Legendary Micaiah

Weapon: New Dawn

Assist: Maiden’s Solace / Assistless / Flexible

Special: Glimmer / Ruptured Sky / Moonbow

Passive A: Fury / Sturdy Impact

Passive B: Prescience

Passive C: Joint Drive Atk / Res Smoke / Time’s Pulse / Odd Atk Wave / Flexible

Sacred Seal: Death Blow / Atk/Def Solo / Sturdy Blow / Heavy Blade 

• Legendary Micaiah’s extraordinary base Attack combined with the myriad of combat boosts she can obtain from her PRF abilities — an automatic follow-up effect, dual cavalry and armor effectiveness, and a free 30% damage reduction upon initiation to name a few — make her well-suited for aggressive play. A +ATK IV naturally makes for the ideal choice here to further augment her offensive ceiling. 
• Specials with low cooldowns are excellent for their frequent activation rate, with Glimmer scaling quite well with her impressive raw damage potential and Ruptured Sky serving as an interesting counterpick option against certain enemy types. Moonbow is not quite as potent, but it is rather useful for bursting down the occasional magic tank. Alternatively, those using Micaiah in Defense teams may get greater mileage out of a more powerful Special like Glacies if able to fully charge it (through Infantry Pulse) to maximize her OHKO capabilities.
• Her base Fury works well to make the most of New Dawn’s effects, helping her safely lower her HP to activate her innate Desperation while providing a useful stat boost to all her stats. However, this does restrict her rather stringently into only attacking during the Player Phase after incurring enough chip damage. 
  • For a safer approach, Sturdy Impact stands out for its +10 Defense boost and follow-up denial effect; combined with Prescience’s damage reduction and in-combat Attack debuff on her foe, this greatly expands upon Legendary Micaiah’s survivability and makes her less reliant on leveraging Desperation to engage in consecutive rounds of combat. This is also a much better choice over Fury if aiming to use her in a Defense team.
• Legendary Micaiah is not tied to a specific C skill to function, but anything that directly pads her damage like Joint Drive Attack, Res Smoke, and Odd Atk Wave pairs nicely with her offensive focus here. Time’s Pulse also stands out for quicker Special access and may merit extra consideration if using her in Infantry Pulse compositions for Aether Raids Defense, as this helps alleviate the amount of support necessary to fully charge her Special.
• Lastly, any Sacred Seal that aids her Attack further is greatly appreciated; this includes Death Blow, Atk/Def Solo, and Sturdy Blow, but realistically anything available will work well. Using Heavy Blade is another route should one wish to use Specials with longer cooldowns more frequently.

Weapon: New Dawn

Assist: Positional Assist / Flexible

Special: Iceberg / Noontime / Glimmer 

Passive A: Atk/Res Unity / Mirror Stance / Atk/Res Solo / Distant Def

Passive B: Prescience / Null C-Disrupt 

Passive C: Joint Distant Guard / Joint Drive Atk / Pulse Smoke / Flexible

Sacred Seal: Mystic Boost / Mirror Stance / Atk/Def Solo 

• The Radiant Queen is fortunate in that besides her New Dawn’s inbuilt Desperation effect, the rest of her mechanics are fully functional during the Enemy Phase as well. This provides the flexibility of specializing her as a dedicated tank to ranged threats instead if so desired; those with greater resources available may reap great benefits by pairing her with a Near Save tank to round out her matchups. Besides a +ATK IV, a +RES IV may be worth considering here to heighten Micaiah’s survivability. 
• Equipping a healing Special helps supplement Legendary Micaiah’s tanking ability with consistent sustain, with Noontime being particularly notable if she has access to Summer Hilda or New Year Velouria support for instant activations on each counterattack. If deemed unnecessary (especially if utilizing the Mystic Boost Sacred Seal), she is also free to leverage standard damage-dealing Specials instead. 
• For her A skill, she prefers anything that further ramps up her Attack and Resistance: Atk/Res Solo is notable from a purely stat-driven viewpoint, but Atk/Res Unity and Mirror Stance carry wonderfully useful utility via debuff reversal and a Guard effect respectively that make them competitive choices as well. If enemy bonuses are a particular concern, Distant Def 4 does come with an interesting Lull effect against all ranged threats in the Enemy Phase, but using this does impede her damage potential notably. 
• Legendary Micaiah’s exclusive Prescience brings a great deal of value here through a consistent 30% damage reduction against ranged opponents, in addition to detracting from her foe’s firepower for more survivability. It should usually not be swapped out, but Null C-Disrupt may be worthwhile if Dazzling Staff healers pose frequent trouble; this does much to broaden her versatility in exchange for losing out on some longevity. 
• Her base Joint Distant Guard functions exceedingly well with this build’s anti-ranged focus, though swapping it out for Joint Drive Atk does lend itself better to landing OHKOs if that is personally preferred. Depending on how often you come across Infantry Pulse compositions, Pulse Smoke is a C skill that may be handy to dismantle the core mechanic of such Defense teams. 
• Aside from stat-enhancing Sacred Seals (preferably in the form of a Solo or Stance skill), the Mystic Boost Sacred Seal may be taken for constant post-combat healing and a negation of both adaptive damage and Wrathful Staff effects; this latter advantage shines if Prescience is kept to somewhat offset the loss of Null C-Disrupt.