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| MATK | 330 |
| HP | 1953 |
| MRES | 0% |
| CR | 15% |
| CDMG | 100% |
Michaela is a Magic 
Light DPS whose skills create downsides in exchange for buffs or higher multipliers. These downsides can be very tricky, however, so be careful!
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Strengths and Weaknesses
＋Beachside Justice has great damage outside of hypercarry scenarios.
－Beachside Justice's damage falls off in content with tons of buffs from external sources.
－Queen of Signature's SP debuff is too debilitating without an SP battery.
－Michaela's costumes make her extremely squishy.
Costumes
Michaela currently has 2 costumes, Beachside Justice, a spammable DMG skill that buffs her MATK at the cost of her health, while Queen of Signatures drains your own SP to deal tons of damage.
Acting Archbishop
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Bleeding Stigmata
SP ◆ 4 — CD ● 5 Turn
Increase your Crit DMG by 300%, Decrease your DEF and Magic Resistance by 90% for 4 turns. Deal Magic DMG based off of 80% of Magic ATK.
Skill Potential 1
Magic DMG +40%
Skill Potential 2
CDMG Buff +100%
Skill Potential 3
SP Cost -1
| +1 | +2 | +3 | +4 | +5 |
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| SP Cost | Magic DMG | Buff Duration | Crit DMG Buff | Magic DMG |
| 4 ▸ 3 | 80% ▸ 120% | 4 ▸ 6 | 300% ▸ 400% | 120% ▸ 160% |
Acting Archbishop can be recruited in the pub, in the rotating pool.
This costume grants Michaela a great Crit DMG buff, while reducing her resistances by 90% (in most cases, down to 0 DEF & MRES). This makes DEF and MRES stats useless on her, and makes her vulnerable to most attacks.
The damage on this costume is also terrible, so it's not worth investing in unless you're using it to buff her other costumes.
Key Upgrades: CDMG Buff upgrades, SP upgrades
Beachside Justice
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Justice Reveals
SP ◆ 5 — CD ● 1 Turn
Consume 80% of your current HP to increase Magic ATK by 200% for 2 turns. Deal Magic DMG based off of 160% of Magic ATK.
Skill Potential 1
Magic DMG +40%
Skill Potential 2
Magic DMG +40%
Skill Potential 3
Range Upgrade
| +1 | +2 | +3 | +4 | +5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP Cost | Magic DMG | Magic DMG | Magic DMG | Magic DMG |
| 5 ▸ 4 | 160% ▸ 200% | 200% ▸ 240% | 240% ▸ 280% | 280% ▸ 320% |
This skill's pattern is decent, and her skill can be spammed, those two factors would typically make any costume great, but this costume has low multipliers with a very high self-buff. This is not very good considering that the self-buff only lasts for 2 turns, meaning it will only ever buff this skill. Self-buffs are great in conjunction with a high multiplier skill, but this skill having a low multiplier means that while her damage will have a high floor, it will fall off in hypercarry scenarios where she has 3-4 allies buffing her.
The 80% life cost might sound like a lot, but since magic teams can use either B-Rank Idol Helena or Medical Club Teresse, this cost is pretty much a non-issue. The exception being cases where she has a DoT applied on her before any regen effects (end of turn effects trigger from oldest to youngest in terms of application).
Key Upgrades: Design +1, Skill Potential 3, DMG Upgrades add up.
Queen of Signatures
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Praise the Fire
SP ◆ 3 — CD ● 7 Turn
Attack 3 Times, each attack deals Magic DMG based off of 180% of Magic ATK. Lose 6 SP.
Skill Potential 1
Magic DMG +25%
Skill Potential 2
Magic DMG +25%
Skill Potential 3
Cooldown -4 Turns
| +1 | +2 | +3 | +4 | +5 |
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| SP Cost | Magic DMG | Magic DMG | Magic DMG | Magic DMG |
| 3 ▸ 2 | 180% ▸ 220% | 220% ▸ 260% | 260% ▸ 300% | 300% ▸ 340% |
This costume has the very impactful downside of draining your own SP, but unlike Beachside Justice, this costume has really good multipliers. The issue with this costume is its pattern, being a skip X makes it pretty awkward to use. On top of that, this costume practically requires skill potential 3 in order to be usable, since a 7 turn cooldown is too long.
Key Upgrades: Design +1, Skill Potential 3, DMG Upgrades add up.
Building Michaela
Simply optimize Michaela's ceiling damage for PvE content.
Prelude
Exclusive Stat — 67 MATK
Solid DMG boost for Michaela.
Engraving: LIF
243 HP
Engraving: STR
34 MATK
Engraving: PSV
8% MRES
Awakening 1
12% MATK
Awakening 2
10% Light DMG
Bond Potential
| MATK | 52% |
| Crit Rate | 4.6% |
| Light DMG | 30% |
| MATK | 80 |
| MRES | 5% |
| Crit DMG | 47.2% |
| MATK | 52% |
| CDMG | 28.4% |
| Light DMG | 30% |
Beachside Justice will be better for general content, but if you want an edge against Dark enemies, Queen of Signatures is better!
Acting Archbishop [PvE]
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Optimal Substats — 15 MATK%
Using Acting Archbishop will skew Michaela's optimal build towards minimizing CDMG stats in her build. Her defensive shouldn't really matter, since Archbishop will in most cases reduce her resistances to zero.
Without Acting Archbishop [PvE]
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Optimal Substats — 7 MATK% + 8 CDMG substats
Build either full DEF or full MRES depending on the enemies you're facing.
