Banner Guide – Overheat Levia

Exclusive Weapon
Base stats (Lv 100)Max stats (after engraving and awakening)

Official Patch Notes

Overview

A hard hitting, no cooldown 3x3 AOE

A costume you can use often: Since Track and Field Levia is a "must have" magic costume, you will usually be running Levia a lot on your magic teams

Fills the 5th turn gap on Levia's costume cycle

Not very useful without Track and Field Levia

Despite her 0 turn cooldown, it's unlikely you will be able to actually use her every turn

She must be used last, because she removes vulnerability effects

Bad against bosses with long lasting vulnerability effects (Levia removes them immediately)

Although her attack is strong, there are many other strong fire attacker options (including the insanely powerful Celebrity Bunny Loen)

Levia for PVE

Damage

Overheat Levia's skill at +5 full potential deals 350% damage normally, and 850% damage against enemies with a "vulnerability". The in-game description says that "vulnerability" means skills that amplify damage to the enemy, NOT skills that reduce stats like DEF and M.RES. This has also been confirmed by the testing below (since in-game descriptions are not always accurate).

Levia's unboosted damage is 2744 x 1.5 (strong element bonus)
After Samay's M.RES reduction, Levia deals 2744 x 1.5 (strong element bonus) x 1.2 (chain damage) to Beowul. Levia's bonus damage was not triggered.

For a magic team, the main skill you will rely on to apply vulnerability is Track and Field Levia, who amplifies damage to enemies in a 3x3 AOE. There are currently no other costumes that apply AOE vulnerability for a fire magic team (even though there are others like GC.Rafina who can apply vulnerability, you wouldn't use them in a fire magic team). It is therefore essential to have Track and Field Levia to make good use of Overheat Levia.

Since TF.Levia's cooldown is 5 turns, this means that realistically you will also only be able to use Overheat Levia at full power once every 5 turns (immediately after TF.Levia), even though Overheat has no cooldown. Of course, this could change if we get more vulnerability debuffers in the future (e.g. a fire version of WD.Venaka).

Note: In theory, you can also use Zenith to apply vulnerability every turn in a magic team. However, Zenith only applies vulnerability to one target. If only the main target is vulnerable, Overheat Levia (850% main target / 350% other targets) would in most cases deal inferior damage to Night of Jealousy Levia (4x300% main target / 4x90% other targets).

Even where all targets are vulnerable, Overheat Levia is something of a sidegrade to Night of Jealousy Levia. Overheat has less chain stacks and less damage on the main target than Night of Jealousy, but better damage on other targets. Which one is more effective will depend on the enemy formation and (for fiends and guild raids) where the weak points are located.

Fire attacker comparison

There are quite a few good fire AOE attackers at the moment. Since there are so many options for good fire attackers, it's easy to build a good fire team, which somewhat reduces the attractiveness of pulling for Overheat Levia.

In addition to Levia's own other costumes, other comparable fire AOE attackers include Maid Name R Liatris (700% damage when boosted), Esteemed Adventurer Eris (1150% damage when boosted), and Last Hope Loen (750% damage). Of course, if we're just talking about pure power, our favorite degenerate Celebrity Bunny Loen definitely takes the cake. Against large mobs CB.Loen deals up to 1800% M.ATK, and can be boosted further with the M.ATK buff from Track and Field Loen.

Where to use Levia

Overheat Levia performs poorly in any game mode where you can't set up the vulnerability debuff easily: this includes Last Night, Tower of Pride and Tower of Salvation.

Overheat Levia shines in fiend hunts, guild raids, and any long battles where there is plenty of time to setup. However, whether she performs better than Night of Jealousy will depend on the enemy's weak points.

Note also that her effect removes existing vulnerability debuffs from the enemy, which can really backfire if you are not careful. Some fiends apply long lasting vulnerability debuffs to themselves which last many turns. Using Overheat at the wrong time could cause you to unintentionally remove those vulnerability debuffs, ruining your setup to the "big nuke turn".

Levia for PVP

All of Levia's costumes cost 4 SP, so Levia is not a good pick right now for PVP. Low SP costumes are strongly preferred in the current PVP environment. In addition, setting up vulnerability debuffs is too difficult in PVP.

Conclusion

Everyone should be invested in Track and Field Levia, because she is one of the best debuffers for magic teams.

If you have Track and Field Levia but no Night of Jealousy, then you definitely want to get Overheat in order to complete Levia's costume cycle and greatly enhance her damage output.

If you already have both Track and Field and Night of Jealousy, adding Overheat to the roster will give you a moderate increase in damage, but the difference isn't huge because Overheat is something of a sidegrade to Night of Jealousy. If you already have both of Levia's other costumes, then you already have a pretty good kit and there is no big urgency to maxing out Overheat Levia (unless you are looking for a ranking high score).

Overheat Levia is not limited. Also, since there are currently two golden thread selectors in the shop for the anniversary event (anniversary event at the time of publishing this post), remember that it's possible to choose Overheat Levia on both selectors and net 20 free tickets from the event banner.