[LCE E.G.O::Ardor Blossom Star] Faust

LCE Faust is a unique Burn ID who gets better with lower health, Burn stacks on herself, and has effects triggered upon death. Each time Faust uses her offensive skills, she will inflict Burn on the enemy and gain it for herself. All her skills become better with more combined Burn on herself and the enemy, meaning even if an enemy has no Burn on them, Faust can maintain her bonuses in certain scenarios.

• Skill 1 - Ignition - 2 Coins - Rolls 11 at base, 15 at max. Decently rolling Skill 1 with great Burn potency application. 

• Skill 2 - E.G.O - A.B.S. Activation - Rolls 16 at base, 22 at max. This skill not only rolls great with decent Burn application but is also the main way for Faust to maintain Burn potency on herself as it gives her a +4 Count.

• Skill 3-1 - Drawn by Flame - Rolls 17 at base, 25 at max. There is nothing much to write about this version of a skill as it is just decent as far as Skill 3 goes. However, its other version is much more unique.

• Skill 3-2 - A.B.S. Max Attunement [Degraded Corrosion] - Rolls 17 at base, 28 at max. gains an additional 4 Atk Weight the lower Faust's HP is - This skill replaces Drawn by Flame if Faust has 30+ Burn on herself. While this skill in the right scenario will hit like a truck and is among the best nuke skills in the game, it comes with the downside of Faust dying after using it. However, due to how LCE Faust’s kit works, and there being bigger benefits of dying to Skill 3-2, her death is not as detrimental. If one wishes to avoid activating Skill 3-2, her evade is there.

• Defensive Skill - Evade - Resonating by raising A.B.S. Attunement. The main use of this defensive skill is to lower LCE Faust’s Burn potency to control Skill 3-2 activation.

Now, let's talk about Passives. The first one, always active, is named Fireproof, which prevents Faust from being staggered due to Burn and also keeps her alive at 1 HP instead if she were to die due to Burn normally. Due to how many Burns she can accumulate on herself, it is a very welcome Passive. Her second Passive, Flame Moth, has multiple parts to it:

• If Faust is at 20% or lower, she gains 30 Burn Potency once, which lets her use Skill 3-2 which will be practically at max conditionals due to that amount of Burn and HP.

• 1 Offense level per 6 Burn. Welcome buff that might help with ensuring wins during Clashing.

• And then we have 2 versions of LCE Faust death effects. First is inflicting up to 5 Burn on all enemies and gaining 2 E.G.O for 2 least-owned E.G.O resources. Not much, however, if LCE Faust dies due to usage of Skill 3-2 A.B.S. Max Attunement [Degraded Corrosion], she will inflict up to 8 Burn on all enemies, provide 2 E.G.O for 2 least-owned E.G.O resources and substituting ally receives 3 Offense Level Up.

Due to how LCE Faust’s kit works, her game plan is to slowly stack Burn on herself, control it with Evade, and use Skill 3-2 when there is a plethora of enemies to kill or enemy with multiple parts to nuke and let rest of the team clean up if there is even anything left alive. 

Unfortunately, there are not many cases where that game plan can work, and without the usage of A.B.S. Max Attunement [Degraded Corrosion], LCE Faust is just an above-average Burn ID with a decent Burn Potency application. Additionally, at the time of writing this review, there is a severe lack of Burn-centric Identities, meaning the one substituting for Faust in Burn team, is very far from being a good choice. LCE Faust is one of those Identities that will benefit greatly from more Burn Identities being added to the game.

Notable Team/ID Synergies - None

Notable E.G.O Synergies - None