Executioner

Tier List

Villain, Cosmic, Skill, Brawler, Asgardian, Shadow Conclave

Arena	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Alliance War Offense	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Alliance War Defense	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Cosmic Crucible Offense	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Cosmic Crucible Defense	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Raid	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Dark Dimension / Saga	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Battleworld	★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Iso-8

Executioner is a perfect Raider, as he is very fast, plays among the first, and opens with his Ultimate — attacking all enemies. So, through the Raider Iso-8 class, we will boost the potential damage he deals. On top of that, he passively counters enemy attacks, meaning that as a Raider, his passive damage output will also be at its highest. He also hits the primary and adjacent targets with his Basic. All of which speaks in favor of the Raider class.

T4 Priority

P – Passive ability

U – Ultimate ability

S – Special ability

B – Basic ability

Passive – Increases the damage with which Executioner passively attacks an enemy who has attacked him or any Shadow Conclave ally from 200% to 300%, which is a solid upgrade. And more importantly, in War with 3 Shadow Conclave allies, Damage Reduction cannot be increased or decreased by any character for themselves, their allies, or their enemies, except by positive or negative effects. So with this upgrade, we completely negate the Damage Reduction that certain characters like Iron Fist or Ursa Major are able to provide for their teams. Meaning the Shadow Conclave team will always deal full damage to all enemies, making this one of the key upgrades for the entire team.

Ultimate – With a maxed Ultimate, Executioner will deal slightly greater Piercing damage, but will also apply +2 Trauma to all enemies, up from +1. And the longer enemies have Trauma on them, the better, making this upgrade essential for that reason.

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About Character

The illegitimate son of a Jotunheim Storm Giant and a goddess born in Asgard’s Skornheim, Skurge was ostracized by the Storm Giants for his relatively diminutive size — and grew up to become a great warrior and giant-killer, earning the name “Executioner” during one of Jotunheim and Asgard’s many wars. Though he earned his right as an Asgardian citizen, Skurge chose a solitary life due to his grim disposition and perceived non-acceptance by the Asgardians.

He fell in love with the beautiful goddess Amora the Enchantress — but while she was physically attracted to Skurge and perhaps even loved him, Amora nonetheless toyed with him, withholding her favors to keep him in thrall. Amora allegedly imbued Skurge’s axe with its space- and dimension-cleaving powers, giving it the name Bloodaxe. For years, Skurge served as her muscle and enforcer — a long-time antagonist of Thor and a member of the original Masters of Evil. When the Executioner first appeared in the wider Marvel universe, he was nothing more than a weapon for the more powerful Enchantress — a tragic fall for one of Asgard’s greatest warriors, who had helped win a war against the Storm Giants, now reduced to following her every order in the deluded hope that she would one day love him back.

After feeling toyed with by Amora for too long, Skurge eventually teamed up with the Einherjar, Balder, and Thor to rescue stolen souls from Hel. He sacrificed his axe to destroy Naglfar, the ship of the dead, and held the bridge Gjallarbrú alone so the heroes could escape Hel, giving his life in the process. Though the warriors of Hel seemed numberless, not one set foot upon that bridge. They sing no songs in Hel, but the story of Gjallarbrú and the god who defended it is whispered across the Nine Worlds — and when a new arrival asks about the one to whom even Hela bows her head, the answer is always the same: he stood alone at Gjallarbrú, and that answer is enough.

One of Marvel’s most quietly tragic characters — a brute who died a hero, remembered more for his last stand than for everything that came before it. Ready for his gameplay abilities whenever you have them.

Executioner is the Shadow Conclave’s primary damage dealer — a Brawler built around raw aggression, speed, and the ability to permanently remove enemies from the fight. He hits hard, moves fast, and brings a level of control that makes him genuinely dangerous beyond just his damage output.

His defining mechanic is execution. Any enemy he attacks with his Special, while at or below 25% Health, is killed permanently — enemies slain by Executioner cannot be revived. This makes him an answer to some of the most frustrating defensive tools in the game, and pairs naturally with Thanos, who accelerates Executioner’s Speed Bar and generates Special Ability Energy for him the moment a non-summoned enemy drops into that threshold. Most of his attacks ignore Defense Up, and he can apply Heal Block to enemies, ensuring that wounded targets cannot recover before he finishes them. Executioner is also a passive counterattacker. Whenever an enemy attacks him or any Shadow Conclave ally, he retaliates against that enemy — a punishing mechanic.

In Alliance War, his toolkit expands significantly. He applies Trauma and Ability Block to all enemies with Ultimate, and passively prevents opponents from having Immunity — meaning those debuffs will land reliably regardless of what the opposing team has set up. He also prevents Shadow Conclave characters from being silenced until he takes his first turn, neutralizing passive on-spawn Silence effects that some teams rely on to disrupt their opponents before the fight even begins.

On top of all that, Executioner completely negates Damage Reduction in War. Teams that rely on characters like Iron Fist or Ursa Major to provide massive Damage Reduction for their allies will find that mechanic entirely stripped away. He also prevents enemies from passively increasing their own Damage, and prevents them from passively decreasing the Damage dealt by Shadow Conclave characters — locking out both offensive and defensive passive modifiers simultaneously.

The result is a character who doesn’t just deal damage — he dismantles the systems opponents use to survive it.

You can find detailed information about Executioner on the Shadow Conclave team page HERE.

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