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From comments here it doesn’t look like people have figured out how to use her yet. I haven’t hatched her, but I have some ideas so I’ll share them. @Mr.X I think you’re completely wrong and, once again, downplaying everything on the release of a monster.

The secret skill:

At first this looks like too much of a downgrade. +30TU on everything is definitely weaker, so the question is: when do you want the higher speed? I think there are two scenarios:

  1. In PvE, specifically UC, you get a sin punishment much faster.
  2. In PvP, in the front line she becomes genuinely very threatening.

Since I know most people want to talk PvP here, let me explain that. If nothing has a kill by 68% speed then she can void focus kill anything. If you come up against a high speed aggressive enemy FL then any kills they get you can immediately punish with either slayerbreak or sin punishment. So while her TU is not efficient, she can work well as your fastest monster to help enable lower speed monsters. Her high defence and HG make her more challenging to kill by any high speed aggressive enemy team.

The passives

The passives are what really stand out to me about her design.

Ethereal entity + high defence is a great combination for making her tricky to take down. Low speed is annoying, but unless you’re really losing badly (where most monsters are not helpful) she will do a lot to fight back against an opponent when she gets turns and this passive + defence does help you get there.

Purifying entrance is probably the aspect you need to be building around. There aren’t a huge number of options for this. The most obvious angle is sleep with things like OoO, Lurelily or Lemon (sadly no viable sleep bomb exists). Poison only has a few combos like epidemic, blight bomb and deathmatch mode but it can also help enable teams where you want to run a toxic entrance but it has a chance to counter your own monsters ahead in the team so this could mitigate that effect.

There are probably other niche synergies like Aello doing gale dance into this and how it works both with and against Rinmu nicely (with if you’re doing the Airavalon tactic).

Overall

At a baseline this monster obviously doesn’t compete with top mythics. High defence and ethereal entity with slayerbreak and potentially 100TU void focus sweeping is pretty good though that I don’t think it’s an embarrassing monster to play at all even just as a mid-game purifier, similar to Gabrielle. Playing PvP at the top level I think you’ve got two options to lean into: FL with the SS or outside the FL without the SS and capitalising on the purifying entrance as part of some combo / high synergy.

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