Kit Reveal: Pirate King Hondo Ohnaka

New Galactic Legend unit: Pirate King Hondo Ohnaka.

Alignment: Dark
Categories: Galactic Legend, Dark Side, Support, Leader, Pirate, Scoundrel, Smuggler, Order 66 Raid

Key Attributes:

• Taunt is bypassed by 'Lightning Raid'.
• 'Profit' stacks indefinitely for Pirate King Hondo Ohnaka.
• When Pirate King Hondo Ohnaka has 10 or more stacks of 'Profit', all allies gain a double assist call.

Inspiration:

• Kit and event framing focus on the thrill of being a scoundrel who survives, thrives, and profits.
• Leans into flair, turning abilities and cinematics into a stage.

Strategy Tips:

• Start with 'Lightning Raid'.
• Target enemies with buffs ('juiciest buffs') to 'reallocate' them.
• Survival is based on intelligence and evasion.

Mod Set Bonus Recommendations:

• Gear 7+ Speed Tenacity

FAQ:

• Unlock Method: TALES OF THE PIRATE KING Galactic Legend event.
• Raid Viability: Essential for the new raid.
• Best Squad: SM-33, Brutus, Vane, Captain Silvo.
• Leader Ability Synergy: Pirate King Hondo Ohnaka, having both Pirate and Smuggler tags, gains double benefits (60% Offense, 6% Speed).
• Buffing Enemies: Generosity for business, as buffs are taken back.
• Profit Stack Limit (Older Pirates): Enfys Nest, Sana Starros, and the original Hondo Ohnaka have a limit of 5 stacks of 'Profit' for balance.

Abilities:

• Ultimate - Mutual Gains (For Me) (Unlock - Relic 1):
• Requires 100% Ultimate Charge.
• Ultimate Charge gained when Pirate allies gain 'Profit' or use buff-stealing abilities.
• Revives all Pirate and Smuggler allies with 100% Health.
• Enemies lose 25% Turn Meter (doubled for Jedi and Sith, unresistable).
• Jedi and Sith enemies have cooldowns increased by 2.
• Enemies gain Critical Damage Up, Defense Up, and Offense Up for 2 turns.
• Inflicts Tenuous Agreement on all enemies for 2 turns (cannot be copied, dispelled, evaded, or resisted).
• Grants Favorable Terms to all Pirate allies for 2 turns (cannot be copied, dispelled, or prevented).
• Tenuous Agreement: +10 Speed; deal 30% less damage to characters with Favorable Terms.
• Favorable Terms: +20% Critical Chance and Offense; recover 10% Protection at the start of turn; gain bonus turn and grant allied Pirate King Hondo Ohnaka 2 stacks of Profit when defeating an enemy with Tenuous Agreement.
• Basic - Pistol Panache (Zeta):
• Deal Physical damage to target enemy and gain 1 stack of Profit.
• If critical hit, all Pirate allies gain a stack of Profit.
• If Hondo's turn, call a random Pirate Attacker and a random other Pirate ally to assist, dealing 2% more damage for each stack of Profit on all 3 allies.
• If target enemy is Jedi or Sith, remove 2% Turn Meter for each buff and debuff on them.
• If Turn Meter removed, Hondo gains 3% Ultimate Charge.
• If Hondo had 10 or more stacks of Profit at start of turn, guaranteed critical hit if able.
• Special 01 - Loot First, Ask Later (CD: 4) (Zeta):
• All Pirate allies gain 10 Mastery (stacking) until end of encounter.
• Pirate King Hondo Ohnaka Steals all buffs (excluding taunt effects) from target enemy, resets their duration, and grants all buffs (excluding Stealth and taunt effects) to all Pirate allies.
• Inflicts opposite debuff on target enemy for 2 turns, dispels remaining buffs, and increases their cooldowns by 1.
• Cannot be resisted.
• Special 02 - Charismatic Captain (CD: 5) (Zeta):
• Dispel all debuffs from all allies.
• All Pirate allies recover 30% Health and Protection and gain 25% Turn Meter.
• If Hondo has 10 or more stacks of Profit, consume 10 stacks: all Pirate allies gain 75% Turn Meter and Speed Up for 2 turns.
• Call all other Pirate allies to assist. If Profit stacks were consumed, call all other Pirate allies to assist again.
• Leader - Pirate King (Self-Proclaimed) (Zeta):
• Start of battle: all Pirate allies and all Smuggler allies gain 30% Offense and 3% Speed.
• Pirate allies also gain 35% Defense and 25% Tenacity and are immune to Fear, Healing Immunity, Shock, and Turn Meter removal.
• If no Light Side allies, all Pirates gain Lightning Raid for 1 turn (2 turns if enemy Leader is Jedi).
• Pirate King Hondo Ohnaka gains 2% Ultimate Charge whenever a Pirate ally uses a buff-stealing ability.
• Start of Hondo's turn, if Sith enemies, Daze them for 2 turns (unresistable, undispellable, unevadable).
• If enemy Leader is Jedi, Pirate allies gain 10% Offense and 4% Speed.
• Whenever an enemy Jedi attacks out of turn, they take damage equal to 3% of Max Health, and all Pirate allies gain 2% Offense (stacking) for the rest of battle (damage cannot evade or defeat enemies).
• Lightning Raid: Deal 20% more damage and ignore Taunt.
• Unique 1 - It's Not Personal. It's Profitable. (Zeta):
• Maximum cap for Profit is removed for Pirate King Hondo Ohnaka.
• Start of battle, if Pirate King Hondo Ohnaka is Leader: all Pirate allies gain 5 stacks of Profit.
• Hondo gains additional 2 stacks of Profit per Relic Amplifier level (max 9).
• Gain a stack of Profit when an allied Pirate attacks out of turn.
• Gain a stack of Profit when Pirate allies are damaged by a Jedi or Sith enemy.
• Gain 2 stacks of Profit when Pirate King Hondo uses a Special ability.
• While Pirate allies have 15+ stacks of Profit: receive 10% less damage.
• While Pirate allies have <15 stacks of Profit: gain 10% Turn Meter for each turn an enemy takes.
• Unique 2 - Galactic Legend (Zeta):
• Takes reduced damage from percent Health damage effects and massive damage effects.
• Takes massive damage from destroy effects (excludes raid bosses).
• Immune to stun effects.
• +10% Max Health and Max Protection per Relic Amplifier level.
• Damage received is decreased by 30%.