How to Beat Meria

MementoMori's 【The Witch of Budding Doom】Meria is one of the witches players will frequently encounter across the game. Read on to learn how to use the game's witches and mechanics to defeat them in battle.

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How to Beat 【The Witch of Budding Doom】Meria

How to Beat 【The Witch of Budding Doom】Meria Overview

【The Witch of Budding Doom】Meria
PvE Rank	PvP Rank

Base Rarity	Soul	Type	Role
SR (Limited)	Radiance	Warrior	Attacker/Buffer

Meria is a Radiance defensive buffer that does two things in a team: Gives her teammates sizeable SPD boosts and gives the main attacker of her team more time to survive until turn 2 (with the multi-barrier she grants them). Her attack power isn't too much to worry about in PvP as it takes too long to stack Growth Factor and players will probably use more powerful witches anyway while relegating her as a support or, possibly, a secondary attacker.

To beat her, you will need to take advantage of how she doesn't have any built-in debuff cleanse skills and, potentially, use a Meria of your own to try outspeeding her team. Just like with other same-character matchups, the Meria with the better gear, runes, rarity, and level should win.

【The Witch of Budding Doom】Meria Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths	Weaknesses
• 10% SPD buff for all allies that share the same soul type as long as she has her unique weapon and it's awakened to UR. • She can give the main attacker of her team a multi-barrier that can protect them during the first turn of a battle, ensuring they'll survive any first-turn nukes. • Her SPD buff for allies is non-dispellable so it cannot be removed by enemy buff dispellers.	• Requires too much time to ramp up her damage via stacking [Growth Factor] • Relies on allies having [Increased Chance to Hit] to deal optimal damage • Her SPD boost for herself is dispellable, so it can be dispelled/stolen • Her ACC self-buff activates only from the 5th turn onwards. The battle could already be over by then.

【The Witch of Budding Doom】Meria Skill Analysis

Vine Burst

Botanical Eruption

Vine Burst and Botanical Eruption are Meria's offensive skills. Vine Burst could be a potentially heavy-hitting attack if Meria manages to stack [Growth Factor], but there's a good chance she's taken out before she gets the chance.

Botanical Eruption, on the other hand, is a skill that gives multiple attacks with high base damage. It also increases with [Growth Factor] stacks. Its downside is that it relies on allies to have [Increased Chance to Hit] for optimal damage, which means giving up another slot in your party for a witch that raises this stat.

Auxin X

Seed of Ancient Ruin

Auxin X and Seed of Ancient Ruin are the main reasons why people field Meria. Auxin X makes her act like Primavera but with a bigger SPD buff. The 10% SPD buff she gives to allies and herself cannot be dispelled, so you can't use Nina or any other buff stealers/dispellers to counter that. However, her own SPD buff (that goes up to 20%) is dispellable, so you can target that if you need to.

Meanwhile, Seed of Ancient Ruin gives multi-barriers to her and the ally with the largest ATK on her team, which means you might not be able to take out the enemy's main attacker in turn 1. You can either use witches that have ramping damage like Fia (if you can't take them out on turn 1, take them out on turn 5 or 6), or use attackers with high hit counts that can deal enough damage and trigger the multi-barriers.

Witches to Beat 【The Witch of Budding Doom】Meria

【The Witch of Budding Doom】Meria Hard Counters

Rusalka

Rusalka can beat Meria by outspeeding her in PvP but it depends on whether your Rusalka has a higher rarity, better gear, and better runes than the enemy Meria. If yes, Rusalka will be able to take her or the main attacker of her team out. If not, then Rusalka's team will probably get decimated.

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Primavera

If you need more ways to outspeed an opponent that has Meria in their team, you can field your own Meria and add a Primavera to your team (preferably positioned in front of the enemy Meria to inflict Faint on her). Your team should get a 12% SPD buff, and Meria herself will get up to a 32% SPD buff.

Fia

Sivi

If you can't outspeed Meria, you can try to endure her and her allies' attacks and give back the damage they've dealt. Fia is good at paying back damage with interest, while Sivi has ramping damage that's good to go after a few turns. However, you'll need your own witches to protect these two and make sure they survive until their attacks pop off, as well as give them additional defensive buffs like multi-barriers, shields, damage cuts, etc.

【The Witch of Budding Doom】Meria General Counters

Paladea	Witch Illya	Mertillier
Apostle Rosalie	Armstrong	Mimi
Artie	Lunalynn	Stella

【The Witch of Budding Doom】Meria Sample Counter Teams

Meria Speed Team (Emerald)

Buffer	Attacker	Buffer	Debuffer	Debuffer
Meria	Lea	Merlyn	Cordie	Primavera

Unless you are fighting in very high-level PvP, a team of Meria plus a bunch of Emerald soul characters could do well to counter Meria teams and be a decent PvP overall.

Meria speeds up Lea, who will then target the enemy team's main attacker. Cordie acts as a secondary attacker and debuffs the enemy team's DEF (so she should have her unique weapon). Primavera provides additional SPD boosts but she's also here to stun Meria, so put her in front of wherever the enemy Meria is.

Witches Not To Use Against 【The Witch of Budding Doom】Meria

Rusalka

If you don't have enough resources to outspeed a team with Meria in it, don't try to field Rusalka or any attacker that's too slow and wouldn't be able to survive the first few turns.

Fenrir

Natasha

Since Meria has a 10% SPD boost, slow characters like Fenrir and Natasha may not inflict damage on Meria or her team and may be defeated before they can.

Nina

Though normally useful in PvP, Nina's low hit count means she'll have a tough time breaking through Meria's multi-barriers. She can also be beaten by Meria and whichever witch is teamed up with her when it comes to SPD and who gets to fire first.

Tips for Beating 【The Witch of Budding Doom】Meria

Use Debuffers

Since Meria's [Multi-Barrier] can be bypassed by debuffs, make sure to have a debuffer in your team to hinder Meria's movements and overall effectiveness.

Use High-Damage/Burst-Damage/High Hit Count Attackers

Meria's [Growth Factor] needs time to be set, so get attackers who can do that at turns 1-2 to eliminate Meria and her support for her team. Also, get attackers with high hit counts to break through her multi-barrier.

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