How to Beat Sophia

MementoMori's Sophia 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.

Sophia
Best Builds	How to Beat
Story and Profile

How to Beat Sophia

How to Beat Sophia Overview

Sophia
PvE Rank	PvP Rank

Base Rarity	Soul	Type	Role
SR (Limited)	Crimson	Warrior	Attacker

Sophia is a pseudo-executioner who has anti-debuff capabilities and minimal defensive capabilities. There's a reason she does not see as much use as other attackers, however, since her defensive options are rather weak and she already has a niche capability.

She becomes a lot more threatening once she gets her Unique Weapon, Vermillion Virtue, which gives her a 2-turn 55% Counter buff every four turns, as well as the ability to inflict ATK debuffs on her enemies.

Sophia Strengths and Weaknesses

Sophia Skill Analysis

Executioner and Healer

Sword Dance of Virtue

Time for a Lesson!

Skill Effects Summarized

Skill	Skill Effect
Sword Dance of Virtue	Level 1 (Unlocks by default) Increases Sophia's ATK by 15% for 1 turn, and deals 4 physical attacks equal to 450% of her ATK to the enemy with the lowest remaining HP percentage.
	Level 2 (Unlocks by level 81) The number of physical attacks becomes 5.
	Level 3 (Unlocks by level 161) The amount her ATK increases by becomes 30%.

Skill	Skill Effect
Time for a Lesson!	Level 1 (Unlocks by level 11) Sophia deals 6 physical attacks equal to 360% of her ATK to enemies at random.
	Level 2 (Unlocks by level 21) Additionally, after attacking, if her remaining HP percentage is below 60%, restores HP equal to 20% of this skill’s total damage to all allies.
	Level 3 (Unlocks by level 101) The number of physical attacks becomes 7.
	Level 4 (Unlocks by level 181) The amount a target’s HP is restored by becomes 35% of this skill’s total damage.

Sophia's first active skill has her do attacks on the enemy with the lowest HP remaining, while her second active skill heals all of her allies depending on how much damage she has dealt.

Anti-Debuff and Max HP Buffs

The Will to Guide

Educator’s Wisdom

Skill Effects Summarized

Skill	Skill Effect
The Will to Guide	Level 1 (Unlocks by level 41) When Sophia is inflicted with a debuff, this skill decreases the number of turns of all debuffs she is afflicted with by 2. This skill activates 1 time every 4 turns.
	Level 2 (Unlocks by level 121) When she is inflicted with a debuff, additionally decreases the chance to inflict a debuff of the enemy that inflicted her by 20% for 1 turn.
	Level 3 (Unlocks by level 201) The decrease in the target’s chance to inflict a debuff becomes 50%.

Skill	Skill Effect
Educator’s Wisdom	Level 1 (Unlocks by level 61) Increases Sophia's max HP by 15% (cannot be dispelled).
	Level 2 (Unlocks by level 141) Additionally increases her chance to resist a critical hit by 15% (cannot be dispelled).
	Level 3 (Unlocks by level 221) The increases in her max HP and chance to resist a critical hit each become 30%.

Sophia's passives meanwhile protect her from debuffs by decreasing the turns of all the debuffs she's been hit with by 2. That's on top of a Debuff ACC debuff she'll inflict on anyone who debuffs her while she already has one debuff. She also gets CRIT RES and Max HP buffs.

Witches to Beat Sophia

Sophia Hard Counters

Nina

Tropon

Sophia can rely on Counter all she wants, but Nina will be able to steal her buff and use it for her own. There is also a good chance that buff dispellers will be able to take out her Counter buff as well.

Tropon also has a chance to steal Sophia's Counter buff if she ends up receiving a Critical Hit from her.

Sophia General Counters

Merlyn	Gil’uial	Carol
Primavera	Soltina	Lunalynn
Rusalka	Natasha	Priscilla

Sophia Sample Counter Teams

Nina Counter Team

Debuffer	Buffer	Attacker	Debuffer	Attacker
Nina	Merlyn	Fia	Cordie	Sivi

Nina steals Sophia's counter, while Fia and Sivi do damage to the rest of her party. You can tune the speed of this party specifically so that Fia's the slowest but will still move before the enemy team (so she can get the ATK buffs from Sivi).

Witches Not To Use Against Sophia

Cordie

Other attackers on their lonesome

What makes Sophia potentially deadly is how she can make your main attackers defeat themselves with her Counter stat. So don't put any attackers in your party without at least one buff dispeller.

Tips for Beating Sophia

Dispel Her Counter Buff

The biggest threat from Sophia is the Counter buff she gets from her Unique Weapon, so make sure to steal/dispel it first. Once that's done, she should be easy enough to take out.

Bring Along Tanky Units

If need be, consider bringing along units with multi-barriers DEF buffs, or even healers to keep your witches from succumbing to Sophia's attacks.

MementoMori Related Guides

Character Build Lists

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
Lunalynn

All SR (Limited) Rarity Character Builds

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