How to Beat Cordie

MementoMori's Cordie is one of the witches players will frequently encounter across the game. Read on to learn how to make use of the game's witches and mechanics to defeat them in battle.

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How to Beat Cordie

How to Beat Cordie Overview

Cordie
PvE Rank	PvP Rank

Base Rarity	Soul	Type	Role
SR	Emerald	Sniper	Attacker/Debuffer

Cordie is a witch with a powerful offensive kit and an Exclusive Weapon that can shred enemy defenses by a staggering value. On top of that, due to being a non-limited SR, she is incredibly easy to invest in and awaken. This makes her a character that sees extensive use in both PvE and PvP.

Cordie Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths	Weaknesses
• Extremely high speed • High DEF Break and can shred DEF • Immune to debuffs	• Very fragile • DEF Shred hits randomly • Average hit count on nuke

Cordie Skill Analysis

The Quick & The Dead

Jack & Pot

Cordie's main nuke is her first active skill, The Quick & The Dead. This skill targets 4 (5 with a Level 3 Exclusive Weapon) witches at random and deals high damage to them. While it does increase Cordie's ATK stat, it will only activate if you manage to defeat an enemy with it.

While The Quick & The Dead's power at the early stages come from her passive, the story changes once you obtain Cordie's Exclusive Weapon: Jack & Pot. This gear enhances The Quick & The Dead exclusively, turning Cordie from a great attacker to an excellent debuffer as well. Her weapon's staggering 80% DEF shred, in combination with Cordie's massive speed, allows you to set up for success with a follow-up attack from another attacker such as Florence.

Smoke and Gunpowder

Unlike other attackers, Cordie has little to fear from enemy debuffs. This is because her passive skill, Smoke and Gunpowder, renders her completely immune to action-hindering debuffs such as Silence and Fainted, and to every other kind of debuff once she reaches level 221 and above.

Witches to Beat Cordie

Cordie Hard Counters

Ophelia

Although Cordie is immune to Ophelia's Decreased ATK debuff, the latter is still an incredibly powerful counter against fragile attackers with high hit counts and random multi-hit skills. More often than not, Ophelia will just take all of Cordie's nuke with impunity and defeat the latter with counterattacks in the process.

In addition, Ophelia doesn't care much about Cordie's DEF Break and shred because of her damage cut passive, high HP, and ability to survive a fatal attack once with 1 HP.

Fia

Yuni

Amour

Witches with massive health pools or those that can increase their team's HP can effectively, or at least mostly, shrug off Cordie's large DEF Break and shred values.

Rusalka

Eir

Paladea

Shields and Multi-Barriers can severely cut Cordie's damage output.

Cordie General Counters

Fortina	Soltina	Witch Illya
Sophia	Claudia	Dian
Amleth	Stella	Nina

Cordie Sample Counter Teams

Yuni Attrition Team

Healer	Attacker	Buffer	Attacker / Debuffer	Tanker / Support
Yuni	Fia	Merlyn	Cordie	Nina

An attrition team that specializes in surviving multiple turns through their high healing and HP will spell a lot of trouble for Cordie users. Nina, in particular, is an excellent support unit for the team due to her ability to reflect Cordie's DEF shred debuff to her enemies, as well as her high survivability.

Ophelia Insurance Policy Team

Healer / Buffer	Tanker / Attacker	Tanker	Healer / Buffer	Attacker
Fortina	Amleth	Ophelia	Merlyn	Florence

As with all attackers that use multi-hit attacks, Ophelia can punish them heavily with her Taunt and counterattack combo. With Fortina and Merlyn's support, Ophelia can maintain her health well into the battle.

Witches Not To Use Against Cordie

Elfriede

Since Cordie cannot be debuffed, witches that scale off of enemy debuffs such as Elfriede won't be able to get the stat boosts she needs to function at her peak.

Lunalynn

Primavera

Summer Sabrina

Similarly, due to being immune to all manner of debuffs, witches that seek to disable Cordie through them are almost entirely unusable.

Sivi

Morgana

Buffers that increase their party's defense such as Sivi would be hard-pressed to keep their allies alive against a Cordie with her Exclusive Weapon. Similarly, those who try to mitigate damage through high defenses such as Morgana will also have trouble.

Tips for Beating Cordie

Focus on Health Instead of Defense

Witches that can increase your HP and cut damage, as well as HP and STA runes, are excellent ways to get past Cordie's ridiculous DEF shred. Additionally, due to Cordie's Exclusive Weapon only working with her 1st Active Skill, she loses a lot of damage during the turns it is on cooldown.

Make Sure To Remove the Decreased DEF Debuff ASAP

Witches like Nina, Merlyn, and Priscilla, provided that they are fast enough to move right after Cordie, can remove the latter's Decreased DEF debuff from either themselves or their allies before the enemy team can take advantage of it. This will also help to make sure you don't get hit by a guaranteed critical damage from Cordie with her Fanning Shots skill on the second turn.

Stack Up Evasion

Like all attackers who do not have the skills to increase their hit rate, they are susceptible to being shut down by characters with high evasion like Nina.

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All SR Rarity Character Builds

Soltina	Amleth	Fenrir
Florence	Moddey	Sabrina
Freesia	Amour	Rean
Dian	Ivy	Merlyn
Cordie	Nina	Mertillier
Mimi	Tropon	Hathor
Olivia	Primavera	Natasha
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All SR (Limited) Rarity Character Builds

Alexandra	Liselotte	Matilda
Yuni	Paladea	Eir
Morgana	Apostle Rosalie	Asahi
Minasumari	Kaguya	Summer Nina
Summer Amleth	Milla	Aine
Serruria	Winter Tropon	Fenny
Gil’uial	Sonya	Sivi
Stella	Summer Cordie	Belle
Priscilla	Artie	Chiffon
Luke	Summer Sabrina	Fia
Claudia	Lea	Sophia
Carol	Summer Moddey	Richesse
Veela	Tainted Iris	Winter Amour
Elfriede	Rusalka	Cerberus
Fortina	Armstrong	Ophelia
A.A.	Valeriede	Witch Illya