History Characters / ArknightsDefendersNToZ

'''Core''' Defenders are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. These guys have the greatest health by comparison to everyone else in their class, and can take the most punishment. Most of the time, their kit doesn't extend far beyond sitting there and be a MeatShield, as their damage output is usually poor, though there are exceptions, most notably Hoshiguma, who has high ATK and skills that facilitate her use as an offensive tank, and Nian, who's a multiclass. This archetype consists of Hoshiguma, Nian, Heavyrain, Croissant, Bison, Liskarm, Blitz, Cuora, Bubble, Beagle, Cardigan and Noir Corne.

'''Arts''' Defenders are less sturdy, but they're capable of dealing Arts damage when their skills are running, giving them better mileage against beefy enemies with a lot of HP, but low RES. This archetype consists of Asbestos and Dur-Nar.

'''Healing''' Defenders are those who can heal nearby allies and themselves with their skills. These Defenders serve as the middle ground between Normal and Arts Defenders, having middling HP, DEF, and ATK, but are almost invaluable to have due to their healing skills providing high sustainability for your lineup. Unlike Normal Defenders, however, Healing Defenders are not usually placed as the main tanks due to their significantly weaker staying power, and are more commonly deployed as supports instead. This archetype consists of Blemishine, Saria, Hung, Nearl, Gummy and Spot.

'''Enmity''' Defenders have great survivability and damage output, giving them good mileage as solo tanks. Like Enmity Guards, they can't be healed by Medics or Healing Defenders, but generate their own HP via certain skills or talents. They have a high DP Cost. This archetype consists of Mudrock and Vulcan.

'''Duelist''' Defenders have very high defense and attack, but are limited to 1 block, making them mainly suited to blocking and eliminating single, high threat targets that Duelist Guards and Fast-Redeploy Specialists won't fare well against, such as elite enemies or bosses. Another feature of Duelist Defenders is that they only generate SP while they are actively blocking an enemy. Currently, this archetype only consists of Eunectes.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: After using the recruitment feature at least 300 times, you get a voucher to exchange for her operator ''or'' Indra, alleviating the RareRandomDrop for either of them at least once. You'll still need to hunt for her to up her potential however...though that too can be eased by the fact that you have another opportunity to get her voucher once you've recruited 1000 operators, and that she can very easily take Epic Defender tokens to upgrade her potentials.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Vulcan is basically a Defender version of Hellagur, sporting very high stats across the board and is capable of great self-sustain when fighting alone. She's also one of the hardest to use properly due to her staggering DP cost (the second highest in the game, just behind [[spoiler:Mudrock]]) and poor synergy due to her inability to be healed by most Medics, making it very difficult to keep her alive in most heated situations; her long skill cooldowns don't help with this either, since her skills need to be running in order for her HP to regenerate (her higher rarity counterpart, [[spoiler:Mudrock]], has a talent proc that lets them restore some HP much more frequently). Even more so than Nian, who at least has a niche she can fit into, there really is never a moment where Vulcan would serve as a dramatic tide-turner, and as such, most of the players who have her tend to just keep her around as a trophy due to her rarity more than anything.

* HiddenDepths: Despite her obsession with smithing, Vulcan is apparently a pretty good baker. Her honey cakes (as well as those made by Lava and Matterhorn) are Ceobe's favorite snack.

* ParentalSubstitute: Acts as one towards Ceobe as she sponsored Ceobe's induction into Rhodes Island as an Operator and provides her help with various tasks, especially because she is extremely interested in the mysterious axe she wields.
* RareRandomDrop: Like Indra, she is only available as a recruitment-only character. However, despite having more guaranteed tag combinations than Indra [[note]]Defender/Defense and Survival guarantees her, assuming one of the tags or both didn't get crossed out; Defender/Defense and DPS can also grant her, though that tag combination is shared with Liskarm[[/note]], her rarity comes from her tags almost never appearing together, to the point some players have gotten Top/Senior Operator tags and/or even ''Indra'', but not her. Even when one of the guaranteed tag combination appears, there's still a chance of the tags being crossed out and the result ended up being a three-star unit instead.

** This is manifested in her base skill, where if assigned to a Factory, she has reduced morale consumption and also ''decreases'' the productivity of that facility.

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* '''Normal''' Defenders are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. These guys have the greatest health by comparison to everyone else in their class, and can take the most punishment. Most of the time, their kit doesn't extend far beyond sitting there and be a MeatShield, as their damage output is usually poor, though there are exceptions, most notably Hoshiguma, who has high ATK and skills that facilitate her use as an offensive tank, and Nian, who's a multiclass.
* '''Arts''' Defenders are less sturdy, but they're capable of dealing Arts damage when their skills are running, giving them better mileage against beefy enemies with a lot of HP, but low RES.
* '''Healing''' Defenders are those who can heal nearby allies and themselves with their skills. These Defenders serve as the middle ground between Normal and Arts Defenders, having middling HP, DEF, and ATK, but are almost invaluable to have due to their healing skills providing high sustainability for your lineup. Unlike Normal Defenders, however, Healing Defenders are not usually placed as the main tanks due to their significantly weaker staying power, and are more commonly deployed as supports instead.
* '''Enmity''' Defenders have great survivability and damage output, giving them good mileage as solo tanks. Like Enmity Guards, they can't be healed by Medics or Healing Defenders, but generate their own HP via certain skills or talents.
* '''Duelist''' Defenders have very high defense and attack, but are limited to 1 block, making them mainly suited to blocking and eliminating single, high threat targets that Duelist Guards and Fast-Redeploy Specialists won't fare well against, such as elite enemies or bosses. Another feature of Duelist Defenders is that they only generate SP while they are actively blocking an enemy.

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* BreakableWeapons: Saria's Calcification powers can invoke this on her enemies, according to her bio, where she would cause their equipment to become brittle and then shatter, thus depriving them of their offensive and defensive capabilities. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation It doesn't provide quite the same effects during gameplay, however. Rather than rendering her enemies completely unarmed like you'd think it would, it instead slows movement speed and makes them take more damage from Arts-based attacks.]].

* HeelFaceTurn: During the Mansfield Break event, she was infiltrating the prison in collaboration with [[spoiler: Muelsyse, who wanted Mountain under her thumb for an unexplained but dehumanizing purpose. Saria turns at the last moment to deliver him to Silence instead, who was trying to break him out for more altruistic reasons. Outside of some speculation, it's left unknown to both parties exactly why she did this.]]

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* PhysicalGod: Nian doesn't really do much to hide the fact that she is far older than she looks and possesses extremely powerful ablities beyond those of normal Ancients.

* TrueCraftsman: Nian is an insanely talented metallurgist, being able to craft almost anything with little effort and even create weapons with completely alien properties that Rhodes Island's best scientists can't replicate. This is represented in-game through her very powerful workshop base skills.

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Nian's shorts are so small, revealing most of her legs.

The former Radiant Knight of Kazimierz who, alongside Shining and Nightingale, formed the "Followers," a travelling healing group. Unlike the majority of modern-day knights, Nearl is extremely chivalrous, and wouldn't hesitate to throw herself into danger if she could protect someone; this has earned her the respect and admiration of many people, including those who sees the knights of Kazimierz in negative light. She currently under the employ of Rhodes Island as an operator.

* WillfullyWeak: As seen in the Kazimierz Major, Nearl's original fighting style was using her mace as a two handed weapon which was fearsomely powerful, and temporarily started a fad in Kazimierz where knights would try to imitate her two handed mace fighting style. However, in the present, she only two hands her mace as a last resort and prefers to use her shield to protect others. This and the other details mentioned in DentedIron above is presumably the reason why Nearl is only a 5-star operator in-game while Blemishine, another healing defender who is stated to be weaker than her and looks up to her, is 6-stars.

A former Knight of Kazimiers who is a member of the "Followers." She currently under the employ of Rhodes Island as an operator.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Vulcan is basically a Defender version of Hellagur, sporting very high stats across the board and is capable of great self-sustain when fighting alone. She's also one of the hardest to use properly due to her staggering cost (the second highest in the game, just behind [[spoiler:Mudrock]]) and poor synergy due to her inability to be healed by most Medics, making it very difficult to keep her alive in most heated situations. Her long skill cooldowns don't help with this, either. Even more so than Nian, who at least has a niche she can fit into, there really is never a moment where Vulcan would serve as a dramatic tide-turner, and as such, most of the players who have her tend to just keep her around as a trophy due to her rarity more than anything.

* WillfullyWeak: As seen in the Kazimierz Major, Nearl's original fighting style was using her mace as a two handed weapon which was fearsomely powerful, and temporarily started a fad in Kazimierz where knights would try to imitate her two handed mace fighting style. However, in the present, she only two hands her mace as a last resort and prefers to use her shield to protect others. This is presumably the reason why Nearl is only a 5-star operator in-game while Blemishine, another healing defender who is stated to be weaker than her and looks up to her, is 6-stars.

* WillfullyWeak: As seen in the Kazimierz Major, Nearl's original fighting style was using her mace as a two handed weapon which was fearsomely powerful, and temporarily started a fad in Kazimierz where knights would try to imitate her two handed mace fighting style. However, in the present, she only two hands her mace as a last resort and prefers to use her shield to protect others.

* BigDamnHeroes: In the prologue chapter, she arrives just in time with backup when Amiya and The Doctor's group are getting cornered by The Reunion's soldiers. It's all thanks to Dobermann firing a signal flare earlier, to which Nearl noticed.
-->"Radiant Knight, Nearl, at your service. Your chariot has arrived."

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Although she performs very solidly as a healing Defender, Nearl can end up on the receiving end of this trope if the player has Saria, who is effectively a direct upgrade to her. While their first skills are more or less the same ability, Saria's second skill[[note]]Automatically heals everyone within range, including Saria herself, while costing very little SP and does not require Saria to completely stop attacking[[/note]] and third skill have a much higher range than both of Nearl's skills, which grants her significant utility and ultimately results in Saria outclassing Nearl by a huge margin.

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* SeriousBusiness: Forging and inventing gadgets. Vulcan is so deeply engrossed in her craft that she sleeps in Rhodes Island's foundry and never leaves the place unless she's assigned on a mission. [[StoryAndGameplaySegregation Though, there's nothing stopping you from keeping her posted elsewhere, or removing her from a Factory should you feel like it.]]

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'''Operatives:''' [[Characters/ArknightsVanguards Vanguards]] ([[Characters/ArknightsVanguardsAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsVanguardsNToZ N-Z]]) | '''Snipers''' ([[Characters/ArknightsSnipersAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSnipersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsGuards Guards]] ([[Characters/ArknightsGuardsAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsGuardsNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsDefenders Defenders]] ([[Characters/ArknightsDefendersAToM A-M]] | '''N-Z''') | [[Characters/ArknightsCasters Casters]] ([[Characters/ArknightsCastersAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsCastersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsMedics Medics]] ([[Characters/ArknightsMedicsAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsMedicsNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsSupporters Supporters]] ([[Characters/ArknightsSupportersAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSupportersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/ArknightsSpecialists Specialists]] ([[Characters/ArknightsSpecialistsAToM A-M]] | [[Characters/ArknightsSpecialistsNToZ N-Z]]) \\