[Nikke] Keripo’s Initial PvP Analysis of Ein

tl;dr: Ein is an multi-facet hypercarry DPS who both AoE nukes and then continues to dish out continual high DPS during Full Burst to all enemy targets (with babysitting required via Blanc/Noah/etc.). She also has no obvious hard/soft counters, making her a very formidable pick for either offense or defence.

Joshikousei banzai! Eins the blonde haired (not) delinquent highschooler is here. While she’s definitely a stellar B3 SR attacker PvE unit (who can out DPS Scarlet against bosses), it turns out she actually has some high potential as a new meta PvP unit with multiple attack angles. Ein has three themes: 1) True Damage, 2) Feathers, and 3) AoE nuke. True Damage is a damage attribute that lets you ignore DEF values. This is very important in PvE content where bosses have very high def values, but pretty insignificant in PvP where DEF values are less than 1% of unit total HPs. It does let you take advantage of True Damage buffers… if there were any relevant ones for PvP (Clay’s True Damage buff is not strong enough to justify using in PvP and Frima’s buff requires some buff stacking that won’t happen in time in PvP).

Ein’s second theme is Feathers (e.g. Gundam Funnels/Bits) which are summoned and fly around hitting random targets for a limited duration of time. These Feathers operate independly from Ein (e.g. they keep operating even when Ein is stunned) and, deal True Damage, and are impacted by buffs to Ein. Its important to note that the 4 Feathers summoned at the start of battle from her S1 operate differently from the 6 Feathers summoned during her Burst. The 4 Feathers summoned at the start of battle effectively act as bonus passive slow DPS – during a typical 3RL PvP fight, you can expect to just get 1 extra hit from them (nothing much but hey, its something) so you can ignore that. The 6 Feathers summoned from her B3, however, are the real deal. For the entire duration of Full Burst, then will lazer spam (Gundam style) very rapidly also against random targets in a way that is effectively a very fast-acting DoT on all enemy targets. They can be taunted by taunts like from Noah/Noise (if Noise hits Ein with her auto-attack) but because they continue spamming throughout the entire Full Burst duration, they can potentially kill the taunter, then continue on destroying the rest of the team. To do this would ideally require your team to run 2 buffers (e.g. B1 RedHood/Liter/Miranda/XMica + B2 Blanc/XAnne/Crown/SRosanna/Poli) but you may be able to get away with just 1 buffer as long as you aren’t fighting against a team with high sustain (e.g. Noah comp or SAnis-Biscuit comp).

Ein’s third theme is her AoE nuke. In addition to summoning Feathers, her Burst also lands a 300% AoE nuke. The skill description says “10 enemy targets” but since PvP only has 5, it hits each opposing target once. While the damage multiplier may seem a bit low at only 300%, there’s a couple factors in play that actually turn it into a viable 1-shot nuke. First is that her Burst gives herself a +55.3% True Damage buff. Second, her S1’s +70% atk self buff. And third, for some reason (potentially a bug), the damage for this hit is slightly delayed; rather than being snapshotted at time of burst like most AoE nukes (Scarlet, Maiden, MPrivaty, etc.), Ein’s AoE nuke damage is calculated AFTER entering Full Burst, meaning it gets an additional 1.5x multiplier applied. When combined with two buffers (one of which ideally is not an atk buffer as to avoid diminishing returns from her own self-atk buff), this lets Ein’s AoE nuke part of her burst potentially 1-shot the enemy team.

Ein has two minor shortcomings; 1) because her AoE nuke is delayed, a same-speed enemy team AoE nuker could land their nuke first (and potentially win), and 2) if she is unable to 1-shot nuke the enemy team, she has no self-sustain to finish the job with her Feathers. This means that she needs support from the rest of her team to stay safe/alive while she beam spams. The ideal setup for her would be with Blanc, who both functions as a buffer (or rather, debuffer to the enemy team) and gives Ein a 10-second indom buff to let her do her thing. Ensuring Ein gets that buff, however, is a bit tricky so you would likely also want to use Jackal to ensure Ein’s HP is low at time of B2 but also paired with a Vigor cube on the other linked unit to ensure the buff goes to Ein and not the other linked unit. Another option is running Ein with Noah who taunts the entire enemy team and gives Ein a 3s invuln buff. 3 seconds is not ideal, but it might be enough depending on your opponent. You can also run other general purpose taunters (e.g. Noise, Makima, Ludmilla + Biscuit, Diesel, etc) but your mileage may vary. This, however, is a nit pick as the only other unit who has this is SAnis-Biscuit comp. And even without any self-sustain, she operates similar to Scarlet, who both has an AoE nuke and continually high post-burst DPS.

All in all, Ein is a highly recommended pull as a new meta unit due to her double attack angle (both AoE nuker AND continual DPS unit). But most importantly, she is a joshikousei and JK banzai, so you should pull for her.

>> Keripo’s PvP tier list rating: S- <<

Here’s a quick showcase video of Ein in action:

Originally posted on Reddit.

The (not) delinquent JK Ein is here, and she's got some interesting PvP team setups. Not unfortunately a top tier meta unit due to various different shortcomings, but definitely usable on attack and maybe defence if you can build your teams correctly. I'll be sharing my initial analysis and updating my PvP tier list in coming days and updating this video description with a link to it later!

BGM is just a random funny cover of Nokotan's OP, check out @LittleVMills 's cover video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8DI6DF4r3Q

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