Crown Analysis and Theorycraft – Should You Pull? | Nikke: Goddess of Victory (2024)

Note: This was made first day of release of Crown (best girl). A more detailed analysis and guide will be published once testing has been done after her release.

Basic Information

Skills

Skill 1: One for All

Activates at the start of Full Burst. Affects all allies who previously cast their Burst Skills.
ATK ▲ 64.51% of caster’s ATK for 15 sec.
Reloading Speed ▲ 44.35% for 15 sec
Affects all allies who did not previously cast their Burst Skills.
DEF ▲ 37.44% of caster’s DEF for 15 sec.
Reloading Speed ▲ 44.35% for I5 sec.

Absolutely MEATY skill (well, everything in her kit is absolutely busted). High ATK buffs for 15s, which is full uptime for B1 and BII supports but around 60%~ for Burst III’s that burst because of 40s Cool down.

Since Def attack is only 0.66x of an attacker on equal investment dupes, realistically this buff would be around 42%, which is still definitely huge. Her reload speed buff is also extremely neat, especially when paired with reload teams (Privaty team). Crown is one of the very rare Nikkes that increase team reload speed (Privaty, Admi, Anis: Sparkling Summer). This allows better team building, and early game instant reload teams. Reload speed above 100% allows for instant reloads, which can benefit reload reliant Nikkes such as Scarlet and Modernia.

Def is pretty useless but, it is high enough where it might provide a whooping (3%~) damage reduction for the team.

Skill 2: Royal Attire

Activates after 43 normal attack(s).Affects self.
Relax: HP Potency ▲ 4.06% continuously. stacks up to 20 time(s).
Activates when Relax is fully stacked. Affects self after the stacks are removed.
Invulnerable for 5 sec.
Attract: Taunt all enemies for 5 sec.
Recovers 5.23% of the caster’s final Max HP as HP
Activates when recovery takes effect Affects all allies.
Attack Damage ▲ 20.99% for 7 sec.

A pretty nifty skill. But first, lets get into the fire rate of MG/s to properly explain this skill

MG’s have a fire rate of 60/s, and can be lower depending on frame rate. As lower frame rate results in lower firing speed.

At consistent 60 FPS, and with enough ammo, she’s able to proc her “relax” state every 14s~. Her taunt will realistically last around 7 ish seconds due to “lingering effects”, but her invincibility does not share this.

Her HP Potency will max out at 81.2%, which will also directly improve her self healing. Crown will heal herself for 9.4%~ every 14s~, which isn’t the greatest healing, but her skill also improves incoming healing from other Nikkes as well, not to mention that she has invulnerability on herself for around 1/3’rd uptime, which might be able to allow her to self sustain in some boss fights.

Her recovery effect that increases ATK Damage ONLY takes effect if healing is targeting CROWN or her skill 2 self proc occurs. group healing does NOT proc this skill, or so that’s said from the skill description. Group healing still manages to proc the skill, via life stealing or pure healing. It is unsure what is meant from this skill and more testing will be done.

Burst: Last Kingdom

Affects all allies.
Attack Damage ▲ 36.24% for 15 sec.
Creates a Shield equal to 10.45% of the caster’s final Max HP for I5 sec.

Simple. But extremely powerful burst. Basically a permanent attack damage buff as Crown has a unique 15s buff as opposed of 5s or 10s.

Crown’s shields may be rather “small” but any shield is enough to protect a Nikke from fatal damage once. Her Shield works similarly to Tia, and will proc skills that Tia also procs (Naga)

Campaign

Crown has an extremely interesting case use scenario. In fact, she may be part of the BEST campaign clearing team as of right now. Just because of her massive buffs being tied to only one character, not only that, she can take advantage of another extremely meta burst II Nikke, which is Naga.

Crown can proc Naga’s skill 2 passive, which is an amazing buff for the meta sniper Nikkes and Modernia. Not only that, she has 5s invulnerability taunt, which can be heavily utilized in boss waves. Although she may proc taunt in unwanted times, DPS should be more than plenty to take care of waves that might attack her prior to target wave. it also helps that crown can still stack her skill two by shooting into AIR, which would make proc’ing her invulnerability and skill 2 damage up much easier prior to boss wave

Crown would replace Tia in campaign clearing teams due to her buffs being simply much better.

Crown/Naga Team (Liter BI Variant)

Expected to be the general meta team for crown. Insane damage and versatility. Modernia can be replaced with Alice

Crowns Burst will always be a priority to use over Naga, as Naga’s most wanted buffs are tied to her skill 1 and 2 passives.

Crown/Naga Team (Solo Red Hood Burst I)

Veterans and leaderboard clearers are expected to use this team in campaign. Despite being a solo burst I, thanks to Red hoods refresh on CD, 3 full burst rotations should be rather possible and smooth using this team.

for more details, check this section for Red hood for better understanding of this play style

Generalist Team

A more traditional 1-1-3 team burst formation. This enables instant reloads for Modernia and Scarlet when using the resilience cube on them. Crown can still take advantage of her recovery effect by abusing shooting into air to get stacks prior to final rapture wave.

Liter can be substituted for Red hood for burst generation and bigger attack buff if needed.

B III replacements will be your preferred DPS’s.

Arena

MGs need a really good kit to be viable in PvP, due to almost nonexistant burst gen, getting deleted by Scarlet and walled by Emma and Diesel, but Crown’s kit may just be strong enough to function despite all of these drawbacks.

The invulnerability with taunt would be good if it wasn’t locked behind 30 seconds of non-stop shooting in Arena. Her buffing capabilities, however, look very promising: up to 57% of Attack Damage if you run a healer, a shield and extra Attack to every ally that used their Burst, so she can find use on nuke teams as a better Blanc buffer as long as you don’t need Blanc’s indom.

For Defense, she has a lot of drawbacks, but Biscuit can allow her to live for long enough to use her burst, even if facing a Scarlet. This will need some proper testing to see if people can find Defense comps where she’s viable.

Overall, she looks promising despite being an MG, and is yet another unit to keep the theorycrafters busy

Special Interception | Solo Raid | Union Raid

Special Interception

Despite having no healing, Crown is still be able to be an extremely solid pick against most bosses. With the only boss she might not be able to manage alone being blacksmith. She would need a pseudo healer to be able to survive a full round with it. and to a much lesser extent, Modernia.

Otherwise, Crown should be able to demolish all other Special interception bosses due to the massive DPS buffs she’s able to provide. Crown is also extremely friendly early game (If the user has Scarlet/Privaty/Other DPS pilgrims) Due to her reload speed buff. Pair her with Privaty and most of the drawbacks of those reload reliant characters are completely GONE without needing overloaded gear/end game gear.

Crown/Naga team

Similarly to campaign, this team can easily be used for special interception as well.

Burst I Replacements: Dorothy, Any CDR
Burst III replacements: Alice, Scarlet, Any of your preferred DPS

Solo Raid | Union Raid

Crown capabilities herself can out support the bunny duo ALONE. This easily makes her team 2, slightly below Tia Naga team if there is a core to take advantage of. Otherwise, Crown would be similar or slightly better.

She’d fit mostly into Dorothy teams due to her ability to buff Dorothy’s Burst via attack buff. however her ATK damage up is still unable to. Depending on the fight, the player may not need to run a healer if the player can micromanage well, and how oppressive the boss is. This is due to her taunting ability, invulnerability, and full team shields (More useful than you think)

Her team will need a burst generator, Sniper rifles such as Maxwell, Alice, Red hood or Rocket launchers. More testing would be needed to solidify her raid team / add more possible teams

Infinite Reload Team (Dorothy)

Possible BIII Pairs:

• Scarlet: Black Shadow, Alice
• Maxwell, Modernia (Modernia does not Burst)
• Snow white, Maxwell (If boss has many parts)
• Preferred DPS’s

As mentioned earlier, Pairing Priv with Crown and Resilience cubes will enables infinite uptime teams on burst. Visual example should explain everything.

Should yo– Yes, you should pull.

Pull. Don’t brick your account, have at least one of her. She’s pretty much the best Burst II Nikke as of right now. Don’t even wait for full review (I will still do it anyways)

You know what, Pull her future Costume gacha skin too.

MLB is not very needed as a most of her damage buffs are from skill 2 and burst as a f2p, which are not scaled from her stats. she is not very dupe reliant, and is PERFECTLY fine at 1 copy. However whales and dolphins are very free to MLB+ her anyways

P.S DO NOT OVERLOAD HER FOR NOW, specifically when wanting to pair her with Naga teams. She won’t lose much value if not OL’d. This is because Naga is unable to heal her consistently due to her not having the “lowest” value HP if everyone is at full health. This shouldn’t be an issue in solo raids, but might be gimp/nerf when using her in normal boss fights (depending). More thoughts will be put on this topic in the full review. If not using her with Naga teams, feel free to OL Helmet/Gloves.

Expected Ratings

Rather rough estimations of ratings for Crown.

Skill Priority (Expected)