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Do we even need a review for this one?

Legendary Hero Sephiroth Overview

Oh look, another Pokémon-style unit. Grandis (250% LB, 300% ATK, 50% dark amp, fills LB), a random SR attack and multi cast. Nice! Identical in Brave Shift with an elementless SR-chain. Such innovation. Much wow.

LB in Base is great on it’s own though but just a carbon copy of Tifa’s LB. 80% DEF-Break, weapon imperil (katana), dark imperil (125%), 150% LB boost, and a 200x mod. That is strong. The best part is high Brave Shift LB, which he can stack up to 350x mod and demolish everything in his way. Compared to Tifa though: He is just a single hit finisher (slow animation!) and thus easier to weave into chains. BS LB also imperils Katanas by 25%.

What does he unlock when EX 2’ing the white-haired dude? 500 Static ATK and full LB gauge at the start of the battle (if you leveled his LB that is!).

He is super easy to gear for literally every race as he maxes out on everything rather quickly. Needs either Lightning STMR or CoW Helm for 6x cap. Also needs 200% TDH (ideally Cloud STMR).

TMR & STMR Evaluation

Seph’s TMR isn’t good and I particularly don’t like the 60% TSW ATK. Like … didn’t Gumi get the memo that we’re not fond of TSW/TDH increments of anything else than 50%? At least the 50% LB is nice but I’d rather not chase that materia.

The STMR is great, however it kind of locks him out of potential killer pieces (not that it’s an issue for him anyway). At 80 ATK it is the highest ATK cloth piece and will certainly see use on other units should they not need the killers from Noctis/Ardyn/IF Rain/Shiva Lasswell for example. The added stop resistance is a nice bonus. And Seph himself also gains 500 Static ATK – buff boi.

Vision Card Evaluation

Hands down the best Vision Card in the game. 125 Base ATK, unconditional 50% LB, unconditional 100% Reaper Killer (P/M). Nobody does it better. 500 Static ATK on top for FF7 units. Too bad it’s locked behind EX 3. I’d love to have 6 of those. But not at that cost. PS.: I pretty much copy-pasta’d it from Tifa. If Gumi carbon copies stuff, so will I!

Damage Calculation & comparison

Physical Team builds (Note: Tifa Builder has too much base ATK, I use her actual ATK value for the calc, which is 9962): Screenshot

Sephiroth Build 1 (Standard, ignore ATK because it’s incorrect)

Sephiroth Build 2 (with CoW Helm, ignore ATK because it’s incorrect)

Magical Team builds: Screenshot

Assumptions:

• 90% DEF/SPR break
• 400% ATK/MAG/SPR Buff
• 300% LB Buff
• 45% Water Amp & 25% Water Imperil Field
• 30% Fire Amp, 25% Fire Amp Field (not for Terra!)
• 45% Light Amp, 25% Light Imperil Field (may be too unrealistic because … Nyx)
• 50% Dark Amp for Seph, he sad
• DV boss at 22.5k DEF/SPR with 60% Passive DEF/SPR, 60% Passive Ele Resistance
• Everybody on the team is geared for max killers possible with nobody getting an unfair advantage (such that Tifa is NOT build against a Beast for example)
• 150% Killer buff is applied (adjustment towards evocation)
• 135% Fire Imperil, 160% Water Imperil (135% 25%), 145% Light Imperil (120% 25%), 125% Dark Imperil
• Dagger/Katana/Sword/Rod/Gun Imperils (Note: Terra has 30% weapon imperil total due to mixed weapons)

Units in Water Team: Tifa, Zidane, Ardyn, Lunafreya

Units in Light Team: Noctis, Cetra Aerith

Units in Fire Team: Vivi, Louise, Terra

Units in Dark Team: Sephiroth

Here are the results at EX 3 shown in millions:

If you’d like to see a screenshot with a few more details, here it is: Picture of it.

I really suggest that you look at the larger picture above because the average damage doesn’t do Sephiroth justice. There are a few things to keep in mind for the calculation and that is the simple fact: We just don’t have a Dark amp field. We also don’t have decent (!) dark imperils. The day we get a viable 130% (no, Gilgamesh is just a meme) or 135% dark imperil or a unit with a dark field, Sephiroth will literally jump ahead of the meta. Just changing the imperil from 125% to 130% already sees his average (!) damage in the CoW Helm build jump by 200 million damage. It’s crazy how well he scales. Add another 25% dark field amp and he jumps to 6.5b damage on average! While the average numbers suggest that Seph is not the prophet in damage done, he actually is when looking at the larger picture, meaning weapon variance. The CoW-variant is 131.55% ahead of Tifa at max variance. And casually double the damage of Zidane.

Content viability

Regarding his shelf-life in Trials: He absolutely destroys trials but there is no phys dps trial coming up. The next one is catered towards magic dps. Cool thing is: I did copy paste this from last week.

Should you pull? I don’t even know why anyone would read this after Sinzar already did all the marketing for Sephiroth LMAO. Just pull. Yeah, but Premium units and idk. It sucks but at least Sephiroth is really worth it. You’ll use this guy for like… at least 6 months and not even think of pulling any other unit because they are inferior. Same applies to Tifa in my opinion. But most people can’t afford both so if you must choose, choose Sephiroth.

Cheers

Livedili

P.S.: Huge thank you to /u/Sinzar_ for helping me out with Seph’s build and determining the ATK stat. <3

P.P.S.: My pulls were absolute shit. 155k to 3k and 2 2(pity) Seph. I am in a super bad mood so if I sound very unfriendly in replies, dont take it personally. Might even quit the game over this.