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Current season · Champion+

Shepherd of the Dark Diene is a 5-star Dark Mage damage-dealer built around immortality and max-HP scaling. She begins battle already immortal for a turn, which makes her highly resistant to Effect Resistance debuffs and turns her kit lethal. Her single-target attack inflicts a one-turn bleed, always crits, scales off her own max Health, and while she is immortal calls a Dual Attack from her highest-Attack ally. Her cooldown ultimate stuns all enemies for a turn, pushes them all back on the turn order, always crits, and ignores Effect Resistance while she is immortal. Her passive cleanses her debuffs on an ally Soulburn, strips two buffs from every enemy, re-grants her three turns of immortality, and pushes her own turn forward.

Counters

  • Buff-stacking teams leaning on shields and damage boosts — Her passive Dark Moon dispels two buffs from every enemy each time a foe Soulburns, and her ultimate then Seals the whole team. Buff-stacking comps that pile on barriers, attack buffs, or immunity lose those protections right before her guaranteed-crit, HP-scaling damage lands.
  • Fast cleave and first-strike teams racing the opening turn — She starts the fight already immortal, so she survives an opener that would kill a normal carry. Her ultimate then Seals the whole enemy team (shutting off their passives) and drops everyone down the turn order, denying the cleaver its follow-up and stealing back tempo.
  • High Effect Resistance bruisers and tanks that shrug off control — While immortal her ultimate ignores Effect Resistance, so the team-wide stun sticks even on resistance-stacked targets. Her damage scales off her own large Health pool with guaranteed crits, so durable foes still take heavy hits.
  • Healing-reliant survivors trying to out-sustain damage — Her single-target attack applies a ticking bleed that always crits and scales off her max HP, while the immortality-gated Dual Attack adds extra unavoidable burst onto one target.
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Countered by

  • Cleanse and debuff-immunity support — Her pressure leans on a one-turn bleed, a one-turn stun, and a turn-order push. An ally cleanse removes the bleed and stun, and a pre-applied immunity buff blocks them outright.
  • Enemy buff-strippers and dispellers — Her edge comes from being immortal. A foe who dispels that immortality removes her Effect-Resistance wall, shuts off the immortality-gated Dual Attack, and cancels the resistance-ignoring clause on her ultimate.
  • Long downtime between her control turns — Her team-wide stun and turn-push sit on a five-turn cooldown and her buff-strip-plus-immortality passive on a four-turn cooldown. Once spent she has only her basic single-target attack, so foes who survive the opening can punish the gap.
  • Single-target focus fire and burst that beats her sustain — Outside the ultimate she hits one enemy at a time, so a team can race her control window. After her opening immortality expires, burst that drops her before her passive re-grants it removes her main survival tool.
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Skills

S1Crimson Claws

After inflicting --rupture-- on the enemy for 1 turn, attacks the enemy. A successful attack always results in a critical hit. Damage dealt increases proportional to the caster's max Health. When the caster is granted immortality, triggers a Dual Attack from the ally with the highest Attack.

Bleed (Rupture)
Soulburn −20 soulsIncreases Damage Dealt
PNoias's GuidanceCD 4

At the start of battle, grants immortality for 1 turn. When granted immortality, increases Effect Resistance by 200%. When someone uses a Soulburn, dispels all debuffs from the caster before activating Dark Moon. Dark Moon: Dispels two buffs from all enemies, before granting immortality to the caster for 3 turns and increases Combat Readiness by X.

Immortality
S3Endless DarknessCD 5

After inflicting --seal-- on all enemies for 1 turn, attacks them and decreases Combat Readiness by 30%. A successful attack always results in a critical hit. When the caster is granted immortality, ignores Effect Resistance. Damage dealt increases proportional to the caster's max Health.

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