Command Model Laika

Command Model Laika is an Earth Ranger built around setting up her allies and locking down the enemy team. Her basic attack pushes her own and a random ally's turn meters forward for faster rotations, while Strike Order marks a single enemy and hands the team's strongest attacker a large Attack buff before calling in a Dual Attack on that target. Her wing-spread skill hits the whole enemy team with a chance to slow them and put them to sleep, and her kit also strips enemy buffs and shortens the duration of buffs that remain. She is a turn-order manipulator and disabler, not a raw burst carry.

Counters

• Enemies that lean on their buffs — Teams she can disable: her wing-spread strike can sleep and slow the whole enemy line, and her mark plus Dual Attack focuses a squishy target down before it acts.
• Slow or unprepared opening teams — The Combat Readiness push from her basic attack lets her own side act sooner, and her wing-spread strike can slow the whole enemy team, helping her side seize the first move before the opponent gets going.
• Squishy targets she wants dead first — Strike Order marks a chosen enemy and immediately calls a Dual Attack from her highest-Attack ally, whom she has just buffed with a large Attack increase, concentrating focused damage on one priority target.
• Enemy teams without crowd-control protection — Her area attack can put multiple enemies to sleep and slow them at once, denying turns to a team that has no way to resist or cleanse the disable.

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Countered by

• Effect Resistance and Immunity — Her pressure runs through chance-based debuffs (the enemy mark, sleep, and the slow). High Resistance shrugs them off, and an Immunity buff blocks the mark and sleep entirely, leaving her with little more than turn-meter support.
• Cleansers and buff protection — Allies who cleanse the sleep and slow off their team undo her crowd-control, and her buff-stripping is wasted against foes who reapply quickly or never relied on buffs in the first place.
• Long cooldowns between her key plays — Her marked-target Dual Attack and her team-wide sleep both sit on multi-turn cooldowns, so after she opens she has only her single-target basic attack to fall back on, giving fast bruisers a window to punish her.
• Heavy sustain and damage-mitigation teams — Her own damage is modest and built around setup rather than burst, so opponents who can heal through or wall off her Dual Attack outlast the window she opens before her disables come back.

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