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How does cancel affinity work?

So from my understanding cancel affinity has 2 effects:
1) Unit with skill is removed from colour triangle
2) Foe which is colour advantage against unit with skill becomes colour disadvantage.

However the wording for the second effect is weird as it in reliant on the ally unit’s colour triangle disadvantage. So if a green ally meets a red foe both of which have cancel affinity what happens?

My other question is what effect does triangle adept or the gem weapons equipped by a for have if an ally unit has cancel affinity?

Asked by Kezzang2 months 3 weeks ago

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Cancel Affinity lets units fight against foes with TA or a Gem Weapon against them as if nobody has a color advantage or disadvantage.

Let me try explaining it with an example.

Say you have a Normal Takumi vs. a Robin with Triangle Adept and Blarraven. Takumi would recieve heavy damage due to the combo Robin has, since Blarraven grants the wielder a color advantage to colorless units, and Triangle Adept makes it more damage. If you give Cancel Affinity to said Takumi, Robin and Takumi fight as if no one has an advantage.

For the first question, only the green unit will have Cancel Affinity active as they are the ones at a disadvantage.

As for the second, it will disable both skills only if they are at a disadvantage.

1st effect: "Any weapon triangle affinity granted by unit's skills is negated."
Means if you have triangle adept or gem weapon and cancel affinity equipped at the same time, your TA/gem does nothing.

2nd effect: "If affinity disadvantage exists, weapon triangle affinity granted by foe's skills is reversed."
Means if your unit is at a triangle disadvantage fighting against someone who has TA/gem and you have CA, the effect of their TA/gem is reversed so instead of doubling the effect of triangle advantage it cancels it out, effectively making it a neutral matchup.

That's it. It's an extremely situational skill for countering Triangle Adept. It does nothing 99% of the time.