Viola (5★ Thief)

Viola is often voted the top 2 units for long term use by majority of the player base.

Is her debuff really that powerful? Let’s take a look at her kit and how she compares to other debuffers.

Tier List Overview of Viola #

In my role-based tier list of all units, I ranked Viola as the only S+ debuffer.

She ranks very high as a breaker, physical damage dealer, and her tankiness is relatively high thanks to being able to heal with damage dealt.

Weighted Average Stats #

Viola has very average weighted stats for a 5* unit. She’s #1 for SPD, #3 for CRIT and #4 for PATK.

Her ultra high SPD stat can easily make her the first to act on your team, allowing you to debuff the enemy so that the rest of the team can benefit from it immediately.

Thieves use daggers and all daggers (and fans) come with a SPD substat, making her quite untouchable in SPD.

At the time of writing, she’s the 2nd strongest dagger damage dealer (behind Heathcote), and arguably the 2nd strongest fire damage dealer (behind Lynette).

Best Skills #

Via the skill lookup table, the skill that makes Viola the debuff QUEEN is her 2★ Skill and 3★ Skill.

The 2★ Skill reduces a single enemy’s PATK/EATK stats by 20% for 3 turns (+1 turn from her passive).

• 4★ Unit Kurtz has a skill that can do the same, but at 15% for 2 turns

The 3★ Skill reduces a single enemy’s PDEF/EDEF stats by 20% for 3 turns.

• No other unit has a skill that can debuff both DEF stat with one move
• Fiore can debuff PDEF by 20%

Both skills are the highest debuff values of it’s type. Again, no other unit can reach her depth and breadth.

Her 1★ Passive increases the duration of her debuffs and her paired ally debuffs by 1 turn.

Her 3★ Passive increases healing, so her initial skill heals for 30% of damage dealt. As well, she can absorb for 1.5% of damage dealt as SP with her 5★ Skill 1.

Job Points Priority #

You’ll want to prioritize unlocking her 1★ passive, 2★ Skill, and 3★ Skill ASAP, taking the shortest route to get there.

Avoid spending points into raw stats until you’ve unlocked those.

Personally, I was able to unlock all three by Lv 25.

Afterwards, you can spend points into unlocking her other battle skills, or key stats like PATK, SPD, and SP.

Team Comps #

As a debuff damage dealer, her role is to debuff the enemy to buff up your main DPS like Fiore, Sofia, Tressa, Scarecrow, or whomever you decided to build. The options are endless.

Her secondary role is ensuring the survival of your team, by lower the enemy’s damage.

Along with Lynette and sort of Heathcote, Viola fits into any team comp. 

The following contains a list of units that easily benefit from Viola’s debuff extension passive:

• Sigrid’s Passive: Reduces all enemy Sword Res by 15% at start of battle. Good for Fiore.
• Laura’s Passive: Reduces all enemy EDEF by 15% at start of battle. Good for Sofia/Lynette.
• Menno’s Passive: Reduces all enemy Wind Res by 15% at start of battle. Good for Heathcote/Scarecrow/Tressa.
• Asylte’s Passive & Skill: Increase his Ice Res debuffs duration. Good for Sofia.
• Bertrand’s Passive: Reduce all enemy Lightning Res by 15% at start of battle. Good for Theo.
• Helga’s Passive: Reduce all enemy PATK by 15% at start of battle. Good for survival.
• Noelle’s Skill: Extend the duration of her powerful EATK/EDEF debuff skill.

• Camilla(easiest), Merritt, Ramona can grant Viola Regen automatically.
• Saria can give Viola 10% PATK up for 3 turns at start of battle.

Future Special #

Her future awakening special skill is a 1-hit nuke that inflicts PATK/EATK down by 10%. 

It’s not that impactful enough to save her stones, so you can quite safely awaken her if you pull dupes.