Savior Adin

Savior Adin is a Light Thief built around evasion and punishing buffs. Her first skill is a single-target sword strike with a chance to make the target unbuffable for one turn, and her third is a heavy single-target blow that ignores half the target's Defense and inflicts cannot-be-revived on any enemy it kills. Her passive raises her Evasion and, after a successful dodge, fires Blade Gust at all enemies to strip one buff from each, though that counter can only trigger once every two turns. She is a single-target finisher with one AoE buff-stripping reaction, not a true cleaver.

Counters

• Reviving and undying teams — Her third skill inflicts cannot-be-revived on any enemy it finishes off, so heroes who rely on coming back from death, on Cannot-Die effects, or on damage-immunity tricks lose their safety net once she lands the kill.
• Buff-stacking and buff-reliant carries — After dodging she retaliates with Blade Gust on the whole enemy team and strips a buff from each, and her first skill can also tag a target unbuffable for a turn, shutting down heroes whose threat depends on stacked attack, crit, or defensive buffs.
• High-Defense bruisers and tanks — Her finisher ignores 50% of the target's Defense, so a beefy front-liner takes far more from her single-target hit than its defensive stat suggests.
• Attackers that depend on landing hits — Her boosted Evasion means single-target attacks aimed at her can simply miss, and every dodge feeds her counter, so committed hitters risk whiffing and eating Blade Gust in return.

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Countered by

• Cleanse and debuff immunity — Her main soft-control is the unbuffable debuff from her first skill; allies who cleanse it off or pre-apply immunity to debuffs make that effect do nothing and free their carry to be buffed normally.
• Unstrippable or self-restored buffs — Her only buff removal is one dispel per dodge on Blade Gust, gated to once every two turns; teams whose buffs cannot be dispelled, or who simply reapply them, blunt her main disruption.
• Guaranteed-hit and counter-proof attackers — Her defense leans on dodging, so reliable accuracy or hit-chance buffs let attacks connect every time, and skills that cannot trigger a counter deny her the Blade Gust retaliation entirely.
• Surviving the finisher — Her cannot-be-revived rider only lands when her single-target third skill actually secures the kill, and that skill sits on a long six-turn cooldown; out-healing or out-tanking that one blow, or shrinking the duration of her debuffs, defangs her execute.

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