Grim Pursuit - NicoNana Guide
NicoNana is one of the Grim Pursuit bosses. In this guide you will find tips how to deal with her!
NicoNana Overview
- Boss Name: NicoNana.
- Element: Reason.
- Challenge Type: Grim Pursuit.
- Difficulty Tiers: Nightmare → Hell → Inferno.
- Key Threats: AoE DEF Down and Atk Ramp.
- Hollow Units Disadvantaged: On top of the generic disadvantages, Hollow Units take massively increased damage from the enemy on Inferno difficulty (200%).
Shell Drops
Here are the Shells dropped by the boss:
Skills Overview
Powerful Add-ons
The add-ons in this fight provide powerful Buffs to NicoNana - it is important to prevent those Buffs, otherwise the boss turns into an absolute beast.
How to counter?
- CCs and Turn Meter Manipulation, to ensure your team plays more often than the enemies;
- Block Buffs on NicoNana or multiple sources of Dispel/Buff Steal.
Team Composition Tips
NicoNana is only scary if you do nothing to stop her buff stacking, thankfully there are multiple ways to deal with it. She also deals 3 times more damage to Hollow Units in Inferno difficulty so keep that in mind when building your team:
- Healer/Support - Sources of AoE Heal, DEF Up and Purify/Immunity are once again favored.
Lingluo and 
Mia are excellent here, fulfilling multiple roles by themselves.
Sania and 
Freya although usable, are at risk of being one shot by the Boss' AoE if you lack the proper mitigation.
Vice offers Heal, Taunt and ATK-, fulfilling multiple roles at once.- DPS - Opt for Units with extra utility unless you're confident in bursting down the boss.
Fangus and 
Obol are once again perfect here, mixing damage, SPD Down and Stun.
Lian stands out among the Reason Units, but requires heavy SPD Manipulation from her teammates.
Rosa, 
Xiada and 
Batsby are great Odd Units to bring in this fight.
Yeli is a competent damage dealer for this encounter thanks to her very high damage and ability to remove the frequent buffs applied by the add-ons.
Liliam and 
Diting can also work for burst, but require a more optimized setup and usually pair with a second damage dealer.- Buffer/Debuffer - Look for SPD Up and Down, these are more impactful than pure Turn Meter increase/decrease in this fight. You can also go for Hard CCs to keep the add-ons from buffing, but be wary as allowing them a single turn unbothered can be enough to ruin your gameplan if you rely only on chain CC.
Tsukiyo Mi and 
Viper for Odd Units are amazing here, Viper especially if you have no other Dispeller/Buff Steal.- Like Tsukiyo Mi,
Lily and 
Nell offer a SPD+ buff to help create the SPD gap needed to deal damage to NicoNana. On top of that, their synergy with the DoT team makes it easier to bring, even with unoptimized gear, 
Veronika and 
Kazami Kazuyo for Reason Units.
Kloss shines even as a Hollow Unit, but be careful not to get one shot!
Marvell, with his overloaded kit for Turn manipulation.![Cachi [The Guard]](https://cdn.prydwen.gg/images/etheria-restart/characters/cachi-the-guard_icon.webp)
Cachi [The Guard] is a great defensive option, with a heavy focus on making your runs more stable at the cost of speed.![Dorothy [The Wisher]](https://cdn.prydwen.gg/images/etheria-restart/characters/dorothy-the-wisher_icon.webp)
Dorothy [The Wisher] offers multiple powerful effects to your main DPS, making her a valuable pick in short fights with a single DPS.- Tank - Bringing a Tank can be difficult as each spot on the team needs to perform multiple roles.
Best Teams
If you don't have some of the characters visible in the teams, you can replace them with another one that fulfills the same role (check the section above).
NicoNana #1
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NicoNana #2
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NicoNana Inferno #1
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![Sania [Vengeful Thorn]](https://cdn.prydwen.gg/images/etheria-restart/characters/sania-withered-shadow_icon.webp){kind=icon}
NicoNana Inferno #10
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NicoNana Inferno #11
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![Chiaki [The Echo]](https://cdn.prydwen.gg/images/etheria-restart/characters/chiaki-the-echo_icon.webp){kind=icon}
NicoNana Inferno #12
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NicoNana Inferno #13
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NicoNana Inferno #14
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NicoNana Inferno #15
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NicoNana Inferno #2
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NicoNana Inferno #3
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NicoNana Inferno #4
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NicoNana Inferno #5
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NicoNana Inferno #6
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NicoNana Inferno #7
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NicoNana Inferno #8
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