Choux

Choux is a 5-star Ice Warrior bruiser whose damage scales with her own max Health and who fights through a Focus resource. Her basic Chop attack pushes her own turn gauge and builds Focus (a critical hit builds it twice as fast), while Fwoooosh! is a single-target strike that ignores 70% of the enemy's Defense, heals her for part of the damage dealt, and — once she has 5 Focus — spends it all for a bigger hit and instantly refreshes its own cooldown, letting her chain repeated heavy blows on one target. Her third skill is her only multi-target move: it freezes the whole enemy team, hands every ally increased Critical Hit Resistance for 2 turns, and while it is on cooldown gives her a 20% chance to counterattack whenever another ally is struck. She is bulky, self-sustaining, and built to single out and grind down priority targets rather than wipe a team at once.

Counters

• Fragile carries and squishy backline threats — Her Fwoooosh! ignores 70% of the target's Defense and, once Focus is full, resets its own cooldown so she can land it again almost immediately — letting her isolate and quickly delete a single high-value enemy who relies on Defense to survive.
• Long, drawn-out fights and attrition teams — She scales off her own large Health pool and heals from the damage Fwoooosh! deals, so the longer a brawl goes the harder she is to whittle down while she keeps grinding a target.
• Aggressive front-line attackers that hit your allies — While Help Me, Cream! is on cooldown she has a chance to counterattack each time a teammate is hit, punishing enemies who pile damage onto your other heroes; the freeze on that skill also stalls the whole enemy team for a turn.
• Crit-reliant burst openers — Help Me, Cream! gives the entire team increased Critical Hit Resistance for 2 turns, softening incoming critical-hit burst right when an enemy tries to open hard on your line.

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Countered by

• Counterattack and reflect shutdown — A large part of her value is the chance to counterattack when allies are hit; effects that block or disable counterattacks strip that retaliation away and leave her doing far less off-turn.
• Buff removal and buff-duration cuts — Her team protection is the Critical Hit Resistance buff on Help Me, Cream!; stripping it, stealing it, or shortening its duration removes the defensive payoff and leaves your team exposed to the burst it was meant to blunt.
• Anti-heal / unhealable effects — She sustains herself through the lifesteal on Fwoooosh!, so blocking healing turns off her self-recovery and lets a team grind her down instead of the other way around.
• Burst before she ramps, and Focus disruption — She is slow and needs to build up to 5 Focus before Fwoooosh! becomes a repeatable nuke; fast teams can pressure her early, and her AoE freeze sits on a long 5-turn cooldown, so denying her time keeps her stuck on single-target chip damage.

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