Resonance SolsticeStellaBuild and Guide

Stella is a fantastic support that can reduce the cost of all cards in your deck while providing offensive buffs and spamming low-cost attack cards. Make sure you give her gear or bring healers, since she’s a frontline but NOT a tank.

Playstyle and Key Mechanics

Stella’s kit revolves around generating low-cost derivatives for her use to do damage; additionally, she can cleanse allies thanks to [Purge] and reduce the Cost of cards by 1. Let's further dive into her kit:

Main Cards:

• Starting with her First card [TATAKAE], this generates 2 derivatives of [TATAKAU]. Generates 3 upon Unlocking Resonance 2.

• Next is [Elegance], which can generate 2 derivatives of [Selfie].

• Lastly, her Ultimate [Stellar], which cleanses allies using [Purge] and reduces the cost of all cards by 1, is really convenient when dishing out combos.

Derivatives:

• [TATAKAU] - This card upgrades into 2 stages every time a Red card is used while in hand. For the base [TATAKAU], it deals physical damage and applies [Interrupt] to the target. Next for the 2nd iteration, this now deals 2 hits and can [Stun] instead of [Interrupt] and also [Ignite]. Lastly, for the final upgrade, it can now deal 3 hits and is also able to apply [Electrify].

• [Selfie] - Increases all front-line allies' ATK; this can stack infinitely and also can draw a card that prioritizes purple ones.

• [Singing] - This card can generate Cost. The Cost generated can bypass the cap (12). Additionally, it [Corrupt] and [Confuse] all enemies to take more damage. Unfortunately, due to the strength of this card, you will only be able to use it once per battle. Unlocks at Resonance 5.

Investment

Further dupes for Stella can be impressive; however, simply for quality of life, it will be nice to have her at Awakening 2.

• Awakening 1 - This permanently increases hand cap by 1; this doesn't require having any card of her card in hand, but her simply being part of the team.

• Awakening 2 - Increases the duration of [Stellar] for 3 seconds, making it possible to use more cards at a lower cost.

Resonance

• Resonance 1 - Heals her whenever you use one of her cards, a great node for survivability, given how squishy she is being in the front.

• Resonance 2 - Improves [TATAKAE] by generating an extra [TATAKAU], which means more cards to use.

• Resonance 4 - Increases Basic Attack speed to the maximum, as an additional effect after using [Selfie].

• Resonance 5 - Now generates a [Singing] card on top of your deck whenever you use the Leader Skill. This can only be used once per battle.

Synergies

• Ganya - Ganya relies on Stella’s card generation to fuel her leader skill. Stella being able to create 2-3 cards at once makes her a valuable partner for Ganya. 

• Katas - As another frontline crew member, Katas greatly benefits on most of Stella skill’s starting of with  [TATAKAU] the 2nd iteration of this derivative can greatly reduce the cooldown of Katas’ Leader Skill as you can use 3 of these, additionally given that Katas’ cards requires high cost Stella’s Ultimate Skill that reduces the cost, just simply improve the efficiency on using these cards.

• Tennie - Tennie and Stella are quite similar when dealing damage, by using the same cards to deal damage at a low cost (referring to [Magnet Wheel] and [TATAKAU]. Thanks to Stella’s Ultimate Skill, she can just spam [Magnet Wheel] without worrying about the cost.

• Arcana - A great support making her recover discarded cards, great for fishing [Stellar] for a longer cost reduction buff.

• Connor - A great Tank to help Stella live, as we kept mentioning, Stella is too squishy. Connor bringing [Shield] to the table fixes that issue.

• Rina Von - Another tank that can help Stella survive in the frontlines, by blocking incoming damage and applying control debuffs to the enemy.