FiameliaBuild and Guide

Fiamelia is a Constant Affinity Sustain/Bruiser hybrid. She offers incredible protection from CCs for your whole team while also dishing out HP-based damage to the entire enemy team in short intervals.

Skill 1

Fiamelia’s first ability is a straightforward 1-hit ST attack that deals little damage, but comes with the exceptional effect of increasing the Turn Meter of allies not afflicted with Dispellable Debuffs at the time of using the skill by 6-15%.

With the Turn Meter increase effect more than doubling in potency at Lvl5, along with carrying the SPD nodes, leveling this Skill takes a high priority to ensure Fiamelia can perform her role optimally.

Skill 2

Endless Night, Fiamelia’s S2, passively grants her stacks of [Claim Chaser], an undispellable Buff unique to her. For every 10-8% total max HP that Fiamelia loses during the battle, she gains 1 stack of it. She also gains 1 stack every time one of her allies is afflicted with a Debuff, however this effect can only trigger once per ally on each turn (4 allies can trigger it once each on the same turn, but the same ally cannot trigger twice from say, a Plume or Kloss S3). 

Once 10-8 stacks have been accumulated, they are consumed and Fiamelia either gets 50% Turn Meter increase or immediately starts her turn, depending on the Skill’s level. In addition to this, she heals the whole team for 10-15% of her own max HP. This passive allows Fiamelia to essentially “cut in” after the opponent’s actions if the conditions are fulfilled, messing with their gameplan while reinforcing your own survivability, damage and disruption thanks to her S3.

Once again, this Skill has a high priority, even higher than S1 for PVP, as her appeal comes mostly from taking as many turns as possible. Lvl5 is also a must, just like S1 and 3, but you can start playing her efficiently at Lvl4.

Skill 3

S3, Knell, is Fiamelia’s bread and butter Skill. With a 3 turn CD even at Lvl1, it offers Purification of 3/all Debuffs on the team (based on skill lvl). This skill also removes 14-16% of her max HP from enemies in AoE and heals your team for the same Amount, while also having a base 100% chance of reducing the turn Meter of the entire enemy team by at least 10%. Removing is not considered a direct hit, which means it is unaffected by enemy DEF and DMG Reduction. It also doesn’t trigger counters.

While each value might be low by itself, not only does each effect synergize with the game plan of the typical Fiamelia team, but all of them except the Purification can be improved depending on the number of Debuff Types purified by her S3. With each Type purified, the HP based Damage sees a 3% increase in its value (which also affects the Healing) and the Turn Meter is similarly decreased by an additional 3% per Type. With 2 Types purified, the attack already reaches a 22% max HP damage, 22% max HP Heal, 16% Turn Meter decrease and full Purification of the entire team. This is all on a 3-turn CD that can be lowered by allies/Shells on an Animus who takes turns more often than most of the roster.

Like the rest of her Skills, Fiamelia greatly depends on Skill lvls for her S3 to be functional. It is not advised to play Fiamelia in mid/endgame without S3 maxed, and so it has the highest priority out of all her Skills for PVP.

Note: A Debuff Type is the unique denomination of a debuff: ATK- is one type, and so are DEF- and SPD-, etc. Purifying 3 ATK- only counts for 1 Debuff Type cleansed, just like purifying 4 stacks of Erosion on each ally would also count for 1, but purifying an ATK- and a Weakness from all allies or an ATK- and a DEF- would count for 2, for example.

PVE

In PVE, Fiamelia is a tough sell: her Damage is closer to a Sustain than to a DPS, while her Heals aren’t as easy to use as the likes of Lingluo or Fuqiu and her Turn Meter manipulation is highly conditional, unlike Lily or Freya to name a few. This results in a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none situation as none of her abilities have effects strong enough on their own and the synergy between her skills isn’t nearly as important as it is in PVP. She also provides no Buffs or Debuffs to the team, further reducing the scope of her usability in 4-man content, where every slot must fulfill its specific role.

Her Healing output, when facing Debuff-heavy enemies specifically, is good enough in most cases, but sadly a bit too “frontloaded”, as all of the healing comes at once and she lacks ways of upkeeping that output in between the CD of her S3.

PVP

In PVP, Fiamelia easily finds a spot in any meta where CC and Debuffs are predominant. Her ability to cut in after the enemy is setting up or controlling you, fully clearing all dispellable Debuffs from your team every 3 turns, the fixed damage and healing that are not based on any offensive stat, and the Turn Meter manipulation from both S3&1 make her an incredible pick in many situations.

Do be careful however, as teams that do not rely on any Debuffs/CCs can definitely threaten her and more so her allies, even though her S2’s extra turn can help somewhat by triggering after she’s lost a total of 64% of her max HP, ensuring that unless she gets one or two shot she will always take at least 1 turn during the fight regardless of her SPD.

If you insist on playing Debuffs against her, aim for Undispellable Debuffs or abilities that fully prevent Fiamelia from using S3, like Taunt or single-target Controls, although Fiamelia is likely to be built with Eff RES and/or paired with Immunity. Forgetfulness is an interesting one, as it counters her S2 but doesn’t stop the S3 and even feeds it with an extra Debuff Type.

Avoid any Animus who cannot help but spam Debuffs as part of their only gameplan, like Heinrich, for example who ends up feeding Fiamelia multiple rare Debuff Types on top of giving her many stacks every time he takes an action. Plume is another directly countered Animus, as even her S1 is an AoE Debuff.

Conclusion

Fiamelia easily establishes herself as a top-tier PVP Animus, tailor-made to counter CC and Debuff-heavy metas without oppressing the other strategies and pushing them out too radically. She sings a different tune in PVE sadly, where her various effects don’t carry nearly as much weight, failing to have a strong impact on the most important aspect of the game there: the potential damage output of the team.