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The Summer Skin Line is a particular skin line which all of the summer skins belong to. This skin line is similar to the Carnival Skin Line in terms of looks.

Overview
The Summer Skin Line contains the summer skins for a variety of charaters. Summer skins tend to have different stats than the original persona. They can be minor changes, or they an be drastically different. The summer skins depict the character in a bathing suit, typically some sort of bikini or one-piece, revealing most of the character's body. The characters that currently have summer skins are: Elle, Ophelia, Hana, Claire, Banshee, and Codename: Lynx.

Summer Banshee
Banshee offers +10% protection, +8% speed, and 30% Sprint Stamina. She wears the Strong Summer Vest. This version of Banshee is a downgrade of her original persona that uses the Banshee Vest. Comparatively, Banshee loses 6.2% speed, 5% protection, 2 slots, and 100% of her flash protection. However, one positive about the Summer Banshee is that she can equip customizable gear which may compensate for lost stats. Banshee is the only Summer Character to wear a onepiece.

Summer Codename: Lynx
Lynx offers +5% protection, +15% speed, +25% Sprint Stamina. She uses the Assault Summer Vest. This version of Codename: Lynx is a mixed bag compared to her original persona. She sacrifices 5% protection, 4.5% speed, 20% Sprint Stamina, 50% fire protection, and 2 slots. However, again, this version of Lynx can equip gear that can easily compensate AND surpass her original persona's stats in all areas. A Spec Op's Mei's Camo Cap can exceedingly increase her speed and sprint stamina past 19.5% and 50%, respectively. However, this particular example item is rare, and any backpack with more than 2 slots will noticeably reduce Summer Lynx's speed.

Summer Elle and Summer Ophelia
Summer Elle and Summer Ophelia came out at the same time, and were the first Summer Skins. The only difference between the two is their cosmetics. They provide the Normal Summer Vest, which grants +8% protection, +10% speed, and 25% Sprint Stamina. This version provides a noticeable buff compared to their Carnival versions. Both Summer variants for both characters provide a general increase in stats, with 3% more protection and 25% Sprint Stamina, which makes them more valuable than their normal and Carnival versions. Summer Elle and Summer Ophelia can equip items just like any other character to further increase their stats.

Summer Hana
Summer Hana also sports the Normal Summer Vest, however, hers is a little different. Hana has +8% protection, +12% speed, and 20% Sprint Stamina. This is a huge buff to Hana in terms of overall stats, since she only has just the Medium Vest in her original persona, which only grants +15% protection. However, she loses 7% protection. Summer Hana can equip items to compensate for losses or add other stats.

Summer Claire
Summer Claire sports the Light Summer Vest, which is a very fast vest. It grants +3% protection, +18% speed, and +25% Sprint Stamina. The speed factor is greatly enhanced, almost rivaling Codename: Lynx's Ultralight Vest by itself. Not to mention, the character can equip items to increase the speed altogether, granting a potentially huge bonus on top of an already fast vest. However, this vest is insanely weak, only granted +3% protection (which the Ultralight Vest beats by only 2%). Claire loses 2% protection in the tradeoff.

Trivia

 * Despite having the same vest, Summer Hana has different stats than Summer Elle and Summer Ophelia.
 * Despite being a Specialist and being the fastest character in the game, Summer Lynx is outclassed by Summer Claire in speed and sprint stamina.
 * Summer Banshee has the highest sprint stamina among all the Summer Characters.
 * Elle and Ophelia are the first characters to have Summer variants.
 * They are also the only characters so far to have Carnival Variants.