Solitaria of the Snow

Solitaria of the Snow is a Light Mage control specialist who wins by stripping the enemy's buffs and denying them turns rather than by raw cleave. Her first skill is a single-target staff hit with a 75% chance to dispel a buff, and while she holds her daydream state it triggers a bonus mana attack that hits all enemies with a 25% chance to stun. Her passive cuts the enemy's Focus gain by 100% and self-grants daydream and stealth while seeding random debuffs such as attack down, increased miss chance, lowered hit chance, and unbuffable. Her four-turn skill is single-target: it shaves a turn off the target's buffs, knocks their Combat Readiness back 30%, and gives her a max-HP-scaling barrier for two turns.

Counters

• Buff-stacking teams and immortal walls — Her first skill strips a buff 75% of the time and her four-turn skill shortens buff durations, so heroes that rely on stacking barriers, invincibility, or other defensive buffs lose the protection she peels off them.
• Hard-to-kill tanks and sustain bruisers — Her Cannot Buff debuff stops tanks and sustain bruisers from re-applying the shields and protective buffs they lean on to survive, while her dispel and buff-duration cut peel off what they already have.
• Fast openers and cleave leads — Her four-turn skill pushes the target's Combat Readiness back 30% and her passive cuts enemy Focus gain by 100%, denying tempo to teams that want to act first and chain turns.
• Setup carries that need to land first — The bonus mana attack carries a stun chance against the whole enemy team and her passive seeds attack down, miss chance, and lowered hit chance, blunting damage dealers before they can connect.

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Countered by

• Cleansers — Her control package is debuffs (the random attack down, miss chance, hit chance down, and unbuffable, plus the stun), so an ally cleanse wipes them off and frees the enemy to act normally.
• Enemy dispel — Her edge comes partly from her own stealth and self-barrier, which a buff-stripper can remove; her Daydream, however, is undispellable and can not be dispelled — deny its mana follow-up by out-tempoing her instead.
• Immunity buffs — If the enemy enters the fight protected from debuffs, her stun, focus denial, attack down, and unbuffable all bounce off, leaving her with only single-target dispel and chip damage.
• Burst before she sets up — Her strongest hit is the AoE follow-up, which fires only while she holds daydream, and her control skill sits on a four-turn cooldown, so fast damage that kills her or her allies before she stacks up bypasses most of her kit.

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