VilaBuild and Guide

Vila is a 6-star Arcanist of the Plant Afflatus. She’s an excellent all-around support who can heal, purify negative statuses, generate Moxie, and provide significant damage buffs through her critical support skills, making her one of the most versatile supports in the game. When you look at her skills, you’ll notice she is the first Arcanist we’ve received who has no attack incantation and instead focuses entirely on the support role. 

Starting with her ultimate, it provides a status that her Insight and other skills will reference. Her ultimate is a powerful mass buff that dispels all negative effects from allies, enhances preexisting effects generated by her other skills, and grants the crucial status [Rusalka] to Vila. 

[Rusalka] is a vital status that buffs Vila’s incantations and provides her Insights with extra abilities.

Her first skill, “Beating Heart,” is a single-target buff that, while beneficial for everyone, is more geared toward Mental DMG support. This skill provides [Song of Generosity] which greatly increases Critical Rate and Critical DMG, with an additional focus on Mental DMG characters, it lasts for two rounds. It also provides [Power Burst], a simple 25% DMG boost. When she is in [Rusalka] status, this ability becomes even more powerful, as she will apply [Song of Passion] instead. This buffed version of the song provides extra DMG to the holder depending on the rank of the incantation they cast.

Vila’s other skill, “Wordless Song,” is a simple single-target heal that also provides sturdiness and which again receives a buff if she is in [Rusalka] status. The buffed version additionally recovers HP to the ally with the lowest HP percentage (similar to Yenisei’s “Words of Water”).

In line with her moveset, her Insights are also focused on support. Her Insight gives her Moxie when she enters battle, and the amount she gains is increased by one for every Mental DMG ally on her team, up to 2. If she’s in [Rusalka] status at the start of any round, she’ll also gain a [Precast] Versatile incantation “Song of Inspiration”. It can be used without any AP cost, and grants Moxie +1 and Eureka +1 to one ally of choice. Her Insight III is another great passive and further demonstrates how AP-friendly she is. If she hasn’t cast anything, allies will simply receive free healing, and that value increases even more with [Rusalka].

Vila is the first character in the game who doesn’t attack at all. While that might seem a downside, it works quite well for her and makes her a great match in AP-greedy setups. She is a great healer, similar to Tooth Fairy in some ways, except she’s more focused on single-target. Her active and passive healing are effective, she has a mass purification skill, and she is a great match for any mental or crit-based allies. She even provides Eureka. While being a jack-of-all-trades is typically not ideal in other cases, as it’s too spread out, Vila excels in everything she does, making her one of the best supports in the game so far.