Has decent damage for a buffer. Can be considered a DPS / Support hybrid, especially for Fire-weak stages/bosses.
Overshadows Mari and completely power-creeps S. Rosanna — two limited Nikkes. They won’t be missed as hard if you have Grave.
Currently the only Nikke can reach 100% crit rate comfortably without intensive relying on OL. Allows for better performance on bosses without core.
Decent burst generation for an AR unit in PvP.
Has Pierce, which allows her to provide decent support damage in mob stages or to hidden boss parts.
Provides insane Burst Generation to the team, allowing for 14 Full Burst(s) over 3 minutes! Beneficial skill for auto players.
Good kit design: Auto-friendly use, but still has benefits in manualing her for peak potential.
Cheaper to build: S1 and S2 are optional to invest into, with her support capability mainly revolving around her Burst skill.
Mana did well. Look at those abs!
Amazing MLB Lobby screen! Amazing VAs! Best gym girl!
Cons
She lacks survivability skills, which makes her harder to use in Campaign as well as against most bosses.
The majority of her buffs are only for Pierce units.
The return on investment (RoI) of perfecting her OL will likely not impress you since her DPS is not that impressive compared to a Meta B3 DPS.
S1’s Pierce Damage buff is essentially useless due to how little time she spends outside Full Burst, which feels like a kit design flaw.
Loses ‘Overheat I’ buff if she bursts while in reloading animation, making her lose out on personal DPS. Need to peek to maintain it (not auto-friendly as she will always be reloading on auto).
Takes too long to stack self buffs, which she has to re-stack every Full Burst.
Awkward banner: Too strong to be a normal Nikke, too weak to be 1% Pilgrim rate-up banner, especially considering how all other Pilgrim banners have been groundbreaking meta-wise.
Ratings
SS
Story (low deficit)
S
Story (high deficit)
SS
Bossing
B
PVP
Investment Tips
Skill Investment
Here's the explanation for all the numbers and colors used in the guide:
10/5/7 means upgrading Skill 1 to lvl 10, Skill 2 to lvl 5, and Burst Skill to lvl 7,
Yellow means the immediate investment when u get the unit. There are 3 reasons for this:
If the unit is Meta or High Priority, it will have a starting investment of more than 1/1/1 (such as 4/4/4) depending on what the unit provides.
If the unit is Medium or Low Priority, 1/1/1 will be mentioned, meaning no immediate investment is required, and you can invest in this character if you need to use it according to the priority listed.
If we deem that a unit does not have usable skills to be meta for any gamemode, no investment will be mentioned.
Blue means minimum investment to take advantage of the Nikke's skills. There are 2 reasons for this:
Sometimes, minimum investments are breakpoints such as for Noir or SAnis.
Sometimes, minimum investments are just the ideal way to progress to upgrade that unit, before moving on to Recommended and High.
Red means recommended investment for F2P players,
Purple means maximum recommended investment, in order to get the best out of the unit. You should only try to reach these investments if you have a surplus of Skill Books leftover.
More info:
The skill investment list below features a lot of Level 4 and 7 because they are easier to understand. Any higher levels will cost a new type of resource.
However, you may choose to upgrade to Level 5 if you need a stronger effect instead of 4, as the increase in Blue Manual cost from Level 4 to 5 is still low. The leap only starts from Level 6 onward.
There is also a leap from Level 3 to 4, so if you want to save a tiny bit of Blue Manuals, then leave at 3 instead of 4.
This Overload (OL) Recommendations and Priority guide unravels in detail everything you need about a character in terms of priority, overload targets (effects), and order of acquisition, alongside some notes to explain our thinking process.
For OL targets and order of acquisition, we decided to divide the target effects into several categories.
Essential: With all gear combined, your unit must have the roll(s) prescribed as a minimum requirement. Example: Charge Speed on Alice. You cannot compromise on these rolls.
Ideal: These rolls will improve your unit's performance significantly. Aim for 2 lines of Essential/Ideal per gear for maximum performance and the best Return on Investment (ROI). If you get 3, you are lucky. You can choose to only have 1 as well to save materials. Example: Elemental Damage on Scarlet.
Passable: Low-priority line that has either limited value or the impact is not as strong as other rolls. Should this show up as a bonus together with a better line, you can choose to keep them. Example: Charge Speed on Red Hood.
Overload effects are ordered by importance from Left to Right, which means anything on the left provides more value than the right. Effects that belong to the same group generate too similar an impact to make a difference (and are sometimes interchangeable). Try to follow this order as faithfully as possible for maximum mileage.
Additional tips:
Priority (PvE/PvP) isn't necessarily lower than Priority (Universal), which has no tag/label. It just indicates that this unit performs only in select types of content.
If a suggested effect has the number ×2 next to it, that means you should get the effect on at least 2 gear. The same idea applies to other numbers.
Focus on obtaining Essential(s) then you can start worrying about optimizing your rolls. Units require these to function, and the impact is too massive to ignore.
If a unit has no Essential(s), that means their performance is not that dependent on OL, but they can still benefit from good effects.
Remember that this is just a recommendation list, and attaining perfection is impossible. You will have to make some compromise, pick whichever rolls you desire the most, and conserve as much material as possible.
No particular cube. Use your highest-level available cube, preferably Bastion, to cover up accidental mistakes in battle.
Teams
Teams
Team 71
Grave Steals Mari’s EVA friends
Mode: Bossing || Element: Fire
Characters
About the team
This team focuses on buffing Asuka and originally used Mari instead of Grave. Now, Grave is a better option here as she can benefit Asuka's and Rei's buff as well as providing the team with loads of Pierce DMG▲ and ATK DMG▲. If you somehow don't have built Alice, or if you are a fan of Evangelion, this team would excite you.
Substitutions
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Team 72
Campaign Shenanigans
Mode: Campaign || Element: Fire
Characters
About the team
A variant of high-deficit campaign team fixated on buffing Asuka's and Alice's ATK as much as possible to negate stat penalty. Great for pushing Fire-Weak Campaign (Ch. 28-32). Red Hood as a B1 buffer will provide a significant ATK buff to the team (including Grave — remember, stat conversion buff since Red Hood provides caster’s ATK buff). Grave, Asuka, and Alice can then demolish enemies together with their endless Pierce capabilities and lifesteal.
Substitutions
Crown can be used as an off-burst B2 buffer to provide ATK buff and Reload Speed when needed with occasional taunt but without shield. This does mean that Asuka will not enjoy her Elemental DMG buff. When using Crown, you may replace Asuka with Red Hood B3. Naga may be used over an off-burst Crown instead if Core Damage + some heals are more preferable.
In stages that do not require CDR, you can ditch Liter/DWife/Rouge and run RH B1, together with Grave B2, and an off-burst Crown, Naga or Modernia. Of course, still using 2 Pierce DPS as the main B3s.
Team 73
Keep Pressuring The Frontline @3RL
Mode: PVP || Element: All
Characters
About the team
A very niché attacking team to punish disorganized comps with as few expensive units as possible. Grave and Modernia's Full Burst Adjacency Strike apply strong frontline pressure. Rumani can serve as an additional/secondary tank with some self-heal and taunting, and her being B1 (unlike Centi or Anis) does not block Grave's B2 from being used, opening up positional flexibilities. Use an off-burst Centi to accelerate burst or ClipSG to additionally pressure the enemy's backline.
