Sylvan Sage Vivian

Sylvan Sage Vivian is a Light Mage who builds power as the fight goes on: her main attack hits a single enemy, pushes her own Combat Readiness, and stacks up to a 20% Attack boost three times, and when her Focus gauge is full it fires again as an extra attack for back-to-back turns. Her ultimate is a true team tool, hitting all enemies and healing the entire team based on her Attack on a five-turn cooldown. Her passive starts the battle with full Focus and regenerates it each turn; at 3 or more Focus she is immune to debuffs, and she spends Focus to soak heavy hits with damage reduction whenever an attack would deal 30% or more of her max Health (these defensive perks apply in PvP only).

Countered by

• Heal-blocking effects — Her team sustain is the heal bolted onto her ultimate; an enemy that applies unhealable shuts that recovery off, leaving her as a single-target attacker with no party healing to fall back on.
• Focus drain and repeated chip damage — Her debuff immunity and damage reduction both run on Focus, and the reduction spends a Focus every time she eats a heavy hit; sustained pressure burns the gauge below 3, after which control effects land freely on her.
• Avoiding her trigger threshold — Her damage reduction only fires when a hit is expected to be 30% or more of her max Health, so steady smaller hits and chip damage bypass it entirely and grind her down without ever activating the defense.
• The five-turn ultimate gap — Both her area damage and her only team heal live on a five-turn cooldown, so a team that bursts hard in the windows between her ultimates can race her before that single recovery comes back up.

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