ae-NINGNING

ae-NINGNING is a Fire Soul Weaver support-controller from the aespa collab who manipulates turn order and punishes shielded, buff-heavy teams. Her basic attack can stun a single target for a turn, and when it lands she pushes her own Combat Readiness by 20% to act again sooner. Her second skill strikes one enemy to drag their Combat Readiness down 30%, then hands her highest-Attack ally an Attack buff and a 30% Combat Readiness push. Her ultimate hits the whole enemy team, flips their barriers against them with barrier inversion, strips two buffs off each, and refills her own Combat Readiness.

Counters

• Shield- and barrier-reliant teams — Her ultimate inflicts barrier inversion on every enemy, turning their protective barriers into a liability rather than defense, so heroes who lean on shielding are undercut the moment she ults.
• Buff-stacked defensive walls — That same ultimate strips two buffs from each enemy, peeling away the attack, defense, or immunity layers that buff-reliant compositions and stacking bruisers depend on to stay standing.
• Fast openers racing for the first move — She pushes her own Combat Readiness off a successful stun and off her ultimate, buffs and CR-pushes her top damage ally, and drops a target's CR by 30%, swinging the turn-order race in her team's favor before the enemy gets going.
• Targets that fold to a single stun — Her basic attack can stun one enemy for a turn, letting her lock down a key threat and deny its action while she snowballs extra turns from the CR she gains.

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Countered by

• Immunity going into the fight — A pre-applied immunity buff blocks her stun, her 30% CR reduction, and the barrier inversion from her ultimate, neutralizing nearly all of her control in one stroke.
• Reliable cleansing support — Her lockdown hinges on the stun sticking, so an ally that cleanses debuffs simply removes the stun and frees the target she was trying to control.
• Enemy dispel or buff theft — Her offense funnels through buffing one ally; a dispeller or buff-stealer wipes that Attack buff away, blunting the damage her own kit only enables rather than deals.
• Single-target attacks and a long ultimate cooldown — Her only wide play is the five-turn ultimate, and her other two skills hit just one enemy, so once that ultimate is spent she has thin board-wide pressure and can be overwhelmed by a fast, spread-out team.

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