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Limited Units

SPRINGTIME MINA AKA Mina

Opener / Nuker / AOE / Bomb / Team Push / Dispel

Mina is a very special opener/nuker/controller who primarily wields the Bomb debuff to terrorize the enemy team. Bombs are a special type of debuff that does nothing while applied, but deals massive damage and stuns the target when it expires. When an ally casts an AOE attack, Mina will push the entire team including herself, and apply bombs to the enemy team via a non-attack skill. She can then grab the next turn and cast her ultimate, which detonates the bombs immediately, crippling and stunning the enemy team. This holds distinctive advantage over regular cleave because even if the bombs fail to kill the enemy, they still will be stunned, wasting their next turn and giving you plenty of time to clean up. Mina is best paired with a high-speed AOE buff-stripping opener and can be more versatile than expected under the hands of a creative commander.

AOI HINAMORI AKA Aoi

Tank / Brawler / Injury / Curse / Self Push / Team Push / Dispel / DEF Down / Backline Protection

Aoi Hinamori brings an unparalleled amount of utility to the battlefield with three units' worth of skills in one.

First, Aoi's prime feature is her backline protection passive. When the unit on position 4 takes fatal damage, Aoi prevents their death and gives them 1 turn of Undying and Lifesteal. This is extremely valuable in PvP to protect a key unit.

Second, Aoi casts a "curse" debuff on the enemy with the highest ATK. Cursed units take damage when other units in their team are hit with single-target attacks. This lets you bypass evasion units, counter fighters, and even nullify the enemy aoi's protection.

Third, Aoi constantly self-pushes whenever enemy units take turns, meaning her turn cycling is incredibly fast. Not only that, her S1 attacks have a 35% chance to push the whole team, improving everyone's turn cycling along with hers.

And finally, Aoi's skills apply Injury to the target, decreasing their max HP, and her ultimate is a non-attack strip followed by a DEF Down, especially handy against shutting down evasion units or targeting the enemy's key unit (such as their own Aoi).

HONGKONGDOLL AKA HKD

DPS / Brawler / Fixed Damage / Off-Turn Actor / Copy Buff / Self Push / DEF Break / Ignore Element

HKD is a very special wildcard unit with a unique ability to steal and copy buffs from the enemy. Not only is she a strong counter against buff-heavy comps, her element-ignoring ultimate also deals up to 10k fixed damage, making her very strong against healers, squishy units, and DEF scaling brawlers. Her ability to push herself in reaction to a buffed enemy also makes her a niche but powerful counter-opener against certain openers like Akaoni and Bunny Erica.

ANASTASIA AKA Anas

DPS / Nuker / AOE / Evasion / Accuracy / Self Buff / Decloak

Anastasia is a “Little bit of everything” unit who can be built several ways. She has an innate lifesteal and self ATK UP on her basic attack, base accuracy and evasion UP, the ability to remove Stealth from enemies, and an AOE extra attack that fires automatically when focus is full. Being a Mage, she can hold a Book and be a part of a cleave team, or she can be built as an off-turn counter fighter, making use of her AOE extra attack. Her Stealth removal ability is also a unique solution against certain cloaky enemies, most notably Akane or Naksha.

PROJEKT MELODY AKA Melo

Controller / AOE / Targeted Taunt / Fixed Damage 

Melody is a disruptive crowd controller who can force the enemy to play into your defensive plan. Her unique “Targeted Taunt” debuff forces the enemy to basic attack your ally with the highest max HP. By using units who benefit from being attacked as your highest-hp "Sandbag," you can constantly trigger their effects. Melody also counterattacks when a taunted enemy attacks your team, dealing damage equal to 15% of the target's max HP. She works best when paired with counter fighters and units with on-hit effects (Guardian Ariel, Div. Opaeni, etc). Melody's weakness is her overreliance on Targeted Taunt debuffs. If they are resisted or cleansed, she becomes powerless. Injury units (usually Aoi) can also reduce the max HP of your units which can change the target of your Targeted Taunt.

SHINONOME AKA Shino

DPS / AOE / Nuker / Penetrate DEF / Self Buff / Self Push / Team Push

Shinonome is the final word when it comes to anti-tank technology. Any turtle teams based on stacking multitudes of buffs will constantly raise Shino's morale. When her morale reaches maximum value, her ultimate cooldown resets, and she can fire off a high-damage AOE attack that penetrates 50% DEF. If the enemy keeps maintaining buffs, Shino will reset her cooldowns again, and fire off yet another deadly volley.

Her biggest downside is the lack of survivability and her niche skillset. Shino is too flimsy to survive teams that hit back, and has no way to mitigate damage. She also does not function if the enemy does not keep feeding her morale by having many buffs, and yet is powerless against particularly problematic buffs such as Invincible, Undying, or Skill Nullifier since Shino herself can't directly deal with such buffs.

AKAONI

Opener / Accuracy / Dispel / DEF Down / Reduce Gauge / Force Flanking / Followup 

Akaoni is a high-speed counteropener with a skillset that (quite literally) kills the enemy with the power of friendship.

With her world-class base speed of 124, Akaoni is most commonly used to outspeed the enemy's opener. After overtaking, Akaoni's ultimate strips, pushes back, and DEF breaks the selected enemy (usually their opener that she just overtook). This skill can also be soulburned to ignore RES, handy against disabling problematic healers and tanks. 

When an ally kills the enemy, Akaoni will trigger a followup attack that does a ton of damage. When Akaoni uses S1, she force-triggers a flanking attack from your strongest ally. This constant triggering of followup attacks maintains an extremely aggressive tempo and allows you to push your advantage like no other.

Akaoni's biggest downside is her insane gear requirement. It is very hard, even for advanced players, to balance her offensive capabilities while also maintaining extreme high speed necessary to outrun the enemy openers. 

RADIANT VOW RUBI AKA RVR, Wedrubi or Rubi

Tank / Brawler / DEF Down / Splash Damage / Shield / Self Push

Radiant Vow Rubi is a DEF scaling brawler who can deal very high damage while also being very hard to kill. 

When an ally is under attack and is low on HP, Rubi self-pushes and self-buffs DEF Up, while also granting shields to all allies. Her ultimate DEF Breaks and damages an enemy, followed by an AOE "Splash damage" proportional to her DEF. A properly built Rubi can oneshot a weaker enemy with her S3 and badly cripple the rest of the team as well.

If equipped with her own bond, Pristine Sincerity, and built with a Counter set gear, Rubi can also hit incredibly hard with her S1 and even kill evasion and lifesteal brawlers like Chaldea or Gail.

Rubi's biggest downside is her reliance on her bond Pristine Sincerity. Without it, her value plummets. The bond itself is also chance-based which can be inconsistent.

SUMMERTIME PETRA AKA SPetra or Petra

Healer / Off-Turn Actor / Resuscitate / Shield / Team Push

Summertime Petra is a niche but powerful healer used against various off-turn actors. When the enemy triggers a counter (such as Erica's counter), a followup attack (such as SSN's), or a flanking attack (ones triggered randomly or force-triggered by units such as Akaoni), Petra heals and pushes the team proportional to the number of allies hit. This means that Petra is incredibly strong against Off-turn AOE fighters and will often out-heal their damage completely.

Petra's S3 also applies a rare buff, Resurrection, to her allies, which revives them if they die while having this buff. While not as convenient or flexible as direct revival skills, it is nonetheless useful and allows for new strategies.

In general, however, Petra is a very passive unit who depends on the enemy doing certain things to function. This makes her a bad choice for PvP defense teams, and limits her usefulness to only countering certain teams and comps.