Table of Contents
- Team Building Short Guideline (Important)
- Elysion
- Missilis
- Tove
- Tove Shotgun Team (Bosses)
- Tetra
- Complete Box
- Incomplete Box
- Stages with mobs
- 1 vs 1 Boss fights
- Pilgrim
Changelog (November 29)
- Added Missing Nikkes / New team comps
- Added Roles
- Added short team building guideline
Tribe Tower first unlocks after clearing Campaign 3-3.
Manufacturer Tower only allows units from the corresponding Manufacturer to be used, hence the point of writing this article. For normal Tribe Tower, follow the regular Team Composition guide instead.
Team Building Short Guideline (Important)
- Team at least wants to have a full burst rotation every <20s. Which means each burst slot (I, II, III) should have at least 1 20s CD Nikke, or 2+ 40s CD Nikkes.
- Team at least wants 1 Buffer, 1 Cool down reduction Nikke, 2+ DPS, a healer (for boss purposes only) and a AoE burst screen wipe. 1 Nikke can fill 2 roles.
- Burst generators are highly recommended, but not mandatory. One of these Nikkes want to be in your team if possible. See more about burst generation here.
- Elysion Tower sucks, so don’t fret if its the lowest floor out of the bunch by far (・ω<)
Elysion
| Burst 1 | Burst 2 | Burst 3 | Burst 3 | Sub |
Role: Buffer | Role: CDR (Limited) | Role: AoE Stun, Buffer | Role: DPS | Role: AoE wipe |
Role: Buffer | Role: Elem, AoE wipe | Role: DPS | Role: Healer (Bosses) | |
Role: Healer (Bosses) | Role: Burst generator |
Elysion Tower is the hardest tower to climb, due to the lack of strong carry units and poor burst gen. For stages where healing is required, bring Helm or Emma instead of Soline.
Miranda is the only viable B1 unit, since she has a 20s CD burst compared to Emma with a 40s CD and Neon with a much worse burst compared to Miranda.
The top Burst 2 Pick for Elysion would be Helm: Aquamarine since she’s the sole Nikke who can provide CDR in the Elysion Tower, however she’s Limited. This leads us to Mast being the only other viable burst 2 Nikke buffer in normal stages. She’s able to buff Guillotine’s DPS potential greatly. Although she’s doesn’t pair too well with Soline as Mast’s max HP buff negates Soline’s Full HP requirement for her own buffs. Diesel can be used with enemies with hit count shields start appearing in tribe tower. Signal, and Eunwha are your only other options and they really don’t do anything, use them as last resort.
Privaty is the top B3 option here, providing a crucial stun from her burst and decent damage when activating her last bullet effect while the elite mob/boss is stunned. Guillotine closely following, she’s able to dish out high ST DPS, although needs some time to ramp up her ATK buffs via health drain. D can be used for boss fights with parts, such as Land Eater.
Quiry is a good B3 option since she provides decent burst gen if you rapid fire her normal attacks. While being having a pretty massive burst heal.
Sub options are Maiden, Helm and Poli. Maiden is used for AOE wave clear in early game (she probably can’t kill mobs in later stages since you won’t be investing in her). Helm is used for boss fights when you need some amount of life-steal to sustain. Poli is used for her ATK buff and shield, which can be useful to burst down a target by using Poli’s burst and Privaty’s burst+last bullet effect.
Missilis
| Burst 1 | Burst 2 | Burst 3 | Burst 3 | Sub |
Role: CDR, Buffer | Role: Burst Generator | Role: DPS, Buffer | Role: Burst, Buffer | Role: DPS |
Role: Buffer, Shielder (Pair with Naga + Another B1) | Role: Buffer, Healer | Role: AoE Wiper | Role: Healer (Boss) | |
Role: Burst Generator | Role: Buffer | Role: AoE Wiper (Kinda) | Role: Shotgun Team (Bosses only) |
Tia (Can’t be run solo) and Naga are a top pick pair here due to their massive DPS buffs. Tia needs a bit of manual play (or lack thereof) to control her full screen taunts so she doesn’t immediately get perished by the raptures looking at her. Since Tia is a Re-enter burst 1 Nikke, Another Burst I needs to be slotted, and the no brain pick is Liter due to her CDR and ATK buffs. The next best option is Jackal due to her Burst generation capabilities and dmg share. N102 being the last resort.
Naga is the best Burst II option due to her abilities to offensive buffs, heal, and cover repair. She can be used without Tia. With Centi being second if burst generation is needed, or against single hitting bosses that can one shot your Nikkes under high CP deficits (Mace). Admi and Quency being the next best options. Guilty can also be slotted for boss fights.
Top B3 options are Drake, Maxwell (especially late game when she’s invested into) and Laplace. Drake and Laplace provide good versatility in the form of DPS and burst gen with minimal investment (skill level 4/4/4). Maxwell is the late game carry for Missilis Tower with enough investments (2+OL and skill level 8+/4/8+).
Other B3 options are Epinel and Julia. Epinel works decently for early game with her burst that helps with wave clear but falls off in late game since you will not be investing in her. Julia is only used when you have no better options.
Sub options are one additional B3 unit unused (Laplace, Epinel, Julia), xAnne and Pepper. The additional B3 unit is used when you need more DPS for stages where you just play it out normally.
Tove
Tove is a Unique Nikke. She’s only gonna be used against Boss type Raptures as shotgun usually will miss every shot in normal campaign stages due to the size and distance of raptures. Best Boss killing team when Tia and Naga can’t be used in a team as a pair due to unavailability
Tove Shotgun Team (Bosses)
| Burst 1 | Burst 2 | Burst 3 | Burst 3 | Flex |
Role: Buffer | Role: Buffer, Healer | Role: DPS, Buffer | Role: Burst, Buffer | Role: CDR, Buffer |
Role: DPS | Role: Healer |
Tetra
There will be two sections for Tetra Tower due to the vast amount of units added (Mustang stonks), and the fact that climbing Tetra Tower is really playing around the 3 key units: Blanc, Noir and Alice.
Therefore, expect a much harder time/painful experience climbing Tetra Tower if you lack any of these 3 units.
Important note: Blanc cannot be used alone without Noir since you will not able to maintain smooth burst rotation. Wherever Blanc is recommended, assume that Noir is used too.
Complete Box
| Burst 1 | Burst 2 | Burst 3 | Burst 3 | Sub |
Role: Buffer | Role: Buffer, Healer | Role: DPS | Role: Buffer | Role: DPS |
Role: Healing, Taunt |
Blanc provides a crucial damage taken debuff to enemies, which hugely amplifies the entire team damage in all scenarios. (Note: Blanc’s burst only applies to enemies currently on screen when her burst is activated, which means you might want to sometimes wait for enemies to finish spawning before using her burst.) Blanc also provides healing and shielding, allowing you to sustain through boss fights and provides much higher margin of error for normal stages.
Alice is the top DPS carry, and even more so when she’s hugely invested. (2+OL and skill level 8+/4/8+). Alice also provides decent burst gen by rapid firing her normal attacks.
Noir is here to reduce Blanc’s burst to 20s CD, and also provide Alice with max ammo increase and ammo reload. This helps Alice to overcome her biggest weakness (requires max ammo+) especially in early game when she has no OL.
Volume provides CDR while being a 20s B1, simply the top option to use with the 3 key units.
Top sub options here are Sugar and Noise. Sugar can provide decent DPS with buffs from her own burst and Noir’s skills (which means you activate only Alice and Sugar burst in the fight), while Noise is a good taunter that helps with sustainability in certain stages especially if Blanc’s indomitability effect is applied onto Noise.
Incomplete Box
Stages with mobs
| Missing unit | Burst 1 | Burst 2 | Burst 3 | Burst 3 | Sub | Notes |
| Alice | Volume | Blanc | Sugar | Noir | Yulha, Noise | Rapid fire Yulha/Noise for burst gen instead |
| Noir | Volume | Rupee, Viper, Dolla | Alice | Sugar | Yulha, Noise | |
| Blanc | Volume | Rupee, Viper, Dolla | Alice | Noir | Sugar, Noise | |
| Volume | SMary, Yan (Any 20s B1) | Blanc | Alice | Noir | Dolla | Dolla must be used for CDR |
1 vs 1 Boss fights
| Missing unit | Burst 1 | Burst 2 | Burst 3 | Burst 3 | Sub | Notes |
| Alice | Volume | Blanc | Sugar | Noir | SMary, Noise | |
| Noir | Volume | Novel, Rupee, Viper | Alice | Anis: Sparkling Summer | SMary, Noise | |
| Blanc | Volume | Novel, Rupee, Viper | Alice | Anis: Sparkling Summer | SMary, Noise | |
| Volume | SMary, Soda (Any 20s B1) | Blanc | Alice | Noir | Dolla | Dolla must be used for CDR |
In teams where Blanc cannot be used (no Blanc or no Noir), Novel is the top B2 option providing damage taken debuff onto enemies. Rupee and Viper are sub options providing decent DPS on their own.
For teams with SMary and Noise, activate their burst instead of Volume’s burst for higher sustain especially since Volume’s burst really doesn’t do much (crit rate ughhh). If you don’t have either SMary and Noise, use Soda instead..
Anis Sparkling Summer is a Limited Nikke. If she’s not available to be used, slot in sugar instead.
Pilgrim
| Burst 1 | Burst 2 | Burst 3 | Burst 3 | Sub |
Role: CDR , DPS (?) | Role: Burst Gen | Role: DPS | Role: DPS, AoE Wipe | Role: DPS, AoE Wipe |
Role: Healing | Role: B2 Fill | Role: DPS, AoE clear | Role: AoE Wipe | Role: Burst DPS |
Not much options for Pilgrim Tower, you are considered lucky to be able to have a team of 5 units (unless you spend quite a bit). If you have all the units, use the units recommended above, otherwise just use whatever Pilgrim unit you have and try to form a team that can at least activate full burst.
Red hood is the chad of Pilgrim tower. Providing a oppressive burst, while also being able to slot in for any burst slot. Although she’s only able to solo full burst once, which means that if there is any prior burst Nikkes that are missing (Burst I, Burst II), she’s forced into that burst slot.
Dorothy is the only 20s B1 Pilgrim, provides CDR and does some DPS on her own,. She also provides a huge part damage buff which is very useful against boss fights with parts.
Nihilister is the only 20s B2 Pilgrim, which allows you to have a smooth burst rotation if you also have Dorothy, huge enough for Pilgrim Tower.
Scarlet and Modernia are the top options, dealing great DPS and have great wave clear. Harran is a good replacement since she also provides wave clear.
Sub options are Snow White and Rapunzel. Rapunzel is used when you need resurrection or healing, Snow White is used for her burst to hugely chunk out elite mobs/boss.
units such as Noah and Isabel are mostly only used if you don’t have the units above to form a full team of 5 units.
