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149Games
Current season · Champion+

Benimaru is a 5-star Fire Warrior built around a self-charging resource called Fighting Spirit. He starts the fight with half his bar and his basic attack builds it up; once it is full, his next attack spends it all to unleash Hell Flare, an attack on the entire enemy team that ignores 30% of their Defense. Whenever an enemy takes an extra turn, he cleanses every debuff off himself, wraps himself in a layered barrier, and pushes his own turn forward; while that barrier is up his attacks hit harder, his Defense penetration doubles to 60%, and he banks Fighting Spirit twice as fast. His other moves chip a single enemy and feed Combat Readiness to his fastest ally to speed up the team's rotation.

Counters

  • Defensive, high-Defense lineups — His full-team Hell Flare ignores 30% of enemy Defense, and 60% while his barrier is active, so heavily armored walls and tanky frontlines take far more damage from him than their stats suggest.
  • Stacked teams and shared backlines — Hell Flare strikes every enemy at once with Defense-piercing damage, so opponents clustered together or relying on one fragile carry get hit all at the same time.
  • Debuff and control reliant opponents — On an enemy's extra turn he automatically dispels all debuffs from himself and shields up, shrugging off poisons, defense breaks, stuns, silences, and other softening control that those teams need to land to win.
  • Turn-order and speed races — He begins combat with Fighting Spirit already banked, pushes his own readiness forward off enemy extra turns, and feeds Combat Readiness to his fastest ally, helping his side act first and get extra rotations.

Countered by

  • Enemies who cleanse the debuffs he applies — His pressure leans on the Defense reduction his attacks impose; an ally cleanse wipes that off and softens his follow-up damage.
  • Immunity going up before he strikes — If the enemy team pre-applies immunity, the weakening effects he wants to stick simply bounce, blunting his nuke setup.
  • Removing or denying his barrier window — His biggest hits, doubled Defense penetration, and faster Fighting Spirit all hinge on having his layered barrier up; strip or shatter that shield and he reverts to a much weaker, slower attacker.
  • Burst before his resource fills — Hell Flare only fires once Fighting Spirit is full, so an opener that kills or hard-controls him before he charges denies his team-wide payoff entirely.
Who counters Benimaru? — full guide ›

Skills

S1Move Out of the Way

Cuts the enemy to attack. When the caster is granted Multilayer Barrier, increases damage dealt.

Soulburn −10 soulsIncreases damage dealt
PUniversal Perception

At the start of the first battle, gains 50 Fighting Spirit. At the start of an enemy's extra turn, dispels all debuffs from the caster and grants Multilayer Barrier for 2 turns before increasing Combat Readiness by X. The effect following an enemy's extra turn can only be activated once every 2 turns. After attacking, when Fighting Spirit is full, consumes all Fighting Spirit to activate Hell Flare. Hell Flare: Attacks all enemies with a dark flame sphere. Penetrates the target's Defense by 30%, and when the caster is granted Multilayer Barrier, penetrates the target's Defense by an additional 30%.

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S3Show No MercyCD 5

Attacks the enemy by slashing their soul, increasing Combat Readiness of the ally with the highest Combat Readiness except for the caster by 15%. When the caster is granted Multilayer Barrier, acquired Fighting Spirit is doubled.

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Preys on

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Falls to

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Marches with

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