How to counter absorb?

[Juvante]

Baralai, in the youth league arena, is the biggest POS in the whole lineup. How do you deal with this turd taking away all your MP?

My creatures can't use items and despite having SOS spellspring to give me a chance to use absorb myself.......he keeps spamming looming glacier which reduces my down to ZERO MP. Then he spams absorb to get his hp back.

I'm literally stuck in a combat loop with this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Hinnyuu]

One solution would be to get passive (not SOS) Spellspring, though that requires the Ragnarok accessory, which you may not have access to yet.

The best way to deal with it is probably to not rely on MP in the first place, using fiends that have strong attacks that don't use MP and healing them via Vigor (also no MP cost). Baralai doesn't really have anything that can kill you, so you can just whittle him down like that.

[Juvante]

Turns out MP Absorb costs no mana, that did the trick. I wasn't aware of its zero cost.