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Highguard launched with a total of eight different characters named Wardens, with plans to have more added in future updates. While some Wardens have similar playstyles, they each have their own unique abilities that make them useful in different ways.

Every match puts you into teams of three, making it difficult to decide who to pick. To make this decision easier for you, we’ve compiled a list of all the Wardens in Highguard with all their abilities and a bit of their backstory.

Table of Contents

• All Wardens in Highguard
  • Redmane
  • Atticus
  • Mara
  • Slade
  • Condor
  • Scarlet
  • Una
  • Kai

All Wardens in Highguard

Redmane

Redmane has a special connection with the wildlife, being able to absorb aspects of various animals. This makes him a beast in combat, whether he’s destroying walls or slashing enemies.

• Tactical: Pounce – Smash through breakable walls. Hold to charge a powerful leap.
• Passive: Enraged – Gains a movement and reload speed buff after killing enemies.
• Ultimate: Beast’s Roar – Roar to destroy walls and other breakable objects in front of you. It also damages enemies.

Atticus

Atticus comes from a thousand-year-old bloodline of lightning wielders. He has trained for war since he was young, making him a strong soldier who is now on a journey to fulfill an oath he made to his dying father.

• Tactical: Shockspear – Throw a charged spear that shocks nearby enemies. Continuous damage charges his passive.
• Passive: Supercharged Axe – Releases an electrical explosion that damages nearby resource nodes.
• Ultimate: Powerstorm – Rise into the air and rain lightning spears that do heavy damage to players and structures.

Mara

Mara is a mysterious witch and conjurer with strange powers that play with life and death. No one exactly knows why she has volunteered to become a Warden, but she has abilities that can help protect allies and create new spawn points.

• Tactical: Soul Armor – Grants allies an overshield that absorbs damage.
• Passive: Sacrifice – Sacrifice downed enemy players to charge your tactical.
• Ultimate: Immortal Coil – Create a spawn point for your team.

Slade

Slade has an arsenal of fiery abilities that will burn your enemies alive. He’s known to be a friend of crime lords and even pirate captains, having become a Warden to make some money.

• Tactical: Heatwave – Sends out a cascading wave of molten fire.
• Passive: Firebomb – Explodes and spreads magma to an area.
• Ultimate: Firestorm – Rains down fire upon the targeted area.

Condor

If you want someone who can detect enemy locations, Condor the treasure hunter is your woman. She uses her bird to hunt down predators, and when her ultimate is charged, she can use it to send out smokes for cover.

• Tactical: Eyes in the Sky – Sends out her bird, which scans to detect enemies that move.
• Passive: Hunter’s Instinct – Condor’s bird warns her when enemies are nearby.
• Ultimate: Soaring Guardian – Launch 3 smoke clouds that reveal enemies within its wake.

Scarlet

Scarlet is a princess from a far-off desert kingdom who left the throne to become a Warden. She honed the sand abilities that allow her to turn walls into sand, and she can also hide herself in a sandstorm.

• Tactical: Sandstorm – Enter stealth mode, making yourself hidden to enemies that are far away.
• Passive: Shifting Sands – Shift a destructible wall into sand, temporarily making it passable.
• Ultimate: Whirling Blades – Throw up to 6 deadly daggers. Killing a player with a dagger resets your cooldowns.

Una

Una is a powerful spirit binder from the Wildwood who can summon woodland spirits to help her. She has fled from her dying forest home to find a way to save it, despite now being exiled.

• Tactical: Forest Wisps – Summon mischievous spirits who lob concussion grenades at enemies.
• Passive: Helping Hand – Spirits appear to give Una loot.
• Ultimate: Tree Walker – Summon a large forest spirit that throws smaller explosive spirits at enemies.

Kai

Kai came from a monastery in the frozen Wetlands mountains, having gained control of a power that allows him to turn into a Frost Beast demon. The demon, Rime, can cause major destruction, while Kai is more focused on building and repairing walls.

• Tactical: Ice Wall – Create an ice wall.
• Passive: Frozen Repair – Restore broken walls in your base.
• Ultimate: Frost Giant – Transform into Kai’s inner ice demon, Rime.