Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Charlotta Guide with Tips and Tricks

Hopefully this will help anyone looking to main our little demon. To start most of the numbers will be without Glass Cannon or Supplemental damage included.

Parrying

Starting with her special attack, “Noble Strategy ” (either “Y” or “Triangle” on controllers).

Pressing this attack launches her into the air. The moment she leaves the ground she glows blue and to the top of her jump she can parry/block any attacks. I counted almost 20 frames, not quite a second but still very generous compared to other defensive maneuvers.

She doesn’t need to face targets or attacks to parry. Meaning she can parry AOE’s, ground eruptions, etc.

Parrying Tips

• You can jump into attacks to parry
• You can combine parry with dodge. At the top of your leap, dodging will extend the iframes Charlotta gets. This means for over 1 second, she can block any attacks.
• Combined with her personal Sigil, HolyKnight’s Grandeur she will get 5 seconds of invincibility after a parry. With how long the parry window is, she effectively can stay invincible for most encounters.
• Combined with Stout Heart Sigil she will not get interrupted. Normally a hit will knock her out of the air, but with Stout Heart you can carry through and possibly parry another attack. This helps to parry channeled attacks, like electricity AOEs, or if you’re fighting lots of enemies attacking all at once.

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Noble Strategy Attacks

While you are in the air you can do one of three things.

1. Pressing Y/Triangle again will do a downward thrust. Mainly good for repositioning.
2. Pressing normal attack will do a spinning gap closer. This will travel much further if you have target lock-on. For some maps this makes her leap the entire distance.
3. Not inputting any commands, she will do a spinning attack upon landing. This attack is good for low-level farming. Since it’s an AOE attack it’s serviceable for levels like Slimes or Attack Formation. Use dodge cancel at the end and repeatedly leap back up to AOE farm.

Enhanced Noble Strategy Attacks (Combo Finishers):

This is where we get into her combat loop and her more complex mechanics. Noble stance is when her attacks glow yellow. Attacks hit faster and much harder. You enter Noble/Enhanced Stance through 4 normal attacks or the use of Skills or Link Attacks (more later).

1. Pressing Y/Triangle while in Noble Stance will do the same downward thrust. It will only hit once for 261,112 damage at max DMG cap. However, this enhanced attack breaks over double the Stun Gauge compared to her other finishers.
2. Not inputting any commands will be her normal “Finisher”. She will hit 3 times for 261,112 each hit. Or 783, 336 total damage (not factoring in supplemental or glass cannon). Very easy to hit DMG cap.
3. Using her Gap Closer she can potentially hit up to 6 times, although it requires skill and precision. Most of the time you can expect 5 hits. These attacks will vary greatly because the modifier is extremely low on initial hits. Each hit can reach max cap of 261,112. Or 1,566,672 total damage. If you think your Charlotta is at the DMG cap — she is not. This gap closer finisher will only be around 650,000ish damage if you’re using 1-3 attack boosters.

Damage Comparison

• Normal Finisher: 783,336 damage + 3x supplemental hits. Takes roughly 50 frames to complete.
• Gap Closer: Anywhere from 650,000 to 1,566,672 damage + 5x/6x supplemental hits. Roughly 40-50 frames to complete.
• Spamming noble stance attacks only: In that 50-frame window, 411,1192 damage. Or 493,425 damage using 100% Supplemental damage sigils.

Gap Closer Finisher Usage

Using her gap closer as the finisher can be tricky against some bosses. You need to dodge cancel once you leap, and close to the ground to maximize the damage and airtime.

Verus big bosses it may not be a problem but against smaller enemies — like Gallanza, training dummy, etc. — your finisher will hit nothing but the final attack.

Sometimes it’s also better to use the normal finisher. Launching into the gap closer means you lose the parry window. Against lots of enemies the normal finisher will also do AOE damage.

Combat Loop

With an understanding of her finisher her combat loop will look something like this:

• Noble stance >> Combat Finisher >> Link Attack (if available) >> Instant Noble Stance >> Finisher >> Skill that provides Noble Stance >> Finisher >> Skill >> Sit in Noble Stance until skill/link is back.

In a normal 10-15 second DPS window you can expect to hit 3-6 finisher in quick succession.

Recommended Skills

1. Shining Onslaught: Gap closes and puts you into Noble Stance immediately. Great as an opener, or a bridge between finishers and noble stance. DEF shreds to help with finisher DMG cap.
2. Sword of Lumiel: Highest DPS skill. Puts you into Noble stance at the end of the channel. Like Shining Onslaught, you can use it to bridge finishers with Noble Stances. It takes 4-5 seconds to channel. You can either use this after a parry into invincible buff, or you can use Stout Heart sigil, allowing you to channel even if hit.
3. Holy Ladder: You can use this at range, you can also use it as an AOE skill. But its best usage is in melee range. You dodge cancel the slow hits and go into the finisher move (pressing basic attack). Working this into your rotation will increase DPS, however it won’t give you Noble Stance. An example rotation would be Noble stance >> Finisher >> Holy Ladder >> Skill/Link Attack to get Noble stance. Because the cooldown is so low you can use this for trash mobs as well.
4. Invincible: The cooldown is around 2 minutes but starts when you cast it. For 15 seconds you’re not only invulnerable but attacks pass through you. You cannot be interrupted or crowded controlled (except maybe slow). Effectively you can bypass most boss mechanics. With her personal Sigil, Holyknight’s Luster, the cooldown gets reduced to around 40-50 seconds as long as you’re attacking.

Other Skills

1. Konigsschild: Grants 50% damage cut to party. Sounds great but most parties are scattered all over the place. Charlotta herself never needs this.
2. Rising Cut: The third skill that will grant Noble Stance immediately. For 3 seconds she will parry any attacks and then counter. Great skill but the cooldown is too long. Also eats into tempo having to wait for enemy attacks. Really depends on your playstyle but tough for me to slot over other skills.
3. Valiant Stance: Might be the only way to hit max DMG cap on the gap close finisher without sacrificing half your sigil slots. However, its usage can be tricky. Every 10 seconds it ramps up. Max 30 seconds for 120% attack boost. Anytime she gets hit (even blocking for 0 damage) she loses the buff. Charlotta will glow and sparkle at each ramp up. It’s hard to justify this skill when it only benefits one move.
4. Sacred Charge: Not as bad as people think. Whenever a teammate uses their burst, you get some charge back. She can fill the SBA gauge quickly so your party overall can hit full bursts faster. Hard to slot this over the recommended skills though.

Sigils

I won’t go too in-depth with Sigils since there’s a lot of nuances involved. As well as there being plenty of guides for sigils already. But the general gist is:

• Max Crit
• Get ATK boosters to DMG cap at least the normal finisher
• DMG cap sigils
• War Elemental and 2x Supplemental
• Stout Heart, Improved Dodge, and Potion Hoarder.
• Her personal Sigils

On the usage of Cascade and quick cooldown. I don’t see the benefit of using those since her personal sigil will reduce cooldowns.

You can use both cascade and her sigil, but the combined cooldown reduction is minimal in my testing.