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Updated on 27 May 2025

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Tomyris (Shadow Support)

Tomyris is a unique Shadow-element archer immortal with a Support role, and she has rapidly gained attention as one of the most disruptive and impactful immortals in Infinity Kingdom. Despite her Support classification, her stats, energy regeneration, and ultimate ability provide overwhelming utility, especially when placed strategically in mid-to-late game Shadow marches or as a control option in elemental builds.

Overview

Tomyris benefits from the Shadow element’s natural counters. Shadow immortals have a significant advantage in combat: they deal approximately 25% more damage and take 25% less damage when fighting any of the five basic elemental marches (Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning). However, they are countered by Holy and Chaos elements, which makes placement and matchup knowledge key when fielding Tomyris.

Her archetype allows her to fill the role of a disruptive anti-mage, a turn controller, and a silent team-wide buffer. Though labeled as a support, her ultimate skill alone is enough to warp the outcome of most battles. With a naturally high resilience, above-average dodge, and powerful anti-mage resistance stats, Tomyris thrives where others falter.

Ultimate Skill – Crimson Arrows

Tomyris’s signature ability is Crimson Arrows, which makes her one of the most dangerous control immortals in the game:

“Causes Confuse to 1 random enemy unit for 6 seconds. If the target being confused has less than 50% troops remaining, increase the damage dealt to the entire team by 15% for 4 seconds.”

If equipped with her exclusive artifact Ring of Spirit, this health threshold increases from 50% to 70%, vastly improving the uptime of the team-wide damage buff. Crimson Arrows causes Confuse, one of the most potent control effects in the game, especially in its randomness and early activation window. Even a single confuse cast can force an enemy backliner to waste its burst against an ally.

Tip: With her unique artifact, you will often find that the very first cast of her ultimate applies the increased damage taken debuff on your enemies when running Tomyris in a fire-setup due to the high dragon breath damage and quick spell damage.

Key Traits:

  • Randomized Confuse creates a consistent risk to high-priority targets.
  • Conditional team-wide damage amp enables synergy with burst comps.
  • Artifact threshold increase makes the passive effect much more reliable.
  • Early cast time (~4–5s into combat) guarantees impact before dragon skills resolve.

In longer fights, Tomyris can maintain Confuse uptime for over 60 seconds, especially in builds that boost her energy regeneration.

Detailed Stat Profile

At level 55 with full boosts (VIP 15, Boost 30, T8 troops, max equipment), Tomyris exhibits the following characteristics:

Strength

Her physical attack is slightly above average for a support immortal, which is notable considering she does not directly deal DPS. Her physical defense is also decent, exceeding typical supports like Zenobia or Qin, providing some extra survivability in mixed damage compositions.

Agility

Tomyris’s crit rate is low—standard for her role—but her dodge value is slightly above average compared to other supports. This allows her to dodge non-magical damage with greater frequency, especially when enhanced through tower skills like Misleading.

Intelligence

Tomyris has very high magic defense and an unusually strong magic attack stat for a support. This can make certain skills or tech trees (like energy scaling or debuff-based talents) more effective than on other support-type immortals.

Physique

Her accuracy is as high as you would expect from a support-type immortal, ensuring reliability in applying Confuse. What truly sets her apart, though, is her resilience—often reaching 6,000+, rivaling or even exceeding top-tier frontliners like Hippolyta or Bjorn.

Aptitude

  • Magic Penetration: A bit low (~1685), though expected for a non-damaging support.
  • Magic Protection: Her strongest point—often measured above 2200, Tomyris shrugs off magic damage better than almost any other immortal, especially when stacked with Shadow bonuses.

Energy Regeneration

  • Base Energy Regen: 111
  • With Max Surge and Talents: Up to 165.4, making her the second fastest caster in the entire game, behind only Manco Cápac. This enables frequent Confuse applications, often before most enemies have time to react.

Field Testing and Tactical Application

In practical combat, Tomyris will often cast her ultimate just 4–5 seconds into a fight—prior to most dragons and backliners activating their ultimates. This makes her one of the most tempo-shifting openers in the game. She excels against:

  • Burst teams that rely on synchronized opening damage.
  • Mage-centric compositions, due to her overwhelming magic defense.
  • Unprepared PvP lineups that neglect Fighting Master or energy suppression skills.

As long as you are not fighting Holy (which counters Shadow), Tomyris is a nightmare for most common meta lineups.

In full-duration matches, especially those with fighting master used sparingly, she can easily stack 60–80 seconds of Confuse uptime (high tech regen builds). The chaos caused by these frequent misfires (from backliners attacking their allies) cannot be overstated.

Strategic Use and Build Suggestions

Tomyris fits naturally in Shadow-based control teams, but she is also viable in hybrid compositions (e.g., Water/Shadow or Fire/Shadow). Here’s how she might slot into various archetypes:

Shadow Builds

  • Pair with Himiko/Loki, Bjorn, and Tutankhamun for control and damage heavy build.
  • Her confuse contributes alongside disables from Loki and Himiko.
  • Confuse can nullify dangerous enemies like Manco, Tutankhamun, or Anubis.

Fire or Lightning Builds

  • Use Tomyris to protect your burst glass-cannon mages.
  • Frontloaded teams benefit from early control of the enemy’s backline.

Water Builds

  • Fire + Water teams may use her to protect Wu/Merlin and force Confuse on your enemy making it a 5v3 battle.

Strategic considerations and countering Tomyris:

  • Countering with Fighting Master (on your key DPS) to prevent her Confuse from taking effect.
  • Energy Regen control such as Hippolyta and No Escape, Energy Suppression.

Conclusion

Tomyris is a game-warping support immortal with tremendous control potential, high magical defense, and fast energy generation. Her unique application of Confuse and passive AoE damage buffs makes her one of the best supports in Infinity Kingdom, especially when matched against traditional elemental teams.

While she is not immune to Holy counterplay, her raw stat profile, energy regen, and impact from her ultimate allow her to dominate nearly every other scenario. Whether you are building a top-tier Shadow team or seeking utility in a hybrid composition, Tomyris will always earn her spot in the lineup.

If you are fortunate enough to unlock her and her Ring of Spirit, invest in her talents and gear—she is more than worth it.

Published: 27-05-2025