Pyrois Best Build Guide

Intro & Unique Mechanic

Pyrois is an Ether Attack “Special” Rank Agent who has access to 4 different Ultimates, which also happen to cost only 2000 Decibels each, and all having a different purpose.

Besides their unique Ultimates, Pyrois can build “Solar Prominence” with their attacks, which is capped at 60, but if over 30 can consume some of it to launch a series of enhanced Basic Attacks that can deal heavy damage.

While the first and second strings aren’t very strong, the third and fourth are, and conveniently can be shortcutted into from most of their attacks.

Pyrois’ gameplan then revolves around generating and expending Solar Prominence while getting the Decibels needed to sustain multiple Ultimates in a stun, which is required to get the most damage out.

Core Passive, Ultimates & Chain Attacks

Pyrois gets 30 Solar Prominence when entering the battlefield and generates 0.5 of it every second while in combat. Outside of outlining this resource, their Core Passive is inherently tied to their Ultimates, each of which corresponds to a direction: “Upper”, “Lower”, “Left” and “Right”.

Every Ultimate has a different multiplier and effect associated with it.

The “Upper” Ultimate is an ideal starter for stuns, as it deals decent damage, builds 30 Solar Prominence (which can then be used on EBAs), and places Pyrois in the “Mirage” state for 21s. This gives them a 40% CRIT DMG boost to Ultimates on Stunned enemies and lets them loop their EBA4 back into an EBA3.

The “Lower” Ultimate is used only once in fights, at the very beginning. This is because it places Pyrois in the “Sunflare” state for 200 seconds! This causes their EX Special to generate 10 Solar Prominence when it parries enemy attacks, increases their DMG dealt by 40% and their Energy Generation Rate by 15%.

This is distinct from Energy Regen, as it increases the value of the Energy gained from both it and all of their attacks.

The “Left” Ultimate deals a high burst of damage when a Heavy Attack hits a Contaminated enemy. This demands Wind Anomalies to be inflicted, so it’s only ever worth using when running Pyrois alongside a Wind Agent.

The “Right” Ultimate has the highest damage, and if used on stunned enemies, it will pause stun for 3 seconds. This is roughly the time that it takes for the skill to cast, and when its final hit connects, it will trigger Totalize, dealing an additional burst of fixed damage.

This will immediately end stun! As the additional damage that it deals does not scale with how long there is left in stun, this is best reserved for use at the very end after EXs, EBAs and other Ultimates have been used.

Which Ultimates are used tends to follow a strict order: begin with the “Lower” Ultimate to buff Pyrois, use the “Upper” Ultimate at the beginning of stun to get the increase in damage, then the “Right” Ultimate to finish things off.

If a Wind Agent is in the party and enemies are Contaminated then, the “Left” Ultimate may be an option outside of stun.

Pyrois Chain Attack has no additional properties as part of their Core, being a generic damaging skill with decent multipliers, but it’s still important to use owing to their Additional Ability.

Additional Ability

On having Stun or Support characters, Pyrois gets a 40% increase to CRIT DMG and 300 Decibels when using a Chain Attack. This is on top of existing bonuses, making Chain Attack one of the primary ways for Pyrois to build enough Decibels to sustain multiple Ultimates in a stun.

Basics

There are 2 Basic Attacks. The first is a standard 3-part string that is mostly unremarkable, but works as a filler to build Solar Prominence.

The second is what does damage, being the enhanced Basic. This EBA is a 4-part string, with each part consuming a different amount of Solar Prominence, but they can only ever be used if there’s at least 30 points built. 

The 1st and 2nd consume little but are also very weak and so best avoided, with the 3rd and 4th hits being what actually sees frequent use. This isn’t a problem as all skills with the exception of Pyrois’ regular Special and their standard Basic Attack string will shortcut into EBA3.

It also has a unique property where swapping out of Pyrois during EBA3 will automatically perform EBA4.

Specials

Pyrois’ regular Special is unremarkable and isn’t used.

Their EX Special consumes 40 energy and deals a series of slashes, but with high multipliers that make it a good option for a fast burst. It can parry enemies that strike into it, increasing its interrupt level and - owing to Pyrois’ Core Passive - also generate 10 Solar Prominence if successful.

There is one additional Special that is used automatically after the EX Special or any Ultimate, where Phaethon will show up from the sidelines and shoot at the enemy to deal a bit of extra damage.

Assists & Dodges

Neither Pyrois’ Assists or Dodges have anything unique about them, with the former being useful to generate extra Decibels (via Defensive Assists and Follow-Ups) and the latter being an effective way to build Solar Prominence (via Dodge Counters).

Despite the various Ultimates, Pyrois has a rather flowcharty approach to gameplay.

Once enemies spawn, make use of their “Lower” Ultimate to get its buffs applied for the encounter. This can then be followed by their EBA3 and 4, or an EX Special, which links into an EBA3.

Pyrois can then build resources in the out-of-stun period and expend them on EBAs as needed to avoid overcapping. As EBA1 and 2 have low multipliers, reserve resources for EBA3, which shouldn’t be difficult to do so as almost all skills in their kit will shortcut to it.

Since they can parry for extra Solar Prominence, it’s worth trying to get some to squeeze in more damage out-of-stun.

Ideally, Pyrois needs to have plenty of Decibels stored to be able to do 2 Ultimates in a single stun. A combo then follows with:

• “Upper” Ultimate

• Cancel Chain Attack

• EBA3 + 4

• Swap out to another Agent, as EBA4 will cast automatically.

• Trigger Pyrois’ Chain Attack 

• EX Special

• EBA3 + 4

• “Right” Ultimate

Decibels may not always allow for this, in which case, doing 2 Pyrois Chain Attacks and ending with the “Right” Ultimate will be best.

After which push to another stun while trying to optimise Decibels to sustain double Ultimates where possible.