UID:11903619 welcomes you all to Griseo's painting studio! Today we'll be interacting with the prodigious painter, Griseo!

To paint things off~

Griseo is a

Psychic type

A rank

SP Valkyrie

Flame Chaser (Elysian Realm Bonus!)

Cross Melee user

Physical + Bleed Support

Who enhances the team’s damage and provides utility for dealing with various types of bosses.

We'll also be taking a look at her kit, some team composition ideas and gears in the following order.

Contents

[1. Leader skill]

[2. Basic Attack + Combo Attacks]

[3. QTE]

[4. Evasion]

[5. Ultimate]

[6. S/SS/SSS + SP Skills]

[7. Team Composition]

[8. Equipment]

a. Weapon + alternatives

b. Stigmata + alternatives

[9. Final Remarks]

[1. Leader skill]

When leading the team, Griseo will provide a physical damage bonus to the team when they are attacking bleeding enemies. Additionally she will increase everyone's initial SP by a set amount.

This is an excellent lead skill for memorial arena settings, both SS and SSS.

Superstring may still prefer other leads, depending on the team.

[2. Basic attack]

Tapping the basic attack button

Tapping the basic attack button will fill in the paint gauges with a corresponding colour.

The default colour is red.

After tapping the ultimate button to change colours, Griseo will be locked into that colour until the ultimate button is pressed again.

Tapping the ultimate attack button consecutively

Will fill the gauge with different colours.

As with the basic attack sequence above, they will only fill upon connecting an attack.

Combo attacks

Empty Gauge

Full Red

Full Blue

Full Yellow

Having a gauge with two different colours is also possible, albeit with no real advantage.

Fully Mixed Gauge

Simply hold down the basic attack button with a full gauge to prompt a slam attack from Mr. Knight.

Without 3 different colours, she'll simply perform an uppercut that is both underwhelming in damage and animation.

She cannot combo without a full gauge.

When any of the three colours are present in the gauge, they will provide a buff after Griseo performs a combo attack

Mixing buffs:

When

Red is present: deal 20% bonus damage

Yellow: Receive 15% less total damage.

Blue: Bleeding inflicted by Griseo deals 35% bonus physical damage

Griseo doesn't usually want to perform the entire sequence because her QTE will do it for her.

[3. QTE]

Trigger condition: Time Slowing or bleeding nearby enemies.

Griseo will

1. Enter the field with a FULLY MIXED GAUGE for an instant combo.

2. Reduce the switch cooldown of the previous Valkyrie by 4 seconds

3. Deal 140%*7 ATK of physical damage and recover 6 SP for the team

[4. Evasion]

Upon successfully evading an attack, Griseo will impose a 2 second global time fracture and gain a prismatic bubble and can connect into the 3rd sequence of her basic attack. This has a cooldown of 15 seconds.

The Prismatic bubble will block up to 1 attack (2 if she is SSS).

[5. Ultimate]

As with Fu Hua, Carole and Palatinus Equinox, Griseo's ultimate can be activated by holding down the ultimate attack button once sufficient SP has been amassed.

Griseo's ultimate costs 75 SP and has a 25 second cooldown.

Effects:

1. Global time fracture for 2 seconsd.

2. Team members on the field can inflict 2 bleed trauma every 2 seconds.

3. Increase Griseo's gauge limit to 5

4. Refresh the duration of mixing buffs and grants the mixing buff to allies.

When 8 seconds is left or 12 seconds have passed, the birds will materialise and deal 500% ATK of physical damage in an area.

This can reactivate stigmata effects, namely

[6. S/SS/SSS + SP Skills]

S rank

1. Combo attacks that consume multiple of the same colours deal additional damage based on Griseo’s ATK. If the colour has the highest count (must have more than 1), it deals a bonus 250% physical damage. This is considered bleeding damage

2. Gain 40 initial SP. 

3. After casting a combo attack, restore bonus SP based on the colour. For every 1/2/4 different colours consumed, restore 4/8/16 SP respectively.

4. Ultimate’s AoE damage deals 500% ATK of physical damage to bleeding enemies. Each stack of bleeding increases the multiplier by 300% up to 2000%. Source of damage: bleeding. 

5. Bleeding inflicted by Griseo during her ultimate deals 50% bonus total damage.

SS Rank

When Griseo lands the 3rd or 5th sequence of her basic attack, her physical damage is buffed by 35% for 6 seconds. Subsequent activations refreshes the duration.

SSS rank

Prismatic bubbles can be stacked twice. Within 10 seconds of activating prismatic bubbles, Griseo will ignore interruption more often and reduce incoming total damage by 30%. 

SP Skills]

A rank

Mr Knight’s Swords bleeds.

All attacks assisted by Mr Knight inflicts Bleed Trauma

All enemies who spawn after Griseo’s ultimate are dyed 

Dyed enemies only receive bleeding debuff from their inflictor

S Rank

Enemies without a shield or a broken one receive 8% bonus physical damage when bleeding.

SS Rank

Bleeding deals 6 damage to shields that only take fixed damage

This effect is especially useful against bosses like Jizo and Herrscher of Sentience because they have hit count based shields.

SSS Rank

When team members attack a bleeding enemy, each stack will increase their crit rate and physical damage by 3%.

[7. Team Composition]

Herrscher of Sentience 

Herrscher of Sentience is still the prime imparier, and engine of physical teams. From her kit alone, she can offer crowd control, SP recovery, time fractures on demand, which helps Griseo set up her supportive combos.

It is actually recommended to get HoS (at least the Valkyrie) before considering Griseo's equipment because without impair, physical damage would drop a lot.

Triple Support team

As a damage dealer, HoS also enjoys the buffs provided by Griseo and another secondary support like Carole to get the best of all worlds.

Celestial Hymn

Alternative/Budget option to Herrscher of Sentience, mostly for memorial arena otherwise.

Divine prayer is sadly out of the question because her impair is uncontrollable and she offers nothing else for physical teams.

Competition - Secondary Support

Carole 

Carole is still the superior choice when it comes to shield breaking as that’s the crux of her kit. 

The only instance where the two would be paired together is if Herrscher of Sentience is the main damage dealer. Having stigmata sets that inflict impair is too much of a damage loss with the increasing disturbance to consider. 

Starlit Astrologos 

In a fight where only one SA ult is needed, SA would still beat Griseo. However, that is rarely the case nowadays, at least in SEA, where the bosses have become too bulky that SA has fallen off significantly.

Her biggest weakness is her SP appetite and disproportionately lower SP regeneration that also takes field time. Once Griseo is SS rank, SA can fully retire and maybe provide advice on the side.

Damage dealers

Bright Knight Excelsis

Bright Knight Excelsis, despite being over 2 years old is still going strong thanks to the advent of Abyss Flower and plethora of Bio bosses. Griseo’s extended buffs ensure that BKE’s rotation fully benefits from it, especially since Abyss Flower’s damage requires two cleaves to maximise.

Palatinus Equinox

Palatinus Equinox also benefits a lot from Griseo compared to Carole because 2/3 of her bosses are unshielded, making Griseo’s buffs more advantageous.

Elysia - Ms Pink Elf

Previously, Elysia needed an SP leader like Lightning Empress to help her cast an ultimate right off the bat, but outside of that, there is almost no synergy between them. Now, Elysia can enjoy SP benefits and physical damage buffs from Griseo! Talk about a strong psychic pair coming from the Flame Chasers!

Although Elysia's best bosses rarely appear, she more than benefits from her beloved Flame Chaser.

Twilight Paladin 

Budget option to bright knight.

TP also inflicts bleeding on her own, and Griseo helps reinforce that.

One thing to be mindful of is that, their crosses cannot co-exist.

But you can work around that by pre-casting TP's cross to get the hitcount off then have Griseo's off for more damage.

[8. Equipment]

Signature Weapon

Elysian Astra: Heart’s Colour

Active Skill - Primary Colour Surge

SP Cost: 10 

Cooldown: 20 seconds

The cross’ landing deals 600% ATK of physical damage, inflicts 10 bleed trauma, and sprays paint that deals 60% ATK of physical damage to surrounding enemies every 1.5 seconds for 18 seconds. 

Griseo equip bonus:

QTE entries automatically activate the weapon active and her ultimate evasion skill.

Passive - Free Colouring

+35% total damage for The user’s combo and ultimate physical damage.

+20% physical damage for every Valkyrie in the team. Cannot stack of multiple Valkyries are equipped with this cross.

Passive 2 -  Light and Colours 

Bleed damage +20%

Within 22 seconds of deploying the cross, enemies with broken shields or without one receive 8% bonus physical damage.

The user gains a one off effect where attacking a bleeding enemy causes a paint explosion, dealing 5*140% ATK of AoE damage.

Alternatives

Hekate’s Sombre somewhat rivals her signature weapon due to the physical damage vulnerability it inflicts alongside its rapid hit count. In certain scenarios, she might prefer Hekate. To name a couple: Jizo’s hit count shield and Herrscher of Sentience’s clone. With her SS Skill which boosts damage dealt to fixed-damage shields, she completely trivializes them, which in turn conserves time.

Obviously, if TP is on the team, give this to her instead. The rest of these options are rather lackluster and should not be pursued solely for Griseo. Only use them as a last resort.

11th Leitourgia

Not really the ideal weapon for Griseo as it costs SP to activate.

Nonetheless, the crit rate and team wide SP regen increase are still better than nothing provided you have this it already.

Zither's Lament

As with the other options, this one is purely if you used SA during her prime as it provides a little bit of additional damage for Griseo's team both passively and while summoned. Between this and Hekate, however, Hekate is the superior option as its both a DPS and support weapon,

Blood Embrace

As tempting as it may seem, this weapon does absolutely nothing for Griseo besides increase her damage.. except Hekate exists lol

b. Stigmata + alternatives

Top 

[367 HP] + [117 ATK] + [66 DEF]

- Physical damage +15%

- When a team member casts their ultimate, the user’s physical damage increases by 27% for an unspecified short duration.

This effect has an internal cool-down of 10 seconds and cannot stack.

Middle 

[483 HP] + [199 DEF] + [8 CRT]

-The user inflicts 25% more bleeding trauma.

-When enemies are bleeding, the bleeding damage increases by 20% for 10 seconds. Cannot stack.

Bottom

[362 HP] + [79 ATK] + [66 DEF] + [16 CRT]

- Combo attacks from the user inflicts Structure Outline, which increases their total damage received by 36% for 6 seconds, with a 16 second internal cool-down.

Doing so will enhance each team member where a re-entry will clear the enhancement and extend the Structure Outline debuff by 1.5 seconds up to a maximum of 9 seconds. This can only be stacked twice.

2 Set Effect 

- Gain 1 stack when dealing bleed damage to enemies. Upon reaching 10 stacks, all stacks are cleared to deal 500% physical damage.

- Stacks are accrued every 0.3 seconds and the full stack burst of damage has a cool-down of 5 seconds. During the 5 seconds, stacks cannot be gained.

Griseo equip bonus: 

- When equipped with the Bottom piece, ultimates also inflict the Structure Outline debuff and enhance team members. When the debuff ends, it will now cause enemies to - receive total damage for another 12 seconds, effectively refreshing the duration.

After which, the Structure Outline debuff infliction enters a 20 second cool-down. 

[TLDR: this extends the bottom piece’s duration for a full rotation]

3 Set Effect

- Attack speed +35%

- After casting ultimate, inflicting damage to bleeding enemies with broken shields or without one, total damage is increased by 2% up to a maximum of 10% for 20 seconds. 

No internal cool-down, cannot stack and refreshes on subsequent activations.

Alternatives

King in mind that although Griseo's QTE is worth using, Shuijing's buffs and debuffs may not last the full rotation for certain team comps.

Individual Pieces (or use them together).

Just your generic budget, filler support sets, since there is no real substitute to Cezanne as of 5.8 due to Griseo's support style being fairly new. In fact, most of her potential is locked behind Cezanne. Griseo can also reapply the effects from this set, albeit very unreliably unlike Herrscher of Sentience, who would use it to greater effect.

[9. Final Remarks]

Overall, Griseo is a superb physical secondary support, whose gear enables scores that were previously unfeasible. Players with limited resources should aim for SS rank for cost efficiency while working on other SP rank Valkyries. Her gear while extremely potent, is only for physical damage at the end of the day, if your physical teams are already comfortable, getting them later would be my personal recommendation.

If you're a big fan of Griseo and would like to gear her up for that reason, please do and best of luck ^^

Who doesn't enjoy painting enemies with colourful paint uwu.

Good luck and happy painting~