Lua

Lua is a fast Ice Ranger built around buff removal, control, and tempo. Her basic attack can lower a single enemy's Defense, while Butterfly Reverie strips two buffs from one target and then puts it to Sleep for a turn. Her signature Sweet Talk hits the whole enemy team without attacking: it dispels one buff from every enemy, pushes their skill cooldowns back by a turn, and inflicts Beguile while ignoring Effect Resistance, all while handing her own team a two-turn Speed boost.

Counters

• Buff-stacking teams — Sweet Talk strips a buff off every enemy at once and Butterfly Reverie tears two more off a single target, so opponents who lean on layered buffs to attack or survive lose that foundation before they can use it.
• Enemies relying on shields, untouchable states, or 'cannot die' protection — Because her dispels remove enemy buffs rather than damaging through them, she can peel off barriers, damage-immunity, and other protective effects so they can be killed or controlled normally.
• Cooldown-dependent threats — Sweet Talk delays every enemy's skill cooldowns by a turn, stalling key ultimates and big plays; this delay cannot be undone by cleansing it from their side.
• Slow opponents she can outpace and lock down — She is very fast and her team gets a Speed buff, so she acts early to Sleep a target with Butterfly Reverie and Beguile the team via Sweet Talk, which lands even against high Effect Resistance since that skill ignores it.

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Countered by

• Debuff immunity — If an enemy is shielded from debuffs, her Sleep, Beguile, and Defense reduction simply fail to land, leaving her with only the buff-stripping half of her kit.
• Ally cleanse and shorter-debuff effects — Her control relies on the Sleep and Beguile sticking; a teammate cleansing those debuffs or cutting their duration frees the affected enemy and undoes her lockdown, though her cooldown push is not removed this way.
• Opponents who re-strip or steal her team's buffs — The Speed boost she grants allies can be dispelled or stolen, and she has no way to protect it, blunting the tempo advantage her kit is meant to create.
• Burst before her cooldowns come back — Her control tools sit on four- and five-turn cooldowns and most of her kit only hits one target at a time, so a team that bursts her or her carry down in the window between her big skills races past her single-target answers.

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