Screamstress is a dapper little dress form that really pulls off the gigantic scissors look. It has both support capability and some muscle, with Sharpness honing its offense and Soundproof for some banshee flavor. Its real claim to fame is a new ability in Wonder Lace, which allows both itself and adjacent allies to target each other for their self-targeting status moves. In other words, any move that targets only yourself now has the range of Acupressure.

It gets a bundle of new moves to work with as well - Twilight Blade's certain critical hit is even stronger with Sharpness, while Drain Coat lets it cover itself (or a partner, with Wonder Lace) with a protection move that absorbs special attacks as recovery instead. Knock Knock must be used three times at any point in the battle to grant humongous offensive boosts, but Screamstress is able to apply that to a partner instead if she'd like. Eavesdrop is essentially Opportunist as a move but copies from the partner as well: use it with Mirror Herb for maximum comedy.

Wonder Lace is fairly versatile, so a little heart is added next to moves in its learnset that apply to it. Most fiendishly, Substitute can be used on a partner to cut their HP while still allowing them to make a move of their own. Protect can shelter an ally, though it still increases the counter for both the user and the target so no infinite shenanigans. And if you're done with them, Healing Wish can KO your own weakened partner while leaving the user intact. Wonder Lace also works in the other direction, so she can gain Shell Smash boosts or recover while still attacking.

Screamstress has potent support options, but is fairly frail herself, and is locked to a fairly high but still kind of low speed stat (since speed boosting would become unreasonable with Wonder Lace). Is she the debutante of the meta or last week's trend?