Astos

Character Notes & Recommendations

Summon Board Passive selections:

• Odin choose 4 / 6 / 7

• Bahamut choose 3 / 4 / 5

• Usuals: 

  • Ifrit, Shiva, Ramuh, Brothers 4 / 5 / 7

  • Leviathan, Pandemonium, Diabolos, Alexander 4 / 5 / 6

• For more details and help with summons, check Summon Hub!

Sphere Recommendations

• A Spheres - mBRV spheres to help his overhead. ATK + mBRV sphere are ideal as he does need to do a few BRV hits to raise his Dark Matter. 

  • Sephiroth is the easiest to get and the best boost (ATK & mBRV)

  • Firion, Zidane, Agrias are comfy 10% mBRV spheres.

  • Yang, Terra, Sabin, Shantotto, Ace & Twins are a little riskier but he can trigger these before his burst phase if any target is broken or you get a lucky crit.

  • Stacking sphere ("up to 5 times") effects aren't as great as he's dealing BRV hits about 4 times in a fight ideally.

• Here's our Sphere Hub page to check more conditions. 

How-To-Play Notes

• Almost all of his HP attacks are based of Dark Matter. Dark Matter is his special effect (above his head) and stores the amount of BRV DMG he does (up to his mBRV). It is cut in half when Astos is broken. Open with LD and he will use FR and BT (order may vary) and how you decide to obliterate enemy HP is up to you. BT phase, share turns, Luna LDCA and delete in a few turns, the world is his plaything.

  • He still respects his HP DMG Limit (99,999 base) and can snapshot his FR's HP DMG Limit if he lacks BT (359,999 base w/ boards, just don't let him do HP attack mid launch). With BT effect active his damage based on Dark matter is uncapped (meaning he only respects the 999,999 hard limit). 

  • This also means he does not benefit from mechanics looking for an HP DMG Limit like Quina. He also needs a lot of mBRV and HP DMG Up to reach the hard 999,999 limit because if he has low Dark Matter, it will be much harder.

• You will also either rely on his own Force Time, spam echoes early and use his BT phase to kill stompable enemies (like you could do already) or you'd need an incredibly generic FR for Astos and allies to take advantage of. 

• Dark Thrust (S1) is 10 ST HP attacks based on Dark Matter (250%)

• Dark Slash (S2) is 5 AoE HP attacks based on Dark Matter (250%)

• Dark Warhammer (EX) is 9 ST HP attacks based on dark matter (300%) + 1 splash. Grants his EX buff: [Suffering of Fools]