Chardonnay Cookie Guide — Volley Enabler, Skill & Best Teams

Chardonnay Cookie is the headline unit of the October 8 update and the first SSR that supplies Volley. That single line changes her value: Volley is consumed by eleven Cookies, including six SSRs, but until now it could only be switched on by a Rare or Super Rare unit. For accounts built around Volley carries, she replaces a compromise with a real unit.

Chardonnay Cookie at a glance

Those are standard SSR Supporter numbers — 2,790 HP and 60 DEF mean she dies quickly if the frontline folds. She is a backline unit, and she should be positioned like one.

Sanctuary of Verdance

Sanctuary of Verdance unleashes a barrier of verdance that:

• deals damage to enemies in a straight line, and
• raises CRIT% and grants Push RES to allies standing in it.

The skill is a shape, not a nuke. Its value depends on how many of your units are standing in that line, which makes Chardonnay Cookie a positioning-sensitive pick — she rewards teams arranged in a column and punishes teams spread across the field. In practice, put her behind the damage dealers you want buffed rather than off to the side.

Push RES matters more than it looks. Several later chapters and Arena lineups rely on knockback to break formations; a lane that ignores push keeps its damage uptime, and CRIT% on top of that is a direct multiplier on every hit in the column.

Synergy: she gives Volley, she needs Projectile Speed

Chardonnay Cookie supplies Volley and consumes Projectile Speed. Only two units supply Projectile Speed:

That short list is why Pomegranate Cookie is the obvious partner. Pomegranate Cookie supplies Projectile Speed — exactly what Chardonnay Cookie needs — and consumes Volley, which Chardonnay Cookie provides. Two slots cover each other completely, with no third unit required to switch either one on. It is the cleanest two-unit synergy loop in the current roster.

Alchemist Cookie is the budget alternative, and she is a Shooter, so she contributes damage rather than support.

Who actually wants Volley

Volley is consumed by eleven Cookies. The ones that matter most:

The interesting entries are the two tanks — Ion Cookie Robot and Licorice Cookie. Volley is usually discussed as a damage synergy, but a tank that consumes it gets its kit switched on by a Supporter who stays safely behind it, which is a much more stable arrangement than pairing it with another frontliner.

Note that Cherry Cola Cookie consumes Rapid Fire as well as Volley, so she still needs a second supplier. Chardonnay Cookie solves only half of that problem.

Best teams for Chardonnay Cookie

• Chardonnay + Pomegranate core: the mutual loop. Add Cherry Cola Cookie or Scorpion Cookie as the Volley consumer that actually deals the damage, then a Tanker and a healer.
• Grass column: Chardonnay Cookie + Toothpaste Cookie + two Grass attackers. Both supporters are Grass, the column buff lands on units that already share element bonuses, and Toothpaste Cookie’s own Range supply covers a different carry.
• Budget Volley team: Chardonnay Cookie + Alchemist Cookie + any Volley-consuming SR. Cheap, and Alchemist Cookie still shoots.
• Arena column: Chardonnay Cookie behind three units that will stand in her line. Push RES is worth more in the Arena than in story stages because knockback there is a real tempo loss.

For how synergy activation is scored, see the synergy guide; to test a roster, use the team builder.

Should you pull?

Pull if you own Pomegranate Cookie, Cherry Cola Cookie or Scorpion Cookie. Each of them gains a genuinely better partner from this banner.

Skip if your main team does not consume Volley at all. Chardonnay Cookie is an enabler — on a team that never uses Volley she is a low-HP supporter with a linear damage skill, and that is not worth a TSSR-sized Crystal budget.

Her full stats and synergy partners are on the Chardonnay Cookie profile, and she is ranked on our tier list.