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Introduction
Blood Blade Karin is one of the most popular characters in Epic Seven’s current meta due to her Highly offensive capacities. She doesn’t possess elemental disadvantage at all, although she is a character that needs significant investment and has no utility. Hugely recommended both for PvE and PvP.
First, a quick check on this character’s pros and cons:
Pros
- Serious damage potential
- Grows up in power as long as the battle continues
- Excellent carry capacity with her extra-turn skill gained after slaying an enemy
- High capacity to farm bosses in PvE
Cons
- Lacks utility, not a support type character
- Require a heavy (expensive) investment
Skills
Skill 1: Sequential cutter
BBK’s normal attack. Quickly strikes the enemy with a sword, recovering health proportional to damage dealt. It has no debuff, but she can heal herself and push up her CR by 50% when she killed an enemy—adding that to her passive, which grants her ATK, DEF, and SPD when her HP drops make her one fo the best offensive characters.
Skill 2: Curse Sword
A passive skill that grants BBK power when her HP drops powering up ATK, DEF, and SPD giving her high survivability. At max, with each 1%, HP missing BBK will get 1% bonuses in ATK, DEF, and SPD. Lower the HP, stronger she gets.
Skill 3: Blade Art: Dragon
An AoE skill that costs lives in a change of enormous damage increased by the Soulburn Effect and with the ability to be rewarded with a second cast when the caster kills an enemy. Combined with Skill 2, the 20% HP cost of Blade Art wins significant synergy multiplying the damage insanely and making BBK one of the most dangerous characters in the game.
PvE summary
Even if Karin is a character mainly oriented to PvP, she can become an excellent unit for Hunt Bosses. Thanks to her Skill 1, that allows BBK to quickly clear first waves, which makes her the right choice for one-shot boss teams. With proper gear, she has the potential to be one of the best Fodder Farmers.
PvP summary
As said before, she is one of the best PvP characters in the current Meta thanks to her fully offensive-oriented Skills Set, lacking elemental disadvantage and insane damage potential. Truly a character who Destroys in PvP.
Her passive combined with her two remaining skills grants an almost unkillable warrior when she is at her best, gaining bonuses in ATK, DEF, and SPD when she’s in battle and healing herself out of combat.
Of course, this capacity comes when she is maxed out and with a good build oriented to maximize her pros such as DPS or even a tanky one.
Build Guide
There are two ways to build BBK gear. Offensive or Defensive. The build you should choose mostly depends on the team paired to BBK and, of course, being the offensive gear the most recommended.
Offensive
Dues to Karin’s natural High-Speed Attack (111), which increases with her S2, you have to focus on a damage based build because she doesn’t speed at all. ATK/Crit or Destruction/Crit builds are the best choices. She needs high %ATK and %C.Dmg, including 100%C—rate to avoid any miss. Exorcist’s Tonfa is recommended thanks to the extra damage, it is a popular choice. To take advantage of her Extra Turn skill, use Rihanna & Luciella.
Defensive
BBK is not the best choice for defense teams. The best option to build a Counter based set and sacrifice some ATK to get more HP. Also, you need to build her as tanky enough to avoid being one-shooted. In my personal opinion, this choice is precarious, and you won’t be able to take out her max power, and it will be a kind of waste.
Final notes
To finish, there are a few observations that have to be made.
1st: Karin is a, in RPG terms, Late Game Character, which means that she will be only useful leveled up, the minimum level recommended is when she reaches +15 Skill-up.
If you decide to play her, try your best to build a Team where she can be played inoffensive style to obtain the most of her. Finally, be aware of the observation for PvE, she can be a good Farmer with the right gear, but as a PvP Oriented character she is, she can present difficulties in some PvE scenarios.
Well, that was my Blood Blade Karin’s Build Guide. I hope you enjoyed it!