Below are bunch of characters that see use in various contents. If you have any of them, try to level them beforehand and don’t forget to invest in EMPs, earrings, rings, and artifacts for the characters you’ll use.

Burst

Attackers

Support

Full Auto

Offense

Support

Defense

OTK

CA Focus

Normal Focus

Backline

Characters with useful backline passives.

Katzelia

Type: BACKLINE

Use Areas: EVERYWHERE

Charge Attacks

Orbital Breeze	450% (Massive) Wind damage to a foe. All allies gain Earth DMG Lowered (20%, 3.5T) and Earth Switch (3.5T).

Skills

First Movement: Bide	Gain Refrain of Biding (100% DEF Up / 50% DA / 20% TA). Ends on recast. (Consumes 30% of other allies’ charge bars every turn.) Level 55: Effect enhanced.
Second Movement: Overwhelm	All Wind allies gain Charge Boost (30%), C.A. DMG Boosted (1 time) (30%), and C.A. DMG Cap Boosted (1 time) (15%).
Third Movement: Guard	Grant another Wind ally Refrain of the Guardian (200% DEF Up, 1T). (Consumes 30% of caster’s charge bar.)
Final Movement: Ascension

Support Skills

Exiled Maestro	Wind allies restore HP upon consuming charge bar with skills and charge attacks.
Judgement Reversed	When Sub Ally: Refresh 5% of Wind allies’ HP after each turn when not debuffed (Healing cap: 350). 30% boost to Wind allies’ ATK (Damage_Formula/Detailed_Damage_Formula#Perpetuity_boosts|Perpetuity modifier) when debuffed.

• 30% free perpetuity attack.
  • Essential to burst setups thanks to Belial (Summer).
  • Also easy for FA with Ewiyar.

Raphael

Type: BACKLINE

Use Areas: EVERYWHERE

Charge Attacks

Skills

Megalos Anemos
Roaming Cyclone
Wind IV

Support Skills

• 20% boost to Omega and Optimus weapon skills.

Ami

Type: BACKLINE

Use Areas: EVERYWHERE

Charge Attacks

Skills

Sky-Rending Shot
Hail of Bolts
Azure Tornado

Support Skills

• 10% boost to Omega weapon skills.

Vane (Halloween)

Type: DEFENSE

Use Areas: FA, HARD CONTENT, SOLOS

Charge Attacks

Flinkbein: Treat	450% (Massive) Wind damage to a foe. Restore Vane’s HP (Healing cap: 2000). End cooldown for Waechterriese.

Skills

Wolf Beat	400% Wind damage to a foe (Damage cap: ~600,000). Inflict Earth ATK Lowered (15%, Accuracy: 100%, 180s) and Wind DEF Lowered (25%, Accuracy: 100%, 180s).
Waechterriese	Gain Counters on Dodge/DMG (200%, 5 times, 3T).
Ritterseele	Gain Ritterseele (5T).

Support Skills

Good-Natured Prankster	When Vane has Counter effect: Guaranteed triple attacks and 30% Bonus Wind DMG effect.
Playful Pranks Only!	50% boost to Wind allies’ DEF. (Takes effect even when Vane is a sub ally.)

• Free 50% DEF from the backline.

Seruel (Holiday)

Type: VEIL

Use Areas: NM150

Charge Attacks

Ibormeith Solas	Massive Wind damage to a foe. All allies gain Shield (2000, 2.5T). Seruel gains Typhoon Crest 1.

Skills

Noble Blade	400% Wind damage to a foe. Inflict ATK Down (20%, 180s), Earth ATK Lowered (10%, 180s), and Wind DEF Down (15%, 180s).
Glowing Alster	All allies gain Glowing Alster 2. (Ends upon taking damage 2 times.)
Lucent Grace	All allies gain 70% Earth Cut (2T) and Typhoon Crest 1.

Support Skills

Allow Me to Escort You	10% boost to double attack rate and 5% boost to triple attack rate for all allies when Seruel is not debuffed.
Crownless Protector	Earth damage reduction to Wind allies based on their number of Typhoon Crest. All Wind allies start battle with Veil. (Takes effect even when Seruel is a sub ally.)

• Back veil option is good for GW setups for those without Vampy.

Cinnamoroll and Pompompurin

Type: VEIL

Use Areas: NM150

Charge Attacks

Twinkle Magic	All friends gain Mirror Image (2 times). Restore all friends’ HP (Healing cap: 3000) and remove 2 debuffs ♡

Skills

Soaring with Skyfarers	All friends gain Veil and Dispel Cancel (1 times) ♪
Let’s Do Our Best ♪	All friends gain ATK Up (30%, Multiplier: Normal, 3T), DEF Up (30%, 3T), and Guaranteed TA (1T) ♪
Sleepy Time	Gain Naptime (1T) ♪ (When nap ends: Fully rested [Healing cap: 3000]. End all other skills’ cooldown. Gain Instant Charge.)

Support Skills

Sky Realm Adventure ☆	Can’t normal attack and Into Hiding (Won’t be targeted by a foe’s one-ally attack if there is another ally available to target.) effect. At end of turn: 50% chance to restore all friends’ HP (Healing cap: 1000) and remove 1 debuff ♡
We’ll Help Too ♪	30% boost C.A. damage and 5% boost to C.A. damage cap for Wind friends ☆ (Takes effect even when Cinnamoroll and Pompompurin is a sub ally ♪)

• 30% CA damage and 5% CA cap is great for ougi OTK.

Next up, we’ll go over the Eternals and Evokers for the element that you should consider farming for.

Katzelia

Katzelia can serve two potential purposes this UnF.

His first major usage is his backline passive that provides 30% perpetuity attack up when debuffed. With either Belial (Summer) or Ewiyar (Grand), this is super easy to activate and can make a major difference in setups.

The second usage requires FLB. He is a top tier candidate for NM250 thanks to all the free charge bar he provides to maintain CA loops as well as the boosts to defense and survivability. His skill 4 isn’t hard required but it increases your damage output significantly so you should try to get it. CA mashing NM250 for manual players will likely be a top solo strat again so the FLB is highly reccomended for that. FA might move away from the pure CA looping due to how slow it is, but it will be very safe thanks to Katze.

Nio

Starting at level 130, Niyon becomes an excellent buffer for Wind. Her main skill Defendu Raise all foes’ Tuning (Accuracy: g, 180s) lvl by 1 (Max: 10).
All allies gain Critical Up (30%, 3t).
Level 85:
All allies also gain Shield (2000, 3T).
Level 130:
Buff increased to Critical Up (30%, 3t).
Shield endurance increased to Shield (3000, 3T).
All allies also gain Keen (1% of foe’s max HP Damage cap: 50,000, 3t) and DMG Amplified (10%, Multiplier: Seraphic, 3t). provides 100/30% crit, keen, and 10% DMG amp to party. She also provides multiple strong sources of partywide ATK up and TA up from both her skill 2 as well as from her Level 120 passive. She can also apply defense and attack down for even more benefit. While not hard required to use her, it is heavily reccomended to get her all to way to 150 since it adds 10% partywide cap up as well as teamwide dispel immunity to her passive. Both of which are highly valuable to burst and FA.

While Nio strength does increase a lot at 130+, she can be a decent FA option even before then. This is thanks to her rebal adding a new debuff to her skill 1 Ninna Nanna Inflict Comatose 6 (Accuracy: 75%, 4-6 turns) on all foes. . The debuff dispels at the end of every turn. On top of this, it has a 100% uptime.

She is both pretty strong for FA and burst. For FA, having a strong buffer with MA and DEF buffs with dispels and debuffs as well as preventing dispels against typically dispel heavy bosses is great to have around. For burst, her strong raw damage buffs, cap break, and dispel cancel are great for the longer burst setups. But they are showing their age as many newer buffers in other elements can offer more while dealing damage themselves. So its possible someone will come by and replace her but for now she’s still golden.

Also she’s cute.

Estarriola

Estarriola is a character who is unable to attack normally for the most part and uses auto activating skill nukes instead. The most important of these is an auto nuke that activates at the end of every turn which dispels one buff. This makes him a particularly strong option for the higher Nightmare fights where the bosses will buff themselves a lot. The other two are a skill nuke that activates on enemy special attack that inflicts a debuff which won’t land and one that activates on taking damage which heals.

These nukes also make him an excellent OTK character. He is guarenteed two of the skill damages which deal as much or more than many other characters. Additionally since he won’t attack outside the skill nukes, he can help cut CA chains for CA setups.

As for FLB, the upgrades are generally minor and can be skipped for most instances. The main use of it is that he becomes a great backline for CA based setups due to his passive now granting random buffs to team based on the number of CA chains instead of just one. His skill 4 post rebalance is now pretty solid though I can’t say is still worth the sunstone investment. The skill let’s Esta now CA whenever his bar is 100% at turn start while also providing 20% (100% max) stackable CA damage, 10% (50% max) stackable CA cap, and 10k (50k max) stackable supp damage.

Siete

Seofon’s use this UnF will mostly be limited to CA based setups for OTK and NM90. For this, he has a strong passive that boost CA damage by 50% and adds 10% CA cap at FLB while also providing 30% ATK up to team on CA. His 110 transcendance is also a good upgrade thanks to further improving his CA damage and adding 15% cap up to party on his charge attack.

Beyond this point, his transcendance will not add much. His transcendance it mostly for V2 content which UnF isn’t. He does get 100k partywide CA supp added to his passives at 150, but given the resources for that it is not advised. 110 is about as far as you need to go but you would be better off using a normal attack based OTK instead.

High Priority Characters

Characters that are a strong recommendation to get.

Mirin (SSR)

Mirin (SSR) is a top tier unit for Wind CA setups. Her Samurai Power stacks raise on 4 chains and increase CA damage by 30% (90%) max, 20% CA by cap (60% max), and adds 100k (300k) CA supp for all wind allies. She deals an 8 hit reactive skill damage nuke on enemy special attack that dispels. Her CA provides 30% charge gain to the team to help with CA looping while dealing a 4 hit nuke. She was a big time player last Unite and Fight as well as RF setups in HL content and is a highly sought after unit this time as well.

Medium Priority Characters

Characters that fill some strong niches.

Cagliostro and Clarisse

Cagliostro and Clarisse are an FA duo that provide a lot of helpful utility against annoying aka UnF bosses. Their skill 1 Total Eclipse packs a dispel. Their skill 2 Empowering Aid heals and clears a debuff. On enemy special attack, the skill 2 activates for a free clear and the skill 1 resets to deal with an enemy buff. They also provide strong defense up to the team from both casts of their skill 3. All around they offer a bit of everything good for a UnF FA unit. If you lack stronger seasonal characters, they are a great option.

Noire

Noire is a strong OB unit. If she attacks an enemy who has less than 50% HP at the start of her attack, she gains GTA, 50% bonus damage, 2 hit flurry on her second hit and 3 hit flurry on her third. Putting her in the last spot of an OTK setup for EX+ or NM90 will make it easy to reach that 50% HP requirement. Her passive also works upon using her skill 1 Edge of Depravity so she can used against the higher HP raids if needed.

Her skill 1 also packs Terror. Preventing the boss from using their special has historically been an excellent way to make bursting down a fight much easier. However, with last Dark UnF making NM150 and beyond immune to Terror debuffs, its possible the same will happen again which means her debuff wouldn’t land.

Additionally, her weapon Incomplete Polarsector is the best raw enmity damage weapon for wind.

Also she shares VA with Bocchi.

Low Priority Characters

Good characters that may be replacements for stronger characters or fill too niche a niche that you could work around for not having them.

Yodahara

Yodarha (Wind) finds a place in Spartan bursts due to his 1 turn on assassin on his skill 1 Trice Blade Consume 1 Triple Shroud (Wind) to gain Trice Blade (50%, Multiplier: Assassin, 1T).
(When at 100% charge bar: Also gain Double Strike (1T). Consumes 100% of charge bar.) . While he overall isn’t the best option, he’s a great sub if you are missing the stronger characters or have a weaker grid that needs the extra output from another assassin.

Petra

Petra (SSR) is an all around amazing FA character providing some handy defense tools like 2 hit mirror image and 1 time dodge all, solid teamwide buffs, and strong CA and skill damage output. She’s best used for extended fights such as being great for Siegfried and likely to be very strong for NM200.

Summons

As always, summons are always a great option. The usual suspects of the echo summons Owlcat or Demonbream, the 6 Dragon Optimus sub aura summon Ewiyar or the Optimus main summon Zephyrus] are all great to pick up if needed.

Narmaya (Grand)

If you can only afford to spark one character for wind UnF and somehow don’t have her already, the answer is Narmaya (Grand). She is the primary attacker in wind especially but not limited to burst setups. She forms the core of every burst setup in wind. Her pairing of a one turn assassin with a four turn 100% bonus damage is very hard to beat and wind doesn’t have anyone who comes close. She also provides 3% damage cap and 10% bonus damage to all ally crits. This makes a crit buffer like Niyon a great pair with her. In addition, she has GTA and passive 20% normal attack amp.

For FA, she is still one of the strongest choices available. While not as dominant at the higher nightmare levels, she will defenitely be used up to NM150 FA and potentially NM200 as well for stronger players.

As well she is great for OTK either for her GTA with amplified normals or her unworldly CA. Her bonus damage passive can be achieved with critical grids here, though once you start wanting looking into setups with drop boost summons this becomes harder to achieve.

Ewiyar (Grand)

Ewiyar (Grand) is an alternative buffer to Niyon who has a 100% uptime skill that charms the team but doesn’t stop them from attacking. This activates her passive that provides 30% perpetuity ATK, 100% DEF, 100/30 DATA, and 10% bonus damge to everyone but her on the team. In addition, her skill 3 The Emerald’s Windfall Gain The Emerald’s Windfall (Multiplier: Perpetuity).All other Wind allies gain Ewiyar (Grand)#The Emerald’s Windfall|a random buff.(Can’t be recast.) gives her the buffs her passive provides everyone else as well as granting a strong random buff each turn to the team. The only one that is guarenteed is on the 5th activation of the skill, you will get teamwide double strike.

Last UnF, her role was for NM200 skill mash setups and for FA. For this UnF, she will still be great for both.

Also, she comes with Piercing Galewing which is Wind’s version of the unconditional 50k supp and 7% cap up weapon. It is both a core weapon for Zephyrus and an excellent option for some Tiamat setups as well. So sparking her for two copies of her weapon is also a very good reason to get her.

Lich (Halloween)

Lich (Halloween) is a skill damage specialist launching a 6-10 hit nuke with dispel every turn while her skill Cursed ‘n’ Spooky Gain Play Undead (5T). is up. The main drawback is that she can’t normal attack. She also packs some handy debuffs including earth attack down and wind defense down as well as delays. In past UnFs, she was a great unit for skill spam teams and especially FA teams and being such a strong dispel bot will make her very useful again. This holds doubly true if you happen to have Galleon (Summer) who delivers an extra dispel whenever Lich has a turn she doesn’t attack.

Just remember if you spark her, do it on the Halloween recap legfest and not the 3%.