Lydia

Cestus

TIER LIST RATINGS

PVE

6

CENTAUR

2

IRON MAIDEN

6

HARPIST

6

OCTOPUS

2

PVP

8

OVERALL

5.0

STATS

HEALTH

6696

ATTACK

1192

DEFENSE

850

SPEED

98

CRIT RATE

12%

CRIT DAMAGE

150%

ASSISTING ATK

3%

ACCURACY

12%

RESISTANCE

0%

Lydia

Cestus

RARITY

5

CLASS

Balanced

ELEMENT

Crystal

SUMMON

Normal

SERIES MODEL

Academy of Dolls

SKILLS

Warm-Up Punches
Active

Deal damage equal to 95.4% ATK to a single enemy and restore HP equal to 12% of the damage dealt with a 20% chance to inflict ATK Reduction for 2 turns.

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DMG is increased by 5%
Effect chance increased by 5%
DMG is increased by 10%
Effect chance increased by 10%
DMG is increased by 15%

Butterfly Slide
Passive

All of this unit's skills always deals critical damage upon landing a hit. Upon taking a hit, reduce the cooldown of "Terminating Aggression" by 1 turn. If it is this unit's turn, reduce 2 turns instead. When skill 3 is on cooldown, take 10% less damage. After taking a hit until the next turn is over, basic attacks deal damage to all enemies instead. Reflect 20% of the incoming damage.

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Damage reduction is increased by 2%
Damage reduction is increased by 2%
Damage reduction is increased by 2%
Damage reduction is increased by 2%
Damage reduction is increased by 2%

Terminating Aggression
Active 6

Deal damage equal to 133.6%[/yellow] ATK to all enemies with a 75% chance to inflict Infirmity for 1 turn. At the beginning of battle, this skill is on maximum cooldown.

AWAKEN

Deal damage equal to 133.6%[/yellow] ATK to all enemies with a 75% chance to inflict Infirmity for 2 turns. At the beginning of battle, this skill is on maximum cooldown.

Show Upgrades ↓

DMG is increased by 10%
Effect chance increased by 10%
DMG is increased by 15%
Effect chance increased by 15%
DMG is increased by 15%

TOTAL UPGRADE COSTS

Advanced Decoder Chip x27
Gold x330000

POWERCHART

Lydia Stats

Characters Average Stats

PROS & CONS

All her attacks crit

Gains damage reduction when skill 3 is on cooldown

Good damage on both skill 1 and 3

Strong PvP unit

Can't use skill 3 at the start of battle

Relies on getting hit to be effective

Low base speed

Gear dependant

OVERVIEW

Lydia (Cestus) is a 5 stars Balanced character in Artery Gear.

Lydia is made to be a bruiser that can take hits due to her passive. She relies on getting hit in order to user her skill 3. Due to that, she does really well in a slow tanky team in PvP where she does not die to the first 2 rounds of cleaving.

Since she can crit on all her skills, you do not need any crit rate for her. This allows you to fill in her attack and defense stats to beef her up where she can survive cleave teams to shine. A riposte(counter set) really helps her as she can regain some health when she is attacked. The off set counter engine is really good to get her to go when she gets hit, allowing her to steal a turn if she gets down below 50% health most of the time.

She is not much of a beginner friendly unit since you will not be using her in most boss hunts, although she can be used in Harpist and Iron Maiden. I would only recommend building her after you can do your boss hunts consistently.

SKILL UP PRIORITY

Terminating Aggression
+4
Butterfly Slide
+5
Warm-Up Punches
+4

GEAR RECOMMENDATIONS

Counter Attacker

SET 1
Riposte
SET 2
Counter Engine
Propulsion System
Atk%
Aiming Component
Crit Dmg
Amplifier Component
Hp%
Substat Priority
Atk% > Crit Dmg > Hp% > Flat Hp > Def% > Spd > Acc

Bruiser Sustain

SET 1
Lifesteal
SET 2
Immunity
Propulsion System
Atk%
Aiming Component
Hp%
Amplifier Component
Def%
Substat Priority
Atk% > Crit Dmg > Spd > Hp% > Flat Hp > Def% > Acc

IMPRINTS

1 ATK +6.0% and DEF +8.0% (Party, excluding self)
2 ATK +8.5%
3 ATK +11.0%
4 ATK +14.0% and DEF +3.2% (Party, excluding self)
5 ATK +17.0%
6 ATK +20.0%