LiliamBuild and Guide

Liliam is a Disorder Affinity Nuker/Controller hybrid, capable of singling out a target and inflicting massive damage to them with very little outside assistance.

Skill 1

Liliam’s S1 features both a passive and active effect:

• The passive effect renders Liliam fully immune to all manners of Controls, ranging from Silence to Stun to Taunt, or even Freeze and Sleep, while also gaining complete immunity to any effect that reduces Turn meter, such as Holden’s S2 or Freya’s passive, to name a few.

• The active component is a simple, yet efficient, 1-hit single target attack that deals good damage while providing Heal to Liliam based on the damage dealt.

Skill 2

Her S2 is her only Control tool, but can single-handedly turn the tides of a battle in your favor. First, Liliam attacks a single enemy twice, dealing higher damage the lower the HP% of the enemy is, then she is guaranteed to inflict [Stun] to them regardless of ACC or RES  as long as their HP is below 70%. If that wasn’t enough, should the target die, the [Stun] is instead applied to the entire enemy team.

Skill 3

Upon using her S3, Liliam gains [ATK+] and [SPD+] for 2 turns, then she delivers a huge single target strike to an enemy, which is amplified by up to 50% if said enemy has more than 60% of their Max HP. As a cherry on top, this Skill also fully ignores [Shields] and [Seals] part of the enemy’s Max HP based on half the damage the attack dealt.

[Seal] is a Debuff that can’t be interacted with (cannot be Purified, transferred, etc), which permanently removes that HP, making Healing the target afflicted by it much weaker while also reducing the impact of any HP-based abilities or effects like Tiamat’s attacks.

Liliam’s S3 is also extremely powerful against PVE Bosses by having a massive 50% Final Damage increase to balance the fact that most of the effects tied to the skill are irrelevant in many fights.

PVP

Liliam is designed as a PVP specialist, with both S2&3 capable of inflicting high damage and debilitating effects, while her S1 passive makes controlling her impossible.

Due to her single target nature, Liliam isn’t a favored choice for pure cleave playstyle which aim to obliterate the enemy team on their very first turn. With that said, Liliam is still certainly capable of dealing massive damage to enemies when built with pure offense in mind if that’s what you’re after.

While Liliam doesn’t instantly slot into top tier cleave compositions she does have a place in bruiser based teams building tankier with defensive shells and matrix sets. When played in this way, Liliam will sacrifice a lot of her damage and most of her one-shot potential in exchange for a playstyle that allows her to completely ignore control effects while dishing out [stuns] and [seals] of her own. With this playstyle, Liliam can serve as a foil to HP scaling characters, healers, and control compositions while being an all-inclusive self-buffing package of her own to then whittle down foes while also unleashing her more controlling aspects.

Also noteworthy is Liliam’s extremely high base SPD for a Damage dealer, going all the way up to 140 once her S3 is fully leveled up, which can rival or get very close to most openers. That makes it much easier for Liliam to maintain a reasonable SPD value without having to invest too much into it, offering more leeway when tuning her gear to tackle enemy Defenses.

PVE

In PVE, Liliam is comparable to a high dupe count Diting in power. Her Disorder Affinity, the terrific damage of her S3 and the scaling of her S2, coupled with her low CDs across the board make Liliam a fearsome and extremely simple DPS to exploit in many situations, especially in Burst scenarios where she excels.

In a Vacuum Liliam’s personal buffs allow her to keep up with Diting in Burst fights and perform well in sustained battles, but most teams already provide the buffs Liliam grants herself. [ATK] is incredibly common and Lily, Fuqiu or Nilu usually have [SPD] covered, meaning one of Liliam’s greatest advantages is usually cancelled out. To make things worse Liliam’s signature control resistance doesn’t have nearly as much impact in PVE as it does in PVP, her [Seal] doesn’t work on bosses, her [Stun] only situationally works and most bosses don’t have shields for her to ignore, meaning that her very high damage is really all that she brings to the table in PVE.

Conclusion

Liliam now shines in PVP and PVE alike. Most of her kit serves to counter a portion of the meta directly, and her self-buffs are something you may not always have in every PVP draft or team.

In PVE, she easily finds a spot in most Burst scenarios simply due to the sheer damage of her S3 and S2, counterbalancing the fact that a large amount of Liliam’s kit, or what makes her special either doesn’t work or is greatly diminished and her buffs are far more easily covered by top PVE Animuses than in PVP.