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Daffodill Hotori Discord Team (Nova + Scorch)

Daffodill

Hotori

Fadia

Sakiri

Haniel

Aurelia

Baicang

By elnawawi

Updated on May 27, 2026

May 27, 2026

Overview

We build Daffodill’s team around two core mechanics: Break and quick swap. Daffodill is a dedicated breaker, and paired with a full Discord team (Psyche, Chaos, and Incantation), she pushes the break to a new height. This is the best team to match a Hyper Chiz team on the other half of Beyond the Rails endgame mode.

It’s also the top team to clear High-Risk Anomalies at highest difficulty, due to the sheer tankiness of Fadia, the evasiveness of quick swap, Hotori's time stop, and constant breaking.

Hotori adds no elemental reaction to the team, but her skill replication solves the lower half's slow Esper Meter generation. When Nova meets Scorch, Discord triggers and bosses break faster.

Team Overview

CharacterDaffodill

WeaponYouthful Fantasy

CartridgeDiabolos (S)

CharacterHotori

WeaponMarching Beyond Time

CartridgeLost Radiance (S)

CharacterFadia

WeaponEternal Waltz

CartridgeTiny Big Adventure (S)

CharacterSakiri

WeaponGood Boy's Grand Adventure

CartridgeSpeedy Hedgehog (S)

How to Play

Overall Concept

We focus on building up the reactions on the bottom side of the Esper Circle. Fadia is a Psyche character who builds up Esper Meter quickly through parries to trigger Nova. Daffodill is a Chaos character who swaps on-field at least three times to perform her rotation and build Esper Meter for Scorch. Sakiri gathers enemies and provides ATK buffs.

Hotori is there to replicate the entire team’s skills, to generate more Cycle energy and Ultimate energy, and to enable Daffodill to break the enemy further.

When Nova meets Scorch, we trigger Discord to break a huge portion of the enemy’s Stagger Bar. And with all of Daffodill bonuses for breaking and damage boost against a broken enemy, we get excellent team DPS.

Instant Esper Meter Refill

Parry is the only way to get instant Esper Meter refills in a Discord team at v1.0 (Lacrimosa will change that with her Awakening at v1.1). Fadia is an excellent character to parry with, she’s tanky and her kit has bonuses for parrying.

Fadia triggers Nova reaction by switching to Daffodill with full Esper Meter. Time this correctly when Daffodill’s Esper Meter is near full, to trigger Scorch closely after. You have a 5-second window to trigger Scorch and Discord, before Nova bursts up and is removed from the enemy.

Natural Esper Meter Refill

The second-best character to refill her Esper Meter is Daffodill, by swapping in more often to attack with her two stacks of Phantom Step. Players are also encouraged to use dodge counters with Daffodill to refill her Esper Meter faster.

You can also perform the parry with Sakiri, to fill her Esper Meter since she's the slowest to fill naturally. In that case, you reverse the reactions order, Scorch from Sakiri to Daffodill, and Nova from Daffodill to Fadia. Parrying with Hotori is useless and a waste, but thanks to her time stop, the chance of needing to parry with her is very slim

Ultimate Energy Gain

Fadia is the fastest character to regain her Ultimate energy by taking damage and dealing damage while off-field. In reality, she might even refill it long before her cooldown ends. So always make sure to use Fadia’s Ultimate on her 20-second cooldown. This recovers her HP and enables Fadia to deal burst Mental DMG, and enable her to perform Parry easier (Due to her long animation)

Sakiri will fill her Ultimate fairly fast, thanks to the Speedy Hedgehog set. So her buffs are up a fair amount of time. And Daffodill can regain Ultimate energy through the several swaps in.

Hotori on other hand without a Charged reaction, has a fixed time to regain her full Ultimate. 10 Seconds to use skill, 20 seconds more to use Ultimate. And after using her Ultimate, she can replicate all recorded skills of team to hasten their Ultimate energy gain and Esper Meter refill.

Scaling Team Damage

Unlike hyper carry teams, Daffodill’s Discord team accumulates damage from various sources.

Fadia makes enemy Max HP smaller with each Nova reaction. Scales with:
- Fadia base Max HP
- Frequency of triggering Nova (Parry with Fadia helps)
Daffodill rotation
- Enchanted Skill: becomes available after the team performs two reactions
- 2x Phantom Step: enabled by Ultimate, performed by swapping her out and in again.
- Ultimate: use her attacks more often to generate Ultimate energy
Hotori rotation
- Use her skill only when team’s cooldowns ends
- Start with Hotori’s skill then follow with all of team’s skills
- Use her Ultimate while Sakiri’s Ultimate is up
Break damage
- Perform the breaking hit with Daffodill
- Stack Break DMG stat on Daffodill
- Don’t use Hotori’s Ultimate on an almost-broken enemy. Enemy’s Stagger Bar will reach zero, but the time stop will prevent it from breaking.
- Save Nova or Scorch for when another ally has their Esper Meter full, so you trigger both quickly enough to trigger Discord
Scorch & Nova damage
- Nova at level 60 hits for about 15k burst damage without investment.
- It’s not worth wasting Daffodill’s stats on Cycle Intensity in a Discord team. ADC and Break damage stats are more valuable to her.
- It’s worth building Cycle Intensity on Sakiri for minor damage increase with Scorch.

Rotation Guide (In Beyond the Rails)

At the beginning of combat in Beyond the Rail mode, all characters start with:

Empty Esper Meter
Fully charged Ultimate

That means most characters start battle with their Ultimate ready, but in the second rotation, not all characters have Ultimate ready. Fadia will easily fill her Ultimate from sharing damage with team and reflecting damage, and Hotori has a fixed time for energy regain. So our focus is on filling Daffodill Ultimate in time.

First Rotation

Open with Sakiri’s Ultimate to kick off the team buffs.
Use Hotori’s Skill to start recording
Next's Sakiri’s skill, use press version against bosses, or hold version against mobs (swap out before animation finishes)
Swap to Daffodill, use her Ultimate → Skill
Swap to Fadia, use skill → Ultimate (or vice verse if you are quick enough before the 5second record ends)
Use Fadia’s enhanced normal attacks until you score a parry (only against bosses)
Swap to Sakiri (not Daffodill directly) to save the reaction for the right moment
Immediately swap to Daffodill. (She triggers the first Phantom Step)
Use Daffodill normal attacks until Hotori’s Ultimate is ready
Swap to Hotori and use Ultimate. (She replicate all skills and stops time)
Use Hotori 10x Ultimate normal attacks
The time stop ends.

The first rotation concludes, which takes barely more than 10 seconds. Fadia’s Esper Meter is full, and Daffodill’s Esper Meter is half full. The team's skill cooldowns are almost done, and Hotori has zero energy and needs 30 more seconds to use skill and Ultimate again.

Second Rotation & Beyond

Swap to Sakiri and use her skill
Swap to Daffodill to trigger the second Phantom Step, then use her skill.
Use Daffodill’s normal attacks until her Esper Meter is almost full
Swap to Fadia (don’t use skill)
Swap back to Daffodill (whose portrait is still glowing) to trigger Nova
Fill what remains of Daffodill Meter with normal attack
If Daffodill Ultimate is full, use it
Swap to Sakiri to trigger Scorch and Discord
If Sakiri’s Ultimate is full, use it
Swap to Hotori and use her skill
From here repeat the same sequence as the first rotation.

Some characters’ Ultimate will not fill fast enough, which will alter the rotation, but keep adapting. Always remember to use most of the team's skills, Ultimates, and especially Hotori’s Ultimate within Sakiri’s buff 20-second buff duration.

Maximum Input Rotation & Double Break

In some rotations, you will parry more often, and trigger instant reaction on more than one character. In that case, trigger Discord without hesitation.

If you learn certain boss patterns, you can time Hotori’s Ultimate shortly after you break the boss. This has several good implications:

The boss stagger bar keeps building up after break until it fully recovers. Hotori’s Ultimate stops that, extending the break time.
Replicated skills (especially Daffodill’s) will break the small part that recovered, triggering another unexpected instance of Break DMG! This resets the bar to zero, extending the break even more.
Upcoming character Lacrimosa is expected to have insane interaction with this mechanic.