Red Halloween Matrona

Published October 20 2021

Last Updated October 24 2023

## Skill Effects

Cancels Buffs and Stances, Taunt, Increases Defense-related Stats, Decreases Skill Ranks, Depletes Ultimate Move Gauge orbs, Increase Regeneration Rate

## Association

[Halloween] Mercenary Matrona taunts enemies and minimizes damage to allies.

## Ultimate

**Damage Multiplier: 560% / 616% / 672% / 728% / 784% / 840%**

## Hero Guide

Halloween Matrona, commonly known as Red Matrona, was the featured unit in the Happy Halloween Step-Up Draw (October 19, 2023 - November 09, 2023). Her kit allows her to serve as a tank by increasing her defensive capabilities and directing all enemy attacks to herself, as well as a healer at the same time by increasing her allies’ regeneration rate at the start of her turn. She can also Remove Buffs from a problematic enemy, thus hindering their fighting prowess and neglecting skills that rely on them such as Amplify, and with high enough ranks she can even Cancel Stances. She can also provide some degree of control by decreasing the rank of enemy skills and depleting the Ultimate Move Gauge of the target enemy. Her particular kit makes her instrumental across many game stages, from starting Story content to late-game content such as Demonic Beast Battles or Hero Arena.

Stat-wise, Halloween Matrona has a high base HP, Regeneration Rate, Crit Chance, and Crit Defense.

### Pros

* Able to heal allies with her Unique ability.
* High base HP and Regeneration Rate.
* Removes enemies Buffs and Stances.
* Ult prevents enemies from using high rank cards and depletes their ult move gauge.
* Holy Relic helps out the best Giant units like Red Festival Queen Diane and Red Skadi.
* Can soak up powerful single attacks and ult moves which can heal her allies based on the percentage of HP she's missing.
* Her Holy Relic works in the Sub.

### Cons

* As a seasonal unit, her availability is limited.
* Low Attack, Pierce Rate, and Crit Damage
* Countered by Buff Removal, Disable Buff Skills and Block Skill Effects.
* Enemies with Infect Debuff can block out healing from her unique
* Enemies with Charge, Shatter will ignore her defense related stats enhanced by her buffs and can be used against with units that have Power Strike as her resistance will be increased and will cause take extra damage from Power Strike attacks
* Can't completely protect her allies from damage by reducing the damage taken from them by massive AOE attacks, which, if strong enough they can end up with the other units defeated.
* Her Holy Relic only works on other Giant units for the extra stats benefit and they have the least amount units in game.

### Skill Review

**Rising Rock Pillar** - Halloween Matrona’s primary attack skill removes buffs from her enemy while she is attacking. Rank 3 of this skill also Cancels Stances in addition to Buff removal.

**Heavy Metal** - Is a very convenient skill that works well with her Unique ability. While the Taunt is active, Halloween Matrona increases her Defense-related stats (Defense, Resistance, Crit Resistance, and Crit Defense) for three turns. She can effectively soak and minimize damage.

**Ultimate Move: Prison Grip** - Halloween Matrona’s Ultimate is widely used for its utility more than the damage. The purpose is to mitigate the enemy’s skill damage and remove their ult gauge based on the amount of skill rank decreases. Oftentimes, it is a good strategy to reduce Hraesvelgr’s incoming damage by canceling the pre-casted Ultimate Move and limiting the number of attacks for the next round.

**Unique: Warrior's Pride** - This is the main reason why Halloween Matrona is one of the best Tank/Support hero in the game. Her Unique ability has a pseudo-healing effect when kept at low HP. Her Taunt ability allows her to be more effective in utilizing this effect.

### Usage

**Equipment Set**

Life (HP) / Iron Wall (Defense)

Substats:

Bracer/Ring - Attack

Necklace/Earring - Resistance or Defense

Belt/Rune - HP

**Hraesvelgr** - Halloween Matrona is key in beating higher floors of the Demonic Beast battle. Her Taunt ability protects allies from single-target bursts and causes Hraesvelgr’s Air Blast to miss. Moreover, your team can remove a dedicated healer because her Unique ability can sufficiently provide large amounts of healing from the Regeneration Rate boost although be warned as some of the boss' phases have inflect debuffs that can pose a threat to your team so bring a cleanse or a unit that gives debuff immunity to allies to ensure her unique heals the team.

**Eikthyrnir** - She can be used to soak the boss' single attacks and remove buffs if the rotation in even number phases that forces you to attack the boss without being penalized if the boss activates it's buffs including a evasion one where it is impossible to hit without a ult move or be forced to use Green Jormungand that will pentalize you to use her buff removal. However Matrona's Stance Removal at Rank 3 Cards will be rendered useless on the boss' stances on Phase 4 of each floor due to it being immune to stance cancel but her unique can allow your team to heal back wait you wait out the stances and keep your team from dying since Jormungand can't use her recover from damage dealt cards without being one shotted and heavily capped by it's damage reduction cap from it's stance.

**Skoll and Hati** - Martona can replace a dedicated healer and her taunt will soak up of the bosses single attacks or if you don't have Red Festival Queen Diane. However some phases will have infect and disable buffs so recommend bringing a cleanse or a unit that applies debuff immunity to allies. She can be paired with Red Skadi if she has her Holy Relic as it gives Giant allies a basic stat boast and Skadi will benefit from it due to her being a Giant and one of the few Giant units still useful in Endgame content other than Matrona and Red Festival Queen Diane. The 25% stat increase will help out Skadi out and Skadi's unique will weaken the bosses attack and defense while will your allies to deal more damage and prevent from one-shoting Matrona before she can heal herself from her unique and Tarmiel's Grace if he is in her association slot if they use any powerful attacks. Her attack cards will also allow remove the bosses buffs and if rank 3 cards their stances too.

Nidhoggr - She can be used in a Giant Team with Red Festival Queen Diane, and Red Skadi as they will benefit from her relic with Traitor Meliodas on the team for his passive to reduce damage taken from the beast’s attacks

**PVP** - Halloween Matrona is still viable in PVP for teams that benefit from Taunt and Buff removal skills. The effect of her Unique ability can greatly heal allies when Matrona survives with low HP.

**Original Demon** - She be used as a substitute taunt unit if you don't have Red Festival Queen Diane to tank most of the Original Demon's damage and make use of her passive to heal up allies lost health taken by the boss. In addition her buff removal can remove his reflect in phase 2 that can pose a threat to your team and alllies' heavy hitters. However keep in mind she will be only able to reduce damage to herself as most of the Original Demon's attacks are AOE (As only his phase 2 has all single attacks and first and last phases ults are single attacks) so your allies will still take the full force of his attacks and make sure to bring in a purifier or unit with debuff immunity effect as his Blocks all skill effects will prevent her from using her taunt and buffs from activating since they're registered as buffs.

**Hero Arena -** She’s primarily used in a Demon Team with Red Melascula, Dark Purgatory Meliodas, Red Skadi, and herself, trying to have the lowest HP so the enemies target her. Since Melascula will keep her at 1 HP, she will repeatedly provide a massive heal to her allies, which will (in most cases) fully heal them. With the taunt up, she will be an unpassable barrier.

## Story

Matrona is a former warrior chief of the Giant Clan, as well as a mentor to Diane and Dolores.

15 years ago, Diane, Dolores and Matrona were hired as mercenaries to battle against an invading army of savages. The savages had also hired a giant, the western warrior chief, Dumbelbas. Matrona challenged Dumbelbas in the midst of the battle, which led to the latter's death. Upon their return, Matrona scolded both Diane and Dolores for their pathetic display in the battle. After scolding them, she continued to train Diane and Dolores, pushing them to their limits to enhance their strength.

Source: https://nanatsu-no-taizai.fandom.com/wiki/Matrona