Lionheart Cermia

(8/3/2023 Update): Her passive now gives +20% CR push upon activation.

Lionheart Cermia is pretty much the AoE version of Fire Cermia, except that she cannot use her S3 right away. Her main strength lies in PvP, where she shines when enemy has dual attacks or counter attacks. As an ally gets hit, she will cleanse herself and gain fighting spirit and increases her own CR. Once she gets to 80 fighting spirit, she can use her defense penetration AoE attack. Do keep in mind that the cleanse only happens once very 3 turns, so do not expect her to keep cleansing against a debuff heavy team.

She isn’t a one-size-fits-all type of unit, where you can throw her into any team and call it a day. Lionheart Cermia has a few quirks that you need to work around – such as being more defense-oriented and kind of held back if not taken against a team that’s heavy in counters and extra attacks. However, overall she’s still a really fun unit that people should play around with in PvP.

Build Notes

When it comes to building Lionheart Cermia, there aren’t a lot of stats that you need to really focus on. She can be built like any other damage dealer… except for swapping out the focus on ATK for a focus on DEF. Her defense-based skillset can be a bit weird for a player to deal with when finding gear for her.

This does, however, mean that she can use all those strange gear pieces that you undoubtedly have at this point. These are those gears that are made for damage builds, but rolled way too many times into a DEF% substat. While the Speed build is one of the best choices for her, there are a few people that have used the Lifesteal build.

A good goalpost for her stats looks to be something like:

• 170-180 Speed
• 2,000+ DEF (More is always better)
• 100% Crit Chance
• 250%+ Crit DMG%

Not a lot of people use her with Immunity, as it would largely go wasted. This is due to her passive cleansing herself of all debuffs.