Best Team Comps

Every team on the board falls into one of four core playstyles. Recognizing the archetype tells you where it is strong and what pieces it needs:

• Crit: stacks Crit Rate and Crit Damage, feeding off teammates' damage buffs and RES shred to multiply one huge hit. The most common and easiest archetype to understand and build.
• Follow-Up Attack (FUA): the carry deals most of its damage through automatic extra attacks outside its own turn, triggered when allies attack or use skills. These teams run a fast rhythm and depend less on the carry's own turn.
• Damage-over-Time (DoT): applies stacking effects (Burn, Shock, Bleed, Wind Shear) that tick every turn on their own, so damage bypasses some enemies' dodge or direct damage reduction.
• Super Break: skips the Crit formula entirely, stacking Break Effect so a Weakness Break becomes its own independent burst of damage matching the breaker's element — a build path that lives outside the usual Crit stat priority.

Knowing which archetype your team runs tells you exactly which stats to chase on Relics and Light Cones instead of building on a hunch.

Each turn a character either Basic Attacks (free, usually refunds SP to the team) or uses a Skill (costs 1 SP, hits harder than a Basic). Ultimates cost no SP but require charging energy. The whole team shares one SP pool — run it dry mid-fight and you're stuck spamming Basics, losing your damage rhythm entirely:

• SP generators: some support or sustain characters have Skills that cost NO SP, or even refund SP to the team — this is the piece that keeps a team from ever running dry.
• SP spenders: the main DPS usually needs to Skill constantly to maximize damage, burning SP fastest of anyone on the team.
• The balance rule: a healthy team needs at least one SP generator alongside one or two spenders — four characters all spending SP is a guaranteed way to run dry in a long fight.

When reading a team on the board, check whether it has an SP generator — if not, that team needs you to pace in Basic Attacks manually.

A rotation is the repeating action order each cycle that stacks damage at the right moment. There's no fixed rotation for every team, but a few principles hold true almost universally:

• Buffs and debuffs go first: a support's damage buff or RES shred should land before the carry's turn, so the carry catches the full effect on its very first hit.
• Sustain times the dangerous turn: shields or heals should go out right before an enemy's big AoE attack, not the instant you enter combat — wasting the effect's duration means losing a layer of protection.
• Advance actions push your tempo forward: some skills let a character act earlier than its normal turn — use them to squeeze in an extra buff or combo right before the carry goes.
• Ultimates wait for the right window: having enough energy doesn't mean using it instantly — many Ultimates hit hardest when timed against a broken enemy or right before the carry's turn.

Read each team's rotation note on the board with this mindset, and you'll understand WHY it works, not just copy it blindly.

Not everyone spends the same, so almost every strong team has three versions, differing in how many limited units and signature Light Cones they use:

• Whale tier: limited carry plus its signature Light Cone and deep Eidolons — the highest damage ceiling, built for the hardest content of the version.
• Low-spender tier: keeps the main limited carry but swaps the supporting roles for 4-star characters or standard Light Cones — keeps most of the power at a much lower cost.
• F2P tier: the whole team built from free characters, standard-banner 4-stars, and the Trailblazer — slower, but still enough to clear most everyday content.

The board flags which teams sit in the F2P tier; for the low-spender tier, read each member's swap suggestion to downgrade a whale team to your own budget.

You're not meant to read every team — filter for what you actually need:

• Filter by role (DPS / Support / Sustain) when you're missing a specific slot in your roster.
• Filter by element (Fire, Ice, Lightning, Wind, Quantum, Imaginary, Physical) when you're raising a carry of that element.
• Filter by mode (Memory of Chaos, Pure Fiction, Apocalyptic Shadow) since a team strong in one mode isn't always optimal in another — each mode rewards a different playstyle.
• Filter to F2P to see only free-tier teams, skipping any suggestion that needs a limited character.

Every member links to its full build page; the swap note tells you which cheaper character covers the same role. The TOP 5 block at the top of the page is a shortcut for anyone who just wants to know what's strongest right now, no filtering needed.

If you're stuck, follow this order:

• New / few characters: prioritize a top support or sustain over a second DPS — a good support lifts every team you build later.
• You already have a carry you love: filter by that carry's element, then pick the archetype that matches your playstyle (Crit is the easiest to learn, Super Break the most durable).
• Low spender: read the swap notes and filter to F2P tier — everyday content never demands a whale team.
• Every new version: check the board before spending, since the strongest teams shift with balance changes and new characters.

Bottom line: know your archetype, mind your SP, order your rotation, pick the spending tier that fits your wallet — let the board handle the rest.

Story content is not hard — the goal is to clear it with the free characters the game hands you and save your pulls for endgame, not the campaign. The formula at every stage: 1 DPS + 1 healer + 2 supports/sub-DPS, favouring the enemy's weakness type.

• Early (Herta Space Station → Jarilo-VI): Trailblazer (Physical) + March 7th (Ice shield) + Asta (SPD/ATK buff) + Natasha (healing). All four are story-gifted or very cheap — enough to finish Belobog.
• Xianzhou Luofu (mid-game): keep Natasha healing and March 7th shielding; add Tingyun (energy buff) once you have her; slot a main DPS — Dan Heng, Herta (Ice AoE, free from Simulated Universe), Serval (Lightning AoE, free) or your first 5★ pull.
• Penacony onward: by now you usually own one or two five-stars plus supports; transition into the meta teams above. You can farm Gallagher (Fire healer) to replace Natasha for Break/endgame.
• Amphoreus (latest): your roster is deep enough — run the meta element/archetype teams from the main table directly.

Tip: each region's enemies lean toward a few elements — keep one character who breaks that weakness on hand. Free characters carry every story fight, bosses included.