By Jay / / Games

Awakened Hollyberry Cookie is a powerful steel-type defender with high survivability and unique buffs that make her a strong asset in both PvE and PvP in Cookie Run Kingdom. This guide breaks down her skills, best toppings and Beascuits, ideal team setups, and gameplay tips to maximize her potential. Also check out How strong Awakened Hollyberry Cookie is in our CRK Tier List and our Cookie Run Kingdom Codes!


Awakened Hollyberry Cookie’s Skills and Passives Explained

Hollyberry Cookie’s awakened form brings a fresh defensive playstyle centered on absorbing damage and providing strong shields for allies. Here’s what makes her stand out:

  • Shield of Conviction: Hollyberry charges forward with a shield that absorbs a large portion of incoming damage dealt to allies (excluding damage over time and indirect damage). While active, she reduces incoming critical damage and prevents damage debuffs on allies.
  • Seed of Life Stacks: Damage absorbed by her shield builds “Seed of Life” stacks. When enough stacks accumulate, she blooms into the Barrier of Life, increasing allies’ damage by 20% and healing 1.5% of max HP every second.
  • Steelbound Passion & Guardian Transformation: After gaining 20 stacks or if her HP falls below 25%, Hollyberry transforms into her Steelbound Guardian state. This resets her cooldown, restores HP, enhances her shield, and boosts her final hit damage based on damage absorbed.
  • Damage and Defense Stats: She deals strong single-target damage with a shield hit that can stun non-immune enemies and has a final hit dealing damage based on her max HP, with damage resist bypass.
  • Buffs: Passive increases to max HP (+25%), damage resistance (+35%), and debuff resist (+30%) add to her tankiness.
  • Rally Buff: Boosts steel-type cookies by increasing their damage and damage resist bypass depending on Hollyberry’s max HP, and heals herself and allies when steel-type teammates drop below 30% HP.

Best Toppings for Awakened Hollyberry Cookie

Hollyberry thrives on survivability and sustaining her shield and buffs. The best toppings focus on HP and damage resistance:

  • Healthy Peanuts Toppings – Healthy Peanuts is the prime choice to maximize her HP pool, boosting the damage scaling of her skills and her survivability.
  • Solid Almond – toppings add extra damage resistance to help Hollyberry absorb more damage!

Ideal Beascuits for Awakened Hollyberry Cookie

Beascuits that amplify HP or boost cooldown can improve Hollyberry’s uptime and survivability:

  • HP%
  • DMG Resist
  • DEF

Best Team Compositions with Awakened Hollyberry Cookie

Hollyberry shines in steel-type focused teams that benefit from her rally buffs and healing mechanics:

  • Steel Type Teams: Pairing her with other steel cookies like Raspberry Cookie amplifies team synergy. Her rally buff boosts damage and survivability for steel allies, while her healing triggers when teammates drop low.
  • Balanced Defense and Offense: Combine Hollyberry with strong damage dealers such as Vampire Cookie or Herb Cookie to balance protection and offense.
  • Arena Lineups: Her shield and debuff resistances make her a solid frontliner against burst damage teams in PvP.

Team Recommendation:

  • Raspberry Cookie
  • Pure Vanilla Cookie
  • Wind Archer
  • Dark Cacao
  • Shadow Milk
  • Eternal Sugar

Awakened Hollyberry Cookie is a formidable defensive cookie in Cookie Run Kingdom, offering strong shields, healing, and buffs centered on survivability. Equip her with HP and damage resistance toppings and Beascuits, pair her with steel-type teammates, and use her transformation skill strategically to maximize her impact. Whether in PvE or PvP, she is an excellent choice for players seeking a durable, supportive frontliner that can turn the tide of battle.

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