[Hero Wars Guide]Lyria｜Insights with HeroWars Login

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Introduced in 2025, she is a female warrior who can command spirits.
She is the definitive counter to all avoidance heroes, including Dante – who reigned as the game’s strongest hero for nearly five years – and synergizes well with undead teams.
Her primary stat is Strength, mirroring Tristan’s focus on brute force.

Lyria’s Strengths and Team Strategy

Although heroes whose first artifact is armor piercing tend to be highly specialized with limited versatility, Lyria stands out with a dedicated Dodge skill. Because her dodge abilities are so powerful, she offers remarkable flexibility for a specialist and excels in synergy with undead heroes.
Her emphasis on Strength makes her immune to Amira’s Critical Fumble, ensuring that her attacks reliably connect.
Officially synergizes with Undead Heroes – especially Keira – as Lyria’s arrival also activated Keira’s exclusive Undead special ability.
Serves as a hard counter to all heroes with dodge stats. Having dethroned the dodge-focused champions that led the meta for over four years, she dominates many standard team templates in 2025.
She can block the first three hits of the opponent with the highest attack power, effectively countering high-burst, one-shot builds like Nebra’s.
With high Health and Resilience, Lyria excels as a frontline anchor, leading the charge against dodge-focused teams.
She’s especially strong against team formations with frontline dodge champions like Dante Tank, Qing Mao Tank, and Aurora – especially Qing Mao Tank, whose primary artifact is not dodge-oriented.
While countering dodge skills, Lyria pairs well with dodge heroes, allowing for versatile dodge-centric strategies.
Empowers physical DPS heroes hampered by dodge mechanics, increasing their damage potential and synergizing seamlessly to revive previously underutilized champions.
Lyria’s dodge counter scales with her physical attack stats, so if her stats are lacking, pairing her with support heroes like Nebula or Galahad can help boost her physical damage output.
Grants lifesteal to herself and allied DPS, solidifying her as a key healing target in Morrigan-led undead squads and allowing for sustainable play without dedicated healers.
Her first skill can be charged up to a maximum of 10 hits. She accumulates charges not only from incapacitated heroes, but also from defeated summons-including her own spirits. This provides effective synergy with summoner heroes such as Morrigan, Folio, Mushy and Shroom, and Elmir.
Because the charge conditions apply to both allies and enemies, her first skill can also serve as a counter against summon-heavy teams with Morrigan, Folio, Mushy and Shroom, or Elmir.
Excels in a support role over dealing direct damage – a hallmark of armor-penetration starters. Lyria enhances the strength of physical DPS teams, providing strategic depth and increasing win consistency.
A true game-changer, upending the dodge-centric team archetypes that dominated until 2024.

Disadvantages of Lyria

Specializing exclusively in physical attack and defense, Lyria has no counter to magic or pure damage attacks, making her vulnerable to spellcasters.
Although paired with Morrigan in official undead synergy, their strengths often diverge. While they seem to complement each other, the combination isn’t universally effective-Morrigan’s main advantage is preventing resurrection, which has little synergy with Lyria’s reliance on physical damage.
Although she synergizes with undead heroes, Lyria herself is not undead. As a result, she doesn’t benefit from passive buffs or healing effects that specifically target Undead allies, such as Morrigan or Corvus.
Her Evasion Suppression Aura activates around her current location. If enemies like Heidi are deep in the backline, they can drop out of range and remain unaffected.
Her avoidance suppression isn’t always active. If highly evasive enemies like Dante or Aurora time their skills during her downtime, they can slip through her defenses and regain the upper hand.
Her Evasion Suppression effectiveness scales with her stats, meaning she performs poorly at lower power levels and requires significant investment to shine.
While she can negate dodge stats from standard evasion abilities, she cannot negate dodge effects from camouflage-based skills, limiting her effectiveness against stealth-oriented heroes.
K’arkh’s Shield skill, which has a 50% chance to block physical attacks, is not classified as an avoid ability and cannot be negated by Lyria’s suppression.
Agile flyers like Elmy can reposition during combat; if they move to the backline while their Dodge is suppressed, they can leave the aura’s range and regain their Dodge advantage.
Vulnerable to Knockback Effects – Heroes like Galahad can displace her, reducing the area affected by her Evasion Suppression Aura. However, this weakness can often be countered by positioning her alongside protective allies such as Andvari.
The damage coefficient of her first skill is modest, often relegating her to the role of Energy provider unless heavily invested.
The attack-blocking skill excels at mitigating single-DPS burst compositions, but underperforms against dual-DPS lineups, and its activation timing is unpredictable, preventing consistent results.
Their officially designated synergy heroes limit their team-building flexibility. As a result, her defensive lineups tend to be more predictable than those of adaptive heroes, making it easier for opponents to devise targeted counterstrategies.
Despite her power, Lyria remains a situational specialist-her impact can be severely diminished when the meta shifts away from Dodge-centric strategies.

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Lyria had to learn to cope with her blood-chilling gift from a young age. The only thing more harrowing than seeing ghosts was hearing their haunting wails wherever she went. It was hard, but eventually she realized that ignoring the spirits wouldn’t make the problem go away. It turned out that making deals with the dead was a much better solution, and as an added bonus, it granted her power. One of the deals she made helped a truly powerful spirit named Keira break her curse and granted her the chance to rest in peace one day.

Lore

“I can see dead people”, were the first words little Lyria ever spoke at the small orphanage tucked away in a grove at the foot of a mountain range. She had scared people ever since she was a small child, to the point that her caregivers had prayed in the dead of the night to keep their fear at bay. Of course, Lyria knew about that. She knew a lot of things, because despite its remote location, the orphanage was haunted by several spirits who were lonely, bored out of their minds, and really wanted their stories to be heard. And Lyria was a good listener-she’d realized fairly early on that voicing her opinion was useless when a chatty ghost wanted to vent.
But no prayers could protect the orphanage and its charges from the attack that destroyed them all one day. Lyria was the only survivor, led to safety by her dead friends who were too scared to lose the only human who could keep them company. Lyria’s first contract with a spirit came in the form of the nursery rhyme. It lent her the power she needed to find shelter and survive the attack on her orphanage. From that point on, Lyria had no one to take care of her aside from the dead. She had one more realization that day: she’d have to care for those who were less fortunate. The foundations of her future power were laid when she stood among the smoldering ruins of her former home, consoling the ghosts of the orphanage workers and her fellow foster children.
Lyria is an intuitive medium who’s been able to see and communicate with ghosts her entire life. The dead serve her, but they do so willingly and in accordance with the contracts they’ve made. They’re mutually beneficial arrangements: the spirits get to be laid to rest eventually, and Lyria gets loyal servants for years at a time. Service to her isn’t that long compared to the eternity they’d spend stuck in the world of the living otherwise, right?
Many of the souls Lyria holds a contract with dwell in her armor. Each one has their own story, but they all share the desire to honor their contracts and keep her alive.
Sometimes, when Lyria loses focus, the voices of the dead drown out her own and spill into the world. Lyria strives to get rid of a lot of things that she deems wrong, and for that, she needs power. The power of the dead feeds her life force, transforming Lyria’s very essence in strange ways. It lets her help people (primarily dead ones) according to her area of expertise, pragmatically molding her situation to her advantage.
Duty in its broadest sense is what keeps Lyria going. She knows that you need leniency and a bit of irony to deal with people because she’s seen their true nature. She knows what’s really important to them, and she’s heard the foolish requests that show their true colors. What’s the point in maintaining your facade when you’re already dead, right? Sometimes Lyria even grants those requests, if it’s not too much of a bother.
She respects her contracts and abhors lies and foul play, but that doesn’t make her a kind person. Lyria is a wanderer, some may even say a pilgrim and she loves being on the road. At the end of the day, she’s just a human being, with all the same curiosity, fatalism, and stoicism. She’s elegant but straightforward, cold but compassionate. Maybe she is the way she is because she’s had to adapt to the constant presence of a staggering number of spirits in her armor.

Visual guide

Skills

Soul Reaper

Lyria collects a soul every time someone dies on the battlefield. Once activated, Lyria opens a portal to the realm of the dead, unleashing vengeful spirits. The portal releases at least 3 spirits, with each of them dealing one strike. The number of extra spirits scales with the number of reaped souls but cannot exceed 7. Each extra hit consumes one reaped soul. All hits target the enemy with the lowest health.
Damage per hit: xxx

Bonds of Alliance

Lyria binds herself to the ally with the highest physical attack for 12 seconds. Both Lyria and the bonded ally receive a vampirism bonus. While the Bonds of Alliance are active, vampirism restores health for them both. If the bonded ally is undead, they both get a physical attack bonus.
Vampirism: xxx
Physical attack bonus: xxx

Children of the Grave

Lyria summons 3 spirits. The spirits chase the enemy who has dealt the most damage in the last 10 seconds. The effect lasts 10 seconds. While the spirits are present, the chased hero cannot attack anyone except them, while other heroes cannot target the spirits.
Spirit’s health: xxx

Shackles of Doom

Passive skill. The hero exudes an aura that decreases the dodge stat of all enemies within the area of effect. All affected enemies receive additional physical damage from physical attacks. The size of the aura scales with the number of undead units in allied team.
Dodge reduction: xxx
Extra damage: xxx