Resonant Evil

Resonant Evil is a Dark, Silver Big Band variant.

MASTER OF UNBLOCKING

Signature Ability 1
Getting HIT has a 10% chance to grant ARMOR for 5/7/10 seconds.

Signature Ability 2
5% chance when HIT to STUN the opponent for 3/4/5 seconds while benefitting from ARMOR.

Tips and Tricks[]

Resonant Evil is a defensive fighter with a Signature Ability that grants him stacks of ARMOR when hit. While benefiting from ARMOR, he has a chance to STUN the opponent when hit, allowing the AI a window to counterattack. This makes him a dangerous fighter to face without any preparation.

Marquee Ability: As a defensive variant, FRONTMAN is the recommended Marquee Ability for Resonant Evil as it provides Resistance and damage reduction to make him more durable and more immune to DEBUFFS.

Stat Investment: As with any defensive variants, HP and Defense are important stats to further bolster Resonant Evil's defensive capabilities. At 50% defense, Resonant Evil only needs two stacks of ARMOR on him in order to take zero damage from opposing attacks, which makes him much harder to take down. Meter Gain and Resistance are also recommended to punish opponents and resist DEBUFFS such as CURSE and HEX which severely cripples his defenses.

Generally, using characters that can deal massive damage in low number of hits such as Cerebella, Beowulf, and Painwheel can be advantageous to lower the chance of activating his ability.

Resonant Evil's reliance on ARMOR is his greatest weakness as it makes him very vulnerable to DEBUFFS such as CURSE, HEX and ARMOR BREAK.
- CURSE prevents new BUFFS from being applied.
- HEX completely disables his Signature Ability.
- ARMOR BREAK removes his stacks of ARMOR while also increasing the amount of damage he receives.

Resonant Evil is countered by characters that can prevent, remove/steal BUFFS, inflict HEX and ARMOR BREAK, such as Doublicious, Purrfect Dark, Red Velvet, Silent Kill and Star-Spangled. Furthermore, characters such as Peacock, Parasoul, and Squigly all have a TAUNT that grants them IMMUNITY which can prevent STUN from being applied when hitting Resonant Evil.

Numerous characters also have the ability to remove buffs or inflict CURSE or ARMOR BREAK through the use of their special moves, such as:
- Eliza with the special move CHAOS BANISH that 100% guarantees BUFF removal.
- Cerebella with the special move BATTLE BUTT that inflicts ARMOR BREAK.
- Squigly with the special move DRAUGEN PUNCH that inflicts CURSE.
- Peacock with the special move GEORGE AT THE AIR SHOW that inflicts ARMOR BREAK.

Resonant Evil is a potent defender that synergizes very well with catalysts that grants ARMOR such as Darknut, Armor Rating and Futile Resistance. Players will have to devise ways to remove his ARMOR while dealing significant damage to avoid Futile Resistance's damage. Given his reliance on ARMOR, Autoimmune is a very useful catalyst to have to prevent DEBUFFS such as CURSE and HEX.

This variant's color palette is a reference to Sturm from the Advanced Wars series.

This variant is a reference to Jill Valentine, also referred as a Master of Unlocking, from the Resident Evil game series with its caption being a reference to a phrase derived from the the first installment of the game.