Celestial Guardian - Heimdall

Overview:

S-Rank Heimdall is a Water dual-DPS support, with most of her support strength coming from her Ultimate Skill. Her Ultimate has an especially short CD, requiring repeated casts, but the single-Ultimate duration is relatively long, and the AI will pause for about a second after using it. This can cause some buffs to be applied more slowly.

Currently, Water Heimdall is excellent for optimizing Zhiming’s mechanic shortcomings, making her the best support for Zhiming. For low-, mid-, and mid-high-investment Zhiming, the improvement is obvious, but for max-investment Zhiming, the boost is not particularly high. For other Water characters, she is still strong, but since none of them (except Zhiming) have same-element Ultimate Skillchains, bringing her often results in three solo Ultimates, which greatly reduces team strength. she needs to be used with Water Hel, otherwise the Ultimate animation is too long.

Additionally, Water Heimdall has strong crowd-pull capabilities. While not as extreme as Gengchen, on small maps her effect is nearly identical, making her a good lower-tier alternative to Gengchen.

Sigil Recommendations:

There are three practical loadouts as a support:

1:

• Slots 1, 3, 5: [Lingering Sound]
• Slots 2, 4, 6: [Song of the Victor]

2:

• Slots 1, 4, 5: [Lingering Sound]
• Slots 2, 3, 6: [Immortal Blackbird]

3:

• Slots 1, 2, 3: [Immortal Blackbird]
• Slots 4, 5, 6: [Song of the Victor]

At Ω you run all three:

• Slots 1, 5: [Lingering Sound]

• Slots 2, 3: [Immortal Blackbird]

• Slots 4, 6: [Song of the Victor]

Sigil Enchants:

• Prioritize maxing [Loopback]. If team survivability is low, add some [Standing Tall] as needed.

Aether Code Recommendations:

• Support: Use Yellow 3 Aether Code (High Sky’s Watch).
• DPS: Use Blue 3 Aether Code (Earthly Wisdom).

Warp Recommendations:

• For support, it is recommended to prioritize maxing out [Unfetter] and [Cognition Iterated]. The rest can be selected as needed.

• For DPS, it is recommended to choose

  • Slots 1 & 2: [Power UP: Ranged] + [Evolution Particle I]

  • Slots 3 & 4: [EM Flux] + [Telepathize Forcefield I]

  • Slots 5 & 6: [Armor Breaker] + [Current Decay].

Signature Functor (Elf - Orlunn):

• It’s still worth pulling one. The base buff it gives is quite high and can effectively boost team damage. If you really can’t get it, use the 5★ Yggdrasill general-purpose Functor instead. Functor transcendence gains are mediocre, usually not worth upgrading unless necessary.

Stat Boost Priority:

• For DPS, it is recommended to prioritize 1 > 3 = 2 > Ultimate. Normal Attack is useless.

Team Recommendations:

In summary, if Water Heimdall is only used as a dedicated support, her strength is relatively average. Due to her mechanics, her Ultimate buff needs to stack armor break, which is relatively slow to start compared to other powerful dedicated supports. Currently, the most suitable teams are the Water Hel team and the Zhiming team. However, because she can now support other Water-element Modifiers with Water Hel, her strength has also increased accordingly. In addition, it is also because of the appearance of Water Hel that Water Heimdall’s DPS playstyle has a certain degree of strength. If you are not used to the super long startup and recovery animations of other Water Mods, you can try DPS Water Heimdall, which is relatively much more flexible.

In a Zhiming team, she can completely replace Lingguang, especially for low-investment Zhiming. Even high-investment Zhiming gains the advantage of being able play cross-element Iterative Testing thanks to her.

Before Water Hel’s release, Zhiming + Skuld + Water Heimdall was the Water team core. If your Water team was built around other Water characters, she was generally not recommended except alongside Poseidon.