Diesel (Defender, Wind element) anchors every team below and holds a slot in all five.CampaignSustained Firepower Team: Diesel · Volume · Admi · Drake · Blanc. Volume cuts cooldown so Diesel can burst again sooner; Admi buffs ATK plus reload speed, covering a slow weapon; Drake is a secondary damage dealer, carrying output while Diesel is off burst; Blanc raises the whole team's damage taken during burst.Fast-Clear Team: Diesel · Dorothy · Anis: Sparkling Summer · Naga · Scarlet. Dorothy cuts cooldown so Diesel can burst again sooner; Anis: Sparkling Summer boosts both crit rate and reload speed; Naga increases damage dealt on core hits; Scarlet is a secondary damage dealer, carrying output while Diesel is off burst.Arena / PvPSturdy Team: Diesel · Mast · Jackal · Guillotine · Rouge. Mast adds extra criti

Diesel — Stats, Skills, Best Teams

Q: Should you pull?

YES. A rare 5-target wide taunt plus a team-wide bulk-reload ability make Diesel well worth pulling for players lacking a crowd-tanking Defender, especially good paired with Brid/Soline to keep the Infinity Rail squad at Max HP.

Q: Skill Investment Priority

4/4/4 (playable) → 7/4/7 → 10/7/10 (final). Prioritize the burst and Skill 1 since both directly improve taunting and survivability; Skill 2 takes a long time to trigger, so level it more slowly.

30-second summary of Diesel

Diesel is a Wind Nikke in the Defender class, manufactured by Elysion. Stats and skill text below come straight from the game's data.

“Diesel is a member of InfinityRail, a NIKKE squad that works on the Ark Express. Easygoing, always smiling, never gets mad at others.”

Updated: 2026-08-02

Should you pull?

YES. A rare 5-target wide taunt plus a team-wide bulk-reload ability make Diesel well worth pulling for players lacking a crowd-tanking Defender, especially good paired with Brid/Soline to keep the Infinity Rail squad at Max HP.

Review & Analysis

Diesel is a Wind Defender built to draw enemy focus while staying alive. Her Burst, Strawberry Shock, hits the 5 highest-ATK enemies for 299.66% of ATK and taunts for 5.06 seconds, pulling boss/elite aggro off the squad. Strawberry Fields backs this up: entering Full Burst grants DEF +22.04% for 10 seconds, and any hit taken in that window heals her 11.02% of max HP. Sweet Strawberry Goodness is slower utility — after 100 normal attacks she stacks Max Ammunition Capacity up to 56.7%, then dumps an 86.62% team reload once fully stacked. Currently tier D.

Base Stats

HP711,171

ATK17,059

DEF4,250

Max Ammo300

Reload Time2.16s

Skills

Normal Attack

■ Affects target enemy.
Deals 5.38% of ATK as damage.

Strawberry FieldsSkill 1

■ Activates when entering Full Burst. Affects self.
DEF ▲ 22.04% for 10 sec.
■ Activates when attacked during Full Burst. Affects self.
Recovers HP by 11.02% of the caster's max HP.

Sweet Strawberry GoodnessSkill 2

■ Activates after landing 100 normal attack(s). Affects self.
Strawberry Candy: Max Ammunition Capacity ▲ 56.7%, stacks up to 10 time(s) and lasts for 10 sec.
■ Affects all allies when the caster reaches max stacks of Strawberry Candy. Activates after clearing stacks effect.
Reload 86.62% magazine(s).

Strawberry ShockBurst Skill

■ Affects 5 enemy unit(s) with the highest ATK.
[Target] Deals 299.66% of ATK as damage.
Taunt for 5.06 sec.

Skill Investment Priority

Burst first — taunt plus main damage. Skill 1 next for the DEF buff and self-heal that keep her alive. Skill 2 last, since its ammo-stack payoff is slowest.

4/4/4 (playable) → 7/4/7 → 10/7/10 (final). Prioritize the burst and Skill 1 since both directly improve taunting and survivability; Skill 2 takes a long time to trigger, so level it more slowly.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

Her burst taunts up to 5 of the highest-ATK enemies for 5.06 seconds, a much wider aggro pull than other single-target taunt Defenders.
Skill 1 self-heals 11.02% of Max HP when hit during Full Burst, combined with a 22.04% DEF buff, letting Diesel tank and self-heal at once.
Skill 2 stacks max ammo up to 10 times, then bulk-reloads the whole team — a support effect that goes well beyond a pure tank role.

Weaknesses

Her ATK (17059) is low, contributing almost no main damage — a purely tank/support role.
Skill 2 needs 100 normal attacks to reach the bulk-reload payoff, taking a long time to trigger.
MG normal attack deals only 5.38% ATK, the lowest in the Infinity Rail squad, mostly there to fill the skill's trigger condition.

Overload Priority

Overload priority by weapon type — applies to every Nikke using this weapon.

Sub-stat	Priority	Rolls
ATK		4x
Max Ammo		3-4x
Elemental DMG		2x
Crit Rate		1-2x
Crit DMG		1-2x

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General Info

Meta Tier

D

Class

Defender

Element

Wind

Weapon Type

MG

Manufacturer

Elysion

Squad

Infinity Rail

Voice Actors

Kim Yoo-rim · Jenny Yokobori · Rie Takahashi

Illustrator

D.ramz

Release date

4 nov 2022

Recommended Build

Cubes

Vigor Cube / Bastion Cube

Overload (OL) Priority

Increase ATK › Increase Max Ammunition Capacity › Increase Element Damage Dealt

Suggested by role & weapon. See: Gear · Cubes

Recommended Teams

Diesel (Defender, Wind element) anchors every team below and holds a slot in all five.

Campaign

Sustained Firepower Team: Diesel · Volume · Admi · Drake · Blanc. Volume cuts cooldown so Diesel can burst again sooner; Admi buffs ATK plus reload speed, covering a slow weapon; Drake is a secondary damage dealer, carrying output while Diesel is off burst; Blanc raises the whole team's damage taken during burst.
Fast-Clear Team: Diesel · Dorothy · Anis: Sparkling Summer · Naga · Scarlet. Dorothy cuts cooldown so Diesel can burst again sooner; Anis: Sparkling Summer boosts both crit rate and reload speed; Naga increases damage dealt on core hits; Scarlet is a secondary damage dealer, carrying output while Diesel is off burst.

Arena / PvP

Sturdy Team: Diesel · Mast · Jackal · Guillotine · Rouge. Mast adds extra critical damage for Diesel; Jackal pulls all enemy attacks so Diesel is free to deal damage; Guillotine pulls all enemy attacks so Diesel is free to deal damage; Rouge adds another ATK buff for the whole team.
Counter Team: Diesel · Noah · Maxwell · Laplace · Centi. Noah raises a shield that reduces incoming damage; Maxwell is a secondary damage dealer, carrying output while Diesel is off burst; Laplace is a secondary damage dealer, carrying output while Diesel is off burst; Centi soaks up hits, extending the squad's survival time.

Raid & Interception

Boss-Sticking Team: Diesel · Noise · Novel · Alice · Drake. Noise holds aggro almost the entire fight while self-healing; Novel increases enemy damage taken over a long duration; Alice is a secondary damage dealer, carrying output while Diesel is off burst; Drake is a secondary damage dealer, carrying output while Diesel is off burst.
Anti-Aggro Team: Diesel · Mast · Moran · Laplace · Scarlet. Mast adds extra critical damage for Diesel; Moran purely tanks aggro without cutting team damage; Laplace is a secondary damage dealer, carrying output while Diesel is off burst; Scarlet is a secondary damage dealer, carrying output while Diesel is off burst.