The Plague Doctor (Darkest Dungeon)

==Summary==
The Plague Doctor is a scholar and a scientist, and carries her research's fruits into the battlefield, using them to poison her foes and heal her allies. 
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: 
Name: Default name is Paracelsus, otherwise dependent upon RNG and player choice.
Origin: Darkest Dungeon
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Classification: Human, Plague Doctor
Powers and Abilities:
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Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Stealth Mastery (Albeit not as much as other party members, the Plague Doctor is skilled in in tracking and scouting, being able to locate looming threats and often pulling off ambushes) Weapon Mastery (Although the Plague Doctor mostly fights with her concoctions, she is also skilled with a dagger, and can easily inflict significant amounts of bleeding with her attacks), Social Influencing (Can inspire allies and reduce their stress through Encourage or Pep Talk), Regeneration (Mid-Low, capable of healing from nigh-lethal damage on the way back to the Hamlet), Smoke Manipulation (Fights by throwing satchels that contain dangerous gases), Poison Manipulation and Acid Manipulation (Specializes in inflicting Blight, which can manifest as either of these), Disease Manipulation (Stated to wield "plague-filled grenades"), Fragrance Manipulation and Statistics Reduction (Noxious Blast can temporarily reduce the accuracy of those hit by it), Perception Manipulation (Can temporarily blind and stun enemies with Blinding Gas, also decreasing their accuracy), Healing and Purification (Battlefield Medicine can heal a target slightly and cure them of Blight and Bleed. Experimental Vapours can heal someone and increase the effect of the healing they'll receive in the future. Leeches can remove Blight and Disease in addition to healing. The Cure can remove Disease and offer protection from it in the future. Self-Medicate will heal the Plague Doctor, remove some Stress, Blight and Bleed, and increase her accuracy for several battles), Statistics Amplification (Emboldening Vapours can increase speed, accuracy and damage for the entirety of a battle), Status Effect Inducement and Limited Deconstruction (Can confuse an enemy with Disorienting Blast, stunning them and making them change their position. Disorienting Blast will also remove all nearby corpses to the point that they'll no longer halt movement or attacks), Resistance to Stun, Debuff, and Bleed Inducement, Disease Manipulation, Acid Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Madness Manipulation, (Types 2 and 3), Mind Manipulation, Statistics Reduction, Curse Manipulation, and Poison Manipulation (Able to resist various status effects. In particular, her resistance to Blight and Disease are much higher than the average party member)
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Camouflage (Various trinkets make it easier for the Plague Doctor to dodge attacks if the environment is relatively bright or very dark), Statistics Amplification and Statistics Reduction (The Rotgut Censer improves her accuracy at the cost of health, Bloody Herb increases her accuracy in melee, damage and chance to inflict bleeding, Subject #40's Notes increase her health and Dissection Kit improves her damage and bleed chance. Various other trinkets can also increase or reduce her stats), Improved Perception Manipulation and Status Effect Inducement (Witch's Vial improves her attacks' stun chance, Blasphemous Vial improves her ranged accuracy and Stun and Blight chance at the cost of increased stress.), Improved Healing (Ashen Distillation improves her Healing potency alongside her Blight chance and her dodging abilities), Improved Poison Manipulation and Acid Manipulation (Poisoned Herb greatly improves her Blight's potency at the cost of health), Improved Resistance to Disease Manipulation (Through Diseased Herb, Subject #40's Notes and many other trinkets), Stun, Debuff, and Bleed Inducement, Acid Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Madness Manipulation, (Types 2 and 3), Mind Manipulation, Statistics Reduction, Curse Manipulation, and Poison Manipulation (Through various trinkets)
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Attack Potency: Small Building level (Can kill the Swine King, who can swing his cleaver with this amount of force)
Speed: Supersonic (Comparable to the Man-at-Arms, who is this fast. At least comparable to the Swine King who can swing his cleaver this fast)
Lifting Strength: Unknown, likely Class 1 (Possibly comparable to the Swine King, although weaker than most of her peers)
Striking Strength: Small Building level
Durability: Small Building level (Can withstand attacks from Swine King)
Stamina: High (Capable of fighting despite lethal and grievous injury, as well as crippling sicknesses such the Black Plague, and similar illnesses, or while being affected by heavy bleeding or blight)
Range: Standard Melee Range due to her knife's small size; Tens of Meters with her grenades (Should be able to throw them this far. Can hit several enemies at once with various attacks)
Standard Equipment: A dagger, sachets containing substances she's created, robes that offer a degree of protection and other sorts of medical equipment such as syringes and leeches. Optional equipment includes two trinkets. Here is a comprehensive list of trinkets in Darkest Dungeon and their effects.
Intelligence: Genius (Able to create both powerful healing medicines and dangerous and effective substances and weaponize the latter despite the medieval era she lives in. Able to skillfully fight the beings found in the Darkest Dungeon despite growing up as a scholar)
Standard Tactics: According to the Guild, the Plague Doctor is "A doctor, researcher and alchemist who prefers to hang back, eating away at her foes with stacking damage-over-time abilities like toxic clouds & plague-filled grenades. She is equally effective in a support role, blinding and confusing foes while enhancing a party's survival with damage-increasing tonics, and remedies for bleed and blight effects."
Weaknesses: Dependent upon quirks and trinkets gathered throughout the game, but can vary anywhere from being inflicted with the black plague, being incredibly abusive or fearful, or simply becoming stressed more easily. Cannot use many of her moves if she's too close to the enemy. Most of her moves don't inflict much immediate damage, instead focusing on building up damage over time through Blight. Many of her creations, even ones she uses for medicine, are experimental and untested, although they seemingly always work as intended.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
* Combat Skills:
** Noxious Blast: Inflicts Blight and temporarily decreases accuracy. Cannot be used at point-blank range.
** Plague Grenade: Inflicts Blight to everyone caught in the blast. Cannot be used at point-blank range.
** Blinding Gas: Temporarily blinds and stuns everyone caught in the blast, also reducing their accuracy. Cannot be used at point-blank range, and can only be used three times in a fight. Doesn't inflict damage.
** Incision: Stabs an opponent, causing bleeding.
** Battlefield Medicine: Heals an ally or herself, also curing Blight and Bleed.
** Emboldening Vapours: Boost the speed, accuracy and damage of an ally or herself for the rest of the battle. Can only be used twice in a fight.
** Disorienting Blast: Stuns a target, causing them to shuffle around in their team's formation. Also clears all corpses, preventing them from blocking attacks. Doesn't inflict damage and cannot be used at point-blank range.
* Camping Skills: (Cannot be used in combat)
** Encourage: Helps an ally calm down through medicines, reducing their Stress levels.
** Wound Care: Cures an ally's wound, removing Blight and Bleed.
** Pep Talk: Inspires one companion with a short speech, diminishing the amount of stress they'll suffer for the next few battles.
** Experimental Vapours: Heals an ally, and increases the effect of healing they'll receive in the next few battles.
** Leeches: Purifies an ally's blood with leeches, healing them and removing Blight and Disease.
** The Cure: Gives herself an injection that removes any disease and protects her from any future ones for the next few battles.
** Self-Medicate: Injects herself with a substance that reduces her Stress, removes Blight and Bleed, heals her and increases her accuracy for a few battles. 
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Losses:
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