Hero Wars titans: elements, totems, artifacts and the best teams

This page covers both versions of the game. Hero Wars: Alliance is the mobile app on Android and iOS; Hero Wars: Dominion Era is the browser and Facebook version. They share the classic titans and most of the rules, but new titans and features arrive in a different order, and the newest element exists under different names. Where a fact is version specific, we say so. For the overall picture of the two games, read our Alliance vs Dominion Era comparison; this guide is part of the Hero Wars hub series.

What titans are and when you get them

Titans are large elemental units that fight only other titans. You put five of them in a team, exactly like heroes, but they have their own levels, stars, artifacts and skins, and they never mix with your hero lineup. Current guides from Hero Wars Olympus and h-w.fun agree that titans unlock at team level 30, while Titan Valley, the hub for the Tournament of the Elements and the Altar of the Elements, opens at team level 60.

The classic roster has 20 titans, four per element: a tank, a marksman, a support and a Super Titan. Super Titans (Hyperion, Araji, Eden, Solaris and Tenebris) have two skills instead of one and are the hardest to collect. Titans are summoned and evolved with Titan Soul Stones from the Circle of Summoning, the Dungeon, quests and events, and levelled with Titan Potions. Evolution goes up to six stars.

Both versions have the 20 classic titans and the five summoners. The official Alliance hub confirms Verdoc and Orm on mobile, and Alliance titan guides list Tydus, Asherona, Lumira and Umbra as well. Release dates differ, so do not assume a Dominion launch date applies to your phone.

Elements and the elemental cycle

Element decides who hurts whom. Water beats Fire, Fire beats Earth and Earth beats Water. Light and Dark sit outside that triangle and counter each other directly. The advantage comes mostly from artifacts: the Crown raises a titan's elemental armor and the Weapon its elemental damage, so a weak titan with good artifacts can still win a favourable matchup.

Distortion: the sixth element (Dominion Era, 2026)

On 11 August 2026 the Dominion Era team announced Distortion, the first new titan element in years. The official post sets out the rules. Distortion titans have the advantage over Light and Dark, while Fire, Water and Earth are their natural counters. The element has its own Spirit Totem with the ability Planar Storm, which covers the battlefield with shards, periodically pushes a random enemy titan and damages enemy titans that move inside the area. The totem activates with at least three Distortion titans in the team and is levelled with a new resource, Echo of Change, or with Emeralds. Distortion titans also use new Seals made for the element, and the roster is planned to grow to five titans.

Three Distortion titans are in Dominion Era so far:

• Alecto, a Marksman, whose Adventure ran from 21 August 2026.
• Valdur and Echo, the Summoner duo, whose Adventure started on 27 August 2026. The official post calls them the foundation of every Distortion team because they empower the new Spirit Totem.
• Orm, the Veil Weaver, a Support, with pre-order from 14 October and his Adventure from 19 October 2026.

Left: the pre-order banner for the first two Distortion titans. Right: the Adventure update that brought them in. Since Alecto's Adventure, Relics and the Adventure Buff are no longer exchanged for chests at the end, so spend them during the event.

Summoners: the 2025 to 2026 titans

Between October 2025 and June 2026 Dominion Era gave every classic element a Summoner, a titan that fights with a companion. Each one shipped through its own Adventure: Verdoc in October 2025, Asherona in December 2025, Tidus in February 2026, Lumira in April 2026 and Umbra in June 2026. Lumira's Soul Stones moved into the Circle of Summoning when the first Distortion titans arrived.

The key feature is the Spiritual Bond passive. Tidus's official card says he and his companion Gelo count as two Water titans for totem activation and generate extra energy for the Water Totem. In practice that means a summoner plus two titans of the same element already activates the totem, which frees two team slots for off element picks.

The official Dominion Era cards for Tidus (Water) and Asherona with Pyro (Fire). Tidus's Gelo applies Fragility to enemies that lose a large share of health from a single hit, so he wants big single target hitters next to him.

Totems and Totem Fusion

Each element has a Spirit Totem: a powerful battle skill plus a permanent stat bonus to titans of that element. The active skill only fires if you field enough titans of the element. h-w.fun and Alexandre Games agree on the numbers: three for Water, Fire and Earth, two for Light and Dark. Distortion needs three, according to the official post. The basic skills are Blessing of the Deep (Water heal and damage), Age of Flames (Fire storm), Song of the Ancient Mountains (Earth barrier that reflects damage), Black Hole (Dark) and Supernova (Light, which keeps allies above 1 health while it charges).

Totem Fusion (Dominion Era)

Totem Fusion went live in Dominion Era on 30 July 2025. Every totem can now hold three skills: its basic skill, one Elemental Skill (active) and one Primordial Skill (passive). You pick a skill in the Fusion window and invest Catalysts; more Catalysts raise the chance of getting it at a higher level. Each attempt also gives Crystallized Might (called Catalyzed Might at launch), which eventually buys the exact skill you want. Catalysts come from dismantling Totem Fragments and Gifts of Dominion.

The launch set had six Elemental Skills (Dance of Flame, The Depths' Whisper, Murmur of the Crags, Last Flash, Ice Age, Wrath Below) and five Primordial Skills (Echo Aegis, Gaea's Blessing, Triple Cycle, Call of Elements, Primal Zeal). The June 2026 Spirit Fusion update raised the skill cap from Rank V to Rank VI and added six new Elemental Skills, among them Main Sequence, Dark Matter, Gravitational Anomaly, Nova Flare, Star Dust and Dreamveil. The last two did not belong to any existing element, which turned out to be the first hint of Distortion.

Elemental Skills are active effects for the whole battle, Primordial Skills are passive bonuses for your own titans. Alexandre Games' Tidus and Asherona guides both pick Last Flash as the Elemental Skill for their PvP teams. We could not confirm that Totem Fusion is live in Alliance, so this section applies to Dominion Era.

Titan artifacts and skins

Every titan has three artifacts, and the official titan cards show exactly what each one does:

1. Weapon. Unique to each titan, raises elemental damage. Weapon fragments only fit that one titan.
2. Crown. Shared by the element (Water Crown, Fire Crown and so on, Crown of Distortion for the new element), raises elemental armor.
3. Seal. Raises attack and health. Seals are shared by role, Light and Dark use their own set, and Distortion got new Seals.

Hero Wars Central and h-w.fun list the same costs: artifacts evolve to six stars with 18,400 fragments in total, Weapons and Crowns are levelled with Essence of the Elements, and Seals with Gold (Emeralds work for all three). Essence comes mainly from Tournament of the Elements wins. In Dominion Era the Elemental Synergy event is the regular moment to level titan artifacts, and Titan Artifact Spheres are opened at the Altar of the Elements.

Titan skins

Titan skins add stats such as attack, health, elemental armor or elemental damage, and, as Hero Wars Olympus points out, the bonus of every unlocked skin applies whatever skin you display. Every new titan skin in 2026 boosted Elemental Armor according to the official Dominion posts: Mechanical skins for Keros and Amon (June), Verdoc and Phyto (July), Asherona (August), a Mechanical skin for Alecto and a Primordial skin for Valdur and Echo (September). Skins are upgraded with Titan Skin Stones; in Dominion the Foundations of Power event pays them out, and in June 2026 the ten oldest Mechanical titan skins became unlockable with Skin Stones. On Alliance, the official hub lists Orm's and Alecto's Primordial skins and Biomechanical skins for Avalon, Mairi and Ignis as unlockable with Titan Skin Stones. For hero skins, glyphs and artifacts see our skins, glyphs and artifacts guide.

Left: the recurring Dominion skin upgrade event. Right: the September 2026 skins for the first Distortion titans, both with an Elemental Armor bonus.

Where titans fight

Titans have fewer modes than heroes, but the rewards from those modes feed directly into hero and titan progress.

• Dungeon (both versions). Titan floors alternate with hero floors and each room favours an element. It is the main source of Titan Potions and soul stones. Auto battle now remembers your setting between Dungeon battles in Dominion Era.
• Guild War (both versions). Titans defend and attack fortifications. Killing enough defending titans so the enemy totem no longer meets its activation count is a known tactic. Our Guild War guide covers the rest.
• Tournament of the Elements (Titan Valley). A weekly cross server titan competition. In Dominion Era it has eight stages since the 22 June 2026 update, which added the Lords of Light and Darkness as stage 8. Wins pay Essence of the Elements.
• Territory of Titans (Dominion Era). Area of Conquest in titan form: for four days, groups of four guilds fight with titan squads for settlements and Superior Coins that fill a shared guild battle pass.
• Titan's Cosmic Battle (Dominion Era). Starts with a ban phase: all titans share one global pool and three are banned. Then you fight other players, climb divisions and spend Cosmic Battle Coins on titan resources.
• Tournament of Titan Power (Dominion Era). A recurring upgrade race, usually in the middle of the month: upgrading titans and completing event quests earns Tournament Points, so it is the best time to spend potions and stones.

Two of the Dominion Era titan events. The Cosmic Battle ban phase is the day to protect your best titan; the Tournament of Titan Power rewards every upgrade you were going to make anyway. For the hero version of the Cosmic Battle, see our Cosmic season page.

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Best titan teams by element

Titan rankings are opinions, so here is what named sources tested, not our guess. The summoner teams come from Alexandre Games' Dominion Era titan guides (checked November 2026), the classic teams from AllClash's titan team list (August 2024).

For Distortion in Dominion Era, there are only three titans so far: Alecto, Valdur and Echo, and Orm. The official Orm post says he is especially dangerous alongside durable tanks, and the Distortion totem needs three Distortion titans, so a full Distortion totem team uses all three. Tested Distortion lineups from guide sites were still thin when we checked. Free soul stones, potions and energy also show up in gift links, which we collect on the Hero Wars promo codes page.

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