Ludmilla: Winter OwnerInformation and Guide

Foreword

Calm, mature, and the Queen of Snow. Mommy Ludmilla invites us Servants to have a memorable, relaxing (and very lewd!) vacation in her hot springs! In full Christmas spirit, Ludmilla: Winter Owner gives us the present of a very simple-to-understand kit, all of which contributes to her amazing damage output, rivalling even Modernia when fighting Solo Bosses. Her skills allow her to do extra damage on top of what she is already shooting, and her burst is a selfish reload speed and ATK buff. She also has a self-ammo reload, which when combined with the reload speed, means that she has everything an MG nikke needs to output tons of damage!

Kit Analysis

Ludmilla: Winter Owner (abbreviated afterward as XLud) is a balanced unit with significant supportive capability and a high damage output, rivalling Modernia, against enemies with cores in particular. She not only provides Damage Taken, a seriously powerful debuff that permanently improves the team overall damage, but she also strengthens herself with Ammo Refund and Reload Speed, things MG wielders adore the most! Moreover, her kit is simple. You only need to land your shots, and that's it. She has an average basic attack multiplier that is also compounded with the additional damage provided by Skill 1 and Skill 2. However, you still want to minmax a little by ensuring she only reloads within 20s of her using Burst Skill for the acceleration.

Like all MGs, one downside is that these weapons are heavily influenced by FPS. If the game runs at 60 FPS, you will be able to achieve maximum potential with her. However, so long as it is under 60 FPS, your damage will be slightly reduced. One way to test this without any monitoring app is by listening to the sound cue of Skill 1 triggering or watching the damage numbers. This should trigger every 1 second if all your shots land.

Skill 1

One of XLud's best gimmick is Ammo Refund. Every time she lands 60 shots, she recovers a certain number of bullets (dependent on skill level, from 11 to 20). This functions similarly to Bastion and is, in fact, slightly stronger than Bastion at max level. If she recovers 20 bullets every 60 shots, then recovers bullets again from those 20, and again, it would amount to a 50% total increase. To compare, Bastion is around 42.8%. They are synergistic too. If you combine both, you get a whooping 172%! That said, we will discuss in detail later about which Cube is best. You might need to swap based on the team. In any case, the shots need to land to count.

Her Skill 1 also constitutes a major part of her DPS, termed as Additional Damage, which cannot core damage but can CRIT. Every 60 shots landed, she inflicts a certain amount of damage. It also applies Damage Taken debuff, which is one of the best debuffs in game. Just by having XLud in the team, you are basically multiplying the team's TDM by slightly over 12% (if no dilution happens from Novel, Blanc, or SHelm).

Skill 2

This skill consists of two components—damage every 60 core hits & critical rate buff every Full Burst. The damage is on the low side if we compare it to the combined Basic Attack and Skill 1 ratios and also demands hitting cores at that. However, it still plays an essential role in multiplying her DPS by a fixed amount. Meanwhile, the critical rate buff is definitely nice to have, despite seemingly being contradictory to her kit that revolves around hitting cores. Why is that? Remember that we said Additional Damage cannot core hit but can CRIT. Yes, while this buff only improves her Basic Attack damage a little due to dilution, it considerably boosts the damage from Skill 1 and Skill 2.

Burst

The most exciting part of her skill, Reload Speed! Wonderful! If you think this sounds too good, be informed that XLud's reload time is actually 3s, making her more reliant on Burst Skill level. That aside, her Burst Skill is relatively simple. She gets 10s of ATK buff and 20s of Reload Speed buff. The ATK buff is self-explanatory. Every level increases the value, which helps her deal more damage during her Burst. What about the Reload Speed? With Bastion, it just helps cut down time wasted. However, it gets very tricky with Resilience Cube, and the only way to understand it is through mathematics. For investment advice, please visit the Investment Section, where we attach graphs for Skill 1 and Burst Skill accordingly.

Usage

XLud displays great versatility. She can be used in all content except Arena. Below is the complete list of game modes with a short description for each:

• Bossing - XLud has strong bossing potential. Once invested, she is independent and fits in many teams. However, due to her spectacular supportive capability and DPS, she will most likely join one of the top teams. She accumulates more damage when attacking bosses with exposed cores but still deals decent damage when there is no core. She is also the only serviceable Water DPS unit in game, making her much more valuable against Fire bosses due to elemental advantage.

• Campaign - Strong ATK buff during Burst, raptures with cores, and Damage Taken. She can be used in campaign but may lack the AoE provided by other units such as Scarlet and Modernia. Besides that, she lacks any ATK buff outside her Burst, so that will incur a massive damage penalty.

• Tower - Since Volume/Blanc/Noir is the meta composition for this Tower, using SAnis, who has an antagonistic kit, isn't really ideal. With this update, XLud will replace SAnis and wreak havoc on the raptures together with Alice.