Shennong/Strategy

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Overview

Shennong is an interesting moveslut as he introduces the new status effect [[|No name provided .]]No description provided. (Unknown). After the first turn of each phase and having applied Poison-100~-200HP/turn for 5 turns (Debuff) to allies, he can give Poison Reversal to allies by moving, and it has the effect of boosting attack by 2x, boosting defense by 0.65x, and healing up to 400 HP, thereby counteracting the detrimental effects of Poison by 200 HP. Although these multipliers are relatively low compared to other buffs, this is an extremely powerful effect since it's an offensive and defensive buff rolled into one and has the guarantee of stacking with almost every other unit's kit released beforehand. Since Poison Reversal only lasts one turn, Shennong functionally acts like a low-cost Snow/Aizen/Surtr. While he loses out on defense since their buffs have a better multiplier (0.45x), he has the advantage of boosting allies' attack by a 3x multiplier through the effect of both Poison Reversal and Nourishment+150~300HP/turn, ATK Up by 1.1x ~ 1.5x for 3 turns (Buff) while having a similar net healing factor. Finally, he also has the nice ability of applying EvasionDEF Up by 0.01x ~ 0.005x for 1 turn (Buff) for the first turn of each phase, either only to self or including allies depending on the rarity.

Disadvantage-wise, his main issue lies in needing Poison in order to trigger Poison Reversal. While Poison is not a particularly debilitating status effect, Shennong's skill effectively negates most forms of buff negation from allies. On the flip side, if his allies negate the Poison debuff, they won't be able to benefit from Poison Reversal immediately. Most importantly, this opens up the entire team to other debuffs which could be detrimental, so a team with Shennong will not be able to handle debuffs very well unless planned accordingly through some other means. Finally, Shennong carries all the associated problems/challenges of a moveslut such as weakness to FearCannot move at will, -10CP/turn for 5 turns (Debuff) and the like.

Highlights

Class: Tank, Support

Gameplay Role: Mixed Buffer, Healer, Moveslut

Pros

+ Gives [[|No name provided .]]No description provided. (Unknown) on move to self and allies, raising attack/defense and healing

+ Gives Nourishment+150~300HP/turn, ATK Up by 1.1x ~ 1.5x for 3 turns (Buff) on move to allies, further boosting attack and healing

+ Gives EvasionDEF Up by 0.01x ~ 0.005x for 1 turn (Buff) with fat heal on first turn to self (+ allies for )

+ has VALIANT which is neutral/resists every elemental attribute except WORLD, can switch to for WOOD typing

+ TenacityDEF Up by 0.9x ~ 0.45x for 1 turn (Buff) to self increases tanking abilities

+ Applies Poison-100~-200HP/turn for 5 turns (Debuff) to enemies

Cons

- Applies Poison-100~-200HP/turn for 5 turns (Debuff) to self and allies, making the team vulnerable to debuffs

- Ranges of skill activation can be restricting

- Slightly inconsistent procs without skill seeds, especially for form

- form only protects self on first turn

- Needs to move

Gameplay Role

Mixed Buffer/Moveslut

As mentioned before, the effects of [[|No name provided .]]No description provided. (Unknown) make Shennong comparable to movesluts like Snow/Aizen/Surtr. While the latter three mentioned all have unique aspects to them, they all have in common a skill which gives a defensive buff with a 0.45x multiplier, +16 CP, and +500 HP to self and allies on move. Poison reversal, on the other hand, gives a defensive buff with a 0.65x multiplier, an offensive buff with a 2x multiplier, and a net +200 HP to self and allies on move after taking the effect of Poison-100~-200HP/turn for 5 turns (Debuff) into account. Since Shennong also gives Nourishment+150~300HP/turn, ATK Up by 1.1x ~ 1.5x for 3 turns (Buff) to allies, this increases the offensive multiplier to 3x and brings back the healing to +500 HP. So for allies, Shennong can be seen as trading some defense and CP charging for a 3x attack multiplier. Since Poison Reversal and Nourishment to a lesser extent are rare effects, Shennong can also stack these effects rather easily with other preexisting offensive/defensive buffs.

Another point of comparison to be made is between other previous offensive buffers such as Babalon (Jiangshi), Tomte, and Tangaroa (Canaan). Jiangshi Babalon and Tomte both give ArdorATK Up by 1.2x ~ 2.4x, +5CP/turn for 2 turns (Buff), Nourishment+150~300HP/turn, ATK Up by 1.1x ~ 1.5x for 3 turns (Buff), and Blessing+300~600HP/turn for 4 turns (Buff) in some way, where Jiangshi Babalon also gives Immobility+12CP/turn, cannot move at will for 3 turns (Buff) for extra CP while Tomte does not need to move. Summarizing, Jiangshi Babalon has a net effect of an offensive buff of 3.6x to allies, +17 CP, and +900 HP while Tomte has a net effect of an offensive buff of 3.6x to allies and +900-1500 HP. These two trade defense for more offense, healing, or CP but also have some sort of caveat with Jiangshi Babalon restricting movement and Tomte having somewhat shit proc rates.

Stats and Seed Usage

Unit	(Effective) HP		Base ATK		ATK per square		CS ATK per square (SALV1)
Unit	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded
	6276	8264	3595	5179	1977	2848	2013	2900
	7726	9820	4119	5688	2265	3128	3460	4778
	7927	9864	4753	6305	1521	2018	1901	2522