SemmelweisBuild and Guide

Semmelweis is a 6-star Mineral Reality character who functions as an damage-buffing Support. She provides powerful buffs at the cost of HP—a kit befitting of a vampire.

Semmelweis’ buff incantation “Proper Means” grants everyone a DMG Dealt buff and allows her to designate one ally as [Fresh Blood]: before actively casting an incantation, this ally loses some HP and gains +15% Critical Rate for this action. Semmelweis drains her own HP, too—her basic attack “Iron Nameplate” has very high multipliers at the cost of 10% of her Current HP.

All of these instances of HP drain allow Semmelweis’ teammates to take full advantage of her [Blood Domain] Array. Under [Blood Domain], allied characters gain DMG Taken Reduction and +5% DMG Bonus for each 10% of their HP they are missing. Semmelweis creates this Array through her Ultimate, “As the Moon Rises,” which drains 20% of all allies’ Current HP and causes her to enter the [Feral] status for 3 rounds—the same duration as her Array. During these 3 rounds, [Feral] causes Semmelweis to cast a mass attack [Truth Revealed] at the end of each round. [Truth Revealed] scales by +30% Reality DMG per instance of HP loss when characters take action, stacking up to a whopping +600% for a total multiplier of 680% at 20 stacks (which is admittedly very difficult to achieve).

A powerful support whose DMG Bonus and Critical Rate buffs can aid the vast majority of DPS characters, Semmelweis is a universally applicable teammate for players looking to increase their team’s damage in exchange for survivability. Semmelweis also enables the new self-damage team archetype by providing a potent payoff for HP drain through [Blood Domain]’s strong DMG Bonus scaling. Although primarily an offensive support, Semmelweis certainly doesn’t lack in the damage department herself. On top of that, Semmelweis has plenty of Moxie to set up her Array. Her Insight I continues the trend of Ultimate-Array casters gaining +3 Moxie when entering battle first seen in Getian’s kit. However, unlike her predecessor, she gains +1 Moxie upon casting her Ultimate, allowing her to comfortably recast her Array every 3 turns without needing to move incantations or refresh her 2-turn buff prematurely.

By casting her buff and attack incantations on Round 1, Semmelweis can cast her Ultimate as early as Round 2. After that, she can achieve 100% uptime on [Blood Domain] by reapplying [Fresh Blood] every other turn and attacking 2–3 times between each Ultimate to replenish Moxie.

In conclusion, Semmelweis is a formidable Support character who is relatively simple to play. If you have some extra Stamina, like playing self-damaging characters, or are in need of some extra damage, consider building your free copy of Semmelweis.