Serah

Character Notes & Recommendations

Summon Board Passive selections:

• Odin choose 4 / 6 / 7

• Bahamut choose 3 / 4 / 6

• 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 sphere: Focus solely on raw ATK, not Magic ATK, to boost her battery & damage. Her buddy Noel's is best!

• C Sphere: She has encouragement armor. Paladin Cecil, Refined Paladin Cecil are absolutely best and Lilisette is good as well. These should be the only considerations that you need. No others are even remotely close to as strong as these 3 for Encouragement Armor characters.

• E Sphere: Focus solely on raw ATK again (Seymour strikes again), but if you want to give her Quistis mBRV aura, it’s a reasonable alternative.

  • If you'd like her Echo attack to raise her BT effect stacks, drop her an Ultimecia, Relm, Tidus or Setzer sphere! This also means you have to coordinate with the units/calls you pair her with as if she can't inflict a debuff, her stacks will not increase!

How-To-Play Notes

• Open with Paradigm Shift Combo (LD) to gain access to her relevant framed buff and frame all current buffs applied on Wave Start. Future uses of LD should be used to maintain this buff!

  • Note: Using her LD right after applying debuffs will extend them making it tricky for Serah to reapply debuffs if she's too fast.

  • Since all her debuffs are at wave start now, her auras are immediately active after LD. 

• Moonlight (S2) will also be your biggest hitting skill with 5 split HP attacks. It also applies ATK down on enemies and ATK/mBRV up buffs on the party!

• Wound (S1) applies her powerful poison and mBRV Down debuffs. If enemies have too many buffs to place debuffs, Wound now removes 2 buffs from each enemy! This is also best to use if enemies cleanse her debuffs!

• Ultima Arrow (EX) is a single target BRV shave. You want to make sure that the target is broken after the BRV hits, or else you won’t get the 100% splash. This recharges in 2 skill uses.

• Advance All (AA) is useful before Force Time to give allies a little more boosts!

• Feral Link Reunion (BT) provides a strong BT effect where Serah's support skyrockets. To get it's full effect Serah will need to take 2 extra turns inflicting debuffs each turn to get 3 stacks. (Again note, using LD right after BT or during BT phase may risk being unable to inflict debuffs if Serah is too fasts or enemies are delayed too much as LD extends her debuffs 1T and she can't replace them. Some of you who tried using her in DE:T Tier 9 mid remember).

  • It also let's lightning steal more turns in spirit as she provides Serah an extra 3 HP attacks to enemies. 

• Wound Torrent (FR) asks for:

  • Target a debuffed enemy on turn (5% per debuff, 40% max)

  • Battery the party on turn (20% for allies, 40% for Serah)

  • Serah can comfortably raise her FR bonus by 80% while allies can only hope for 60%.

  • She also has a unique FR time effect where allies will gain BRV after using HP attacks which can be great for allies who don't do so already.