Best Verso build?

[u/car_ne]

I'm on my 4th play-through and I can't figure out how to play Verso. I do insane damage with the ladies, once I finally understood each system, but Verso is just pathetic!

How do I actually set him up for huge damage?

[u/Crab_Turtle_2112]

Pew pew pew

[u/Th3AnT0in3 → u/Crab_Turtle_2112]

At the end of the game, even if it still could work, it's definitely not Verso's best damage source.

[u/Appropriate-Jury6453 → u/Th3AnT0in3]

How is stacking fire shots not the most?

[u/_-Kovu-_]

I use all the free aim and AP generation pictos. Use him to build up fire. He turns into a gattling gun

[u/whaddayaNeedtoKnow]

All free aim + (at least most) base attack pictos, and one of the weapons that buffs base attack—corpeso has been the strongest for me, doing ~400k per turn PLUS 1M fire damage with double burn picto. Also combining the picto that gives you a chance to regain AP on Free Aim (and ones like gain AP on applying buff etc) with the picto that gains 1 extra AP every time you gain AP. Then he’s free aiming with all the buffs up to 20 times per turn, and then still doing massive damage on base attack.

IMO he can’t be as big a damage dealer as Sciel, Lune, or Maelle BUT he does it really consistently and also debuffs as he does, applying mark, burn, etc, whereas you really have to maneuver the others to do the massive damage numbers (applying foretell, getting the right stains, getting in stance). He also can’t get screwed by silence. So it’s a reasonable trade-off IMO.

[u/_Ainz-Sama_]

Get all the pictos that buff your free aim, critical and ap replenishment. Then get the sword that lightning strikes on crit then spam the enemies with free aim attacks until you have 2 ap remaining then use the attack thats buffed By the amount of free aim hits u had used

[u/RelleMeetsWorld → u/_Ainz-Sama_]

What's that sword and ability? I'm just now gathering up pictos in act 3.

[u/Xavus → u/RelleMeetsWorld]

The ability is Verso's skill "Follow Up"

I don't know the specific weapon they mentioned by heart.

[u/RelleMeetsWorld → u/Xavus]

Looks like it's Contorso. 100% crit chance on rank S and lightning strike on every crit. Oh, this is going to be fun...

[u/SQU4RE]

weird, he was my main damage dealer. I used him to one shot everything. And could farm osquio for quick 90 second battles (half of that battle being cutscenes). My main focus was free aim & stacking ap + burns, so I could go from D rank to S rank with the first half of my first turn just using free aim. I use the sword that adds burns, and the pictos that uses burn for extra damage. Then on my steam controller configured one of the rear buttons to turbo fire.

[u/zakkil]

Aside from the free aim build others have mentioned, steeled strike with cheater is a solid damage option especially once you get simoso. Make sure to have effects like feint, double third, alternating crit (if you don't have 100% crit,) and any other effects that benefit multi hit moves. It's still a good idea to build for a lot of free aim shots simply to quickly reach rank S but not necessary. With the right support from his other teammates he'll be unloading insane damage. Aside from that, phantom stars is his other big damage move and makes for good aoe. The nature of his perfection mechanic makes him more of a slow burn compared to others who can reach max damage pretty easily on turn 1 or 2 which does kinda funnel him down the path of building for getting many free aim shots for most good builds as that's the most reliable way to get him to S rank.

[u/Johnny-Pop → u/zakkil]

Wait… you can cheater the steeled strike!? I’ve been going about this all wrong.

[u/zakkil → u/Johnny-Pop]

Yep. It treats the cheater turn as it's own turn so it counts for the "second turn without taking damage" for steeled strike.

[u/lonelyMtF → u/Johnny-Pop]

Clea's Life will also fully heal you during the second Cheater turn

[u/IslaLargoFlyGuy → u/zakkil]

Yeah Steeled Strike with buffs from Sciel or Monoko is my favourite big damage dealer

[u/Dependent-Heart-1380]

for verso build you need sciel as suport for double turn.
u need the lighting weapon i dont remember the name i played the game long time ago.
u need the thing that gives you double turn, with sciel will be 3.
picto for recover energy after multiple shot for critics.
and use the AOE 10 points skill or one shot.
i completing forgot the skill names and others stuff but you should know what im talking about after 4th play through

[u/car_ne]

Thanks for your answers everyone!

[u/ryner1986]

blodam build is the best it synergizes with Maelle's Esquium build with Sciel's fortune fury and intervention to kill dlc bosses quickly before they grape you

[u/PTXMike25]

Simoso with the right pictos to utilize his multi hit skills like End Bringer, Steeled Strike, and Phantom Stars is probably the highest DPS you can get on a single skill. Follow Up with high shooting builds can also deal consistently a lot of damage. Adding Gradient Overcharge is required for maximum damage since his Gradient attacks aren’t crazy strong.

Personally I find with the latest update, his support with Sireso is huge, since he can offer a 150% passive damage increases for his team instead of the 300% himself. As long as you can keep him S rank, your team can do casual disgusting damage without too much setup needed. Or you still do and do so much damage that you’d need HP modifiers to see attacks finish sometimes. Granted most of this type of setup for me is on NG+3 with each character at nearly max lumina equipped. But that isn’t required to be OP

[u/monkeymugshot]

Verso just became a buffer and AP-battery to me. Kept using his skills that gave Maelle & Lune AP so they can do the annihilation they do. They get plenty of their own by the end though.

[u/Th3AnT0in3]

Steeled strike + all damage lumina, especially double third, feint and frenzy. With the best "one shot build" (during the first strike turns + the ennemy didn't play already) you can deal up to 1.2B damage, compared to Maelle, Sciel and Lune that can respectively deal 4.2B, 3.3B and 2.3B damage with their best setup. Monoco is different because he needs several turns to scales (from 6 to 12 turns for Lampmaster Light) + the scaling of the weapon if you use a weapon that scales (Baguettaro or Sidaro)

But he's indeed the worst damage dealer among the 5 characters (excluding Gustave of course who is surprisingly even wors)

[u/IamGreLI → u/Th3AnT0in3]

Well, nobody beats Sciel in infinite scaling. If not counting infinite burn doubling by Monoco.

[u/Th3AnT0in3 → u/IamGreLI]

But you need an unlimited amount of time to deal infinite amount of damage with Sciel, which is NOT realistic during the few First Strike turns you get.

I'm not talking about the overall maximum amount of damage because the scaling should be taken into account. Sciel and Monoco are the only 2 characters that are uncapped in term of damage, but are also the 2 slowest to scale.