"Three main skills are already that strong. I guess the remaining three major traces are all about improving cycles and giving himself acceleration."
Katiya moved her mouse, consumed the Echo of War materials, and activated the major traces one by one.
She did not expect that just the first one would make her involuntarily gasp.
Extra Ability 1
[Yulie Royal Wind Contract]
When Leon is on the field and his Speed is no less than 200, calculate the total Speed of all allies.
For every 1 point of Speed, increase the entire team's damage multiplier and Weakness Break multiplier by 0.04%, up to a maximum of 30% of the original damage multiplier.
"Looking at the description, it seems like another independent multiplier zone! Is it even a base multiplier zone?!"
"If that's really the case…"
"The trigger condition is quite harsh though. The whole team needs a combined Speed of 750 to reach the cap."
"Wait, no, it's not harsh at all!"
"Leon himself needs 200, and he provides 60 to each of the other three teammates for a total of 180. That leaves 370 to be split among the remaining three, which means an average of only 123.3 Speed is required."
"Even if the main carry wears ATK boots and doesn't stack any Speed, the two support slots just need to stack a bit and everyone can fully benefit."
At first glance, requiring the whole team to have 750 Speed sounds intimidating.
But Leon himself provides team-wide acceleration and has a hard requirement of 200 Speed. After a quick calculation, it turns out it's not difficult at all.
"Everyone, let me say something quite terrifying…"
"Things like damage increase, crit damage, vulnerability, or even resistance reduction all have diminishing returns."
"The higher the base number, the less benefit you get from stacking more."
"But Leon's Ultimate and traces are different—they are all independent multiplier zones. What does that mean?"
"It means their value retention is extremely, extremely high. Any future DPS can use them, and there is no discrimination."
"What is discrimination? For example, DoT doesn't benefit from double crit, and Break damage doesn't benefit from double crit either. That's discrimination."
"Leon has none of that. He treats everyone equally!"
"So even though the two independent multipliers of 50% and 30% don't look that big on paper, the actual boost is far more terrifying than those numbers on Bronya."
"Whatever Bronya has, Leon has. Whatever Bronya doesn't have, Leon has even more. So—"
"Those guys who don't understand how support value is calculated should stop showing off their 'understanding' in the chat. It just looks ridiculous."
Katiya casually roasted some of the overly sugary comments in the barrage, then lit up Leon's second major trace.
Extra Ability 2
[Rushou Battle Initiation Law]
At the start of battle, Leon's action advances by 50%. After casting his first Skill, immediately recover 1 Skill Point.
When an ally target that gained an extra turn through Leon attacks, if the enemy's Weakness has not been broken, they will be considered to be in the Weakness Broken state for 2 turns.
"Compared to the first major trace, this is quite a bit weaker."
"Entering battle with an immediate E at no cost reduces Skill Point pressure, and the second effect strengthens the Talent."
"I'm not sure if the actual effect is what I think it is. Let me test it first."
She entered the stage again to test, and along the way tested Trace 1 as well. She quickly got the result.
"As expected, it's a 30% base multiplier zone. But this Talent is also a small independent multiplier zone, around 11%."
"It can also be said to be a built-in mechanic of the Toughness bar. Many people probably still don't know that monsters have permanent damage reduction before their Toughness is broken."
"After breaking Toughness, the damage reduction is removed. Leon's trace effect is essentially ignoring that permanent damage reduction, which isn't bad at all."
[Can some attributes directly trigger the post-Break effects?]
[No, didn't you see earlier? Jing Yuan's attacks before breaking the enemy's Weakness did not apply the Lightning DoT that comes with Break.]
[The Break DoTs for Wind, Fire, Lightning, and Imaginary are whatever. Only Physical damage is somewhat worth looking at. No need to care too much.]
"Yes. Unless a character is released in the future that specifically deals damage through Break or gets massive output increase after Break, Leon's Talent won't have much use."
Katiya didn't spend much effort studying this trace and moved on to the last one.
Extra Ability 3
[Flowing Gale Breath Carrier]
For every 1% of Leon's current HP lost, damage received is reduced by 1%, up to a maximum of 45%.
At the start of battle, immediately recover 30 Energy. When HP is lost through his Talent, recover 10 Energy.
"Holy shit, up to 45% damage reduction."
"I was wondering earlier why Leon's base HP is so pitifully low while his DEF is so high. Turns out there's also a damage reduction Talent."
"Tingyun must want to hit someone. Why does she have the lowest HP of all characters and still doesn't have any survival traces?"
Tingyun being easily elbowed to death by high-damage hits, along with her inexplicably high aggro value, has already become an unavoidable meme in the community.
"Damage reduction and cycle improvement. The Talent pulls forward once and gives 10 Energy. Does that mean it needs to pull three times to complete a self-cycle…"
"Let me calculate first—"
"EAA totals 70, Ultimate costs 5. Three pulls correspond to a total of 12 actions for all characters, which is 30 Energy."
"70 + 5 + 30 = 105. 105 × 1.194 = 125.37. There's a shortfall of less than 5 Energy, so he needs to take a hit to complete the Ultimate cycle."
"If the planar ornament is Vonwacq, 105 × 1.244 = 130.62, which can achieve a self-cycle."
"Energy isn't gating you, but there is some requirement on teammate Speed. If teammates are much slower than Leon, they might get lapped and have their Ultimate cut off, but taking one more hit solves it."
"Overall, even if the whole team is super high Speed, in actual combat it's impossible not to take hits. No need to worry too much about the energy issue."
Trace stat bonuses:
DEF 35%, Effect RES 10%, SPD 10
Although 10% Effect RES is a bit humorous, it's still counted as one of the three effective stats.
At this point, Katiya slowly let out a breath, as if exhaling the shock in her heart.
A high-Speed pull Harmony with fully independent multiplier zones…
Speed gains have thresholds, yet the acceleration Leon provides just happens to hit several achievable thresholds. It's quite marvelous.
DEF shred also has diminishing returns, just in the opposite direction.
Not a single common damage-increasing multiplier zone.
"To be honest, based on the current Bronya template, I think Leon's Skill acceleration shouldn't exist. That would make sense."
"This 60 Speed is way too broken. Turn-based, turn-based. The more turns I have, the fewer turns you have."
"And while I have many turns, my damage is also explosive!"
"Such a powerful and versatile character is given away for free. If it weren't that the game just launched with only a few versions, I would suspect the game is about to do a server wipe."
"So, what about the Eidolons?"
Eidolon 1
[Empty Mulberry Nine Apertures]
When the Skill is active, all allies gain 24% All-Type RES PEN.
Katiya was so shocked that she covered her face with both palms and pulled them downward hard.
"24% increase against enemies with 0 RES, 30% increase against 20% RES, 40% increase against 40% RES, 60% increase against 60% RES?"
"And it's placed in Eidolon 1?"
"I admit that the 4-star Leon puts resistance reduction more crudely on his own follow-up attack, but the value is only 10%…"
"Everyone, this Eidolon of big Leon is absolutely the biggest Eidolon 1 improvement among all characters currently released, bar none!"
"However, there are very few monsters with 60% RES. Even if there are, it's better to bring a carry of the corresponding element. So this 60% boost only benefits die-hard chefs who refuse to change."
"It can basically be treated as a consistent 24%-30% increase. If you bring 4-star Leon or there is other resistance reduction, it will be diluted a bit."