Hero Clash Giant Support Build: How to Run Poros as Utility

To run Poros (Giant of the Deep) as a utility support in Hero Clash, strip away offensive attributes and rebuild him purely for crowd-control reliability and survivability. In higher-tier matches, Poros cannot match the burst damage scaling of specialized damage carries such as Alvarez or Natalie. Stacking defensive mitigation and control stats allows him to absorb initial enemy burst, trigger knockups, and disrupt skill cycles while your backline damage dealers operate safely.

Support Stat Priorities and Rune Sets

A utility Poros must survive early rotations and land crowd-control effects through enemy Effect Resistance. Avoid Attack and Critical Rate sub-stats, which take away from essential defensive attributes.

Stat	Priority	Tactical Purpose
Damage Reduction (DR)	Highest	Keeps Poros alive through opening burst turns before he can cast his abilities.
Effect Hit	High	Bypasses enemy Effect Resistance to guarantee stuns and knockups land.
HP Percentage	High	Enhances base shield scaling and extends overall frontline longevity.
Speed Tuning	Moderate	Allows Poros to act before secondary enemy attackers and friendly carries.

For primary rune combinations, use Evolution or Guardian paired with Primal or Banshee.

Evolution or Guardian (4-piece): Provides high turn-one durability against aggressive burst lineups, preventing early elimination.
Primal or Banshee (2-piece): Supplies additional crowd-control consistency to counter teams with heavy resistance investments.

Target sub-stats exclusively on flat Damage Reduction, Effect Hit, and HP Percentage.

Frontline Positioning and Turn Order

Poros belongs in the frontline to direct enemy targeting away from fragile carries. Position him according to the primary threat in the opposing formation:

Slot 1 (Primary Damage Sponge): Use against standard single-target burst teams. Taking direct hits builds energy rapidly, letting Poros launch his disruption cycle early in the fight.
Slot 2 (Off-Tank Disrupter): Use when facing opponents who apply heavy defense debuffs to Slot 1. Placing a secondary sacrificial unit in Slot 1 preserves Poros so he can execute his abilities without defense reduction penalties.
Slot 3 (Cleave Interceptor): Deploy here against lineups with diagonal splash or cleave targeting to prevent area-of-effect spillover into backline slots 4 and 5.

Tune your team's Speed values so Poros acts immediately before your primary damage dealer. When Poros moves first, his knockups disable enemy reactions and counter-attacks, establishing a clean window for your carry's ultimate skill.

Team Composition and Synergies

Running Poros as a zero-damage utility tank requires dedicated burst carries and sustain units across the remaining five team slots:

Primary Burst Carries (Alvarez or Natalie): Provide the finishing damage. Poros locks down frontliners and absorbs aggro so these units can cast unhindered.
Buffers and Secondary Utility (Celina or Denise): Celina supplies team-wide attack increases and energy acceleration to cycle Poros's crowd-control skills faster. Denise adds supplementary enemy defense reductions and secondary control.
Cleansers and Healers (Mafalda or Sophia): Cleanse healing reduction and damage-over-time debuffs so Poros's damage shields remain effective across extended rounds.

Build Mistakes to Avoid

Splitting offensive and defensive stats: Equipping critical strike runes or offensive artifacts leaves Poros fragile. Without adequate Damage Reduction, he risks falling before casting a single disruption ability.
Neglecting Effect Hit: Enemy rosters in later stages build substantial Effect Resistance. Without adequate Effect Hit, opposing frontliners will resist Poros's stuns and knockups, negating his utility role entirely.