Who Counters Baiken in Epic Seven?
Earth · Assassin · 5★
Baiken, a bleed-stacking detonation assassin, is a 5★ Earth Assassin in Epic Seven. Baiken's biggest weakness: 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. Below are the heroes and team archetypes that counter Baiken in RTA, the matchups where Baiken struggles most, and how to draft against Baiken.
Best counters to Baiken
Lady of the Scales59%
Perfumer Byblis63%
Ruele of Light59%
Estelle58%
Lionheart Cermia53%
Aram59%
Infinite Horizon Achates55%- 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.
How to beat Baiken
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
What Baiken counters
Frieren61%
Zio48%
Notos61%
Boss Arunka54%
Salome54%
Genesis Ras58%
Belian55%
Briar Witch Iseria56%
Empyrean Ilynav54%
Aki52%- 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.
Baiken counters — FAQ
Who counters Baiken in Epic Seven?
Lady of the Scales, Perfumer Byblis, Ruele of Light and other hard counters counter Baiken. 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.
What is Baiken weak to?
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.
What does Baiken counter?
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.