How to Champion your units with the least effort

This guide will teach you how to easily upgrade your units into Champions.

What is a "Champion" unit?

A Champion unit is a unit with different visuals than others of its class, with some stat increases.

For example, this is a normal forsaken axeman compared to a champion forsaken axeman

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The stat increases are currently 10% HP and 10% damage.

How do I upgrade a unit to a Champion?

The way you can acquire a Champion unit, is by fully completing "The Champion" perk requirements.

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You are eligible for a Champion stack when the following conditions are met.

When you win a battle with 1 unit against 3+ mobs.

When you win a battle with 2 units against 6+ mobs.

You cannot have NPC allies, and the mission must be won by killing all enemies. Panicking villagers do not count as allies.

What are the easiest ways to do that?

Generally, you'll get it done in 3 ways.

A) A mission is easy enough to do it with only 2 units.

B) You kill all the mobs except 6, retreat and do it again with only 2 units.

C) You win a beastmaster mission.

All of the above will give 1 credit towards Champion.

Here are the missions that fall under the 1st category;

Villagers Terrorized, roaming missions.

Villagers captured, roaming mission, let the guard die.

Faction vs Faction.

Here are the missions that fall under the 2nd category

All other missions where you can easily retreat when 6 enemies are left, the easiest ones are those that allow you to retreat from where it's easiest to fight, e.g village missions, intruders and catapults. Those are practically free champion stacks for 2 units of your choosing, as long as you are willing to pay the retreat and single day cost.

Happy hunting.

[Qwark]

They give you 1 ranks progress towards champion status

[Lex]

Can you explain how C works? Do beastmasters just grant you Champion rank as reward or what?

[whodini]

Ty for the guide, champs shred. FYI, the villager skin (same as weapon/armour smith) does not appear to have a champ version.

[Qwark]

I'm not sure how much clearer I can be when I say "the condition is a 1v3 or 2v6 and you can use these missions to leave only 6 enemies, then come back and kill them with 2 party members for a champion stack."

[Nonaloth]

Thank you, but for the sake of this guide can you be a little more specific?

[Qwark]

I have a bunch of playthroughs uploaded on my channel where I do exactly that https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvS4XnJ7U4QcIlH0b6K3-JQ/videos

[Nonaloth]

Do you have any video explaining it? I did understand what you wrote but i can't imagine it done.