Vex: all-Rare entry removal and collected keywords

Use Vex's entry to weaken and damage enemies, then let outside-combat deaths feed more Gloom through the sixth star. Voidborne Carapace collects keywords from dying units to make the surviving champion more useful.

This all-Rare approach removes the attack-trigger Boost and combat invulnerability from the Axe/Foil guide. Its value comes from the entry and spell-control sequence, so it can begin working before a safe champion attack is available. It also leaves the champion more exposed after that entry.

Utmost Despair

Play grants enemies Gloom. Equip it above Wicked Harvest so that the stat reduction precedes the damage effect. Gloom is a reduction to Power and Health, not an interchangeable printed point of damage.

Wicked Harvest

Play deals three damage to all other units, including your allies. Count the defenders you will lose. This relic damage should not be assumed to receive a spell/Skill-only conversion or damage bonus merely because the champion has one.

Voidborne Carapace

When any unit dies, grant the bearer its keywords. Allied deaths can contribute as well as enemy deaths. A keyword still needs to appear on an actual dying unit; the relic doesn't guarantee Lifesteal or a specific protection effect.

Mulligan for useful cheap removal and the champion when she can stabilize the board. Pie Toss and Withering Wail help manage the opening through the spell rules. The two-star power makes your spell and Skill damage to enemies take the form of Gloom; that is separate from counting the Harvest relic's printed damage.

Let the opponent commit units when it is safe to do so, then play the champion into a board where the entry can secure useful deaths. The sixth-star Everything is Misery adds Gloom to the remaining enemies when one dies outside combat. A small initial death can therefore matter more than damaging a large enemy that survives.

At three stars, Round Start Boost also grows existing enemy Gloom. It doesn't create the same starting Gloom on an untouched unit, so apply the relevant effect before expecting it to grow.

Inspect the collected keywords before choosing an attack or block. Extra health, healing access or evasion can change which plays are safe, but none is guaranteed by the relic trio itself. Don't sacrifice an essential blocker merely to collect a keyword you cannot use yet.

The two entry relics are Play effects. Reviving the champion without playing her doesn't repeat their Gloom or damage. If you return her to hand or play another copy later, the new entry can trigger again, but a new body doesn't automatically inherit every keyword previously granted to the dead one.

If you also own Explosive Finale, outside-combat enemy deaths deal Nexus damage. That is a separate constellation purchase; the sixth-star chain alone shouldn't be described as owning every other damage payoff.

Prioritize affordable removal, draw and protection that keeps the champion alive after the first entry. Large enemies may need several Gloom applications, while your own small allies are Vulnerable to the Harvest damage.

All three relics are in the Rare pool, including Silver Reliquaries and the higher vault sources listed on their pages. No Epic slots are required. If repeated attacks are safe and you own the Epics, the existing attack-control build gives up this entry package for stronger attack-based growth. Below six stars, you lose the chain of Gloom from outside-combat deaths.

• Ten-star builds that don't use broken relics?, u/eggsbennyyyyyy, Mar 2026; u/Different_Escape_917 gives the exact six-star Voidborne/Harvest/Despair trio. Full post and visible comments read 18 Oct 2026; no individual clear is generalized into a guarantee.