Briar Witch Iseria

Briar Witch Iseria is a Dark Ranger built to erase enemy buffs and shut down revives. Her basic attack hits one target, can break their Defense for a turn, and adds bonus damage based on her Attack. Her passive raises her own Hit Chance, prevents both sides from reviving, and saves her with one turn of immortality the first time she would take lethal damage. Her signature skill strikes every enemy with a cursed thornbush, strips all of their buffs while ignoring their Effect Resistance, and can leave them unable to gain buffs for two turns.

Counters

• Buff-stacking teams that win by piling on shields and boosts — Her thornbush wipes every buff off all enemies at once and can lock them out of being buffed for two turns, so a team that depends on stacking attack, defense, or barriers loses its foundation and stays stripped.
• Barrier and shield carries — Her area dispel removes protective barriers along with every other buff, exposing wall-style defenders and shielded damage dealers to follow-up damage.
• Revive and resurrection comps — Her passive flatly prevents anyone, ally or enemy, from reviving, neutralizing strategies built around bringing fallen units back into the fight.
• Defense-reliant or high-resistance targets — Her basic attack can break a single enemy's Defense and pile on Attack-based bonus damage, while her thornbush ignores Effect Resistance so the buff-strip and unbuffable lock land even on resilient enemies.

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Countered by

• Cleansers who scrub off her debuffs — Her pressure comes from the unbuffable lock and broken Defense she applies; an ally-side cleanse removes those debuffs and lets the enemy team buff up and tank again.
• Enemy buff strippers and dispellers — Her own value leans on debuffs sticking; an opposing dispeller can clear them, and she has no way to protect what she has applied.
• Immunity going up before she acts — If an enemy gains Immunity before her turn, the Defense break and unbuffable debuff simply bounce off, leaving only raw damage.
• Burst pressure during her five-turn windows — Her thornbush and the immortality safety net both run on five-turn cooldowns, so after she fires, fast aggressive teams can race her down in the long gap when she has no AoE strip and no lethal-hit save available.

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