Nahkwol

Nahkwol is a 5-star Fire Ranger built around control and buff denial. Her basic attack has a chance to silence the target for a turn, and if the silence lands it shoves that enemy's turn gauge back by 20%. Her second skill seals (stuns) one enemy for 2 turns before striking and grants herself a Speed buff, while her ultimate hits all enemies, strips every buff on them, ignores their Effect Resistance, inflicts bind for 2 turns, and adds a full turn to all their skill cooldowns. She is a fast disruptor who shuts down a single key threat early and then detonates an enemy team's buffs and tempo on her ultimate.

Counters

• Buff-stacking and buff-reliant teams — Her ultimate dispels every buff on all enemies and ignores their Effect Resistance, so it reliably wipes the attack boosts, immortality, invincibility, and barriers those compositions stack to function.
• Fast openers and cleave teams that need first turn — Her basic can silence and then knock 20% off that target's turn gauge, and her second skill stuns a key enemy for 2 turns, denying the tempo and the opening burst these teams rely on.
• Cooldown-dependent burst carries — Her ultimate adds a full turn to every enemy's skill cooldowns on top of binding them, delaying the big nukes and revives those carries need to come back online.
• Shield and sustain anchors that lean on buffs — By stripping buffs through resistance and locking targets with silence, stun, and bind, she neutralizes protectors whose value comes from keeping defensive buffs up.

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Countered by

• Effect immunity — An immunity buff applied before her turn blocks the silence, stun, and bind entirely, so her control and even her ultimate's lockdown simply fail to stick.
• Cleanse and crowd-control resistance — Allies who cleanse can immediately remove her silence, stun, or bind, undoing the disruption she spent skills setting up.
• Buff strip and buff-duration cuts on her side — Her sustained value leans on the Speed buff she grants herself; dispelling, stealing, or shortening that buff slows her back into the pack and erases her tempo advantage.
• Her own gating and reliability — The full buff-and-tempo blowout lives only on her 5-turn ultimate, her other two skills hit a single target, and the silence is only a chance, so once her ultimate is spent she offers limited pressure and her opener can whiff.

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