Tove Guide: Best Builds, Teams, and How to Play

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Basic Information

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Skills

Note: Assume all skills are level 10.

Skill 1: Emergency-Crafted Bullets

Passive

■ There is a 5% chance of activating when attacking. Affects self.
Emergency-Crafted Bullets: Reload 5.31% magazine(s).

■ Activates during Emergency-Crafted Bullets. Affects all allies.
Temporary Modification: Max Ammunition Capacity ▲ 2 round(s), stacks up to 3 time(s) and lasts for 5 sec.
Critical Damage ▲ 5.24% for 5 sec.

Tove’s skill 1 passive have “breakthroughs” in which the % of gaining stacks are increased. the level breakthroughs are skill level 3 (3%), skill level 6 (4%), and skill level 9 (5%). While the Max Ammunition Capacity Breakthrough is at level 5. Maintaining Stacks below skill level 9 is rather inconsistent and is prone to drop rather often.

Tove can refresh her ammo almost indefinitely (skill level 10), but isn’t that much of a damage increase due to her lack of offensive abilities / DPS abilities. It does help maintain her stacks due to lower downtime.

Her max ammo increase for the team is very beneficial to weapon types that have low base ammo capacity. Such weapons are Shotguns, Sniper Rifles, and Rocket Launchers.

Crit Dmg buff is negligible as it has very low values and Crit is heavily diluted in the damage formula so the increase will be minimal. However, free extra damage is always welcomed.

Skill 2: Modification Successful

Passive

■ Activates when Temporary Modification is fully stacked. Affects all allies.
Critical Rate ▲ 3.32% continuously.

■ Activates when Temporary Modification is fully stacked. Affects all allies with a Shotgun.
Attack Speed ▲ 42.24% continuously.

A rather Unique skill, present in a very select few Nikkes (Soline , Sugar). The Attack speed buff only affects Shotgun Nikkes and when skill 1 has currently 3 stacks. This effect expires immediately when stacks are dropped. Essentially working as a damage multiplier. At level 10, Tove’s S2 increases Shotgun’s fire rate from 1.5/s to 2.1/s.

Burst: Miracle of Makeshifts

Cooldown: 20s

■ Affects all allies.
Miracle of Makeshifts: ATK ▲ 2.32% of caster’s ATK. Mirrors the stack count of Temporary Modification for 10 sec.

■ Affects all allies with a Shotgun.
Miracle of Makeshifts: ATK ▲ 24.21% of caster’s ATK. Mirrors the stack count of Temporary Modification for 10 sec.

Her burst is based on Caster’s ATK. Due to being a supporter, her base ATK values are substantially lower. However this is mitigated by the big values given from this skill, totaling at 79%~ Caster’s ATK when buffing shotgun Nikkes at full stacks.

This buff is not dynamic, when Tove’s burst is proc’d at 2 stacks of Temporary Modification, the ATK buff is mirrored twice for the whole duration of the buff (24.21% x 2). To clarify, stacks that are later gained or lost does not affect the ATK buff that was given at the start of her burst.

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Campaign

Using Shotguns in campaign stages isn’t very ideal, horrible even. And the only Shotgun Nikke that is even viable to use in campaign does not mesh well with her kit (Anis: Sparkling Summer). However, due to personal bias (she’s cute), i’ll list a few possible teams.

Example Team Comps

Note: This section assumes the player has no offensive pilgrims, otherwise these teams won’t be used at all.

Tove,Dolla,Sugar,Drake,Privaty

or

Tove,Dolla,Blanc,Sugar,Noir

A burst 2 CDR Nikke is preferred when using Tove. The only 2 Nikkes that provide that are Dolla and Helm: Aquamarine (Limited Nikke).

Sugar is the highest shotgun DPS currently so it makes sense to pair Tove with her. The extra attack speed stacks additively, doubling Sugar’s fire rate during her own burst (3 shot/s). She’ll burn through her ammo extremely quick, the extra ammo from Tove helps with this issue somewhat. This is further mitigated with Noir.

Drake and Noir are good supports when pairing them with Sugar due to increased hit rate (Actually hitting stuff outside close range) and AoE potential. Privaty can also deal good AoE damage with her burst while also providing breathing room via stun.

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Arena

Not recommended at all for Arena. She has little to no time to attempt to get stacks due to how fast paced arena matches are, resulting in a rather “RNG” team. She has poor burst generation, and can be easily countered but Biscuit + Makima teams when using teams that are centered around Tove’s buffs.

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Special Interception | Union Raid | Solo Raid

Special Interception

Tove helps newbie players that don’t have the luxury of having Pilgrim Nikkes, the manufacture with most of the top tier DPS’s but have managed to pull multiple shotgun Nikkes. This is especially prevalent against Gravedigger, due the boss having “DPS wall” mechanics. Since most bosses are rather big, missing shots isn’t usually an issue, making a Tove based team viable in all special interception bosses.

Healing Team Comps (No Bunny Twins)

Tove,Dolla,Naga,Sugar,Noir Tove,Dolla,Sugar,Helm,Noir Tove,Rapunzel,Sugar,Noir,Dolla

These team comps should help the player clear majority of the special interceptions, with the exception being Alteisein. Noir can be replaced with Drake or Maiden if she’s not available to use. Use Bunny twin team comp listed in campaign section if available to use as it provides the most damage and survivability out of all these team comps.

Union Raid | Solo Raid

Tove doesn’t particularly have a spot in Union / Solo Raids if the player has a complete box, but is still a rather decent team when forming a team that utilizes her kit. However, Tove is one meta shotgun Nikke away from being decent to really good. Teams using Tove in special interception section should be similar to teams using Tove in Union | Solo Raid.

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Strengths

• Very strong buffs For Nikkes who have shotgun type weapons
• Unique ATK speed buff that technically serves as a damage multiplier
• The cold never bothered her

Weaknesses

• There are no notable strong Shotgun Nikkes that can take advantage of her buffs.
• Useless outside shotgun teams
• rather skill investment heavy to consistently maintain her stacks / RNG heavy at lower skill levels.

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Should You Pull?

No, not really. She may bump up the viability of shotgun teams by quite a bit, however the competition is rather harsh for her as she’s locked into shotgun teams (which perform just adequately) and can’t be slotted anywhere else.

Despite most shotgun Nikkes being out of the meta for awhile, Tove helps players who simply don’t have the luck of pulling Pilgrims as that manufacture holds most of the top tier DPS’s but have multiple shotgun Nikkes. While Alice is a top tier and is easier to get, she unfortunately requires immense investment. This makes Tove a good wishlist Nikke for newbies.

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Temporary Rating

Category	Rating
Overall	7
Story	6
Bosses	8.5
Arena	5.5

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Recommended Harmony Cube

Bastion = Increased Ammo Count

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Skill Priority

Nikke	Skill1	Skill2	Burst	Notes	Investment Priority
Tove	9	6	7	Skill 1 Gives more consistency towards her stack gain and gives more ammo. One can stop at level 6 as she’s not a meta defining character as of right now. But it is recommended to level up this skill to level 9 for much more stacking consistency Skill 2 gives more attack speed and skill level 6 is a breakthrough on increased ATK spd. Anymore than level 6 is not worth the skill books. Burst provides a simple yet big ATK buff for shotgun Nikkes.	Mid