Lionheart Cermia

Lionheart Cermia is a Light Warrior who fights as a defensive bruiser, dealing damage that scales off her own Defense. Her main attack hits a single enemy and speeds her up for a turn, while her ultimate is her only multi-target hit, blasting all enemies and ignoring 50% of their Defense (and it is ready at the very start of battle). Her signature is a reactive passive: whenever an ally lands an extra attack, counterattack, or dual attack, she cleanses every debuff on herself and shines, gaining Defense, immunity to debuffs for 3 turns, a 50% Combat Readiness boost, and a full reset of her own skill cooldowns. This lets her self-sustain, hard-counter debuff pressure, and chain her ultimate repeatedly inside a team built around bonus attacks.

Counters

• Debuff and damage-over-time teams — Her passive cleanses all debuffs on herself and grants immunity for 3 turns whenever an ally takes a bonus attack, so poison, bleed, and other lingering damage effects fall off and stop sticking.
• Stun, silence, and other crowd control — The same immunity window blocks new control effects from landing, and the cleanse removes ones already on her, letting her keep acting through lockdown attempts.
• High-Defense walls and tanky front lines — Her ultimate hits everyone while ignoring 50% of the target's Defense and itself scales off her own Defense, so it punches through armored enemies that shrug off normal hitters.
• Bonus-attack and counter teams she's paired into — Every extra attack, counterattack, or dual attack an ally triggers refreshes her cooldowns and pushes her Combat Readiness by 50%, letting her cycle her defense-piercing ultimate far more often than a normal rotation allows.

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Countered by

• Heroes that strip or steal buffs — Her Defense buff and the immunity from her passive are removable; stripping or stealing them leaves her without protection and exposed to debuffs she would normally shrug off.
• Buff-duration shorteners — Cutting the duration of her Defense and immunity buffs ends her shine window early, so debuffs and control can land before she can react again.
• Enemies that deny her bonus-attack trigger — Her cleanse, immunity, Combat Readiness push, and cooldown reset all hinge on an ally landing an extra attack, counterattack, or dual attack; against a team that gives her no such trigger, the passive never fires and she loses her sustain and recycling.
• Non-Defense burst that ignores her stats — Her durability and damage both lean on Defense and on the shine buffs; attackers that bypass Defense or burst her down before her passive can refresh leave her without her main lever.

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