Let's get the obvious out of the way: Like everyone I'm still rather new to the game and I really dont know how to edit Reddit so forgive me.

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The Hero: Pain Keeper

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Best Uses:

- CB (10/10 if paired with specific allies, 7/10 if not)

- Arena (5/10)

- Dungeons (8/10)

- Campaign/farming (3/10)

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- Warmaster or Giant Slayer: Warmaster. Her A1 hits less than 3 times. Her A3 does not hit and cannot trigger either of them, so her damage will be on the slightly lower side than a full out DPS'er like say Juliana.

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6 star, 6 Ascension stats:

- HP: 19,320

- Atk: 969

- Def: 771

- Speed: 102

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- Faction: Dark Elves

- Role: HP

- A1: Unflagging Advance. Attacks 1 enemy 2 times, fills her Turn Meter by 15%. (Damage 35% at lv 6)

- A2: Spectacular Sweep. Attacks all enemies, then heals all allies by 25% of THEIR max HP. (Heals 35%, Damage 20%, 4 turn cd at lv 8)

- A3: Combat Tactics. Decreases the cd's of all ally skills by 1 turn. (4 turn cd at lv 4)

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Video of Pain Keeper in Action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS8aBsd_J1M&feature=youtu.be This is my CB team using Apothecary, Martyr, Pain Keeper, and Peydma. It's a long one, clocking in at 14 minutes which is the longest I've ever lasted against a CB while auto'ing. The unfortunate side is that RNG was not in my favor and while lasting the longest, I did the least amount of damage over my 4 recorded fights with an average dps of 28,950 (total damage of 23.8M).

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Average Data over 4 fights vs Hard CB:

- Damage: 2.69M

- Survival Time: Over 10 minutes

She has 2 out of 3 skills that deal damage. Martyr has the same and yet she seems to do about 1.1 million less. I need to get her speed up higher (177 vs 187) to figure out how to make up the difference. Survival time, she lasts roughly a minute less than Martyr but about a minute more than my Apothecary. She does not die early, so I dont think she needs more survival.

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Current stats and build for Hero:

- Artifacts: Life Steal and Speed

- HP: 45,378

- ATK: 1,667

- DEF: 1,526

- Speed: 177

- Crit: 43/90

- Acc: 43

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Pre-WM/GS: She doesn't hit very hard but she can off-heal decently. You'll need heavier hitters in your team to make sure they can use her cooldown reduction to their fullest benefit. I'd probably go Defense % stats with speed, and at this point you'd probably want the crit stats.

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Post-WM/GS: She definitely wants Life Steal and Speed as the Crits and Accuracy are wasted. Aim for HP% over Def% for your gloves, chest, and substats. Speed for boots. You definitely want speed on her, and even at 177, I wish I had a touch more as she would get more turns before the CB.

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Who does she pair well with: She pairs well with anyone who has 3-4 turn cooldown skills, mostly with buff or debuff attacks on their A2 or A3. She wants a leader with Speed aura to max out her potential and by far, her best ally is Apothecary. Pairing her A3 (which also reduces the cooldown on her skills, making this one a 3 turn CD) with Apothecary's A3 means your whole team gets a 30% turn meter buff, a 30% speed buff with a pretty much 90-100% uptime. In the video above, my team pretty much has a 100% uptime of Attack and Defense break plus HP Burn and poison while also keeping their buffs up.

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All in all, do I recommend this hero: I might be biased but she's exciting, she's pretty unique. She's not strong by herself but she's what we call a force multiplier. She makes your team better and in the end, the amount of damage she will add to your other heroes will be more than she could ever do by herself.

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Regret of pulling and putting resources into this hero: 1/10