Baiken

Baiken is an Earth Thief built around stacking bleeds and then blowing them up. Her basic, Tatami Gaeshi, hits one enemy several times for a chance to land two bleeds and, on a critical hit, knocks a turn off her own cooldowns. Her second skill, Tsurane Sanzu-watashi, piles on up to three more bleeds with one stack that ignores Effect Resistance, and her third skill, Garyo Tensei, lands a heavy strike and detonates every bleed on the target for delayed burst, with a critical hit pushing all allies' turn meters forward. Everything she does is single-target with no passive, so she is a focused bleed assassin who finishes a chosen enemy rather than a hitter who spreads damage across a team.

Counters

• High-health bruisers and tanks — Her bleeds deal damage based on the target's max health and then all detonate at once with Garyo Tensei, so beefy front-liners take more from the explosion than from a normal hit, letting her chew through health pools that shrug off flat damage.
• High-resistance defensive targets — One of the three bleeds from Tsurane Sanzu-watashi ignores Effect Resistance, so enemies that lean on Resistance to dodge debuffs still get bled and set up for the detonation.
• Slow, setup-reliant enemies — A crit on her basic shaves her own cooldowns and a crit on her third pushes the whole team's turn meter forward, so she can cycle her detonation faster and hand allies extra turns, racing past comps that need time to ramp up.
• A single priority threat she's pointed at — All her skills focus one enemy, layering up to five bleeds before Garyo Tensei pops them for a single decisive blow, making her a clean assassin for deleting one key target.

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Countered by

• Cleansers — Her whole payoff is detonating bleeds; an ally cleanse that wipes those bleeds before Garyo Tensei lands turns the detonation into an ordinary hit and erases her setup.
• Immunity and debuff-blocking — If the target gains immunity or her bleeds are refused, none of her stacks stick, so there is nothing for her third skill to detonate.
• Long cooldown reliance — The detonating Garyo Tensei sits on a seven-turn cooldown and the multi-bleed Tsurane on four, so outside of lucky basic-skill crits to reduce them, she has long windows where she can only chip with her basic and can be focused down.
• Fragile, no-passive frame — She has no passive and thin defenses for a single-target attacker, so a faster opener or hard crowd control can knock her out before she ever lands the bleed-then-detonate sequence she depends on.

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