Physical Mostly does melee strike arte.

Arte Mostly does spell arte

Hybrid Balanced around using both strike and spell arte.

Ranged Mostly does ranged strike arte.

Dasher Capable of dodging attacks with dash arte.

Buff/Debuff Capable of giving buffs/debuffs.

Healer Capable of doing healing arte.

Villain Antagonist character, which has special perks over player characters.

Melee Strike Arte

Spell Arte

Ranged Strike Arte

Dash Strike Arte

Buff/Debuff Arte

Heal Arte

Only obtainable from prism shop

Only available on special event banners (seasonal/raid/collab events)

Only obtainable from an event.

Buff/Debuffs:

Altered Arte(Master Arte/Counter Arte)

Attack Up/Attack Down

Defense Up/Defense Down

Arte Attack Up/Arte Attack Down

Arte Defense Up/Arte Defense Down

Speed Haste

Ailments:

Fatigue : Increase stagger time

Paralyze : Occasionally cancels action

Poison: % based HP reduction over time

Slow: Slows movement speed

Terror: Reduces enemy action frequency.

Weakness: Increase Cast Time & reduce action chaining.

Stun: Prevents action until hit

Damage

Stagger
IS Break

HP Vamp

Heal Boost

Caster Heal

Area Heal

Knockback

Rush

Iframe

Float

Slow Descent

Cast Speed

Cast Time Proc

AoE Boost

-1CC

MG

MG Heal

KD Proc

Ailment

Ailment Cure

Ailment Proc

Ailment Power

Buff Time

Debuff Time

Party Effect

Double Proc

Projectile Block

Add Element

Increase damage by 10%

Increase enemy stagger time by 0.1 sec

Reduces enemy Iron Stance by +2 hits

Recover HP equal to 8% of damage dealt

Boost HP recovery effect by 10%

Caster gains 20% of HP recovery effect

Heals self and party members within range by 3%

Increase knock-back power by 15%

Increase rush distance by 15%

+0.17 sec. of invincibility after use

Increase float power of last hit by 10%

Slow descent speed of lifted foes

Increase casting speed by 5%

10% chance to cut casting time to 1/4

Widen area of effect by 10%

Reduce CC cost by 1

Boost Mirrage Gauge by additional 10%

Increase allies' MG by 10%

Boost odds of down occurring by 2%

Chance to cause status effect on enemy hit

When used, negate status effect on caster

Boost odds of inflicting ailment by 2%

Boost strength of ailment effect by 1

Increase duration of buff by 5 seconds

Increase duration of debuff by 3 seconds

Arte effect now affects all allies

25% chance of doubling attack power

Single shot won't stagger user mid-arte

Gain (Element) attribute

IS Gain

Increase Iron Stance by +1 during arte

MR

HP Recover

CC Reset

Raise Mirrage Ratio by 5%

Recover 10% of user's max HP

CC completely recovers after activation

Template Example

 Character

Anima Sync

Def

Type

Notable Arte

Obtainable In

Character Name

Scaling: Phys/Arte

Lv 50 HP: HP

Equipment Count:

5 (Types of )

2 (Types of )

3 (Types of )

6

Wiki page link

Chapter/Event origin icon the character is obtained freely from.

Arte Name

Master/Altered Arte Name

Arte Name

Character Summary:

The whole information of what the character mainly features are described here. Be it the pros, the cons, or the verdict of the character,

Notable Artes:

Arte Name (CC Cost, Min Power-Max Power)

Master/Altered Arte Name (Action Requirement, CC Cost, Min Power-Max Power)

Enhancements: 1st Enhancement, 2nd Enhancement, 3rd Enhancement, 4th Enhancement, 5th Enhancement

A description of the arte itself, if said arte has a Master/Altered Arte, the guide would cover said arte too.

 Significance Rating: Due to the nature of  being overall pretty hard to get, a special measure is given on whether or not the character is significant enough to actually have the arte to actually function well. Arte would be measured from Very Low, Low, Mid, High, to Very High, and then an explanation would be given to how dependant the character is to have the arte.

Arte Name (CC Cost, Min Power-Max Power)

Enhancements: 1st Enhancement, 2nd Enhancement, 3rd Enhancement, 4th Enhancement, 5th Enhancement

Arte Description/

Kocis/Ix Nieves

Scaling: 60/100

Lv 50 HP: 2770

Equipment Count:

5 (Free, Ix, Kocis, Summer, Overray)

2 (Ix, Kocis)

3 (2 gacha, 1 )

6

Wiki page link

Instant Strike - Phantom Demon True Eye

Guardian Field

Guardian Phoenix

Obliteration Surge

Shredding Talon

Geyser Tusk

Final Geyser Tusk

Rising Falcon

Character Summary:

Being the Main Character of the game, it's not surprising that he does need to be a strong melee character somewhat since he's the first character you take control in the game, and luckily he aced that requirement.

While not being able to hold a high stagger recovery enemy staggered on his own, Kocis compensated this extremely well with a uniquely effective dash arte Shredding Talon which makes him completely immune to anything a melee enemy would throw at you when spammed, while Obliteration Surge can IS break pretty well and hold the enemy staggered pretty well. He also has Guardian Field, which master version Guardian Phoenix is incredibly effective at holding a lot of enemies on spot with a self centered AoE around him. This combined with his rainbow anima sync makes him by far one of the most versatile character in the game due to how easy it is to just use him and break through challenges with his dash artes, being capable to survive even the most harsh of enemy assault while holding them off from from wreaking havoc against your other party members.

And the cherry on top of Kocis? His overray mode, which allows him to gain full sync, full MG at the start of the battle, and HP regeneration, making him even more powerful though you are limited to a maximum of four uses that would recover one use every 6 hours. He's a strong character early on and remains so even late to the game, so be sure to get all his good stuff.

Notable Artes:

Instant Strike - Phantom Demon True Eye(5-hit basic attack) (1775-1952, 150 MG)

Enhancements: Overray, MR, Overray, Damage, Overray

Overray Enhancement: 5-Hit basic attack for 10 sec

This MA is just pure amazingness. It’s a powerful whole screen sweep that also comes with a special effect of enabling Kocis to perform 5 hit basic attack at high speed, though, at the expense of a temporary Poison that won’t last long. It’s stupidly excellent for Master Arte spam, which pretty much translates into a lot of MG. This allows Kocis to AoE mob control(Guardian Phoenix) and damage bomb(Final Geyser Tusk) continuously during the whole overray effect while at the same time building a lot of MG in a short burst of time, though due to the side effect of using an MA in battle alone you’d have a neutered MG gain.

Guardian Field (6 CC, 235-258)

Guardian Phoenix (6th action, 16 CC, 930-1023)

Enhancements: Area Heal, Damage, Area Heal, Stagger, Area Heal

Guardian Field is an alright combo arte, and it does an AoE attack while healing nearby allies by a bit, which makes it pretty useful when you have melee allies clustered against an enemy or as a combo arte to continue the stagger after an AoE spell. The downside is that weak at the cost of AoE melee, so it's not that good against single enemies.

Guardian Phoenix is a really great Master arte though, as it has a huge AoE (allowing him to hit a lot of enemies) while staggering as long as an AoE spell, allowing him to hold off a lot of enemies in one spot while being invincible.

 Significance Rating: High. While Guardian Phoenix allows Kocis to cover and hold off enemies on spot, but compared to his other artes it isn’t necessary to get most out of him as his dash arte take up most of what makes him very good. You get this for free though, so no need to worry to pull for them.

Obliteration Surge (7CC, 500)

Enhancements: Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, MG

Kocis's best combo arte and IS breaker, Obliteration does a lot of hits while dealing a solid amount of damage, and has a dash finisher that allows him to escape harm at the end. Very great at holding an enemy staggered, though Kocis lacks any other arte to combo loop with it at they’re own.

Shredding Talon (4-3CC, 260-296)

Enhancements: Stagger, Iframe, Damage, Iframe, -1CC

Another amazing arte for Kocis, Shredding Talon has always been a classic for pretty much allowing Kocis to dodge the crap out of everything due to it's speed of execution and perfect iframe thanks to the iframe increase of the enhancements. Great enhancements too with some iframe boost stagger and CC reduction, but it's not fast enough to be used as a combo arte on enemies with fast hitstun recover. It remains as a top end survival arte though, as the perfect iframe would help Kocis survive attacks for a VERY long time.

Geyser Tusk (4 CC, 245)

Final Geyser Tusk (6th action, 14 CC, 1150)

Enhancements: Float, IS Break, Float, MG, Slow Descent

Geyser Tusk is an alright combo arte for it's cheap CC cost, though it might not fully hit on certain enemies due to due the delay between the tackle and the ground smash(mainly the big and the fast hitstun recover ones). Final Geyser Tusk is pretty much an instant damage nuke, but quite less useful that Guardian Phoenix due to the less stagger and AoE.

 Significance Rating: Low. Final Geyser Tusk honestly feels truly optional to Kocis, as it lacks any enhancements and doesn’t have much iframe or AoE coverage that Guardian Phoenix has.

Rising Falcon (5 CC. 430-473)

Enhancements: HP Vamp, Stagger, HP Vamp, Damage, HP Vamp

An alternative dash arte to Shredding Talon, Rising Falcon has a delayed buildup, but comes with HP Vamp which allows him to leech off HP against whoever he’s dodgetanking. It’s quite less reliable than Shredding Talon, but it’s a neat option for a small bit of HP regaining.

Mileena Weiss

Scaling: 130/30

Lv 50 HP: 2228

Equipment Count:

6 (Free, Arc 1, Summer, Ex-Clipse, Arc 2, SAO Leafa)

2 (Arc 1, Arc 2)

4 (2 gacha, 1 , 1 )

6

Wiki page link

Nightmare

Darknessmare

Sundering Snow

Chromatic Ray

Harmony Requiem

Luminous Rise

Petal Storm

Violet Petal Storm

Blazing Shell

Ray

First Aid

Character Summary:

While you initially thought Mileena would've been a pure mage to contrast Ix/Kocis, apparently it isn't really the case as Mileena has a bit share of melee attacks, though it really costs Mileena from being able to do destructive AoE spells until much later on using her limited time weapons.

Her main spell arsenal, Ray and Blazing Shell, deal decent damage for such a short cast and cheap CC, but that's what the best that you'll get unfortunately from her initial vanilla arte selection. Through various newer event and gacha weapons however, she'll get a lot more stronger, with options such as Sundering Snow and Petal Storm that allows her to deal damage and backstepping away to build actions count for faster spells and easier Master arte triggering, while Nightmare's master arte Darknessmare and Sentir Ray are AoE damage nukes, though unfortunately her healing will remain as First Aid at best.

Mileena one of those characters that would be either be excellent or absolute garbage, depending on how many event and event gacha limited weapons that you do have later. She's still an amazing carry for newer players thanks to her heal MA Luminous Rain and rainbow sync, but easily replaceable once you get an actual mage with a proper heal arte for that anima sync unless you do have her event limited stuff which allows her to keep up.

Notable Artes:

Nightmare (5 CC, 680)

Darknessmare (5th action, 15 CC, 1245)

Enhancements: AoE boost, IS break, AoE Boost, Cast Speed, AoE Boost

The main spell itself is pretty eh despite the big damage due to the delayed hit, though you can mitigate that with the AoE Boost, but what really matters in this arte is the Darknessmare, the master variant of it which has a wide AoE. It’s quite weaker than most Master Arte spell, but it’s backed up by an arte defense debuff which is pretty rare debuff.

 Significance Rating: High. Darknessmare is by far the one of the only AoE Mileena can actually use, so she has dependency to this arte to an extend, though you probably won’t see this significance as much if you’re leaving Mileena to an AI because they suck at triggering Master Arte in general.

Sundering Snow (4 CC, 295)

Enhancements: Float, IS Break, Float, MG, Slow Descent

A must have for a strong Mileena, Sundering Snow grants Mileena mobility to back away from the enemy really quickly while also gathering action counts for Master arte and faster spells at a cheap cost of CC, so it's a really huge asset for Mileena assuming you do take control for her, though it's also beneficial for AIs as mages tend to melee an enemy that disrupted their spells and Sundering Snow would allow her to back away while doing so. Too bad it's a limited prism weapon though, so do get it if you can.

Chromatic Ray (9-8 CC, 950)

(Obtained from Ex-Clipse VS Quest.)

Enhancements: Cast Speedt, MG, Cast Speed, -1CC, Cast Time Proc

An actual AoE spell for Mileena? Yes please. It takes a while to cast, but pays off with a decent AoE size, that, while scatters far enough that most enemies won’t take full hit, holds off enemies pretty well. It also has the benefit of cast speed shortener and a chance for a really short cast time, which when combined with Sundering Snow makes it a decently spammable spell.

Harmony Requiem (120 MG, 900)

Enhancements: Debuff Time, MR, MR, MR, Debuff Time

Solid MA with a lot of stuff packed into one, from dealing damage, atk debuff, and healing at once, making it a massive boon for Mileena, though you’re likely going to need a lot of MG.

Luminous Rise (100 MG, 25)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, MR, Heal Boost, MR, MR (Fully enhanced)

While usually not needed, an emergency button for an AoE heal MA works pretty well as an emergency button. Usually not needed, but it can find use on situations where your whole party would get nuked such as by enemies who uses MAs.

Petal Storm (5 CC, 360-396)

Violet Petal Storm (5th action, 15 CC, 1210-1331)

Enhancements: MG, IS Break, MG, Damage, MG

Gacha alternative to Sundering Snow. It's not as good as Sundering Snow due to the slower attack and a slightly larger CC cost. The only merit it has over Sundering Snow is the MG gain you can get from using the Master version of it, so it's pretty eh.

 Significance Rating: Very Low. Petal Storm is pretty terrible overall as it’s a garbage edition of Sundering Snow. Violet Petal Storm CAN be useful for MG gain, but you REALLY better off using Darknessmare or Chromatic Ray which has much more AoE reach for much easier MG gathering.

Blazing Shell (5 CC, 470)

Enhancements: IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break

While it doesn’t even has an AoE, and it is pretty easy to miss unless a melee stops the enemy, it does has a quite short cast time, a decent damage, and an Iron Stance break enhance that easily breaks Iron Stance if the melees somehow fail to do so. It’s unremarkable once you get actual the actual AoE spells like Chromatic Ray though.

Ray (5-4 CC, 730)

Enhancements: Cast Speed, MG, Casting Speed, -1CC, Cast Time Proc

Mileena's only AoE spell if you don't have any of Nightmare and Sentir Ray. Pretty serviceable due to the fast cast time and huge damage against big bosses since they are an easy target to a full hit Ray, so it still holds up if you're looking for more DPS on fights against singular boss fights.

First Aid(4 CC, 15-20)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, Caster Heal, Heal Boost, Caster Heal, Heal Boost

Mileena’s best heal arte. It may be a First Aid, but at least it has merits of being overall the fastest heal spell.

Haruka Amami

Scaling: No elemental strike arte

Lv 50 HP: 1903

ToP!!!!!!!!!!!!!(MR+)

Let's Get Along!

No Fighting!

Giving It My All!

Gimme Your Support!

Fight!

Recommended Setup:

-Let's Get Along!

-Giving It My All!

-Fight!

-Gimme Your Support!

Character Summary:

A bizarre choice of a character that was a surprise character during the Idolm@ster collab, Haruka gets a plot armor of having the powers to use her songs to attack and joins the cast as collab character.

Haruka is an all out support character, and by that I mean both literally and as a stagger support, as she mainly inflict physical and arte attack debuff through her various artes. Her attacks are mainly used on the purpose of defending herself from getting herself and her low HP from getting attacked and assist the stagger, varying from the spell Giving It My All!, a couple of slow projectiles like Gimme Your Support!, and Let’s Get Along!, which is an attack that surrounds the user like a Guardian Field minus the heal. She also has a couple of heal artes like Let's Do Our Best! and Fight! that you can easily just from her projectile normal attacks for a fast heal, though not as effective as Healing Circle and Nurse users. You can also bring her everywhere thanks to her Rainbow anima sync.

A lot of this comes across as meh if it wasn’t for the actual debuffs inflicted, but what makes Haruka someone you would use in the first place is her only MA ToP!!!!!!!!!!!!! that you can only get from the gacha, which deals no damage, but compensates itself by grants you a large amount of MR. This would be extremely useful in survival based content of Rays such as Tower as an MR battery to make other character’s damage MAs as devastating possible, but otherwise meh at the rest of ToTR content since you don’t get to use the MA multiple times.

Notable Artes:

ToP!!!!!!!!!!!!!(MR+) (100 MG, 0)

Enhancements: MR, Debuff Time, MR, Debuff Time, MR

ToP!!!!!!!!!!!!! deals no damage while inflicting physical attack debuff which is underwhelming on its own, but grants a large quantity of MR. This won’t be that much of a use most of the time in Rays, but is a godsent in Tower in which having an MR battery is pretty viable to make your MAs deal more damage during screen clearing or boss nuking. A must have for Haruka due to it being her only MA and her usefulness.

Let's Get Along! (7 CC, 475-522)

No Fighting! (4th action, 17 CC, 1335-1468)

Enhancements: HP Vamp, Stagger, HP Vamp, Damage, HP Vamp

Let’s Get Along! is a circular attack around the user in a similar fashion to Guardian Field while reducing physical attack of the enemies, which is pretty useful as a self defense attack considering melee enemies would usually go into close range and Haruka’s fragile HP.

No Fighting is pretty excellent offensively, as it requires a very few action for a fast large and devastating AoE hit, which can help saving characters from getting ganged and as an assist stagger and damage to follow up an AoE spell while also recovering HP with the enhancements.

 Significance Rating: Very High. Considering Haruka’s capability is heavily dependant on her MA, especially considering how easy it is to trigger the Master Arte, it’s pretty much necessary to get the best out of Haruka whose job is an MR battery using her MAs. Self surrounding AoE also means there is a lot of enemies to hit with it as well.

Giving It My All! (7 CC, 790-869)

Enhancements: MG, IS Break, MG, Damage, MG

Haruka’s only spell is a fast projectile spell, which inflicts arte attack debuff on it’s wake while also sending enemies flying. It’s essentially projectile Tractor Beam. It’s also a decent source of MG thanks to enhancements, and if you’re willing to take the risk, you can just this spell from Gimme Your Support! for a good chunk of MG since you’re using Haruka for her MA anyways.

Gimme Your Support! (6 CC, 460-506)

Enhancements: HP Vamp, Stagger, HP Vamp, Damage, HP Vamp

A must have for Haruka, Gimme Your Support! spews out a couple of slow traveling projectiles and also inflicting physical attack debuff on whatever it hits. It’s her fastest attack while also keeping herself away from the enemies, and is your best move to attack, gain actions to pull off No Fighting! and/or use a couple of offense or healing spells.

Fight!(4 CC, 15-20)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, Caster Heal, Heal Boost, Caster Heal, Heal Boost

It’s basically Haruka’s version of First Aid. Pretty excellent at doing single target heals with it cast time, so it’s pretty neat.

Lenneth F

Scaling: ???/???

Lv 50 HP: 2649

Nibelung Valesti

Sky High Edge

Sky Air Raid

Hurricane Raid

Piercing Dust

Moment Slide

Ethereal Wing

Infinity Blast

Recommended Setup:

-Sky High Edge

-Piercing Dust/Infinity Blast

-Hurricane Raid

-Moment Slide /Ethereal Wing

Character Summary:

Descending from another Asgard to the realms of Tir Na Nog, Lenneth joins the fray during a random as heck Anatomia collab cross company collab, embracing herself into Tales of LMBS battle system while Velvet and Cress gets a taste of being Eihenjars.(No really, they are the characters Anatomia peeps get.)

If you thought people like Sara and Hubert are some MG gain focused madmens, then you have seen nothing. Lenneth is hellbent on trying to gather as much MG as possible, shown in a lot of her artes having unique enhancement patterns with up to four MG boosts. This MG focused build is meant for her to use Nibelung Valesti, a slightly cheaper MG MA that has a lot damage enhancements to catch up to be on par to damage enhance MA. With Lenneth’s MG crazy build, she can pretty much go all on about using the MA once on each battle should the enemy last long enough under her assault.

Her attacks are no joke either despite the absurd quantity of MG gain. She has a moveset consisting of some melee attacks and bow ranged artes, with Piercing Dust and Ethereal Wing that are very spammable and puts Raven’s ranged artes into shame, and Hurricane Raid and Sky High Edge melees in case enemies got close while also gaining a shitton of MG. And she can even use Moment Slide to quickly dash to the enemy’s other side while quickly dodging the enemy’s attack Ix style, albeit not as good. The only real issue with her is that her MG boost approach pretty much screwed herself into lack of reliable IS breaker, so be sure to bring a decent combo melee along.

Oh, and do remember that she is a collab char, which means despite the MG boost based artes, she can only have a single MA gauge.

Notable Artes:

Nibelung Valesti (80 MG, 1010-1414)

Enhancements: Damage, MR, Damage, Damage, Damage

A must have for Lenneth since it’s her only MA, Nibelung Valesti might be poor at first, but once you enhance out all of the damage enhancements, it’s on par with max enhanced damage MAs. With Lenneth having an absurd amount of MG gain enhancements, you can spam this MA quite a lot, though keep in mind you don’t gain much MR from it, so it’s a constant damage unloading between battles at the cost of some of your MR, and if you’re doing it mid MA spam, use it as the last MA.

Sky High Edge (8 CC, 500)

Sky Air Raid (6th action, 18 CC ,1165)

Enhancements: MG, Stagger, MG, MG, MG

Sky High Edge on it’s own is blegh. It cost too much CC for it’s low damage, and Lenneth can easily get knocked into a juggle if she got smacked mid arte.

On the other hand, Sky Air Rais pretty much a perfect fit for Lenneth due to the MASSIVE MG gain you can get. Not only from the natural Master Arte MG gain, but also from the improvement of the arte enhancements which support’s Lenneth purpose of spamming Nibelung Valesti. It’s decently long animation also neat as it allows her to avoid getting hit for a while via Master Arte iframe.

 Significance Rating: Very High. Like Haruka, Lenneth is all about trying to get to use her MA as soon as possible, and you’d want her Master Arte to get the best of her Nibelung Valesti.

Hurricane Raid (6 CC, 410)

Enhancements: MG, Stagger, MG, MG, MG

Your main melee arte for Lenneth. It combos easily to itself, hits and stagger quite a lot, and rushes at a long distance enough to get into the enemy after Piercing Dust’s pushback or as a self defense maneuver should your enemy get close. It also gives a lot of MG thanks to the enhancements, so it’s pretty much your best MG gaining maneuver if you’re going against a single enemy.

Piercing Dust (7-6 CC, 620)

Enhancements: MG, Stagger, MG, Stagger, -1CC

Lenneth’s main ranged arte that is pretty much an even stronger edition of Raven’s The Wind Howl. It deals the most damage out of Lenneth’s artes, and it’s piercing attribute is useful when going against clustered enemies. It also comes with a decent enhancements with staggers, MG and CC cost. Though, be sure to remember that Piercing Dust pushes Lenneth back, so don’t go too far on the spam or else you’ll either get too far that enemies recover from it, or unable to close range in one go with Hurricane Raid.

Moment Slide (3 CC, 205-266)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Moment Slide is pretty much a mini Talon. Less iframe and distance, but MUCH faster on execution. It’s a fast side switch maneuver, making it very effective to dodge the enemy’s melee attack or avoid getting ganged on in one quick swoop. The arte itself is also really useful to gain to trigger Master artes faster since it’s Lenneth’s fastest arte.(And you’d want to trigger Master ASAP anyways since it’s her biggest source of MG.). It’s no Talon since Lenneth has a vulnerable moment at the end of her attack, but still very handy.

Ethereal Wing (6 CC, 380-465)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, Stagger, -1CC

Ethereal Wing is… eh. It’s basically a super souped up edition of Raven’s Glimmer of Heaven, and is much faster on the arrow drop with a small size of AoE around the target. Unfortunately, Piercing Dust outdoes what Ethereal Wing apart from the more accurate chance of hitting, so I don’t suggest using it unless you want to do Just ranged combos by going back and forth between Piercing Dust and Ethereal Wing.

Infinity Blast (5 CC, 325-401)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Fodder arte if you’re looking for a variant of Piercing Dust that doesn’t push Lenneth back, however, it hits quite less, so you aren’t really getting much from this compared to Ethereal Wing and Piercing Dust.

Kirito

Scaling: ???/???

Lv 50 HP: 2770

Starburst Stream

Vorpal Strike

Double Circular

Savage Fulcrum

Vertical Arc

Rising Rush

Lightning Fall

Recommended Setup:

-Vorpal Strike

-Savage Fulcrum

-Vertical Arc

-Rising Rush / Lightning Fall

Character Summary:

Oh boy, if it isn’t the power fantasy Black Swordsman who basically breaks everything with ease in his franchise. He should be at least a decent melee character right??

…….oh. Yikes, someone in the Bamco office really have a strong hate boner against him.

While Kirito himself seems to be a good combo melee(who also for some reason don’t dual wield) on the surface, having lots of CC reduction that allows him to be by far one of the unit with the highest power/CC output, he suffers from the absolute lack of proper enhancements that regular characters usually have such as stagger You see, this basically screws Kirito hard enough that absolutely NONE of his artes can connect on a high stagger recovery enemy on his own to the point of being Luke grade at being terrible in combos. (Ironic for being the ‘solo’ character in his franchise, LMAO)

He still has merits that at least make him not absolutely worthless though, but not as much as Haruka or Lenneth’s level of utility. Vorpal Strike is a perfectly serviceable dash arte despite being a bit delayed, while Vertical Arc took pages from Farah and functions as a fast 2CC arte to quickly trigger Master Arte. And last and not least, his MA Starburst Stream is functionally a decent damage output MA which also uniquely grants a P.ATK buff to the whole party at the start of the MA rather than the end of it, allowing the MA itself to also have the P.ATK boost on.

Kirito is overall pretty underwhelming, I won’t suggest utilizing him on high difficulty content due to his horribly lackluster capacity on holding stagger, but outside of those places his raw power and his dash arte should make him at least serviceable for the easier parts of the game.

Notable Artes:

Starburst Stream (120 MG, 1235-1605)
Enhancements: Damage, Buff Time, Damage, Buff Time, Damage

Starburst Stream is more MG costly than most MAs, but pays off with the P.ATK buff that not only makes it decent to start an MA chain, it also applies the P.ATK at the start of the MA, effectively powering up the MA as well. It’s not very powerful, but serviceable enough considering the extendable P.ATK buff and the fact that this is the only MA he has to use.

Vorpal Strike (6-5 CC, 360-468)

Double Circular (6th action, 16-15 CC, 1110-1443)
Enhancements: Damage, MG, Damage, Damage, -1CC

A bit delayed on the startup, but perfectly serviceable dash arte that should at least allow Kirito to dodge tank some of the things enemy throws at you.

Double Circular as a Master Arte instead turns into a series of dual wield barrage (DARK REPULSER WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN) after the dash, making the arte itself decently more lengthy for the iframes. The damage enhancement also benefits the Master Arte, making it a decent damage output.

 Significance Rating: Very High. Vorpal Strike allows Kirito to at least have some use, as he’s generally bad at combos, and having a dash arte would allow him to at least dodge tank through enemies.

Savage Fulcrum (6-4 CC, 485-534)
Enhancements: Damage, IS Break, -1CC, IS Break, -1CC

Savage Fulcrum, while being terrible at comboing, is Kirito’s only IS break tool…. that Knockdowns. Yeah, it’s pretty bad, but what can you do when it’s your only IS break. It only has a couple CC reduction that makes it quite easier on the CC cost.

Vertical Arc (3-2 CC, 255-306)
Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, -1CC

It’s basically Farah’s Palm Strike as an SAO sword skill. 2CC with short animation, allowing it to be an easy method of building action to quickly trigger his Master Arte. Though, spamming Vorpal Strike or locking the enemy in blocking state with Rising Rush are much safer options..

Rising Rush (7-6 CC, 485-534)
Enhancements: Float, Damage, Float, -1CC, Slow Descent

Bad at combos with Float enhancement, but it holds the enemy off in a blocking state hard enough to be a safe method into triggering Double Circular.

Lightning Fall (5-4 CC, 385-462)
Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, -1CC

A very delayed arte, but still functions as an elemental damage output with high power/CC.

Asuna

Scaling: ???/???

Lv 50 HP: 2288

Stahn Aileron

Scaling: 60/100

Lv 50 HP: 2890

Phoenix Blast

Crimson Phoenix Blast

Infernal Torrent

Rising Phoenix

Dragon Swarm

Heavenward Thrust

Recommended Setup:

-Phoenix Blast

-Infernal Torrent

-Rising Phoenix

-Dragon Swarm

Character Summary:

Our silly voiced dumbass of our Tales of franchise is a physical tank in this game with a solid amount of HP, and fortunately his moveset is pretty alright to serve what he's all about.

With Rising Phoenix, he can pretty much dodge tank enemies while safely HP Vamp the enemy out without getting hit, and with the wide but slow IS breaker arte Infernal Torrent and good combo arte such as Dragon Swarm he holds up quite well as an offensive melee, though his spell arte selection are ultimately duds due to his lack of arte stat weapons.

Overall pretty decent combo melee, though he can’t pull off a fast IS break and is stupidly CC consumptive, so you might want to run a certain fast IS breaker alongside him.

Notable Artes:

Phoenix Blast (6 CC, 385-423)

Crimson Phoenix Blast (6th action, 16 CC, 1105-1216)

Enhancements: MG, IS Break, MG, Damage, MG

Phoenix Blast is… weird. It’s pretty launch reliant due to the being the launch and the vertical phoenix flames working best only if the enemy is juggled midair. It’s terribad and probably shouldn’t be used against heavy enemies.

Crimson Phoenix Blast is pretty much what you’re bringing this arte for. It's a decently long string of combo that, while not hitting a lot of enemies on its wake, works pretty well as a means of Stahn to iframe through the enemy via Master Arte invincibility. It would also still hit enemies regardless of launch height due to the flame whirl that appears when Stahn flies up into the sky, and it has the MG. enhancements going for it which is always great for Master Artes.

 Significance Rating: Mid. While Phoenix Blast allows Stahn for MG gain and iframing, it isn’t strictly important enough for it to deter Stahn’s performance from not having the arte.

Infernal Torrent (7 CC, 500)

Enhancements: IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break

A bit delayed on the startup and too CC consumptive, but a pretty solid IS breaker with spread out multiple hits in front of him, and a good amount of damage to start a series of combos with. You can also use Torrent as an OTG as well, so you can follow up a knockdown Rising Phoenix with this to stand the enemy back up for more combos. Don’t expect it to be anywhere close to top end IS breaker though.

Rising Phoenix (7 CC, 415-456)

Enhancements: HP Vamp, Stagger, HP Vamp, Damage, HP Vamp

Stan's main and only means to dash attack. It’s fast, and it can knockdown the enemy for an OTG. HP Vamp making it easily abusable for continuous dodging, though it's CC cost is too steep for it to be reliable at all times. Also not recommended to attack small enemi

es right away with Rising Phoenix, as Stahn can outright overshoot due to the lack of hits at the initial jump.

Dragon Swarm (7 CC, 540)

Enhancements: Stagger, Rush, Iframe, Projectile Block, Rush

Stahn main combo arte. It's fast and the strongest out of , and you can easily keep enemies staggered with it. Though, you might find it a bit too short with all the CC it consumes.

Heavenward Thrust (130 MG, 1495-1943)

Enhancements: Damage, HP Recover, Damage, MR, Damage

“Koitsu wa, mirai he to takusu eigou no tsurugi da! ZAN, KU, TEN, SHO, KEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNN!!!”

Heavenward Thrust may be slightly weaker by Power/MR compared to Stahn’s regular gMA, and it lacks the AoE most decisive MAs has, but it compensates itself very well with the extra guaranteed Fatigue inflict which causes more staggering combos and a pretty high launch height which can buy mages some time to prepare spells after the MA.

Also it’s visually epic, and you can’t deny that it’s an awesome  looking MA.

Rutee Katrea

Scaling: 130/30

Lv 50 HP: 2288

Acid Rain

Ice Tornado

Snipe Air

Rosewater Squall

Slash Rain

Ice Needles

Heal

Recommended Setup:

Character Summary:

Rutee boasts a great array of arte variety. She’s capable of spells, melee attacks, healing, and, if you bought Acid Rain from prism shop, debuffing as well. She infamously broke the game with Snipe Air, a melee arte that gives her an near perfect iframe if spammed by a player, allowing her to dodge tank as long as her CC provides, making her one of the best ingame dodge tanker due just by using one arte. Combine that with a super high movement speed and her heal and mitigation MA Rosewater Squall, and Rutee becomes a very very versatile since she's well geared on all of the categories.

However, with being a jack of all trades comes her very own weakness: being limited at both melee and spells. Due to the weapon count limitation, Rutee could only do one or two arte at both melee and spells, making her melee offense capability only limited to Slash Rain while her spells offense capability is only limited to Ice Tornado(She does have some other artes for both of these, but they're all a far cry from these two.). So building her up to full mage/melee play style can be quite a chore since you need to find all of her melee/mage weapons for it to work. Not to mention AI Rutee will prefer to use spells over melees when you have one equipped so hybrid isn't really an option.

Overall, Rutee might be very limited at the things she can do at first, but once you start gathering her weapons she can be a very useful 'jack of all trades' character to cover a lot of roles at once. And as for melee Rutee vs mage Rutee? I think mage Rutee due to Ice Tornado’s AoE that can be boosted and Heal, but apart than that both are almost even.

Notable Artes:

Acid Rain (4-3 CC, 260)

Enhancements: Cast Speed, MG, Cast Speed, -1CC, Cast Time Proc

Acid Rain is an amazing asset for both melee and mage Rutee, as it inflicts defense debuff which is beneficial for melee Rutee and other melees, and it does a whole field AoE damage in a short cast time which is beneficial for spellcaster Rutee to build up cast time cut quick.

Ice Tornado (7 CC, 665)

Enhancements: AoE Boost, IS Break, AoE Boost, Cast Speed, AoE Boost

Rutee’s main spell arte. Ice Tornado has a somewhat lower damage compared to usual AoE Spell, but it has a quite short cast time for it's big AoE(that you can make even bigger), so it's somewhat compensated pretty well. It's her only AoE spell, so it's a must have for spellcaster Rutee.

Snipe Air (3 CC, 215-280)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Snipe Air… is a perfect iframe arte. Yes, you aren’t hearing that wrong, you can be completely invulnerable by spamming this arte, allowing her to bullshit through absolutely any attack as long as she has the CC to spam Snipe Air. It’s damage isn’t that bad for it’s cheap cost as well, and you can improve that with the enhancements. And it’s a godsend that this arte can be obtained just by leveling her from a mission, so you can already dodgetank with Rutee right away without the need to pull anything else for her.

Rosewater Squall (100MG, 24)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, MR, Heal Boost, MR, MR

Like Milenna, Rutee’s Rosewater Squall is a neat MA for an emergency heal button, and it also has an aoe defense buff to make sure melees take less damage, though I don’t recommend bringing Rutee just for this when being offsync as you won’t gain much heal from it.

Slash Rain (6-5 CC, 435-479)

Enhancements: Stagger, Iframe, Damage, Iframe, -1CC

Rutee’s main means of dealing physical damage, and it staggers the crap out her enemies hard. It’s Iframe and stagger enhancement also helps the arte as Rutee needs to avoid attacks as much as she can due to her being fragile. It isn’t a good idea to use it multiple times though, as there is a jumping delay, so it’s best to alternate with Snipe Air back and forth.

Ice Needles (3 CC, 180)

Enhancements: HP Vamp, Stagger, HP Vamp, Damage, HP Vamp

Like Snipe Roar, Ice Needles is pretty bad by a typical mage standards as it’s a projectile that can miss, but since this is Rutee who only has this as her only other spell, this is better than only having Ice Tornado as her only offense spell.
Heal (6CC, 30-39)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, Caster Heal, Heal Boost, Caster Heal, Heal Boost

Rutee can cover healing as well with Heal, though it is more useful in the hands of mage Rutee rather than melee due to the need of arte stat.

Leon Magnus

Scaling: 60/100

Lv50 HP: 1999

Moon Fall

Demon Attack

Demon Lance

Phantom Edge

Thundering Riff

Moon Glare

Demon Fang

Stone Wall

Grave

Recommended Setup:

Character Summary:

Unlike typical melee or hybrid characters where they usually should be at able least take some melee hits and has some degree of HP, Leon has a very low HP while at the same time having an arte defense type which makes him die very easily when going melee. However, this is compensated with an amazing skill set that makes him work excellently well as a a mage, or a hybrid character. With solid melee attack such as Moon Glare, Moon Fall and Demon Attack, a good but limited selection of spells such as Demon Lance, Grave and Stone Wall, and an almost perfect invincibility dodge arte Phantom Edge arte which compensate Leon's poor defenses very well, Leon can be an advancing force of destruction whatever kind of character you build him as, though he needs a bit of enhancement at first on his melee artes since Iron Stance breaking requires enhancement and trying to stagger your enemy as fast as possible is pretty vital for someone who can't take hits as Leon. It's also recommended to at least have one arte heavy weapon as Leon's melee arte is quite weaker compared to typical melees, as it requires the hybrid calculation boost to keep up with the melee damage.

Under the hands of a player that knows how to time their dodge arte properly, he can be a devastating offensive force, and if that did not suit you, you can turn him into a mage instead which also functions quite well. Oh, and do note that despite being a story character, his weapons can only be obtained from event banners, so if you do look forward to get him geared up, you’ll have to wait until he does show up on event gacha or prepare a lot of Prism to buy them out.

Notable Artes:

Moon Fall (7 CC, 410)

Enhancements: Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, MG

Moon Fall lot of hits and staggers a lot, making it solid both as a combo arte and IS breaker for Leon, and you can use this from a follow up combo from any melee arte to any other melee arte, so it's definitely a must have for Leon, though you can replace it with Moon Glare for a cheaper combo arte.

Demon Attack (8 CC, 440)

Enhancements: Ailment, Ailment Cure, Ailment Proc, IS Break, Ailment Power

Demon Attack sports beam with a bit of range. So it's useful offensively when attacking an enemy to prevent nearby enemies from knocking you out of your combo and defensively when being chased by multiple enemies to stop them when trying to get a distance away to use spells. It's kinda disappointing that it have to suffer from ailment enhancement though, but it's still worth getting the IS break enhance for it's defensive use. It's also a bit delayed, so it also requires allies combo assistance when going against enemies with fast recovery.

Demon Lance (7 CC, 715)

Enhancements: Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, MG

Leon's main spell. Demon Lance takes quite a while to cast and is a bit weak for an AoE spell, but it comes with a defense debuff that makes melee attacks hit stronger, so it's worth using even as a melee Leon. The weapon also has the highest arte stat out of all Leon's weapon, so it also boosts Leon's hybrid scaling on his all elemental melees set, allowing it to support melee Leon even by stats.

Phantom Edge (3-2 CC, 150-165)

Enhancements: Stagger, Iframe, damage, Iframe, -1CC

Leon's must have arte, Phantom Edge as a dash arte allows Leon to stay close to melee enemies without getting his fragile defenses hit. It's also fast, and the enhancement allows you to spam it at a low CC cost.

Thundering Riff  (70 MG, 950)

Enhancements: Debuff Time, MR, MR, MR, Debuff Time

Being a debuff MA, it doesn’t deal that much damage, but requires much less MG to cast and it comes with AoE Arte def debuff. It’s pretty neat if you manage to get it as all of Leon’s arsenal consist of melees that scales harder on arte and spells, allowing all of Leon's attacks to hit harder with the arte def debuff but Demon Fang.

Moon Glare (5 CC, 290)

Enhancements: IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break

If you want to lose out dual element for a cheaper CC costing and faster IS break, Moon Glare is your alternative to Moon Fall. It's fast attack is also quite useful as it allows you to use Phantom Edge to dodge a counterattack.

Demon Fang (3-2 CC, 195-214)

Enhancements:Stagger, Iframe, Damage, Iframe, -1CC

It's underwhelming as a method of melee offense due to not benefiting from arte statsticks, but it's useful when you're looking for safe action count builder for faster spells for mage Leon, especially after the -1CC which makes the cost very cheap.

Stone Wall (6 CC, 645)

Enhancements: AoE Boost, IS Break, AoE Boost, Cast Speed, AoE Boost

Stone Wall is a decent spell with a good amount of power, though it hit count is pretty eh, and there is a delay between the first hit and the following rock spin hits, but you can make the size of it bigger for a fast AoE.

Grave (4 CC, 385)

Enhancements: Float, IS Break, Float, MG, Slow Descent

Basically launch attack: The spell. Short cast time for a quick launch attack to start a juggle, but is not as useful against enemies with IS or heavy enemies where you can't outright launch them.

Kyle Dunamis

Scaling: 60/100

Lv50 HP: 2842

Sonic Blast

Annihilating Crash

Lofted Assault

Leaf Cutter

Meisou Shikouzan

Azure Storm

Burning Strike

Featherfall

Recommended Setup:

-Sonic Blast

-Leaf Cutter

-Lofted Assault

-Azure Storm / Featherfall

Character Summary:

Kyle is probably one of the best ingame IS breaker, sporting an arte that is Leaf Cutter which is stupidly fast, depletes 6 hit from the first hit alone, AND CC cheap, making him capable of dishing out hits really quick to break the thickest of iron stance. Apart from that, Kyle mostly sports an overall okay combo arte such as the the mass MG gathering  Sonic Blast, HP Vamp Lofted Assault and rushing Azure Storm, though it doesn’t support his combos I that much, which is ultimately his downfall as he has so much launch reliant or delayed arte that he barely has any proper stagger arte to work with to keep the stagger post IS break.

Overall very above average simply because of his easily abusable IS breaker alone, Kyle is definitely someone you would like to bring on difficult content, though, you’d definitely need at least some outside source of stagger due to his difficulties on keeping enemies staggered.

Notable Artes:

Sonic Blast (7 CC, 405-445)

Annihilating Crash (6th action, 17 CC, 1210-1331)

Enhancements: MG, IS Break, MG, Damage, MG

Well, take an existing free MA and turn it into a Master Arte, and you have a Sonic Blast. It is impractical on practice due to the arte itself being a simply two stab attack, but it gets the job of gathering MG done pretty easily with the MG enhancements, short arte duration and large CC cost before going back to his usual IS breaking routine.

...and like Sonic Blast, you’re also pretty much using Annihilating Crash just for that sweet sweet MG gain, though compared to other Master artes, though it’s pretty lackluster on the AoE departement that could have made it’s MG gain better. It’s pretty much a fast and practical for some high speed MG gathering early on into the battle, though make sure the enemy didn’t get dragged sideways beforehand by other stuff or otherwise your stab can outright miss.

 Significance Rating: Low. Annihilating Crash is pretty poor overall in almost all category but MG gain, so overall it won’t be much of a detriment to Kyle’s performance unless you are that reliant on his MAs.

Lofted Assault (7 CC, 570-627)

Enhancements: HP Vamp, Stagger, HP Vamp, Damage, HP Vamp

Kyle’s main combo arte alongside Azure Storm. Combos large enemies and juggles smaller ones well, and it has HP Vamp enhancements to recover HP while doing so. Might not fully connect some though as the 5th hit has Kyle rising high to the air.

Leaf Cutter (3 CC, 265)

Enhancements: IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break

Kyle’s best IS breaker, and is probably one of the game’s most broken IS break arte. With it’s short arte duration, 3CC arte cost, and a whopping +6 Iron Stance reduction in total, Leaf Cutter can easily chip a huge chunk of Iron Stance within a short amount of time, making it extremely useful.

Meisou Shikouzan (130 MG, 1485-1930)

Enhancements: Damage, HP Recover, Damage, MR, Damage

Goddammit Bamco, why does it have to be that scene that you’re making an MA out of…

This MA is about as alright as most decisive MAs can get, it’s weaker than Kyle’s normal MA, but compensates itself with an AoE hit area and a guaranteed Weakness, which is really neat against mage enemies that otherwise could have spell juggled you to death.

Azure Storm (6 CC, 410-540)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Don’t let the name fool you, as it’s actually very different compared to Yuri’s. Instead of Zelos math style two Azure Edge, Kyle would actually rush into the enemy after a single projectile and slash them twice. Very cool on paper since it allows you to zip into enemies from a distance, but blegh on practice due to the lack of IS break and launch reliance on it’s combo.

Burning Strike (7 CC, 855-1111)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

A fairly competent spell, it sadly has to end up being owned by Kyle of all people who lacks the arte stat to use it at its maximum potential. Might be useful for the statsticking purpose for his elemental strike arte, but he has a good share of non elementals that did not pick up this arte boost, so it’s up to you to decide if it’s worth the prisms.

Featherfall (4 CC, 300-330)

Enhancements: Ailment, Ailment Cure, Ailment Proc, Damage, Ailment Power

Featherfall is absurdly fast while dealing as much damage as his Force Spear, making it easily abusable for a super fast damage, though you'll need assisting attackers or spell nukes to keep the enemy staggered while you smack the crap out of the enemy. Sucks that it has to have ailment enhancements though.

Reala

Scaling: 130/30

Lv50 HP: 1975

Ancient Nova

Stinging Surge

Ghoulish Assault(MG+)

Purifying Stream

Splash

Photon Blaze

Wind Slash

Heal

Recommended Setup:

-Ancient Nova

-Stinging Surge / Splash

-Photon Blaze

-Heal / Wind Slash

Character Summary:

Being the only true mage of the entire Red Sync as of, Reala's pretty straightforward compared to Red sync's hybrid mages. Ancient Nova takes a while, but it's very destructive, while her other spells such as Splash, Photon Blaze, and Sting Rave are overall pretty solid mid size spells. She also surprisingly has an amazing set of gMAs that either screen clears and heals or boost the entire party's MG. Though, Reala is a bit riddled status effect across some of her spells, and her melee stuff are just plain junk. And being an event character with only Heal as her heal arte, trying to get her to actually able to heal can be a bit difficult when going against the 3* pool.

A classic mage character with quality gMAs, Reala is overall pretty alright, and she's definitely a boon for being the the only true mage in Red Sync.

Notable Artes:

Ancient Nova (10 CC, 1295-1684)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Ancient Nova is a simple spell nuke that, while taking a while to cast and cost a lot of CC, payoffs with a very strong damage. And you can improve it's damage, making it one of the top tier damage spells out there.

Stinging Surge (6 CC, 620)

Enhancements: Ailment, Ailment Proc, HP Vamp, Ailment Proc, Ailment Power

Sting Rave, while suffers from another case of ailment enhancement infestation, is quite neat for its ability of juggling enemies in the air, though melees will have a hard time catching them as whoever gets juggled would get dragged away from them by the rock spikes. Not amazing, but it’s decent if you’re looking for more stagger artes for Reala.

Ghoulish Assault(MG+) (130 MG, 1060-1272)

Enhancements: MG Heal, HP Recover, Damage, Damage, MG Heal

A unique MA that grants party MG Boost. This can be pretty neat if you want a fast boost to the party’s MG, so you can use it to fill up the MG gap of your party’s MG to a full bar at the start of an MA chain, though it has quite a steep MG requirement for an MA that fills the party’s MG.

Purifying Stream (100 MG, 879)

Enhancements: MR, HP Recover, Stagger, HP Recover, MR

Compared to other GMAs that would simply just nuke enemies with big numbers of damage, Purifying Stream derives by instead doing a whole screen nuke at a less damage than a single targeted MA while at the same time healing everyone. This is pretty handy when you want a heal panic button while screen clearing at the same time.

Splash (5 CC, 495)

Enhancements: Ailment, Ailment Proc, MG, AIlment Proc, AIlment Power

It’s splash, decent stagger spell even despite the very low AoE

Photon Blaze (5 CC, 535-642)

Enhancements: Damage, IS Break, Damage, Stagger, Double Proc

A hidden  gem, Photon Blaze is an instant hit damage with a big damage, making it an amazing spell when you just want to kill a mob in a single spell really quick, it’s damage is even enhanceable to even deal double of the damage if you’re lucky enough.

Wind Slash (4-3 CC, 350)

Enhancements: Cast Speed, MG, Cast Speed, -1CC, Cast Time Proc

While overall poor on the stagger side, it’s decent as a cheap and fast spell to cast to build cast time for the more powerful spells. It also comes with a Cast Time Proc cut that allows it to be almost instantaneous.

Heal (6 CC, 30-39)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, Caster Heal, Heal Boost, Caster Heal, Heal Boost

Reala’s only heal arte. It get the job when you need one, though you can’t really expect this to fully deal with a whole party’s need for healing since it’s a single target.

Judas

Scaling: ???/???

Lv50 HP: 1999

Deadly Descent

Blast Storm

Moon Glare

Delta Ray

Recommended Setup:

-Deadly Descent

-Blast Storm

-Moon Glare

-Delta Ray

Character Summary:

With lengthy multiple hit melee combo artes as Deadly Descent and devastating damage arte Blast Storm, Judas is going out in his way to make sure enemies remain in his brute force of his combos. However, the lack of a dash arte means he is easily susceptible to getting knocked by melee attack during his attacks from nearby enemies, and having a low HP and an arte defense, he can die VERY quickly from just one misstep. His spells are also crap, so you're pretty much equipping this only for the sake of arte stat boosting for his mostly elemental melee artes.

Overall, Judas can be a great melee character if you like glass cannons, just make sure you play him carefully while keeping the enemies inside your combos and back off at the right time.

Hmm... low HP, a glass cannon and weak against melee attack? I'm pretty sure I've seen someone similar to this before…

Notable Artes:

Deadly Descent (7 CC, 375)

Enhancements: Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, MG

Behold, Judas’ Iron Stance breaker. It’s rather weak damage wise judging by is power/CC wise, but it barrages a hella lot and has a small AoE around Judas’ target enemy. Keeping Judas safe from interruption in front of him while crushing thick Iron Stance in case the +4 Iron Stance enhance isn’t enough.

Blast Storm (6 CC, 350-455)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Judas main damage arte. It hits decently hard and is simple enough to connect with most of his artes. definitely worth spamming as your main methods of damage.

Moon Glare (5 CC, 300-330)

Enhancements: MG, IS Break, MG, Damage, MG

Moon Glare is pretty alright for combo, but unlike Leon's, Moon Glare has less IS break and MG and instead have MG boosts, making a bit more reliant on it's lift to combo, but it decently compensates itself for being a fast multi hit attack combined with MG enhancement to quickly build MG.

Delta Ray (6 CC, 695-764)

Enhancements: MG, IS Break, MG, Damage, MG

Why is this here? Statsticking. Judas’s damage/CC on his elemental melees are a bit lackluster, so an arte weapon is a solid addition to boost up his elemental melee’s damage. The spell itself isn’t that bad, but it’s a projectile spell that can miss, and for a melee focused character like Judas, it isn’t really that worthy of using.

Barbatos Goetia

Scaling: ???/???

Lv50 HP: 7511

World Destroyer

Death Abyss

Death in Abyss

Tres Assault

Dead Inferno

False Guilty

My Road

Avalanche

Recommended Setup:

-Death Abyss

-Tres Assault

-Dead Inferno

-False Guilty / Avalanche / My Road

Character Summary:

He’s here, he’s pissed, AND HE’S READY TO DESTROY ALL OF YOU ITEM USING HERETICS.

Barbatos, while not as amazing as what Mithos achieved, is still an amazing as a villain character. While lacking any of HP Vamp with the exception of the KD based grab based Death Abyss, which could have made him survive better, he makes up for it with an excellent selection of Artes. Featuring Dead Inferno, an instant GIGANTIC AoE self centered arte that rivals the size of spells, a slow but exceptionally stagger heavy IS breaker Tres Assault that can combo even the fastest of stagger recovery characters, and My Road which grants a good amount of Iron Stance to himself while knocking everything that comes into contact to keep his combo, Barbatos is excellent at keeping enemies controlled and preventing them from doing damage. Avalanche and False Guilty are also neat for the purpose of inflicting knockdown for the Death Abyss, and luckily it’s master arte version, Death in Abyss, doesn’t require a knockdown, allowing for some HP regaining.

And how can else can you add into of all these power over mob controlling? Why, with a practical AoE MA destruction to kill them off, of course. World Destroyer is an incredibly powerful MA that hits the whole map, devastating everything in it’s wake while instantly refilling his CC, allowing him to continue his assault right away.

Definitely an exceptionally excellent character, but probably not going to be properly effective unless you have his gacha MA. Pray to RNGesus that you’ll get at least get it because that’s where most of his damage output come from.

Notable Artes:

WARUDO DESTROYAAAAAAAAAAA (150 MG, 1525-1982)

Enhancements: Damage, Damage, Damage, MR, CC Reset

World Destroyer is pretty much the AoE ultimate damage nuke of the game, with 1982 power and a whole map hit that sends everything to the sky, it is by far the best MA to end your entire MA chain with. It also comes with a CC Reset enhancement, allowing Barbatos to go back to his offensive assault right away. The MA also knockdowns everything once they land, so you get a free pass for some HP regain from whoever you grabbed after the MA. Pretty much a must have for Barbatos as this is where most of Barbatos’s damage output came from.

Death Abyss (9-8 CC, 820)

Death in Abyss (5th action, 19-18 CC, 1210)

Enhancements: -1CC, HP Vamp, MG Boost, HP Vamp, HP Vamp

The only method of HP regaining for Barbatos, Death Abyss is a bit underwhelming due to it’s requirement of knocking down for a grab, it’s more of a hassle than it’s worth for the most part since Barbatos would lose edge on mob controlling should he use anything else than Dead Inferno, but I think it’s alright to try knocking down things for if there is only one enemy left.

Death in Abyss, on the other hand, doesn’t require a KD’d enemy to use, allowing him to use it as long as he achieved the Master Arte requirement. It also has a good AoE, which allows Barbatos to gather hella lot from multiple enemies(best used after Mithos MA as well for which gathers enemies). Definitely something that you’d want to use often for survival, though you might have a hard time justing it due to the sheer CC he uses for each arte and his slow, unreliable, normal attack.

 Significance Rating: High. This is by far Barbatos’s only HP Vamp method, and with the Master version being an AoE that hits clusters of enemies, it’s decently effective to finish off a series of Death Impulse. He doesn’t really need it to wreck shit, but benefits a lot on the survivability from having one.

Tres Assault (7 CC, 480)

Enhancements: Stagger. IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, IS Gain

Tres Assault is very slow as an arte, but compensates itself with a unique property of an incredibly powerful stagger that allows it to combo even the most strongest of stagger recovery. Very excellent on holding off singular enemies, but only if you managed to get pass the Iron Stance barrier, so be sure to have some outside assistance for the initial IS break. It also grants Barbatos a single Iron Stance, which can make quite a difference between keeping the combo and getting screwed by a projectile considering the length of the arte.

Dead Inferno (8-7 CC, 390-468)

Enhancements: -1CC, Damage, Damage, Stagger, Stagger

A MUST HAVE for Barbatos. Dead Inferno is a strike arte that with a gigantic self centered AoE which size and duration rivals of an AoE Spell. This makes it extremely useful on mob controlling because even by spamming it, you can effectively lock enemies in place in a stagger/block state, pretty much making them a very easy easy target for everyone else’s attacks.

False Guilty (7 CC, 570)

Enhancements: KD Proc, KD Proc, KD Proc, Stagger, Stagger

A decently long and sizeable combo arte with triple knockdown enhancement, False Guilty is decent if you’re simply aiming to knockdown the enemy for the simple purpose of using Death Abyss, but that’s about it.

My Road (6-5 CC, 390)

Enhancements: -1CC, Stagger, IS Gain, IS Gain, IS Gain

My Road combos the enemy and hitting anyone coming into contact while granting Barbatos three Iron Stance for the arte duration, making it pretty useful as a defensive maneuver should you intend to keep his combo without getting hit. After all, comboing enemies by power walking is hilarious.

Avalanche (4 CC, 305)

Enhancements: IS Break, Stagger, KD Proc, Stagger, KD Proc

Avalanche has that niche of being a faster and cheaper AoE Knockdown should you be that desperate for some HP recover, but otherwise not very useful due to it’s delayed buildup.

Kor Meteor

Scaling: ???/???

Lv50 HP: 2698

Kohaku Hearts

Scaling: ???/???

Lv50 HP: 2288

Kor Meteor

Scaling: ???/???

Lv50 HP: 2770

Sara

Scaling: ???/???

Lv 50 HP: 2360

Bursting Phoenix

Bursting Phoenix Inferno

Crimson Thorn

Swooping Ruin

Withering Wings

Frenzy Waltz

Brightflash Flurry

Recommended Setup:

-Bursting Phoenix

-Swooping Ruin

-Crimson Thorn

-Brightflash Flurry

Character Summary:

Being a character from a game that does not involve a lot of arte from individual arte, Sara's moveset seems to be mostly original, but she doesn't exactly end up being good.

While she is mostly a melee with a lot of variety of elemental attack, the issue that she has here lies on her enhancement.  This is apparent on her  where none of her artes has  and stagger enhance and less IS break, but instead mostly focused on MG gain, though she compensates herself with multiple hit with a decent artes hit length. Crimson Thorn is her most solid combo arte, while Bursting Phoenix and Brightflash Flurry staggers enemies for quite a while, and Swooping Ruin does a circular AoE while healing allies by a bit in it. Her ? Garbage. All of them.

Overall, she’s not bad as a support melee. Her AoEish melee attacks is very useful in keeping enemies staggered to stay in your main melee’s combos, but she is unable to hold up by herself. It doesn’t help that MG gain approach isn’t that good as your MG gain will get weaker the longer your battle goes.

Notable Artes:

Bursting Phoenix(7 CC, 380-418)

Bursting Phoenix Inferno (6th action, 17 CC, 1090-1199)

Enhancement: Ailment, Ailment Heal, Ailment Proc, Damage, Ailment Power

An arte solely viable for nothing but it’s flamethrower AoE Stagger, Bursting Power covers a big area in front of Sara, making it very viable for her supporting stagger purposes, though it’s damage is a bit lackluster for the CC cost it requires.

Bursting Phoenix Inferno is pretty much as devastating as all master artes gets, while hitting more enemies on it’s wake with an larger AoE, making it an excellent boon for Sara since you get more MG the more enemies you hit in general, thought it has a pretty long endlag.

 Significance Rating: Mid. The only thing you’re really going to be missing from not having this is the usual benefits of melee Master Arte(Burst of MG, extra tower sphere and a decently very long iframe).

Crimson Thorn(5 CC, 325-357)

Enhancements: MG, IS Break, MG, Damage, MG

Her go to combo arte. Fast, but disappointingly lacks stagger enhancements. The MG enhancement makes it one of the best arte to spam just timings though, so it’s definitely a must have for her considering her MG gain focused nature.

Swooping Ruin (7 CC, 330)

Enhancements: Area Heal, Damage, Area Heal, Stagger, Area Heal

One of her best artes since it makes her more useful in a different way compared to other melees who have a more solid combo game. Sweeping Ruin has a neat AoE for a melee artes, and heal the allies around her and launch enemies up during the process, so it’s pretty viable for mobbing to hit enemies with when being inside an AoE spell casted by your mage.

Withering Wings (100 MG, 1379-1794)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, Stagger, Damage

While not usually taking a high priority, Sara’s gMA is a bit of an exception due to the way Sara is built,(notably her best artes being MG gain focused.) it’s a bit inevitable that Sara would end up needing her gMA to make her to the best. The MA also supports this MG gain focused gimmick too, having damage that comes decently close to Reid’s damage.

Frenzy Waltz (80 MG, 1060-1272)

Enhancements: Damage, MR, MR, MR, Damage

Fatigue is generally pretty neat, being a debuff that increases the stagger time of enemies, allowing more kind of combos. While it’s not very powerful on the damage and lacked the debuff duration enhancement, it’s pretty cheap on the MG requirement, allowing Sara to stock up two Frenzy Waltz on her MA gauge and keep enemies fatigued for a while.

Brightflash Flurry (6 CC, 450-495)

Enhancements: MG, IS Break, MG, Damage, MG

Sara’s best bet on damage. It’s multi hit and length makes it pretty viable for her to keep enemies staggered whenever your main melee screws up his/her combo, and probably her best IS breaker due to the amount of hits it does and the IS Break enhance.

Kana

Scaling: ???/???

Lv 50 HP: 2288

Blessed Gate

Three Aid

Trinity Heal

Frigid Havoc

Thundering Shine

Bloom Rain

Crimson Blossom

Recommended Setup:

-Three Aid

-Frigid Havoc/

-Crimson Blossom

-Thundering Shine

Character Summary:

Kana joins the Sara in her journeys into a different mobile game, and like Sara, her moveset are mostly original, and compared to her, Kana comes across as much more well designed, through with an extent of peculiarity.

Kana’s spread of arte is…. interesting. Her  are all small sized spells with cast speed boost enhancements, which are kinda eh, but her melee  are where she begins the shine. Thundering Shine, Frigid Havoc are excellent IS breaker, though the latter needs to be followed up by Tenraikijin due to it pushing Kana away, while Crimson Blossom pushes the enemy away. These won’t make much sense in a context of a combo melee, until you take account Three Aid, whose master arte Trinity Heal is by far one of the best single target heal ingame, in which Crimson Blossom’s push and Hyoumetsusousen’s ‘backstep’ is beneficial for Kana to get a space to safely cast the heal. Her MAs are very amazing too, with Blessed Gate healing while giving the ultimate damage mitigation buff while giving a party heal, while Bloom Rain heals and deal damage at the same time.

This heal master artes, combined with her excellent heal/mitigation MAs and melee with quality enhancements makes her best melee/healer mix of the game, though her full potential do require her to be actively controlled by the player. It doesn’t help that the AI would prefer to use spells rather than doing a melee if she had one of her spells equipped, forcing her to have all  and  for her to even work as an AI. But once you get those out of the way, Kana is one of your top melee choices of Red Sync.

Notable Artes:

Blessed Gate (100 MG, 18-22)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, MR, Heal Boost, MR, MR

The ultimate heal and mitigation MA, Blessed Gate heals the entire party WHILE giving defense boost to both defense and arte defense. This is a lifesaver on challenge contents as not only saves your butt as a healing panic button, it also mitigates the damage you’re taking for a while.

Three Aid (6 CC, 30-39)

Trinity Heal (6th action, 16 CC, 0)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, Caster Heal, Heal Boost, Caster Heal, Heal Boost

The very first heal  arte, Three Aid doesn’t deliver much apart from being Heal being split into three ticks, which, in practice, can be worse if you want immediate heal from a critical HP, but better when you want to keep your HP high while not wasting the HP recovery away due to the HP cap.

Trinity Heal, on the other hand, is the best ingame HP heal, as if you do manage to trigger it, Trinity Heal would deliver a ton of HP recovery in a single spell enough to bring someone from critical HP to full. It’s split into three healing property is also excellent in this case because the huge HP gain ticks can keep someone alive when being ganged on. Though, the action count requirement is pretty big, so you really want to use melee attacks that distance Kana away from the enemy like Crimson Blossom and Frigid Havoc before Trinity Heal to avoid Kana getting hit during the casting process.

 Significance Rating: Mid. While Trinity Heal is stupidly excellent at granting Kana a capability to heal allies, you really won’t be missing anything of her melee capacity from not having it. It really depends on how bad you want her to be able to heal, really.

Frigid Havoc (5 CC, 485)

Enhancements: Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, MG

Frigid Havoc hits quite a lot and comes with IS break enhances, making it a good IS breaker and your go to arte to loop with Tenraikijin, but pushes Kana back a bit. It’s a bit iffy since you now have to loop it with Thundering Shine to avoid going out of reach, but pretty worth spamming when you want to back away from the enemy and cast Trinity Heal from a combo.

Thundering Shine (4 CC, 380)

Enhancements: IS Break, Stagger, IS break, Stagger, IS Break

Your go to combo arte for Kana. Very CC cheap, deals a good amount of damage, and comes with IS break enhancements to rip apart iron stance. A must have to use Kana.

Bloom Rain (100 MG, 375)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, MR, Heal Boost, MR, MR

Bloom Rain deals damage and heals the party, so like all other heal MA, it’s useful for an emergency heal while inflicting a bit of extra damage at once.

Crimson Blossom (4 CC, 275-358)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Compared to her other melee artes, Crimson Blossom isn’t as good due to the poorer damage, but it’s pretty serviceable against launchable enemies in which you can push them Kana to give her room to cast Trinity Heal after a combo.

Senel Coolridge

Scaling: ???/???

Lv 50 HP: 2842

Whirlwind Dash

Whirlwind Blast

Wyrm Crush

Avalanche Drop

Swallow Dance

Demon Strike

Recommended Setup:

-Whirlwind Dash / Demon Strike

-Wyrm Crush

-Avalanche Drop

-Swallow Dance

Character Summary:

Senel is a quite interesting melee character in that he has a gimmick going for him that carried over from Legendia: grabbing. Avalanche Drop is a unique arte in that it would actually lock the enemy in Senel’s grab animation and stand them back up, but it requires enemies to be knockdown, which is accommodated by some few of his arte having a unique KD chance enhancements due to how knockdown has always been luck based. It’s not a bad mechanic, but unfortunately hampers Senel’s combo game by a bit(with some of his combo artes has this KD chance), and certain enemies are immune to the grab or the OTG if the grab arte.

Apart from that, Senel’s melee combo setup is pretty excellent. His moveset consist of neat combo artes such as Swallow Dance and Wyrm Crush and decent damaging arte Demon Strike, and most of them are filled with good enhancements. This makes Senel pretty viable even when he had to only run three arte to make room for Avalanche Drop.

Overall, Senel is pretty solid with what he have to work with for his gimmick, but you might better off running another melee if you’re going against an enemy where his Avalanche Drop won’t work, as his moveset is designed for the grab arte.

Notable Artes:

Whirlwind Dash (5 CC, 330-363)

Whirlwind Blast (6th action, 15 CC, 975)

Enhancements: MG, IS Break, MG, Damage, MG

Whirlwind Dash is pretty neat. It’s fast on execution, and also works as a fast swipe to enemies close to him. It also has IS break and damage enhancements that makes it better.

Whirlwind Blast is pretty good as a Master Arte. It lacks the AoE destruction and damage that most Master Arte has, but compensates itself pretty easily with the decently long barrage that otherwise allows Senel to be invincible for a while. You would be sent flying across the battlefield away from enemies should you miss, but I think it can also double as a escape from a possible AoE spell as it also goes through enemies during the diving kick. The best part of this particular master arte? MG enhancements.

 Significance Rating: Mid. While it’s an MG enhanceable master arte extensively long iframe that can potentially escape spells, it’s not truly vital to Senel’s functionality.

Wyrm Crush (6 CC, 375)

Enhancements: Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, MG

Wyrm Crush is your typical IS Breaker and that it all needs to be. It’s a bit weak in damage, but combos for quite a while.

Avalanche Drop (6 CC, 425-552)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Avalanche Drop is quite peculiar in that you have to KD the enemy first in order to be even able to use the arte, but it would OTG the enemy, allowing Senel to continue his combo from there. It’s quite devastating of a damage melee arte once enhanced, but not worth actively trying to get enemies KD for due to KD being RNG. It doesn’t help that certain enemies are immune to Avalanche(Ifrit and Dragon type enemies) or can’t be OTGd from Avalanche Drop(Uniceros). Senel is so built in into this gimmick a good portion of his arte is made to KD though, so this arte somewhat needed.

Swallow Dance (4 CC, 295-324)

Enhancements: KD Proc, Damage, KD Proc, MG, KD Proc

Another decent combo arte for Senel and a must have if you want to use Avalanche Drop, but one of these two arte cannot run with the other due to how Swallow Dance KDs(and you can even increase the chance for this to happen), halting your combo unless you have Avalanche Drop ready to stand the enemy back up.

Demon Strike (6 CC, 520)

Enhancements: Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, MG.

Demon Strike is pretty decent for it’s damage, but has a buildup delay before it actually hits. Luckily, it comes with IS Breaker enhance, so you can always start your combos from this arte before finally going into your Wyrm Rush combos.

Shirley Fennes

Scaling: ???/???

Lv 50 HP: 2288

Healing of Kanko

Tractor Beam

Tractor Laser

Rally

Ice Wall

Shelter

Juggling Feather

Wind Feather

Recommended Setup:

-Tractor Beam / Juggling Feather

-Rally / Wind Feather

-Ice Wall

-Shelter

Character Summary:

Shirley is pretty alright as far as pure mages go, though she lacked any kind of AoE nukes you possibly wished her to have. In place of her supposed AoEs are buffs Shelter and Rally, which are pretty much Sharpness and Field Barrier under a different name, but otherwise pretty alright considering she’s the only buff user in Blue Sync as if now.

Apart from that, her spells are the sizeable AoE Ice Wall and the enemy launching Juggling Feathers are great, though Tractor Beam takes the spotlight as a cheap and fast forced launch arte that can launch absolutely anything which can even forcibly hold enemies in air with it’s master arte version Tractor Laser. Combine this with a her ranged default attack and she can make for a decent offense mage that sends everything to the sky. Her fMA Healing of Kanko is also notably pretty decent too, as it’s a free party heal with a short Arte resistance buff that is usually pretty rare.

Notable Artes:

Healing of Kanko (100 MG, 18)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, MR, Heal Boost, MR, MR (Fully enhanced)

Arte Animation: Shirley sends her Teriques up high to the sky as a sigil appears below her.

A party heal MA is always welcome as an emergency heal, and the MA also comes with an Arte Defense buff, which is a pretty rare buff and is neat when you need some protection against spell nukes should you not be strong enough to stop the spell in time.

Tractor Beam (5-4 CC, 535)

Tractor Laser (4th action, 15-14 CC, 1480)

Enhancements: Cast Speed, MG, Cast Speed, -1CC, Cast Time Proc

Tractor Beam is simply amazing. It’s a CC cheap fast and decently powerful spell that forces even the heaviest of enemy caught by it into the sky, allowing it to be an excellent DPS spell that also doubles as a disrupt enemies with launches.

Tractor Beam is extremely abusable, as it forcibly holds enemies in the air with an almost really fast AoE spell, pretty much being a free stagger to make some time. This combined with Shirley’s already fast Tractor Beam and her ranged basic attacks makes it an easy to spam spell, holding off enemies in air pretty well, though as a consequence of this arte is that you’re pretty much putting the enemies out of the reach from the melee due to the height the arte is putting the enemies in.

 Significance Rating: High. Tractor Beam is Chloe’s best spell compared to the rest of her offense spell moveset which is overall pretty inferior compared to it, and Tractor Laser’s forced juggle capacity makes the Master Arte somewhat significant enough for Shirley to be somewhat dependant to it,

Rally (5 CC, 0)

Enhancements: Cast Speed, Buff Time, Cast Speed, Buff Time, Party Effect

Sharpness under a different name, Rally grants physical attack buff that you can improve to affect the whole party. It’s a neat addition if you’re running mostly physical characters, but it somewhat conflicts with Shirley’s combat approach due to how she’s mostly focused on launching enemies away from physical characters with Tractor Beam spam.

Ice Wall (6 CC, 680)

Enhancements: AoE Boost, IS Break, AoE Boost, Cast Speed, AoE Boost

Ice Wall is pretty decent once you enhance it out. Cheap CC cost while dealing decent damage on a sizeable area, while doing a good amount of hit over time. It’s pretty much the best spell to cycle with Tractor beam since you simply just want to spam fast spells anyways.

Shelter (8 CC, 0)

Enhancements: Buff Time, Cast Speed, Buff Time, Cast Speed, Buff Time

Field Barrier under a different name. Like Field Barrier, Shelter taxes more cast time and CC more than Barrier, but does have a Party Effect by default and an extra 5 seconds of effect duration in place of the Party Effect enhancement. Overall pretty useful considering how most attacks you’re taking are physical attacks that are hard to avoid without a dash arte, and Shirley barely has any other spells anyways, so you might as well fill her with buffs.

Juggling Feather (8 CC, 1130)

Enhancements: Float. IS Break, Float, MG, Slow Descent

Decently powerful, but has an odd gimmick of being reliant on Float while at the same time not being as a powerful launch that Tractor Beam is. It also takes a good amount of cast time, making it less effective if you’re going for the Tractor Beam spam.

Wind Feather (5 CC, 460)

Enhancements: AIlment, Ailment Proc, Iframe, Ailment Proc, Ailment Power

Fodder spell in case you didn’t have enough of the artes listed above. It’s not very good, but it has that projectile spell nature going for it.

Chloe Valens

Scaling: ???/???

Lv 50 HP: 2336

Sword Rain Omega()

Sword Rain Phantom

Ambush Stance

Kyouma Retsuyougeki

New Moon Blade

Demon Fang Fury

Phantom Blade

Recommended Setup:

-Sword Rain Omega()

-Ambush Stance

-New Moon Blade

-Demon Fang Fury / Phantom Blade

Character Summary:

Chloe has a decent amount of quality melee attacks to work with, though none of it managed to came close to being amazing so far when compared to the higher ends of melees of Blue Sync like Leia or Ludger. Chloe’s main features are New Moon Blade, a CC cheap spammable IS break that unfortunately can push Chloe Phantom Blade from attack reach away if you spam it too hard, a spinning attack that can hit surrounding enemies which AoE size can be increased, and of course Sword Rain Omega, a decent combo arte which oddly can be enhanced to be a dual element arte.

Perhaps the strangest part of Chloe is her Ambush Stance, a rather unique arte that would put her into a stance for a few seconds. If being hit by a melee attack, Chloe would unleash an IS breaker combo arte as a counter attack. This sounds neat…. until you realized the Kyouma Retsuyougeki counter doesn’t put Chloe in invincible state and rather counts as a regular arte, pretty much preventing the arte to from being usable against more than one melee enemy.

Overall, Chloe is not very excellent as a melee character, but she can get at least some of IS breaking and comboing done, and her counter can be a neat asset if used right.

Notable Artes:

Sword Rain Omega() (6-5 CC, 375-412)

Sword Rain Phantom (6th action, 16-15 CC, 1150-1265)

Enhancements: Damage, HP Vamp, IS Break, -1CC, Add Earth

Sword Rain Omega is decently okay as a combo arte, having the capability to hold enemy staggered with it’s fast hits, though, you can’t be too far from the enemy due to its limited rushing reach, so avoid using this directly after New Moon Blade.

Sword Rain Phantom is pretty decent of a master arte, being a lengthy Master Arte that, while does not cover a lot of AoE, last long enough to iframe through the most devastating of attacks all while comboing an enemy hard. It also ended with a spin that hits everything around her.

 Significance Rating: High. Sword Rain Omega is by far Chloe’s best combo arte due to it’s slight rush that allows her to recover distance to the enemy after New Moon Rising, making her rely on it for a bit.

Ambush Stance (7 CC, 0)

Kyouma Retsuyougeki (Upon taking physical hit, 0 CC, ???)

Enhancements: IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break

Ambush Stance is a counter arte which puts Chloe in a counter stance for few seconds. If she gets hit during the stance, she would take the hit as a blocked attack and perform Kyouma Retsuyougeki as a counter attack.
Kyouma Retsuyougeki is pretty neat as a counter arte. With it, you can quickly break an Iron Stance of a singular enemy with a string a combo, though it unfortunately ends with a jumping uppercut that can end combos out of launch reliance. The catch? It doesn’t grant Chloe invincibility. This means that Chloe absolutely cannot use it against cluster of enemies, as failing to IS break in one go any of them would result in Chloe getting punished hard.

New Moon Blade (3 CC, 220)

Enhancements: Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, MG

New Moon Blade is quite an excellent IS breaker, being a short yet CC cheap arte allows spamming it to be a decently strong IS breaker, but unfortunately pushes Chloe. It also strangely enough hits enemies behind her.

Demon Fang Fury (6 CC, 485-630)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Demon Fang Fury is quite the oddball of a strike arte, being a Demon Fang which 2nd wave can hit up to 4 enemies that are near the main target. This can make it an excellently devastating AoE damage output with it’s sheer power, but unfortunately is overall ineffective due to the buildup to the actual multi hit Demon Fang.

Phantom Blade (4 CC, 255-280)

Enhancements: HP Vamp, AoE Boost, HP Vamp, Damage, HP Vamp

Phantom Blade hits Chloe surrounding and comes with a HP Vamp enhancement, along her to regain a good amount of HP back when going against cluster of enemies. It also interestingly has an AoE enhancement, allowing her to reach more enemies.

Jude Mathis

Scaling: 60/100

Lv 50 HP: 2649

Aqua Sweep

Torrential Aqua Sweep

Whirlwind Snap

Talon Storm

Phoenix Plunge

Cerberus Strike

Healer

Recommended Setup:

-Aqua Sweep/ Cerberus Strike

-Whirlwind Snap

-Talon Storm

-Phoenix Plunge/ Healer

Character Summary:

Jude’s best melee arte is his Whirlwind Snap, which delivers a strong damage in a single fast hit while sucking nearby enemies into him once you maximize it’s enhancements. He can also the usual melee stuff such as IS breaking and comboing with artes such as Talon Storm, Phoenix Plunge and Cerberus Strike. He can also instant AoE heal nearby allies via Healer, though it isn’t that reliable.

He’s overall alright and shines best at dealing with clustered mobs and inflicting huge damage in a short burst of time via Whirlwind, though you’d definitely want an assisting melee to get best out of his DPS skills.

Notable Artes:

Aqua Sweep (4 CC, 285-313)

Torrential Aqua Sweep (6th action, 14 CC, 1050-1155)

Enhancements: HP Vamp, Stagger, HP Vamp, Damage, HP Vamp

Aqua Sweep is a bit underwhelming as a melee arte if you’re using Jude as your main melee due to the delayed startup, but it’s pretty alright if you’re using it in a party combo due to it’s cheap cost and AoE.

Torrential Aqua Sweep on the other hand is a huge CC cost finisher that deals big damage while hitting a small AoE In front of Jude, allowing him to gain a lot of MG from clustered enemies. Overall an okay addition, but as basic as all most  get with a not so useful enhancement which means it’s a pretty optional one.

 Significance Rating: Low. While it’s nice to have, it’s barely any effective for the most part due to how the arte is just slow as heck to the point you probably won’t be affected in performance at all with the exception of the typical melee Master Arte benefits such as iframing and a quick burst of MG early into the battle.

Whirlwind Snap (6-5 CC, 495-545)

Enhancements: Stagger, Iframe, Damage, Iframe, -1CC

Jude’s signature arte, Whirlwind Snap deals a big damage in a single hit while sucking enemies into him in front of him. It also a really fast arte, making it a very reliable DPS and mob control tool once you IS break the enemy. It gets even better once you get the damage and CC cost reduction enhancement, making it above average on power/CC.

Talon Storm (6 CC, 510)

Enhancements: IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break

Your go to IS breaker for Jude. It’s terrible against clustered mobs due to it’s very small hitbox, but otherwise pretty solid against singular enemies due to it’s decent combo ability. It’s not that excellent due to the slower hit output compared to most speedier IS breakers, but it’s better than none.

Phoenix Plunge (7 CC, 595)

Enhancements: Stagger, IS, Stagger, IS, MG

Alternative IS breaker to Talon Storm with a bigger hitbox, but has a jumping delay both before and after the flame bomb, useful when you have assisting melees to catch enemies after it, but not so much when you’re on a solo.

Cerberus Strike (4 CC, 290)

Enhancements: Stagger, Rush, Iframe, Projectile Block, Rush

Cerberus Strike is a neat combo after once you got through the Iron Stance, and it’s a decent option to go with to alter with Talon Storm for a faster combo arte, though you kinda want to suck the enemy back into you with Whirlwind Snap as the last hit pushes the enemy away with a slight launch.

Healer (7-6 CC, 12)

Enhancements: AoE Boost, MG, Iframe, AoE Boost, -1CC

Healer allows Jude to heal enemies around him without any cast time, but sticks him into place during the whole healing animation, making him an easy target for a beating from the enemies. Jude doesn’t have a lot of arte sticks to enhance his healing, and setting Jude’s AI to heal would have him running around chasing allies to be healed as they run away to do their own task while abandoning his task to be a melee, so it’s not that excellent.

Milla Maxwell

Scaling: 60/100

Lv50 HP: 2288

Grave

Grave Agito

Flare Bomb 

Flame Bomb Fear

Cyclone

Thunder Blade

Wind Blade

Death Knell

Whirling Assault

Splash

Recommended Setup:

Character Summary:

While Milla’s spell moveset is pretty alright, with selection of spell such as Cyclone, Thunder Blade, and Splash, but half of Milla’s melee moveset is doesn’t mix well to each other or her spells, and it’s quite limited in quantity as well, lacks IS breaking, and takes over most of her high rarity skills. Flare Bomb and Wind Blade are decent for being able to make use of the arte stat for having an element, but Death Knell and Whirling Assault don’t work with arte stat, and is only recommended if you end up going with physical Milla due to how unconventional the artes are. Recently however, Milla has gotten a significant upgrade with her newly released Master Arte Grave, which allows her to finally combo, IS Break, and fixing her to serviable melee…. if you can even get it, anyways.

Overall, Milla is best as a mage or a mixed had you owned Flare Bomb or Grave. She can be worked with to be a physical, but she is pretty lackluster at doing so due to the lack of hit count/IS break and stagger on most of her attacks.

Notable Artes:

Grave (5 CC, 340)

Grave Agito (6th action, 15 CC, 1055)

Enhancements: Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, MG

Arte Animation: Milla swings her blade in the air before gripping it backhand and stabbing it on the ground, creating Rock spikes in front of her. Master Arte version does about the same but with a larger size of rocks.

After such a long time, Milla can finally function as a melee thanks to this artes. With it’s Iron Stance break enhancement and it’s slight AoE after the first slash, she does a solid job at comboing the enemy when combined with Flare Bomb. The Master version Grave Agito is pretty okay, being a larger area IS break, but you better off using Flare Bomb as her Master Arte if you have that instead.

 Significance Rating: Mage: Very Low. Hybrid/Melee: Very High. Milla gets boosted majorly in the variety of playstyle if you managed to get the arte, however, she can still do just fine as a mage if you don’t have this.

Flare Bomb(5 CC, 348-448)

Flame Bomb Fear (6th action, 15 CC, 1010-1313)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Flare Bomb, Milla’s only elemental melee had you not pick up Wind Blade from the temporary prism shop availability, and as a normal  arte itself, it’s pretty lackluster due to it’s small hits, and it’s behaviour as a fast burst of damage is pretty moot with Wind Blade and (if you run physical Milla) Death Knell, but it’s serviceable due to Milla’s lack of melees.

Flare Bomb Fear is pretty standard as a melee Master Artes gets. It’s a damage nuke on a sizeable area to end combos like others which is neat for hitting multiple enemies for MG gain, and you can improve its damage thanks to the enhancement. With the hybrid scaling from equipping her spell weapons, Flare Bomb Vier is decently very devastating, though you really want to have Wind Blade for faster Master Artes activation due to the amount of actions needed and you kinda have to stop using spells just to trigger this Master Arte.

 Significance Rating: Low. Not really necessary to Milla, but it does allows her damage nuke enemies…. and that’s about it.

Cyclone (9 CC, 1175)

Enhancements: AoE Boost, IS Break, AoE Boost, Cast Speed, AoE Boost

Milla’s main damage spell. It’s hit area is pretty small for a costly and long cast time spell, making it unreliable to use mid melee combo, but it’s pretty devastating in terms of damage and staggering.

Thunder Blade (6 CC, 706)

Enhancements: AoE Boost, IS Break, AoE Boost, Cast Speed, AoE Boost

This spell is pretty awesome that it’s a shame it has to be Milla of all people that owns it. Dual element, aoe boost enhancements, a fast cast time, and a huge aoe size that can be improved to deal with mobs.

Wind Blade(6 CC, 510)

Enhancements: Ailment, Ailment Cure, Ailment Proc, Iframe, Ailment Power

Despite it’s ailment based enhancement and a minimal amount of stagger due to being a singular high damage hit, Wind Blade is quite a godsend for Milla since she desperately needs an elemental melee. It’s fast execution is also decent for faster Master Artes activation, though it drains CC pretty quick as well.

Death Knell (3 CC, 300-390)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Death Knell delivers a HUGE damage for it’s teeny tiny CC cost, but unfortunately not very abusable due to the spin delay before the initial hit and it’s chance to knockdown. It doesn’t help that you kinda have to run a physical Milla as well for this arte’s damage to be at its full potential.

Whirling Assault (6 CC, 390)

Enhancements: Stagger, Rush, Iframe, Projectile Block, Rush

Pretty much Milla’s best bet at staggering and doing a lot of hits. It doesn’t do much due to lack of IS Break enhancement, but hey, it’s better than nothing.

Splash (5 CC, 495)

Enhancements: AoE Boost, IS Break, AoE Boost, Cast Speed, AoE Boost

Milla doesn’t really have a lot of good spells to work with since most of her higher rarity weapons are hogged with non elemental physicals, so having a Splash in her arsenal is pretty neat for a faster spell, though Thunder Blade pretty much outdoes this in every way.

Elize Lutus

Scaling: 130/30

Lv 50 HP: 1927

Ignite Terror

Bright Ignition

Fearful Flare

Despair Flare

Nurse

Dread Wing

Negative Gate

Healing Circle

Teepo Spray

Pixie Circle

Recommended Setup:

-Ignite Terror

-Nurse

-Dread Wing / Negative Gate / Fearful Flare

-Teepo Spray / Healing Circle

Character Summary:

Elize suffers from a case of ‘mage with lacking quantity of spells’. Her selection spells are amazing, with offensive spells such as Negative Gate, Dread Wing, and the EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE Bright Ignition  and high tier healing spells such as Nurse and Healing Circle that covers a lot of your party’s healing needs. Her ranged normal attacks allows her to cut her cast time by attacking before casting her spells without the need to perform AAC, which can make a difference between life and death without much hassle.

Elize is a very excellent mage if you have the right stuff for her and is pretty worth taking the risk of dud  for, especially considering Blue Sync’s apparent overabundance of melees and lack of mages.

Notable Artes:

Ignite Terror (9 CC, 1070-1284)

Bright Ignition (4th action, 19 CC, 3210-3852)

Enhancements: Damage, IS Break, Damage, Stagger, Double Proc

Ignite Terror is costly spell with a long cast time, but pays off really well with a devastating straight line damage spell. it also contains enhanceable damage and the ability to proc double the damage, making it very useful for Elize’s much needed spell arsenal.

It’s master version, Bright Ignition is not only EXTREMELY destructive at a damage that even surpasses base MR MAs(and even further beyond if you proc the double damage, it’s also is easily abusable thanks to Elize’s ranged normal attack. You can pretty much spam it all day after you do two normal attack and a Teepo Spray/Pow Hammer. It may not be obligatory for Elize, but it sure does make her MUCH more viable on her damage output.

 Significance Rating: Healing: Very Low Offense: High. Bright Ignition is quite a jump for Elize as it allows her to deal excellent amount of damage, but I think she’ll work just fine as a healer if you don’t have it.

Fearful Flare (5 CC, 665-731)

Despair Flare (4th action, 15 CC, 1470-1617)

Enhancements: MG, IS break, MG, Damage, MG

Fearful Flare isn’t… amazing?? Fearful Flare, while a bit fast, suffers from a similar issue that Ray has: scattered hitboxes. It isn’t as bad as Ray because a lot of scattered hits are quite close to each other and each has a big explosion radius, making it easy for a mid sized enemies to take a full hit, and considering Elize’s limited offense arte any addition to the offense power is welcome.

Despair Flare is basically Fearful Flare at a much larger scale. It’s explosion also got quite bigger making it easier to hit enemies with a lot of meteors. The cast speed is also incredibly fast, which mixes very well with it’s low action requirement, Elize’s easily abusable ranged basic attack and projectile Strike Artes, and the MG enhancements, making it easily VERY spammable for a quick AoE destruction while also gathering a lot of MG at the short amount of time early into the battle.

 Significance Rating: Healing: Very Low Offense: High. Like Bright Ignition, Elize should do just fine as a healer without the , but she really needs any of these  to have any proper offense capacity.

Nurse (8 CC, 35-46)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, Cast Speed, Heal Boost, Cast Speed, Heal Boost

Nurse is an excellent whole field heal that can handle a whole party’s need of HP recovery no matter how scattered your positioning is. It takes a while to cast, but you can mitigate this via the cast speed enhancements you’ll get. It’s pretty much worth buying even if you already have Healing Circle in my opinion.

Dread Wing (6 CC, 805)

Enhancements: AoE Boost, IS Break, AoE Boost, Cast Speed, AoE Boost

Another one of Elize’s limited quantity of spell, despite it’s misleading size of AoE(since it’s actually smaller than it looks), it’s decent due to it’s above average damage, and you can fix the AoE with the enhancements.

Negative Gate (7 CC, 800)

Enhancements: AoE Boost, IS Break, AoE Boost, Cast Speed, AoE Boost

The last out of Elize’s main means of actual spell damage. It deals slightly less damage than Dread Wing, but compensates itself with the the launch it does that is an easy target for allies to combo from. It also has the same exact enhancement with Dread Wing, capable of hitting more enemies.

Healing Circle (7 CC, 30-36)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, AoE Boost, Heal Boost, Cast Speed, AoE Boost

Healing Circle is an excellent heal spell, having a big AoE area heal which size can be increased to cover as much as ground as possible, making it pretty effective when you want to heal multiple characters in an area at once. It’s slightly weaker than post cast speed reduction Nurse, but it’s still a super good healing spell.

Teepo Spray (3 CC, 235)

Enhancements: Stagger, Rush, Iframe, Projectile Block, Rush

If you don’t feel like Elize’s two basic attack is enough, then Teepo Spray is your best friend if you’re looking for faster spells and Bright Ignition abuse. That usually won’t be the case, but hey, it’s a nice filler arte if you couldn’t get most of Elize’s spells

Pixie Circle (5 CC, 20-26)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, AoE Boost, Heal Boost, Cast Speed, AoE Boost

Budget Healing Circle. It’s faster, but it’s also small enough that melees can still run away from it. But hey, it’s still better than nothing.

Leia Rolando

Scaling: ???/???

Lv 50 HP: 2264

Crescent Flash

Great Crescent Flash

Soaring Vortex

Staff Rain

Cure

Darting Claw

Quickness

Recommended Setup:

-Crescent Flash / Darting Claw

-Staff Rain

-Cure / Quickness 

-Soaring Vortex

Character Summary:

Leia is simply amazing. She may not have much HP compared to most melees, but she’s all about the IS breaking and combos. Staff Rain is her main combo tool, while Soaring Vortex quickly dashes to the other side of the enemy while keeping enemies in her grasps of her combo, and Cresent Flash is pretty much a self defense surrounding attack. The best part of these three artes? They ALL have a lot of IS break and stagger enhance, making it incredibly easy for Leia to start comboing enemies and keeping them staggered.

Apart from her already excellent melee set, she also wields the strongest single target ingame heal arte Cure, which allows her heals to be on par with mages with higher arte while at the same time providing an arte stick for her melees. She also has Quickness, which can be useful should you end up in a situation where you need to kite enemies around. Leia’s only drawback is that she lacked any pushback  artes as most of her melees keeps both herself and the enemy in place, so attempting to combo her spells to her melee would be suicidal.

Due to her very excellent selection of artes and excellent, Leia is one of the top choices of melees out of the many for blue sync. She should have near to no problems  keeping enemies under her combo grasp as long as enemies don’t actually gang up on her.

Notable Artes:

Crescent Flash (5 CC, 295)

Great Crescent Flash (6th action, 15 CC, 970)

Enhancements: Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, MG

A multi hit spin attack, Cresent Flash is very useful should Leia get surrounded. With it’s fast execution and IS break enhance, you can easily smack multiple enemies with a lot of hits and maybe even IS break all of them at once. Not recommended to be used regularly against single target enemies due to its lower damage output though.

Great Crescent Flash is pretty much a larger scale Cresent Flash, which can be really useful if you’re busy comboing an enemy and is about to ganged on by incoming enemies. It’s fast execution also allows Leia to go back to block stance as soon as possible, though overall it does less stagger than most melee Master Artes because of it.

 Significance Rating: Mid. Cresent Flash is pretty much another addition of IS Break to Leia’s arsenal, but Leia’s already existing  are already excellent enough on IS break that she doesn’t really need it.

Soaring Vortex (4 CC, 280)

Enhancements: IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break

Soaring Vortex is one neat dash arte. It’s not a dodgetank material due to the buildup staff spin, but still a very useful tool if you want to avoid getting ganged on by switching to the other side. It’s short arte duration also makes it decent to spam if you want to prepare to use Master Arte faster, and perhaps your best bet if you want to IS break ASAP.

Staff Rain (5 CC, 415)

Enhancements: IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break

Staff Rain is Leia’s main IS breaker and combo arte. It breaks enemies Iron Stance hard with it’s IS break enhancement, and staggers the enemies well enough with it’s multiple hits that you can pretty much combo enemies continuously with Staff Rain and Soaring Vortex. Definitely Leia’s must have.

Cure (7 CC, 50-65)

Enhancements: Heal Boost, Caster Heal, Heal Boost, Caster Heal, Heal Boost

Cure, while taking a bit longer than Heal, compensates itself by being the strongest single target heal spell ingame. It makes Leia decently viable as a secondary healer despite being a non-mage due to the increased arte heal power compared to most mages Heal or First Aid while at the same time giving her arte stat for her hybrid scale, though I’d advise avoiding using Leia as a main heal source since you’ll lose a lot of combo power from her.

Darting Claw (3 CC, 245-318)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Darting Claw is a neat arte which allows Leia to rush into enemies quickly while dealing a fast damage for a low CC cost. However, you probably won’t find much use of it apart from that since it’s not as comboable as her other stuff.

Quickness (5 CC, 0)

Enhancements: Cast Speed, Buff Time, Cast Speed, Buff Time, Party Effect

Quickness is… very situational. Increased movement speed is definitely beneficial in cases of strategic approaches that involve a lot of running(i.e kiting enemies, or having the need to move around enemies or poking certain enemies to prevent spell), but you don’t really have that need for the most part since you’ll be casting spells or melee comboing anyways, so use it when you feel like you’ll be running around a lot.

Alvin Vin Svent

Scaling: ???/???

Lv 50 HP: 2890

Pulse Shot

Pulse Shot Cannon

Cross Cleave

Terra Rupture

Punishing Shot

Demon Fang

Recommended Setup:

-Pulse Shot  / Demon Fang

-Terra Rupture

-Cross Cleave

-Punishing Shot

Character Summary:

Alvin is…. eh. He mainly functions as a slow, tanky melee with artes that hit quite a lot. Terra Rupture is a straight line AoE IS break, which is neat, while Pulse Shot allows Alvin to gain a lot of MG quick with it’s Master version. And, Cross Cleave and Punishing Shot combos quite a lot while dealing decent damage. But apart from all of that, Alvin doesn’t really have anything else to back him up. With the exception of Terra Rupture AoE IS Break, a lot of the things he do has been done by other characters in a way better in an anima that has too many melees.

Overall, Alvin isn’t good. Avoid going after him unless you actually got his MA, as his slow melee arte doesn’t add much to the fight.

Notable Artes:

Pulse Shot  (5 CC, 360-396)

Pulse Shot Cannon (6th action, 15 CC, 1066-1172)

Enhancements: MG, IS Break, MG, Damage, MG

Pulse Shot is pretty neat as it has one of the best case scenario of enhancements: MG gain boost. It’s a slow piercing projectile, which makes it pretty decent to follow up after a Terra Rupture, raking in a good amount of MG for Alvin.

 Significance Rating: Low. It’s only really worthy for the MG gain, and that’s about it, really.

Cross Cleave (5 CC, 375-488)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

A decent arte with a some AoE in front of him due to his size of the sword wave. It's quite a lot and deals an overall okay amount of damage.

Terra Rupture(6 CC, 345)

Enhancements: Stagger, IS Break, Stagger, IS Break, MG

Terra Rupture has a buildup delay, but pay offs quite well with the AoE IS break right in front of him. Definitely a must have in his case,

Punishing Shot (5 CC, 375-488)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

It’s… pretty much a worse variant of Cross Cleave. It lacked the hit area and is launch reliant while also dealing the same amount of damage as Cross Cleave. Apart from being another method for Alvin to combo, there is not much to this arte.

Demon Fang (3 CC, 190-247)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Alvin’s fastest and cheapest CC arte, and is your best option if you want to quickly unleash Pulse Shot.

Ludger Will Kresnik

Scaling: ???/???

Lv 50 HP: 2770

Material Demolition(Spell Seal)

Requiem Beat

Requiem Beat Zeta

Time Disintegration

Rapid Burst

Power Swing

Power Swing EX

Arcane Destruction

Squall Shot

Swift Strike

Recommended Setup:

-Requiem Beat/ Squall Shot

-Time Disintegration

-Rapid Burst

-Swift Strike / Power Swing 

Character Summary:

Ludger is a weird case of a character where it turns out all of his  is much more vital than any of his rare stuff ever hoped to achieve, which overall quite beneficial to Ludger himself since it means his best tools are very easy to access. His main features are Time Disintegration, a super good IS breaker that also doubles as a rush arte with a decent distance, making him one of the fastest ingame IS breaker, and Rapid Fire, a ranged IS breaker.

His other artes are overall pretty decent as well. With multi hit damage combos such as Arcane Destruction, delayed ranged AoE bom Squall Shot,  two  to accompany him which are Requiem Beat and Power Swing and a fast OTG tool to remedy Time Disintegration KD Swift Strike, Ludger revolves around the playstyle of a melee that can easily shift between ranged to close combat and vise versa. Combine this with his two IS breaker artes, and it makes him an overall amazing melee.

Notable Artes:

Material Demolition(Spell Seal) (150 MG, 1640-1804)

Enhancements: Overray, MR, Overray, Damage, Overray

Overray Enhancement: Negate enemy artes for 12 sec

Material Demolition as an MA isn’t that special, as it mainly focus only on one enemy and can’t hit anything else along the way due to the MA sending the enemy target high to the sky, but what’s special here is the Overray effect Spell Seal, which causes all enemies to fail any spells they casted, and can last up to 36 seconds via the enhancements. This can turn a difficult tower fight with a chance to get comboed by spell barrage into a complete joke since casting enemies are no better than an enemy that is standing still during the whole duration of the effect. Definitely a very good MA, but pretty optional since Ludger himself is already a top end IS breaker to prevent spell, it also has 0.5% rates, so it’s not worth chasing.

Requiem Beat (7 CC, 450-585)

Requiem Beat Zeta (6th action, 17 CC, 1150-1495)

Enhancements: Damage, Stagger, Damage, MG, Damage

Requiem Beat is the better out of the two Ludger ,  being a damage based arte that whiffs up a decent amount of AoE hits. It also pushes Ludger back, which is always great to get distance for Squall Shot or Rapid Burst, but unfortunately prevents it from being a spammable AoE.