D: Killer Wife Best Builds, Teams, and How to Play

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Basic Information

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Skill 1 – Calm Sniping

Activates when attacking with Full Charge for 3 time(s). Affects self.
Gain Pierce for 1 round.
Activates when entering Full Burst. Affects all allies with a Sniper Rifle.
Pierce Damage ▲ 13.55% for 10 sec.

Pierce Damage ▲ is in the same bracket as ATK damage up (Tia, Helm, Self Skill 2). This is good as not much characters share the same multiplier bracket she buffs.

This buff increases damage even if there are no parts to “Pierce”. A.K.A, the damage buff still applies on hitting the body. Her self pierce buff doesn’t do much for her at all as D lacks personal damage, and barely generates additional burst generation.

Pierce Nikkes

Alice,Red hood,Harran,Maxwell,Nihilister

These Nikkes have pierce via skills / burst. As long as there’s a “pierce” next to the damage number, the buff will apply. However Snow white and Dorothy are not classified as Sniper rifle Nikkes and will not receive the pierce damage buff.

Skill 2 – Assault Formation

Activates when attacking with Full Charge for 8 time(s). Affects all allies.
Cooldown of Burst Skill ▼ 7 sec.
Activates when attacking with Full Charge for 5 time(s). Affects all allies.
Attack damage ▲ 5.06% for 10 sec.

One of the most powerful buffs in the game, Cooldown reduction. Cooldown reduction is vital in almost all teams, how she gives CDR is unique. Every 8 full charges translate to around 11s~, and an additional 2.3s per reload if the boss is sitting still. It is recommended to have at least one max ammo roll for her to ensure smooth full burst rotations. Charge Speed is not needed and does very little, if anything at all.

The boss can sometimes fly out of screen or be out of view for several seconds. This is an issue as D:Killer wife will no longer be firing, and she needs full charge shots to proc her Cool down. However this can be mitigated by switching to her and full charge her shots into the air, this will still count towards her CD “counter”

This method will occasionally has its usages in Campaign mode.

Her Attack damage ▲ is basically permanent, although low value, it is in a non-contested damage bracket, which is good.

Burst: Kill The Target

Affects the enemy nearest to the crosshair.
Deals 269.28% of final ATK as additional damage.
Inflicts Wipe out on the target for I0 sec.
Activates when allies’ normal attack hits a certain area of the target afflicted
with Wipe Out. Affects allies.
Buff takes effect depending on the area hit.
Allies that hit parts Damage dealt when attacking core ▲ 16.26% for 10 sec.
Allies that hit the body: ATK ▲ 12% of caster’s ATK for 10 sec

A slightly weak burst, as the ATK up is rather small and based on Caster’s ATK, and damage dealt on core is additive. this means that this burst adds upon the already existing 200 or 250% core damage multiplier, depending on weapon type (16.26% + 200%). Core hits are values that are red and location varies by each rapture.

Wipe out is a rather unique buff is where the Commander has to hit the main body and a part (if available) to get different individual player buffs. However, these buffs can only be proc’d once and does not refresh per full burst. These buff timers are independent of each other depending on where the Nikke hits first.

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Campaign

CDR Nikkes are very vital in campaign, however D: Killer wife does have rather big downsides that apply to auto play users, and even manual play.

• Shots have a chance to pre-fire depending on rapture HP, which do not count for Cooldown Reduction.
• D: Killer wife may waste time attempting to track targets
• Cool down Reduction varies largely by these factors
• One of the main Pierce Nikkes used in Campaign also requires manual expression, which may lead to very awkward back and forth switching (Alice)

However, there are some benefits of using her over any other Cooldown reduction Nikkes

• D: Killer wife does not need multiple burst rotations to enable smooth burst rotations. However this will most likely require manual play expression. This may help in stages where the Commander simply needs full burst ASAP, since every second is vital in most stages.
• Her buffs last 10s instead of the usual 5s, this enables consistent damage throughout full burst when pairing her with pierce Nikkes.

Pierce Team

D: Killer wife,Supporter,Red hood,Alice,Attacker

Team that specializes in piercing damage. Blanc/Noir or Tia/Naga team can be used as the main supports in this team. The player may need to play around Alice and D to ensure proper damage and cooldown rotations.

General Team

Since D’s kit mostly appeals to pierce Nikkes, she has “limited” teams where she can used for that would be recommended to use with her. However she can be used anywhere simply because she has CDR in her kit. Just put on your favorite supports, DPS’s and D will do her main job well.

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Arena

She’s a Sniper (Low burst generation), her burst doesn’t give much ATK, and CDR Nikkes are useless in PvP. Not recommended to use her here at all.

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Special Interception | Union Raid | Solo Raid

D: Killer wife is a much needed Burst 1 addition for Solo raid. With Similar performance when compared to Liter in certain teams. This is due to the fact that most Meta Nikkes have in-built high ATK multipliers built into their bursts, and ATK isn’t too impactful for them, despite the insane ATK buff Liter has. This does free Liter to other teams, greatly helping the overall damage of a Solo raid attempt.

For Special Interception, she works in any team. Liter is still the best B1 CDR Nikke, due to her ability to recover cover as well, which is extremely useful in most interception fights. However there is one instance in where D: Killer wife can “outshine”, and that’s in Grave digger. Since Grave digger needs very consistent damage and full burst rotations. D: Killer wife enables smooth burst rotations from the get-go

Alice Team

D: Killer wife,Tia,Alice,Scarlet: black shadow,naga

D:Killer Wife is able to buff the team to similar damage numbers compared to liter if she was put in here instead.

• Tia | Naga can be replaced with Bunny team if the Commander is lacking the school girls
• Scarlet: Black Shadow can be replaced with Red hood.

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Strengths

• Cool down Reduction, Extremely powerful buff
• Does not need Multiple Full burst rotations to ensure smooth full burst rotations when raised
• buffs are 10s, instead of the usual 5s, and are rather competent
• Able to buff Pierce Damage Nikkes to a similar degree Liter can
• Seggs to die for

Weaknesses

• Depending on Boss, Auto-play may suffer some Cool down reduction if boss is off-screen for periods of time. Manual Play is required to mitigate this.
• Similarly, Auto-playing D: Killer wife may also drop cooldown reduction procs in Campaign.
• 1x Max Ammo and high skill investments on her skill 2 is required to ensure Cooldown reductions are smooth.
• Some buffs are locked under certain conditions (Pierce, Hit parts)
• Commander will probably get shanked after Seggs

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Should You Pull?

A rather difficult question. As if the Commander has Liter, there is not much reason to pull D: Killer Wife. The only reason to pull her is for Waifu purposes or Solo raid / Union raid purposes.

Otherwise, if the player does not have Liter, or any CDRs, the Commander can see great value in pulling her. Otherwise she can be wishlisted

Should You Wishlist?

Absolutely, she would be easily in the top 5 picks of Elysion. And pretty much easily the most meta of the bunch in that manufacturer selection.

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Temporary Rating

Category	Rating
Overall	8.6
Story	9.2
Bosses	9.4
Arena	6.0

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Recommended Harmony Cubes

Bastion = Ammo Refund

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Skill Priority

Nikke	Budget Skill Investments	Recommended Skill Investments	Skill Priority	Notes	Investment Priority
D: Killer Wife	Skill 1: 5 Skill 2: 7 Burst: 4	Skill 1: 7 Skill 2 : 10 Burst : 5	S2 > S1	Skill 1 is rather Niche as it only applies to Pierce Nikkes. Leave at 1 if the Commander simply does not have Pierce Nikkes at hand. Can be leveled up to 10 if desired. Skill 2 at level 10 ensures very smooth full burst rotations, level Asap if using her as your main CDR Nikke. Her burst gives rather low values across the board. Since burst mats are extremely valuable, the player can leave this at level 5, and level as needed when having surplus Mats in the future.	High

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Overload Gear Priority

Pretty much just needs 1x Max ammo. Does not require or benefit much from anything else.

Max Ammo > ATK > Element Damage > etc.