Watcher Schuri Review: "Did you wear a shield?.."

We are glad today to finally step into one of the most wonderful classic DPS of all E7 time, Watcher Schuri aka the Tank Killer.

Well known for his abilities to trigger some one-shot kill way over 20K+ damage with full buffs on, he has also good utility for your team.

And this mean as well can potentially save a lot of time on your PvP fights with the right team composition.

But you are going to need top stats, a fully maxed s3 and few specific buddies to ensure he won't die before he moves.

Flash News TIP: The new Adventurer content gives actually a very decent starter ATTACK / CRITICAL CHANCE sets reward for early use.

We advise you to replace the Critical Damage% necklace by any Critical Chance% if the overall stats doesn't roll into 100% critical chance - which is a must.

The PROS:

- A one-shot tank killer in PvP offence, elemental advantage. Both Arena and GB.

- Has Speed Imprints, which can be crucial addition to your fast PvP team.

- Awakening gives good critical chance bonuses.

- Early build easy to obtain with current Adventurer's reward (Attack/Critical Chance sets).

- All skills synergise perfectly to optimise damage at each turn in between target debuffs, AOE dispel one buff and ignores defence ability.

- S3 shoots a magic bullet at the enemy, penetrating their Defenses. Skill cooldown is decreased by 2 turns with soulburn (-10 Souls)

- S2 shoots all enemies with a rifle, with a 75-90% chance to dispel one buff. The caster is granted increased Speed for 2 turns.

- S1 shoots the enemy with a rifle with a 35-50% chance to target them for 2 turns.

- Actually a very decent PvE unit with relevant utility for your team in different content.

The CONS:

- Needs end-game stats and s3 fully maxed to be used.

- Low Def and Attack stats.

- Need 100% critical chance to be optimal - and top damage stats to one-shot.

- Even with Oak Key, can still miss if there is an Assassin Cartuja involved in opponent's team.

- Need some ML buddies like Auxiliary Lots, Ruele or Crimson Armin to be usable in Guild Battles.

- Even with 90% chance of his s2, you still need 60% effectiveness at least to see him dispelling something.

The SET:

It is really a matter of stats at the end of the day. Destruction should be optimal but you can use any other damage type set helping you to reach the stats required.

Your main focus is to get 100% critical chance at first, no matter you are using few broken sets.

Now, if you can go either Attack / Destruction with Critical / Immunity set and obtain 100% critical chance with a Critical Damage% Necklace = Bingo!

Otherwise you will use a Critical Chance% Necklace and focus all other gears have high Attack % -> Critical Damage% stats.

The early STATS (based on Adventurer 70 level+ epic gears, maxed at 15 with Critical Chance% Necklace):

Note: Few of us have maxed the Adventurer set and none could reach 100% critical chance with the whole subs (even having fully awaken W.Schuri to 6 stars for additional critical chance bonus). Maybe you will get luckier on the rolls.

- Speed: 120+

- HP: 9K+

- DEF: 700+

- Att: 3K+

- Crit chance: 100%

- Critical Damage: 200%+

All other stats are a bonus.

At that point, you are able to deal 11K+ damage without buff and about 15K+ damage with.

So bear in mind you won't be able to one shot a tanky support in end game PvP / but will act well as a finisher if you have another damage dealer going first.

End game stats:

You will need at best a Destruction set (or Attack) with a Critical Damage% Necklace. You should aim for 3K attack / 100% crit and 290%+ crit damage minimum.

Then you will be dealing about 15K+ damage without buff and around 22K+ damage with it.

***About Speed set: Some build Watcher Schuri with speed but it is more about using his Speed imprint and give him the role of a finisher - not a one-shot nuker. Not our favourite build.

The ARTEFACTS:

- Portrait of the Savior: Increases damage dealt by 10 -20% if the enemy's Health is more than 50%.

By far, the best overall for PvP nuke.

- Oath Key: Decreases chance of missing by 10-20%.

This is what you need against Assassin Cartuja comps to increase your chance of not missing your shots.

- Exorcist'sTonfa: Increases damage dealt by 8-16% when the enemy's Health is more than 50%.

If you missed Portrait of the Savior, Tonfa is the way to go.

His Good PvP offence Buddies:

- Auxiliary Lots is the ultimate buddy because you can build W.Schuri very slow and fat. We like a fast C.Armin to cover him up or/and a Ruele.

- A slow and fat Challenger Dominiel in Arena with 2 AOE with high critical chance can help you to bring a Watcher Schuri with about 70% critical chance only (see below).

SPOILER / Some End Game Arena offence set up:

i.e. Celeste (S3) / Normal Schuri or any AOE (Bellona, Luluca for def break or even Dizzy (S2 first) / C.Domi / Watcher Schuri.

Need full speed imprints on Celeste / Watcher Schuri / Shuri if used..

Need high critical chance and speed on Celeste and Dizzy / Schuri.

This actually works wonder as it allows you to bring C.Domi and Watcher Shuri slow and fat (needs only 70%+ crit chance, can focus on att/crit damage then) when the comp is well built in terms of speed and critical chance. Can outspeed some annoying Ml Baal / Dizzy / ML Ara comps and get rid of it easily.

If you can kill the threat on C.Domi first turn, you can even use S2 first on W.Schuri to boost C.Domi back quickly if your Celeste is already about to take her second turn.

The Verdict:

Watcher Schuri can handle some PvE if you need a main DPS early on, but you will find plenty of much more useful and efficient units for that.

So he remains a perfect one-shot killer against Ruele / C.Armin / Krau / Ken compositions, and there are plenty out there in Arena and GB.

Definitely worth everyday the six stars to get rid of those PvP nightmares in a trigger's glimpse.

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