Look, let us be honest: within the content of Seven Knights Re:BIRTH, the Infinity Tower and Trial Tower start imposing strict type restrictions or unique modifiers from certain floors onwards, making the climb quite a headache. If you have only invested in specific hero archetypes, these limitations feel utterly brutal.

The hero stepping in to fix precisely this headache is the newly awakened Velika. She previously had niche utility for the Infinity Tower and Trial Tower, but only provided a magic damage buff. However, following her awakening, her skill kit has received a proper overhaul, turning her into an essential pick you simply must slot into your team for these towers. KookminTree has rounded up just what makes awakened Velika tick.

Q. What kind of hero is Awakened Velika?
A. She is a powerhouse who deals extra damage to enemies in the Infinity Tower and Trial Tower while buffing the entire team.

Awakened Velika boasts perks that trigger exclusively within the Infinity Tower and Trial Tower environments. Her basic attack, Meteor, and Shadow Illusion deal bonus damage to enemies encountered in the Infinity Tower and Trial Tower, while her passive, Blessing of the Black Moon, grants all allies a permanent 25% damage boost plus a 67% critical damage increase inside these towers. On top of that, the passive cuts her cooldowns by 12 seconds whenever an enemy falls, creating a rather silly loop where Velika can just spam her skills without a care.

Her offensive skills bring not only extra damage but also genuinely useful utility for clearing stages. Meteor strips away 3 turns of turn-based buffs, and Shadow Illusion comes packing pierce effects. At transcendence level 6, Shadow Illusion even picks up a silence effect to completely shut down enemy spellcasting. Meanwhile, the Blessing of the Black Moon passive boosts Velika's own critical strike chance by 47%, and at transcendence level 2, whenever her health drops to 50% or lower, she triggers a shield scaled to her magic attack power.

Her awakening skill, Shadow of the Witch, inflicts an HP conversion of 39% on all enemies followed by a single instance of piercing damage. While the HP conversion does not work against bosses in the Trial Tower, you can still make full use of it in the Infinity Tower. Since it lacks the exclusive tower environment damage bonus, the raw damage numbers feel a bit lower compared to her other tricks.

Q. What are Awakened Velika's core buffs and debuffs?
A. Tower's Grace and the critical damage increase.

Awakened Velika's unique trait, Tower's Grace, lets her bypass role restrictions when deployed in the Infinity Tower. Consequently, you can slot Velika in even on floors where deploying a Magic type is normally forbidden.

Velika dishes out bonus damage to Infinity Tower foes and heavily trivialises the perceived difficulty using powerful skills tied with HP conversion. Toss in the 67% critical damage buff applied to all allies, and the team's overall output skyrockets. Since this effect applies to Velika as well, you get to witness a level of raw firepower that is honestly hard to see even in regular adventure stages.

Q. How should I set up Awakened Velika's equipment?
A. We recommend a dealer setup centered around the 'Avenger' set.

Since Awakened Velika is a tower-optimised hero, you will want a PvE setup. Conveniently, she secures a baseline 65% critical strike chance out of the box—18% from level 4 transcendence and 47% from her passive—making it exceptionally easy to cap her crit rate. Therefore, you can grab 'Weak Point Attack Probability' as your main weapon option to hit a neat 100% weak point attack rate. If you manage to squeeze extra weak point attack probability from your sub-stats, feel free to swap one main weapon option for critical damage or all attack power percentage. For armor, your main option should be locked firmly to all attack power percentage, simply because the other options do nothing useful in the Infinity Tower and Trial Tower environments. As for gear sets, anything other than 'Avenger' just does not cut it in terms of efficiency.