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This post contain most of my experience and i might be wrong, You can use whatever you think its the best for you.

Elysian Realm Shadow Knight Character Guide

Welcome to my Elysian Realm Guide for Hua Shadow Knight (SK). A character that used to be above average in Elysian Realm until they decided to nerf her which is kinda sad but oh well its their decision not mine. Before we get started, ill briefly explain Shadow Knight because this one is really old valkyrie.

Shadow Knight / SK is a Mech Type Lightning & Physical DPS (this is common for dual DMG type with old valkyrie) with Fists / Glove as the Weapon. She is a Melee character that deals melee DMG.. i think that one make sense i dont need to point that out, but anyway i guess thats enough for the basics, now lets jump straight into the Elysian Realm part

Ego Blessings

Lets start of with the Ego blessings first. As usual, ill show all the blessings first then ill explain all of them later on.

Blessing of Six Fists

Blessing of Lunar Eclipse

Blessing of Forces

Blessing of Mindfulness

Blessing of Form & Spirit

As usual, A lot of words and most of them doesnt make sense. Welcome to Elysian Realm people

Ill explain all of them as usual, but maybe on a simpler term because boi some of these texts doesnt make sense.

• Blessing of Six Fists : Filler Signet. Increase Combo ATK DMG, and increase DMG for non burst mode and counts it as Combo & Ultimate DMG. To be honest, saying it as a "Filler signet" is way too generous since this signet is useless. You're not gonna stay at non burst mode most of the time, and the only time you're not on burst mode is when you ran out of the duration of burst mode or ran out of SP.
• Blessing of Lunar Eclipse : Important Main Signet. Increase Combo ATK on burst mode, makes the "Shi-Ki Onslaught / the OraOra Attack" counted as Combo ATK & Ult DMG. Reduce Evasion CD on every hit, and normal evasion counts as Ultimate Evasion. To put it simply, it increase DMG, make the normal evasion to ult evasion, and reduce evasion CD each hit.
• Blessing of Forces : Important Main Signet. Increase Combo ATK on "Shi-Ki Onslaught / the OraOra Attack" and you can do it for longer. Its pretty self explanationary, simple and useful. Just purely buff the DMG.
• Blessing of Mindfulness : Filler Signet. When you have Enough / 60 SP, you can trigger Ult again And increase Lightning DMG in burst mode. Actually pretty useful signet since Ult will gather enemy which we will talk later in special adjustment.
• Blessing of Form & Spirit : Filler Signet. "Shi-Ki Onslaught / the OraOra Attack" Deal more DMG, inflict Bleeding Trauma, and enemy with bleeding trauma receive more DMG. Simple filler signet, just increase DMG overall.

Thats all of the ego signet explained. Its way too complicated for such a simple character. If you're way too lazy to read all of them, just keep in mind that you just need to know that the only important signet here is Lunar Eclipse (Evasion CD) and Forces (More hits on Burst ATK).

I dont have a lot of time, so lets talk about the Special Adjustment.

https://twitter.com/wyverein/status/1638682946973609984/photo/1 Source : Wyverien

Special Adjustment

Her special adjustment is as complicated as the Ego signet even though they are pretty easy to understand. (Typical Hoyo scriptwriter). Well anyway ill explain all of them on a simpler term so you can understand it.

• Valkyrie Stats and skill are adjusted to lvl 80 (every valkyrie in ER got this)
• After losing Stacks on normal signets / Soldier's Remembrance (Vicissitude Core 2), wont lose other stacks again for 15 seconds. Actually really good adjustment since this character is the definition of taking hits. Immune to losing Hua Stacks are so good.
• Increase Vicissitude stacks by 10. So that means the cap is 50 (70 if you take specific enchanted signet) which is really good.
• In Ult mode, pressing Ult after 1 or 2 Basic ATK can activate "Shi-Ki Onslaught / the OraOra Attack" which normally took 3 Basic ATK, and the last attack Heal HP. To be honest, this one is kinda pointless since you do the Combo ATK immediately after you evade (only if you take Lunar Eclipse).
• Entering Burst Mode Pulls Enemy. This one is pretty good and combine with Minfulness, You got yourself easy enemy gather.
• Increase Initial SP by 50. That means you start with 50 SP more off spawn which is good.
• Extend Fang's duration to 60 Seconds. This just extend the Burst / Ult mode to 60 Second which normally around... i actually dont know

Another way too complicated Information for such easy thing to understand. Well anyway the only important thing here is... all of them. All of them is really good and you just need to play as usual because nothing changed with SK normal gameplay.

Okay, after all of that information, lets go to the gameplay, Lucky for me she can only do 1 playstyle so a lot of time saved for me. lets check out her playstyle.

Combo Build

To be honest, i dont know what her build name is since her gameplay is just pressing 2 buttons and occasionally 3. So yeah i guess Combo build is the name now idk?

Combo Build Ego Signets

Lets start with the Ego Signets first. Since she is a Flame-Chaser so that means she started with 2 Ego signets, ill list what's important in order and ill explain my reasoning as well.

1. Blessing of Lunar Eclipse : The Core of her signet. With this one you reduce the Evasion CD, Activate the Evasion easily, and convert the Combo ATK to Ult DMG which is good.
2. Blessing of Forces : On par with Mindfulness. This one just increase Combo ATK hits, and deals more DMG. But i recommend you to take this if you dont have Zeno stigmata (Aponia Signature Stigmata).
3. Blessing of Mindfulness : On par with Forces. This one just gathers enemy easily everytime you go to burst mode. But if you want to take this first, you needed Zeno Stigmata (Aponia Signature Stigmata).
4. Blessing of Form & Spirit : To put it simply, more DMG.
5. Blessing of Six Fists : Same with Form & Spirit, but worse.

So yeah thats my reasons and my choices in order of which one to pick for the Ultimate Build. If you're way too lazy to read, ill make it simpler for ya. It starts with Lunar Eclipse > Forces > Mindfulness. Form & Spirit is good but not really needed and same with Six Fists.

Combo Build General Signets

For her general signets, She can use a lot of signets, Except for some because of how the weapon design. For more detail, ill list all of the signet cores thats possible for her to use. *Note, Green means generally good / better, Red means usually not the primary choice, and ^ means you need to use both of them as a combination signets.

• Kevin (Deliverance) 2
• Aponia (Discipline) 1 & 2
• Eden (Gold) 1
• Kalpas (Decimation) 2 ^
• Su (Bodhi) 1 & 2
• Sakura (Setsuna) 1 & 2
• Kosma (Daybreak) 2 ^
• Griseo (Stars) 1 & 2 (Only take if you have Mindfulness)
• Hua (Vicissitude) 1 & 2

So to put it simply, She can use pretty much everything except Mobius (Infinity) mainly because SK doesnt summon any entity. and Vill-V (Helix) because of the nature of Weapon, all fists weapon has a long cooldown (20 seconds). She can use Felis (Reverie) but it is a support signet and dont really needed for SK. Other than that, she is really versatile on any aspect of the general signets. Ill list some of the signet sets that i like using on her so you guys dont really need to think which one is good for her because she can use that much just like what i said above. *Note that "main" signet is the signet you need to have the all / useful enchanted signet, "Secondary" as the Next "Main signet", and "Filler" is getting as much useful Signet and possibly Unlocking the core.

• Discipline 2, Deliverance 2, Vicissitude 2 / Setsuna 1. (Discipline as main, Deliverance as secondary, Vicissitude / Setsuna as filler)
• Bodhi 2, Gold 1, Vicissitude 2 / Setsuna 1. (Bodhi as main, Gold as secondary, Vicissitude / Setsuna as fil***)
• **ybreak 2, Decimation 2, Vicissitude 2 / Setsuna 1. (Daybreak as main, Decimation as secondary, Vicissitude / Setsuna as filler)

She can use a lot, but you really needed Discipline if your early game want to be easy. Other than that, its all up to you.

Combo Build Gameplay

For her gameplay, its pretty straight forward. Ill just show you my run example. Its a terrible run since i blunder a lot in the mob stage which is cutted in the video.

Video Link for Ultimate Build : {Combo Build Gameplay Example}

Combo Build Gameplay Reference

If you're way too lazy to watch that video, ill just explain pretty much everything thats important with her

1. You start with getting 5 points for the 2nd buff (extra DMG), 10 Points you can get both but i personally like the 1st one more (the combo hits one). 15 Points just take the Breach, Missing out Breach is bad. and the optional boss Couatl: Revenant. You cant defeat Mysticism with SK anyway.
2. For support, You NEEDED Stygian Nymph for Quantum Implosion, and Azure Empyrea for Elemental Breach.
3. For Remembrance Sigils, You can take anything you wanted, but my recommendation is Veil of Tears & Boundless Feeling (Both Discipline stuff) for the early game.
4. On Floor 5, go to the shop so you enter the shop on floor 6 and change to any sigils you wanted, My recommendation is Burden & It Will Be Written (Both Deliverance Stuff).
5. Optional : On floor 9, You can enter the shop and change the Sigils on floor 10, for me i'd change it to Memory & Hometown (Both Vicissitude stuff).
6. Optional : On floor 11, You can enter the shop and change the Sigils on floor 12, THIS ONE IS KINDA IMPORTANT, CHANGE THE HOMETOWN TO It Will Be Written (Deliverance Active Sigil). The reason is because you wont be able to kill the last Phy enemy on time for extra signet.
7. Optional : On floor 16 (Before final boss), You can swap both Remembrance Sigils to anything you wanted.
8. Optional : You can choose any Flame-Chaser boss, I just choose Elysia since its the first boss thats unlocked for newer player. But thats a terrible idea, Just fight Mobius.

For gameplay rotation, its Easy and difficult at the same time. You start with Ult > Evade > Combo ATK (by tapping Ult) > Repeat to evade unless you ran out of Ult mode. The only thing that makes her not that great is the SP issue which can be fixed, and the damage output which cannot be fixed.

Recap of Everything

I dont know what to write here as the recap, so ill just make it for you

1. Ego Signets that is way too complicated but its aight
2. Special Adjustment thats also way too complicated but really good
3. Combo Build is the only thing existed for her and its just mashing buttons

2B Here and im signing out. See you random people on the internet next time! byeeee