Flandre Scarlet

Flandre Scarlet was released on June 4th, 2021 in Waltz of Madness. 

The Sister of the Scarlet Devil, Flandre Scarlet is a vampire with a dreadfully powerful ability and nearly no self control. It’s for these reasons that she often remains within the Scarlet Devil Mansion, rarely going out as she might wreak devastation without being careful. This lack of self control combined with her ability to destroy absolutely everything makes for a flawed, but potent B Tier Friend. 

For farming, Flandre is completely unsuited. Whilst her Solo Last Word can do some serious damage, even at 1 Power, its base 50% Accuracy means she can’t hit 100% Accuracy, even with a Story Card that provides 3 Levels of Accuracy Up - the highest a Story Card can provide. This introduces enough variance that she will occasionally fail to clear a stage by herself, although this factor can be mitigated if you provide her with a teammate to support her.

For challenge quests, Flandre requires a lot of support to outperform other attackers, and her Solo targeting Last Word does make her usually outclassed by All attackers. Due to the unusually inaccurate nature of her Last Word, she cannot hit 100% Accuracy even with 10 Levels of Accuracy Up/Evasion Down - which is the cap of Accuracy buffs. She will require Paralyze Barriers to be applied on her target to be fully accurate, which means she will never be 100% accurate against a target under Full Break, as you cannot apply Paralyze Barriers if there are no Barriers to Paralyze. She also provides almost no Break support, - of her attacks, she’s only able to hit 1 Fire Break with her second Spell Card at 0 Power, and 1 more at 3 Power.

With that said, she can still put in some serious work, and especially shines in fights with 1 or 2 priority targets, being able to annihilate one with her Last Word and apply 3 Levels of Yin DEF Down on another. Her Last Word is so devastating in fact, that even making it fully accurate alone will make it deal over four times what the likes of Yuyuko can do - if you also provide her with Crit Accuracy and Damage support, she can deal millions of damage, shattering the visual damage cap. Usually hilariously overkill, but there are occasionally fights that justify that sheer amount of damage.

Overall, Flandre requires a lot of support, she’s a smidge situational even then, and she’s never going to be a good choice for solo farming, but for harder fights nobody can match her sheer damage output against a single target. She really can destroy absolutely anything.