Why Is My Water Witch Weak Against Fire?

[Rephath]

I keep running into hordes of fire enemies, so I throw in a gremlin witch, water element. And she keeps takes extra damage from fire attacks. What's going on here?

[Rephath]

It's at a volcano, so maybe that's the issue?

[Rephath]

Or does the "weak" popup that I get when a water unit is hit with fire mean that it's doing weak damage, not that my unit is weak against the element?

[myhr2]

No, you're reading it correctly. Some skills allow to auto-crit, regardless of elements, though. Are the ennemies using the Exploit Wait skill?

[Rephath]

I'm on the Rescue the Girls quest with the ash elves at the volcano, and I keep getting whupped. My water units are getting hammered by their fire units. And the one chick keeps using conflagration. Peony will be at full health with shields and she'll get hit 5 times with that and go down, with most of her yellow counters removed, and it'll wipe out a couple other team members and shred the defense of two more, plus burn them. It's a nightmare.

[Rephath]

I have no idea what abilities they're using. I just know that the fire enemies are routinely targeting my water units and whenever they do it says "weak".

[Neuromaniac]

you may (and should) check traits simply by mouse cursor
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2740079382
as we can see, arc attacks give +100% damage to flying targets

also, if my memory serves me right, that ash girl can hit all targets in range + chain attacks
swarm her around and she'll deal with you in one turn

scrolls to buff Def stats might be useful as well

[Neuromaniac]

Originally posted by Rephath:

I have no idea what abilities they're using. I just know that the fire enemies are routinely targeting my water units and whenever they do it says "weak".

because fire attacks are 'weak' to water targets, so they are dealing reduced damage

remember Quick Guide screen?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2183933067

[Rephath]

Originally posted by Neuromaniac:

also, if my memory serves me right, that ash girl can hit all targets in range + chain attacks
swarm her around and she'll deal with you in one turn

Any unit nearby also takes damage, and she also casts damaging spells.

The problem I'm facing is I need to take her down quickly before backup arrives, and that seems like it would take 10 or so hits to achieve.

[myhr2]

Originally posted by Rephath:

I have no idea what abilities they're using. I just know that the fire enemies are routinely targeting my water units and whenever they do it says "weak".

This means the ennemis are actually using weak attacks against your units, so that's good. About that specific fight, you need to focus on all the small enemies, and when the leader is isolated, combo it to death in one turn. You can delay your units action to make them all go one after the other, which is really useful to position one or two melee units then make a lot of combo attacks on the same ennemy.