Hecate

Hecate is a 5-star Earth Warrior built around hard single-target assassination backed by a battle-wide anti-revive lockdown. Her passive, Death's Dominion, stops every hero on the field from reviving or being made immortal, while her own attacks pierce the target's Defense and trade away crits and heavy blows for that guaranteed penetration. Her first skill strikes one enemy and pushes her own Combat Readiness, and on her turn it triggers Final Deliverance, an extra attack on all enemies that cloaks her in stealth for a turn and shaves two turns off her cooldowns; her third skill buffs her own Attack and then unloads a single-target nuke, and she enters the fight with that nuke already off cooldown.

Counters

• Revive and immortality teams — Her passive globally blocks all revives and prevents immortality on every hero, so resurrection units and self-revive carries simply stay dead, and she can also stamp an unrevivable mark onto a target.
• High-Defense and tanky bruisers — Her attacks penetrate the target's Defense, so heavily armored frontliners and damage-mitigation tanks take close to full damage from her hits instead of shrugging them off.
• A chosen single target she opens on — She enters the battle with her big nuke ready, self-buffs her own Attack, and pierces Defense, letting her delete one priority enemy early before they can act or stack protection.
• Damage-sharing setups — One of her attacks ignores damage-sharing links, so guards or redirection that normally spread her hit across the team fail to protect the real target.

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Countered by

• Cleanse and buff removal — Her self-buffs lean on Increased Attack and her one-turn stealth; dispelling or stealing those strips her cloak and her damage ramp, leaving her exposed and hitting softer.
• Buff-duration shortening — Effects that cut buff length erode her short stealth window and her Attack boost before she can convert them into a kill.
• Speed and burst before her turn — She is a slow unit who needs to take her turn to fire Final Deliverance and refresh cooldowns, so faster teams that open on her can knock her out before her rotation comes online.
• No crits by design — Death's Dominion forbids her own attacks from critting or landing heavy blows, capping her ceiling against frail targets and making crit-scaling gear and crit-damage builds wasted on her.

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