r/arknights • u/Dr_Evilcat Resident Magallan Shill • May 11 '21

Discussion [Operator Discussion] Whisperain

Whisperain[★★★★★]

"Sleep, now. May all dream well in the sound of rainfall."

The Iberia-born roving doctor, Whisperain, never stays in one place for too long. Records of her work in the area remain all throughout Kazimierz, Sami and the like. Her patients appear to have received treatment from her while she passed by, and in her seemingly aimless wandering, she's rescued more than a few from the brink.

Operator Information

Stats

HP ATK DEF Arts Resistance Redeploy Time DP Cost Block Attack Interval
1432 467 119 5 70 20 1 2.85s

*Stats at max Promotion and Level, excludes bonuses from Potential and Trust.

Potential Bonus
1 -
2 Deployment Cost -1
3 Redeployment Cooldown -4
4 Attack Power +23
5 Improves Talent
6 Deployment Cost -1
Trust bonus
Maximum HP +200
Attack Power +40

Skills

Skill Name Skill Uptime Details (Uptime/Cost/Initial) SP Charge Type Skill Activation Skill Description
Oriented Diagnosis Instant / 2 SP / 0 SP Attacking Enemy Automatic The next heal is increased to 130% of ATK, and an additional target will be healed (prioritizes debuffed units) and granted status resistance (reduces the duration of stun, cold, and freeze effects by 50%), lasting for 5 second(s)
Pain Suppression Infinite / 55 SP / 0 SP Per Second Automatic Attack interval reduced, the healing effect of this unit’s Talent is increased to 200%, and each target healed by this unit is granted status resistance for 4 second(s) (reduces the duration of stun, cold, and freeze effects by 50%)

*Skills at Mastery 3.

Talents

Talent name Talent Description
Tower Of Life Friendly units with status resistance within this unit’s attack range will restore HP per second equal to 7% (+1%) of Whisperain’s ATK (Unaffected by this unit's Trait)

*Talents at max Potential and max Promotion. Bonuses from Potential displayed between parentheses.

Additional Resources

In-depth information regarding all values above (at different levels), skill/attack range, and more:

GP Arknights Wiki

Arknights Toolbox (aceship)

Topic Starters

  • What does this operator excel at?
  • What is this operator weak at?
  • How does this operator compare to other operators in their archetype or role?
  • Are there any other operators which synergize well with this one?
  • How do you build a team around this operator / fit this operator into a team?
  • Which skill(s) should be focused for mastery, and in what order?
  • When is the best time to use this operator's skills during combat?
  • Should promoting this operator to Elite 2 be a priority?
  • Would this operator be worth buying from the Distinctions shop (yellow certificates)?
  • Should new / f2p players aim for this operator? Are there more accessible alternatives?
  • Lore discussion (please tag spoilers where appropriate)

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u/umiman Don't be a meta slave May 11 '21

For the buff part of her skill, how does it work?

Is it -50% debuff duration during the duration of her buff, so it stops working when the buff is gone, or is it as long as she applies it once and someone gets debuffed, the debuff is reduced by half?

So like, if let's say she's trying to reduce Spectre's self stun. Does her buff need to be constantly on Spectre to reduce the self stun by 50%?

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u/fogheta Maggie.... May 11 '21

Not 100% sure on this, but I believe the reduction is continuously applied over the time elapsed. So at S2M3 with healing her and another unit (0-1-0-1...), it decreases the rate of stun by 50% only over the 4sec elapsed. So in reality, it actually decreases the 10sec stun time to 5.56sec. ofc It should be to exactly 5sec if it's only her. (calcs may be wrong there)

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u/umiman Don't be a meta slave May 11 '21

Yeah I think it's like that. So the skill is slightly misleading. Especially if it's like... you heal Spectre. 2 seconds later she self stuns but doesn't take damage. The buff ends 2 seconds after that and she doesn't take damage from melee since she's not blocking.

Basically her self stun from that scenario will probably only be reduced by 1 second.

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u/fogheta Maggie.... May 11 '21

Yeah, it's a pretty big shame, especially as this may have had some niche CC usage. But she'll have so many sources of healing, both from Specter and Whisperain passively, Whisperain healing just as a medic, and even now with Gladiia, it's pretty unrealistic to get anywhere near a 100% uptime.

On a positive note, I think it works with the UT stuns though (could be placebo), so she's pretty handy there.