Privaty: Unkind Maid Analysis and Theorycraft – Should You Pull?

Note: This was made before the release of Privaty: Unkind Maid. A more detailed analysis and guide will be published once testing has been done after her release. Character information is subject to change.

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Basic Information

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Auto Attack (Intro)

Privaty:Unkind Maid’s Auto attack is rather unique. First of, her auto attack damage is slightly lower than normal. 182% compared to the usual 230%+ other Shotgun Nikkes have.

As most of her damage comes from her Auto attacks, this is a pretty substantial nerf to her overall damage. However, she does have the trait of what MG’s have, in where when continuously firing, hit rate dramatically increases. this can actually help Privaty core hit, which is a major multiplier that pretty much all shotgun Nikkes are “missing” due to their bullet spread.

Damage formula can be found here, but tldr, core hits have a multiplier of 2x but is slightly diluted by other multipliers. (For even simpler terms, core hit very poggers). This would offset her reduced auto attack damage if Privaty is consistently able to reach to the point of almost pinpoint accuracy to be able to core hit. Unable to tell if this is possible from the promotional video.

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Skill 1: Passionate Maid

Activates when landing attacks 30 time(s) using pellets.
Affects 2 enemy unit(s) nearest to the crosshair.
Deals 202.84% of final ATK as additional damage.

A pretty decent skill that procs often. Shotguns have 10 pellets in total, this means that if all your shots hit. This would activate every 3 shots, or every 2 seconds. this skill deals around 1/3rd of her total auto attack damage assuming no core hits happen.

This skill will activate much less in campaign mode due to the amount of pellets missing.

Skill 2: Loving Maid

Activates when more than 5 pellet(s) hit with a single normal attack
Affects self.
Reloading Speed ▲ 20.88% for 2 sec.
Activates when hitting 30 times(s) using pellets during Full Burst Time
Affects self.
Reload 1 round(s).
ATK ▲ 11.22%, stacks up to 5 time(s) and lasts for 2 sec.

A good skill in paper, however. it takes a bit to fully explain what the skill does.

Firstly, a pretty much permanent reload speed buff, this one is pretty straight forward.
As mentioned earlier, shotguns shoot 10 pellets. this would translate into a 1/3rd ammo refund, which is really nice for uptime, especially when paired with the bastion cube. She would want as much uptime as possible due to her Auto attack mechanics (Hit rate increase) to allow her to core hit more often.

Lastly, she LITERALLY can’t stack her atk buff alone, and relies on a SG buffer Nikke (Tove, Leona) to help her even achieve more than two ATK stacks. In theory, she can as she fires 1.5/s, but since fire rate is tied to FPS (Frames per second), any drop to FPS would immediately drop her stack. Since there’s always variance to FPS, she will always be dropping stacks.

Since full burst is 10 seconds long. Shotguns will shoot 15 times per full burst (1.5/s x 10s). Assuming we have Leona in the team, each Buff stack would last 2 shots, so it would look like:

• Shots 1-2: 0 buff stack
• Shots 3-4: 1 buff stack (11%)
• Shots 5-6: 2 buff stacks (22%)
• Shots 7-8: 3 buff stacks (33%)
• Shots 9-10: 4 buff stacks(44%)
• Shots 11-15: 5 buff stacks(55%)

Which would total to around a 33% ATK buff throughout the full burst duration which is slightly less enticing than the 55% ATK buff at max.

Update: Re-wrote section as Privaty is not able to Solo stack her buffs without Buffers/Assistance.

Burst: Your Bashful Maid

Affects self.
Attack damage ▲ 10.56% for 10 sec.
Critical Damage ▲ 88.17% for 10 sec.
Affects all enemies.
Deals 1066.66% of final ATK as damage.

One of the strongest AoE screenwipes currently in game, with good buffs to come with.

ATK damage ▲ is a different multiplier than ATK up, which means they multiply each other in the damage formula. To put in simple terms, it’s better to have different multipliers, instead of adding one buff to a high amount. ATK damage ▲ is unique to Tia, Helm, and Maid Privaty.

Critical damage is usually not sought after, however, due to the sheer value this buff gives, it’s actually rather good. Not to mention, the Crit damage is applied on her screen wipe, which means this skill has the chance to deal rather massive damage when Crit procs.

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Campaign

Usually Shotgun Nikkes are bad in Campaign, but Privaty: Unkind Maid might have some viability in Campaign due to her increasing hit rate and screen-wipe. Although, she doesn’t quite reach the “Meta”. If the Commander simply doesn’t have the Pilgrim DPS carries, she can be used in their stead.

Duo-less Team

Tove,Leona,Privaty: Unkind Maid,Dolla,Noir

Theoretically, this would allow Privaty to actually hit things far-ranged. However Noir still will have trouble hitting targets this range. Slightly awkward team due to the RNG nature of Tove, but expect this team to do rather decently if RNG is on your side. High skill investments on tove are also required.

Normal CDR team

Liter,Leona,Privaty: Unkind Maid,Noir,Drake

Best reliable team a player can ask for when involving Shotgun Nikkes in campaign. Still not recommended to use if the Commander has Pilgrim DPS Nikkes.

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Arena

Privaty: Unkind Maid has a very good Screenwipe which can definitely see some use in Arena. She can substitute Scarlet or Harran in PvP teams in regards to one shotting the enemy team, and comes with OK burst gen due to being a mag shotgun. Be wary that Shotgun pellets do feed burst generation when fighting against Jackal teams, allowing the opposing team to full burst faster.

Shotgun Nikkes also always target Position 5 (Unless taunted) on Attacking teams, Privaty: Unkind Maid should follow the same rules.

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Special Interception | Union Raid | Solo Raid

Solid DPS to use in these game modes. Although her main buffers are rather very niche (Leona, Tove) or limited Nikkes (Anis: Sparkling summer). In Solo Raid this makes her rather inflexible to use, of course she can still be used with the top tier supports (Bunny Duo, School girl Duo), but a lot of better Nikkes already fight for that spot if they’re available to use.

Double Privaty Team

Dorothy,Leona,Anis: Sparkling Summer, Privaty: Unkind Maid,Privaty

Pretty much the only team she can fit in properly on solo raid without hogging Meta supports from other DPS teams. However, the team lacks survivability. Replace Leona with Marciana if healing is needed. This significantly cripples Privaty’s damage, but at least she’d be alive. This team would almost equal to its Scarlet Variant (Replace Privaty: Unkind Maid with Scarlet), with the edge going to Scarlet.

Tove Team

Tove,Leona,Privaty: Unkind Maid,Anis: Sparkling Summer,Attacker

Team that requires pretty high investments to work due to the nature of the team. Again, No healer. Because Privaty gets significantly crippled without Leona if Tove doesn’t consistently get full stacks. Attacker slot is flex, preferably Maiden/Privaty to fit the theme of the team. Use only if survivability won’t be an issue. Bosses such as Grave digger.

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Closing Thoughts

A good sound Nikke in paper, however due to the requirements of her buffs and reduced auto attack damage. she gets bumped down by quite a bit. Still a very decent Nikke but not quite reaching the meta, despite the possibility of her being able to core hit against bosses often. However she is definitely one of most viable Elysion DPS Nikke which may prove fruitful in tribe tower. If the player does not require DPS’s / if they already have Nikkes such as Red hood, Modernia, Scarlet + Black Shadow, and etc. They can skip then wish list if they’re low in gems, otherwise one copy would be recommended.

IS WHAT I WOULD’VE SAID IF SHE WASN’T A CATGIRL MAID, CORE 7 HER RIGHT MEOW

Also, she may or may not be rocking a certain tail-like accessory rather well.
Don’t tug on it.

Update/Note: She seems very limited / Forced into Leona and Tove teams. In which both Nikkes need high investments in their skills. This means that the player would need to raise 3 Nikkes to even get competitive results with her