by Kafka is a 5-star Honkai Star Rail character from the path of Nihility who is highly specialized in Damage Over Time as is the case with other characters such as Sampo or Luka. Which does not mean that she can do a very good standard damage (the damage that is not damage over time come on).
But… the most noteworthy thing to mention about this character is that he enables very powerful teams based on Damage Over Time since he has mechanics to cause more damage depending on all the Damage Over Time that the enemies have, something that at least since The departure of this character is a novelty and gives rise to new team compositions.
For what nothing, we will see as always all his skill kit, Eidolons, Traces… and after this we will tell you what his best Build and his best teams are (we will talk about this Damage Over Time team composition).
ATTRIBUTES OR STATS
These are the Attributes or Stats that Kafka will have at the maximum level:
- HP: 1087
- ATK: 679
- DEF: 485
- SPD: 100
He is a character with quite balanced statistics, although he stands out a bit in ATK. For the rest, he said, very average; he is not a character that stands out too much at least in terms of his stats .
KAFKA’S SKILLS
These are all of Kafka’s Skills. The numbers/percentages are what you have at the lowest level:
BASIC ATK: RIOT AT MIDNIGHT
Deal 50% Lightning Damage to a single enemy of your choice.
BASIC ABILITY: CARESSING MOON
- Basic Skill Point Consumption: 1
Deals 80% Lightning Damage based on its ATK to one target and 30% damage to adjacent enemies. Additionally, if the primary target is affected by Damage Over Time states (DoTs), each of them (even if not applied by her) will deal 60% of the damage they deal immediately (they will not despawn from the enemy).
ULTIMATE ABILITY: DUSK CHIRP
- Energy Cost: 120
Deals 48% Lightning Damage to all enemies and has a base 100% chance to Shock them, an Electric DoT that will deal 116% Damage over 2 turns. We will also deal 80% of the total Shock Damage each enemy possesses immediately.
TALENT: SWEET BUT CRUEL
When a teammate other than Kafka uses Basic ATK, he will perform a Bonus Attack that deals 42% Lightning Damage to the same enemy his teammate attacks. It will also shock him equal to the Ultimate for 2 turns. It can only occur once at most per turn.
TECHNIQUE: MERCY IS NOT FORGIVENESS
Upon entering battle attacks all enemies with Lightning Damage (50% Damage) with a 100% Base Chance to Shock enemies like Ultimate for 2 turns.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
We can unlock them in the Strokes upon reaching a certain Ascension Level.
- Ascension Level 2 – Torture
- When using the Ultimate, enemies will now take immediate damage based on all status ailments they have, instead of only taking into account Electrocution DoTs.
- Ascension Tier 4 – Plunder
- Kafka recovers 5 energy points when eliminating an enemy affected by Electrocution.
- Ascension Tier 6 – Thorns
- Increases Kafka’s Base Chance to apply Shock through his abilities by 30%.
EIDOLON
These are the improvements that the character obtains through the Eidolon:
- E1 – Da Capo : When using the Talent’s Extra Attack, there is a 100% Base Chance to increase the Damage of DoTs taken by the target for 2 turns.
- E2 – Fortississimo : Increases the Damage Over Time received by enemies by 25%.
- E3 – Capriccio : +2 levels to Basic Ability and +1 to Basic ATK.
- E4 – Recitative : Kafka recovers 2 points of energy every time the enemy receives Damage over Time from Electrocution, but only from the Electrocutions applied by her.
- E5 – Painful : +2 levels to Ultimate Ability and +2 to Talent.
- E6 – Leggiero : Kafka’s Shock Damage from his abilities is increased by 156% (added to the percentage he has with those abilities, not multiplied) and also increases the duration of his status ailments by one turn.
His Eidolons are awesome , we will greatly increase the Damage of DoTs that the whole team causes, we will recover energy very easily and in E6 Kafka will deal devastating damage with his DoTs and they will also have a very good duration.
KAFKA’S BEST BUILD
Typical Build of Nihility characters, only since Kafka already has a very good Base Chance (especially when acquiring the last trace) to apply his DoTs, we can take advantage of this to obtain a better Critical balance . In addition, this character will allow us to create very good teams based on Damage Over Time.
BEST LIGHT CONES
These are the best Cones of Light for Kafka sorted from best to worst (they all come highly recommended anyway) and trying to add both 5-star and 4-star options. Here we will list the effects in Level 1 Overlay.
- Just Wait ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: +24% Damage, each wearer’s attack will increase their Speed by 4.8% (max 3 stacks) and 100% Base Chance to affect enemies with “Erosion”, one Damage in Time that is considered Electrocution which will deal 60% Lightning Damage over 1 turn. Erosion cannot stack.
- Good Night, Sleep Well ⭐⭐⭐⭐: +12% damage for each debuff of the enemy you hit (also applies to DoTs damage ). Stacks 3 times.
- In the Name of the World ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: +24% damage to enemies that have a debuff and when using the Basic Ability increases the Effect Hit of said Ability and gains +24% ATK.
- Calderón ⭐⭐⭐⭐: +16% Rupture Effect and +16% Electrocution Damage (Lightning Rupture) and Weather (Wind Rupture). It also increases the Damage of the DoTs of these elements by 16%.
- Prey Vision ⭐⭐⭐⭐: +20% Effect Hit and +24% Damage Over Time.
BEST ARTIFACTS AND ORNAMENTS
We will start with the Artifacts and Ornaments. These are the statistics that we recommend for each piece in order to maximize its damage.
- Torso : Critical Chance / Critical Damage.
- Legs : SPEED.
- Blueprint Sphere : Lightning Damage.
- Binding Rope : Energy Recovery / ATK %
Substats:
- Effect Hit.
- Prob. CRIT.
- CRIT Damage
- SPEED
- ATK %.
His best Artifact Set:
Band of Crackling Thunder
- 2 pieces : +10% Lightning Damage.
- 4 pieces : When the wearer of this set uses their Basic Ability, their ATK is increased by 20% for 1 turn.
His best Ornament Sets:
Space Seal Station
- 2 pieces : +12% ATK and +12% bonus ATK if character has 120 or more SPD.
It will be easy to get to 120 SPD and +24% Attack will come in handy. Even though he is a Nihility character, in this case the Pangalactic Commercial Enterprise set will not spread as much because Kafka does not need as much Effect Hit due to the fact that he has a good Base Chance (especially with the last trace) in the application of their DoTs.
BEST TEAMS
Although you can use Kafka as a Lightning DPS to take advantage of enemy weaknesses, where she excels the most is on specialized Damage Over Time teams .
Damage Over Time Team
These are the characters that are most worth taking along with her:
- Serval : Applies a lot of Shock Damage Over Time.
- Sampo : The same but with Weather.
- Luka : The same but with Bleeding.
- Hook : The same but with Burn, although in his case less because he does not have as much application of this DoT as the others.
For the rest it is the same as always, always accompany it with a Tank like Gepard or Trazacaminos Fuego or a Healer like Luocha or Natasha , to give some examples.
Also, this type of equipment is very good for the Simulated Universe as long as we take the Way and the Blessings of Nihility .
Standard Equipment
Viable for Kafka, but its potential is less exploited.
- 1 Hunting/1 Destruction/1 Erudition : Seele , Blade , Hook, Sushang , Jing Yuan , Serval…
- 1 Harmony/other Nihility : Bronya , Asta , Silver Wolf , Welt …
- Kafka .
- 1 Conservation/1 Abundance : Bailu , Natasha, Gepard, March Seven …
ASCENSION MATERIALS
These are the Character Ascension and Trace Materials that Kafka needs:
- Thief’s Instinct.
- Gloomy Obsidian.
- Staff of the Shapeshifter ( Paralyzed Shadow – Doom Form ).
- Repentance of the Eternal Vehicle of the Soul ( Phantylia the Immortal ).
- Footprints of Fate (for the highest level).
