Last Piece Karin

Last Piece Karin is a very fast Light Thief who fights one target at a time, with her damage scaling off her Speed. She opens by pushing her own turn meter, then Phantom Strike hits a single enemy, drains 30% of their Combat Readiness, and wraps her in stealth plus an Attack-based barrier for 3 turns. Her ultimate, Blade Art: Infinite Sword, stops attacking to buff her own Attack and enter a Phantom Sword stance for 3 turns that lets her strikes ignore evasion, ignore Effect Resistance, reveal hidden enemies, and bypass damage-sharing protection while granting her an extra turn. She is a self-sufficient single-target duelist who manipulates turn order and snowballs through her buffed sword stance.

Counters

• Evasion and stealth users — Her Phantom Sword stance lets her attacks ignore enemy evasion and reveal hidden foes, so dodge-tanks and stealth carries cannot slip her hits or hide from her.
• Damage-sharing protectors — While in her sword stance she bypasses damage-sharing effects, so the usual trick of routing harm onto a guardian or shared-damage unit fails to absorb her strike.
• High Effect Resistance targets — Her stance ignores Effect Resistance, meaning the Combat Readiness drain from Phantom Strike lands reliably even on enemies built to resist control.
• Fast openers racing for the first move — She is among the quickest units, pushes her own turn meter on her basic attack, and yanks 30% Combat Readiness off her target, so she can win the opening exchange and deny an enemy fast unit its turn.

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Countered by

• Buff strippers and dispellers — Almost all her value rides on self-buffs — stealth, an Attack-based barrier, the Attack boost, and the Phantom Sword stance. Stripping these away removes her evasion-piercing, her protection, and her damage at once.
• Buff stealers — Stealing her stealth, barrier, or Attack buff not only removes her advantage but hands it to the enemy, turning her own setup against her.
• Buff-duration shorteners — Her key edges are all time-limited 3-turn buffs on long cooldowns, so cutting their duration short leaves her exposed before her 4 and 5 turn skills come back up.
• Sustained or burst-heavy single fights — She only ever hits one target and leans on her own barrier and turn-order tricks rather than healing, so a target that out-sustains her or bursts her down while her barrier and stealth are on cooldown wears her out.

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