Grim Pursuit - Shadowflame-Hoyan Guide
Shadowflame-Hoyan is one of the Grim Pursuit bosses. In this guide you will find tips how to deal with her!
Shadowflame-Hoyan Overview
- Boss Name: Shadowflame-Hoyan.
- Element: Disorder.
- Challenge Type: Grim Pursuit.
- Difficulty Tiers: Nightmare → Hell → Inferno.
- Key Threats: Extra AoE attacks and powerful Debuffs.
- Constant Units Disadvantaged: On top of the generic disadvantages, Constant Units take massively increased damage from the enemy on Inferno difficulty (200%).
Shell Drops
Here are the Shells dropped by the boss:
Skills Overview
High Defense
Shadowflame-Hoyan possesses higher DEF than any other Shell boss.
How to counter?
- DEF Down or other sources of Damage Up Debuffs are crucial if you're not using the DoT team, otherwise the fight is going to take a long time to complete and you risk dying to the powered up AoEs from the stacking Corruption Debuff.
Team Composition Tips
Unlike most other bosses where plenty of teams can attain very fast clears, we feel that when it comes to F2P teams the Hoyan Shell Boss is more or less solved, so we'll highlight the main team members that we feel excel while listing a few other options for those who'd rather build something less streamlined:
- Buffer
Lily is extremely useful, thanks to her SPD+ buff and her ability to give more attacks to your DPS- Special mention to
Freya for her versatility in this fight. - With unoptimized gear Hoyan's Silence and AOE DPS can both be mitigated by
![Cachi [The Guard]](https://cdn.prydwen.gg/images/etheria-restart/characters/cachi-the-guard_icon.webp)
Cachi [The Guard]. - Tank -
Rin - Special mention to
Tiamat - Rin has AoE Taunt, AoE Shield, and an AoE ATK Down. It's literally all you need in terms of defensive utility for this boss in a single Unit.
- DPS/Debuffers -
Fangus & 
Obol - The two DoT stackers. If you want to replace them, you might as well look for a different setup with more Debuffs and a strong DPS. These two however are just too easy to build and the return on investment is extremely high, as their gear only needs SPD, HP and Acc, only stats that are easily transferred on other units when you go into non DoT friendly content.
![Sania [Vengeful Thorn]](https://cdn.prydwen.gg/images/etheria-restart/characters/sania-withered-shadow_icon.webp)
Sania [Vengeful Thorn] also fits into the DoT team, lifting it up to even greater heights. Make sure that she isn't faster than Obol, and Fangus is advised to be faster too.- The different setup: Look into Units like
Kloss and 
Dinah, or other DEF-/Damage taken up Debuffers and pair them with a heavy hitter like 
Liliam, 
Khloros, 
Rosa, 
Diting, etc. You're going to need much better gear as your Units still need to survive a few hits on top of dishing out hundreds of thousands of damage in total. - Healer/Support: - You may bring a Healer/Support in the place of the Tank, preferably with Immunity or Cleanse.
Best Teams
If you don't have some of the characters visible in the teams, you can replace them with another one that fulfills the same role (check the section above).
Hoyan #1
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Hoyan Inferno #1
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Hoyan Inferno #11
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Hoyan Inferno #12
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Hoyan Inferno #13
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Hoyan Inferno #14
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Hoyan Inferno #3
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Hoyan Inferno #4
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Hoyan Inferno #5
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Hoyan Inferno #6
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Hoyan Inferno #7
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Hoyan Inferno #8
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Other Grim Pursuit Boss Guides
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