FatutuBuild and Guide

Fatutu is a 6✦ rarity Arcanist from the Mineral afflatus whose kit is oriented around enhancing the DMG Dealt of Follow-Up Attacks and providing massive amounts of sustain.

Her primary gimmick is [Spirit Shell]. This is a stacking debuff that increases DMG Taken and Crit DMG Taken from Follow-Ups by 5% per stack. The gimmick here is that whenever an enemy with this debuff is hit, Fatutu bounces a stack from them to herself. When Fatutu takes damage, she bounces a stack of it to the attacker. The benefit here is that whenever she retrieves stacks of the debuff she heals all allies and has a 20% chance to gain Moxie whenever she inflicts the debuff.

The easiest way to inflict this debuff is through “Unmendable Cracks”, her first incantation, which applies 3 stacks of it and also dispels 1 random debuff from all allies. Whenever she retrieves 7 stacks of [Spirit Shell], she’ll cast a rank 1 version of this as a Follow-Up.

Let’s move right on to her Ultimate: “Proverb of the Sea”. This is a single-target nuke that inflicts all [Spirit Shell] stacks from Fatutu onto the target and also inflicts [Shell Beacon]. This debuff makes it so that whenever Fatutu retrieves [Spirit Shell], the same amount of stacks is reapplied onto the attacker (making it essentially infinite).

While a majority of her sustain comes from retrieving [Spirit Shell] stacks, her “Ocean in the Shell” incantation is incredibly good at it too. First, she equally divides all allies’ HP equally (which counts as HP Loss, making her a viable option for Semmelweis) and then applies [Shared Shells, Shared Fate] to all allies. This buff redistributes DMG Taken by the team across all party members. Finally, she retrieves all [Spirit Shell] stacks, triggering her passive healing.

Gameplay

Setting aside personal preferences (god she has such a good character design), Fatutu is pretty insane as far as Healers go. With the Moxie randomly gained from [Spirit Shell] bounces and the decent uptime on [Shell Beacon] she is comfortably able to optimize her Follow-Up debuff at the same time as providing massive amounts of passive healing.

In combination with Flutterpage’s ridiculous Follow-Up boosts, she allows characters 37, Lilya(E) and Jiu Niangzi to stay high in the rankings. Plus having her own Follow-Ups means that her teams have a lower threshold for how many Follow-Ups they need, aiding in some team versatility.

But that’s not all. Due to some funny coding interactions the HP redistribution from “Ocean in the Shell” and the DMG redistribution from [Shared Shells, Shared Fate] both count towards stacking HP Loss oriented allies, making her a very strong option for Semmelweis Carry by quickly stacking “Truth Revealed” to do some very competitive numbers.

It is also the only other form of DMG redistribution next to Kakania, and we know how strong it made that character as a defensive anchor.