Who Counters Harsetti in Epic Seven?
Dark · Mage · 5★ · 56% RTA win rate
Harsetti, a hp-scaling focus assassin, is a 5★ Dark Mage in Epic Seven. Harsetti's biggest weakness: her pressure depends on the debuffs she lands — Defense Down, Attack Down, and especially Unbuffable. An ally cleanse removes those debuffs and undoes her buff-lock setup. Below are the heroes and team archetypes that counter Harsetti in RTA, the matchups where Harsetti struggles most, and how to draft against Harsetti.
Best counters to Harsetti
- Cleansers — Her pressure depends on the debuffs she lands — Defense Down, Attack Down, and especially Unbuffable. An ally cleanse removes those debuffs and undoes her buff-lock setup.
- Immunity providers — Immunity granted before she acts blocks her Defense Down, Attack Down, and Unbuffable from landing, neutering her debuff and buff-denial game entirely.
- Burst before her cooldown is up — Checkmate's strongest effects sit on a 5-turn cooldown and want full Focus, so between casts she leans on her basic attack and can be raced down by a team that opens harder than she sets up.
Hardest matchups — live RTA win rates against Harsetti
Heroes with the best head-to-head record into Harsetti from current Champion+ RTA data.
Unbound Knight Arowell62%
Lone Crescent Bellona60%
Perfumer Byblis60%
Setsuka58%
Shepherd of the Dark Diene57%
Estelle57%How to beat Harsetti
- Her pressure depends on the debuffs she lands — Defense Down, Attack Down, and especially Unbuffable. An ally cleanse removes those debuffs and undoes her buff-lock setup.
- Immunity granted before she acts blocks her Defense Down, Attack Down, and Unbuffable from landing, neutering her debuff and buff-denial game entirely.
- Checkmate's strongest effects sit on a 5-turn cooldown and want full Focus, so between casts she leans on her basic attack and can be raced down by a team that opens harder than she sets up.
What Harsetti counters
hard counterZio59%
hard counterNew Moon Luna47%
hard counterLandy54%
counterSpirit Eye Celine51%
counterLady of the Scales46%
counterMonarch of the Sword Iseria46%
counterAfternoon Soak Flan54%
counterLionheart Cermia53%
Ivana56%
Lidica56%
Apocalypse Ravi55%
Diene58%- Fast enemies and Combat Readiness manipulators — Her passive caps every other hero's Speed at 90% of her own and ignores all Combat Readiness increase effects on her turn, so speed-stackers and CR-pushers can't out-cycle or get ahead of her in PvP.
- Buff-dependent teams and stackers — Checkmate shaves two turns off enemy buff durations and can inflict Unbuffable, shutting down comps that rely on stacking or maintaining buffs to function.
- Defense-heavy and damage-reduction walls — Checkmate penetrates Defense outright and her En Passant applies Attack Down team-wide, so bulky frontliners leaning on high Defense and mitigation still take her HP-scaled damage.
- Tanky bruisers — All her damage scales with her own max Health rather than Attack, letting her build durable while still threatening the whole enemy team with En Passant and Checkmate.
Harsetti counters — FAQ
Who counters Harsetti in Epic Seven?
Bystander Hwayoung, Lethe, Top Model Luluca and other hard counters counter Harsetti. Her pressure depends on the debuffs she lands — Defense Down, Attack Down, and especially Unbuffable. An ally cleanse removes those debuffs and undoes her buff-lock setup.
What is Harsetti weak to?
Cleansers: Her pressure depends on the debuffs she lands — Defense Down, Attack Down, and especially Unbuffable. An ally cleanse removes those debuffs and undoes her buff-lock setup. Immunity providers: Immunity granted before she acts blocks her Defense Down, Attack Down, and Unbuffable from landing, neutering her debuff and buff-denial game entirely. Burst before her cooldown is up: Checkmate's strongest effects sit on a 5-turn cooldown and want full Focus, so between casts she leans on her basic attack and can be raced down by a team that opens harder than she sets up.
Which hero has the best win rate against Harsetti?
In current Champion+ RTA, Unbound Knight Arowell has one of the strongest records against Harsetti (62% win rate over 4,204 games).
What does Harsetti counter?
Fast enemies and Combat Readiness manipulators: Her passive caps every other hero's Speed at 90% of her own and ignores all Combat Readiness increase effects on her turn, so speed-stackers and CR-pushers can't out-cycle or get ahead of her in PvP. Buff-dependent teams and stackers: Checkmate shaves two turns off enemy buff durations and can inflict Unbuffable, shutting down comps that rely on stacking or maintaining buffs to function. Defense-heavy and damage-reduction walls: Checkmate penetrates Defense outright and her En Passant applies Attack Down team-wide, so bulky frontliners leaning on high Defense and mitigation still take her HP-scaled damage. Tanky bruisers: All her damage scales with her own max Health rather than Attack, letting her build durable while still threatening the whole enemy team with En Passant and Checkmate.