Kelvin

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Freezes enemies in their tracks

Timely heals and splitting a teamfight properly is the difference between an easy victory or a ruinous defeat. Gliding around slowing enemies gives Kelvin's team the maneuvering advantage to make this happen.

Kelvin
Weapon: "Expedition's End" BASE STATS
Weapon Stats
DPS:	84
Bullet Damage:	21+0.70
Ammo:	15
Bullets per sec:	4
Reload Time:	2.59s
Bullet Velocity:	254m/s
Light Melee:	63+2.67
Heavy Melee:	116+4.91
Falloff Range:	20m → 58m
Vitality Stats
Health:	600+50
Health Regen:	2
Spirit Resist:	10%
Move Speed:	6.8m/s
Stamina:	3

Kelvin is a dedicated, undead scientist with a bevy of freezing abilities to slow his enemies and heal allies. He can conjure an Ice Path under his feet for faster movement for himself and his team, throwing Frost Grenades and firing his Arctic Beam at nearby enemies to set them up for his companions' attacks. Tactical usage of his Frozen Shelter ice dome can protect and heal allies while trapping hapless opponents.

As an adventuring scientist, Kelvin was particularly excited for rumours of an 8th Astral Gate opening in the Arctic, developing an expedition to hunt for it. However, something went wrong with the expedition, vanishing into the snow and leaving Kelvin's frozen, animate body to be discovered over a year later.

Abilities

Frost Grenade

6.5m

1

7s

22s

Throw a grenade that explodes in a cloud of freezing ice, damaging and slowing enemies.

x0.983

80

Damage

40%

Movement Slow

4s  Slow Duration

1

+1 Charges

2

Frost Grenade now heals 100 HP to friendly targets. Scales with Spirit.

x1.97

5

+175 Damage

Ice Path

8s

42s

Kelvin creates a floating trail of ice and snow that gives movement bonuses to him and his allies. Kelvin gains 60% slow resistance for the duration. Enemies can also walk on the floating trail.
Press Shift / Ctrl to travel up or down while in Ice Path.

2m/s

Move Speed

2m/s

Sprint Speed

18s  Ice Trail Duration

1

+4m Sprint Speed

2

-15s Cooldown

5

While active, gain +1 Spirit Power per meter of Ice Path trail created. Max of 55 Spirit Power

Arctic Beam

24s

Shoot freezing cold energy out in front of you, damaging targets and building up movement and fire rate slow against them the longer you sustain the beam on them. You have reduced move speed while using Arctic Beam. The beam may also claim Souls.

x0.9

60

DPS

40%

Max Slow

40%

Max Fire Rate Slow

2s  Max Slow Build Time

25m  Beam Length

2s  Slow Linger Duration

1

-7.5s Cooldown

2

+40 DPS

5

Fires 2 additional Arctic Beams toward enemies within 13m of the last target hit

Frozen Shelter

10m

5.5s

127s

Kelvin freezes the air around him, creating an impenetrable dome around himself. While in the dome, allies rapidly regenerate health and enemies are slowed.
Objectives becomes Invulnerable and Frozen under Frozen Shelter.

x0

110

Health Regen

35%

Movement Slow

1

+40% Fire Rate Slow

2

-38s Cooldown

5

+60 Health Regen and now scales with Spirit Power

x1.4

Weapon

Weapon Stats	Falloff Range 20m - 58m 84 DPS
Expedition's End
Medium Range Heavy Hitter Projectile

Background

“

A famed adventuring scientist, Kelvin made it his life’s mission to explore and understand the unknowable. So naturally when rumors surfaced regarding an 8th astral gate hidden in the arctic, Kelvin couldn’t build an expedition team fast enough. Assembling the brightest minds of his generation, Kelvin and his team set forth with much fanfare.

They never returned.

A year and a half later the frozen body of Kelvin was found by a fishing trawler, his corpse clutching a rock etched with glowing runes. The crew chipped away at the ice, looking to get a closer look at the body and were shocked when Kelvin opened his eyes. They checked his vitals… there was no pulse. They sought to bandage his open wounds… there was no blood. And yet, impossibly, Kelvin was "alive".

Having no memory of what happened on the expedition, Kelvin is looking for answers.

— A FATE'S TALE

Update history

Main article: Update history

Update	Changes
November 21, 2024	Frost Grenade T2 reduced from +125 Heal to +100 Frozen Shelter regen reduced from 120 to 110 Frozen Shelter T3 reduced from +70 (1.6 Spirit Power) to +60 (1.4 Spirit Power) Seismic Impact, Death Slam and Ground Strike now smash through Ice Path
October 27, 2024	Ice Path cooldown increased from 38s to 42s
October 24, 2024	Arctic Beam slow reduced from 50% to 40% Frost Grenade T2 heal reduced from 145 to 125 Fixed Frozen Shelter not freezing weakened patron

Trivia

• Kelvin is the base unit for temperature of the International System of Units and the Kelvin scale is an absolute temperature scale that starts at the lowest possible temperature, 0 K.
• Other heroes such as McGinnis and Dynamo will sometimes call him "Kevin" instead of Kelvin.
• Seven has a one-sided rivalry with Kelvin for unknown reasons. Kelvin thinks Seven "seems familiar". Additionally, both Seven and Kelvin have an interest on researching Astral Gates.
  • A likely possibility is that Seven is Kelvin's old friend Edrick, who "vanished". This is supported by one of Seven's lines to Kelvin that mirrors one of Kelvin's lines about Edrick.
• Lady Geist funded Kelvin's Arctic expedition.
• Kelvin narrated an old version of the tutorial.
• Kelvin may reference a shadowline when upgrading his Ice Path.

Gallery

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  Portrait
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  Minimap icon
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  In-game render
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  Model sheet
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  Weapon - Expedition's End
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  Neon Prime Kelvin

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