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 a bit hard. Breaking has short window, and breakers like Daffodill takes from Lacrimosa field time. Blackbird and Zankou solved a major part of this, with access to infinite Scorch and instant Cycle for constant Nova. So Lacrimosa can build a Discord team with.

Otherwise, she can build either a Scorch team, or even Nova team with A6: Morning Spell

Lacrimosa Discord Team - Link

Premium: Lacrimosa, Zankou, Blackbird, Sakiri

F2P: Lacrimosa, Daffodill, Sakiri, Fadia (Much worse)

Her strongest team, and probably the strongest in the game. With a DoT buffer in Sakiri, a source of Scorch in Zankou, and instant Cycle from Blackbird. All team also provide various buffs such as Attack, and CRIT DMG to all allies.

Discord is guaranteed with every use of Blackbird skill on 16-second cooldown, with every parry, and with natural Esper Meter refill on Lacrimosa herself.

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 limited S-Class characters. Haniel is a decent buffer that fills the Psyche slot, and Adler grants survivability while filling the Incantation slot. But the DPS output will be much lower than the premium team.

Full DoT Team - LINK

Premium: Lacrimosa, Sakiri, Zankou, flex ( Linko/ Iroi / Haniel)
F2P: Lacrimosa, Adler, Sakiri, Baicang

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 duration)
  • Baicang or Zankou auto refreshes, with Zankou applying 3 stacks of Scorch instead of one.
• Heartwrench: Zankou's DoT from attacks in Illusion Form (10 stacks, 30s duration)
• Nightmare: Lacrimosa's DoT from any attack (10 stacks, 3s duration)
• Judgment of Autumn: Baicang Ultimate (12s duration)
• Evil's Bane: Adler's skill (10s duration)

With Zankou on the team, Sakiri's buff is maxed, Scorch is auto refreshed, and Zankou can build full Cycle Intensity and CRIT DMG to maximize Scorch DPS in a way no other character can do. All without competing for a long field time. So it's the perfect team to build with Lacrimosa

Baicang on other hand 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. And he can't fill all stacks of Sakiri's buff, so he need a clutch like Adler for an extra DoT

Mono Nova Team - Link

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 a Scorch team without Zankou, we give Lacrimosa 1-2 Cycle Intensity substats. This ensures she owns the Scorch reaction to give Scorch her highCRIT DMG. With Zankou however, we are comfortable giving her zero Cycle Intensity, as Zankou build that instead, and takes ownership of all Scorch stacks.

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.

In Nova team with Blackbird, or with Lacrimosa's A6: Morning Spell, the Support Skill become more important to take to the maximum level.

Lacrimosa's 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.

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 an ally.

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 an ally.
  • 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.