Angel of Light Angelica

(Updated 9/22/21)

It’s been about two weeks since Angel of Light Angelica’s release, but since then she’s already proved herself to be a very oppressive unit in Arena and RTA. Her kit is pretty much overloaded, but the real stars of the show are her passive and S3.

Her passive makes her completely immune to being Stunned, for one thing. On top of that, she completely punishes anyone using AoE attacks by increasing her Combat Readiness by 8% for every ally except the caster attacked; when she’s hit with an attack that hits all allies, she’ll activate a part of her passive called Guardian Angel (though, you gotta fully skill up her passive for the 100% activation chance) that dispels a debuff from all allies and grants them skill nullifier once. The downside of this is that Guardian Angel only activates once every 3 turns, so there’s a couple turns of downtime for it.

Finally, we have her s3, which dispels two buffs from all enemies, before silencing them and making them unbuffable for 2 turns. (Again, 100% chance when skilled up.) Her s3 deals no damage, meaning that it can’t land as a Miss – all it has to worry about is the Effectiveness/Resistance check, similarly to Flan’s s3. On top of that, due to dealing 0 damage, she can’t trigger any other units that punish AoE units (such as Inferno Khawazu or Rem).

She’s used solely for PvP use, but she really shines there, as you can see. Angel of Light Angelica can completely shut down the enemy units and leave them unable to use anything except their basic skills, along with punishing them should they resist her Silence and pop off with an AoE attack.

Build Notes

You want her to be fast and with high Effectiveness. Her Speed and EFF% are her two most important substats to focus on, although you don’t want to neglect her bulk. She’s meant to be a fast, tanky opener, meaning it’d do you good to put her on a Speed set. Depending on your gear quality, her second set should be either Hit or Immunity. Although Immunity can be a bit of a safety net, using Hit as a second-set can ease up on the Effectiveness% you need to get from her gear.

A very good, late-game Angel of Light Angelica build looks to be about:

• 15,000+ HP
• 1,600 Defense
• 270+ Speed at the least
• 180% Effectiveness at the least

Note that this build requires high gear quality, and is for late-game players. However, it can be used as a goalpost to work towards for your own Angel of Light Angelica.

Note: Due to her s3 doing no actual damage, popular Mage artifacts like Abyssal Crown and Iela Violin can’t work on her.