How the Avatar System Works
In Odin: Valhalla Rising, avatars give stat bonuses and special traits that directly affect your performance in PvE and PvP. These avatars come in different rarities: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Legendary. You can summon avatars using diamonds, and while you can get lucky, the rates are extremely low. There's no real pity system for summons either, which means you can spend thousands of diamonds and not even get an epic.
Fusing avatars is another way to try for higher rarities. You can combine rares to try for epics, and epics to try for legendaries. However, this method is also RNG-based and offers no guarantees. Still, many players rely on this route because direct pulls so often result in disappointment.
Legendary Avatars – The Best You Can Get
Legendaries are extremely rare and hard to obtain, but they offer the best stats and abilities. Below are some of the most sought-after legendary avatars:
Dark Nana
Considered one of the best overall legendaries in the game. Dark Nana is great for assassins and offers high crit damage and strong base attack. She's effective in both PvP and PvE, making her one of the most versatile avatars.
Blessed Yalp
This avatar is more defense-focused, perfect for warriors or paladins. It boosts survivability and includes some useful accuracy, making it a good choice for content that requires tanking.
Honorable Freyr
Freyr is a legendary mage avatar with high magic stats and accuracy boosts. It's a solid pick for players focusing on PvE content and dungeons.
Bloodthirst Skuld
Great for rangers, this avatar improves attack speed and crit chance. It works well for players who prefer sustained ranged damage, especially in PvP scenarios.
Getting any one of these avatars will change your gameplay dramatically, but due to their rarity, most players never see a legendary animation at all. Some players go through 2,500 summons or spend over $250 worth of diamonds without a single legendary pull.
Epic Avatars – Still Worth Building
For most players, epic avatars are the realistic ceiling unless they're willing to spend a lot. The good news is that some epic avatars are strong enough to carry you through most content, especially when paired with the right class.
Blessed Hela
A top-tier epic for assassins or mages. Offers high attack and critical stats. Some even consider it better than certain low-tier legendaries.
Honorable Aramis
This epic works well for PvE builds. It provides useful accuracy and damage boosts, which help a lot in boss fights and dungeons.
Blessed Jorun
Good for tankier classes like paladins. It focuses on HP and defense stats, making it ideal for solo grinding or group content where you need to survive longer.
Honorable Eir
An epic mage avatar with elemental damage boosts. Excellent for area damage and PvE farming.
Epic avatars also play an important role in avatar collection progress. Even duplicates help you move closer to unlocking stat bonuses, which become very useful in endgame content.
Class Recommendations – What to Use and Who to Build
Each class in Odin benefits from different avatar traits. Picking the right avatar for your class can make a big difference in your performance.
Assassin
Ideal avatars: Dark Nana, Blessed Hela
Focus on critical damage and attack speed. Assassins thrive in PvP and burst scenarios.
Warrior/Paladin
Ideal avatars: Blessed Yalp, Blessed Jorun
Look for defense, HP, and survivability. These classes are front-line tanks in group content.
Ranger
Ideal avatars: Bloodthirst Skuld, Honorable Aramis
Prioritize attack speed, accuracy, and crit. Rangers do best when they can maintain sustained pressure on enemies.
Mage
Ideal avatars: Honorable Freyr, Honorable Eir
Focus on magic power and elemental boosts. Mages are AOE specialists and good for clearing content quickly.
Summoning Reality – Why the Rates Are Brutal
Many players report spending tens of thousands of diamonds and walking away with only a handful of rares, or sometimes nothing useful at all. While the visual effects of summoning—especially the cinematic cutscene for legendaries—are exciting, they rarely occur.
A single legendary pull is estimated to cost around $120 worth of Odin Valhalla Rising diamonds on average, depending on your luck. There is no summon pity, meaning you're never guaranteed anything, no matter how much you spend. This leads to sessions where players burn through 30,000 diamonds and walk away with no new collection bonuses, no epics, and no useful upgrades.
Fusion is slightly more forgiving, but still not a sure thing. After collecting 20+ rares, you can try for a few epics, and sometimes this is your best chance to upgrade your avatars. But even then, you might get duplicate epics or avatars you can't use with your current class.
Avatar Collection Bonuses
Even if you don't get a legendary, collecting avatars still helps in the long run. Each new avatar you collect contributes to your collection progress. This system rewards you with passive bonuses like +crit, +accuracy, and other useful stats.
Duplicates may not unlock new avatars for collection bonuses, but they still bring you closer to getting a legendary through fusion. Every avatar matters, and building a full collection can give your character the small stat bumps needed to tackle harder content.
Should You Pull?
Whether you're free-to-play or a spender, the decision to pull should be based on your goals and expectations. If you're hoping for a legendary, prepare to be disappointed. Unless you're extremely lucky or willing to spend a significant amount, it's more practical to focus on fusing rares into epics and slowly improving your collection that way.
Until the developers implement a summon pity system or increase the odds, summoning remains a gamble with very little safety net. If you're planning to summon, do it with realistic expectations, and consider saving diamonds for future events or banners that might offer better rates.
Final Thoughts
Odin: Valhalla Rising's avatar system is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it gives players powerful customization tools through avatars that genuinely impact gameplay. On the other, it features some of the harshest gacha rates in the genre.
Legendary avatars like Dark Nana and Blessed Yalp are worth chasing, but you're more likely to build a strong team using well-chosen epic avatars like Blessed Hela or Honorable Aramis. Choose avatars that match your class, take advantage of fusion opportunities, and don't rely too much on blind summons unless you're comfortable with the risk.
For now, most players should focus on maximizing their collections and slowly progressing through fusion. And if you ever do see that legendary cutscene animation, you'll know just how rare and valuable that moment truly is.