Empyrean Ilynav

Empyrean Ilynav is a 5-star Light Knight who fights as a single-target bruiser whose damage scales off her own max Health while she anchors the team's defense. Her attacks inflict Injuries that permanently shave the enemy's effective max Health, and her sword and spear both hit one target at a time rather than the whole enemy line. Her passive Dragon's Pride raises every ally's Penetration Resistance (blunting enemy defense-ignoring damage) and feeds her 10% Combat Readiness each time an ally is attacked, so she acts more often the more the team is targeted. Her spear (5-turn cooldown) also cleanses two debuffs from all allies and grants indomitable for 2 turns, letting allies survive otherwise lethal hits during that window.

Counters

• Glass-cannon attackers and crit-penetration burst teams — Dragon's Pride raises Penetration Resistance for the whole team, softening attackers who rely on ignoring defense to land big hits, and every blow they land instead charges her turn meter so she keeps acting under pressure.
• Heavy-hitting carries that depend on a clean kill — Her spear grants indomitable for 2 turns, so during that window allies endure hits that would otherwise be fatal, denying an enemy carry the kill it set up.
• High-Health bulky targets and self-healers — Her Injuries permanently cut a target's effective max Health and her damage scales off her own Health, so she chips down tanks and erodes the pool that big self-sustaining enemies rely on.
• Debuff-stacking control teams — Unyielding Blow dispels two debuffs from all allies on use, peeling control effects off the team and undoing setup that depended on those debuffs sticking.

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Countered by

• Unhealable application — She has no self-heal; her durability is just a big Health pool, Penetration Resistance, and the indomitable buff. Sustained attrition that outlasts her cooldown windows simply grinds her down with no recovery to fall back on.
• Spreading damage across the team — Both her offensive skills hit only one target, so she cannot punish a whole enemy line at once and a wide team can outpace her single-target chip.
• Burst that beats her cooldown window — Unyielding Blow's cleanse and indomitable run on a 5-turn cooldown; opponents who time their kill outside that protective window face an unguarded team.
• Stripping or bypassing her buffs — Her value lives in the Penetration Resistance buff and the indomitable she grants; the indomitable is undispellable, so out-scale or out-last the 5-turn window rather than trying to dispel it.

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