In the world of Artifact Legends, team composition leads everyone to different schools, each with its own charm. The differences between these schools are not only reflected in the surface-level skills and character combinations but also in the deeper gameplay strategies that each school offers. Here, we delve into combat strategies, resource allocation, and the ability to adapt to various battle situations, explaining their respective strengths and weaknesses.
Let's start with the Evasion School. This school typically dodges fatal attacks, with the core idea being to select the Ancient Spirit Dancer as the artifact spirit. This spirit can move freely on the battlefield, paired with the skill Spirit Butterfly Flash, which increases the evasion rate, making enemies' attacks often miss. Additionally, choosing a bird as the spirit beast and carefully enhancing its offensive power, allows for a sudden, deadly strike when the enemy is disoriented by evasions. The setting of combo-enhanced counterattack damage allows for utilizing the enemy's force for counterattacks.
The advantage of the Evasion School lies in its outstanding survival capability, relying on a high evasion rate to make the enemy's attacks frequently miss, thus reducing the damage taken. This high evasion tactic can also effectively disrupt the opponent's attack rhythm. However, this school is not invincible. When facing the Burst Speed Kill School, it may struggle, as the high critical hit attribute of the opponent makes it difficult to completely withstand critical hits even with a high evasion rate. Once hit, one might instantly fall into a passive situation. Furthermore, to build up sufficient evasion attributes, a large amount of resources must be invested in equipment and skills. If the resource distribution is not balanced or reasonable, and the evasion effect does not meet expectations, one can easily become the target of attacks in battle.
The Combo Stun School uses continuous control skills to leave the enemy in an endless state of stun. Its core components revolve around the artifact spirit Thousand Illusions, who carries the One Sword Decisive Strike, combined with dazing skills, to perform dazzling control magic on the battlefield. Equipment focuses on enhancing stun and combo effects, aiming to firmly control the enemy within their own rhythm. In PvP arenas, the advantages of the Combo Stun School are evident, as it can continuously stun the opponent, making it difficult for them to organize effective counterattacks while under the stun state.
One can take advantage of the time the enemy is controlled to steadily deal damage. However, this school also has some fatal weaknesses. Due to its heavy reliance on stuns and combos to control the enemy, its burst damage is relatively low. If the initial stun fails and the enemy seizes the initiative to release powerful skills, one can easily find themselves in a difficult battle. Moreover, integrating stun and combo attributes requires extremely high character attributes; any weak link can lead to the breakage of the entire control chain.
The Beast Combo School is like a war of attrition, with Phantom Thunder God at its core, ensuring stable combo output. Dreamland Female Warrior aims to increase the number of beast combos, while Emperor Blood Slaughter provides auxiliary output. Working together, they can consistently deliver 6 hits per round. For casual players, the Beast Combo School is a highly cost-effective choice, as it doesn't require chasing extreme attribute stacking. Relying solely on a stable combo mechanism, one can stand firm in the game world. In prolonged battles, this stable output advantage gradually becomes apparent. However, this school also has its limitations. Under the same attributes, its output ceiling is lower than that of the Beast Crit School, approximately 75% of the latter. This means that when facing high-defense, high-HP targets, more rounds are needed to defeat them.
In the Beast Crit School, Greenfield Fairy Spirit grants powerful damage bonuses to the beasts, while Evil Edge Female Warrior precisely boosts the crit rate, and Sword Soul Daoist further enhances overall output. Once a crit triggers, the high damage can instantly inflict severe damage on the enemy. However, the Beast Crit School also has obvious drawbacks. The stun attribute of characters in this school acts like a hidden trap. Since the beast's output largely depends on crits, and the stun attribute of characters may interfere with the timing of the beast's attacks, once stunned, the beast's output rhythm will fall into chaos.
The Burst Speed Kill School can lead the team to charge into the enemy's position. Phantom Thunder God carries crit attributes and speed, while Greenfield Fairy Spirit enhances crit damage, and Golden Snake Yao Guang further boosts the crit rate. The advantage of this school is its powerful counter to the Evasion School. Regardless of how high the evasion rate of the opponent is, in the face of the Burst Speed Kill School, it is almost useless. Once a crit triggers, it can quickly break through the enemy's defense and achieve a quick kill. However, the Burst Speed Kill School is relatively weak in the early stages of growth. With low attributes, the crit damage is insufficient to inflict lethal blows on the enemy. In the later stages, when facing other equally strong schools, its advantages may not stand out, requiring constant adjustments and optimizations to excel.
Finally, there is the Combo Output School, where Phantom Thunder God, Emperor Blood Slaughter, and Rampage Messenger work together. In terms of skills, the Qingyun Sword Technique increases the number of combos, while Qi Yao Zhu Xie further enhances the output intensity. In the arena, the performance of the Combo Output School is excellent, especially when equipped with the Misty Mirror, allowing for 12 high-frequency combos within two rounds. However, this school appears somewhat passive when facing the Evasion School, as it heavily relies on hits to deal damage, and the high evasion rate of the Evasion School makes attacks easily miss. Once in such a situation, it may be dragged into a protracted battle, where various uncertainties gradually increase, and a slight mistake can result in losing the match.
The schools introduced in "What Are the Schools in Artifact Legends?" each have their unique strengths. Players need to choose and apply the appropriate school based on their gaming style, resource status, and the opponents they face, to find the most suitable school for themselves in this world full of fantastical challenges.
