Specter Tenebria

Specter Tenebria is a single-target Dark Mage built around poison, stuns, and snowballing off kills. Her first skill blasts one enemy with poison damage that ticks for 2 turns and cannot trigger a counterattack, and when her ultimate is cooling down it hits two enemies instead of one. Her ultimate, on a 5-turn cooldown, stuns one target for a turn and, if that hit kills the target, drains 50% Combat Readiness from every surviving enemy. Her passive permanently grows her Attack and Defense each time any unit dies, stacking up to five times, so the longer and bloodier the fight, the more dangerous she becomes.

Counters

• Counterattack teams — Her poison blast explicitly cannot trigger a counterattack, so she chips down counter-reliant defenders and reflect setups without ever feeding their retaliation.
• Fragile targets she can finish off — Her ultimate stuns one enemy, and if that hit kills it she slashes 50% Combat Readiness off all remaining foes, snapping enemy tempo right as a key unit drops.
• Slow-burn attrition and stall comps — Her passive stacks bonus Attack and Defense every time anyone dies, up to five times, so drawn-out fights only make her hit harder and tankier, and her poison keeps ticking through defensive turtling.
• A single priority threat — Her single-target stun for a turn plus lingering poison lets her lock down and slowly grind out one dangerous enemy.

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Countered by

• Cleanse and debuff-clearing healers — Her pressure leans on poison ticking for 2 turns and a 1-turn stun; an ally cleanse wipes both, erasing her damage-over-time and freeing the stunned unit before she can capitalize.
• Debuff immunity — Both her poison and her stun are debuffs, so a unit shielded by immunity ignores her control entirely and takes only the raw hit.
• Early burst before she snowballs — Her ultimate sits on a 5-turn cooldown and her passive needs deaths to stack Attack and Defense; she opens fragile, so a fast team that bursts her down early never lets her ramp up.
• Dispel that strips her stacks — Her scaling hinges on the self buff from her passive growing her Attack and Defense across the fight; stripping that buff cuts her back to a soft mage with no built-in sustain.

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