[Heishou Pack - Wei Branch] Don Quixote

Wei Branch Don Quixote is a Rupture/Sinking Hybrid ID who utilizes her unique debuff, Shattermark, to change the Panic Type of the opponent and/or make them weaker in accordance with whether or not they have SP to lose, making use of the Sinking on Don’s kit.

Beginning with Heishou Don’s Passives, we will start with the one that’s always active.

• When activating Exalted Command, Lord Hong Lu gets the following effect when his S3 targets Don: Inflict 1 Sinking upon inflicting Rupture Potency or Count by using a Skill up to 3 times per turn.

• When Heishou Don is Substituted In or Returned to the Field after retreating, she’ll gain 3 of her unique status: “Burgeoning of Horns.”

Next, we will go over Heishou Don’s standard Passive, which activates upon owning 3 Gluttony and 3 Gloom Sin Affinities:

• Heishou Don will deal a percentage damage equal to the negative integer of the target’s SP divided by 3 against targets that have less than 0 SP, for a maximum of 15% more damage.

• Heishou Don will deal +1% more damage for the sum of every 2 Rupture and Sinking on the target, for a maximum of 15%. This effect is doubled alongside the maximum value against targets without SP.

• When Heishou Don has her unique status, “Burgeonining of Horns,” the last Coin of this unit’s Base Skill deals +15% more damage. When activating a Skill Slot equipped with a Defense Skill, however, the last Coin will deal +30% more damage instead. Finally, when Clashing with a Clashable Guard Skill, that skill will gain +3 Clash Power.

That being said, as with all Heishou IDs, they have the unique effects that can be applied to themselves as well as the enemies for a unique effect. In that case, the two unique effects that Heishou Don has are the following:

• Burgeoning of Horns, which is gained from S3 and Defense Skill, and all it does is make Don’s Base Skills inflict +1 more Rupture and Sinking Potency. She’ll gain a maximum of 3 and this skill will decay by 1 at the end of every turn.

• Shattermark, which is a debuff inflicted by Don’s S3, and what it does is that enemies with it will take 10% more damage from Gluttony and Gloom Skills, make units with SP change their Panic Type to “Shattermark,” make units without SP lose 1 Clash Power, and have it so that enemies who do have SP but can’t change their Panic Type apply the debuff’s “Units without SP” conditional instead.

The effects of Shattermark’s Panic-type are quite simple: if the enemy who has it is in Low Morale, they’ll lose 1 Clash Power and 2 Defense Level, and when panicking, they’ll lose 2 Clash Power and 3 Defense Level.

With all of this being covered, let’s get into Heishou Don’s skills.

• Skill 1 - Breakthrough - Base roll 11 - Max roll 16 - Pretty standard Skill 1 by Season 6’s standards, it deals +25% more damage if the target has Shattermark.

• Skill 2 - Seize the Momentum, Shatter the Wall - Base roll 16 - Max roll 22 - If Don has Burgeoning of Horns, the last Coin of this skill is converted to an Unbreakable Coin. The final Coin also deals +5 damage for every stack of Burgeoning of Horns that Don has. The final Coin will also do further Slash damage equal to 10% of the Coin’s final damage for every stack of Burgeoning of Horns Don has.

• Skill 3 - Crushing Horns - Base roll 16 - Max roll 24 - This Skill has the same effect as Skill 2, with the only exception that instead of the last Coin turning into an Unbreakable and doing more damage, the Coins on the entire skill are converted into Unbreakable Coins and deal +10% more damage for every stack of Burgeoning of Horns. On the last Coin of this skill, it’ll do 10% more damage for every stack of the Panic-type changing effects from Shattermark for a maximum of +30% damage, and it’ll deal 25% of the Coin’s final damage as Slash damage. If the target has Shattermark, it’ll deal 50% of the Coin’s final damage instead. It’ll then inflict 3 Shattermark next turn.

• Defensive Skill - I shall crush all that standeth in our way - Base roll 13 - Max roll 16 - This skill makes Don gain 3 Burgeoning of Horns next turn.

All in all, as the secondary ID to Heishou You Heathcliff’s banner, she is about as standard as far as Heishou IDs go for this season. That being said, she’s not particularly strict in team building and doesn’t inflict much Rupture or Sinking.

Notable ID/Team Synergies:

• Heishou Team: As with all Heishou IDs, Don Quixote fits right in with the finished Heishou Team, making use of Lord Hong Lu’s Retreat mechanic and stacking Rupture infinitely. She brings SP damage to the table with Sinking.

• Sinking Team: Heishou Don’s S3 can also trigger with Impending Ruin and Echoes of the Manor, giving her a pretty valuable spot there.