Punishing Gray Raven - How To Build And Play Nanami: Startrail

Together with Punishing Gray Raven brand new integrated patch that releases 3 brand new characters, one of the most interesting characters that players can roll for in this patch is Nanami: Startrail, an S Rank Lightning Tank Construct that shakes up the game’s meta with her unique gameplay and skill kit. Therefore, in this guide, we will go over everything players need to consider when building Nanami: Startrail in Punishing Gray Raven and show players how to play her effectively to help boost the overall damage of herself and the entire Lightning team with her help.

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How To Play - Nanami: Startrail

Nanami: Startrail is an S Rank Tank Construct that specializes in dealing Lightning damage to enemies, massively reduces the enemies’ super armor and decreases their defensive capabilities with her various flashy attacks and powerful skills.

Nanami: Startrail Skill Kit

To fully understand how to play Nanami: Startrail properly to unleash the entirety of her powerful damage potential, knowing how her skill kit and the effects of each of her abilities works is quite important.

Nanami: Startrail’s 3 color pings each allows her to initiate a special combo based on which of the color orbs she uses to initiate her combos. 

Upon using a 3 red orbs ping, Nanami: Startrail will do a Spinning Slash attack and enter her red orb combo, allowing her to apply a Thunderflare mark on enemies hit by her attacks. The Thunderflare mark detonates itself after a set amount of time or if Nanami: Startrail uses her red orb pings again, dealing Lightning damage to enemies. If Nanami is attacked during this skill, she will parry with her shield. When in this combo, using Red orbs will grant Nanami: Startrail Starlight Points.

Upon using a 3 blue orbs ping, Nanami: Startrail will do a Dash Attack and enter her blue orb combo, allowing her to apply a Thunderflare mark on enemies hit by her attacks. The Thunderflare mark detonates itself after a set amount of time or if Nanami: Startrail uses her blue orb pings again, dealing Lightning damage to enemies. If Nanami is attacked during this skill, she will parry with her shield. When in this combo, using Blue orbs will grant Nanami: Startrail Starlight Points.

Once Nanami have accumulated enough Star Light Points, using her Yellow Orbs pings will help her enter her Shield Axe mode, dealing more damage against enemies. When holding the attack button, Nanami will consume her Starlight points to gather enemies and constantly attack them, detonating their Thunderflare stacks and dealing massive amounts of damage.

Upon entering Shield Axe mode, Nanami will be able to accumulate Overload value with each attack, once Overload value has been maxed, she will be able to use her Signature move, dealing massive amounts of damage to enemies in a wide area.

Nanami: Startrail Playstyle & Combat Rotation

Due to her complex skill kit that may prove to be extremely difficult for players to have a grasp at the start, it is quite important for players to know about Nanami: Startrail rotation cycle in order to allow her to make full use of her skill kit and activate all of her buffs. Therefore, players should take full advantage of LDPlayer’s The best Android Emulator on PC.

Her optimal damage rotation are as followed:

- Firstly, players will need to ping her red or blue orbs in order to enter her red orb or blue orb combo, allowing her to apply the Thunderflare mark on enemies in order to deal damage to enemies.

- Once players have entered either the red combo or blue combo mode, use the corresponding color orbs (Red or Blue) to deal damage and accumulate Starlight Points for Nanami: Startrail. Using both red and blue combos to accumulate both stacks Starlight to maximize Nanami’s special ability output.

- Once Starlight Points have fully been accumulated, players can enter Nanami’s hand axe mode by clicking on the Yellow Orb, allowing to change her weapons. When in this mode, attack with her normal attacks and hold her normal attacks to deal Lightning damage to enemies and gather them around Nanami to accumulate Overload value.

- Once Overload Value is maxed, use Nanami: Startrail’s Signature move to complete her combo rotation and deal massive amounts of Lightning damage to all enemies.

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How To Build - Nanami: Startrail

Nanami: Startrail Best Weapons

For Nanami: Startrail, like with all other characters in Punishing Gray Raven, her optimal choice for weapon will be her signature weapon: Starlight Glare

- Starlight Glare: ATK increases by 10%. Base DMG increase effect of Overload Points towards Fallen Star Slam doubles. Base DMG of Fiery Transformation doubles.

This weapon grants Nanami: Startrail a sizeable boost in her damage by doubling her damage through her normal attacks and ive, in addition to providing her with a 10% Attack boost.

Alternative, players can also use her 5* weapon as a substitute until you have obtained her signature 6* weapon:

- Sparkle ZL-09-Mod: Increase Lightning DMG by 10%.

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For Weapon Harmony, players should prioritize on getting the Dead Line Timing weapon Harmony, which grants her additional signal orbs when deployed and after she has been in the battle for a bit of time. This will allow her to do her combo more comfortably. Other options to consider are: Domain Deconstruction (Reduce Enemies’ Elemental Resistance When Attacked) and Matrix Lightning (Increase movement speed and decrease enemies’ damage reduction in Matrix).

Nanami: Startrail Best Memory Builds

For Nanami: Startrail memory builds, players can consider 2 different memory builds based around her signature memory set Herschell, which allows her attacks and QTEs the ability to reduce enemies’ elemental damage resistance that persists even when Nanami: Startrail is not on the field. In addition, this memory set allows Nanami: Startrail to gain 2 signal orbs everytime she does her combo, allowing her to gain enough orbs to do her combos comfortably.

The best memory builds for Nanami: Startrail are:

- Main General Build: 4 Pieces Herschell + 2 Pieces Heisen. For Weapon Harmony, you should pick an additional 2 Pieces Heisen. This memory build focuses on boosting Nanami: Startrail’s damage to the maximum, allowing her to dish out as much Lightning Damage while she is on the field as possible.

- Build: 4 Pieces Da Vinci + 2 Pieces Heisen. For Weapon Harmony, you should pick an additional 2 Pieces Heisen. This memory build is the build for type Nanami: Startrail where she will not take the field too much and will provide the team with through her resistance reduction effects by using her QTEs.

- Phantom Pain Cage Build: 4 Pieces Herschell + 2 Pieces Cottie. For Weapon Harmony, you should pick an additional 2 Pieces Cottie. This build focuses on allowing Nanami: Startrail to deal as much damage as quickly as possible against Phantom Pain Cage bosses.

For Memory Resonances, Players should focus on getting Any +Attack Options For Her Top 6 Memory Slots, and Signature Level Increase Options For Her Bottom 6 Memory Slots.

Nanami: Startrail Evolution Priority

Finally, for Nanami: Startrail Evolution levels, players should have some consideration to get extra copies for her in order to obtain character shards and increase her Evolution levels:

- S Tier: When switching to her Shield Axe mode and casting any of her abilities in the mode, activates all available QTEs.

- SS Tier: Automatically uses her own QTE when exiting battle. When using either a red or blue combo, when using her red or blue orb, immediately activate her 2nd red or blue combos. Increase her overall damage output and increase her overload point gained when consuming Starlight points. Gain 15 Energy when entering battle.

- SS3 Tier: Increases the resistance reduction of her abilities by 10%. Increase the base damage of all of her abilities.

- SSS Tier: Increase the resistance reduction effect of her abilities by 10%. Whenever Nanami: Startrail consume a set amount of Overload points, increase the damage of her signature mode by 25%. When entering battle, Nanami: Startrail will immediately have 100 points of Starlight and her Starlight gain is increased.

- SSS3 Tier: Increase the overall damage output of all Nanami: Startrails’ abilities by 100%.

- SSS+ Tier: Increase the damage of her abilities by 40%.

For general players, prioritizing getting Nanami: Startrail to SS tier is the most important thing as it will optimize her playstyle and skill kit, allowing the players to do her combo effectively without needing for extra signal orbs through other means. Additionally, SS Tier effects also enhances her capability due to its QTE auto-activation, making it also important for build Nanami: Startrail to reach this evolution stage.