Saria

Saria is a 5-star Earth Ranger built around buff-stripping AoE pressure and a team-wide panic button. Her S1, Spirit Burst, hits two enemies and has a chance to dispel one of their buffs while ignoring Effect Resistance, so the strip lands reliably. Her passive, Guidance of Nature, feeds on allies' extra turns to bank Focus and self-push her own Combat Readiness; once Focus is full she unleashes Wings of Liberation, an all-enemy spirit bird attack that gets +50% Hit Chance and ignores her elemental disadvantage. Her S3, Blossoming Hope, grants every ally invincibility for one turn on a 5-turn cooldown, giving the team a hard survival window.

Counters

• Buff-stacking and protected lineups — Spirit Burst dispels an enemy buff and ignores Effect Resistance, so it tears down attack/defense/crit stacks, shields, and invincibility that those teams lean on, opening them up for follow-up damage.
• Evasion and dodge-reliant heroes — Wings of Liberation gains +50% Hit Chance, so dodge bunnies and other miss-fishing units can't slip her AoE the way they duck normal attacks.
• Earth-disadvantaged matchups — Her full-Focus spirit bird is unaffected by elemental disadvantage, so she still deals full damage into Fire enemies that would normally resist her, removing her one natural weakness on that hit.
• Whole enemy teams under burst pressure — The Focus payoff is an all-enemy nuke, and her passive pushes her own Combat Readiness off ally extra turns, letting her cycle that AoE faster to grind down spread-out compositions.

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Countered by

• Buff steal and buff-duration shrinkers — Heroes that steal or shorten buffs strip away the team invincibility from Blossoming Hope before it protects, neutralizing her main defensive trick.
• Enemy dispellers — An opposing dispel removes the one-turn invincibility she grants, so a well-timed strip cancels her team's survival window and the protection is wasted.
• Burst windows on her long cooldown — Blossoming Hope sits on a 5-turn cooldown, so once it's spent the team has no safety net; an opponent who waits out or forces the invincibility can kill into the gap.
• Single high-value targets behind one buff — Spirit Burst only strips one buff and only hits two enemies, so a heavily buff-stacked carry or a wide AoE board can keep key buffs and bodies intact until she charges Focus.

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