Kingdom Arena Meta Team: Timekeeper and Sugar Swan Comp

Updated 11 October 2026: the first version of this guide paired Awakened Pure Vanilla with Sugar Swan and built its game plan on a Timekeeper ability called "Sealed Hour". Neither holds up. Sugar Swan only revives when she is the team's only Healing Cookie, and as a Rear Healing Cookie she also switches off Pure Vanilla's Compassion passive, so that pairing turned off both Cookies' revives. "Sealed Hour" is not in Timekeeper's kit on either wiki: what she actually does is apply an automatic Emergency Dial Lock and gain Entropy after an enemy Cookie revives. Arena also runs on auto, so there was never a cast to time. Venom Dough now takes Pure Vanilla's slot, and every section below is rebuilt on the verified kits.

This guide builds a Kingdom Arena team around Aegis Hollyberry, Dark Enchantress, Timekeeper, Venom Dough and Sugar Swan. All five sit in the Arena S+ tier of the Fandom wiki's community tier list (revision of 30 September 2026), which describes itself as unofficial and subjective. Below: why the kits fit together, how to build each slot, what to swap if you are missing a Cookie, and how to beat the team when you face it.

Timekeeper arrived in the v7.4 "Timeline of Fate" update (May 7, 2026). For her full build, read the Timekeeper Cookie deep dive.

Last verified: 11 October 2026 — kits checked against cookierun.wiki and the Fandom wiki through v7.9 (Mortal Flames, Eternal Change, September 23) and the October 7 mid-update. None of these five Cookies has had a balance change in 2026. Three newer Arena picks are not built into this team: Ananas Dragon (v7.6), Nether Queen (v7.7, a Healing Cookie, so she would replace Sugar Swan rather than join her) and Rajapendra (v7.9, covered under counters below).

The Kingdom Arena comp at a glance

Rows are not your choice: the game places each Cookie in its prioritised row, and you cannot reorder them (Fandom wiki, Cookie Order).

Why it holds together: Timekeeper punishes opponents who revive, with an Emergency Dial Lock and 15 Entropy every time an enemy Cookie comes back. Sugar Swan gives you up to two full-HP revives of your own, as long as she is the only Healing Cookie on your team.

Why this comp works — synergy breakdown

Four kit interactions carry this team:

1. Hollyberry soaks for the backline. While Shield of Conviction is up (13 seconds), her DMG Focus absorbs 45% of the damage allies take, excluding periodic and indirect damage, and allies take 35% less CRIT DMG. Her Rally Effect only buffs Steel-type Cookies, and she is the only Steel Cookie in this lineup, so here it buffs only her.
2. Dark Enchantress and Timekeeper stack cooldown denial. DE's Forbidden Abyss adds Cooldown +30% to enemy Cookies. Timekeeper's Dial Lock freezes the cooldowns of the three highest-ATK enemies and blocks their skills for 3.3 seconds, then leaves Regression behind (Cooldown +20%, DMG dealt -15% for 25 seconds).
3. Dark Enchantress feeds Venom Dough. Venom Dough gains two Venom Core stacks when DE is on the team, and one more each time she uses Magic Overflow. At three Cores, Venom Force fires on its own at the lowest-HP enemy.
4. Sugar Swan revives, Timekeeper punishes revives. Your side gets up to two revives at 100% HP. On their side, each revive triggers Emergency Dial Lock and +15 Entropy, and at 42 Entropy Timekeeper enters Stabilization Mode, in which nearby enemy Cookies take +59% DMG for 7 seconds.

How the fight plays out on auto

Kingdom Arena battles always run on Auto: you cannot time any skill or non-auto treasure (cookierun.wiki, Kingdom Arena). Cookies there also have triple Max HP and receive 1.7x healing. What you control is the lineup and the gear. The order of events comes from the kits:

• Opening seconds: Timekeeper's first cast comes early, because her initial cooldown carries a 0.477x multiplier. Dark Enchantress's Abyss Immobilizes the enemies in range for 3 seconds, dispels their HP Shields and stops them gaining new ones for 7 seconds. Hollyberry's first cast also comes early, since her kit cuts the cooldown of her first skill activation.
• Venom Force: Venom Dough fires it as soon as the third Venom Core lands, and it cannot be held back. Cores come from Venom Essence (one per second, five per Core), the two-Core bonus for having Dark Enchantress on the team, her Magic Overflow, and each enemy Cookie defeated.
• When a Cookie falls: a Cookie's own Revive buff is spent before any other revive source, so Timekeeper uses her once-per-battle self-revive first. Other fallen allies come back through Sugar Swan at 100% HP, up to twice. Each enemy revive gives Timekeeper an Emergency Dial Lock and +15 Entropy.

Per-slot deep dive: Aegis Hollyberry (front)

Build: 5x Solid Almond (DMG Resist) toppings with HP sub-stats, Hard (Defense-type) beascuit. See the Hollyberry gear page for the exact roll targets. She has no treasure slot of her own: treasures are equipped per team, not per Cookie, and the team's picks are covered under Treasures for this comp below.

Aegis Hollyberry is an Awakened Ancient (Defense, Front, Steel), added when Hollyberry was Awakened in v6.5. Her job here is to take the hits meant for the backline:

• Shield of Conviction (13 seconds): DMG Focus absorbs 45% of the damage allies take (not periodic or indirect damage), her own DMG Dampening is 35%, and allies take 35% less CRIT DMG.
• Steelbound Guardian: at 20 Steelbound Passion stacks, or when her HP drops below 25%, she becomes Invulnerable for 5 seconds, restores 40% of her Max HP and resets her Cooldown. DMG Focus +60% and DMG Dampening +50% then last to the end of the battle.

She is a Defense Cookie, not a Healer, so she does not affect Sugar Swan's revive condition.

Per-slot deep dive: Dark Enchantress (DPS)

Build: 5x Searing Raspberry, Zesty (Magic-type) beascuit, ATK or CRIT topping tart. Her Master of Sorcery passive also cuts her Cooldown by 1% for every 3% ATK from Toppings (capped at 30%), so Raspberry ATK feeds both stats.

Dark Enchantress is a Witch-rarity Magic Cookie (Middle, Chaos) from v7.0 (January 14, 2026), not a Legendary. She is the Cookie this comp is actually built around: her Abyss Immobilizes, slows enemy Cookies' cooldowns and blocks their HP Shields, and Magic Overflow gives her one revive at 100% HP. Timekeeper is the support that lets DE finish fights cleanly. Build her first if you own her and not Timekeeper yet.

Pairing Dark Enchantress with Venom Dough

Venom Dough takes the slot that Awakened Pure Vanilla held in the first version of this guide. They are the first Super Epic Bomber (v7.1, February 11, 2026), and the link with DE is written into their kit:

Venom Dough is a Bomber, not a Healing Cookie, so Sugar Swan keeps her revives. Their beascuit is Spicy, the Bomber type.

Per-slot deep dive: Timekeeper (Dial Lock)

Build: the Timekeeper toppings deep dive covers her toppings in full. Her beascuit is Zesty, the Magic type. One kit fact decides the toppings: her TBD Director passive gives ATK +2% per 1% Cooldown from Toppings, capped at +60% once Toppings give 30% Cooldown. Each topping can roll only one Cooldown bonus effect, worth 1-2%, so bonus effects top out at 10% across five toppings. That puts 30% out of reach without Swift Chocolate: five at +12 give 15% from their main stats, and the Chocolate set bonus and Cooldown rolls make up the rest.

Timekeeper (Legendary, Magic, Middle, Light) does not stop revives, and the cookierun.wiki Revival page lists no Cookie that does. What she does instead:

• Dial Lock on the three highest-ATK enemies, Cookies first: their Cooldown is frozen and their skills blocked for 3.3 seconds, unaffected by Debuff Resist. It ends in an explosion that applies Regression (Cooldown +20%, DMG dealt -15% for 25 seconds).
• Emergency Dial Lock (1.7 seconds) on any enemy Cookie that revives, plus +15 Entropy. At 42 Entropy she enters Stabilization Mode for 7 seconds, and nearby enemy Cookies take +59% DMG.
• TBD Director: she revives herself once per battle at 100% HP.

All of it is automatic. There is no cast to hold back for the first enemy death, because Arena fires her skill whenever her cooldown is ready.

Per-slot deep dive: Sugar Swan (healer)

Build: 5x Searing Raspberry, Sweet (Healing-type) beascuit, Searing Raspberry tart. Her Aura of Vitality gives allies Healing +0.8% per 1% ATK from Toppings, capped at 35%, which takes 44% ATK from Toppings; five +12 Searing Raspberry M give 45% from their main stats alone. Cooldown does not speed up her revives, because they trigger when an ally falls, not when she casts.

Sugar Swan (Legendary, Healing, Rear, Light; v7.2) does two jobs:

1. Team healing and buffs. Her skill heals all allies (60.1% of ATK per tick plus 1.28% of their Max HP at max skill level) and grants Sweet Sugar Feather for 20 seconds: ATK +45%, DMG Resist +10%, CRIT Resist +17.5%.
2. Revives. Her Guardian of Life passive brings back one fallen Cookie per revival at 100% HP, with an HP Shield of 10% Max HP for 5 seconds. She has two revivals per battle, or one if Sugar Swan's Shining Feather is equipped.

The revive has one condition: no other Healing Cookie anywhere on the team. That is why this lineup carries no second healer. Awakened Pure Vanilla is a Healing Cookie, so running him beside her switches her revives off. Because she is a Rear Healing Cookie, she in turn switches off his Compassion passive, which holds his team immunity to Silence and Cooldown debuffs and, per both wikis, his own revive. If you own Awakened Pure Vanilla and not Sugar Swan, run him in her slot rather than next to her.

Against an enemy Timekeeper, each revive Sugar Swan performs triggers Emergency Dial Lock on the revived Cookie and gives that Timekeeper +15 Entropy. The cookierun.wiki notes add that her own return in swan form counts as a revival too.

Treasures for this comp

Treasures are equipped per team, not per Cookie. You get up to 3 slots, and the number rises with your Cookie Castle level. They are not a rounding error: Old Pilgrim's Scroll alone adds +30% to +60% ATK to every ally.

• Old Pilgrim's Scroll (Epic, Passive) — (Undispellable) all allies ATK +30% at Lv1, up to +60% at Lv12. It is ATK only, with no cooldown or CRIT effect, so it is straight damage for Dark Enchantress and Timekeeper. FDAYTalk's May 2026 treasure tier list ranks it SS, its top tier.
• One Jelly Watch (Passive) — cuts all allied Cookies' Cooldown. Squishy Jelly Watch (Common) gives -10% to -25%. Sleepyhead's Jelly Watch (Epic) gives -15% to -25% plus ATK +1% to +5%. TBD Ticking Jelly Watch (Epic, v7.4) gives a flat -20% plus DMG Dampening. The three share a family, so you can equip only one. Shorter cooldowns mean DE and Timekeeper cycle their skills more often.
• Mysterious Jewelry Box (Epic, Active, 4s charge / 7s cooldown) — the damage slot. It deals area DMG of 441% to 735% of your highest-ATK ally's ATK and Stuns for 2.5s. Enemy Cookies it hits also get Weakness +25% to +50% and ATK and CRIT% -50% for 15s. It was the PvP pick in FDAYTalk's May 2026 treasure tier list.

Bookseller's Monocle is a defensive pick, not a damage one. It is an Active (17s charge, 23s cooldown) that purifies all debuffs from all allies and heals them for 15% to 30% of Max HP, and it comes only from the Guild Gacha. Use it in the third slot only into debuff-heavy comps. Arena runs on auto, so you cannot time any Active treasure, and this one cannot fire before the 17-second mark.

The only treasure v7.4 added is TBD Ticking Jelly Watch. On top of its cooldown cut, it gives your Cookies DMG Dampening +5% and Debuff Resist +15%, once per battle, when any Cookie revives — yours or the enemy's. That is a buff for your own team, not a revive blocker: none of the 48 Kingdom treasures listed on the Cookie Run Wiki stops a revive. Timekeeper revives herself once per battle, so this comp can set it off without waiting for an enemy revive.

Treasure rule of thumb: ATK first (the Scroll), cooldown second (one Watch), then fill the last slot for the matchup: damage and debuffs (Jewelry Box) or cleanse and heal (Bookseller's Monocle).

F2P substitutions

Not every account has all five of these Cookies. Here are the meaningful swaps, with our own grades (a judgment call, not taken from the Fandom tier list):

The two hardest slots to replace are Dark Enchantress + Timekeeper: DE powers Venom Dough's Cores, and nothing else on this list punishes revives. If you are missing both, build from the Cookies you own using the PvP rankings on our tier list page.

For broader pull priorities and crystal saving strategy, see the reroll guide.

How to counter this comp

If you keep losing to this team, the kits point to three answers:

1. Run no revives. Emergency Dial Lock and the +15 Entropy only trigger when an enemy Cookie revives. Against a team with none, Timekeeper still has Dial Lock and still builds Entropy over time, but her revive punishment never fires.
2. Bring Rajapendra. The v7.9 Beast Charge Cookie (Front) gains ATK +35% and DMG dealt to Cookies +30% when an enemy Cookie revives (cookierun.wiki, Revival and his kit page), so the first of Sugar Swan's revives or Timekeeper's self-revive switches the buff on. It stacks only once, so later revives do not add to it.
3. Bring your own Timekeeper. Their revives then give your Timekeeper Emergency Dial Locks and Entropy. When the Cookie that revives is their Timekeeper, yours applies Forced Regression to her instead (Cooldown +25%, DMG dealt -17.5% for 35 seconds).

Stacking more healers carries two kit costs against this team. A second Healing Cookie switches off your own Sugar Swan's revives, and every revive you do land gives their Timekeeper an Emergency Dial Lock and +15 Entropy.

For Guild Battle and other PvE modes where this exact comp does not apply, see the Guild Battle teams guide — those rosters look different.

Quick Action Checklist

• Confirm your roster — Dark Enchantress + Timekeeper are the two hardest slots to replace
• Build Hollyberry with Solid Almond
• Roll 5x Searing Raspberry for Dark Enchantress and Sugar Swan
• Check Timekeeper's toppings against her TBD Director passive (ATK +2% per 1% Cooldown from Toppings, capped at 30% Cooldown)
• Match each beascuit to its Cookie's type: Hard (Hollyberry), Zesty (Dark Enchantress, Timekeeper), Spicy (Venom Dough), Sweet (Sugar Swan)
• Keep Sugar Swan as your only Healing Cookie: no Pure Vanilla, Nether Queen or Cream Unicorn beside her
• Equip Old Pilgrim's Scroll plus one Jelly Watch (the Watches share a family, so only one fits)
• If F2P, prioritize the reroll guide order
• Cross-check the current tier list before spending crystals
• Re-evaluate this comp every patch