Ninki

## Overview

In a lot of ways, Ninki is a discount Druid Oak. It's a healer that uses Life Wave, and mixes debuff healing effects with Remunerate and Regeneration support. While Ninki's healing is better, Oak's is good enough, and has significantly better debuff support as well as higher toughness

However, the thing that sets Ninki apart is its access to Overheal. With its absolutely enormous healing bonuses, it can turn Life Wave into a significant shield for the full team, while also allowing Regeneration buffs to turn into shielding in a way no other monster can, thanks to Regeneration Shield and Overheal.

On the offensive side, Ninki is one of only two monsters with two instances of Cascade, and double Overcast can boost its damage too, but a lack of coverage or AOE options hinders its effectiveness.

Overall, neither of Ninki's role are particularly commonplace and Ninki itself isn't commonly seen, but for the keeper that wants to make it work, it can offer some unique traits.

## Overheal Turbo

#### Equipment

* Harp
* Tambourine
* Drum
* Ocarina

### Build Details

This build is aiming to use Life Wave together with Overheal as a source of enormous team shielding. In order to power up Life Wave, we take every healing bonus we can. Double Overcast, Double Cascade, we take Bolster and Healing Shield to be able to buff with our Life Wave, and we take Breaking Support and Armor Crush to debuff with our Life Wave, with Remunerate to tie them together.

This build forgoes some toughness options to obtain the maximum possible healing boost, running a full set of instruments as well as triple Cookie Mushroom, which boosts both our healing and shielding.

If you specifically want an Enlightened support for a Reptile or Dragon team, you can use Ninki for that, and drop the healing boosters for toughness items like Hide and Crown but Ninki Nanka has similar skills and is more effective as a damage dealer than Ninki is as a support.

### Team Options

* Gryphonix is a good partner for this build, sharing Regeneration support and having Restoration, being able to fuel its own damage with Critical Mass and Slow Burn, and really appreciating Ninki's shielding.
* Crystal Snail has excellent damage output with Volatile Shield and shares debuff synergy with Ninki, who can easily enable it to use a full power Volatile Shield every turn.
* Grummy and G'rulu both share synergy with Regeneration and Armor Break and appreciate Ninki's shielding to enable them to run more aggressive builds.
* Because you have Overheal, you can run a second healer like Druid Oak and not be wasting its actions if your team is already on full HP, and a Druid Oak with full shield is nearly impossible too break.

## Damage Dealer

#### Equipment

* Swallow / Moon Sword
* Bracer
* Pandora's Box
* Totem

### Build Details

This build aims to leverage Ninki's double Cascade and double Overcast into a strong damage dealer. Our combination of buff support and debuff support returns, with debuffs now generated by Slime Shot and Breaking Spells, and we're taking the two attacks Ninki has access to and every damage buff it has. This build uses Light shift to enable buff sharing strategies, though a Gray Pearl crit build has similar damage and more toughness.

Swallow is the preferred weapon for this build, though you could consider Moon Sword if you expect to get some Glory buffs from allies and maybe crit a few times. Bracer and Totem provide health and both offensive stats, while Pandora's Box provides some much-needed defense as well as some starting buffs.

### Team Options

* Dracomer is an excellent partner, Draconic Lineage allows Ninki to hold an extra instance of every buff. Draconov works well to, able to buff and heal Ninki. Dracozul provides Multi Sidekick, which works well with double Cascade.
* Fellow Enlightened reptiles Aazerach, Imori, and Ninki Nanka can be used together in a reptile core, though both Ninki Nanka and Imori compete for the Damage Dealer role
* because of double Cascade, Ninki works well on Sidekick teams. Dracozul as mentioned works well, as do Aazerach, Dodo, Ascendant, and Asura

## Checks and Counters

* While not necessarily frail, Overheal Ninki needs to devote its entire build to healing bonuses to really perform optimally, which leaves it quite frail for a healer. Naturally the shielding can help with this, but you could be at risk of losing Ninki turn 1 if going second or needing to shield another monster.
* Offensive Ninki has poor elemental coverage and struggles to break monsters not weak to its attacks. Thankfully no monster resists both magical earth and physical water, but they don't have the best super effective coverage either. It also relies on multi buff auras from allies to really shine.