The best Build Sword of Convallaria Col Layer in the right stats to allow this formidable assassin to dish out serious damage every turn. Col is your typical rogue-hitting assassin character from Sword of Convallaria, whose abilities almost all involve damage stacking and critical hits, but her unique passive means she benefits from working alone. She only activates when allies are at least three spaces away from her, meaning you’ll want to mix some self-sustaining abilities in with her offensive-focused skills.
Our Sword of Convallaria build for Col analyzes Col’s best skills at each rank and lists Col’s best trinkets and tarot whispers.
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Build Sword of Convallaria Col
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Sword of Convallaria Col Abilities
Col has a number of strong abilities that make her one of the most powerful units in the game. While it’s hard to make a “wrong” choice, it’s worth unlocking certain abilities first before coming back to add an extra Castalia or two to her rank-up abilities.
Col’s passive ability encourages you to play her as a sneaky assassin – fitting considering her character. She gains the Leap ability, which triples her jump range, and if there are no allies within two squares of Col, she gains a 10 percent attack and critical rate buff. If Col attacks and defeats an enemy from the side or behind, she can immediately go back to action.
Col Rank 1 Skill: Ambush
- Shadow Gait is good, but in the early game you’ll get much more benefit from the Ambush ability. With Ambush, Col deals 20 percent more damage when attacking uninjured enemies, and when she attacks from behind, she doesn’t deal passive abilities to the target for one turn.
Col Rank 3 Ability: Attack
- This rank is a little tricky. Col benefits from both abilities, but Mask is more situational. If your Col is out of danger, his healing and debuff cleanse isn’t as useful, even if the fifth-tier crit buff is useful. Assault is always helpful, though, and lets you trigger her passive ability more easily. It gives Col a first-tier crit rate and crit damage buff and a second-tier movement boost for one turn, making it easy to get close to an enemy and deal heavy damage.
Col Rank 5 Skill: Uncanny Footwork
- Uncanny Footwork is a must for Col. When she is healthy and hit by a single-target attack, she teleports behind the attacker and counterattacks for 70 percent of her attack. She can also dodge for one turn, allowing her to dodge a single-target attack. If Col is injured, she only gets the dodge effect.
Col Rank 7 Skill: Omen of Death
- Omen of Death is our pick, with a big asterisk. Get Perfect Assassin And Omen of Death if you’re using other Alacrity characters. Omen of Death is the best choice when Col is in a mixed party, as it grants her a helpful passive ability called Feverish Beast every time a character is defeated. Feverish Beast increases life steal and critical hit rate by 15 percent for three turns and can stack up to five times. It also restores two NRG to Col when she defeats an enemy.
- Perfect Assassin is a leader aura that gives Alacrity characters great advantages – 10 percent attack, 20 percent defense, and 15 percent critical hit rate and critical damage. This is largebut also not really helpful if you don’t use other Alacrity characters.
Col Rank 9 Skill: Critical Hit
- Critical Strike, a replacement for a basic attack, gives Col a 15 percent critical hit rate boost before her attack, then lets her deal physical damage twice, each equal to 50 percent of her attack. Hidden Thorn is strong, but situational, as you don’t get an advantage if a nearby character doesn’t have a support reaction.
Col Rank 11 Ability: Obliterate
- Col deals 60 percent physical damage to a single target three times, and if Col has no allies within two spaces, she gains the ignore assist effect. She also gains evasion when she defeats her target. Traceless Shadow is basically just a slightly beefed up Eerie Footwork, so you might as well get the skill that does more damage.
Sword of Convallaria Col Weapons
Col is somewhat limited in her weapon selection, but one weapon that suits her quite well is the free Newborn Blade.
- Newborn blade:This sword increases the equipped character’s HP by three and a half percent and then gives them an attack buff equal to three percent of their total HP. It’s nothing special, but both buffs work well with Col.
- Void stitch: Void Staff has been Col’s best weapon since the launch version of Sword of Convallaria. It increases her critical hit rate by three percent and gives her the Void effect after she uses a skill. Void increases her critical damage by five percent and can stack six times, but only lasts for one turn.
Sword of Convallaria Col Trinkets
Col can make good use of several trinkets, from standard staples to one unique to her Battle Pass, but with this one you’ll need to carefully manage her positioning to keep the buff active. Mavericks Cloak is our first choice. If there are no allies within four squares of Col’s location, her attack and defense are increased by four percent and her critical hit rate is increased by ten percent.
Spring pill smooths out potential healing issues if you don’t opt for Mask at rank three, as its ability heals the character for 20 percent of their maximum HP and removes a debuff. However, you can only use it twice per battle. Then there is Armguard with flying blade: The Flying Blade Bracer is a solid choice for anyone who needs to deal more damage, and since Col benefits from defeating enemies, it’s just the right choice. It gives the character an instant attack that deals piercing damage equal to 12 percent of the target’s HP, and since it’s an instant attack, Col can perform her standard attacks as normal.
Sword of Convallaria Col Tarot Whispers
Judgment of Justice is Col’s best Tarot Whisper, thanks to its hefty crit rate buff, and even better, it offers that buff outright. You don’t have to meet any special criteria to activate it. It’s just always there. Assuming you can get Col to defeat enemies on a regular basis, consider: Temptation of the devil. The equipping character receives a stack of devils when he defeats an enemy, and each stack increases attack and defense by 3 percent, for a total of 30 percent.
