Lacrimosa Build Guide

Increases Chaos DMG by 10% for each Type III Module equipped.

Lacrimosa’s passive Tomato Banquet launches a massive hit when a Discord is triggered on a broken enemy. In other words, her best team structure is shaped by:

• Breaking enemies
• Causing Discord

Building around this passive though is hard with current roster. Breaking has short window, and breakers like Daffodill takes from Lacrimosa field time. So she can build either general Discord team without focus on break, Scorch teams, or even Nova team with A6: Morning Spell

She pairs well with Incantation characters for Scorch, and Psyche characters for Nova. With them combined, Lacrimosa gains access to Discord.

Lacrimosa Discord Team

Premium: Lacrimosa, Daffodill, Sakiri, Fadia

F2P: Lacrimosa, Adler, Haniel, flex

The natural fitting team for a main DPS Lacrimosa, with a DoT buffer in Sakiri, a pseudo shielder in Fadia, and a breaker in Daffodill to proc Lacrimosa’s passive occasionally. The elements align nicely, and Fadia has a good Esper Meter build-up to trigger Nova . Scorch will occur by switching from Lacrimosa to Sakiri, as Sakiri has very poor Esper build-up.

Being a Chaos DPS, Lacrimosa already fills the rarest element in the bottom of the Esper Circle, so filling other elements for her F2P team is pretty easy if you lack access to some S-Class standard characters. Haniel is a decent buffer that fills the Psyche slot, and Adler grants survivability while filling the Incantation slot. Then the last slot goes to whoever S-Class character you have from the premium team. Reactions will be slower, and Lacrimosa will trigger her passive fewer times, but the entire synergy works the same.

Mono Scorch Team 

Lacrimosa, Adler, Sakiri, Baicang

With one Chaos and three Incantation characters, the only possible reaction the team can trigger is Scorch. Sakiri buffs Scorch alongside all of Baicang's, and Lacrimosa's DoT.

The synergy is there, but Lacrimosa, Baicang, and Daffodill would fight for field time. The team plays more as a quick swap, with Lacrimosa's DoT being down most of the time, but allies own DPS compensating.

Mono DoT Team

Full DoT: Lacrimosa, Adler, Sakiri, Baicang
Lacrimosa Hyper: Lacrimosa, Adler, Sakiri, Fadia

The idea is to stack all sources of DoT in one team, to reach the max buff from Sakiri's passive. Sakiri buffs DoT by 25% multiplier with every DoT on the enemy, up to 4 stacks. To reach full stacks, you need:

• Scorch: Incantation + Chaos reaction (12s, Baicang auto refresh)
• Nightmare: Lacrimosa's DoT from all attacks (3s)
• Judgment of Autumn: Baicang Ultimate (12s)
• Evil's Bane: Adler's skill (10s)

Baicang wants to stay on the field after his Ultimate to use his enhanced Power Words, but Lacrimosa takes most of the field time to refresh her short duration DoT. Fadia resolves this issue by being a full quick swap who takes no field time. She allows Lacrimosa to attack more, and apply more Nightmare stacks for more DPS.

Mono Nova Team

Lacrimosa, Haniel, Fadia, Hotori

A unique team that's made possible with the instant Esper Meter refill from Lacrimosa's A6: Morning Spell. As well as Hotori replicating skills for another instant refill.

Unlike Scorch, Nova can trigger multiple times, and benefits from repeated reactions. With very high base damage, and huge bonus by building Haniel with full Cycle Intensity, this team gains more DPS from Nova than any gain from Scorch.

• Limited BiS: The Last Rose 
• Paid Alternative: Fluff of Fleetness
• F2P Alternative: Youthful Fantasy
• Early F2P: Shiny Days

The Last Rose is Lacrimosa’s Limited weapon, which works best with her in the majority of situations. With high Base ATK, Crit Rate, ATK%, and a conditional Crit DMG buff, based on the number of times she deals DoT. When Lacrimosa attacks a broken enemy, the passive extends the broken status by 3s. So it’s the best weapon for her.

Fluff of Fleetness comes from Battle Pass, and is considered a decent alternative if you already bought it. It increases Crit DMG and ramps up a decent ATK buff. But its stats at M0 are not worth picking over the F2P alternative. It will start to shine at higher “Mixing” (more dupes).

Youthful Fantasy is Daffodill’s signature, and the best F2P weapon for Lacrimosa. First copy can be obtained from Black Tome High-Risk Anomaly, and a second copy can be obtained from either spending 25 Tri-Keys on Arc shop, or from losing the 25:75 chance when getting S-Class Arc in any limited weapon banner. When you get the second copy, you can equip both Daffodill and Lacrimosa without hindering each other.

In the early game, before getting any S-Class weapon, use Shiny Days.

• Cartridge: Diabolos (S)
• Cartridge Main Stat: Chaos DMG%
• Substats: CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG / Universal DMG% / ATK%

Diabolos (S) is the best-in-slot cartridge for Lacrimosa in every scenario. The chaos resistance ignore is invaluable and very hard to come by from any other source, it acts as a damage multiplier. Triggering reactions more often further increase the chaos resistance ignored.

Console’s bonus gives Lacrimosa 10% Chaos DMG with every Type III module, and Diabolos set requires 2x Type III modules. So you can stack a total of four Type III modules for 40% Chaos DMG. That's a strong DPS multiplier for all of Lacrimosa damage.

For Main Stat, her ideal pick is always Chaos DMG. Her DoT has fixed 50% Crit Rate, so heavy investment in Crit stats have less impact than Chaos DMG. Her direct hits has full benefits of all DPS stats, so there's a niche case to be made for Crit on main stat if your Crit Rate to Crit Damage ratio is so skewed.

The ideal substats are Crit Rate, Crit Damage, DMG%, and ATK%.

In Scorch teams, we give Lacrimosa 1-2 Cycle Intensity substats. This ensures she owns the Scorch reaction to give Scorch her highCRIT DMG

Basic Attack > Ultimate > Skill > Support Skill

The majority of Lacrimosa’s DPS comes from variations of basic attacks, regardless of which form she stays on. Ultimate is next, then skill.

Lacrimosa kit is very straightforward, and she's one of the easiest characters to play. She wants more field time, and she keep using normal attacks, and use skills on cooldown.

Basic Rotation

• Starts with Ultimate if available
• Cast monster skill (Swap out of it has long casting)
• Use 5x normal attacks to reset cooldown of normal skill
• Cast normal skill
• Use 5x normal attacks
• Switch to Psyche or Incantation character when Esper Meter is full to trigger Nova or Scorch reaction

How Lacrimosa DoT works

Her Nightmare DoT has 3-second duration (6-second with A4) and can stack up to 10 times. Lacrimosa applies them to enemies at these rates:

• 5 stacks on landing Ultimate
• 5 stacks on landing normal skill
• No stacks on casting monster skill
• 1 stack per instance of normal attack hits, 10 stacks in 5x combo
• 6 stacks on dodge-counter

For all purposes, dodge-counter is more effective in applying Nightmare, so always dodge and don't take a hit to just continue attacking.

Her stacks would drop off very quickly when switched out, so she prefers allies who don't steal field time. (Adler over Baicang for example).

Melee VS. Ranged modes

In terms of DPS, the two modes output close results. We usually prefer ranged mode due to its flexibility, less time chasing enemies, and better dodge window. But feel free to switch between them as you see fit.

Melee would be better against stationary bosses that give a high chance to parry, because her ranged attacks are harder to parry with. But these are rare, and you can always swap-parry to Sakiri or Haniel.

Quick Tips:

• Don't hold her basic attack (aim mode) during combat unless you intend to copy enemy skill. If you copy a wrong skill mid-fight, you might ruin your entire encounter.
• Lacrimosa is the best character to spam dodge counter. Her counter gives her great positioning and applies 6 DoT stacks. It's better than being locked into full 5x normal combo and being susceptible to brutal enemies attacks.
• Lacrimosa prefers to take most of the field time, but can swap in and out without a downside if you are quick enough, since her DoT has 3 sec duration. Feel free to swap her out in these situations:
• • While she casts a Monster skill with long animation (Black Tome, or Tomato Devil)
  • To trigger Daffodill's Phantom Step on swap or to refresh Baicang DoT
  • To avoid enemy a big hit or to swap-parry with Fadia
  • Or cast allies' skills on cooldown

Lacrimosa will release in version 1.1 on June 3rd, 2026 for Global. She is the third limited banner in the game.