Durant

Stats

Skills

Character Tier

4* Art
5* Art

About
Known widely as "The Mad Dog of Valkaheim," he leads a resistance group in the city. He can take a while to warm up to new people, but once earned, his trust is deep indeed.
CV Info - English	CV Info - Japanese
Deven Mack	Daisuke Hirose

Shadow

Blade

Attack

Blood-Covered Mad Dog
Obtainable as a 4

Character Stats

MAX HP 716

MAX STR 505

Overview

As the first 4★ Shadow Blade, Durant offers a much needed option to budget players for their Shadow Stables. Unlike most DPS focused Adventurers, Durant has no damaging skills, instead having two buffing skills that increase his Strength and Crit rate while lowering Defense. This leads to Durant having impressive auto attack hits, but has the major drawback of him having no way to unload on bosses during key moments of the fight, instead relying on sustained DPS. Durant is also highly reliant on HP conditionals to maintain good DPS. He's also extremely frail, vulnerable to dying in a single hit from bosses due to his lowered Defense even at full HP. All that of those combined with his lower stats makes Durant outright inferior to the 5★ Shadow blades Ieyasu and Natalie, but he's still a decent choice for those with limited options.

Strengths

High Auto Attack Damage

Durant's double buffs allow him to have some of the hardest hitting basic attack combos in the entire game, helped by Blade's excellent attack rotation.

Easily Obtained

Unlike the limited Ieyasu or the much rarer Natalie, Durant is relatively easy to obtain as a 4★ Adventurer, and having access to his blade Co-Ability for Shadow is a real boon.

Weaknesses

Extremely Vulnerable to Damage

With his Defense constantly tanked by his own buffs, Durant is highly likely to die from any damage, and even chip damage will drastically lower his DPS as his Full HP conditionals fall off.

No Damaging Skills

Outside of weapon skills, Durant has no skill damage, meaning that all he can do is tap away and keep his buffs up. With no burst damage, unloading on bosses during the Break State or hitting bosses when they are open after an attack cycle just isn't an option for Durant.

Dragon Recommendations

Epimetheus

Fatalis

Marishiten

Epimetheus is a great pick if you have a Poison source with you.
Fatalis locks you out of dragon form, but hits incredibly hard.
Marishiten: Since Durant gets no benefit from Skill Damage boosts, he would prefer the straight strength bonus Marishiten offers.
Chthonius: in longer fights were he can transform multiple times, Chthonius will out-perform Marishiten.
Juggernaught: With his decent strength bonus, Juggernaught actually will outperform Shinobi on Durant.

Weapon Recommendations

Blackwing

Hollow Nightmare: A void weapon is a good starting point for any Adventurer, and Durant will enjoy the Defense bonus and Skill Haste to keep his buffs up.

Blackwing: The Core IO weapon offers a much needed damaging skill to Durant.

Abyss: High Dragon weapons are the pinnacle of performance, though it's unlikely Durant will be able to perform well in HJP.

Wyrmprint Recommendations

Pair 1

Howling to the Heavens

Durant cares only about bosting his tap damage, and thus Howling to the Heavens and Memory of a Friend are great picks. You can replaced Brothers in Arms and Plaguebringer if you have no double buff abuse or poison in your team comp. Good picks are Crit Damage, or Full HP conditional prints as Durant needs to be at full health anyway.

Shared Skill

Biting Revenge
Lvl 2	For 20 seconds, increases the user's strength by 30%, and increases entire team's strength by 5%, but decreases their defense by 25%.	200
Lvl 3	For 20 seconds, increases the user's strength by 35%, and entire team's strength by 5%, but decreases their defense by 25%.	300

SP Cost	14337	Iframe	Medium
Unlock Materials	Shadow Tome x6
Cost	6	Level	1

Skills

Skill 1

Biting Revenge
Lvl 1	For 20 seconds, increases the user's strength by 25%, and increases entire team's strength by 5%, but decreases their defense by 25%.	100
Lvl 2	For 20 seconds, increases the user's strength by 30%, and increases entire team's strength by 5%, but decreases their defense by 25%.	200
Lvl 3	For 20 seconds, increases the user's strength by 35%, and entire team's strength by 5%, but decreases their defense by 25%.	300

SP Cost	2987	Iframe	Medium

Skill 2

Unchained Rage
Lvl 1	For 20 seconds, increases the user's critical rate by 25%, but decreases their defense by 25%.	100
Lvl 2	For 20 seconds, increases the user's critical rate by 30%, but decreases their defense by 25%.	200
Lvl 3	"	300