Apeiron – Ultimate Guide to PVP

PVP: Complete Guide

Beginner

Basics

Apeiron PVP game mode allows you to play against other players with your own Avatar. You get to select up to 6 apostles to carry with you onto the battlefield. The goal is to defeat the enemy avatar.

Avatar:

Apostle:

Apeiron is a deck base system consisting of Avatar and apostle skill cards combined into a deck of 15 cards: 3 from your avatar and 12 from apostles (3 card per 1 apostle).

All of these cards are skills you can use in game.

Avatar Skill Card:

Apostle Skill Card:

Auto Attack

The Avatar will perform an auto attack when an enemy comes within the auto attack range, indicated by a circle around your avatar. While moving, the avatar will charge the auto attack. However, in order to damage the enemy with an auto attack, your avatar must not be moving.

Basic Control

Use W/A/S/D to control your Avatar movement. Spacebar to dash. Dash cooldown show as yellow bar beside your Avatar.

Mana

Mana is the resource you use to cast skill cards. On the top left of each card, it will show its mana cost. Your avatar automatically regenerates mana (max 15), but it is important to not use all of it at once!

The more apostles you bring, the faster your mana regeneration speed.

Using Skill Cards

Dragging the card upward will activate aiming mode, allowing you to aim your skill. In this mode, you can see the range of the skill you are about to use. After releasing the mouse click, the avatar/apostle will activate the skill.

Hotkeys

We also have a hot key system so you can set keys rather than needing to drag a skill card!

Discarding

Dragging the card downward will discard it, costing 1 mana. You will then get the next card in the deck.

Basics

When the battle starts, we enter the Formation Phase, which allows us to place our units on the board. You choose 4 out of the 6 Apostles to join you in the battle. The battle consists of a Best of 3.

After one round passes, you can use Super Nova, which increases the risk and reward of the battle. If you win after using Super Nova, you will gain an additional star, but if you lose, you will also lose one more star.

The more stars you win, the higher your rank.

Ring Close

After the game start for 30 second, the red ring will slowly closing over 5 second and it will stop for 30 second until next close.

Tip: After 7 round of ring closing, there will be no safety zone to stay. Fight or die!

Skill Tree

There are two skill types:

• Active skill: A skill card that you can be use.
• Passive skill: A skill that will auto active when in battle.

Every skill need correspond elemental skill point to upgrade it.

Point thresholds to get to next skill circle:

• Circle 1: 0 Points
• Circle 2: 10 Points
• Circle 3: 20 Points
• Circle 4: 30 Points
• Circle 5: 55 Points
• Circle 6: 80 Points

Caution: You can only bring 3 active skills into battle, so there no need to upgrade skills that you don’t want to use.

• (1) Click on perks to level them up.

• (2) Spend more points to reach further into the skill tree.

• (3) Give skills unique effects by clicking the 3 upgrade nodes.

• (4) Click “Skill Slot” and view your 3 skills.

Skills

Planet NFTs are born with Active/Passive birth skills which will give you:

1. Access to the skill right away (no need to meet threshold).
2. Active birth skills give 11 bonus points to its corresponding element.
3. Passive birth skill give 5 bonus points to its corresponding elemental.

Birth skills will allow you to level up skills 1 extra level.

Type of Apostle Skills

The offering card is a special skill card that comes with an offering bar. When the offering card is in hand and you discard a card, it gains 1 offering and receives a special bonus based on the discarded card. The maximum offering bonus is 3.

Normal skill card:

Offering bar:

Welcome to the Slam:

Offering Bonus:

1. Increase damage by 100%.
2. Increase damage by 200%.
3. Increase damage by 270%.

Apostle Key Skills

Warrior

Welcome to the Slam: A movement skill that lets your warrior jump to an enemy. It is a very good starting skill that outputs a lot of damage with 3 offering bonus. If the enemy has a shield, it will stun them.

Last Doodstanding: A buffing skill that gives your warrior a damage boost to auto attack. If enemy avatar is slowed or stunned, the auto attack will deal double the amount of damage.

Hungry Yell: A crown control skill that lets your warrior taunt the enemy and gain a shield. It is an easy skill to cast that can stun an enemy. This is a good card to combo with another card.

Guardian

Prickly personality: A buff that replicates all damage taken by guardian onto enemy avatar. It also gives guardian vamp so the guardian heals when doing damage.

Leaping shield bonk: A movement skill that deals aoe damage and stuns enemy in the hitbox. A good skill to use to combo with other cards.

Castle Guard: Guardian dashes to a location and taunts enemies around it. Any projectiles get obsorbed by this skill.

Priest

Almost-vincible: Spawns a circle that gives 50% damage reduction to allies and protects them from dying. At the end of the skill, the priest will give a big heal to all allies in that circle range.

Circle o’ healing: Spawns a circle of healing that heals all allies continuously. A great skill as long as allies stay within the circle.

Retribution!: Create a shockwave around the priest and avatar. After the delay, it will knock back enemies around the circle. A good skill to stun enemies.

Mage

Fall up: Lifts enemies in hitbox up and smashes them to the ground. A good skill to interrupt enemy skills and do damage as well.

Switcheroo: Mage swaps place with your avatar and heals both you and the mage. A very low mana cost card that can either get you or your mage out of trouble.

Mystic flow: mage make your next card you play cost 1 less and offering bonus make those cost reduction even cheaper. A good card to use even if not offering it get you free card rotation without any downside.

Rogue

Card Shark: Allows you to draw the last card you used and gives a shield to both of you and the rogue. This allow you to recycle strong cards. More offering bonus = bigger shield.

Now You See Me: Lets your rogue disappear and reposition to a different location on the map while also healing the rogue. Can be used offensively or defensively.

Hunter

Root Trap Slide: A movement skill that lets your hunter move out of danger and leave a trap at its original position. Any enemy inside will be stunned immediately. Good to combo with other skills.

Head Shot: Hunter charges a big arrow and shoots it at targeted enemy. A very high damage skill card that can be used with a crown control skill.

Double Shot Volley: Hunter shoots 2 waves of arrow at targeted location. A high damage skill that is good for killing apostles.

Tips Before Playing

Slot 1 Avatar Card will start in your hand.

Slot 1 Apostle Cards will start in your hand.

Starting Hand.

An apostles IV is their individual value. The higher the IV, the higher the stats (as shown above). IV is giving when you found your apostle it cannot increase.

NFT Apostle will come with some decoration a halo and wing! NFT Apostle with IV more than 88 will have a blackwing! Beware them they are very powerful.

Currency

Stamina:

• 1 Stamina used every PvP match you play.
• Must have Stamina to earn rewards.
• Resets to 10 every day at 12 am utc.

Animus:

• Earned from winning pvp matches.
• Used to re-roll your apostles.
• Used to replace Anima for breeding.

Anima:

• Earned from pvp matches.
• Used to breed planets.

Aprs:

• Premium governance token.
• Reward from pvp Leaderboard.
• Use to breed planet.

Intermediate

Wisdom Auto Attack – Staff

The staff charges a ball of magic that is directed at enemy target. Deals equal damage to all targets in auto attack circle. The staff is the fastest charging auto attack.

Wisdom Auto Attack – Book

The book charges an attack in a rectangular shape and hits all targets in that auto attack zone for the same amount of damage.

Wisdom Auto Attack – Orb

The orb charges an attack in a cone and damages all enemies in zone. This is the highest damage auto attack but damage is spread across all enemies in auto attack cone.

Debuff

Ablaze:

Units take 5% more damage from fire card skills, up to 3 times. Once fully stacked, this extra damage becomes true damage. The effect lasts for 16 seconds and refreshes when hit by fire skills.

Toxic:

Units take magic damage equal to 1% of their Max HP every second, capped at 100% of the caster’s INT. This effect doesn’t stack but can be refreshed. Duration depends on the card or skill used.

Frostbite:

Each stack of this effect reduces the target’s healing and shielding by 5% for 8 seconds up to 6 times and stores up damage taken. When fully stacked or when the duration ends, the target takes true damage of the accumulate damage. Water damage get more accumulate damage than other damage type!

Skill Type

Offensive:

Used to deal damage.

Crowd Control:

Used to interrupt enemy/apostles.

Defense:

Used for sustain.

Offensive Skill

Offensive skills prioritize damage:

• The main offensive skill card is a higher mana cost card that outputs a lot of damage.

• The other offensive skills output less damage but also require less mana to use.

Crowd Control Skill (CC Skill)

Any CC skill allows you to cancel an enemy skill while they are casting, combo with another card in your deck to guarantee damage, or simply to create space.

• CC interrupt with stun knockup knockback.

• CC movement with Slow Root Taunt Fear.

Special Tip!

Enemies that get rooted will not be able to move, even with skills such as Switcharoo, where rather than swapping positions with the mage, the mage will teleport next to you.

Defence Skill

Defence skill: Used to defend yourself, escape danger, and heal. Some planets will not need this kind of skills at all, such as a burst deck that prioritizes damage over sustainability.

Movement:

Damage redirect and shield:

Heal:

Zoning:

Deck Building

Deck building depends on the birth skills of your planet and the skills you are able to access in the skill tree. It is your duty to find apostles that match your playstyle!

Avatar Skills:

Apostle Skills:

Meta

FC4: Curse of Darkfire

FC4: Summon a fireball that slowly follows enemy avatar and applies ablaze (upgrade 3) to any unit affected. This leaves a fire trail behind (upgrade 1) that deals damage to any enemy in its trails and stuns upon expiry (upgrade 2). A maximum of 2 balls can be use at the same time. If you cast a third, the first will explode.

This can be used to stall enemies so that you can prep your hand. It also does a lot of damage to enemies in its trail and can potentially stun the enemy, allowing you to combo with another card. It is also very easy to use as it automatically follows the enemy avatar.

FC5: Lava Eruption

FC5: Summon 4 pillars (upgrade 2) that shoot 2 lasers (upgrade 3) per pillar to the nearest enemy. If there are multiple enemies in a spot, laser will split to other targets it also inflict ablaze (upgrade 1).

This can be used to damage or zone enemies. An advantage is that this skill has a quick cast time and is very hard to cancel, making it very effective overall.

AC1: Tailwind Dash + AC2: Zipzap Orb

AC1 and AC2 can be used to interrupt enemies:

• AC1 is a dash that knocks up enemies (upgrade 3).

• AC2 summons 3 orb and if enemy gets hit by all 3, they are stunned (upgrade 1).

AC1 is commonly used due to its accessibility, cast time, and cost. AC2 is used due to its high damage and ability to stun.

AC5: Gustwing Unbound

AC5: Up to 7 feathers (upgrade 3) are shot out from your avatar in a cone, dealing damage. After a while, all feathers come back to avatar, dealing damage, healing your avatar (upgrade 3), and stunning enemies.

This can be used to damage enemies, kite away from enemies, and to heal. Often times, this is used to follow up on a cc skill as it outputs a high amount of damage. This skill is very fast and can burst an enemy when used properly.

EC4: Rootvine Seeds

EC4: Shoots multiple seeds out for a short period of time. Enemies that are hit are rooted and if hit at max range, it will also deal damage (upgrade 3) and heal your avatar (upgrade 2).

This can be used to damage enemies, kite away from them, or to heal. It serves as a disruption to enemies as they are unable to get close to you for any skills. In certain situations, you can also combo this with another skill if enemy is stunned.

EC5: Desecrated Ground

EC5: Spawns a circle that deals true damage over time and heals for damage done (upgrade 1). It also stuns enemies (upgrade 2) that stay inside the circle.

This can be used to either damage the enemies or heal when you are low HP. As you make it further into the game, this skill becomes more valuable and often times can win you the game due to its healing features!

WC4: Coldwater Ritual

WC4: Spawns a circle that pulls enemies inside and reduces movement speed. After 6 seconds, it will explode and deal damage to all units inside. It also applies frostbite (upgrade 1) and heals friendly units inside (upgrade 3).

This can be used to zone an enemy, heal, or damage them. This is also a very strong late game skill as it covers all exposed area when the circle gets smaller.

Tips for Getting Rank

While searching for a match, the longer you wait, the wider the range of enemies you will be matched with:

• For the first 30 seconds of matchmaking, every 10 second increases the range of opponents by 1 Tier and 100 MMR (plus/minus).
• For the next 45s of matchmaking, every 15 seconds increases the range of opponents by 1 Tier and 200 MMR (plus/minus).
• This means that the maximum difference will be 6 tiers, and 550 MMR (plus/minus).

Advance

Counter Pick

What is a counter pick?

A counter pick is choosing an apostle with a specific skill that counters one of the enemy avatar’s skills.

Example #1:

Curse of Darkfire (FC4) and Lava Eruption (FC5) are one of the most effective skills. Both can provide huge damage and stacks of Ablaze as well. Both are DoT (Damage over time) skills, so the best way to counter is Prickly Personality, which deflects damage back to enemy avatar.

Example #2:

Gustwing Unbound (AC5) is also a popular skill. There are many Apostles or even Avatar skill cards that can disrupt this skill. For example, Switcheroo or Tailwind Dash (AC1) to allows you to escape. Guardian’s Castle Guard blocks it since it counts as a projectile. Almost invincibility can also be used to reduce damage from returning blades!

Example #3:

Electrostatic Ray (AC4) and Rootvine Seeds (EC4) are not common skills because they are not easy to use on the battlefield. They are also easily cancelable by Tailwind Dash (AC1), Fall up or even Retribution!

Enemy Analysis

Analyzing Your Opponent!

A very important aspect to win a game is knowledge and understanding of your opponent’s deck. This allows you to counter pick if necessary, and play around their weaknesses. These are some tips to help:

• Read skill descriptions and try to understand their advantages and disadvantages.
• Play practice games to understand different skills.

For example:

You are against a Dunes with:

• Curse of Darkfire.
• Gustwing Unbound.
• Zip Zap Orb.

What to be expected here?

• A Dunes is a Fire/Wind Planet so it can move fast and deal tons of damage.
• It lacks Water/Earth so it generally is squishy and unsustainable.
• Both Curse of Darkfire and Zip Zap Orb can CC you.

Apostle Manipulation

What is Apostle Manipulation?

Apostles manipulation is strategic about managing and manage enemy’s Apostle priority depend on your plan to takedown which and let which alive.

It is a great way to manage the risk which taking out the Apostle that may turn the tide of war into the enemy’s hand. If you know about what are you doing is right, just go for it.

Which Apostle do I need to take them down first?

Take note of enemy’s composition and realize which apostles they are playing around. Common ones are:

• Priests.
• Mages.
• Hunters.

Prioritizing Apostles!

Sometimes, letting enemy apostles live can be a disadvantage for your opponent: 

• Gustwing Unbound (AC5) gain more advantage when Avatar is standing alone without Apostles because of an Air perk called “Feather Weight” will definitely reduce cost of Avatar’s skill.
• So sometime it is better to leave some Apostle in battlefield to increase the amount of enemy’s skills to be shuffled into enemy’s deck.

Sacrificing Apostles!

Though generally not recommended, sacrificing your apostles can prove advantageous:

• More avatar cards will be shuffled into deck (since apostle is no longer alive).
• This means you are able to continuously use strong avatar cards rather than apostle skill cards.

Tip: Be aware of what your strong and weak skill cards are.