Who Counters Architect Laika in Epic Seven?

Perfumer Byblis, Boss Arunka, Frieren and other hard counters counter Architect Laika. Cleansing the Target mark off the enemy, or shielding allies with immunity beforehand, removes the mark she relies on for her extra turn, her 80% Defense penetration, and much of her threat.

Cleanse and immunity support: Cleansing the Target mark off the enemy, or shielding allies with immunity beforehand, removes the mark she relies on for her extra turn, her 80% Defense penetration, and much of her threat. Long cooldown windows: Her control and burst live on a 4-turn dispel and a 5-turn ultimate; once those are spent she is left with only her single-target first skill, so surviving or stalling her opener leaves her with little immediate follow-up. Out-speeding her: Almost everything she does scales with Speed and depends on acting first to land her mark and pull her extra turn, so a faster team that strikes before her, or strips her own Attack buff, blunts her whole sequence. Elite and Boss content: Against Elite and Boss enemies she loses her damage-sharing bypass entirely, so guild-boss and PvE protection layers blunt the part of her kit that makes her so lethal in the arena.

In current Champion+ RTA, Perfumer Byblis has one of the strongest records against Architect Laika (62% win rate over 3,547 games).

Buff-stacked teams and protected backliners: Her second skill strips two buffs at once and applies a Target mark, so she tears down enemies leaning on layered buffs and then opens them up for her own burst. Damage-sharing and protection cores: Her ultimate ignores damage-sharing links against any target that isn't an Elite or Boss, letting her delete a squishy carrier even when an ally is meant to soak the hit for them. Revive and immortality comps: Her ultimate inflicts extinction on enemies it kills, so a defeated unit cannot be brought back, shutting down resurrection-based and endlessly-recurring teams. Tanky defensive walls: With the Target mark active she penetrates 80% of the enemy's Defense and adds her own Attack buff, so high-Defense bruisers and walls do not survive the follow-up the way they would against ordinary nukers.