Vlad — official character art, from the announcement
Update, October 24 — the numbers are in
Version 27.0.0 hit APK mirrors this morning and we extracted it before breakfast. Vlad shipped the same day as his announcement cycle promised — and the byte-level sweep from below flipped from "clean sheet" to "signed, sealed, and costed." Here's what the data says now, game build v27.0.0:
The label vs. the row — [Transcendent] is still printing
The official Version 27 notice shipped the exact same label as the
announcement: Vlad [Transcendent]. But in the data tables, he is
roster id 26 with rarity = 8 — the same rank-8 Exotic
row that Frost, Skull and Hana already occupy (DPS add 14,734.0, max level
130). Transcendent is still not a rarity on the ladder —
BalancingData_Rarity shipped byte-identical to 26.2.0, all 9
rows, still ending at rank 9. So the announcement's mystery word has a
mundane answer: it's a title, printed over an Exotic kit — not a new rung
the endgame guide has to re-cost. The post below was right for the
strictest possible reading: the name genuinely was nowhere in the shipped
data. It still isn't. Only the title has it.
SkillData as three timed tiers, with his heal
scaling in SkillSubData (rows 1000501–1000506) and a 0.4×
heal-per-tick on the 6★band. His three runes entered the ladder as rows
47–49 under the Rune_Hero_Exotic prefab — rows 44–46 are
Misty's Mythic trio, so the Hero Rune set grows 43 → 49 in one build. The
gacha signed him on as a second item-26 slot too: half of a new
featured-hero box (his and Misty's shared rate group weights 10 apiece,
the pair before them demoted to weight 1, 30-pull pity) — pullable, not
event-gated.The announcement, verbatim
🍷 New Character: Vlad
Transcendent | Proficiency: Dagger
A legendary count who has guarded the nights of the Cron Kingdom for
centuries.
He never appears in sunlight, and is said to have never suffered a single
defeat.
When he raises his glass, the battlefield turns blood-red.
Join the count in a toast.
[Exclusive Skill]
Wine spills from his glass, creating a blood-red zone.
For a set duration, it deals area damage to enemies within and restores his
health in proportion to the damage dealt.
At 6 stars and above, allies within the blood-red zone also receive healing.
[Runes]
• Rose of Wallachia: Blood thorns rise at regular intervals during the
skill, damaging enemies within range.
• Walpurgis Night: Extends the blood-red zone's duration and increases
the skill damage of allies healed within it.
• Come, Sweet Death: Expands the blood-red zone, causes it to follow
Vlad, and increases the skill's bonus damage.
First: "Transcendent" is a genuinely new word
(Written against the 26.2.0 build, October 21 — everything below was true then; the update block at the top is where it landed.) Every rarity on the site — heroes, weapons, runes — resolves through the game's own ladder, which ends at rank 9, Eternal (grade 2, max level 130). "Transcendent" is not on that ladder. It's not the community's nickname for something existing: it ships as the official label in the announcement itself, in the same line as his weapon proficiency. That makes Vlad the first time the game has ever introduced a rarity name absent from its shipped data — new mechanics happen at every version bump; the naming of a new rarity does not.
What the top of today's ladder looks like, from
CostumeData-derived rarity rows — rank 9 is the ceiling the whole
endgame guide is built on:
| Rank | Name | Max level | +DPS add | DPS mult |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Mythic | 110 | 4,893.0 | 1,969.0 |
| 8 | Exotic | 130 | 14,734.0 | 5,905.0 |
| 9 | Eternal | 130 | 46,882.0 | 17,715.0 |
The kit, translated
Dagger proficiency puts Vlad in the fast-damage weapon family the kit guide already ranks — his spins will slot straight into the DPS calculator once his tier data lands.
- Exclusive skill — the blood-red zone. A timed area damage field, with healing for Vlad proportional to the damage it deals. Classic lifesteal-on-stilts: his own sustain scales with how many bodies are in the zone.
- 6★ and above — support pivot. Ally healing inside the zone makes upgraded Vlad a partial backline support, not just a solo carry — the same kind of kit milestone the tier table tracks for other heroes (2★–6★). Worth watching: whether heal rate overrides or stacks with other healing sources.
- Runes, exclusive to him. Three named runes (below) slot into the 121-rune system the site already tracks — pushing Vlad toward either sustained damage (Rose of Wallachia, thorns ticks), uptime-and-support (Walpurgis Night, longer zone, healed allies deal more skill damage), or zone-dominance (Come, Sweet Death — mobile, bigger, bonus damage). It's the same "rune changes the kit, not the hero" pattern the 49 Hero Rune set established; these three would be his, numbered among them.
In the current build? A byte-level sweep
We've searched the entire extraction — every locale string, every hero table, every rune table — for Vlad's markers. It is a clean sheet:
- "Vlad", "Wallachia", "Walpurgis", "Come, Sweet Death" — zero matches across every locale, hero and rune table in the build. The game's friendly-lobby table coins fake players for leaderboards — and that's the only "Vladimir"-shape string the sweep can even find.
- "Cron Kingdom" — not in any shipped lore yet either (despite the announcement naming it). New world-building ahead of a new character is exactly how this game writes.
- "Transcendent" — absent from the 9-rank ladder, absent from every rarity string the game ships today.
Translation, as of that build: Vlad, his art, his runes, his rarity — all of it shipping with a future build, byte-for-byte new. Exactly like the Hero Runes were, back in the 26.0.0 sneak peek — a system unveiled by announcement weeks before a single byte of it existed in the game. [Standing report through build 26.2.0 — the update block at the top covers everything that changed when the future build landed.]
The ship vehicle: Version 27
The timing lined up with the update the game was warming up for: Lucky Spin 1 was paused precisely to wait for Version 27 — the update that indeed carried Vlad, his tier data, Misty and their six runes into the client on October 24. That diff is decoded in full in the Version 27 post.
What we were watching for — resolved
- A release date — the announcement gave none; 27.0.0 landed digital-storefront-day October 24 and Vlad shipped in the same client.
- "Transcendent" and a hypothetical rank-10 row — answered: the ladder is untouched at 9 rows. No rank shipped. The label stayed a title in the notice text, and the data row Vlad actually occupies is rank 8.
- Vlad's full stats and evolution chain — in the roster now as the 5th dagger carrier (Cactus, Drake, NingNing, Azio, Vlad); his curve group and star ladder ride the same shared Exotic tables the Heroes & Evolution page already serves.
- His three runes entering the tables — the Hero Rune set grows from 43 to 49 exactly as the post below projected (46 was one shy: his three plus Misty's three shipped together).
Update complete — this post stays up as a timeline: how this hero went from an unreprintable 15-line Discord message to a fully costed roster row in nine days.
Quoted announcement is from the official XP Hero Discord. XP Hero is developed by Supercent — XPHero Fans is a fan project, unofficial and not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Rarity ladder numbers shown are from the game's own data tables (game v27.0.0); Vlad's art is the official announcement image.