Karin Mered
Last updated 2026-01-16
Karin Mered a delivery girl with her mother. Because of a series of events, she entered Houkai Gakuen by mistake.
Outfit lore
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A girl who delivers couriers with her mother needs to go to Nagazora City to deliver couriers because of her work. From now on, she will start a new life as a student of Houkai Gakuen year 6.
Blackstar Ascended
Now that she is a high-school girl, it is normal to have a few more sets of the same style but different colors in her wardrobe! This is not a waste of money!
Character Growth
Level
| Level | Effects |
|---|---|
| 1 | +10% Melee Crit Rate |
| 2 | +10.5% Melee Damage |
| 3 | +3.2% Movement Speed |
| 4 | +2.7% Damage Reduction |
| 5 | Unlock skill "Fantasy Greatsword" |
| 6 | +10% Melee Crit Rate |
| 7 | +10.5% Melee Damage |
| 8 | +3.2% Movement Speed |
| 9 | +2.7% Damage Reduction |
| 10 | Unlock skill "Hunter Instinct α" |
| 11 | +10% Melee Crit Rate |
| 12 | +10.5% Melee Damage |
| 13 | +3.2% Movement Speed |
| 14 | +2.7% Damage Reduction |
| 15 | Unlock skill "Decapitation Skill α" |
| 16 | +10% Melee Crit Rate |
| 17 | +10.5% Melee Damage |
| 18 | +3.2% Movement Speed |
| 19 | +2.7% Damage Reduction |
| 20 | +10% Melee Crit Rate |
| 21 | +10.5% Melee Damage |
| 22 | +3.2% Movement Speed |
| 23 | +2.7% Damage Reduction |
| 24 | +10% Melee Crit Rate |
| 25 | Unlock skill "Terror Beacon α" |
| 26 | +10.5% Melee Damage |
| 27 | +3.2% Movement Speed |
| 28 | +2.7% Damage Reduction |
| 29 | +10% Melee Crit Rate |
| 30 | Unlock skill "Destruction Wave α" |
| 31 | +10.5% Melee Damage |
| 32 | +3.2% Movement Speed |
| 33 | +2.7% Damage Reduction |
| 34 | +10% Melee Crit Rate |
| 35 | +10.5% Melee Damage |
| 36 | +3.2% Movement Speed |
| 37 | +2.7% Damage Reduction |
| 38 | +10% Melee Crit Rate |
| 39 | +10.5% Melee Damage |
| 40 | +3.2% Movement Speed |
| 41 | +2.7% Damage Reduction |
| 42 | +10% Melee Crit Rate |
| 43 | +10.5% Melee Damage |
| 44 | +3.2% Movement Speed |
| 45 | +2.7% Damage Reduction |
| 46 | +10% Melee Crit Rate |
| 47 | +10.5% Melee Damage |
| 48 | +3.2% Movement Speed |
| 49 | +2.7% Damage Reduction |
| 50 | +10% Melee Crit Rate |
Maximum stats:
- +120% Melee Crit Rate
- +126% Melee Damage
- +38.4% Movement Speed
- +32.4% Damage Reduction
Skills
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Potential
Hunter Experience Replace "defeating enemy" condition of the skill "Terror Beacon" with "trigger when hitting an enemy whose HP <40%, only trigger once per enemy" |
Formation Experience -100% Initial cooldown of "Fantasy Greatsword" and the skill directly defeats normal enemies/normal elites. |
Suppression Experience +8% proportion of enemy's HP that triggers the "Decapitation Technique" |
Throne of Redemption -35% "Fantasy Greatsword" cooldown. Each enemy defeated by the Ultimate skill +5% Physical Damage caused by Ultimate, max 6 stacks. |
Equipment build
As there are many stats related to Melee Crits, it is recommended to build Karin with focused on Melee Crit equipment.
For skill building, it is recommended to use these skills:
- Hunter Instinct β as α is basically the downgrade and γ provide no meaningful damage increase. β selection will give lots of Attack Range increase and allows hitting enemies from behind with the same range as front.
- Decapitation Technique β or γ, β for long duration fight and γ for 1-shot enemies with 10% less damage than β
- Terror Beacon β for 1-shot enemies and γ for increased damage with Melee-Chainsaw weapons. α is a downgrade from β and γ.
- Destruction Wave β for removing all elite skills and γ for increased Ultimate damage each uses.
Ultimate
Karin Mered's Ultimate: Fantasy Greatsword
Karin's Ultimate is considered as a Physical weapon with 316k damage, will inherit the stats of the first weapon slot equipped. It also deal a second part of True Damage based on enemy's max HP (10% for Bosses and 24% for other types) and this part of damage can't be increased by any means.
The following mechanics with the Physical Damage part are tested:
- Can inherit stats from the first melee or first spray.
- Increase damage with these stats: +All Damage, +Damage against enemy type, +Crit Damage, +Physical Damage.
- Cannot increase damage with these stats: +ATK%, +flat ATK, anything based on +Elemental Damage.
- After unlocked "Destruction Wave", it can't penetrate Bosses HP blocks and thus damage always capped at max 20% total HP and min almost 0% total HP.
Houkai Gakuen 2 mainline
Role abilities
救赎神座
Karin's stigmata allows the owner to exchange for unlimited Houkai energy without putting matter into the Houkai Universe.
- It is unknown how she can exchange without cost anything???
"She's dead. The good old days are over."
"Don't try to get back what you've lost, leave everything behind and live for yourself."
"...Is this so?", "When you die, you will be alone."
...You will become the savior...
...I pay tribute to you, you are an unprecedented and unprecedented commander..., ...The meaning of my birth is...
...I am a tool to save the world, I am a tool to save the world, I am a tool to save the world..., ...Originally it was just a defective product, I didn't expect that this kind of nature would appear after the disappearance of the Will of Houkai...
...If you want to know the truth of all this, just come to..., ...I will do...only If I can do this, then I will do it......!
Karin and her Fantasy Greatsword CG in Gunfire Training EP10
For some reason, it seems that Karin can only do the most basic and useless thing like "summoning Houkai matter to form a simple weapon". However, that weapon seemingly has endless amount of Houkai energy... or as she named it, "Fantasy Greatsword".
- Karin cannot create sophisticated firearms with her abilities.
When Karin hit the greatsword to the ground, it creates a huge pillar of light burst to the sky along with the loud noise. The power is able to destroy windows of high-rise buildings around.
Fantasy Mine
In "Lit a city for a poem", Karin created a compressed unstable Houkai energy crystal and put it to 小瞳's pocket to prevent her from attacking. 小瞳 can feel this small crystal have massive amount of Houkai energy.
Houkai Gakuen timeline
Goodbye Nagazora
Prologue
Karin Mered sit on her delivery truck, holding her phone looking for phone signal
83 hours ago, on Route 276, Karin is trying to play a game on the top of her delivery truck but the internet signal is so weak that it kick the game to the title screen. Karin angried and pulled her mother into the truck and move slowly along the Route 276.
Her mother made an explosion gesture, and Karin tapped on her phone to continue playing the online class. Karin have been taking online classes since she was a child.
Then, Karin received an urgent order with the address at Nagazora city...
Delivery timeout
The first order Karin has to deliver is a collection of antiquities that are lost in the dead zone, located at floor 4 of a building.[1]
The second order Karin has to deliver have address in an urban area that hasn't been renovated. There are bunch of cops and people running away from the Evil Dragon Group (the leader is 11 yrs old and the grand leader is 12) when Karin moved downstair to the area. Karin defeated the group and delivered the goods to building 137. The recipient of the building is a blind girl, prosthetic eye surgery is too expensive so her dad bought a dog equipped with a military-grade intelligence core and it can understand natural language.[2]
The third order Karin has to deliver is near the Senba Academy, and the location where she park the truck is near the Senba Store. Karin visited the store which have lots of Houraiji Kyuusyou merchandise, and then goes to the second floor above the store to eat and drink. When she went back to Senba Store, she ran out of money and thinking about asking her mom for pocket money. While she thinking about money and delivery at the store, 3 unknown persons running through her. It turns out the order address was a hotel on the other side of the street and inside the delivery box was the main gun core prism of the Human Liberation League third group destroyer "Innovator", a technology from the AD era.[3]
The last order's address is located at Houkai Memorial. When Karin arrived, the sky is already dark and the goods seems to be very heavy, requires a crane to move them. When Karin went inside the memorial hall, there's no one at the reception, and upon reading the notice, it was known that all the staffs attend the graduation party for Houkai Gakuen's third class students. Karin then found a tourist guide map which shows an office on the third floor, and she went on third floor which has a lot of Confederate Army soldiers.[3]
After escaping from the memorial hall with Arkria Hroptr, the two discussed their future plans. Afterwards, Karin moved Arkria to her truck, but the truck was driven away by an unknown person. Fortunately, under Arkria's guidance, Karin found a truck of the same model and a stolen radio.[4]
Gunfire training
When Karin's team were purchasing daily necessities in Nagazora City, they were told by Police Officer Wang that they owed a huge sum of money due to the damage they caused before entering Houkai Gakuen. If they didn't pay back, they would undergo compulsory internship at the Purification Committee.[5]
The 4 of them got low scores in the written test[6], this attracts Wu Jingfei. Wu found Karin that night and became the instructor of their team.[7] Later, Karin's team showed their true strength in the individual battle and used Tiara's stigmata to cheat and win the group battle.
Karin's team got their exam swapped by Wu to be a practical exam against Mobile Knights in Nagazora City.[8] During the exam, Tiara and Laniaitte were knocked down by an unknown person from the First Legion. Karin, with the help of Arkria, activated stigmata power to create the Fantasy Greatsword and use it to hit the unknown person, creates a huge pillar of light burst to the sky along with the loud noise. The power is able to destroy windows of high-rise buildings around.[9]
Karin used Infinity stigmata to create Fantasy Greatsword in Gunfire Training EP10.3
After the exam, although the cheating was discovered, because Yssring Leavtruth became interested in Karin's stigmata, the team's score was directly raised to 1st, and Karin joined Yssring's research team from then on.[10]
A sigh of life and death
Karin appeared as a side character in this chapter, curious about a paper Arkria is secretly reading. Arkria quickly told the paper is about a special food menu, therefore Karin wasn't aware of Loyne's secret.
Unlimited Tennis Tournament
Karin, who was overwhelmed by her stable daily life, complained about boredom to her 3 roommates, and then her attention was attracted by the tennis competition advertisement played in Tiara's hand, the "Fully automatic electric heating golden racket". As a heavy consumerist, she immediately changed into sportswear and set off for the championship prize.
Before the game, Teacher Tart from the tennis club persuaded her to join the club, and briefly mentioned the "4 Queens".
In the first game, she met Passerby N Nanako, a stranger from the so-called 4 Queens that has no special physical characteristics except the tennis ball she used. Karin relied on her excellent physical fitness to deplete the tennis ball's battery and easily win the match. However, in the second game, she encountered the Masked Tennis Master who was able to control the size of the playing field, Karin was defeated miserably.
After the failure, Karin went to Arkria for help. Surprisingly, Arkria agreed to Karin's request and specifically improve vision training that is, "analytical power" and "imagination" to break all restrictions in the game and achieve "true unlimitedness".
In the first match against the Invincible Muscle and Hairy Jade Queen 99, Karin broke all of her assist devices using tennis balls and forced her to play without the devices. In the match against One color fantasy, with the help of Karin's team, broke One color fantasy's phantom projections to win the match.
Karin's final tennis match against the Masked Tennis Master
In the final match against the Masked Tennis Master, Karin distracted the Masked Tennis Master so she can use tennis ball to broke the mask, revealed behind the mask was actually Teacher Tart. Later, by using her precise skills, Karin smashed certain words on the rule board: "As long as the ball falls within the boundaries of the court" which means any hits that aren't caught are count as win and essentially Tart's stigmata ability to manipulate the field becomes useless, leading to Karin's championship.
Teacher Tart later revealed that as she wants everyone to like tennis so that the tennis club will not be abolished due to lack of staff. After Karin's championship, Karin got the "golden racket" but unfortunately it's a TV scam.
Tennis Training Master
Teacher Wu "sold" Karin and Arkria to the organizer of the World Tennis Tour after the "Unlimited Tennis Tournament" event. Arkria thinks that Wu could dismiss 2 students at the same time and give herself a vacation, so she signed and agreed without hesitation!
Gallery
Main artwork
Trivia
- Karin's Fantasy Greatsword look like Mei's wing with Kiana's energy color.