Garland
Character Notes & Recommendations
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Numbers listed below refer to the 7 passives to select for each Ultimate Summon Board for the character. Top is 1, bottom is 7.Odin choose 3 / 6 / 7
Bahamut choose 4 / 5 / 6
Usuals:
Ifrit, Shiva, Ramuh, Brothers 4 / 5 / 7
Leviathan, Pandemonium, Alexander, Diabolos 4 / 5 / 6
For more details and help with summons, check Summon Hub!
Sphere Recommendations
NOTE: The sphere letters below are hyperlinked to our Sphere Hub which lists all available spheres sorted by effect!A Sphere - Melee Attacker that wants ATK or BRV DMG Spheres. Melee ATK is fine as well.
How-To-Play Notes
Make sure you maintain his overhead buff, don’t let the stacks reset! EX starts fully charged now so feel free to press it for an immediate AoE delay.
With Chains of Time, Garland will do his follow-up attack whenever he performs an HP attack.
Soul of Conflict allows Garland to delay any enemy that his attacks hit by 1T (including splash)!
As long as you spam skills, you’ll never lose this buff, since Garland’s EX recharges in 2 skills. The rest of this advice assumes you have this buff, since you should never lose it.
Use your free skills on Round Edge+ - it’s an AoE BRV shave & AoE delay.
Soul of Chaos+ is a single target BRV shave & single target delay.
Disaster of Chaos recharges in 2 skills as stated above. It hits hardest if Garland has a lot of BRV before hand due to the refund between HP attacks.
Set Soul of Conflict BRV Up can just be used before you burst for the ATK boost or before you use EX for the BRV gain.
BT Phase suggestion: AA > BT: EX (since you usually have battery) > LD > S1 > S1 > S2 > HP > BT+
Garland’s BT effect is one of the strongest in the entire game but be wary of enemies that warp or turn jump, as they will reset his BT effect stack back to 1
Friend Garland: BT > 4x LD