Estella Guide and Best Build
Estella Introduction
Estella is a 4-star character in Arknights: Endfield (AKE). Estella wields a Polearm and belongs to the Guard class. Estella also has access to the Cryo element. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of Estella's best build, including recommended Weapons, Gear pieces, Stats, and the strongest team compositions and rotations that maximize their potential.
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Disclaimer
Estella review and guide already include the release balance patch changes to their kit.
Last review update
Patch 1.0
Last major build/calcs update
Patch 1.0
Last profile update*
January 21st, 2026
*Profile update means smaller edits to the guide that don't require new calculations.
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Estella Attributes (level 90)
The yellow color shows the Primary Attribute and the green Secondary Attribute. Both of those attributes, on top of their normal bonuses, provide additional ATK to the character.
Estella Skills
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BASIC ATTACK:
An attack with up to 4 sequences that deals Physical DMG. As the controlled operator, Final Strike also deals 17 Stagger.
DIVE ATTACK:
Basic attack performed in mid-air becomes a dive attack that deals Physical DMG to nearby enemies.
FINISHER:
Basic attack performed near a Staggered enemy becomes a finisher attack that deals massive Physical DMG and recovers some SP.
[Final Strike]: Final Strike is the last sequence of Basic Attack. When the controlled operator's Final Strike hits the enemy, it also deals Stagger and restores some Skill Points (SP).
Onomatopoeia
SP Cost: 100
[Cryo Infliction]: Cryo Infliction is a type of Arts Infliction. Up to 4 stacks of Cryo Infliction can be applied and stacking triggers Cryo Burst. A non-Cryo Infliction + Cryo Infliction = Solidification.
Distortion
Cooldown: 17s
Trigger: When an enemy suffers Solidification.
[Solidification]: An enemy with Solidification cannot move, and applying Vulnerability or a Physical Status to the enemy triggers the Shatter effect. A non-Cryo Infliction + Cryo Infliction = Solidification.
[Physical Susceptibility]: Physical Susceptible targets temporarily take more Physical DMG. The number represents the degree of increase. Effects of the same type can stack.
[Lift]: Applies Vulnerability on an enemy. If the enemy is already Vulnerability, then add 1 stack of Vulnerability, and deal Physical DMG and Stagger.
Tremolo
Energy cost: 70
[Physical Susceptibility]: Physical Susceptible targets temporarily take more Physical DMG. The number represents the degree of increase. Effects of the same type can stack.
[Lift]: Applies Vulnerability on an enemy. If the enemy is already Vulnerability, then add 1 stack of Vulnerability, and deal Physical DMG and Stagger.
Estella Talents
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Fragmented Rest
Efficient Work
Commiseration
[Shatter]: To an enemy with active Solidification, applying Vulnerability or Physical Status effects will consume the Solidification to trigger Shatter that deals massive Physical DMG.
[SP Return]: After spending SP and meeting certain criteria, some of the SP spent will be returned. SP Return is not SP Recovery and do not activate SP Recovery-triggered effects. Spending returned SP also does not gain Ultimate Energy.
Laziness Pays Off Now
[Cryo Infliction]: Cryo Infliction is a type of Arts Infliction. Up to 4 stacks of Cryo Infliction can be applied and stacking triggers Cryo Burst. A non-Cryo Infliction + Cryo Infliction = Solidification.
Estella Potential (dupes)
Habitual Delay
Potential 1
[Physical Susceptibility]: Physical Susceptible targets temporarily take more Physical DMG. The number represents the degree of increase. Effects of the same type can stack.
Lowered Expectations
Potential 2
Delayed Work
Potential 3
Life Over Mission
Potential 4
Survival is a Win
Potential 5
[Solidification]: An enemy with Solidification cannot move, and applying Vulnerability or a Physical Status to the enemy triggers the Shatter effect. A non-Cryo Infliction + Cryo Infliction = Solidification.
Estella Lore
"Hngh... Feels like the weight of the entire world has come down at me ... my knees, especially..."
A member of Operations Team Z7 in Endfield, Estella handles intel gathering and communications. Physically weak, and shadowed by misfortune wherever she goes, she sometimes lets her sharp tongue and dark humor push outsiders away. Her dream is simple: to live a peaceful life. After all, she has seen too many people like herself, trapped in a world with no choices, no change, and no future.
A life of danger and extremes has numbed her senses to the world and raised her threshold for stimulation. As a result, she sometimes seeks out harsher forms of challenge — like the pounding rush of heavy metal music. Those rare jolts give her a fleeting sense of change and something real.
Through her work in Endfield, Estella hopes to make the world a little better and life a little easier for those around her.
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Estella Pros & Cons
Pros
Very easy to get max potentials.
Cryo Infliction on Battle Skill.
Battle skill becomes more SP efficient after consuming Shatter.
Inflicts Vulnerable with Ultimate and Combo Skill.
Applies Physical Susceptibility with Ultimate.
Cons
Damage is split between Physical and Cryo, making scaling less efficient.
Combo needs Solidification to work something that doesn’t synergize with the Physical archetype she primarily supports.
Has a strong supportive kit for Physical teams, but the combo requirement forces a mix of Cryo plus Physical, which makes team build less flexible and usually just weaker than pure variants.
Estella Review
Kit Intro
Estella is a 4-star, Cryo, Polearm Support Damage dealer who has many strong abilities and effects, but all suffer from being split between two archetypes, Physical and Cryo-Solidification. This pulls her teams in two different directions, balancing out the power of her kit. Her element, Battle Skill, and Combo all Inflict or require Cryo in order to function, but the secondary effect of her combo and Ultimate both scale with and toward Physical.
What makes Estella strong is that her Combo Skill applies Vulnerable for free, which is incredibly powerful. Her Ultimate is cheap, also applies Vulnerable and inflicts Physical Susceptibility, another great supportive bonus. All that sounds great, and it is in Physical teams. The catch is, to gain access to it, Estella must trigger her combo, which requires an enemy to become Solidified - a reaction not often found in Physical teams she’s designed to support. Characters like Alesh can help, and do allow the team to work, but aren’t enough to make up for the loss of playing pure element teams with a sole focus on one game plan.
Right now, the Cryo-Physical hybrid archetype is lacking enough support to allow it to compete, leaving Estella as an alternative way to play other stronger teams for the time being.
Combo
Estella’s Combo Skill is her most powerful ability and also the reason she has to be played as a Physical-Cryo hybrid. The cause is its trigger requirement, which needs an enemy to be afflicted by Solidification. When used, causes Estella to deal Physical damage, some Stagger, and apply Lift, and if the enemy was Solidified, she’ll naturally Shatter them with said Lift and apply Physical Susceptibility for a short duration.
This Combo Skill has many good effects, and without its tricky trigger requirement and the restriction around applying Physical Susceptibility would allow Estella a much more prominent position in the meta, but alas, that’s not the case. However, that doesn’t make her weak; it just makes her less flexible to build teams around.
Potentials:
Potential 1: Increases the duration of Physical Susceptibility significantly, making it more reliable and allowing it to boost the team's damage for longer even after your full combo has been executed.
Ultimate
Estella’s Ultimate isn’t as impactful as her Combo Skill, but continues to double down on her great supportive capabilities for the Physical element. Activating it only requires 70 energy (63 with potential 2), which is much cheaper than most characters' Ultimates.
Upon use, it deals a large hit of Physical AoE damage, Stagger, and if the enemy is suffering from Physical Susceptibility, which they should be if you time it right, it inflicts Knock Down on all targets hit. Between this ability and Estella’s Combo Skill, she grants 2 Vulnerability and a reliable Physical damage buff, all without requiring any SP.
Potentials:
Potential 5: To make Estella’s low ultimate cost even more attractive, potential 5 also grants her an additional 5 energy every time an enemy becomes Solidified with a cooldown of 1s. Estella needs Solidification anyway, so this is essentially just free energy.
Battle Skill
Compared to her Ultimate and Combo, Estella’s Battle Skill is far less impressive. All it does on use is deal damage in a line, hitting all enemies for some Cryo damage, Stagger, and applying Cryo Infliction to them. Not very exciting when considering the Physical side of her kit, but can be a useful tool for triggering or enabling Solidification. For this reason alone, it usually does see some use in most Estella teams, but if there’s ever a way to bypass needing to use it, most teams probably will.
Talents
Both of Estella’s talents are completely utility-focused. The first, Commiseration, grants a new Shatter synergy to her Battle Skill. Now, after Estella triggers a Shatter, her next Battle Skill will recover 15 SP on use, improving her and the team's SP efficiency. Not a game-changing talent, but still a nice bonus that is well worth unlocking.
Note: The SP recovery effect is limited to one activation per Battle Skill; consuming multiple Shatters per Battle Skill will not return more SP.
Estella’s other talent, Laziness Pays Off Now, is a very minor and niche defensive boost to her survivability when battling enemies that deal Cryo damage. It’s so minor, in fact, you’ll likely not notice its effect at all when playing, meaning whether you unlock it or not shouldn’t impact Estella’s main role in teams, making it entirely optional.
Gameplay
When playing Estella, here are a few things to look out for to make the most of her kit:
Trigger Solidification by making use of Estella’s Battle Skill in combination with another Infliction or by relying on her teammates.
Shatter Solidification with Combo Skill in order to apply Vulnerable to enemies. Align its use with the rest of your Physical-based rotation in order to take advantage of the Physical Susceptibility it applies.
When available, use Ultimate after Estella’s combo in order to deal a large burst of Physical damage and apply even more Vulnerability stacks.
Consume Vulnerability stacks with another teammate in order to apply Crush or Breach.
Estella Skill Priority
Off Field:
Combo Skill > Ultimate > Basic Attack > Battle Skill
Estella Dupes Review
Estella dupes are very easy to obtain due to their low rarity. That's why the guide and review above already assumes you have them max duped and we're not reviewing each separately.
Build
Estella Best Weapons
Estella best Weapons are placed in order of what fits their playstyle the most. Check the comments to get additional context.
Stat 1 Boost - 9/9
Will: +132
Stat 2 Boost - 9/9
Attack: +39.00%
Passive Boost - 4/9
Arts DMG Bonus: +19.20%
Stat 1 Boost - 9/9
Will: +124
Stat 2 Boost - 9/9
Physical DMG Bonus: +34.70%
Passive Boost - 9/9
Estella's best 5-star option and also incredibly competitive with her best 6-star as well. It has two ideal passives and one that is good but only affects a part of her kit (Damage vs Cryo/Solidification). This, combined with the very strong Weapon Effect, puts this weapon at the top of Estella's wants list.
Stat 1 Boost - 9/9
Agility: +156
Stat 2 Boost - 9/9
Physical DMG Bonus: +43.30%
Passive Boost - 4/9
Attack: +16.00%
Another 6-star option for Estella, but one which performs worse than JET due to it having Agility as a part of its passives, a stat she can't use. Even factoring this in, the remaining passives plus this weapon's solid Weapon Effect are enough for it to claw back enough benefit for it to perform reasonably well, making it an option if you already have it levelled and don't have either of the above two options.
Stat 1 Boost - 9/9
Agility: +156
Stat 2 Boost - 9/9
Physical DMG Bonus: +43.30%
Passive Boost - 4/9
A 6-star stat stick which has incredibly wonky passives for Estella (wrong main stat), but which ends up being better than her F2P option despite that. It is mostly varied by the Physical DMG% and DMG% against Vulnerable enemies.
Stat 1 Boost - 9/9
Will: +93
Stat 2 Boost - 9/9
Arts DMG Bonus: +26.00%
Passive Boost - 9/9
Last resort option if you're lacking any of the choices above. Has the correct passive stats, but all at much lower base values, setting it significantly behind all other choices.
Estella Best Gear Set
Estella best sets are placed in order of what fits their playstyle the most. Check the comments to get additional context.
Attack +15%. When any operator in the team casts a battle skill, the wearer gains 1 stack of Yinglung's Edge that gives DMG +20% to the wearer's next combo skill. Yinglung's Edge can stack 3 time(s).
Description
Due to Estella's main stat of Will being somewhat unique among Physical Damage Dealers at the time of release, her Set options aren't as varied or flexible as those of other Physical scalers. Because of this, Type 50 Yinlung is her best choice even if it doesn't offer any supportive capabilities.
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Estella Best Gear Pieces
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Estella Calculations
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Teams and Synergies
Estella Best Synergies
- Estella requires Solidification to function. Just by including Alesh, she can access it by combining her Battle Skill with his, which forcibly converts Cryo inflation into Ssolidificaiton
- Alesh provides great SP recovery
- Strong supportive set and weapon options which boost the team's damage
- Even more buffs for Endmin and the team after unlocking P3
- Can save Estella using her Battle Skill when his Ultimate is available, thanks to it applying Cryo Inflction, letting him use that, then his Battle Skill to apply Solidification instead of relying on her battle skill for Cryo
- Alesh deals physical damage with some of his abilities, which are buffed by Estella
- Estella applies an outstanding amount of Vulnerability with her Combo skill and very cheap Utimate
- Estella applies Physical Susceptibility to boost the entire team's Physical damage
- Estella herself benefits nicely from Endmin’s teamwide buffs, boosting her own damage as well
- Estella unlocks a new way to play Physical teams Solidifaction-Physical hybrid
- Able to permanently maintain both Arts and Physical susceptibility on targets for generic team-wide damage increases that work in any team
- Outstanding supportive weapon and set options for even more damage amplification, with options that work for both Physical and Arts
- Forcibly applies Corrosion, which, when optimized around, can lower enemy resistances to all damage temporarily if Susceptibility doesn't need to be refreshed
- Only requires 100 SP roughly every 30 seconds to function at maximum capacity
- Strong enough sustain to single handedly keep the team alive through most endgame encounters as long as smart dodging is used.
Estella's best in slot damage option by a very thin margin, despite it having multiple Arts DMG% boosts and most of Estella's damage being Physical. The reason it performs so well is due to its base damage and passive ATK%. With that said, it is not a huge upgrade over P5 OBJ Razohorn, meaning you don't have to chase it if you already have that.