Perdition Ethel Best Team Level 4 Blessing Trial of the Constellations

Storyline

No specific overarching storyline is discussed. The video centers on a boss trial encounter (“Perdition difficulty” in a Blessing Trial of the Constellations) against Ethel, featuring a multi-phase fight where ads/enemies must be controlled to prevent lethal “constellation energy” progress.

Gameplay / Fight Mechanics (What Happens)

Goal

• Prevent Ethel from gaining favorable constellation energy.
• Avoid dying when the fight reaches a critical threshold.

Core Control Mechanic: “Perma-provoke” Ads

• You must perma-provoke the ads so they can’t attack your team.
• If ads are allowed to attack:
  • your counter decreases
  • when it reaches 0, you die

Phase Changes

• Phase 2 & 3
  • When Ethel uses S2, she:
    • blinds
    • also grants ads evasion
• Phase 3
  • Ads become faster
  • Hit chance increases as conditions change (linked to a top-left buff/status, described as a “slashy effect” in the video)

Key Strategies & Team / Build Highlights

Required / Recommended Team Composition

• Requirement: Four Dark units (cannot skip having a dark unit).
• Blessings used:
  • Leo (level 1)
  • Sagittarius (level 5)
• Level 5 Sagittarius value (described mostly through):
  • -50% speed
  • decreasing Ethel’s hit chance
  • (Level 4 is “bare minimum”; Level 5 is “nice to have,” especially for budget options)

Blessing Slot Requirements (to reach higher blessing levels)

• Level 4: about 92 average equipment score on blessing units, and all 5 blessing slots enabled
• Level 5: about 97 to hit level five (as stated)

Example Team Used in the Run

• Pra — cleanser
• Lua — provoker
• Wanda — DPS/support slot (most replaceable)
• Riot — main DPS nuke

Other options mentioned

• Pillis can replace the Lua slot roles by covering provoker + cleanser, but is better with level 5 Sagittarius for soulburn/spam value.
• Secondary provokers:
  • Fallen Cecilia
  • Assassin Cartuja
• DPS alternatives (listed broadly):
  • Hu Yong
  • Closer Charles
  • Commander Lina
  • (“new kid” / multiple options)

Stat / Gear Priorities

• Ethel damage stats: “Don’t really matter” for the run’s damage portion.
  • Priority is not taking damage and managing skill cooldowns for survivability/control.
• Lua & Pra stats: largely unimportant (“whatever you have works”).
• Riot
  • Built as a full damage nuke
  • Needs about 85% crit chance (as stated: he only needs 85 crit chance to risk him into damage)
  • Uses destruction pen with damage-focused stats
• Wanda
  • Replaceable
  • Used mainly so the team isn’t fully idle during evasion phases
  • Her contribution is described as minor compared to Riot/Violet/Riolet damage
  • Hit/effectiveness tuning is flexible

Skill Tree Priorities (for Wanda, per subtitles)

• Only a couple nodes are considered important:
  • nodes that increase S1 hit chance
  • nodes that increase S3 hit chance

Phase-by-Phase Execution Tips (How to Play)

General Loop (Applies Across Phases)

• Do not let Ethel attack while ads are not provoked.
• Hit Ethel only when she doesn’t have evasion buff
  • evaded damage leads to wasted output and complications
• Track “constellation energy”:
  • Ethel gains +20% constellation energy when she takes her turn
  • constellation energy decreases by 20% per person that got hit when you evade
• Prevent Ethel from getting boosted effects:
  • Ensure the two ads have different colors when Ethel takes a turn
  • If both ads are dark, you can’t damage Ethel effectively, so you must manage “flips”

Handling Blinds + Ads Evasion (Phase 2/3)

• When blinded and/or ads gain evasion from S2:
  • Use Pra to cleanse blinds first.
  • Use Heli / Lua (per the described method) to provoke through evasion using non-attack logic.
    • The key callout: Heli/Lua is good because her S3 is nonattack, allowing provoke during evasion/blind states.
• Color flipping (“darkness/flip over”) management
  • Provoke/extra hits can accidentally flip ad colors.
  • If needed, use Wanda hits to change ad colors so they remain different.
• “Griefing” warning
  • Extra procs can hit Ethel with evasion or accidentally flip ads’ colors.
  • Watch whether attacks correct/flip colors at the wrong time.

Phase 2 Timing: Finish Quickly When Counter Hits Zero

• When constellation energy hits 0:
  • Ethel receives a death break
  • you can immediately push to the next phase or finish her off
• The player notes they got lucky and entered phase 3 with Ethel near the HP threshold, resulting in “free extra damage.”

Phase 3 Adjustments

• Ads are faster, and hit chance increases as conditions worsen.
• Advice:
  • Burn extra souls when possible to secure the DPS window (harder to manage evasion/death break without level 5 Leo).
• Common phase 3 mistake described:
  • Hitting the wrong ad (bottom instead of top) created extra requirements to provoke/flip at once.
  • This led to taking a hit, reducing their “number” (counter).

Key Tips / Common Mistakes Called Out

• Blinding without provoke = dangerous
  • If an ad takes a turn unprovoked, it can do AoE and drop counters.
• Ads must remain different colors when Ethel takes her turn
  • If they’re the same color (especially both dark), damage/interaction can become ineffective.
• Don’t waste attacks into evasion
  • If Ethel has evasion buff, hitting her wastes output.
• Avoid skill sequences that cause unintended extra procs
  • “Violet griefing” is mentioned as a problem where a hit during evasion can boost constellation energy.

Sources / Gamers Featured

• No specific external sources or clearly identified creator/channel names are provided.
• Subtitles name no other gamers/channels beyond the game characters and the player doing the run.