Monica

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Attack
Special
Injured

Blue Tome

Monica - Favored Vassal
5 Obtainable as a 5 only

Hero Stats

Max Avg Total Stats at Lvl 40

176

HP 40

ATK 38

SPD 43

DEF 24

RES 31

Stat Variations

Level 1 Stat Variation

Weapon

5★

	HP	ATK	SPD	DEF	RES
Low	17 17 19 19	7 21 9 23	12 12 14 14	4 4 6 6	6 6 8 8
Middle	18 18 20 20	8 22 10 24	13 13 15 15	5 5 7 7	7 7 9 9
High	19 19 21 21	9 23 11 25	14 14 16 16	6 6 8 8	8 8 10 10

Level 40 Stat Variations

Weapon

5★

	HP	ATK	SPD	DEF	RES
Low	36 36 38 38	35 49 37 51	40 40 42 42	21 21 23 23	28 28 30 30
Middle	40 40 42 42	38 52 40 54	43 43 45 45	24 24 26 26	31 31 33 33
High	43 43 45 45	42 56 44 58	47 47 49 49	28 28 30 30	34 34 36 36

IV Sets

	Key stats worth increasing through nature if possible.
	Complementary stats that matter, but not to the point of picking them over key stats for nature increase.
	Relatively worthless stat that can safely be decreased through nature.

HP	ATK	SPD	DEF	RES
Average	Best	Best	Worst	Best

Skill Sets

No Hubert. Just Monica. (Offense)

Build by Wecondo12

Recommended

	Wind Genesis	A	Atk/Spd Boosting A Slot
	Positional Assist	B	Spd/Res Tempo 3 Alternate: Null Follow-Up 3
	Ruptured Sky Alternate: Blazing Wind	C	Time's Pulse 3
IVs	+ATK or +SPD / -DEF	S	Atk/Spd Solo 3 Alternate: Flashing Blade 3

Show Explanation/Analysis

Weapon: Wind Genesis

Assist: Positional Assist / Preference

Special: Ruptured Sky / Glimmer / Blazing Wind

Passive A: Atk/Spd Boosting A slot

Passive B: Spd/Res Tempo / Null Follow-Up / Special Spiral / Lull Spd/Res

Passive C: Time’s Pulse / Preference

Sacred Seal: Atk/Spd Solo / Swift Sparrow / Blade Session / Flashing Blade

Monica is a fairly typical modern player phase mage, featuring an exclusive weapon that grants Slaying, stat buffs, and start of turn Desperation in addition to a strong offensive statline. Her weapon also inflicts a stat debuff to the foe’s Speed and Resistance based on their maximum special cooldown, giving her a decent stat swing right off the bat against foes that possess low cooldown specials such as Ruptured Sky or Moonbow.
Monica’s base kit is quite good for her role: Her innate Atk/Spd Ideal and Spd/Res Tempo are great skills and having them off the bat makes her much easier to build if one intends to use her. Monica is a decent candidate for an AOE special build thanks to her Tome’s slaying effect. Coupled with Time’s Pulse, she’ll only need a single hit with Flashing Blade’s effect triggered in order to continuously activate AOE specials. Even on non-AOE builds, Time’s Pulse is a great C slot option that helps her trigger her specials quickly: but it’s also fairly rare, so it can be replaced as needed.
For B slot alternatives, Null Follow-Up is a standout option due to how common follow-up prevention and automatic follow-up skills are. Lull Spd/Res can be a decent alternative to Spd/Res Tempo if buff stacking foes such as Legendary Marth are a concern, but in most circumstances Null Follow-Up and Spd/Res Tempo are superior.
The usual Atk/Spd Boosting sacred seal fare are her best seal options besides Flashing Blade, so skills like Blade Session, Atk/Spd Solo, Etc.

Strengths

Wind Genesis

Wind Genesis is an excellent exclusive weapon, granting Monica a Slaying effect as well as an Atk/Spd Buff and Desperation at the start of the turn. In addition to this, the weapon grants her hefty in combat bonuses: an additional +6 boost to her Attack and Speed and a Speed/Resistance debuff that scales based on the maximum cooldown value of the foe’s Special (IE: Foes with low cooldown specials such as Glimmer will suffer a greater debuff than foes with high cooldown specials such as Aether). Altogether this weapon makes Monica a player phase powerhouse, easily capable of shredding through foes that lack incredibly high Resistance stats or Resistance investment.

Great Offenses

Monica’s baseline offensive presence is stellar, and with a baseline Attack/Speed of 38 and 43 respectively Monica will have little trouble dishing out heavy damage. She also benefits from a superasset in both Attack and Speed, as if she didn’t have enough stats to go around.

Weaknesses

Defenses

Monica’s base 31 Resistance certainly isn’t bad, but can still fall prey to harder hitting magical foes. Her main issue is her lackluster base 24 Defense, which means that physical foes can easily bring her down should they be able to initiate combat.

Weapon Skills

Weapons	SP	Rng.	Mt.
Light Learns by default at 1 ★ Unlocks at 1 ★ Blue Tome Users Only	50	2	4
Ellight Learns by default at 2 ★ Unlocks at 2 ★ Blue Tome Users Only	100	2	6
Shine Learns by default at 4 ★ Unlocks at 3 ★ Blue Tome Users Only	200	2	9
Wind Genesis Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count-1). At start of turn, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, grants Atk/Spd+6 and【Desperation】to unit for 1 turn. At start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%, grants Atk/Spd+6 to unit during combat and inflicts penalty on foe's Spd/Res during combat = 11 - foe's max Special cooldown count value × 2. (Minimum penalty of 3. If foe does not have a Special skill, penalty = 3.) 【Desperation】 Grants the following effect for 1 turn: "If unit initiates combat, unit can make a follow-up attack before foe can counterattack." Learns by default at 5 ★ Unlocks at 5 ★ Non-Inheritable skill.	400	2	14

Weapon Evolution

Weapon Upgrades

Special Skills

Special Skills	SP	Turns
Night Sky Boosts damage dealt by 50%. Learns by default at 4 ★ Unlocks at 3 ★ Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.	100	3
Glimmer Boosts damage dealt by 50%. Unlocks at 4 ★ Non-inheritable by Staff-wielding units.	200	2

Passive Skills

Passive Skills	SP	Slot
Atk/Spd Ideal 1 At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100% or if【Bonus】is active on unit, grants Atk/Spd+3 to unit during combat. 【Bonus】 All effects that last "for 1 turn" or "that turn only." Includes bonuses granted by a skill like Rally or Hone and positive status effects (extra movement or effects like Dominance). Excludes Flying and Cavalry Units Unlocks at 2 ★	60	A
Atk/Spd Ideal 2 At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100% or if【Bonus】is active on unit, grants Atk/Spd+4 to unit during combat. 【Bonus】 All effects that last "for 1 turn" or "that turn only." Includes bonuses granted by a skill like Rally or Hone and positive status effects (extra movement or effects like Dominance). Excludes Flying and Cavalry Units Unlocks at 3 ★	120	A
Atk/Spd Ideal 3 At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100% or if【Bonus】is active on unit, grants Atk/Spd+5 to unit during combat. 【Bonus】 All effects that last "for 1 turn" or "that turn only." Includes bonuses granted by a skill like Rally or Hone and positive status effects (extra movement or effects like Dominance). Excludes Flying and Cavalry Units Unlocks at 4 ★	240	A
Atk/Spd Ideal 4 At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100% or if【Bonus】is active on unit, grants Atk/Spd+7 to unit during combat. At start of combat, if unit's HP = 100% and【Bonus】is active on unit, grants an additional Atk/Spd+2 to unit during combat. 【Bonus】 All effects that last "for 1 turn" or "that turn only." Includes bonuses granted by a skill like Rally or Hone and positive status effects (extra movement or effects like Dominance). Excludes Flying and Cavalry Units Unlocks at 5 ★	300	A
Spd/Res Tempo 1 Inflicts Spd/Res-1 on foe and neutralizes effects that grant "Special cooldown charge +X" to foe or inflict "Special cooldown charge -X" on unit during combat. Excludes Armor, Cavalry, and Flying Unlocks at 1 ★	60	B
Spd/Res Tempo 2 Inflicts Spd/Res-2 on foe and neutralizes effects that grant "Special cooldown charge +X" to foe or inflict "Special cooldown charge -X" on unit during combat. Excludes Armor, Cavalry, and Flying Unlocks at 2 ★	120	B
Spd/Res Tempo 3 Inflicts Spd/Res-3 on foe and neutralizes effects that grant "Special cooldown charge +X" to foe or inflict "Special cooldown charge -X" on unit during combat. Excludes Armor, Cavalry, and Flying Unlocks at 4 ★	120	B