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The official face of toxicity in this game. First Abyssal Sarafa and the whole 30% haste to everyone fiasco, now THIS.

Over 10k base attack with no vigor (meaning it scales greatly with supports / valiance - it's also the highest base attack in the game); Void Drive, to double the attack of the high attack dark caged spears, why not; 80% Dynamic Caged Vigor baseline (additive with other Dynamic Caged Vigor sources like weapons); 60% awakening 3 passive Static Caged Vigor (exclusive multiplier, meaning no DR whatsoever; it's also the single highest form of damage amplification in the game as of her release - again, why not); and to top it all off, her CS, bringing her to 1% hp and 1 minute non-element locked Dauntless (can't go below 1 hp), and refreshes the cooldown on your skills. Absolute batshit insane, completely mental.

The CRAZY choice to have all of those top tier traits in her kit, makes it so she's able to easily kill everything and everyone through any indomitable, when built fully offensively, all while being safe in her Dauntless bubble.

Thankfully, there is a soft counter, conveniently in the same banner, NY Yudil. He comes with a start of game CS that applies Compromise debuff (like the good old Summer F66x) to one enemy, your target. Compromise prevents special status effects like Dauntless - but it does not remove them if said effects are already applied, so you have to cast it preemptively on Sarafa. It's a "soft" counter because it doesn't necessarily shut her down, she will still drop herself to 1% hp, meaning her stupid amount of Caged potential is in full effect, and also her skills will still instantly become ready despite being Compromised - making her still an immense threat, with skills ready to obliterate the world. For this reason, it is wise to equip Sarafa with a recovery weapon for the zombie turn mechanic (*), making her unkillable the turn after she drops to 1% HP via CS, so that she's not fully exposed right away after being Compromised; it also renders a 2-turn AA kill nearly impossible, so either you 1 hit her from > 70% to 0% HP, or you're shit out of luck.

She doesn't necessarily need to be equipped with full offensive raw caged power, nor does she necessarily need to be Dark element (so that the attacker team may be tricked into thinking you're not running her and not bring Compromise, because no dark unit). She still gets all the busted elements of her kit regardless, because they're baked in her passives and CS, caged doesn't care of element, and she will still bring herself to 1% hp and and become unkillable through Dauntless even if you run her as say water. Because of how busted she is, it's just safer to run her in a relatively safe team, with a sniper (so that there's less chances to be sniped yourself, but also the possibility to pick one enemy off from the start), and with a defensive unit like Xmas Marie, or another team indomitable unit like Summer Yurie for general safety from both AA's and skills. She'll be enough of a 1 man army to decimate the enemy team.

Note: Like every means of CD reduction in the game, the skills will be brought to 99.9% ready but not quite, until your chain of skills / CS ends, which is why she's best placed in the middle position (last one to resolve skills / CS in the Auto / CPU order), which is also something you want to do either way, to make her dauntless last as long as possible, important for NY Sarafa mirror matches.

2nd note: There's a pesky combo for defense teams that involves DQ Rion's CS ability to cleanse friendly ailments like Compromised, which basically guarantees Sarafa to be able to get her Dauntless off even if she gets successfully Compromised cast on her. That is because of how the CPU actions such as skills or start of game CS always resolve together (always in the important order going Right -> Left -> Middle unit), and has priority over the attacking player - when skills are left to Auto, defense team will always activate first even if everything is queued at the same time (on every animation / turn end. To force attackers te be stuck into 1 minute+ long matches and likely repel them from attacking you in the last hour of the season, you want to place DQ Rion in the right position, Sarafa in the middle, and left the usual safety pick such as Xmas Marie. That way you are relatively safe from being sniped with the huge stacked team indomitable, and that you cleanse the Compromise off of Sarafa just before she uses her CS, granting her the Dauntless regardless.

Incredibly toxic, broken, meta warping, mentally ill character - what the hell were the devs thinking? drinking? smoking? by giving her so much broken traits ALL TOGETHER??? We'll never know. A0 broken, A3 just more broken, overkill broken.

The official face of toxicity in this game. First Abyssal Sarafa and the whole 30% haste to everyone fiasco, now THIS.

Over 10k base attack with no vigor (meaning it scales greatly with supports / valiance - it's also the highest base attack in the game); Void Drive, to double the attack of the high attack dark caged spears, why not; 80% Dynamic Caged Vigor baseline (additive with other Dynamic Caged Vigor sources like weapons); 60% awakening 3 passive Static Caged Vigor (exclusive multiplier, meaning no DR whatsoever, it's the highest form of damage amplification in the game as of her release - again, why not); and to top it all off, her CS, bringing her to 1% hp and 1 minute non-element locked Dauntless (can't go below 1 hp), and refreshes the cooldown on your skills. Absolute batshit insane, completely mental.

Ideal use in subjugation KD (use EX Dimos Gun main hand - her own animations are far too long with a spear): supports CS, Sarafa's 2 skills, CS, 2 skills again, AA, AA, AA, AA, AA, 2 skills again. Equivalent to the strongest DPS doing 4 skills and 2 CS. Everything she will use and even AA's will hit for cap damage due to the STUPID amount of Caged bonus, meaning you can give her haste weapon(s) to make the rotation easier / more forgiving. Busted.