Fighter Maya Review: You will f@$% swing hard on the Chandelier..

Hoopa Gamers!

Review time for our favourite swinger in the game, Fighter Maya is a forgotten light gem who can increase drastically your success in PvP and help you get through your hardest PvE stages and bosses.

She is a niche tank, often referred as self-sustainable with no team benefits...well, with a counter set and Elbris artefact, we will prove this wrong in the below.

She can carry your team end-game in both PvE and PvP - including up to Legend ranks in arena against specific threat comps.

The PROS:

- One of funniest anime in the game, that S3 Home Run is golden!

- Great HP and DEF stats.

- All her skill set synergises perfectly around her DEF power.

- Versatile across PvE and PvP - including in defense Arena (we had 25%+ def success up to Champion 2 ranks on the built advised below) & GW def surprisingly.

- Brings a lot of team utility when you build her on Counter set with Elbris with the right set up. Can deal substantial damage in between turn while provoking the whole opponent's team.

- A huge tank against any Dark threat in PvP as Specter Tenebria, Assassin Coli, Assassin Cartuja, Dark Corvus, Challenger Dominiel.

- She has Resistance imprints, which is very good in a stall comp in the current debuff meta.

- S1 has a 50% provoke, great advantage as a Light unit - plus can deal noticeable damage overtime on a counter set.

- S2 passive is key to her sustain, 80-100% to clean one debuff and cast defence buff each time she is attacked.

- S3 has a 300% multiplier based on her defence if you trigger it on a enemy with less than 30% HP.

The CONS:

- Has a low based speed.

- Her passive can cleanse one debuff per attack received, so it can be hard against multiple debuffers like Silver Blade Aramintha if you are not investing enough in her resistance.

The SET:

Among all set we have been using, we highly recommend Counter / Resistance or Hit or HP or DEF set the most efficient of them all.

Place one DEF% and 2 HP% on your right column.

Counter set allows you to focus on tanky stats and the resistance and effectiveness which is key to that build success.

"Why resistance if she cleanse one debuff?" To ensure you can use her against multiple debuffers, either PvE bosses or PvP enemies.

Otherwise, no real other choice than Speed / HP or Def set if you want her to be useful - but we were very disappointed as you wont really cut any cheese with her poor base speed and will probably lack either tankiness or hit / effect resistance to make her relevant.

The FORMULA:

To understand our choice of overall stats below, here is the math to calculate your tankiness:

eHP = HP x (Defense + 300) * 300

QUICK DAMAGE SPEACH:

No need to overload her on defense stats at all. With 1100+ def she will be able to trigger 13-15K+ damage on her s3 with only her self cast def buff - no critical hit involved (which could go easily to 25-30K damage).

So which unit has more than 15K HP at 30% HP in that game = NONE. So don't overload DEF stats for HP as you will as well break her tankiness (formula above for your understanding).

If you do plan to do her for a deadly s1 counter and put all your stats in DEF, it can trigger some 4-5K damage but she will be easily killed.

The early STATS (based on average 70 level+ epic gears, maxed at 15) on COUNTER / HIT set:

- Speed: a little bonus.

- Attack: a little bonus

- Def: 1100+

- HP: 15K+

- Critical Chance: very nice addition if you can bring it up to 50%.

- Critical Damage: Any extra does great to her s1 counter damage.

- Effectiveness: 80%+

- Resistance: 80%+

The ARTEFACTS:

- Elbris Ritual Sword: Helps F. Maya to counter when an ally is attacked, and provoked them potentially. Best for Maya Counter set.

- Aurius: If you wanna her to absorb some damage from your team.

- Holy Sacrifice: A fun option if none of the above, very useful against Dark threat as she will be revived with 25%HP - which will be enough for few more rounds of baiting.

- Noble Oath: Increase Def & Resistance as HP gets low, a great option.

How to counter a Fighter Maya in PvP:

1. Assassin Cartuja or Dark Corvus to bait her. Crescent Moon Rin on a support build to tank and steal her def buff.

2. Multiple debuffers like ML Ara and others.

3. Even if she is on counter / Elbris, keep her for last.

4. Keep an eye on your allies HP, if one goes down 30% HP you gonna need to heal them fast or keep some CR push back / put lots of CC plus one stun for F.Maya as she will just one shot them no matter what.

Her Good Buddies:

In PvP, she pairs very well with Angelica and Krau - or even a fast Diene on Rod to make resilient enough and place some DPS aside.

She is perfect to tank fast cleave comps easily, and death threat like Vildred or BB Karin mechanics. Just put her with a Kayron and 2 other tanks / supports against such team.

Overall, Fighter Maya is a game changer for anyone from early to mid going for end-game completion and competition. She still very relevant in the new Sage Baal & Sezan / ML Aramintha meta. Be cautious to avoid Crescent Moon Rin as she will still the def buff from F.Maya too often.

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GameNani Team