In the lead-up to a tornado, an unusual tranquility often settles over the weather. At this moment, birds cease their singing and the atmosphere appears to pause, as though attempting to halt the impending devastation approaching.

As a gamer, let me tell you, Enya isn’t your typical character. She packs a punch with her area-of-effect (AoE) capabilities, dealing massive damage to mobs, and surprisingly, she’s even more potent when it comes to single-target encounters. It’s clear as day that this is just the beginning; I can sense many more storms brewing on the horizon.

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Abilities

Standard Skill

Initially, Enya’s talent offers a threefold benefit: her basic move transforms into a howling vortex, which not only lifts and repeatedly harms adversaries within its range but also replenishes S-Energy upon impact, as well as some U-Energy and a resource called Wind Power. In theory, this skill could remain active indefinitely if you consistently hit an enemy, but it lasts for a maximum of 8 seconds in practice. However, it’s best not to maintain it for extended periods because it also has another useful feature.

Activating the Engulfing Vortex, which functions similarly to the Howling Vortex but causes greater damage and has an extended range, can be done by continuously pressing the skill key or recasting the skill while using Howling Vortex. Additionally, maintaining the Engulfing Vortex generates up to five Wall Cloud stacks that offer temporary damage reduction upon use. While it may seem like excessive additions, as protection against most attacks isn’t typically a concern, this upgrade comes without any drawbacks, so it’s a useful extra feature to have.

When the Howling Vortex is in its mini tornado state, you may notice that the effective range isn’t extensive and the slower speed makes it difficult to utilize effectively at times. However, this ability has a hidden feature – a passive trait that turns Enya’s evasive maneuvers into miniature whirlwinds. Essentially, it’s a smaller version of the Howling Vortex, allowing you to dash in any direction as you activate it. This mobility enhancement is particularly beneficial for Enya, who sometimes struggles to get close enough to enemies to leverage the crowd control capabilities of her standard skill.

Support Skill

This ability seems to serve multiple purposes: causing damage, pushing back enemies, and creating a platform for elevation. Frankly, I’m unsure about its primary function. Once in the air, it’s intriguing but unclear what the intended next action should be. Despite this, it undeniably ranks among the most supportive skills ever developed.

Ultimate Skill

Initially, Enya’s ultimate ability may not seem particularly captivating. It appears as a simple area-of-effect burst dealing damage at an affordable U-Energy cost. However, upon closer inspection, this seemingly ordinary move conceals some intriguing details. While the energy cost to cast it is only 20 U-Energy, it has a tendency to deplete all available resources in your energy tank. At just 50 U-Energy consumption, the base attack ratio nearly doubles from 870% to an impressive 1620%. As more energy is drained (up to 100 U-Energy), the damage ratio escalates significantly to a staggering 2870% of Enya’s attack. To put it plainly, this translates to a substantial amount of damage. Moreover, the damage output will likely increase even further due to:

Deiwos Passive

Previously, Enya appeared to be a character who excels in mass combat situations due to her wide-area abilities that can clear out groups of enemies effectively. However, Seasun seems to be aiming for a unique balance, as Enya’s Deiwos passive increases the damage her skills deal when they strike fewer than five opponents. This damage amplification increases significantly, reaching a maximum 150% boost when only one enemy is struck. Notably, this is a percentage increase to the final damage, meaning it multiplicatively stacks with all other damage bonuses you might have, rather than being added on top. This transformation elevates her already formidable damage potential to levels that are almost unbelievable.

Also, she converts Alignment Index into extra ATK. You know, because she really needs more damage.

Assessment

Enya is incredibly versatile; she can clean up hordes of common enemies for hours on end, and when she comes across tough boss enemies, she unleashes an enormous destructive force through her ultimate ability.

However, there’s a trade-off: You need to move closer for this task, which can turn an otherwise effortless task into a surprisingly tiresome duty. This becomes more evident when you think about other methods that can handle the job more efficiently. For instance, Chenxing – Jade Arc can spew arrows with her basic skill, capable of clearing an entire screen of minions. Or consider Vidya – Agave, who can automatically target enemies while you leisurely browse your phone, holding E. Consequently, the need to pursue and absorb enemies into your tornado feels like excess labor in comparison.

It turns out that most of these issues are resolved when you employ Enya against bosses. In boss arenas, where obstacles are minimal and many bosses tend to encroach upon your personal space, Enya demonstrates exceptional skill in exploiting her ultimate’s immense damage scaling capacity and the damage amplification from her Deiwos to deal colossal damage, provided you can supply her with enough U-Energy to do so.

It’s intriguing that a character primarily known for mobbing ends up excelling at boss fights instead. This could imply Seasun’s struggle to create useful operatives without manipulating numbers. However, Enya maintains her efficiency as an operative, handling any given task effectively, despite the monotony.

Weapons

The division between the gacha weapon and the free event shop item is predictable in this case. The free option, Swamp Snapper, receives two identical percentage damage bonuses, while the premium weapon, Amethyst Thorns, offers slightly less of that type of bonus at tier 1 but significantly more at tier 2. At the same time, it also provides a percentage damage taken reduction, which cumulatively results in a 33% performance difference when comparing tier 1 of Amethyst Thorns to tier 5 of Swamp Snapper, and approximately a 66% damage increase when you upgrade Amethyst Thorns to tier 2.

If you’ve been lucky with the weapon banner draws in the past, it’s possible that you may not need to fully upgrade Swamp Snapper, as you might already have a better weapon from previous premium pulls.

It appears that Tiny Grains functions quite effectively as an alternative to the gator gun, even at its initial level (T1). This is mainly due to its ability to grant a %DMG Taken buff, albeit you need to be hit to activate it. Without the buff, it still packs a significant punch, just slightly underperforming without the boost. However, from T2 onwards, it consistently outperforms without the buff and is generally more beneficial.

Manifests

Despite Enya’s continuous upward trend in effects being well-established, there are still intriguing aspects to discuss because the trajectory can change based on how she is utilized. Interestingly, the line might not continue to rise as expected. To illustrate this, I’ve separated her manifest damage gains into graphs for her standard skill and ultimate. Let’s first focus on the graph depicting her standard skill investment.

Everything seems to be in order here. M3 presents a significant spike, but remember that M1 offers some pleasant benefits by accelerating Wind Power acquisition for her, allowing you more time in her enhanced Engulfing Vortex skill mode. Now, let’s examine what her manifestations bring to her ultimate ability.

Huh.

Indeed, neither M4 nor M5 significantly impact her final ability’s effectiveness. While it’s true that you gain 2% Attack from each manifest, augmenting your overall damage slightly, I wouldn’t recommend spending money on additional copies in the gacha for this minor boost. Instead, reaching M3 seems like a reasonable choice since it offers the maximum increase to her standard skill’s damage and no further significant gains are made beyond that point on her ultimate ability.

Logistics

Enya’s team, Gleam Squad, doesn’t have anything particularly noteworthy regarding its logistics setup. However, it excels at increasing her damage output, surpassing other alternatives. I recommend using it. Enya doesn’t require additional S-Energy regeneration, has no significant cooldowns to worry about, and generally prefers not to attack. This means that the only important stats to focus on are Attack (ATK) and Alignment Index, which essentially boils down to more ATK.

Team Building

Enya’s methods of assistance may change based on the context of her usage, since your objectives might differ significantly between leisurely group activities and attempting to set a record in Neural Sim speedruns.

In many situations, the common choices like Marian – Riptide and Acacia – Kaguya perform effectively across various types of content. However, it’s important to note that Enya – Exuvia can struggle a bit when maximizing her kit’s potential. This is because Tempest‘s playstyle without shooting doesn’t allow for the skill charge-up needed for optimal damage output, thereby limiting Exuvia’s ability to activate weapon buffs. As a result, she may not deal the usual bursts of damage, which in turn reduces her overall effectiveness. Nonetheless, she can still often outperform Riptide, unless excessive movement is required, as Exuvia’s single repositioning circle might struggle to keep up with constantly moving enemies. Mauxir – Shadow Ka can be paired with Enya, but it’s not the most efficient way to boost her damage output, as there are other methods that yield better results.

In the Neural Sim battlefield, you’re given a powerful tool to utilize. You might recall that Enya’s ultimate damage significantly increases when supplied with additional U-Energy. Since Tess has the ability to generate this extra U-Energy, she becomes an extremely effective choice for boosting Enya towards a devastating ultimate attack. However, remember that you’ll need Tess’ M3 skill, as otherwise, you’d have to fire with Enya in order for Tess’ ultimate to activate. This would definitely not be an optimal situation.

An alternative tech choice you might recall is Mauxir – Meow. Yes, that’s right! She’s still around. For those who may have forgotten, her support ability pulls an orb from an enemy, which can be struck with skill damage to transfer a portion of that damage back to the enemy itself. Interestingly, you can actually hit both the enemy and its Mauxir orb with a single skill strike, causing the damage to be transferred back to the enemy again. This method allows Enya to inflict damage on multiple targets, consequently generating Wind Power, S-Energy, and U-Energy from her Vortexes at twice the normal rate. Additionally, her ultimate ability will strike both targets, and while this slightly diminishes the effectiveness of her Deiwos passive, the ability to attack a boss 1.66 times with your ult largely compensates for it.

Absolutely, I should add that when Enya uses her Vortexes to hit enemies, Neuronics-powered Mauxir produces orbs, and it’s incredibly rewarding! I strongly recommend you give it a go yourself.

Regarding budget supports, it seems even Mauxir qualifies for this category. In fairness, Chenxing – The Observer’s skill damage buffs are definitely beneficial compared to nothing. Interestingly, she can now utilize a logistics set that is genuinely useful, thanks to Xinye Squad’s enhancement of the U-Energy limit, allowing for larger ult nukes. As for Acacia – Redacted, her usual utility in providing slows receives additional value. Her Deiwos passive’s free initial U-Energy gives Enya a boost towards charging up her ult more quickly.

Should You Pull?

In many instances, answers can be brief or elaborate. However, when it comes to Enya, her situation stands apart.

To start with, I’ll provide a concise response. Absolutely, you should consider using Enya. She’s an accomplished multirole operative who excels across various types of content and, at the moment, she stands out as a top-tier choice in Neural Simulation.

Typically, discussing the details about an operator’s abilities is necessary, and Enya is no exception. She does have limitations, such as range concerns and a loss of credibility if she doesn’t secure a kill with her first ultimate ability. However, these issues are more like minor hiccups that can usually be addressed or worked around in most situations.

The main points I’d like to focus on aren’t the primary concerns. Instead, let’s delve into the impact Enya has as a precedent. It might seem odd, but she appears to be excessively powerful. Snowbreak wasn’t intended for characters capable of dishing out such intense burst damage in such a short period. This imbalance is evident when you consider the numerous videos showing even moderately invested Tempests instantly defeating bosses before they can retaliate. Here’s an example: An M0T1 Tempest dealing such devastating damage to Cerberus – Pyroclast that it never even enters its invincibility phase.

It’s possible that Seasun might not be thrilled about this development, but they could also not show much concern. Regardless, there are two main ways their reaction could play out. One possibility is that they might enforce stricter HP triggers for all future bosses, making fights more frustrating for everyone while reducing Enya’s burst potential significantly. This could be beneficial because it prevents further damage increases for future character releases. However, the other option – to allow broken characters to fight with even greater power and potentially release overpowered new characters – is also a distinct possibility. In fact, this outcome might be more likely.

In essence, due to the constant power increase in the game, it’s challenging to suggest characters as exceptional or long-term investments since there’s always a risk that their effectiveness will quickly diminish. This is because a single update could introduce a new character who outperforms the previously recommended one significantly. Therefore, I can’t confidently endorse her, as I can no longer trust Seasun to maintain her relevance in the face of future updates and potential powerhouses that might emerge.

To put it simply, the use of powerful one-shot abilities has been prevalent for some time now in Snowbreak, with characters like Cherno – Enigma and Siris – Ksana being early pioneers. Yet, no character has ever possessed or had access to such potent one-shots as Enya does currently. At this point, only Chenxing – Jade Arc can rival Enya’s burst potential. This suggests that both Enya and Chenxing are exceptionally powerful upon their release, pushing the boundaries of burst damage potential even further. However, having two characters with such capabilities may not necessarily be an anomaly, but it does seem to indicate a trend towards more powerful one-shot abilities in the game.

As a fan, I can’t help but admire Enya’s overpowering strength, yet there’s a part of me that feels uneasy about it. It’s a side of me that’s intoxicated by power, blinded by instant gratification and disregarding the long-term consequences. I know I should keep my impulsive cravings in check to ensure a lasting enjoyment, but the thrill of living in the moment is hard to resist. It’s crucial for preserving that fun for the future, even if it means delaying immediate pleasure.

As a storm approaches, there’s usually an eerie stillness that can feel like the silence after a storm has moved on, leaving destruction behind. However, Enya’s “Tempest” is far from silent. Symbolically and literally, it’s like a storm in its own right, and it might not be the only one we’ll experience.

At first, it was uncertain whether the significant increase in performance delivered by Chenxing – Jade Arc was merely a unique occurrence. However, given the recent appearance of Enya – Tempest, it seems increasingly likely that this high-performance level is becoming the standard for future developments.

A storm warning, you could say.

Supplementary Material

Link to spreadsheet

The system incorporates calculations for weapons and logistic sets, growth projections for manifests, and an optimizer for logistics.

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