooldown time by 10%.
- Longinus' Lance: Essential equipment for any assassin with armor penetration and reduced cooldown time.
- Frost Cape: Adds health for squishy assassins, reduces cooldown time by 10%. The innate skill allows enemies to receive an additional 150 damage every 3 seconds of cooldown, along with a 30% slow effect.
- Troy's Medal: Adds 1000 health, reduces cooldown time by 10%, and adds 360 magic defense, an essential equipment if you want to endure longer in combat. Additionally, every 15 seconds, you receive a layer of absorbing armor (300 + hero level *60).
Notes When Playing Airi - the Dragon Ninja
- Airi's skills are quite agile and do not consume energy, so you can use them to harass opponents right from the start.
- Prioritize leveling up Sword Energy and combine it with the innate skill to continuously spam this skill, effectively controlling enemy heroes and farming monsters.
- The Sword Mastery skill can be activated 3 times and is very good at traversing terrain, therefore, players should take advantage of this to chase enemies as well as escape from combat easily.
- The Dragon Blade ultimate can generate a lot of armor when hitting many enemy heroes, so players should try to use this skill to hit as many enemies as possible during team fights.
Above is the basic guide on how to play Airi in Arena of Valor for those who want to explore this dragon ninja. From this, we can see that new assassins joining Arena of Valor are not weak at all. To counter assassins like Airi, careful tactics are needed, or else they can backfire.
However, if you're new to Arena of Valor, you don't need to worry too much. In regular matches, you rarely encounter Airi because she's not a hero for new Arena of Valor players, and few accounts have Airi right from the start. Therefore, you should only choose and focus on heroes for new Arena of Valor players. Airi should only be considered when you start climbing to silver rank.
