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Hello and welcome to this Hi♪ Love Elf ♥ - Elysia Guide!
I hope I'll be able to help you, let's start!
❤ Table of contents ❤
Short Overview
Abbrevations & Help
How to obtain?
Kit & Skills
Support Potential
Team & Rotations
Gameplay examples
Conclusion
❤ Short Overview ❤
❤ Abbrevation & Help ❤
Astral Ring
AR - Astral Ring
SO - Stellar Outburst
GoI - Grail of Infinitude
WS - World Star
WoD - Wheel of Destiny
Valkyries
HLE - Hi♪ Love Elf♥ - Elysia
BFD - Behold! Fate-Defying Dragon - Coralie
PA - Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime - Helia
FWS - Ba-Dum! Fiery Wishing Star - Kiana Kaslana
LP - Lone Planetfarer - Vita
HHE - Herrscher of Human: Ego - Elysia
In case you struggle understanding the Astral Ring system itself, I recommend following Guide:
Specifically for the Astral Ring Grail of Infinitude:
❤ How to obtain? ❤
Elysia can only be obtained in gacha, her first supply will be in 8.5:
It's a normal expansion banner, meaning you're guaranteed to get her within 90 pulls.
The first 10 pulls on the supply are FREE!
During that time her equipment also has its first supply:
You're guaranteed to get her weapon within 60 pulls.
Meanwhile you're guaranteed to get one of her Stigmata or her Weapon ever 10 pulls.
On the global servers, these supplies release on October 23rd and end on December 5th.
❤ Kit & Skills ❤
*these numbers are based on S0 lvl 80
♡ General Information ♡
Typing: Stardust / Ice
AR Protection: Grail of Infinitude
Support tags: Domain Resonance (World Star), Harmonized Shadow Star (Wheel of Destiiny)
Stellar Drain Intensity Regeneration: 2/6/10, +10 if GoI/WoD/WS are active
Special ATK: Ultimate
(Note: This ATK consumes her Stellar Drain, restores SP during GoI outburst, etc.)
GoI SP Regeneration (SO): 140 (Special ATK) / 128 (Finisher)
GoI max SP increase: 200
Stardust Remnant collection: Weapon Skill
Below 150 SP, Elysia restores 400% more SP.
When the last SD break point of an enemy is detonated, the time until it exits the pink HP phase is reduced by 10s. (usually 20s)
♡ Leader Skill ♡
When choosing Elysia as leader...
✧ Grail of infinitude is activated
✧ AR Intensity: 175; SO duration: 30s; CD: 27s
✧ Elysia gets buffed with each additional character with Symbiosis tag
✧ Elysias Weapon Skill and Ultimate restore 3/2.5 additional AR Intensity
✧ When teammates with Symbiosis tag use their Ultimates, Rime Trauma is inflicted on enemies
♡ QTE ♡
Switch to Elysia when enemy is Time-Slowed or when a Weapon Skill or Ultimate is cast to cast her QTE.
Deals Ice DMG and triggers 2s of Time Fracture
♡ Ultimate ♡
Tap [Ultimate] to use Elysia's Ultimate at the cost of 100 SP.
Deals minor Ice DMG and inflicts Rime Trauma
Alternatively, you can hold [Ultimate] for a stronger Ultimate, consuming up to 150 SP to deal more DMG.
Deals more Ice DMG, inflicts Rime Trauma and instantly gets to SD enemies' next break point (max once per phase)
When consuming a Stellar Drain, the amount of Intensity depends on how long the Ultimate was charged (2~10).
♡ Weapon Skill ♡
Tap [Weapon Skill] to use Elysia's Weapon Skill. 15s CD after being used.
Deals Ice DMG, inflicts Rime Trauma and gathers Stardust Remnants
During Astral Ring Charging this attack restores Elysia to 150 SP if she's below.
It releases a Love Blossom. After this ATK, tap [Ultimate] to launch an Enhanced Ultimate.
♡ Ever-Blooming Garden ♡
Use an Ultimate on the Love Blossom released by Weapon Skill to launch an Enhanced Ultimate. This attack stops all timers.
launch Elysia's Ever-Blooming Garden and apply more Rime Trauma
While the Ever-Blooming Garden is present, Basic ATKs are enhanced. The remaining duration is shown above the HP bar.
♡ Basic ATK ♡
Tap [ATK] to use Elysia's Basic ATKs
Elysia has 4 Basic ATK Sequences
Deals Ice DMG. Basic ATK 4 gathers Stardust Remnants.
Total SP Regeneration: 30 / 150
If Ever-Blooming Garden is active, Basic ATK 4 deals additional DMG.
♡ Grail of Infinitude ♡
Elysia has the usual skills every GoI character gets:
If Elysia is not the leader the next Ultimate after QTE entry costs 0 SP, this effect is lost on exit.
Not Ely but u get the point
If Elysia is the leader teammates wih Symbiosis tag (Grail of Infinitude Support tag) using their Ultimate resets Helia's switch CD and triggers her QTE.
(It works the same with Elysia as it does with Helia in these clips)
🟄 Stellar Outburst
Tap the AstralOP Ultimate to enter Stellar Outburst for 30s.
Astral Ring Intensity: 175 | Duration / CD: 30s + 27s
Deals Ice DMG and inflicts Rime Trauma
After entering Stellar Outburst all teammates share their SP.
The max SP equals the sum of all teammates' max SP + 200. The initial SP are 50% of the max SP.
🟄 SP debt
During Stellar Outburst Elysia can have up to 1000 negative SP.
This doesn't reduce your DMG, but you can't use any more Ultimates below 200 SP (excluding Link Ultimate)
🟄 Shining Trace / Facet of Infinitude
If Elysia is the leader each Ultimate costs 300~1200 SP instead.
SP consumed by teammates are converted into "Shining Trace". Teammates with Symbiosis tag triggering Ultimate for the first time restores additional 300 Shining Trace.
The current amount of Shining Trace is shown around the SP bar.
The white frame shows her current Shining Trace. Shining Trace caps at 1200 and is reset once reaching the cap to trigger Facet of Infinitude. Triggering Facet of Infinitude provides additional buffs (up to 3 stacks provide these buffs).
After triggering Facet of infinitude at least twice, her next Basic ATK sequence is enhanced to deal significantly more DMG.
🟄 Love's Expanse
In Stellar Outburst, Elysia gains a special bar showing her current Love's expanse. It has 3 levels. Leveling it deals additional Ice DMG and increases
Level 1: Early Spring
Only lotus visible
Level 2: Warm Spring
Green-pink flower fields and special bar fills
Level 3: Lush Spring
Pink flower fields and pretty special bar
When reaching Lush Spring, Elysia's Finsiehr becomes available permanently.
🟄 Weapon Skill EX
During Stellar Outburst, tap [Weapon] again after weapon active to launch a Weapon Skill EX.
Her Weapon Skill EX causes her Love Blossom to bloom. Using an Ultimate now will increase the Love's Expanse Level.
🟄 Finisher
After reaching Love Expanse's level 3 or for a short period after using a fully charged Ultimate, tap [Ultimate] to use her FInisher. This animation stops all timers.
Deals Ice DMG. If Elysia is the leader, instantly end Stellar Outburst.
When ending Stellar Outburst with this attack, Elysia restores some Intensity back based on the duration Stellar Outburst had left.
This attack always restores the Intensity to at least 20 if below.
❤ Support Potential ❤
♡ Analysis ♡
Elysia shows to be a really strong support.
While she's not best in slot in Grail of Infinitude, she can be a strong replacement if you're missing one of them. She's not far below Sushang for Helia and can most definitely do the job.
However, ideally you don't want to mix her with another support with long Stellar Outburst rotation if you need to use one of their Combos, since you really want to skip her long rotation there...
In Wheel of Destiny she might be a very good choice. Double Elysia is definitely viable and Elysia + Thelema might even become best in slot if you don't have Vita ranks. At the moment there was no WoD abyss in CN 8.5, so I cannot tell for sure.
With the divine key release of Herrscher of Rebirth, we obviously will have a few World Star abysses though. When combined with Vita, she's the strongest second support for HRB. Sometimes Badum might still be used instead because she's faster, but overall she's a very solid support for her. For Elemental DMG dealers Ely shows to be strong too.
Ely's biggest strength will be the skill allowing her to instantly trigger SD points. Especially for Senadina this will be relevant as she struggled with her own bosses due to lacking this skill. Additionally, if a future Valkyrie of GoI/WS/WoD has the SD-type, Elysia will definitely be her best support!
❤ Teams & Rotations ❤
♡ Grail of Infinitude (DPS) ♡
♡ Helia + Dracora is best for Symphony abysses
♡ Dracora + Badum is usually used against SD bosses
♡ Dracora + Herrscher Elysia or Badum is used against non-SD Ice abysses
♡ Herrscher of Rebirth Might be used in ER
-> Any combination of 2 Supports still works well in Redlotus and below, even if it's not the best!
Astral Ring Charging:
Support Rotations
HLE QTE > Weapon Skill > hold Ultimate > repeat [Basic ATK x4 > hold Ultimate] until her Ever-Blooming Garden ends
Stellar Outburst:
HLE Weapon Skill x2 > hold Ultimate
Support Rotations
HLE QTE > Weapon Skill x2 > hold Ultimate > Basic ATK x4 > Finisher
♡ Support ♡
Astral Ring Charging (Any Specialization):
HLE (QTE) > Weapon Skill* > hold Ultimate
*can be skipped if you enter with 150 SP and the enemies have already spawned
Stellar Outburst (World Star):
Usual DPS rotation
HLE (QTE) > Resonance ATK
Stellar Outburst (Grail of Infinitude):
HLE QTE > Ultimate*
*Her full rotation would be QTE > Weapon Skill x2 > hold Ultimate > Ultimate. However, this is extremely long and usually not needed. Only do the full rotation for SP if your second Support has an even longer rotation.
❤ Gameplay Examples ❤
DPS:
Support:
❤ Conclusion ❤
Should you pull Elysia?
As always, only pull if you can afford the Valkyrie and the weapon!
Elysia is extremely valuable for SD abysses and shows to be a rather strong support too. Overall she's an average P2 Valkyrie, but her unique SD mechanics might make her shine as support in the future.
I'd argue that Elysia is a good pull, especially if you like her! 
Credits
- Thanks to Cyxo and Alpaca for the pictures of Valkyrie icons and such!
- Love to Inari
- Website for official wallpapers in case you're interested, here
Thank you for reading my guide, I hope I was able to help you!
Have a great day and fun with Elysia~ 
