Mogwai

## Overview

Mogwai has many of the makings of a strong damage dealer. It has great crit including the important Sure Strike, it has two auras that allow additional stacks of buffs or debuffs, it has a strong Shift passive for damage, it has a coherent gameplan with skills that work together. However, it simply doesn't have enough skills to boost its damage, and without enough damage, its entire plan falls apart. Its Attack and Magic are both weak with no way to boost them aside from items, and its best damage multiplier, Single Strike, usually requires its team to be built sub-optimally to be used. It can pull a reasonable support build, which will likely be less of a detriment to your team if you really want to use Mogwai.

## Damage Dealer

#### Equipment

* Scythe / Torch
* Fin / Ancestral Medal
* Cape / Frozen Tear / Warrior Flask / Mage Flask
* Medallion / Fang / Ancestral Medal / Mage Flask

### Build Details

Sure Strike, Precision, and Critical Liquid give us 40% bonus Crit Chance on the first hit of a Water attack (which is why we use level 2 Avalanche as one of our attacks), while Magic Penetration and Spectral Cannon allow us to ignore a huge percentage of the target's Defense. Multi Glory allows us to boost our crit further, while Multi Chill is mostly here as an enabler for Shatter. Single Strike gives us 25% more damage at the cost of not letting us attack with our supports.

Gearing for Mogwai is very depending on how much your team can help boost your Crit Change. Mogwai can build full crit and still do okay, but any amount of crit support from your team, be it Glory buffs, Heroic Assault, or Chill debuffs thanks to Shatter, will free up Mogwai to run more damage multipliers. The most consistent but least damaging build would be Scythe/Cape/Fin/Fang and triple Raspberry, while the least consistent but most damaging build would be Torch/Ancestral Medal/Warrior Flask/Mage Flask and triple Cookie Mushroom. Alternatively, Mogwai does get two instances of Critical Consistency, and could run a full Crit Damage build with Torch/Fin/Frozen Tear/Medallion, though that build mostly serves to increase your toughness at the cost of damage.

### Team Options

Mogwai wants Glory buffs, and Chill debuffs on the enemy, and it wants its allies to not attack to preserve its Single Strike damage bonus, and unfortunately the list of candidates that meet all those requirements is basically none. However, some options do stand out:

* Bard and Thanatos are both strong options, able to use Full Offense on Mogwai, heal if necessary, and not needing to attack to be effective. Thanatos has Multi Sorcery and Heroic Assault while Bard has two instances of Heroic Party.
* Frosty has Full Offense and Buff Mastery as well as a second instance of Multi Chill, and can Shield Mogwai with Ice Shield, but isn't the greatest monster at applying Chill and has no other Chill support. Ice Blob is the only monster with Sub Zero that doesn't want to be attacking, while Shockhopper can use a support build and heal while also offering Sub Zero, though that build isn't the best at applying Chill either.
* Sutsune has Buff Mastery, can heal with Mass Restore while keeping the Single Strike boost intact, and has Blood Magic, which gives Mogwai a chance to apply Bleed with its attacks, but it's quite luck based.
* Spectral Wolf has access to Multi Chill, Multi Offense, and Improved Glory, but it's also just better than Mogwai in Mogwai's own role, so using Wolf to support Mogwai seems a bit backwards.

## Support

#### Equipment

* Fishing Rod / Restoring Wand / Hexing Rod
* Hide
* Crown
* Frozen Tear / Slime Skin

### Build Details

If you're dead set on using Mogwai, the best role for it would probably be as a support, which won't be as good as other options, but having a weak support and a strong damage dealer is likely better than a strong support and a weak damage dealer. Mogwai's combination of Multi Chill and Multi Glory is unique, and it has reasonable buffing skills, and a great shift passive for support.

Mogwai has a pretty coherent buff tree, which we want every single skill from. Magnitude allows us to apply two useful buffs, which we support with Buffing Heal, Buffing Shield, Buffing Restore, and double Combo Buffing. Helping Hand allows us to heal an ally while still applying multiple buffs to them, and our ultimate works like a buffed-up shroud, making our whole team harder to hit. We take Ice Storm with Multi Chill and Shatter to boost the Crit Chance of our allies further, and Magic Penetration can help them ignore Defense, depending on your team. 15% Crit Chance is enough to get one crit on average and trigger Critical Hybridization for more combo.

Fishing Rod adds more buffs, Restoring Wand complements Curse Breaker in adding more debuff removal, while Hexing Rod can be used to apply Chill debuffs. Hide and Crown boost Mogwai's toughness, Frozen Tear works well with double Critical Defense, while Slime Skin can be used to apply Weakness.

### Team Options

* Spectral Wolf is a good partner to this Mogwai build, as it wants Multi Glory, likes Multi Chill, and generally struggles against debuffs.
* Silvaero is another good option, as it likes Glory buffs and has Sub Zero, so it appreciates Mogwai's Chill debuffs.
* Dracozul is a good option either as a damage dealer or a second support, thanks to Sub Zero and Dragon Mastery combined with Flash Freeze.
* Shockhopper also has Sub Zero, Multi Chill, can apply Freeze, and actually benefits from Mogwai's Mage support.
* Specter has Multi Glory and Congeal, has its own Spectral Cannon, and appreciates Mogwai's Mage support.

## Checks and Counters

* Even with its ability to pierce defense, Mogwai struggles versus stall teams, which can often just take its hits regardless, and the damage dealer build can't clear their debuffs and can't bypass Phoenix Affinity.
* While it might have the damage output to oneshot monsters in aggressive teams when properly supported, It usually can't AOE the entire team down without multiple turns of setup, which is something an agressive team just won't give you.