Ornithopter

## Overview

Ornithopter is a versatile offensive support that can buff, charge, remove debuffs, and shield its team while also building combo and cleansing opposing buffs. It can also function as a DPS, or alternate between support and DPS depending on what its team needs in the moment.

## Standard Support

#### Equipment

* Hammer
* Coat
* Bead Chain / Fin
* Buckler / Brooch / Sun Pendant / Gauntlet

### Build Details

Ornithopter can attack with Gale to build combo, apply buffs and grant the team Charge stacks with Critical Boon and Critical Buffs while removing enemy buffs with Cleanse and Punishment. Concealed and Evasion will help Ornithopter survive long enough to build up a full shield through Charging Shield and Mana Shielding, which can make it deceptively persistent. While Ornithopter can blow the other team away with Gale, Arcane Diffusion is an important attack as well for single target buff cleansing and focusing. It may get less combo, but removing Barrier, Evasion buffs, and knocking Heroic Defense down a few stacks on opposing monsters can easily make up for the difference.

Over the course of the battle, Ornithopter can become a rather menacing threat that surpasses being a support and can even replace a DPS in a pinch. Armor Bypass, Cascade, great crit stats, unresisted attacks, and utility for the team are all quite valuable traits to have.

### Team Options

* Aerial damage monsters such as Spectral Eagle and Draconoir can both benefit from Ornithopter's 7% crit bonus to aerial monsters. Spectral Eagle also has shock and charge boosting abilities that make Ornithopter an ideal support.
* Sutsune has Multi-Sidekick, Cleansing Sidekick, and Buff Steal, along with great healing and mass restore to make a very synergistic support core.
* Aazerach has Martial Prowess and blind stacks as well as Buff Steal and Multi-Sidekick, which can pair well with Ornithopter on a dodge-focused team.
* Silvaero's Charge Amplifier, Heroism, and Heroic Party make it an amazing DPS when paired with Ornithopter.
* Monk, Ascendant, Salahammer, Vaero, and Raduga can all join Ornithopter as crit-based offensive supports.

## Utility Damage

#### Equipment

* Scythe
* Gray Pearl
* Fin
* Fang

### Build Details

Ornithopter has an alternative damage-focused build where it can wipe entire teams with Gale while still being almost the exact same as the support build. It loses out on bulk, a bit of charge, and doesn't apply shock, but this build boasts impressive damage (especially after a turn of attacking) and great utility within a team, as DPS Orni can still function as a support if the situation calls for it. This kind of in-battle flexibility is exceedingly rare, and makes this set worth considering alongside the default support set.

### Team Options

* Beetloid can boost up DPS Ornithopter with charges and Sorcery.
* The same team options for support Ornithopter are still good with DPS Ornithopter.

## Checks and Counters

* Ornithopter relies on having a shield to be able to take hits, so it's very vulnerable on the first turn of the battle before it gets shields and barrier. Concealed can help to mitigate this to an extent.
* Leaf Slash, Boulder Toss, and Poison stacks can take advantage of Ornithopter's weakness, while also being undodgeable damage.
* While it has Buffing Restore, debuff teams that don't use many buffs will make Ornithopter's cleansing abilities obsolete