Suzerain Katonn

AoE Dec DEF + Weaken (shred anchor) — 6★, Spirit = hits STRONG. A2 Hex of Years: AoE 25% Weaken (70% chance) + 60% Decrease DEF (45% chance, →75% booked) for 2 turns, 4-turn cooldown — that shred IS the win condition against his 4000 DEF. A3 Banish From Time removes Shield/Block Damage/Unkillable from all enemies and cannot be blocked or resisted — note it does NOT strip Increase DEF, so the buff-steal seat still matters. His 100% Heal Reduction is a free rider (the boss doesn't heal). Aura: +33% Ally ATK in ALL battles — the alternative lead once gear ACC clears the stage wall. Kit re-verified on Ayumilove 2026-07-27.

Heal Reduction (lynchpin) — A3 Banish From Time: AoE 100% Heal Reduction 2T on a 4-turn cooldown, preceded by a strip of Shield/Block Damage/Unkillable that cannot be blocked or resisted — the STRIP is unresistable, the Heal Reduction is not, so ACC still gates the seat. A2 adds AoE Weaken 70% + 60% Dec DEF (45%). 6★ built, and he farms his own ascension potions (he's Spirit).

Swap — Bench. SPIRIT hits WEAK into Krila's Magic, and weak hits do not place debuffs, so his Dec DEF / Weaken / Heal Reduction are all unreliable here — the same problem that benched Anax. His A3 strip is unresistable and still works as a panic button. Ayumi Magic Keep 4★.

Swap — 6★, Ayumi Void Keep 4★ — AoE Dec DEF + Weaken speeds the pre-boss waves, and his A3 strips Shield / Block Damage / Unkillable. His 100% Heal Reduction is dead weight here: Malek never heals.

Leader + AoE damage — LEADER: +33% Ally ATK in all battles, the biggest live aura in the lineup. All three skills are AoE (2.2/3.7/3.8 ATK) — clears the three trash waves, then stacks 25% Weaken + 60% Dec DEF on the boss and strips Shield/Block Damage/Unkillable unresistably (that strip does NOT touch Last Stand's Inc DEF). 6★, unbooked; A2 chance books take Weaken to 100% and Dec DEF from 45% to 75%.

AoE nuke / Dec DEF (leader aura) — 6★ — A2 AoE 60% Dec DEF + 25% Weaken (45%→75% chance booked), A3 strips Shield/Block Damage/Unkillable off the whole wave. Carries the team lead: +33% Ally ATK in ALL battles, the best aura in this five (Supreme Kael has none).

Strip + shred — 6★ but UNBOOKED — acts 1st, tuned FASTEST so the strip and shred land before the Extra-Turn wipe. A3 Banish From Time (4cd) removes Shield, Block Damage and Unkillable from all enemies and places 100% Heal Reduction for 2 turns; the removal cannot be blocked or resisted and does NOT touch Stone Skin. A2 Hex of Years (4cd) is the shred and it is chance-gated: 70% Weaken / 45% Decrease DEF unbooked, 100% / 75% booked (+15% per level 2-4, ~3 Legendary tomes) — unbooked, over half of all alpha strikes go in without the 60% Dec DEF. tomePriority book-now; this is the cheapest reliability gain the team has. HH arena 8/10 (Ayumi rates arena offense 5★). His aura is +33% ATK in all battles, not speed. Spirit — hits weak into Magic-stacked defenses (the strip still lands; the weak hits gate the debuffs).

Swap — 6★, HH 8/10, Ayumi 4★ — stacking 60% Dec DEF (45% chance, 75% booked) + 25% Weaken + 30% Dec SPD with real AoE damage, and a +33% Ally ATK all-battles aura if you want offense over Gwyndolin's ACC aura. Spirit, so check the affinity rotation. His 100% Heal Reduction is wasted here.

Swap — 6★ AoE damage with Dec DEF + Weaken, and he strips Shield / Block Damage / Unkillable. Discount his 100% Heal Reduction here — heads barely heal. Second Key core.

Swap — Out of the starting five now that Stag Knight is 6★ (Stag lands the same Dec DEF shred without needing 225+ ACC), but he is the boss-floor AoE body — stacking Dec DEF + Weaken + 100% Heal Reduction while stripping Shield/Block Damage/Unkillable. MUST bench on Dark Fae: she heals 10% MAX HP per Spirit champ fielded. 6★