Inferno Khawazu

(Updated 9/10/21)

Inferno Khawazu is an extremely fun unit in PVP! He’s one of the two units who can plant Vigor on himself, in exchange for good things happening. When he has vigor, his 75% burn chance on his s1 becomes 100% and plants two Burns on the enemy, and his burns on his S3 ignores Effect Resistance on Vigor. After that, his S3 detonates all burns in the enemy. On top of that, his passive pretty much punishes any unit who uses an AoE skill – if he’s hit with an attack that targets all allies he removes all debuffs on himself, heals based on his Attack power, and increases his Combat Readiness by 20% before putting Vigor on himself. Granted, it’s only usable once every 2 turns, but considering how he has 2-turn Vigor, it’s pretty much just constant Vigor cycling if you’re lucky.

He’s been tested in Arena a lot these past few weeks, and it’s been proven that he can actually pop Tempest Surin from under Fallen Cecilia, without proc’ing her insanely annoying passive. Fallen Cecilia will put skill nullifier on Tempest Surin, which will then activate Inferno Khawazu’s passive, and sets him up for his s3 – the skill nullifier negates any damage on his s3 that might trigger Surin’s passive ahead of time, but his dispel will destroy any barrier or immunity she has, place the burns, and then detonate. This detonation should be able to burst down T.Surin if you’ve built Khawazu with enough ATK.

The only two teams that he really can’t shine his best in are teams with no AoE attacks and Champion Zerato teams. (As it turns out, C.Zerato transfers debuffs back before the detonation can occur.) However, when he’s drafted against the right team, he can very much carry the battle with a lucky AoE hit! He pairs up great with Researcher Carrot, too.

Build Notes

There are two ways you can build Inferno Khawazu: the regular Fast Burns build, or the Counter Build. It’s a lot harder to build him with counterattack, since Counter gear doesn’t offer any gains to stats and he’s already slow as-is. The Counter Build is mostly to be considered as a fun joke idea to play around with, but if you’re going for a serious “works every time” build, then Fast Burns is the way to go.

Inferno Khawazu is one of the few damage-dealing units where you don’t want to put any Crit Damage or Crit Rate on him, because Burns deal more damage based off of the caster’s Attack. On top of that, his multipliers on the actual skills aren’t that very good; even if you build him Destruction/Crit with the best Crit Damage/Rate stats possible, you won’t be doing any real nuking with him. The best stats to aim for are Attack and Speed, with HP% and Def% also being pretty necessary. Effectiveness% isn’t a must-have stat on him, considering how his s3 ignores Resistance; however, some recommend putting some on him just in case (also for his S1).

A good Inferno Khawazu build looks like:

• 4,000+ ATK (at the bare minimum)
• 200+ Speed
• 18,000 HP
• 1,500 Defense

Note: Should you find yourself lacking in Effectiveness, it’s alright to switch out the Immunity in Fast Burns for Hit until you can get good Immunity gear on him. However, Immunity on the Counter Build is necessary for him (and for pretty much anyone built Counter).

Note 2: Inferno Khawazu specifically uses Oath Key and not A Symbol of Unity when putting an artifact on him to counter Tempest Surin. You don’t want the extra damage that Unity gives, because T.Surin’s passive cleanses her of all debuffs and increases her Combat Readiness if someone ends a turn with her below 70% HP. Khawazu’s Burn detonation goes through her passive’s “can’t take more than 51% damage in one turn” effect, and her “Cleans debuffs if below 70% HP”.