Dislyte, the gacha-style squad-based sci-fi game, makes you put together a team of Espers to battle in various scenarios. New Espers are released regularly, and there are now more than 80 to potentially choose from when setting up your squad. With limited resources available, it can be hard to know what to do for the ones you have.
Every boss, whether in the Sonic or Ritual Miracle, needs a different strategy to defeat it. Then there are the Tower, Story, and Cube battles, which all offer different line-ups of enemy Espers to encounter. While fighting your peers in PvP to rise to the top of the Point War levels takes next-level tactics to succeed. You need to build each Esper correctly to suit your style, or you won’t fulfill your squad’s potential. If you’re working on a build for Nick, we’re here to help.
Nick’s Abilities And Strengths
The 3.1.1 patch introduced Nick alongside Gaius and Li Guang. He’s listed as a Controller Esper and has a set of skills perfect for particular situations. He won’t make it into all of your squads. But in certain moments, you’ll find him invaluable.
- Skyfall (cooldown: 4-5 turns): Skyfall targets all enemies, dealing up to 120 percent damage to each on successful hits. In addition, anyone hit loses any Shield they have up, silencing them for two turns. Any enemy Silenced by Nick also adds 10 percent to his AP.
- Landslide (cooldown: 4-5 turns): Attacks an enemy twice, with both strikes dealing up to 120 percent of his ATK skill as damage. Each hit also has a 60 percent chance to extend all the target’s ability cooldowns by one turn.
Once Nick is Ascended to level three, a successful Landslide also reduces his cooldowns by one turn.
- Stone fists (basic attack): Attacks a single target for up to 120 percent of ATK damage. A successful hit also has up to a 60 percent chance of inflicting DEF Down on the enemy.
- Captain Ability: increase all ally Espers’ DEF by 24 percent.
If Nick can act before your opponent and your damage dealers, he can be devastating – especially in PvP, The Tower, and the Cube, where you’re more likely to come up against Shielded opponents. Silence stops your enemies from using anything other than their basic attacks, so again is best utilized versus Esper enemies. While his main abilities have long timers, he makes up for that with Skyfall having a good chance to increase his own AP.
Resonance: Which Statistics Should I Increase?
You can ignore ATK; Nick isn’t in your squad for his damage-dealing potential. Concentrate on HP or DEF Instead. We’d suggest HP because some Resonance Talents really play to Nick’s strengths. Good HP examples are Targeted Constraints (ACC up), Accurate Aim (miss chance down), and Hasty Action (SPD buff when you have cooldowns).
Which Relic Sets Are Best For Nick?
You’ll want to act quickly and get those cooldowns reduced so that your big attacks can land more than once per battle. You’re going to need those attacks to land.
- Wind Walker (Una): Increases SPD by 25 percent.
- Ocean Waves (Una): 30 percent chance each turn to reduce your cooldowns.
- Apollo’s Bow (Mui): Increases your ACC by 25 percent.
You're unlikely to look beyond Wind Walker or Ocean Waves for your four-relic Una set. But if you already have strong ACC via Relic sub-stats, there are lots of other interesting options. Defensively, you can opt for Stoneveins (25 percent DEF). There's also The Light Above (Immunity in turn one) or Immensus Peak (25 percent extra RESIST) if you don’t have the SPD you really want to guarantee that first strike. There’s little worse than being Silenced by an opposing Nick in turn one.
Relic Stats And Sub-Stats
To be truly efficient, Nick needs to get his silencing Skyfall attack off as quickly as possible. Knowing that, the SPD stat is of the essence. Make sure you get that in as the main stat on your Mui II Relic and as many others as you can as a sub-stat. There’s no point acting quickly if the debuffs don’t land, so get as much ACC as a sub-stat as possible (over 80 percent total if you can). Beyond that, you want to keep him in the game, so give him as much HP percentage, DEF percentage, and RESIST as you can find.
How To Play As Nick
Nick is best deployed in teams that start fast and get faster, doing quick damage and buffing AP so that his devastating specials can have the strongest effect. Players who like certainties should probably avoid him, as battles may hinge on how well his initial Silence attack with Skyfall lands. But when it does, you’ll be smiling across at an impotent enemy. Nick does the best in Cube and Tower (Infinite Miracle) battles and (especially defensive) PvP teams.