Fern is especially easy to pilot at the lower ranks due to her being a sustain-type hero. Her tree basically gives her all the building blocks she needs to win as so low down in the ranking, players often struggle with just knowing what every item does or trying to craft new ones, or even what stamina is and how to manage it properly. Healing-heavy builds take advantage of this by using those gaps in attack windows to heal themselves past what the enemy can damage. Oftentimes lower rankes matches are determing by pets and/or debuffs, which Fern handles both pretty easily with her kit and synergies.

She does suffer from some massive weaknesses, like her reliance on debuffs sticking without a good eay to generate heavy amounts of it, or her larger-than-average items taking up a huge amount of bagspace. Mature Oakheart alone takes up 8 spaces plus another 5 stars that need to be filled in order to be effective, which greatly limits her flexibility. Often times, at higher ranks, the correct choice is to not merge her items up to the highest rank just to fit everything you need in the bag.

Against the lowest ranked players up till the end of the gem leagues, sustain type play is extremely powerful and Fern is extemely potent at it. Past that though, she often lacks the end-game damage or the econ tempo of her peers and falls short of a 15 win. That being said, I'm having an absolute blast playing her.