Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-39230426-20190802165256/@comment-39230426-20190802210736

No, not Zizania herself, but just the effect of Pierce is the counter to many monsters in the game. As I've already stated, Zizania, other than Pierce, is a very underwhelming Elite. Makugan would literally do her job infinitely better if she was the one with Pierce. Ziz's stats are lackluster in comparison to many attackers we've gotten in recent times (like, dawg, listen to me, without a way to boost it, 3619 is a lackluster Power stat. It would be MUCH MUCH better if she got access to any form of Hater, lots of DoT effects, or Damage Boost, but as it stands, no), ALL OF HER SKILLS REMOVE PIERCE FROM HER EXCEPT HER RANK 4 SKILL, she is severely lacking in powerful and hard-hitting skills, her hardest hitting skill is base 65 in power and it's her Rank 4 skill, why do I need to go more in-depth with this? I thought everyone would realise she's not all that and vote SS.

So I'll keep going on, it should have been obvious from the get-go, but Ziz is obviously a self-sustaining attacker, AKA a tanky attacker. Sure her HP ain't up to snuff, but her skills say otherwise. Botanophobic Shield + Regeneration, Single Target Metal Weakness + Vampiric Drain + self NER, self Evasion + Regeneration + Extra Turn, another skill that's Self Vampiric Drain + NER, she is literally self-sustaining out the ass rather than an outright damage dealer. Not to mention it's actually REALLY easy to deny and defeat Ziz. Without the proper protection from a tank or something, she can easily have her (Rank 3 Status Casted) Pierce stripped away from her with PER and be susceptible to EVERY form of deny since she's only immune to Daze at Rank 2.

It's no doubt Pierce is amazing, but it really isn't on this specific monster. You want a good Pierce monster? It's way better to just give it time. SP will no doubt release a better Pierce monster in the future that will make Ziz basically nonexistant.