The Lumiwarden DitingBuild and Guide

The Lumiwarden Diting, or Lumi Diting as we’ll call him throughout this review, is a Reason Affinity Animus who mixes DEF-based damage, Control, and teamwide protection all in one specialized kit.

Skill 1

Lumi Diting’s S1 has both an active and a passive effect, the active being a very interesting ST attack that hits for up to 360% of his DEF, and with up to a 25% chance to extend the targeted Animus’ Skills CDs by 1 turn.

The second part of the Skill, Gleamwalker, passively weakens any effect that reduces your own team’s Turn meter by up to 80%, making them barely noticeable.

Designed to counter Turn meter reduction-based control while regularly hindering the enemy’s skill rotation, Lumi diting’s S1 has a high priority for it to truly shine within its niche.

Skill 2

S2 is an ST Control ability with good damage, hitting 3 times for up to 160% DEF-based damage each time, and with every hit having a base 30% chance to both decrease the target’s Turn Meter by up to 35% and inflict them with [Taunt] for up to 2 turns.

Being powerful in all of its applications, this Skill has a high priority at least til you reach level 3, but level 5 is also interesting if you heavily rely on the Taunt. Otherwise, if you know the Taunt won’t be too useful for your game plan, level l3-4 are good stopping points.

Skill 3

Lumi Diting’s S3, Retribution, is a 2-hit AoE that deals up to 170% of Diting’s DEF as damage to all enemies, with each hit capable of inflicting [SPD-] and [Torpor] for 2 turns, while also applying the [Sanctilin] Buff to all allies for three turns.

Torpor is a Debuff that prevents the inflicted Animus from gaining any extra Turn Meter from Turn Meter+ effects, while Sanctilin is a peculiar form of Damage reduction: every instance of Damage taken by an Animus with Sanctilin on them is mitigated, based on Lumi Diting’s current DEF. The damage can be reduced by up to 80% in this manner.

With its ability to shut down multi-hit attacks with low multipliers, and the crippling Debuffs it can inflict, leveling S3 is by far the highest priority for Lumi Diting, with level 5 being the goal to improve the uptime of the Skill’s effects.

PVE

In PVE, it’s hard to see Lumi Diting perform all too well. His ability to play around Turn Meter and SPD- is good, and Sanctilin will see good value in general, especially for newer players struggling to survive the high damage output during the initial progression. On the other hand, the Turn Meter prevention and Skill CD extension won’t get that much relevance outside of specific fights.

He’ll remain useful in a fair bit of encounters thanks to his mix of heavy Debuffing capabilities and protection, but other options like Viper, Plume, Kloss, etc, are readily available and offer more ‘bang for your buck’ when it comes to PVE Debuffing, making him more situational overall.

PVP

It’s another story in PVP, however, where Lumi Diting’s kit shines from its wide range of utility. When properly drafted, Sanctilin alone can already make him a solid team protector and sometimes outright win you games, but when paired with his multiple Debuffs, Turn Meter protection, and the occasional but very annoying CD extension, Lumi Diting is a worthwhile addition to any box.

His greatest downside is the removable nature of Sanctilin; however, as the Buff doesn’t benefit from any protection to Block, Steal, or any kind of Dispel. Without Sanctilin, Lumi Diting’s abilities to protect his team are dramatically diminished. It’s also good to know that Sanctilin’s damage reduction is impacted in real time by any DEF+/- applied to Lumi Diting, even after the Buff has been applied to the team.

Conclusion

All in all, Lumi Diting is a specialized Animus who excels in the right strategies, but can otherwise struggle when compared to the already established staples of Debuffing/Supporting, especially in PVE. By design, his kit makes him highly dependent on the meta, but if one sentence could sum him up, it would be: “He’s not always good, but when he is, he’s really damn good.”