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Saida profile has been last updated at: July 29th, 2025.
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Profile
Skills
Ultimate
Seed Siphon
Unlocks at level 1
Cooldown: -
Range: Global
Initial Energy: 600
Active: Saida teleports in front of an enemy, preventing them from moving or acting. She then deals 520% + 60% damage and drains 220 + 20 Energy from the enemy. Saida remains unaffected while doing this and plants a Drain Seed in the enemy. She prioritizes enemies without a Drain Seed.
This seed drops to the ground if its host is defeated or if Saida uses her Ultimate on its host again. Up to 8 Drain Seeds can exist on the battlefield at the same time. In boss fights, Drain Seeds on the ground will not obstruct unit movement.
Passive: Every 2.5s, Drain Seed deals 250% damage to its host and reduces their Energy by 120.
Unlocks at level 51: Increases the skill damage to 540% + 60%.
Unlocks at level 111: Increases the skill damage to 560% + 60%.
Unlocks at level 171: Increases the skill damage to 580% + 60%.
Unlocks at level 231: Increases the skill damage to 600% + 60%.
Skill I
Crimson Claim
Unlocks at level 11
Cooldown: 6s
Range: 1 Tile
Passive: Saida restores extra HP equal to 100% of the damage dealt by her normal attacks and skills. Any excess healing from this effect is converted into a shield. The shield value cannot exceed 3000% + 300%.
Active: Saida forms a blood spike to pierce an enemy, dealing 420% + 40% damage and interrupting their action. If any Drain Seeds are within 1 tile of the enemy, each one also forms blood spikes to strike that enemy, dealing 30% damage.
Unlocks at level 71: Increases damage to 430% + 40%.
Unlocks at level 131: Increases damage to 440% + 40%.
Unlocks at level 191: Increases damage to 450% + 40%.
Skill II
Revenant Sprout
Unlocks at level 31
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 Tile
When Saida is defeated, she consumes a Drain Seed to revive at the seed's position, restoring 10% + 1% HP. She prioritizes the oldest seed available and restores an extra 2.5% HP for each second the consumed seed existed. The extra HP restored cannot exceed 50%.
Unlocks at level 91: Saida restores an extra 3% HP for each second the consumed seed existed. The extra HP restored cannot exceed 60%.
Unlocks at level 151: Saida restores an extra 3.5% HP for each second the consumed seed existed. The extra HP restored cannot exceed 70%.
Unlocks at level 211: Saida restores an extra 4% HP for each second the consumed seed existed. The extra HP restored cannot exceed 80%.
Hero Focus
Hero Focus
Unlocks after reaching Legendary+
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 tile
Saida reduces her damage taken by 12% during battle. She further reduces her damage taken by an extra 2% for each existing Drain Seed, up to a maximum of 10%.
Level 2: Saida reduces her damage taken by 16% during battle. She further reduces her damage taken by an extra 3% for each existing Drain Seed, up to a maximum of 15%.
Level 3: Saida reduces her damage taken by 20% during battle. She further reduces her damage taken by an extra 4% for each existing Drain Seed, up to a maximum of 20%.
EX. Skill
Deepening Roots
Unlocks after reaching Mythic+
Cooldown: 0s
Range: Global
Saida reduces the damage dealt by enemies afflicted with a Drain Seed by 35%. Each time she casts her Ultimate, the interval between Drain Seed attack effects is shortened by 0.5s, up to a maximum reduction of 1.5s for the current battle.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +5: Increases the damage dealt by Drain Seeds to 290%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +10: Increases the damage dealt by Drain Seeds to 330%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +15: When Saida has shortened the interval between Drain Seed's attack effects to its limit with Deepening Roots, she deals 1200% damage to all enemies and traps them with blood spikes, preventing them from moving or acting. If an enemy becomes unaffected, they are temporarily freed, but the trap resumes once the unaffected effect ends. Each enemy is always trapped for a total of 4.5s, taking 160% damage per second while trapped.
Enhance Force
Enhance Force
Unlocks after reaching Supreme+
Affects: Ultimate
When a battle starts, Saida plants Drain Seeds in 2 nearby allied heroes. These seeds do not harm allies but grant them a shield that can absorb 800% damage.
Season 4 Charm
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Review
Review
Saida is an S-Level character of the Rogue class who belongs to the Hypogean faction, who specializes in Life Drain, survivability, self-revives, and a stall-based game plan.
Saida’s ultimate, “Seed Siphon”, causes Saida to teleport in front of an enemy, interrupting them, dealing damage and draining energy while also planting a Drain Seed in the enemy, remaining unaffected while doing so and prioritizing enemies without a Drain Seed. Saida can have up to 8 Drain Seeds on the battlefield, and will passively deal damage and reduce energy from enemies carrying a Drain Seed.
Her first skill, “Crimson Claim”, allows her attacks and skill to drain HP, with excess healing converted to shield, and when activated, interrupts and deals damage to an enemy, with nearby Drain Seeds also dealing a small amount of damage too.
Her second skill, “Revenant Sprout”, allows Saida to always revive as long as there is a Drain Seed remaining on the battlefield, making her a powerful stall hero.
Now, for a quick overview of her performance in the various game modes:
Story and AFK stages – Saida’s damage scales well into high deficit, and once she gets going, she can solo entire enemy teams as she can keep some of the more dangerous enemies from using their ultimates entirely, while draining their health. Saida can also be quite tanky with proper support, and lacks the usual counters to her game plan in most afk stages, making her an effective afk stage pusher.
Dream Realm – While Saida can perform similarly to Baelran in some bosses, she has not earned a spot in any top teams for endless bosses quite yet, as she specializes in dealing with multiple enemies rather than single enemies.
PVP – For PVP, Saida is the ultimate stall carry, but takes some time to really get going, and wants to cast her ultimate multiple times to win the battle. Best paired with other characters who can either provide value while dead or revive, such as Athalia, Pandora, Talene, Tasi and Damian. She is a little slow for the current burst damage meta, and has many counters such as Shemira, Cryonaia, Athalia, Dionel and other high burst damage teams, but can be slotted into those teams to clean up after most of her team has died and provide some shields, otherwise, she needs a stall team built around her to be effective.
Investment
Legendary+ makes her tankier, providing damage resistance.
Mythic+ greatly reduces the damage dealt by enemies carrying a Drain Seed.
EX +15 plays into her stall game plan, providing an attack dealing massive damage and long-lasting CC after casting her ultimate 3 times.
Supreme+ gives her two drain seeds at the start of battle, given to allies, providing shields.
We recommended upgrading Saida to Supreme+ EX +15, as that is where most of the payoff of her kit comes online.
Conclusion
Saida is one of the best stall characters yet, and can solo teams by herself as long as she can survive long enough. Pull for her if you want to improve your stall teams for afk stages or PVP, otherwise, she is safe to skip.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Best stall carry yet, can revive herself as long as she has Drain Seeds.
Usually wins the battle after casting 3 ultimates.
Very tanky for a Rogue character, with great self-sustain.
Great at draining energy from enemies.
Cons
Long ramp-up time to set up her win condition.
Prone to getting sniped early.
Requires high investment.
Poor damage against bosses.
Ratings
General Ratings
S+
AFK Stages
S
PVP
B
Dream Realm (Overall)
Dream Realm Ratings
B
Nocturne
B
Sigmund
B
Necrodrakon
B
Crystal Beetle
B
Shellbrute
A
Creeper
B
Illucia
B
Thalassa
Guides
EX Investment
Since the
Temporal Essence
and
Twilight Essence
are very hard to obtain, you have to be really careful with the using them to upgrade the EX weapon. And in this guide we ordered all characters by the priority when it comes to how much they need investment in their EX weapon to work well and where should you stop to get the best bang for your buck.
Color explanation:
+X - where every character starts,
+X - the next step that you should do when investing into that character - for some characters this will be enough,
+X - the final step you should do when investing into that character - you can go beyond that later though once you have the Essences to spare.
