An Agile Rogue who can interrupt the enemy's Ultimate and continue to grow throughout the battle.
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Lily May profile has been last updated at: October 29th, 2024.
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Profile
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Profile
Skills
Ultimate
Tempest Shot
Unlocks at level 1
Cooldown: -
Range: Global
Initial Energy: 0
Passive - Lily May enters a Defensive State at the start of a battle. When a non-summoned enemy casts their Ultimate, Lily May becomes Unaffected. She then leaps above them and shoots a Quillbolt, dealing 200% damage and interrupting their Ultimate, while causing them to lose 700 Energy. Afterward, she exits the Defensive and Unaffected States. This skill cannot interrupt boss enemies but can increase the damage Lily May deals to them by 400%.
Active - Lily May can enter Defensive State to target either all non-summoned enemies or a specific one. If defending against them all, she targets the first one to use their Ultimate. If defending against a specific one, she targets only them when they use Ultimate. Once this enemy becomes untargetable for over 3s or is defeated. Lil May switches to defending against all.
Unlocks at level 51: Increases damage dealt by Quellbolt to 210%.
Unlocks at level 111: Increases damage dealt by Quellbolt to 220%.
Unlocks at level 171: Increases damage dealt by Quellbolt to 230%.
Unlocks at level 231: Increases damage dealt by Quellbolt to 240%.
Skill I
Rainstorm Ballet
Unlocks at level 11
Cooldown: 20s
Range: 7 Tiles
Lily May flashes to the target and attacks 6 times, dealing 65% damage per hit. She remains Invincible during these attacks and returns to her original tile afterward. If her Defensive State is triggered during the attacks, she will finish the remaining attacks after exiting the Defensive State.
Unlocks at level 71: Increases damage to 70%.
Unlocks at level 131: Increases damage to 75%.
Unlocks at level 191: Increases damage to 80%.
Skill II
Swallow's Flight
Unlocks at level 31
Cooldown: -
Range: 3 Tiles
Lily May grows stronger during battle. Each normal attack or skill grants her EXP points, with extra points awarded for Assists or Kills. Once her EXP bar is full, she grows stronger, permanently increasing her ATK by 10% and enhancing her next 4 normal attacks or attacks from Rainstorm Ballet. The enhanced attacks deal additional true damage equal to 3% of the target's max HP, up to 75% of Lily May's ATK. This growth effect can stack up to 4 times.
Unlocks at level 91: Enhanced attacks deal additional true damage equal to 4% of the target's max HP, up to 100% of Lily May's ATK.
Unlocks at level 151: Enhanced attacks deal additional true damage equal to 5% of the target's max HP, up to 125% of Lily May's ATK.
Unlocks at level 211: Enhanced attacks deal additional true damage equal to 6% of the target's max HP, up to 150% of Lily May's ATK.
Hero Focus
Hero Focus
Unlocks after reaching Legendary+
Cooldown: -
Range: 1 tile
Lily May gains 10 Penetration during battle and an additional 5 Penetration when using Rainstorm Ballet.
Level 2: Lily May gains 13 Penetration during battle and an additional 6 Penetration when using Rainstorm Ballet.
Level 3: Lily May gains 16 Penetration during battle and an additional 8 Penetration when using Rainstorm Ballet.
EX. Skill
Rainfall Bliss
Unlocks after reaching Mythic+
Cooldown: -
Range: 3 Tiles
Lily May grows once upon receiving a non-permanent stats boost from an ally. Each ally can trigger this effect once per battle.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +5: Increases ATK boost granted by each of her growth to 12%.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +10: Allows her to deal 2 additional attacks the next time she casts Rainstorm Ballet with each growth.
Unlocks at Ex. Weapon +15: Increases ATK boost granted by each of her growth to 14%.
Enhance Force
Enhance Force
Unlocks after reaching Supreme+
Affects: Ultimate
When Lily May first uses Tempest Shot to interrupt an enemy's Ultimate, the enemy loses 1000 Energy.
Season 2 Charm
To check the Charm's set bonus for Lily May go to our Season 2 Charms guide.
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Review
Review
Lily May is a Wilder Assassin character specializing in countering enemy Ultimate while growing increasingly powerful throughout a battle as her damage ramps up. And when we say her damage ramps up, it’s a lot.
At the core of Lily May’s kit is her Passive Ultimate, fully active even with just one copy. This ability cancels an enemy Ultimate, drains their Energy, and deals damage. While she cannot interrupt bosses, she compensates by dealing bonus damage against them, making her one of the best bossing characters once she’s powered up with a few more dupes. Her Ultimate also has an active state, enabling her Counter to be used again after it has already been triggered.
Lily May’s Basic Skill is deceptively strong, granting her Invincibility while attacking. This allows her to survive, often as the last one standing, forcing enemies to target your Tanks or other more durable units.
One unique feature of Lily May is her EXP bar. During battle, she earns EXP from her Normal Attacks and Skills, with a significant boost from kills or assists. When the EXP bar is full, she gains a stacking ATK bonus and Enhanced Attacks with extra True damage based on the enemy’s max HP. This mechanic allows her to become progressively stronger as the battle continues.
Performance Across Game Modes
Story and AFK Stages: Lily May’s damage often exceeds expectations, making her a viable DPS carry even without considering her ability to counter enemy Ultimates. While she may fall off at high deficits, this is a common challenge for most damage dealers.
Dream Realm: In the Dream Realm, Lily May outshines even long-standing favorites like Marilee, Odie, and Korin, thanks to her boss damage bonus and ATK% growth.
PVP: Lily May revolutionizes the PVP meta by nullifying Eironn’s instant Ultimate at the start of battle while dealing significant damage herself. Her damage rapidly increases with each kill, and her Basic Skill’s Invincibility makes her surprisingly difficult to take down. While it's possible to protect Eironn by using other instant Ultimate characters like Niru or Bryon to absorb her Counter, this strategy often leads to suboptimal team compositions, highlighting Lily May's strength and impact on the PVP landscape.
Battle Drills: With her prowess against both bosses and regular mob stages, Lily May becomes one of the top choices for this game mode.
Advancements and Investment
Lily May’s base kit, including her counter, is already formidable at a single copy.
Legendary+: Grants her DEF penetration.
Mythic+: Accelerates her ATK% growth.
Supreme+: Increases the Energy removal from her Ultimate from 700 to 1000 Energy.
EX Weapon Investment:
Supreme+ EX +8: This is a good “budget” stopping point, offering a boost to her damage and survivability.
+10: Provides an additional boost to her damage and survivability.
+15: Offers a significant increase in damage output.
Conclusion
Lily May is one of the best rate-up characters to date, excelling in all game modes. If you’ve been saving your rate-up letters, now is the time to use them, as she is the kind of meta-defining character that doesn’t come around often.
Seasonal Skill: Arcane Barrage
Arcane Barrage is a small but welcome addition to her damage output, providing an extra projectile after three Normal Attacks hit a target. This Seasonal Skill further enhances her already impressive capabilities.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Reliable Counter against Eironn Teams, bypasses Enlightening Spell protection.
High Damage in both bosses and regular battles, Good carry potential to go along with her utility.
Grows stronger the longer the fight goes on.
Surprisingly good survivability due to her mobility and Invincibility windows.
Comes with a Lily May plushie hat at max affinity.
Cons
Can be countered by smart placement of Bryon or Niru, who will “eat” her Ultimate Cancel allowing Eironn to get his Ultimate out.
Requires team buffs to ramp up her damage faster.
Ratings
General Ratings
S+
AFK Stages
S+
Battle Drill
S+
PVP
S+
Dream Realm (Overall)
Dream Realm Ratings
S+
Skyclops
S
Croaker
S+
Necrodrakon
S+
Snow Stomper
S
Lone Gaze
S+
Alpha Bear
S+
Orson
S+
Crystal Beetle
Guides
EX Investment
The EX investment information were created with the help of Seas0n, the creator of the
AFK Analytica community that supports AFK Arena and AFK Journey.
You can find their website here and their discord here.
Since the
Temporal Essence
and
Twilight Essence
are very hard to obtain, you have to be really careful with the using them to upgrade the EX weapon. And in this guide we ordered all characters by the priority when it comes to how much they need investment in their EX weapon to work well and where should you stop to get the best bang for your buck.
Why does the +8 breakpoint appear so often?
Because the raw stats you get from upgrading the EX weapon help you more than the passive in some cases. Also, to upgrade the EX from +5 to +8 you need only 30x
Temporal Essence
, while the remaining two levels require additional 45x
Temporal Essence
. So you get the best bang for your buck stopping at +8.
Color explanation:
+0 - the base investment for the character,
+5/8 - the next step that you should do when investing into that character,
+10/15 - the final step you should do when investing into that character - you can go beyond that later though once you have the Essences to spare.
