Dark · Mage · 5★ · 49% RTA win rate
Eternal Wanderer Ludwig, a soulburn-punisher aoe mage, is a 5★ Dark Mage in Epic Seven. Eternal Wanderer Ludwig's biggest weakness: his whole engine leans on self-buffs (Attack up, Hit Chance, Endure); an enemy that steals those buffs strips his accuracy and offense and turns them against him. Below are the heroes and team archetypes that counter Eternal Wanderer Ludwig in RTA, the matchups where Eternal Wanderer Ludwig struggles most, and how to draft against Eternal Wanderer Ludwig.
Heroes with the best head-to-head record into Eternal Wanderer Ludwig from current Champion+ RTA data.
Lady of the Scales, Perfumer Byblis, Frieren and other hard counters counter Eternal Wanderer Ludwig. His whole engine leans on self-buffs (Attack up, Hit Chance, Endure); an enemy that steals those buffs strips his accuracy and offense and turns them against him.
Buff stealers: His whole engine leans on self-buffs (Attack up, Hit Chance, Endure); an enemy that steals those buffs strips his accuracy and offense and turns them against him. Dispellers: Removing his self-applied Attack and Hit Chance buffs drops his damage and re-opens the door for evasion units to dodge him. Buff-duration shorteners: His Hit Chance and Attack buffs only last a turn or two; cutting their duration short blunts his accuracy and burst before he can capitalize. Burst before he sets up: He has no passive and his strongest tools sit behind four-turn cooldowns, so a fast team that opens with crowd control or a kill can drop him before his ultimate and extra-turn chain ever come online.
In current Champion+ RTA, Perfumer Byblis has one of the strongest records against Eternal Wanderer Ludwig (58% win rate over 3,851 games).
Evasion and dodge-reliant defenders: His second skill grants himself increased Hit Chance for two turns, so units that survive by dodging attacks can no longer rely on missing him. High-Defense tanks and damage-reduction walls: His ultimate ignores part of every enemy's Defense, and that penetration stacks up to two times when Soulburns fire, letting him punch through bruisers and damage-mitigation setups that wall normal attackers. Slower opening lineups: His ultimate self-pushes his own Combat Readiness whenever a Soulburn fires, letting him chain rotations and get ahead of teams that depend on going first. Soulburn-heavy enemy teams: Every Soulburn anyone uses fuels his ultimate, raising his Combat Readiness and stacking its penetration, so aggressive Soulburn comps actually feed his damage.
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