Flandre Scarlet (Vampire Pursuing the Hunter)

E1 Flandre Scarlet was released on May 11th, 2022 in Ultra Festival: Vampire Pursuing the Hunter.

Universe E1 Flandre Scarlet, The Vampire Pursuing the Hunter: A stalwart defender of her mysteriously older-yet-smaller sister Remilia, and the one who gets things done around the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She works tirelessly with the Mage, Patchouli, the Butler, Koakuma, and the Gatekeeper, Meiling, to restore her sister to her former glory while also evading the unseen hunter who stalks them all. Flandre's ability, to destroy anything, makes her the strongest in the mansion. With the cool, collected maturity of her E1 self rather than her L1 form's normally whimsical, carefree self, she takes charge with natural ease and serves as second in command to Remilia. E1 Flandre is an EX-Tier Friend.

For farming, Flandre is arguably the current best character in the game. Her Last Word, Information Paradox, has insane turn 1 damage, and her damage potential grows from there with Agility support. Flandre’s 1st Spell Card, Forbidden Barrage: Starbow Break, also hits extremely hard against lone enemies to the point where even at no limit breaks and awakens, it can still kill enemies that are vulnerable to her wide array of killers. For story card farming, Flandre can farm 2-7-1 at 12 SP with Global’s currently available story cards, 3-3-3 at 8 SP, 3-11-1 at 8 SP, Hifuu E9 at 12 SP, and two future story card farms. 

As for difficult content, Flandre can be described as one of the biggest nukes in the game. Even so, the utility she provides the team is still valuable and can be used multiple times in challenging content, even if the duration of her effects are short. Her 3rd Skill, Heat Death, makes up for its short duration by having a 4 turn cooldown. Thus, it can be used multiple times during challenging fights. Her 1st skill, Soul Drain, assists the team by giving 0.4P to the party. However, this skill serves more to augment her power with self inflicting Poison and to potentially break Freeze anomalies on the enemy. Finally, her 2nd skill, Ghost Ignition, gives Flandre Accuracy and 1.25 P. Her self-inflicted anomalies, while sounding like a downside at first, are a benefit due to her ability, Capable of destroying absolutely everything (Distorted), which converts these anomalies into buffs like Yin ATK and CRIT ATK.

Flandre has 3 notable ways to nuke: Her focus shot, her 1st Spell Card, and her Last Word. Her focus shot, Neck Hunt Clock, has amazing peak damage with setup - providing enough raw power to defeat enemies that typically require a Last Word to overcome. Her 1st Spell Card, as stated earlier, has a wide array of killers that can easily overcome any singular foe that comes across its wrath so long as they do not resist Star or avoid her killers. Her 1st Spell Card also has some potential to help further her damage potential with 2 layers of self inflicted Poison anomalies and a 1.0 P battery to herself. Finally, her Last Word overwhelms with power, having one of the highest damage in the game. It’s even able to wipe tower floors and Lunatic 2-7-1, overcoming the enemies’ high defensive buffs, by herself. This insane damage can grow further with Agility support due to her slicing scaling. Her Spread shot, Human Mouse Trap, has the ability to heal Flandre up if need be while also outputting great damage, albeit not as hard as her focus shot. Flandre’s 2nd spell card, Forbidden Barrage: Clock that Ticks Away the Past, restores one barrier for herself with a 50% chance to restore 2. While the damage on this spell card isn’t really phenomenal compared to her other attacks, this spell card can give her Yin ATK with the 2nd bullet line and inflict multiple freeze anomalies on the enemy to set up Freeze breaks. 

Flandre’s barrier breaks are good but not outstanding. While she does boast a good spread of both Water and Star breaks on her 1st Spell Card and Last Word, her 1st Spell Card requires 3 boosts to get the 3 Water breaks. This spell card can also be used to break both Freeze and Poison anomalies but is a bit clunky to utilize due to the barrier break happening late in the attack. 

Overall, Flandre takes a seat as one of the supreme nukers in the game. While she may not boast exceptional utility or barrier breaks, the amount of damage that she can produce more than makes up for it. Befitting the sister of the Mistress, this vampire exudes power that allows her to pursue the hunter.

The Slice scaling and secondary effects of Flandre's attacks are as follows:

Human Mousetrap:
Slice: 0%/0%/0%/50%/50%/0%
CRIT ATK UP: 0%/100%/0%/0%/0%/0%
Absorb: 10%/0%/0%/0%/0%/0%
Cooling: 35%/0%/35%/0%/0%/0%
Neck Hunt Clock:
Slice: 50%/50%/50%/0%/0%/0%
Agility UP: 0%/100%/0%/0%/0%/0%
Firebomb: 0%/0%/50%/0%/0%/0%
Forbidden Barrage: Starbow Break:
Slice: 80%/0%/0%/0%/30%/0%
Absorb: 0%/0%/0%/15%/0%/0%
Forbidden Barrage: Clock that Ticks Away the Past
Slice: 90%/0%/0%/0%/0%/0%
Yin ATK UP: 0%/100%/0%/0%/0%/0%
Absorb: 0%/0%/0%/15%/0%/0%
Information Paradox
Slice: 100%/0%/120%/0%/0%/0%
Target Yin DEF DOWN: 0%/0%/0%/100%/0%/0%
Absorb: 0%/0%/0%/30%/0%/0%