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Odd element who is part of the Astral Union faction. The character is also known by the Vitachime title.To learn more about Palin check the sections below. Use the tabs to quickly switch to the kind of information you're looking for.
Profile
All stats shown below are for max level, fully upgraded character, but without any Modules or Shells equipped. The yellow number shows the combined stats, the white number shows the base stats, and the green number shows the stats gained from Prowess.
HP16239
11191 + 5048
DEF976
751 + 225
ATK1181
869 + 312
SPD137
122 + 15
CRIT Rate10%
10% + 0%
CRIT DMG150%
150% + 0%
Effect ACC32%
0% + 32%
Effect RES0%
0% + 0%
Soul Dirge
Cooldown: -
Tags: Immunity, Single Heal, Single DMG
Your wails are my reward. Palin deals 240% damage to a single enemy, then gains 1-turn [Immunity] and applies it to allies with [Threat].
Return to Life: Whenever an allied Animus performs an extra attack, restores 15% of their max HP, up to 1 time(s) per turn.
Level 2: Increases damage multiplier to 220%.
Level 3: Increases the chance of applying [Immunity] to 100%.
Level 4: Increases damage multiplier to 240%.
Level 5: Increases the healing effect to 15% of the target's Max HP.
Spirit Conflux
Cooldown: 3
Tags: Dispel, Vulnerable, AoE
I will strip you of everything. Palin deals 2 hit(s) of 120% damage to all enemies, each hit with a 60% chance to dispel 1 buff(s) and a 100% chance to inflict a 2-turn [DEF-].
Level 2: Increases damage multiplier to 120%.
Level 3: Increases the chance of dispelling buffs to 60%.
Level 4: Increases the chance of inflicting [Vulnerable] to 100%.
Level 5: Reduces Skill CD by 1 turn(s).
Soulburst Genesis
Cooldown: 3
Tags: DEF+, Counterattack Rate+, Threat
Pray and praise. Palin applies a 2-turn [DEF+] and [Counterattack Rate+] to all allies, and grants the main target a 10-turn [Threat].
Level 2: Increases the Effect RES boost in [Threat] to 100%.
Level 3: Increases [Threat] duration to 10 turn(s
Level 4: Increases the additional damage reduction effect in [Threat] to 30%.
Level 5: Reduces Skill CD by 1 turn(s).
Prowess 1
Increases Basic ATK, DEF and HP by 5%.
Prowess 2
Healing Done +10%
Prowess 3
Increases Basic ATK, DEF and HP by 5%.
Prowess 4
Effect ACC +12%
Prowess 5
Increases DMG Dealt by an additional 10% and decreases DMG Taken by an additional 10%.
Review
Palin is an Odd Affinity hybrid between a Support, a Debuffer, and a semi-Sustain, capable of both increasing the damage of her team while massively improving the tankiness of one of her allies.
Palin’s S1 is a two-part skill, with an active and a passive effect. The active is a simple 1-hit attack that has a 75-100%chance of giving Palin a 1 turn [Immunity]. The passive, Return to Life, heals any ally that performs a follow-up attack by 10-15% of their own max HP up to once per turn. Although Immunity is an extremely powerful buff, it’s only applied to Palin, helping her avoid disruptions in order to cast the rest of her more powerful abilities; however, it offers 0 utility to your team. The healing on follow-up attack (FUA) is good on paper, but being based on the ally’s max HP, this skill can only properly heal bruisers and generally high HP/DEF Animuses who aren’t at risk of being 2-shot by most of the competition.
S1 has by far the lowest priority out of all of Palin’s skills; its milestones are level 3 and level 5, however, only seek level 5 if you feel that your S3’s main target struggles to survive.
S2 is a potent AoE Debuffing tool, dishing out 2-hits with each of them having a 30-45% chance of dispelling a buff, and a 60-75% chance to apply [Vulnerable] to each enemy hit. Simple and effective, Palin’s S2 is mostly used to disrupt the enemy after you’ve already set up your team, with the idea of amplifying the relentless assault of Palin’s best allies.
Bringing the skill down to 3 turns of CD massively improves the uptime on the Vulnerable debuff and reinforces the mid/long-term capabilities of her team. Still, lvl4 is already enough for short-term battles, and the skill has lower prio than her S3, which your entire strategy can be based on.
S3 is an AoE Buff giving the whole team a 2-turn [DEF+] as well as a 2-turn [Counterattack Rate+]. On top of those two effects, Palin’s S3 brings its own new Buff, [Threat]! Threat is a new take on the [Taunt] effect, with much more potent upsides, but also serious downsides:
For the upsides, the unit affected by Threat benefits from a 20-30% Damage Reduction and a 50-100% bonus Eff RES, making them extremely tanky. The enemy is also forced to target them with their Damage skills. On top of that, the effect cannot be stolen or transferred, and its duration cannot be changed with any increase/decrease effects;
For the downsides, although Threat is applied for 8-10 turns, its duration decreases after each enemy action, which means that against a fast/high action team, your buff will expire very quickly. This can, however, become an amazing upside if you can slow down or delay the enemy. Threat can also be dispelled, so keep an eye out for that. Lastly, enemies can still use all of their skills, and any non-damage skill can still be aimed at other units.
In summary, Threat forces your enemy to adapt their gameplan in a way that favors you: they can either dispel the buff through a whopping +100% Eff RES, or go through as many actions as they can in the quickest way possible and with as few single target attacks as possible, otherwise they’ll have no choice but to suffer a massive amount of counterattacks from your Threat carry while being unable to deal with their preferred targets.
S3 is the highest skill investment priority; make sure to level it up to 4 at minimum, and 5 for mid/long-term battles.
This will be short, as currently, Palin is lacking in most PVE content at the time of her release. Skill 2 is her best tool; however, it isn’t prioritised by the AI on Auto. S1 is largely useless since it’s impossible to keep a whole team healthy through spamming FUAs without missing a lot of utilities, and even then, most damage dealers are squishy enough that 10-15% of their HP is irrelevant vs Bosses. S3 is a good Defensive Buff; however, the Threat isn’t that big of a deal and most of the dangerous attacks tend to be AoEs anyway, which are not disabled by Threat.
When it comes to PVP, Palin’s S3 becomes much more intimidating, as forcing the enemy to focus a high counter rate bruiser, buffed up with extra tankiness and 100% Eff RES, can lead to a quick game over from the sheer damage of the counters and the time bought for the rest of the team to perform their roles. In this way, S1’s passive effect also becomes more effective, keeping an already tanky team healthy at no cost, and S2 is a perfect follow-up for a devastating turn 2.
Beware [Block], however, as without S3, Palin serves little to no purpose as a Support and becomes a less-than-mediocre Debuffer when compared to the likes of Plume or Heinrich, to name a few.
Palin specializes in buffing a single, highly durable ally to turn them into a spiked wall, dishing out massive damage and taking very little themselves. She even offers Dispel and Vulnerable, two powerful effects; however, she is difficult to bring in well-optimized teams in PVE, unlike PVP where her lack of versatility doesn’t impact the threat she represents when properly drafted.
To sum it up, Palin is extremely meta-dependent, but when it’s her time to shine, she definitely delivers.
S3 turns an ally into Superman.
AoE Dispel + Vulnerable on short CD.
Outclassed both as Support and as Debuffer by specialists.
Healing output is low on non-bruisers.
Build
For Early Game build tips when it comes to what modules and Shells to use before you start farming Red rarity, check our dedicated guide:
1
Widely used and incredibly potent all-around supportive option, granting a 25% gauge boost on use as well as [SPD+] boost with 100% uptime. It also deals decent damage when used. Possesses most of the best supportive matrixes, further adding to its flexibility and wide use cases. Loses most of its value when used in teams that already have a team member granting the [SPD+] buff with good uptime.
Helps her cycle faster her skills
Best Module Sets:
2
An absurdly strong combo Shell that allows the wearer to skip the cooldown of the ability used on the turn this Shell is active. The wearer can use their ultimate or skill twice back to back, unlocking usually impossible personal and team combos. Also grants the wearer a 10% SPD boost after use for 2 turns. Mainly used in PvE burst/combo compositions or PVP. Can be used on both Supports and DPS situationally.
Can help reaply all her buffs one more time in case you fighting a enemy who can AOE Dispel
Best Module Sets:
3
Allows you to reduce cooldown of a random ability, improving the cycling abilities of the character.
Helps Palin to get her skills faster
Best Module Sets:
1
Allows the wearer to cheat death once every 6 turns. Upon dying, they will instead recover 60% HP and enter a special state, becoming immune to turn meter reductions, debuffs, buffs, and also gaining 200% increased DEF until the start of their next turn. A powerful option for keeping vulnerable high-value units alive in PVP.
Amber is the best way to ignore bloodbath which lets you go way faster to actually get her s3 off in a reliable manner. So far this is the only really good build that has been found on Palin but it is a really solid one.
Best Module Sets:
Speed, Effect ACC, DEF%, HP%
For Palin, either HP or DEF main stat is fine since she doesn't scale with any attribute. As for sub stats try to get as much speed as possible to help your team with her buffs.
S3 > S1 > S2
S3 > S1 > S2
Teams
Palin teams aren't available yet. They will be added soon.
