Anemone

The reviewer's summary is short: pull her. He notes that some viewers skip straight to the verdict at the end of his videos and says, for their benefit, "go and pull her right now." His reasoning is that she does two things at once — she shuts down extra-action units almost completely, and she hands out some of the strongest buffs in the game to her own team. He expects her to stay relevant for a long while. (28:29)

Crimson Trail is a hard counter to extra-action units

This is the mechanic the whole kit is built around, and it is worth understanding in order.

When an enemy takes an extra action inside 3 tiles of her, she applies Crimson Shackles to it and takes Crimson Trail for herself. Crimson Trail makes her untargetable by enemies, immune to movement debuffs, cuts area damage taken and adds 30% ranged damage. Crimson Shackles cuts the target's ATK/M-ATK, cuts the healing and shielding it gives, and puts one of its skills on cooldown at end of turn. Both last two turns and neither can be removed. (2:03)

At 2 manifestations she hands Crimson Trail to every Zephyrgun ally at game start, so the whole faction becomes untargetable. At 4 the debuff removal reaches 4 tiles and a shackled enemy ending its turn also gives her 1 TP. At full manifestation the cooldown push becomes 3 skills, Crimson Shackles hits -50% ATK/M-ATK, and the healing/shield reduction reaches -100%. (5:15)

His conclusion on how to fight her: a team with no extra actions at all is easier to play against her, because Crimson Trail never gets refreshed. Failing that, kill her with area skills or counterattacks — Iron Mask's lightning is the example he reaches for. (4:09)

There is one clean counter on the buff side. Crimson Shackles is tagged as a Heal Block effect, so anything granting Heal Block immunity blocks it. Her own Vital Immune does exactly that — put it on your extra-action unit before it acts and the shackle never lands. (6:15)

Class: all three are good

Chirurgeon is the pure healer. Life Extension hands the lowest-HP ally a shield worth 20% of their Max HP whenever any character ends a turn, and re-applies another when it breaks. Note the wording: it only fires if the lowest ally lacks it — it doesn't fall through to the second-lowest. (6:46)

Hospitaller is the aggressive one. Enemies attacked within 3 tiles of her lose DEF and Physical Penetration Resistance and have TP stripped, and it doesn't have to be her doing the attacking. The reviewer's line: since she can't be targeted anyway, walk her as far up the field as you dare and let the debuff aura do the work. He calls out Cyrano Bernstein's Soul Drain as the beneficiary. (8:23)

Catalyst is the balanced pick. Golden Time lands on any ally ending its turn adjacent to 2+ enemies: more healing and shielding received, -40% damage taken once, then a heal off her M-ATK when they are hit. He cites Belzebub diving alone into the enemy line and simply surviving. (9:55)

He personally runs Chirurgeon most of the time. (11:00)

Med Station is a roadblock, not a heal

Med Station technically heals allies within 2 tiles and refunds TP to anyone at 1 or below — but the reviewer is emphatic that its best use is physical. The Tactical Supply Shell is an obstacle, so dropping it in the gap the enemy has to walk through stops the advance dead. They mill around behind it and lose the game. Enemies won't even attack it; the path is simply closed. (12:33)

One correction he makes to his own play: the extra heal-on-hit is adjacent tiles, not 2 tiles. He spent a while fighting next to it thinking he was being healed and wasn't. (12:03)

Iron Mandate is the broken one

Iron Mandate gives allies within 2 tiles of the target +30% Max HP and physical/magic penetration resistance, cooldown-removal immunity, and — the part he calls genuinely broken — an extra action at end of turn for any of them that did not attack an enemy this turn. (15:07)

That "did not attack" clause is looser than it sounds. A unit that only cast a buff qualifies. So does an attack skill that hit nothing: he gives the example of Black Prince's Ultimate Grima+1 more → landing away from any enemy, which still earns the extra action. Destroying an obstacle isn't attacking an enemy either, so popping a 1 HP barricade and moving on works too. (15:39)

The opening line is therefore: cast Iron Mandate first. It isn't an attack, so it triggers its own extra action. It costs 3 TP, so getting 1 TP back is what lets you follow with Vital Immune — which is why TP recovery matters so much in her gear. (16:10)

Emergency Aid looks better than it plays

Emergency Aid got most of the attention when she was revealed — a recall that also grants an extra turn, plus a heal and Crit-Rate-taken reduction. In practice the reviewer doesn't slot it. At 2 TP it competes with things she wants every turn, and modern defence teams leave lanes open or field units that jump walls anyway. (17:35)

His loadout is Med Station, Vital Immune and Iron Mandate. The ultimate he dismisses outright — he says he simply won't cast it. (19:14)

Gear: health, and nothing but health

He is blunt here — build her entirely for Max HP. M-ATK barely matters. Reforges and specialisations all go to health. (22:18)

He runs the Cardinal set with Jade Ornament, both chosen for TP recovery (33% and 20%), and rates Jade Ornament the best accessory for her since it also carries HP, M-ATK and penetration. Book of the Sage is a reasonable alternative if you want more bulk. (19:16)

Weapon: optional, ★3 if you take it

Not required. ★3 adds TP-removal immunity, which is the one step worth paying for; ★4 widens the aura to 3 tiles and ★5 adds a random buff on the Radiance-buff heal, neither of which he rates. Veramode's weapon is a viable alternative precisely because its random TP return solves the same 1 TP problem. (21:47)

Runes

Devotion in slots 1 and 2 is his best case — the area-damage reduction stacks on top of what she already has, and slot 2 carries Max HP. Slots 3-6 he treats as fixed. Without Devotion runes she gets awkward: the fallback is Wisdom in 1 and 6 with Mercy in 2 and 5, playing her as a straight healer. (22:49)

Artifacts: all three are live picks

Peak Condition+12 more → is the "I refuse to die" option — with it on a defence team he has seen matches simply time out at 15 turns because nobody could kill her. (24:21)

Wings of Protection gives allies within 3 tiles -80% basic-attack damage taken and no counterattacks against them, plus +40% basic-attack damage dealt. That last part is why Cyrano Bernstein pairs so well: Soul Drain benefits from it, and Crimson Trail's ranged damage stacks on top. (25:08)

Tactical Metronome is the offensive pick. Each Radiance skill grants nearby allies +25% ATK and Crit Rate, and +25% damage on attacks that consume ammo. Cast twice and that is +50% and +50% — he describes Heidelun's damage as going completely off the rails alongside it, and names Theta as the other beneficiary. (26:26)

Investment

Two manifestations is the minimum and the value pick; three if you want a little more. The weapon is optional, ★3 if you take it. (28:59)