Guillotine: Winter Slayer

Basic Information

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Normal Attack Information

Guillotine: Winter Slayer has average normal % modifiers on her normal attack, this makes buffing Guillotine harder. Despite the rather absurd total ATK % she gains from her self-buffs (191% ATK damage total), her normal ATK damage would be less than Scarlet when factoring all their self-buffs

Guillotine: Winter Slayer: 13.65 x 2.91 (base ATK + self buffs of 191%) = 39.7 x 1.1 (Burst) = 43.6

Scarlet: 27.08 x 2.115 (base ATK + Self buffs at 115%) = 57.2

Guillotine does a bit less auto attack damage than Scarlet, but compensates by being able to buff the team with elemental damage, decent burst damage and average reload speed/ammo capacity.

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Skill 1: Hero’s Fate

Activates every time EXP stacks 10. Affects self.
Hero Level Up: Reaches a maximum of Level ll.
Hero Level Up Reward: Reloads 10.26%.
Hero Level Up Reward: Recovers 2.44% of caster’s final Max HP
Activates when Hero levels up. Affects all Water Code allies.
Damage as strong element ▲ 1.16% * Hero Level continuously.
ATK ▲ 0.91% of caster’s ATK Hero Level continuously.

Not a great skill, the only buff that is wanted here is her elemental buff. her elemental attack caps at 12.7%, and ATK buff at 10%.

Stacking her hero level fully takes around 55 seconds + reload time with no core hits. the fastest time this skill can stack is 27s + reload time if all bullets hit the core, which rarely, bosses do have very exposed cores.

Skill 2: Hero’s Gift

Activates after landing 6 normal attack(s) without hitting the core. Affects self.
EXP: ATK ▲ 1.81%, stacks up to 100 time(s) continuously.
Activates when hitting the Core for 3 time(s). Affects self.
EXP: ATK ▲1.81%. stacks up to time(s)continuously.
Activates when Hero Level is 2 or above. Affects self.
Damage as strong element 7.46% ▲ continuously.

This skill is where most of her damage will come from. this skill can stack 100 times, totaling for a 181% ATK buff. These two buffs are NOT separate buffs, meaning that both of these conditions stack the same buff.

Burst: Extermination

Affects all Water Code allies.
Attack Damage ▲ 10.14% for I0 sec
Damage as strong element ▲ 18.75% for I0 sec.
Affects 1 enemy unit(s) with the highest Max HP.
Deals continuous damage equal to 20.87% of the final ATK Hero
Level every sec for 10 sec.

Guillotine’s burst does decent damage. at max stacks, the total damage would be:

20.87% x 11 (hero level) x 10 (Secs) = 2295% of ATK per burst

since her ATK buffs are rather absurd, it scales a bit better, but it still isn’t a great single-target burst compared to the other hard hitters. a tier below Quency: Escape queens burst damage and Phantom. Although the wording is continuous, sustained damage up buffers do work on her (Rosanna: Chic Ocean).

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Campaign

Guillotine: Winter Slayer will not be a viable Nikke in Campaign. Her kit relies on her hitting targets consistently to proc her ATK up to be able to deal damage. Even if her stacks were magically stacked at the start of the match, her auto attack damage is not strong enough to take out raptures in a timely manner.

Guillotine: Winter Slayer does not have any sort of utility at all either, no burst generation and no AoE. There are also no top tier water campaign Nikkes for her to buff, with the only meta unit in campaign being Emilia but she’s a limited Nikke.

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Arena

Horrible. No burst generation, her burst is single target, and her burst takes time to deal its full damage. Don’t use

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Special Interception | Union Raid | Solo Raid

Despite being tailored for bosses, she won’t be a very major Nikke even against water-weak bosses. Guillotine: Winter Slayer will still be used, but total raid score shouldn’t be impacted greatly if Commanders miss her banner, it doesn’t help that the main single target DPSs for water (Quency, Phantom) don’t benefit much from her team buffs as they already have high innate ATK and ATK damage ▲ buffs, and will mostly be getting her Damage as strong element (30%)

BiS Water Team for Guillotine(Water Weak)

Liter,crown,quency: escape queen,guillotine: winter slayer,ludmilla: winter owner

Not the best water team as Naga would be a better buffer for this team as both DPSs can easily hit core consistently. Phantom can replace ludmilla: winter owner if there is no core to hit. Emilia if there are multiple parts to hit.

General Team

She’s not recommended to be slotted element neutral content, but she’s still viable as she can deal similar damage to Scarlet if Guillotine: Winter Slayer is bursting. Attack buffers don’t work well on her as she has too much in her base kit, so buffers with ATK damage up ▲ and damage-taken debuffs are recommended.

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Should you pull?

F2Ps, no, not really. She may dish out numbers that are around S tier level (Scarlet), but there’s been a lot of Nikkes released that can compete with her damage. This may have been forgiven if there were amazing top-tier DPSs in the water code, but we only have Quency: Escape Queen, Ludmilla Winter: Owner, and Phantom as of now, which two of the listed Nikkes greatly prefer Naga (wish-listable) as a buffer.

For solo raid players, she’s not a priority either. But can be pulled just for that slight advantage, a lot of elemental damage rolls on her gear would be needed. She may be brought up a tier in the future if there are more notable water Nikkes, but as of now, Guillotine: Winter Slayer is a worse Maiden: Ice Rose

Priority of banners as of now would be: Maiden: Ice Rose => Ludmilla: Winter Owner > Guillotine: Winter Slayer > Mica: Snow buddy (don’t pull)

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Rating

Category	Rating
Overall	A~ (?)
Story	B
Bosses	S
Arena	C

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Expected Skill Priority

Nikke	Budget Skill Investments	Recommended Skill Investments	Skill Priority	Notes	Investment Priority
Guillotine: Winter Slayer	Skill 1: 4 Skill 2 : 7 Burst : 4	Skill 1: 4+ Skill 2 : 10 Burst : 7	S2 > S1	Upgrade just for elemental damage up, useless outside mono elemental teams Most of her personal damage Burst does decent damage. Mostly used for elemental damage up	Mid

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