Unlike most of her fellow party members, Lune can work equally well as a damage-dealer or a support in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, depending on your preferred playstyle.
With the wide range of weapons and accessories in Expedition 33, you might feel like you can turn anyone into anything. A triple tank team? A team designed to shatter damage totals? The sky is the limit with the game’s robust system, but just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
If you’re interested in the best for the barefoot mage, this Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 guide will break down the best Lune build, her best weapons, attributes, and skills to prioritize.
Best Lune build in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
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Lune can serve as a DPS unit, but we believe she is much better suited as a support role. This isn’t to say that Lune inferior to the other party members in terms of how much damage she can deal, but instead that her skills and weapon are better suited for a supportive role. A team with a Lune support is much more flexible than other team compositions due to her ability to debuffs enemies and heal allies.
In the game’s opening act, you’ll want to improve Lune’s Vitality and Luck attributes to increase her damage and survivability. Any leftover points can be put into Might for extra damage, but survivability is most important. Her best attributes change throughout the game’s runtime from prioritizing luck and health to agility and defense.
The best Lune build in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is:
- Attributes: Agility and Defense
- Weapon: Choralim
- Skills: Earth Rising, Ice Lance, Immolation, and Electrify
- Pictos: Empowering Parry, Shortcut, and Charging Critical
Like Maelle, in the long run, Lune’s best attributes are Agility and Defense because they scale the best with her strongest weapon, the Choralim. Lune’s gameplay is built around properly managing her Skill Stains and AP. In order to get the best out of her toolkit, you have to make sure you’re actually using the stains accrued. Skills benefiting from a stain will be highlighted, so make sure to make use of your stains. While you’ll want to prioritize skills that provide utility Crippling Tsunami and Hell, once your debuffs are applied you can follow a simple rotation of skills to increase your teams overall DPS.
Below, we’ll explain in more detail why this is the best Lune build in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
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Your attribute spread for Lune might look different depending on how far in the game you are. You can use a Recoat to reset your attributes and will likely find multiple Recoats in your average playthrough.
In Act 1, prioritize these attributes:
In Act 2, you can begin to prioritize Agility over Luck, as those attributes will work better with the weapon upgrades present throughout Act 2. In the opening hours of Expedition 33, damage is king, since the more quickly you can wrap up a battle, the less you have to worry about defending yourself. The dodge and parry mechanics will become second nature throughout the game, but enemies in the first act doesn’t stand a chance against Lune’s damage potential.
The Act 2 attribute spread will suffice until you achieve Esquie’s flying ability. Then you can finally access Lune’s best weapon, Choralim, which scales with Agility and Defense. The stats you’ll receive from those attributes alone will outscale putting points in attributes like Might or Luck.
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The best weapon for Lune is the Choralim.
It’s easy to miss, especially if you aren’t exploring the map and spending time with your party. To find this weapon, you must increase your relationship with Lune to the 6th relationship rank, which you can increase by spending time with her in the camp.
Once you do this, Verso will speak of a location close to the colosseum of Sirene. This location is home to an optional boss who happens to drop the weapon. (You may have run into the area, Sirene’s Dress, by accident only to find a door inside that wouldn’t budge. You must raise Lune’s relationship rank to at least 6 to properly interact with it.)
The weapon’s strength is in its synergy with certain Pictos. It’s level 10 passive ability works great with Pictos and Luminas that offer multiple turns, and its level 20 passive is great for damage with its synergy with Lune’s multi-hit skills. Whether you follow our guidance or decide to craft your build, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better weapon for Lune than the Choralim.
Best Pictos and Luminas for Lune
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The Pictos and Luminas you want on Lune depends on where you are in game. Broadly speaking, the best Pictos for Lune are Empowering Parry, Shortcut, and Charging Critical. Below is what these Pictos do in full detail such as the stat bonuses they grant as well as the passives they offer.
- Empowering Parry — Speed and Critical Rate. Each successful Parry increases damage by 5% until end of the following turn. Taking any damage removes this buff.
- Shortcut — Speed and Critical Rate. Immediately play when falling below 30% Health. Once per battle.
- Charging Critical — Defense and Critical Rate. 20% of a Gradient Charge on Critical Hit. Once per turn.
These Pictos give Lune extra scaling with her best weapon and allows for her to support her team with utility skills and damage over time. With Choralim’s passive granting 100% crit chance you can rapidly farm Gradient Charge and use her Tree of Life Gradient Attack to cleanse all status ailments and heals your allies. With the Shortcut Pictos allowing for a turn when you’re below 30% health, you can save this Gradient Attack for a moment when you need it most and instantly turn the tides of combat.
As for Luminas, we recommend using the following, depending on how many Lumina Points you have.
- Burning Affinity
- Cheater
- Confident Fighter
- Dead Energy II
- Double Burn
- Energising Burn
- Energising Start I
- Energising Start II
- Energising Start III
- Energising Turn
- First Strike
- Full Strength
- Glass Canon
- Immaculate
- Inverted Affinity
- Painted Power
- Warming Up
- Tainted
- Sweet Skill
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The best skills for Lune are the following:
- Elemental Trick: Deals low single target Ice, Fire, Lightning, and Earth damage. 4 hits. Critical Hits generate the corresponding Stain.
- Elemental Genesis: Deals extreme damage to all enemies. 8 hits. Each hit deals damage in a random element. Can only be cast with one Lightning, Earth, Fire, and Ice Stain.
- Rockslide: Deals medium single target Earth damage. 2 hits. Can Break. Consumes one Lightning, Ice, and Fire Stain for greatly increased damage.
- Lightning Dance: Deals very high single target Lightning damage. 6 hits. Critical Hits trigger an additional hit. Consumes one Earth, Ice, and Fire Stain: Greatly increased damage.
- Crippling Tsunami: Deals medium Ice damage to all enemies. 1 hit. Applies Slow for 3 turns. Consumes 1 Earth, Lightning, and Fire Stain for greatly increased damage.
- Hell: Deals very high Fire damage that applies 5 burn per hit to all enemies. 2 hits. Deals self-damage if failed. Consumes one Ice, Earth, and Lightning Stain for greatly increased damage.
These skills best take advantage of Lune’s Stain mechanic. You’re going to want to start combat with the Elemental Trick skill to guarantee you have one of each stain. Once you’ve generated your stains you are free to use the corresponding elemental skill to hit enemy weaknesses or cast Elemental Genesis for raw damage. Lune is one of the most versatile characters in the game — she can do anything you need her to.
