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Tiel the Acolyte

Ability
Lingering Shadow
Passive
Shadow Dash
Skill nodes
12
Found in
Mushroom Village

Tiel the Acolyte is one of nine Shells in Mortal Shell 2 — the body the Harbinger occupies, and the one slot a weapon cannot make up for. Its active is Lingering Shadow. Its passive, Shadow Dash, runs for free. The skill tree holds twelve nodes across four tiers, opened by spending Glimpses at the Shellkeeper. You claim it in Mushroom Village.

“Once you have nothing, you're free to take everything.”

Abilities

ActiveLingering Shadow — Tiel gains Shadow and prepares to perform a Shadow Strike with his dagger. △ Lingering Shadow R1 Shadow Strike
PassiveShadow Dash — Dashing just before getting struck grants Tiel Shadow and inflicts Stagger Damage.

Our take

Tiel is built on one timing: Shadow Dash rewards dodging just before a hit lands, not early. Get it right and you gain Shadow and inflict Stagger damage; get it wrong and you have simply dodged. Everything else — Lingering Shadow, the Shadow Strike follow-up — spends what that timing earns, so this is the Shell that improves most as you learn the game rather than as you spend Glimpses.

Skill tree

Spend Glimpses at the Shellkeeper to raise this Shell's bond and open the next tier. Every node takes several levels of its own, so the tree is a question of what to finish rather than what to reach — and the last level of a node is usually where its effect changes rather than merely grows.

Tier 1

Escalation

Each level improves Shadow Strike

  1. 1Shadow Strike deals 125%
  2. 2Shadow Strike deals 140%
  3. 3Shadow Strike inflicts 10 Poison stacks

Lasting Legacy

Each level makes Tiel stay Shadowed for longer

  1. 1Tiel gains 2 additional Shadow stacks from his abilities
  2. 2Tiel gains 3 additional Shadow stacks from his abilities
  3. 3Tiel gains 4 additional Shadow stacks from his abilities
  4. 4Tiel gains 5 additional Shadow stacks from his abilities

Plague Bearer

Each level makes Tiel stay Shadowed for longer

  1. 1Tiel has +50% Poison mitigation
  2. 2Tiel has Poison immunity
  3. 3Poison restores a portion of Health

Tier 2

Deathmark

Each level improves Shadow Strike

  1. 1Shadow Strike has +23% Critical Hit chance
  2. 2Shadow Strike deals 120% Critical damage
  3. 3Shadow Strike inflicts 10 Fragile stacks

Nightstride

Each level improves Shadow Dash

  1. 1Shadow Dash activation window increased by 20%
  2. 2Shadow Dash deals 300% Stagger Damage
  3. 3Shadow Dash deals 50 damage
  4. 4Shadow Dash activation window increased by 45%

Poison Burst

Shadow Strike detonates all Poison stacks on the struck target

  1. 1Each detonated Poison stack deals 4 damage
  2. 2Each detonated Poison stack deals 6 damage
  3. 3The struck enemy also emits a Poisonous cloud

Tier 3

Lethality

When killing an enemy with a Shadow Strike

  1. 1Tiel restores 10 Resolve
  2. 2Tiel restores 20 Resolve
  3. 3Tiel has 50% chance to reactivate Lingering Shadow immediately

Shadow Stalk

Shadow Strike damage increases the longer Tiel stays Shadowed

  1. 1Shadow Strike deals 2 more damage for every 0.5s spent while Shadowed
  2. 2Shadow Strike deals 3 more damage for every 0.5s spent while Shadowed
  3. 3Shadow Strike deals 4 more damage for every 0.5s spent while Shadowed

Ambush

When striking enemies from behind:

  1. 1Tiel deals 150% damage
  2. 2Tiel has +25% Critical Hit chance
  3. 3Tiel deals 120% Critical Hit damage

Tier 4

Critical Role

Each level improves Tiel attacks

  1. 1After a Shadow Strike, the next melee attack strikes Critically
  2. 2After a Shadow Strike, the next ranged attack strikes Critically
  3. 3Those Critical Hits deal +100% damage

Shadow Clone

Each level improves Shadow Dash

  1. 1Shadow Dash leaves behind a Shadow Clone that inflicts 2 Poison stacks to enemies that strike it. The clone can resist up to 3 strikes.
  2. 2Shadow Dash leaves behind a Shadow Clone that inflicts 2 Poison stacks to enemies that strike it. The clone can resist up to 5 strikes.
  3. 3When the Shadow Clone expires, it bursts into a Poisonous cloud that lasts for 5s.

Seal Affinity

Each level grants Tiel various Seals improvements

  1. 1A field Guard, Parry or Harden grant Tiel 3 Shadow stacks
  2. 2A Perfect Guard, successful Parry or Perfect Harden deal 120% Break Damage
  3. 3A Perfect Guard, successful Parry or Perfect Harden have 15% chance to fully Break an enemy.

Where to find it

The route to it passes through:

Mushroom VillageWidow's OverlookMarrow Keep

Elsewhere in the wiki

Named on

Forever Alone?