Who Counters Haste in Epic Seven?
Fire · Assassin · 5★
Haste, a lifesteal aoe dispeller assassin, is a 5★ Fire Assassin in Epic Seven. Haste's biggest weakness: her pressure rides on bleeds and Defense breaks; an enemy that wipes those debuffs off its team turns her damage-over-time and softening into wasted casts, since the effects vanish before they tick or set up a kill. Below are the heroes and team archetypes that counter Haste in RTA, the matchups where Haste struggles most, and how to draft against Haste.
Best counters to Haste
- Cleansers — Her pressure rides on bleeds and Defense breaks; an enemy that wipes those debuffs off its team turns her damage-over-time and softening into wasted casts, since the effects vanish before they tick or set up a kill.
- Effect immunity — Her debuffs are chance-based and land as debuffs, so an immunity buff applied before she acts simply bounces the bleeds and Defense break, leaving her ultimate as raw damage with none of its follow-up payload.
- Blocked healing — Her team sustain comes from Blood Rend's heal and lifesteal-style recovery; an enemy that makes her side unable to be healed shuts that engine off and removes the staying power her kit leans on.
- Lockdown and burst before her cooldowns — Her buff-stripping AoE and team heal sit on long cooldowns, so stunning, freezing or otherwise locking her, or deleting her before those skills come up, denies the dispel and sustain she needs, leaving only a single-target basic attack.
How to beat Haste
- Her pressure rides on bleeds and Defense breaks; an enemy that wipes those debuffs off its team turns her damage-over-time and softening into wasted casts, since the effects vanish before they tick or set up a kill.
- Her debuffs are chance-based and land as debuffs, so an immunity buff applied before she acts simply bounces the bleeds and Defense break, leaving her ultimate as raw damage with none of its follow-up payload.
- Her team sustain comes from Blood Rend's heal and lifesteal-style recovery; an enemy that makes her side unable to be healed shuts that engine off and removes the staying power her kit leans on.
- Her buff-stripping AoE and team heal sit on long cooldowns, so stunning, freezing or otherwise locking her, or deleting her before those skills come up, denies the dispel and sustain she needs, leaving only a single-target basic attack.
What Haste counters
Lady of the Scales59%
Perfumer Byblis63%
School Nurse Yulha58%
Frieren61%
Ruele of Light59%
Belian55%
Boss Arunka54%
Briar Witch Iseria56%
Empyrean Ilynav54%
Lone Crescent Bellona56%- Buff-reliant and protective teams — Her ultimate strips two buffs off every enemy before it lands damage, peeling away shields, cannot-die and invincibility windows, and the offensive buffs an enemy carry was counting on, so teams that depend on staying buffed lose their cushion right as she swings.
- Counterattack walls — Vampiric Seal explicitly cannot trigger a counterattack, letting her smash through retaliation-based defenders and counter-set tanks without eating return damage in exchange.
- Slow attrition and tanky bruisers — Her bleeds chip away health independent of how tanky a target is, and the Defense breaks from her basic and crit hits soften durable frontliners, so grindy survival-focused enemies wear down faster than they can stabilize.
- Drawn-out brawls she can outlast — Blood Rend heals her whole team for a portion of its damage, so in longer fights she sustains her side while bleeds and Defense breaks keep eroding the enemy, tilting wars of attrition in her favor.
Haste counters — FAQ
Who counters Haste in Epic Seven?
Harsetti, Hecate, Bystander Hwayoung and other hard counters counter Haste. Her pressure rides on bleeds and Defense breaks; an enemy that wipes those debuffs off its team turns her damage-over-time and softening into wasted casts, since the effects vanish before they tick or set up a kill.
What is Haste weak to?
Cleansers: Her pressure rides on bleeds and Defense breaks; an enemy that wipes those debuffs off its team turns her damage-over-time and softening into wasted casts, since the effects vanish before they tick or set up a kill. Effect immunity: Her debuffs are chance-based and land as debuffs, so an immunity buff applied before she acts simply bounces the bleeds and Defense break, leaving her ultimate as raw damage with none of its follow-up payload. Blocked healing: Her team sustain comes from Blood Rend's heal and lifesteal-style recovery; an enemy that makes her side unable to be healed shuts that engine off and removes the staying power her kit leans on. Lockdown and burst before her cooldowns: Her buff-stripping AoE and team heal sit on long cooldowns, so stunning, freezing or otherwise locking her, or deleting her before those skills come up, denies the dispel and sustain she needs, leaving only a single-target basic attack.
What does Haste counter?
Buff-reliant and protective teams: Her ultimate strips two buffs off every enemy before it lands damage, peeling away shields, cannot-die and invincibility windows, and the offensive buffs an enemy carry was counting on, so teams that depend on staying buffed lose their cushion right as she swings. Counterattack walls: Vampiric Seal explicitly cannot trigger a counterattack, letting her smash through retaliation-based defenders and counter-set tanks without eating return damage in exchange. Slow attrition and tanky bruisers: Her bleeds chip away health independent of how tanky a target is, and the Defense breaks from her basic and crit hits soften durable frontliners, so grindy survival-focused enemies wear down faster than they can stabilize. Drawn-out brawls she can outlast: Blood Rend heals her whole team for a portion of its damage, so in longer fights she sustains her side while bleeds and Defense breaks keep eroding the enemy, tilting wars of attrition in her favor.