Geomancer

Damage / HP Burn / team damage reduction — 6★/a1, unbooked. Re-derived on Stoneguard, not the burn: its flat 15% damage reduction for ALL allies is unconditional and is the best endurance lever in the five; the deflect half only fires on enemies under an HP Burn HE placed. Quicksand Grasp also carries 25% Weaken. Unbooked A3 is CD 5 against a 3-turn burn (both Cooldown −1 books take it to 3, per Ayumilove), so burn uptime is ~60% today. ACC 180+ so the burn sticks. Force — strong on the Magic phase.

Strip-all + tempo denial — 6★ awakened, Force = STRONG into her Magic. A2 Creeping Petrify (CD 4) removes ALL buffs from the target and steals them instead if his HP Burn is on her; A3 fully depletes her Turn Meter, delaying the Magic Shield cast itself. Ayumi Magic Keep 5★ — the highest keep rating in the team.

Swap — Displaced strip (Ayumi 4★, no arcane rating in champions.json). Fallback if Morrigaine's 75% steal whiffs: A2 strips/steals, A3 adds HP Burn + Weaken and a full TM steal. 6★.

Boss TM denial + burn deflect — 6★ awakened, re-derived unchanged for the second audit running — HH 10/10, the highest score of any built body the account owns for this dungeon. A3 Quicksand Grasp FULLY depletes Skavag's Turn Meter and transfers it to him (CD 5, →3 booked) with a 75% chance of a 3-turn HP Burn — devour denial without slowing spiderling turns. Stoneguard cuts all ally damage taken by 15% and deflects it onto enemies carrying HIS burn, plus a 30% chance of 3% target MAX HP per hit. Overlooked bonus: A1 is an AoE with a 30% chance of 50% Dec ACC, which mutes the swarm's poison bites. He is also the ONLY owned 6★ with HP Burn anywhere in his kit — and it is single-target, which is why Team Now is a hit-damage comp.

HP Burn + damage reduction — LEADER AURA — 6★/a1 built. A3 Quicksand Grasp: 75% HP Burn (100% booked, 5→3-turn CD) + 25% Weaken + full TM depletion. Stoneguard cuts all ally damage taken by 15% and deflects it onto burned enemies. Leads with +25% Ally HP in all battles. HELD THE SEAT against 6★ Keberon this audit (HH tie at 9/10; Ayumi has Keberon higher, 5★ vs 4★): the aura and the 15% team damage reduction are irreplaceable in this comp, and Keberon's headline team buff (A3 50% Inc ACC) duplicates what Supreme Kael's A3 already provides. The only seat whose damage type survives hard mode: HH 9/10 normal AND 9/10 hard (re-verified 2026-08-26).

Swap — 6★ FK 5★ — A3 fully drains the boss's TM into his own (huge post-break) + 75% HP Burn; A1 is a single-hit AoE, so he contributes almost nothing to the break itself (his record's caveat). Burn only ticks if Fyro gets turns — it does not damage through the shield.

Damage engine — HP Burn is the only viable damage-over-time here — Poison is 90% less effective, and the 50k-per-tick burn cap rewards uptime over burn size. A1 is AoE single-hit per enemy so it dodges the multi-hit penalty; A3 adds Weaken plus a TM steal. 6★, awakening 1, unbooked. HH 10/10, Ayumi 5★.

Swap — 6★ damage swap for Rector — 100% HP Burn chip + A3 TM steal (the boss is not TM-immune, so it lands) + deflect passive.

Passive damage + leader aura (+25% Ally HP, all battles) — A1 Tremor Staff hits all enemies ONCE — 1 Slumber. The engine is Stoneguard: it cuts all ally incoming damage by 15% and deflects that damage onto enemies under an HP Burn he placed, with a 30% chance of an extra 3% of MAX HP per deflect — damage that never touches the counter. His +25% Ally HP aura is the right leader aura against 5%-per-attack MAX HP destruction and a DEF-ignoring nuke. 6★ / awakening 1, priority.json `book-now` rank 2. HH 9/10 (re-verified 2026-08-25), Ayumi 4★. LEVER: A3 Quicksand Grasp is his only HP Burn source and it fully depletes turn meter — harmless while the boss is awake (he is TM-reduction immune, so nothing is decreased and Soul Sustenance never fires) but self-destructive if cast while he is ASLEEP: the verified rule destroys the MAX HP of whoever cut his Turn Meter by the same percentage, and Quicksand Grasp is a FULL depletion. Cast it awake, or immediately after he takes a turn.

Turn-meter denial + strip — 6★, Awakening 1 — best of the remaining awakened bodies at HellHades 6/10. Seated for his A1 being SINGLE-hit AoE (the lowest weak-hit exposure in the pool) and his A3 fully stealing Akumori's Turn Meter — a stolen boss turn is a critical hit that never happens, i.e. 5 Shade never generated. NOT seated for HP Burn: Akumori is immune to HP Burn from 30 stacks, which the previous rationale for this seat did not account for.

HP Burn + team damage reduction — 6★/a1. HH 8/10 (re-verified), Ayumi 4★. A3 Quicksand Grasp fully depletes the boss's TM with a 75% chance of a 3-turn HP Burn (25% Weaken); A1 is AoE with 30% Dec ACC. The seat-winner is Stoneguard: all allies take 15% less damage and it is deflected onto enemies under HIS HP Burn (30% when he is the one attacked) — across 65 turns the largest passive survival block on the roster plus free damage. Note the reduction is a damage decrease, so it does nothing for the Lion-marked champion. He yields to Fahrakin only in the Ideal comp, and only when Clash score rather than surviving to turn 65 is the binding constraint.

Swap — 6★/a1, HH 8/10 — starter in Team Now; yields the seat to Fahrakin ONLY in the Ideal comp, and only when Clash score outranks survival. Stoneguard's 15% team-wide damage reduction plus HP-Burn deflect is the best passive survival block owned, and the trial ladder is explicitly gated on not dying before turn 65.

HP Burn engine (anti-Blight) + buff control (anti-Mischief) — 6★/a1. A3 Quicksand Grasp lands a 3-turn HP Burn + 25% Weaken (75%→100% booked, CD 5→3): Blight takes DOUBLE burn damage and burns tick through Serpent's Will on a regrown head. A2 removes all buffs from a head and steals them if it's burning — the reactive answer to Wrath's Vengeance buff and Decay's Life Barrier. Stoneguard cuts all ally damage 15% and deflects it onto every burning head, with a 30% chance of an extra 3%-MAX-HP hit. Note: A3's turn-meter depletion is DEAD here — heads are immune to TM reduction.

Swap — Takes the Nether Spider seat as of 2026-07-27 (A 5★/H 9). The skill to NEVER fire there is Quicksand Grasp — it fully depletes TM and trips Agreth's counterattack. Also A 5★/H 10 on Frost Spider.