Model Leader is a Water, Diamond Annie variant.
LIQUID COURAGE
| SA 1 | While Annie is alive, she clears the active Fighter's DEBUFFS and grants ARMOR for 15 seconds every 30/25/20 seconds. Water teammates also gain 2 stacks of ENRAGE for 15 seconds. |
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| SA 2 | Gain permanent AUTO-BLOCK for each 25/20/15% HEALTH lost. All Teammates benefiting from ARMOR or AUTO-BLOCK gain 4/5/6% BLOCKBUSTER METER when using a SPECIAL MOVE. |
| This fighter has recently been reworked and is currently being tested.
The information presented may be outdated. |
Tips and Tricks[]
Role & Strategy[]
- Model Leader is a defensive support fighter with a Signature Ability that clears all the team's DEBUFFS and grants them ARMOR every once in a while. Additionally, she gains permanent AUTO-BLOCK every time she loses a certain amount of health, making it difficult to start long chain combos against her without getting blocked.
- Model Leader's first Signature Ability makes her a fearsome defender and a good defensive support fighter. The ability to clear all teammate DEBUFFS allows them to overcome common offensive strategies such as BLEED, CURSE, and HEX, which can make it difficult to take down the whole team within the time limit. Thus, it is advised for players to use OUTTAKES and eliminate Model Leader first before defeating the rest of her team.
- Her second Signature Ability gives her permanent stacks of AUTO-BLOCK as she loses health. This won't be very influential if the player can eliminate her in a single combo, but with her ARMOR and generally high health, this won't always be possible, and she becomes much more of a problem in those situations. At low health, five permanent stacks make it difficult to do full combos or even start combos against her in the first place, making throws or unblockable Blockbusters the only reliable combo starters as they can't be blocked. Because of this, characters with good combo routes starting with their throws fare better against her. Fukua, Parasoul and especially Annie are good examples of this.
- The best way to counter Model Leader is to inflict HEX through fighters such as Death Wish or Red Velvet, rendering her vulnerable without any Signature Ability to rely on. Furthermore, characters with a relatively low number of hits but that can still land more than 5 hits (ideally 6–8 hits) such as Parasoul and Cerebella are recommended to deal significant amount of damage while bypassing BLUE SHIFT and Model Leader's AUTO-BLOCK.
- Another tactic would be to utilize DEADEYE as it allows you to simply ignore AUTO-BLOCK as it was never there, with the best users of it being Black Dahlia and variants such as Indomitable, Psykid and Blue Streak.
- PRECISION is another option to prevent Model Leader from gaining AUTO-BLOCK (as it disables Signature Abilities on hit). Because PRECISION gets consumed with each hit, you (ideally) have to use variants that get a lot of it like X-Bot, or variants with access to permanent PRECISION like Windswept and Hex Caliber.
- Due to AUTO-BLOCK only working when the opponent is standing on the ground, it will be beneficial to keep them in the air as much as possible during combos, for which you can use Eliza with her move WEIGHT OF ANUBIS, which is a command grab (cannot be blocked) and throws opponent in the air. Thus bypassing AUTO-BLOCK. By far the best Eliza variant to use against Model Leader is Stand Out as she has good damage output, gets additional damage boost with an Elemental Bonus and can outright prevent Annie from gaining permanent AUTO-BLOCK and ARMOR.
- Another option is DOOM, as it tends to be unremovable, bypassing Model Leader's debuff removal. Plus, it will kill her instantly upon expiration with no regard for ARMOR or AUTO-BLOCK, making her durability a non-factor. Notable DOOM users include Xenomorph, Dame Slayer and Guest Stars Brain Drain's Blastermind Brainstorm.
- Marquee Ability: As a defensive fighter, BLUE SHIFT is the recommended Marquee Ability for Model Leader to increase her durability and force opponents to use longer combos to deal damage. This synergizes very well with Model Leader's own secondary Signature Ability that gives permanent AUTO-BLOCK, making it difficult to properly finish a combo without getting blocked.
Stat Investment[]
- General Investment: As a defensive Annie, Model Leader is best built with HP, Resistance, Meter Gain and Defense.
- Special investment: No Special Investment is needed for this variant.
Preferred Moveset[]
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| Photo Bop | Gravity Slingshot | Sagan Beam | Burst | Destruction Pillar |
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Rift Battles[]
- Model Leader in Rift Battles can be a difficult opponent if you go unprepared due to her inherent synergy with Frost Armor, that significantly boosts her defensive attributes. Common strategies in dealing with Frost Armor often involve DEBUFFS such as BLEED, SLIME, CURSE, HEX and ARMOR BREAK, which can all be removed via Model Leader's first Signature Ability (unless she herself is HEXED).
- When paired up with durable defenders such as Heavy Metal, Megalomaniac and Reimaged, or variants that often force player to deal with them in a specific order such as Rose-Tinted, Dark Might and (again) Megalomaniac, players can find it increasingly difficult to defeat Model Leader and her teammates in the allocated amount of time. Other catalysts such as Auto-Immune, Angry Flinch and Curse of Knowledge can also be very useful to significantly cripple the player's offense and cover up defenders' weaknesses.
Trivia[]
- This variant is a reference to Nessa, one of the Gym Leaders in Pokémon Sword & Shield from the Pokémon franchise, with its caption being a direct quote from the character.
- This variant's name refers to the fact that Nessa is both a Gym Leader and a successful model within the game.
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Gallery[]
Fighter Reveal- Annie - MODEL LEADER - Skullgirls Mobile