VerinaBuild and Guide

Verina is a 5-star Spectro Rectifier Generalist Support who brings a wide array of buffs and healing utilities for her teammates, making her fit into a staple archetype desired in any and every team composition. Like other characters of her archetype, the buffs she applies are granted to other teammates even upon switching out, and in her case apply to the whole team simultaneously. Verina presents herself as a generalist that’s not only extremely easy to use and understand, but also incredibly quick and effective with buffs that practically have indefinite uptime, as well as surprisingly potent heals and a cheat death mechanic that allows for a much smoother experience in endgame content.

Her kit is centered around her Outro skill: she wants to access it as quickly as possible in order to leave the field by providing the surprisingly amazing 15% team-wide all-type DMG amplify for 30s, as well as continuous healing based on her ATK to any character that is or comes on the field for 6s. She has many tools to assist her in that regard.

Her Forte Circuit is the biggest contributor: With 4 stacks that can be generated by her Intro skill (which isn’t used), but also her Resonance Skill and her fifth Basic Attack. She consumes them with either Mid-Air Attacks or Heavy Attacks in order to generate a huge amount of Concerto Energy, and some good bits of healing based on her ATK for your whole party at the same time. These will pretty much always be consumed with Mid-Air Attacks, as Heavy Attacks are too slow in comparison, her Intro Skill is not worth the use, and you want to spend the least time possible on the field with Verina in order to have your higher-damaging characters take up that time instead.

Her Resonance Skill and Basic Attacks are simple damaging hits that look like there isn’t much to be said about them; however, her Resonance Skill generates a surprisingly big amount of Resonance Energy, which is a useful tool when you lack in Energy Regen on Verina (which you should aim to build as high as possible). Additionally, her Basic Attack sequence starts from the third instead of the first if you use them after switching into Verina without an Intro, a quirk we will make extensive use of in all of her rotations.

Finally, her Ultimate deals some Coordinated Attacks for 12s, with damage you can very much ignore entirely (Verina pretty much always totaling to a ridiculous 1-1.5% of a full team’s total damage), but this feature is noteworthy as it provides a useful synergy with Jinhsi (a top tier DPS), and additionally heals your whole party for a good amount of her ATK.

On top of this, her Inherent Skill provides an additional buff: every time Verina heals, she’s able to provide a 20% team-wide ATK buff for 20 seconds. As if her Outro skill buff wasn’t good enough already, on top of being able to support your team further with the Rejuvenating Glow set and their buffing 4-cost Echoes (mostly Fallacy of No Return). All of these buffs that apply to the whole team are extremely universal and are stats close to any character will want, hence she falls in the Generalist Support archetype, and due to the strength of her buffs she’s able to slot in literally any team. A super strong niche in the current meta.

This entire kit is extremely easy to play around: simply swap into her and perform your Basic Attacks, then use your Skill, then your Ultimate, then get rid of your Forte stacks and use her Echo in the meantime, and you’re already good to swap out. This sequence is extremely easy to remember, execute and is also incredibly effective. Verina indeed is one of the characters with the shortest rotation time in the game; in fact, as of the current patch, she accesses her Outro the fastest of any character in the game, even above top tier beasts like Sanhua, and above any other generalist supports like Shorekeeper and Baizhi. This makes her incredible for high-level quickswap gameplay compared to her generalist support peers, her Coordinated Attacks are favorable for Jinhsi teams, and the healing and damage buffs she provides are extremely efficient. As a result, Verina is one of the top tier characters in the game, sitting comfortably at the top of the meta, only lagging behind Shorekeeper in buff strength which she makes up for with her halved rotation time compared to her.

Verina’s only real flaw is that her Intro Skill is unusable. It sends her flying into the air for a short bit, something she doesn’t desire as she wants to stay grounded to perform the rest of her kit, such as her Resonance Skill, Ultimate and Basic Attacks to generate Forte stacks. Additionally, it places her in an awkward spot compared to simply swapping into her and starting her Basic chain from the third attack, having to start from the first which effectively slows her down significantly. As a result, you’ll often end up casting one of your characters’ Intro twice when she’s on the team, which is pretty much never really problematic and in fact decently welcome. Nonetheless, if she had a powerful Outro like Shorekeeper, Verina would undoubtedly be even stronger than she currently is - which is, as stated prior, extremely strong. Without a doubt, in spite of this flaw, a top tier character.

To summarize, Verina is, for all intents and purposes, a top tier character. Only lagging behind Shorekeeper in buff strength (who she suffers a lot of comparison from), she makes up for it by having a significantly shorter field time than any other generalist support in the game; a niche welcome in quickswap teams where she is often preferred. Besides, the comparison between the two is only a minor difference in total team damage; Verina is comfortably at the top of the meta, and that shouldn’t change any time soon. From a pure meta perspective, she is without a doubt one of the most essential characters to build on your account.