LuccaInformation and Guide

Lucca is an A-rank Lightbearer Tank focusing on survival and anti-assassin role with some CC sprinkled on top.

At the start of battle, he gains a big Shield and charges at the enemy frontline, holding them off as well as interrupting and disarming them. After charging his Ultimate, he stuns an adjacent enemy, otherwise he drags an enemy from backline to frontline before stunning them. He also possesses self-cleanse and damage reduction, vastly increasing his tanking capabilities.

Now, for a quick overview of his performance in the various Game Modes:

• Story and AFK Stages - He performs in a similar role to that of Antandra, aka very hard to kill and helpful in early days of a season where frontline survival is the major concern. But at endgame stages where enemies tend to threaten the backline, Lucca is lackluster due to his kit lacking access to Taunt. While his Ultimate does help in mitigating the flaw, it's not always reliable. In talent stages with Lightbearer tiles, he is good for buying time for Tasi in the same way that Lucius or Walker can be used.

• Dream Realm - He has little use in the mode owing to his low damage output and lack of teamwide offensive buffs outside one small Attack buff.

• PVP -  Lucca is very good at keeping himself alive, and if the enemy happens to focus their damage on him, he can buy time for the backline to kill the enemy, even against the likes of Dionel if RNG causes him to waste his ultimate on Lucca. Despite the fact that he is strong against CC-heavy teams, they tend to use AoE attacks more which leads to backline dying before Lucca can do anything owing to lack of his Taunt. In defense Teams however, he can stall the timer when paired with Damian and/or Talene.

• Battle Drills - While he can be used in Battle Drills, his low damage output makes him far from ideal in mob stages with a strict timer to deal with, and he does not perform well against bosses as well. As such he needs to be paired with high damage DPS to make up for his lack of damage output.

Investment Info

• Legendary+ Increases his maximum HP.

• Mythic+ makes him Steadfast (Cannot be moved by Crowd Control abilities), and massively increases his survival ability while also giving backline allies a small ATK buff.

• EX+10 increases the area of effect of his Ruthless Ram’s interrupt attack when supported by 2 backline allies.

• Supreme + gives him some self heal when he cleanses his debuffs.

Lucca is surprisingly tanky at Epic rarity (1 pull on rate up/S-Rank banner, or 5 from A-Rank drops), being able to hold the line without dying instantly compared to other low dupe tank characters. A good stopping point for upgrading him is at Mythic+ EX+10, though he does benefit from more dupes for stats as a Tank.

Conclusion

Lucca is a strong contender for hardest to kill character in the game currently and performs a similar role to that of Antandra. He pushes well in early AFK stages and mono-faction teams but is easily replaced, for PVP he is mainly a damage soaker - nowhere near a must pull unless you are looking for a Lucius replacement for your Lightbearer teams or want a meatshield.