Crusader (Inase)

 Super Special Rare

 Offensive Persona

Overview

Compared to Timekeeper (Inase), Crusader mainly excels in battles where you want sustained DPS over burst damage.

The primary reason to use her is her ability to inflict DEF DOWN on her basic & special attacks. Crusader can provide 100% uptime on enemy DEF DOWN, which means increased DPS for the rest of the party.

Despite being an SSR unit, Crusader’s DPS is much lower than Timekeeper’s due to lower scaling on her attacks. Her Ultimate is also weaker than Timekeeper’s, although it does have the benefit of completely ignoring enemy DEF.

Crusader combos well with any party combination since anyone can take advantage of DEF DOWN.

Unfortunately, she is outclassed by Timekeeper in basically every way, and doesn’t really fit into the meta.

Skills

All of Crusader’s Skills scale with ATK, naturally complimenting her role as a DPS.

The skills below are based on the 0★ form and at Level 1:

Basic Attack
The target takes damage equal to 75 + 100% of ATK, 100% chance of inflicting [Crush] for 2 turns.

[Crush]: Lower DEF by 25%.

Standard Basic Attack, but can proc 25% DEF DOWN. This basically means the enemy will always have reduced defenses whenever Crusader is deployed.

Special – Armor Breaker [Cooldown 2 turns.]

The target takes damage equal to 150 + 150% of ATK, inflict [Shatter] for 2 turns.

[Shatter]: Lower DEF by 50%.

Special Attack is basically a more powerful Basic Attack. It does more damage and inflicts 50% DEF DOWN instead of 25%.

Ultimate – Soul Breaker [Cooldown 4 turns.]

The target takes damage equal to 185 + 150% of ATK, ignoring all damage reductions except [Shield].

[Shield]: Gain a shield worth 20% of your Max HP.

Crusader’s Ultimate doesn’t have the raw power of Timekeeper’s Ultimate, but makes up for it with a shorter cooldown and the ability to completely negate enemy defenses, namely DEF UP & Endure. The ‘Guard’ Status is not affected as it is essentially temporary health, and does not factor into damage reduction. This gives Crusader an advantage against enemy Tank units, and potentially turns her into the best Sniper in the game.

Matchups

Crusader isn’t bad, she is just outclassed when up against the Force of Nature known as Timekeeper. Even in the late game, Timekeeper simply has better scaling and DPS than Crusader can ever hope to achieve.

Functionally, she is the same as Timekeeper when up against Harvest Moon. Harvest Moon provides Bleed utility that scales off enemy HP, giving her an edge against extremely durable enemies,

How to build

Very straightforward to build – ATK Set and stack as much ATK on her as possible. You could also spec her for E.HIT, reducing personal DPS but increasing overall party DPS.

Crusader also comes with her own SSR Relic. The increased scaling on her Ultimate lets her deal more damage than with a Super Relic equipped, but you lose out on the increased HP. It’s also locked to Fire.

Evolution

Transcend

Availability and where to obtain

• In [Goddess Summon], [Normal Summon], any [Limited-Time Goddess Summon].