Archvillain

This article is about the NPC enemy. For the Archvillain accomplishment badge, see Archvillain Badge.

Overview

Archvillains are extremely powerful entities. They con +5 to their level. They typically have tens of thousands of HP (ten times that of standard bosses), substantial regeneration and recovery, high damage, and have a cycling period of near-immunity to all Status Effects except Sleep and Immobilization. Approach with extreme caution and several teammates.

Archvillains will spawn as weaker Elite Bosses against teams which are small and/or using low notoriety settings. Their heroic counterpart is, appropriately enough, the Hero.

Archvillains are also noteworthy for having strong debuff resistance that scales by level. As of Issue 9, this resistance applies to -RunSpeed, -Recharge, -Endurance, -ToHit, -Defense, -Perception, -Regeneration, and -Recovery.

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
AV Res Mod	0.60	0.60	0.61	0.61	0.62	0.63	0.63	0.64	0.64	0.65	0.65	0.66	0.66	0.67	0.67	0.68	0.68	0.69	0.69	0.70

Level	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
AV Res Mod	0.70	0.71	0.71	0.72	0.72	0.73	0.73	0.74	0.74	0.75	0.75	0.76	0.76	0.77	0.77	0.78	0.78	0.79	0.79	0.80

Level	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55
AV Res Mod	0.80	0.81	0.81	0.82	0.82	0.83	0.83	0.84	0.84	0.85	0.85	0.86	0.86	0.87	0.87

So, for example, while it might seem as though a Defender's Radiation Infection should be valuable against Captain Mako's extremely high defense bonus in the Statesman Task Force, the Infection's debuffs are heavily resisted. Optimally enhanced, Radiation Infection applies a -61% Defense penalty, which should cripple Mako's defense rating, but as it's against a +4 enemy it is at half strength due to the Purple Patch (-61 * .5 = -30.5), and as it's against a level 54 Archvillain a further 87% of that is resisted (-30.5 * (1 - .87) = -3.965%), leaving the net effect approximately half as useful at counteracting Mako's high defense as using a single Insight inspiration for a +7.5% ToHit bonus. Similarly, even against an equal-level AV, a level 50 Defender's mighty Lingering Radiation Regen debuff will be dropped from its usual -500% to approximately -65%.

Starting from Issue 11, there has been a very small number of Archvillain entities, which, although labelled as such, do not possess the proper amount of HP, endurance, damage levels, regeneration, recovery, and resistance levels, although they may still possess the purple triangles of Archvillain Resistance. Instead, they possess the abilities equal to a Pet or Boss mob of their level. They are almost always Allied units, though sometimes, they may be enemies. It is unknown if this is intentional or if this is a bug. For the heroic list, please see Hero.

A listing is made below.

• Ghost Widow and Black Scorpion, from the Mender Silos Strike Force. In the final mission, Ghost Widow has Boss-class HP while Black Scorpion has Pet-class HP.
• Ghost Widow from Sister Airlia's mission Deliver the Tabula Scutum to Ghost Widow in St. Martial. Ghost Widow has Boss-class HP.