Warriors | Tanks | Assassins | Mages | Marksman | Supports
Arena of Valor counterpart: N/A
Original Information: Alessio is an original character to Honor of Kings
Arena of Valor counterpart: Elsu
Original Information: Baili Shouyue is an original character to Honor of Kings
- Friendly Sniper: He's generally a cordial, cool big bro of Xuance, taking things with a stride. He's also a deadly sharpshooter with his Sniper Rifle.
- Glass Cannon: As a sniper, he deals heavy damage in his normal attacks and has a tremendous range and even more damage with his second skill, though compensated with very slow attack speed and possible inaccuracies. While he does have an escape method, he only has one shot of escape, otherwise he'll be quickly taken down.
- Little Bit Beastly: Has dog ears and tail.
- Meaningful Rename: Upon losing his little brother and breaking their promise to never separate, he changed his name to "Shouyue" which translates to "keep promise" to remind himself of his goal to find his brother again.
- Team Chef: The Great Wall guardians entrusted him with their cooking, something that he's really good at and it's implied that everyone else are hopeless about cooking foods.
Arena of Valor counterpart: Valhein (only on pre-rework Di Renjie)
Original Information: A celebrated judge/detective of the Tang Dynasty. Di Renjie went on to become one of the most trusted chancellors of Wu Zetian and his keen intellect and sense of justice helped serve the Empress and generally thought to be an upstanding man as opposed to the grayer morality of the Empress. With wit, intellect and guile, he weeded out many of the corrupt people during the Tang Dynasty, eventually immortalizing him in various stories where he's known as "Judge Dee".
Arena of Valor counterpart: N/A
Original Information: Aileen is an original character to Honor of Kings
- Art Evolution: Done so to the point of her being completely unrecognizable, being a New character herself.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: More than the average marksman in this game, she has no mana bar and her gameplay is to dash around and shoot as much laurel leaves as possible into her enemies.
- Automatic Crossbow: Magical and manifested from fae magic, there is no such need. There is also an item within the shop exclusive for her, which provides her more crit chance, attack speed, and a tiny bit of sustain; trading it off with less ways to earn her ultimate’s Laurel Leaves stacks.
- Ballet: one of her skins puts her in the role of the Paper Ballerina in the tale of The Steadfast Tin Soldier.
- Dance Battler: Another dancer in this game next to Diao Chan, as it is her race’s livelihood, so much that every abilities are Dance Based.
- Defector from Decadence: Ran away from her the Elven Fae kingdom she was supposed but does not want to rule, and became a fugitive as a result of it.
- Flower Motifs: Laurel plant, which is a sacred tree within Aileen’s kingdom.
- Fragile Speedster: one of the most mobile marksman in the game, she can dash and shoot as many times as she wants and is a core mechanic she has.
- Hit-and-Run Tactics: Her core abilities as a Fragile Speedster.
- Mage Marksman: The only one exclusively scales off of and deals Magic Damage.
- Magic Missile Storm: Her ultimate ability, which requires her to stack more and more Laurel Leaves for its full potential. This ability will target the nearest to her and will not stop until she moves out the way, an enemy taking her down, her running out of leaves, or her stopping it by herself.
- Odd Friendship: With Charlotte from Samurai Shodown, earlier she was best friends with Angela.
- Our Elves Are Different: Like below, being an Elven Fairy.
- Our Fairies Are Different: Like above, being an Elven Fairy.
- Princesses Rule: The Elven Fairy Princess, who is supposed to sit on the throne, ran away.
- Trick Arrow: Her first ability does this, as it will explode into a circle when coming in contact with an enemy unit, and spreads magic damage within the spread of the circle. Her passive when filled up for a dash, will also does this, allowing her to shoot an arrow that can do a One-Hit Polykill effect that passes through all targets in the trajectory.
- Walking the Earth: Flying around the world to explore and spread her Elven Fairy culture and dances, and somehow stranded to a different region (Athanor).
Arena of Valor counterpart: N/A
Original Information: Guo Ye is an original character to Honor of Kings
Arena of Valor counterpart: Lindis
Original Information: The impressive man that united the Mongolian Horde and traveled throughout Asia with his horde, conquering, raiding and scouring all that his horde passed through, and China was of no exception to the list of nations he temporarily conquered. Genghis Khan to this day stands as one of the greatest conquerors in the history of Earth, and he's earned the nickname 'The Scourge of God'.
Arena of Valor counterpart: Eland'orr
Original Information: Gongsun Li is an original character to Honor of Kings
- Berserk Button: She will attack anyone who mentions her awful cooking skills.
- Blow You Away: Her ultimate allows her to push back enemy heroes with the wind.
- Color Motif: In her default outfit, orange, like her maple leaves.
- Dub Name Change: Despite her name being correctly spelled in her guest appearance in Samurai Shodown (2019), in the Global version, Tencent renders her name into 'Arli'.
- Guest Fighter: She appears in Samurai Shodown (2019) as a DLC character to represent the Honor of Kings-verse.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Diaochan is her idol in terms of dancing. And if they encounter as allies, she'll express how joyful she is to fight alongside her idol.
- Lethal Chef: As said, her cooking is lethal and merely talking about it will earn a fistful from her.
- Little Bit Beastly: As a half-demon hybrid, she has rabbit ears and a tail.
- Love Triangle: Her teammate, Pei Qinhu, has feelings for her, but Gongsun Li only has eyes for Li Xin, who in turn, sees her as a friend.
- Mind over Matter: She can control her umbrella’s movement.
- Teleportation: The second segment of her abilities allows her to teleport to the location of her umbrella.
Arena of Valor counterparts:
[Crossover skin] Yorn
Original Information: The ancient immortal archer and husband of Chang'e. When China was beset with nine suns scorching the land, Hou Yi was called in to do something about it. He used his bow to shoot down all 8 suns and left one alone, restoring the heat level of China. Unfortunately, those suns were the sons of the Jade Emperor of that time, Di Jun, and so Hou Yi was punished by being stripped of his immortality along with Chang'e's. Hou Yi managed to procure the elixir of immortality, but Chang'e ended up drinking it in dire need without him, separating them forever. Hou Yi then spent the rest of his life alone, with some sources stating that he ended up as a tyrant without Chang'e by his side and eventually slain by one of his students.
- Lame Pun Reaction: Downplayed. One of his quotes led him to make a pun, and he puts a Beat in-between to show that he's not too proud of it.Blind belief will leave you... blind.
- The Power of the Sun: He carries the sun's energy with his bow. This is also enhanced with how he's nicknamed 'Solarus' in the global version, and a lot of his quotes revolve around the sun.
- Official Couple: With Chang'e.
- Starter Mon: He's literally the first hero you get for free for logging into the game for the first time. He's also pretty basic for newbies to get used to the Marksman role. In the global version, he can be this again, but the player can opt to pick Angela or Lian Po instead.
Arena of Valor counterpart: Brunhilda
Original Information: The master archer of Shu in the Three Kingdoms era. Huang Zhong started out as a subordinate of warlord Han Xuan. Despite his age, he still stood stalwart in the face of the invading Shu army and faced off with Guan Yu, still showing good valor against the mighty warrior. Eventually Han Xuan surrendered and Huang Zhong enlisted himself to Shu. His archery skills were unquestioned that it granted him a spot in the Five Tiger Generals of Shu. Even as an old man, he could still keep up with the young soldiers, until his untimely end in an ambush during the battle of Xiaoting.
- Adaptational Weapon Swap: Instead of being a literal Master Archer with a bow, Huang Zhong is now armed with Arm Cannon that can transform into an artillery. None of those would have existed in the Three Kingdoms period.
Faction: ????
Arena of Valor counterpart: Tel'Annas (indirect)
Original Information: Jia Luo is the alternative name of Dugu Qieluonote , the most influential Empress of the short-lived Sui Dynasty. The wife of Emperor Wen, making him swear an oath of love that he'd never take a concubine. The two ruled the dynasty as the "Two Sages", with Jia Luo being a domineering empress and being heavily involved in the ruling affairs. She pressured her husband to change the crown prince, but it proved to be fatal in the long run; 16 years after Jia Luo died, said crown prince brought down the Sui Dynasty thanks to the casualties that happened during his ascension that Jia Luo engineered. However, one of her descendants also happened to be Emperor Gaozhong of Tang, who would marry Wu Zetian and enabled her to learn from Jia Luo's mistakes and ensured that even after she died, her Tang Dynasty would not be crushed by succession crisis.
Faction: Chang'an
Arena of Valor counterpart: Fennik
Arena of Valor counterpart: Yorn (Partial)
Original Information: Lu Ban no.7 is an original character to Honor of Kings
- Robo Speak: As a robot, he speaks with a mix of normal speech and robots, including some peculiar taunts on killing an enemy."Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Your functionality has been... zero. Awww..."
- Robot Kid: Built by Master Luban, who treats him like his own child.
Arena of Valor counterparts:
[Crossover skin] Laville
Original Information: A traveling merchant from Italy, born in Venezia. Marco Polo traveled throughout the Silk Road in Asia, and in process, he ended up in China temporarily. He made quite an impression that one of the bridges there is named 'Marco Polo Bridge' in his honor. His journey is later chronicled in The Travels of Marco Polo
- All of the Other Reindeer: As a foreigner, Marco Polo is met with disdain amongst many of the cast who are Chinese. He's also the only one who receives this as other 'obviously foreign' characters like Arthur receive no flak, most likely due to his modern weaponry (guns).
- Fragile Speedster: He's not that good in burst damage, but he's extremely slippery, zipping through the battlefield while delivering Death of a Thousand Cuts. Being a marksman, it'll only be a matter of time until he can deliver more damaging shots in addition of that.
- Gorgeous Gaijin: A blonde foreign guy who looks young enough as a very attractive pretty boy.
- Gratuitous English: Still has a Chinese voice actor, and yet he's the only 'foreigner' that's allowed to speak English (not even Arthur is allowed, and even moreso, Marco's based on an Italian). Some of his English are fine, some are just off ("NICE TO MEET YOU DIE!"). Generally, he's just saying English phrases for showmanship.
- Guns Akimbo: He's dual-wielding two handguns, specializing in rapid-fire shots.
Arena of Valor counterpart: N/A
Original Information: Meng Ya is an original character to Honor of Kings
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: His passive, which will require him to Constantly basic attacking his enemies (and building more attack speed to reduce ability cooldown).
- BFG: His two giant white gatling cannons are his main arsenal, which can also launch him up in the air.
- Bullet Hell: The more Rage he builds up, the more projectiles he can get when firing off abilities.
- Charge Meter: His passive, which will fill up and gives him more perks to his abilities.
- Gatling Good: He is equipped with two LARGE gatling cannons, but ultimately on the good side.
- Historical Relationship Overhaul: Meng Ya is the son of Meng Tian within this game’s universe, the historical Meng Tian has no offsprings, and he died off with all his family under Emperor’s rule.
Faction: Three Kingdoms - Wu
Arena of Valor counterpart: Violet
Original Information: The youngest daughter of Sun Jian, a warlord of the Three Kingdoms era, and little sister of Sun Ce. Sun Shangxiang grew up as a tomboy, being interested in warfare and martial arts and always escorted with maids armed with weapons. As a symbol of alliance between Shu and Wu in preparation of the Battle of the Red Cliffs, Sun Shangxiang was put on an Arranged Marriage with Liu Bei. After the battle was done, she felt like returning back home as suggested by his fellow Wu men since she didn't quite trust Liu Bei. She tried taking his son Liu Shan with her, but Liu Bei's men thwarted her and she could only return alone. Romance of the Three Kingdoms would upgrade her relations and feelings into a more harmonious one and the separation was played as more of a tragedy, and when she heard about the disastrous battle of Xiaoting, Sun Shangxiang was so wrecked with grief that she committed suicide.
- Gatling Good: Her weapon is a gatling gun with some crossbow design on it, just so people can call it 'Heavy Crossbow'.
- Official Couple: She's on good terms with Liu Bei again, just like in the novel.
- Tomboy Princess: The Princess of Wu faction is still the same tomboy princess with disdain towards overly feminine thing (minus her own Girlish Pigtails)."'Ladylike', 'Schmeadylike', I couldn't care less!"
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Sure, she's still a Warrior Princess of Wu. But, she also wears her overly long Girlish Pigtails proudly.
- Small Girl, Big Gun: She looks older than some girls like Xiao Qiao or Cai Wenji, but still, that 'crossbow' she's wielding is almost half her size and works like a Gatling Good.
Faction: Riverlands/Hegemon of Chu
Arena of Valor counterpart: The Joker -> Stuart
- Automatic Crossbow: Carries two which can fuse into a BFG styled bigger crossbow.
- Boring, but Practical: Her kit is very simple, just simply build more damage and shoot the enemy into submission.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Mind controlled by Donghuang Taiyi, most of her quotes indicate that she's being on a destructive trance.
- Cold Sniper: Her mind-controlled persona, she is eerily quiet and an even deadlier shot, as experienced by Xiang Yu the night she was captured.
- Dub Name Change: Subverted. "Juniper" is actually her title, not her name, she's still listed as "Consort Yu" in places where real names are written. But since Juniper can be a pretty legitimate name (aside of the flower she's themed at), people can confuse it to be her actual name.
- Flower Motifs: Oak leaves, and currently; Juniper leaves.
- Mind Control: She was mind controlled, and struck down Xiang Yu temporarily.
- No-Sell: Her second ability will render her immune to all physical damage for a short time.
- Official Couple: With Xiang Yu.
- One-Hit Polykill: Her first ability fires a bolt shot that damages all enemies hit in a line as it travels, but loses 10% damage per target hit up to a 40% decrease.
- Race Lift: Not ethnicity, nor actual skin race, but a fantastical example where she is a Wood Nymph with a degree in wind magic, courtesy of being raised by the forests. The historical Consort Yu is actually as human as she can be.
- She-Fu: An integral part of her kit, is to dive straight into the enemy’s face bounce back and shoot more bolts at them.
- Wild Child: Not as wild as Aguduo, but the forest raised and nurtured her into a protectress.
