Notes
Acambe is a character who requires quite a bit of attention to get the most out of him. He’s an absolute disaster if you try to use him on auto, and he will feel rather underwhelming if you throw him on your usual team. He supports teams that are centered around summoning, and can himself cause a nice amount of damage on his burst turns, but just be aware that there’s often downtime between those turns.
For skills, while he does have a number of useful ones, the best three to bring for general content clearing are (I find) Shadow Assassin, Squander, and his leader aura for Discipline. I know that Burning Riches seems tempting, and it can be good, but the cooldown timer on it is prohibitive, and the fact that it isn’t an instant skill makes the summons it creates easy to lose before you can really make use of them. Ultimately, it doesn’t play as well into his overall strategy as the other three skills do. If you DO decide to bring it, though, make sure you equip him with Fancy Hat so he doesn’t get inflicted with [⦸NRG Received] from Burning Riches.
Shadow Assassin is his bread-n-butter, as it allows him to summon up to two assassins in a single turn. These assassins aren’t controlled by the player, but they use assisting attacks whenever one of your characters attacks an enemy nearby with a single-target attack. These attacks also inflict debuffs!
Squander is a choice skill, which allows Acambe to either move a group of enemies and assassins in an area into a cluster (the range on this is insane), while inflicting a cocktail of fun debuffs on the enemies. Alternatively, he can restore 1 NRG, reduce CD of active skills by 1, and provide multiple buffs to allies near him. This skill is exceedingly versatile!
For gear, the Cornucopia Staff is best for him, as this dude is THIRSTY for NRG. For a trinket, I’d advise the armguard for extra opportunities to proc extra assist attacks from his summons. For tarot, World is usually best, as he will likely be in need of as much NRG as he can get. Because he relies on his skills so much, wand + cup engravings are best, with a focus on M.ATK, since that’s what all of his damage comes from.
