Table of Contents
This section will focus on team building tips and recommendations for the Rookie Arena in Goddess of Victory: Nikke. We highly recommend reading both the “Mechanics” and “Meta Overview” sections to at least get familiar with some of the concepts or jargon that’s gonna be thrown around in here.
For more, check out our series of PvP Arena guides by top player scyv4x:
- For an overview on the different Arena modes and rewards Click here.
- For an overview on Arena mechanics Click here.
- For an explanation on Arena meta Click here.
- For SP Arena teambuilding recommendations Click here.
Rookie Arena Meta Overview
The Rookie Arena meta is pretty simple: There’s still no perfect defence, and you don’t have to scatter your good Nikkes amongst 3 different teams, so you pack your strongest Nikkes into one team.
Ideally you’d want a team that can fend off the 4 meta DPS Nikkes (Scar, SAnis, Alice and Red Hood), but that’s currently impossible.
Here are a few teams that try to get close though.
Rookie Arena Meta Team #1
| P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max HP buff + Heals | Scarlet blocker | Nuke + good DPS with her attacks | Heals + Max HP + Rez (if you get to 2nd rotation) | Battery + damage share for extra survivability |
The “God comp”, this comp tends to hinder most teams in the meta (3RL).
- Good against: Most teams, pretty much any Alice comp.
- Weak against: Red Hood if she has high elemental damage on OL, Rosanna + buffed SAnis comps where she can outlive the damage she’d take from Scarlet
Rookie Arena Meta Team #2
| P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffer + Indom to Scarlet | Nuke + good DPS with her attacks | Invul to Blanc | Battery | Battery + damage share for extra survivability |
ST-resistant Scarlet comp (3RL).
- Good against: Most comps that run Alice/RH.
- Weak against: 2RL Scarlet setups.
Rookie Arena Meta Team #3
| P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffer + Indom to Scarlet | Scarlet buffer (Blanc also works if you have burst gen cube on all 3 of your clip RLs) | Battery | Battery | Battery + damage share for extra survivability |
Fast buffed Scarlet comp (2RL).
- Good against: 3RL or slower comps that can’t protect or revive their DPS.
- Weak against: 2RL Scarlet-Noah setups, Rapunzel surviving Scarlet’s burst.
Rookie Arena Meta Team #4
| P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet blocker | Max HP buff + Heals | ST DPS | Invul to Noah | Battery + damage share for extra survivability (Needs burst gen cube to get to 3RL) |
Scarlet-resistant Alice team.
- Good against: Most Scarlet variants.
- Weak against: SAnis stall, faster teams with Rosanna.
Low Level Players
| P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flex slot | Flex slot | |||
| Can be one of your high CP Nikkes that may or may not good in PvP | AoE + stun and good single target damage | Battery | Battery, can run other B1s that are either RL or clip SG | Whatever choices you may have available, if it’s a RL or SG even better |
Absolutely barebones team that pretty much anyone that started out recently and is low level can use, just meant to be as a starting point (try to get it to at least 3RL in this calculator: Burst Gen Calc).
- Good against: Low-level teams that don’t know what they’re doing.
- Bad against: Generally considered good teams.
Conclusion
Since Rookie Arena rewards aren’t that good, a lot of people tend to use it as testing grounds for teams to try different matchups, and then apply that knowledge to SP Arena (or you just bully people you can beat with ease).
Jesus christ, what if we don’t have Noise?
I recommend using Emma with Pepper, Rapunzel, Noah, or Diesel, or simply running offensive team(s) with the fastest burst generation you can manage.
It’s ridiculous how Noise is so strong in PvP that the whole meta revolves around her. IMO Noise hp stacking was a bug, but at this point it’s a feature that will be used in the future to sell skins xD
Good thing their final nerfing noise, could never beat her when she’s in a team it ridiculous.
Pepper or Liter?
Pepper by far for arena
Is it good idea to pair Rapunzel+Emma with XAnne in attack team? Or who is best burst 2 if i do not have noah/poli and centi is busy in another team? Thanks for the help
Yes, XAnne is a good B2 for Arena. Anis and Diesel are also good, but Emma and Diesel together would make your burst generation speed very low.
No Emma , Rapunzel , SW , Pepper n Noah Moment
I play this game for the articles and strategy…what were you thinking?
For real though, I do appreciate the work people like you put into analysing the meta and writing it all down so dummies like me can understand.
“I’ve come to realize nobody really reads what I write.”
bruh I read everything, any niche mechanics and all because im a nerd.
So is it safe to assume that I can still use Noise if I don’t have Jackal?
if i don’t have centi and rapunzel is there any replacement for two of them?
tfw no Jackal, Emma, Noah, Rapunzel at sync level 211
Will this be updated with Biscuit’s release? She looks good on paper but not sure which comp she works best
Meta went from full Noise to full Jackal, lol.
Guide needs a lot more detail, honestly. The recommended top meta team has new explanation whatsoever about what makes it so good or how to sub out Anne Miracle Fairy for a different character if you don’t have her. Reading the guide only mentions swapping her out once or twice on other teams and only for other specific reasons not really relevant to the top meta team.
I can almost build the top listed team, but I don’t have XAnne. I don’t have Poli to sub in there either. Is there anyone else who can fit?
I have the same problem, no Poli, no Noah, no xAnne, and not sure what to do. Thanks to this guide, though, I was able to fend off the others in my group with the mule tactics and even still using Noise after the nerf, but 7500 cp deficit seems to be the most I can pull off.
Er, nuke, not mule
Centi is your best option without xAnne just for the better burst generation.
There’s no mention of any possible replacement for Anne. It’s a ñimited unit, it is not possible for everybody to have it, so saying a possible replacement for her, will be the best. But seems they don’t read the replys, so they will not do anything about it, sadly
Poli isn’t a bad sub, bisket is also really good imo. Blanc can be okay not sure yet how she is on her own in arena without noir. Makima isn’t terrible but not really better over most other B2. The teams listed here are like the absolute max best assuming max gear, limit break and level. I haven’t really seen many have this complete team. So just sub best you can.
Need update on the guide @admin .
Pls update it .ITS really out of date now LMAO
it needs update
It turned out. there were people who did read his guide
update this seriously.. There is a literally unkillable Nero in my Arena paired with Noise and Bizkit
Whats the rest of their team like? Rapunzel?
sorry late reply, yes alongside Alice/Summer Anis
PLEASE kindly Update this list. So many units now in the game with more options to play. @admin
Thanks for all the guides. I really appreciate the substitution examples given in this one, being a new player with limited nikkes.
Looking forward to the update!
The team comp Noise, Rapunzel, Noah, Scarlet, Jackal is unkillable and is ruining pvp. It doesn’t have any counters. The few times I kill Scarlet it requires sustained burst damage like Alice/S.Anis and when think I’m gonna win she gets rezzed and does a million damage with basic attacks and I lose even if my team is full hp after she dies which feels demoralizing. I was thinking of making the fastest nuke comp with Harran/Anne but even then I’m not sure it’ll burst before Noah or if Noise burst alone tanks it. I’m not sure what to do but this has made me treat Scarlet like the cancer of this game since nothing beats her in comp invalidating every character or strategizing.
2B nuke team could work but would require high investment.
A little help over here, i don’t have Drake, Pepper, Scarlet, Rapunzel and Anne: Miracle Fairy
Got a lot of holes for my compositions
Noise, Noah, Privaty, Anis, Biscuit
This desperately needs an update lmao
Coming very soon!
Noise Noah Jackal AnisSummer Scarlet beats Noise Noah Scarlet Rapunzel Jackal
Similar to my comment on the SP update….are these just defense? Mentions here a Red Hood team a lot as beating these teams, but don’t see a red hood team suggested?