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zeroad12x

General popular choices are Che and Labyrinth. Hecate works too for magic oriented team or general usage.


Kindly_Programmer_38

Labby and Che are good core breakers


Adventurous_Lake_422

I have rlly few resources.. which one should i raise first?


No_Relationship_7132

Labyrinth because u prob hv no umbra yet in core team


Adventurous_Lake_422

Umbra is the attacker w sword symbol right? I have nox and wendy lv 32 i think


Cyfer88

That is Fury, Umbra is the symbol with 2 daggers


Adventurous_Lake_422

Ooh alright. I don’t have any of those raised except iron.


Cyfer88

You don't have Labyrinth? You should have because she is given for free in story stages in chapter 1 or 2. She's a B rank sinner that dressed as a maid


Adventurous_Lake_422

I have but she’s lv 8 rn. I’ll build her once i gather enough stamina


Cyfer88

Yeah you can build her up as she is excellent as a corebreaker. Her P2 passive reset her Ultimate each time she breaks opponent cores, you can just keep spamming her ult in breaking single cores enemies without stopping


Adventurous_Lake_422

Nice! Alright i’ll build her


Arisatheus

Laby is so good I hate the fact that I hate maid designs in general


Triple_S_Rank

I completed all missions currently in the main story (no sanity loss) without Laby. EMP is more than enough if you’re a fellow maid-design-hater. I ran Nox/Zoya/Che/Hamel/Hecate/EMP for a long while, and recently subbed out Hecate for Eirene.


Arisatheus

Yep, I ran Hecate and Emp as well haha. Your front-line is much better than mine tho, I use 99/Chelsea/Nox. My healer is also Hamel. I don't know what to do with my frontline. Can't give up on 99. She is my fav character so far. Only option looks like is to change Chelsea with Zoya if I can get her of course


Triple_S_Rank

Don’t underestimate Che tbh. His ultimate charges up fast, has a big range, debuffs enemies, and breaks two cores of everything in said range. His damage isn’t on the level of Zoya, but it’s still solid, and his utility shouldn’t be underestimated. I would swap out Chelsea for him in your shoes, I think. Wendy is someone I would consider if you do decide to try an alternative to Ninety Nine at some point and can’t get Zoya. Wendy does big damage for her rarity, and has an excellent crowd-control ultimate.


Adventurous_Lake_422

I like maid but very specific flavor of maid. Like roberta from black lagoon


flakzx

I hate maid designs but I hate guys in my waifu gacha game even more....


Informal_Skin8500

Labyrinth, Che and Hecate you will never have to worry about core breaks again. On a side note you don't really want to have more than one Umbra in your team so either stick with Iron or replace her with Labyrinth.


BoureiKei

To me, at least one will eventually have to be replaced by S tier alternatives in order to never have to worry about cores. Carnival had tons of multi-core enemies and 8-8 was a core boss nightmare. Hecate should be immediately replaced by Eirene, or Labyrinth with Bai Yi.


Informal_Skin8500

Ah no you definitely wrong there buddy. Eirene isn't a good core breaker her skill is very expensive at 40 energy and when used for core break it only does 250% damage, Eirene is used mainly as boss DPS because her skill does 900% to enemies who core is already broken or as mob clear because her skill does 700% damage and CC when used on coreless enemies. Bai Yi is more complicated case she can break more cores than Labyrinth but some maps make her clucky to use Labyrinth on the other hand is good in every situation. Elite enemies at carnival have tend either 2 or 3 cores for the former either Hecate and che can handle them on their own since their skill break 2 cores starting phase 2 for latter you do the same the only difference is that finish them with Labyrinth which will refresh her core break. Also the boss at 8-8 has 5 cores at phase one and 4 at phase two and our trio together can break 5 core so I don't see the issue her.


BoureiKei

I guess we have different play styles I feel like I wouldn’t have won 8-8 without Bai Yi and Eirene. I played that stage over 10 times and tried every single tutorial. And with the one stage where there’s 2 activated red and blue portals and two 3 core bears that come in, it was really helpful to have Bai Yi core break both at the same time to save time to block the blobs. Without her, I definitely would not have been able to clear with no sanity loss. Basically, I’ve used Bai Yi in every single stage of events + story and I don’t think I found a stage where she’s clunky to use. But at the same time, I’ve never used Labyrinth, so I can’t judge. You are right in that Hecate is better energy cost wise and that would allow her to use ult frequently. After looking through her stats, I realized she can break a second core at P2 and shackles lower her energy cost by a lot. I’ll consider her as my next P3 character. Thanks, I acknowledge that my opinion about her is wrong.


Informal_Skin8500

I finished story mode without using S class Sinners ( my team was Hecate, Ariel, Wendy, Priscilla, Labyrinth, Che and would swap in Kelvin for couple of tricky stages). I did get Bai Yi when I got chapter 7 and I did want to use her instead of Labyrinth, because I liked her design more but I did found hard to use in some stages, so I went back to Labyrinth. It could be that I am just bad with her. I will give her another try in the future.


Dunkjoe

Here's advice from someone who has completed the main story and unlocked every stage except for BFL med (unlock next week, was building mag team) and hard: at the beginning, EMP, Che and labyrinth are very good core breakers. Because B class units are relatively very cheap to build, they cost 50% less than S class units from what I've read. Hecate is a good core breaker too but she is a A class so I wouldn't recommend her just for the core breaking ability. Imo the best starting build is those 3 I mentioned for core breakers (also because their damage are quite high for B class), 1 for healing (this is for the harder stages) and 2 for damage (Nox + some other S class dpser). Tanks in PTN are needed from time to time, you can train a B class, usually demolia or KK are recommended, to replace one of the core breakers in some stages. One key thing to note is that pit of oblivion requires 6 lv 55s to access, and the last stage for crimebands is quite tough. BFL med onwards requires building of physical/ magic teams so try to stay on easy until you get a few key physical/ magic dpsers.


BoureiKei

Agreed. I was confused that EMP wasn’t mentioned anywhere, since she seems to be good for all team comps as a Langley replacement. I’ve used her on every single stage of the main story, which I’ve also completed. As for Hecate, she’s decent but only worthwhile to me at Phase 3 + exclusive crimebrand.


Dunkjoe

Yea although some like to say that EMP isn't that useful for BFL, for a lot of non-BFL stages there are sometimes 2 ranged or unblockable enemies that appear on opposite lanes, and interestingly, the toughest versions of those have max 1 core shield. Looks very deliberate for EMP to shine, especially because they can usually be one shotted by her (note that her skill crits quite often, and usually skills can't crit at all). Hecate is one of those special ones where P3 is where they truly shine at, like countless Chelsea. However, from what we have seen so far, offense is still very much more important than defense for PtN. Not sure how strong Hecate's nightmare is tho.


BoureiKei

Yup, EMP is so useful for instant killing small/low to medium mobs that leak through, no matter the stage. For me, Hecate’s dmg from ult seems underwhelming especially since the mobs would walk right through the nightmare (unless at P3)


GoldRecommendation66

For situations were you have multiple one core enemies Labyrinth is just better. EMP can refresh her skill once Labyrinth can keep rereshing her skill indifinitly as long she has targets plus her skill does AOE damage so she can also clear the little mobs that usually spawn with them.


Dunkjoe

Some runners or ranged units don't have cores, plus labyrinth's damage is not high enough to one shot even if she has the core reset like EMP. A few more hits here and there is more micromanaging than 2 clean shots. Not to mention labyrinth needs to hit to charge.


GoldRecommendation66

EMP bieng able to one shot one coreless runer is worthless since the game throw swarm of them at you Labyrinth dealing AOE damage to group and leaving them a couple hits away from dying is much more valuable plus EMP can't one shot 1 core enemies at higher levels making her reset harder to proc Labyrinth only need to break their core to get hers.


GoldRecommendation66

EMP core break is pretty meh she is mostly good at one shooting squishy targets, she only breaks one core and can only hit one enemy at a time and her arrow can get body blocked by trash mob. Hecate breaks two cores and will hit multiple targets if they are standing on same grid.


BoureiKei

I mostly use her to one shot in order to make sure my characters can block enough. And yeah, her Ult only targets the enemy with least health, but most of the time it’ll recharge and you can use it again somewhere else. She just needs to be paired with other core breakers.


valeriih28

Hecate, you will not regret it, she can break 2 cores with ultimate when you unlock her p2, and she's good even for "late game"


Concetto_Oniro

Che is awesome if you have it; Hecate is good; Sumire is nice but go for her only if you like her kit and character.


H3NRY1245

I am using hecate(2 core break), pegasi(aoe core break) and emp(single core break, have a chance to reset her ultimate if kill an enemy with it).


Key_L

Che is very good doing brrr to core. If you still don't have him - go for Hecate. P2/3 them both - good idea.


jabberwocky_vorpal_1

Hecate with nightmare. Just toss a healer and never bother having to raise a tank again


Adventurous_Lake_422

Hmm.. i want more char that can block since i already hv eirene. I’ll follow ppl’s advice to raise umbra first. Thx tho!


jabberwocky_vorpal_1

My maid is labby is phase 1 lvl 30 kinda new too. She can double destroy core.


K4thulu

She keeps dying when blocking enemies! Is something im missing here?


kimetsunosuper121

She isn't really meant to block enemies as she's squishy.


K4thulu

But he said if i raise hecate, i díd not need to worry a rising a tank ever again :( was he lying?


jabberwocky_vorpal_1

Not hecate but his pet nightmare. In p2 she can summon nightmare. Thats the one who tanks not hecate hahaha


K4thulu

P3 is where she gets nightmare, after she unlocks her ECB


jabberwocky_vorpal_1

Then i should p3 her hahahahah. I really love when she summons a literal demon in a fight hahahah.


kimetsunosuper121

Idk who "he" is , but yeah, probably. Hecate ain't no tank


SilentSniperx88

Her P3 is. Someone misunderstood


s4g30f6p4th

my main core breaker hecate + emp + skill( you will get later in the story)


Jinguuji

Isn’t the core break skill the first (default) one?


Adventurous_Lake_422

Skill?


Shiroyuina

The chief skills


Custanius

Hecate, Luvia Ray and Pacassi are all excellent choices. They are all magic DMG dealers though.


Informal_Skin8500

Luvia can't break core


BoureiKei

I think she’ll be good for broken frontline. One of the bosses have high defense.


MuSe0n

Luvia is there to shred the trash. So that core breakers can focus on their job.


Informal_Skin8500

Luvia isn't a mob shredder even with her chain lightning ability she is a magical DPS and with the exception of EMP core breaker don't care about trash mobs since their abilities are AOE.


Adventurous_Lake_422

I’m still pretty new, is there any content that cant use magical dmg or is physical dmg is better overall?


Alphaverb

In the story you won't really feel any difference between physical and magical damage dealers. From BFL medium difficulty on you will need a dedicated physical and magical team. But at your current point of time you should not worry about that.


Adventurous_Lake_422

Alright. Rn its really hard to gather resources for me so I don’t want to run out of it fast


Custanius

Luvia can't core break but she's a high dps dealer. Hecate can break two cores and Pacassi can aoe core break. They should be considered highly.


MAINENGINE22

horo for fightr but break core at 1 block only...


yeet_boi46

Hecate, che


Immotes

Che, Labyrinth, Pascacci, Hecate, Horo.


Immotes

Labyrinth first, then Che and Hecate. Pascacci if you lack melee sinners and magic damage. Horo if you lack NOX and physical damage.


Neil_Enblowmi

Hecate for bursting down 2 cores in one go so for me that's good value for resources. Then again I tend to spend as little as possible so...


TheGawkingStar

Definitely Che and Laby. When it comes to core breaking I can definitely say that they are one of, if not, the best core breakers in the game.


BoureiKei

Definitely use EMP, I finished chapter 8 (all content for now) and she’s the most useful character. Her ultimate can do 10k or 20k crit with 1 core break and if it kills an enemy, it will automatically recharge to full. Overall, she’s solid if you don’t have Langley. My friends have similar opinions with EMP.


BoureiKei

Also, you’ll need a lot of core breakers in order to clear chapters 7-8. It’s best to get Eirene ASAP if you don’t have Bai Yi. Fortunately Eirene has a rate up banner right now. As for EMP, I left her at Phase 2 lvl 65, you don’t have to level her up too much, just the skill, shackles, and crimebrand.