Thread:Chad Pattan/@comment-9505008-20150117190242/@comment-25500470-20150118213508

Diaochan's most effective when she takes a strong hit but doesn't die from it. That means simply that her defense should not be manally maxed out but her attack should be.

When she procs, she will automatically reduce damage from a hit, but she will still calculate based on the strength of the hit without the damage reduction.

If you pair her with a GUR Huang Long and do the 200% buff of Attack and Defense, it will just help keep her alive against AOE attacks. If she is buffed and awakened, when she counters those attacks, the enemy will die. It's that simple. Her SC is so high when awakened that if she has a defense buff of 200% she will survive a lot of AOE and possibly some criticals - but criticals are more likely to take her out.

If you pair her with a GUR Santa Oracle and the enemy kills Diaochan, you can revive her.

If you buff her attack she becomes a single-hit-kill attacker that just happens to also counter damage applied to her. So if she's one of the last ones left, and she has proc'd, she might get multiple turns at bat because of her countering ( she will counter twice in my experience, equaling potentially four hits to two).

If she procs and then is unleashed by another card, she can then add two more counter attacks.

In AUB attack, if they only have one AOE and you take them out, they're guaranteed to lose because they won't have any cards that can kill her AND all of your team. If they have multiple AOE and you have Sif, you can nullify their attacks and counter with your own.

IN other words the ticket is to use her to get more attacks in, keep her alive at all costs, and hopefully take out enough opponent cards that you can decimate the rest.