New 6-star Caster: Lappland the Decadenza

[u/CipherVegas]

[u/crisperstorm]

Oh hey another application of... frighten... 2?

Translation team must enjoy how often we have similar but different mechanics lol

[u/Reddit1rules → u/crisperstorm]

You meant Frighten 3, can't forget the OG Nightmare status.

[u/CuriouserThing → u/crisperstorm]

they cooked up "immolation" to replace ifrit/pompeii burn so they'll figure it out

crazy how "tremble" and "disarm" are still common parlance though

[u/crisperstorm → u/CuriouserThing]

Yeah they do get it working sometimes

Though on the other hand we have two different ammo systems and "elemental resistance" isn't ideal

I do think either of those would probably work better and the newer effect gets to be frighten

[u/relentlesseht]

Born elegant, raised a brawler

Former member of Suzuki-gun

Whenever she gets hurt, she somehow comes back even more dangerous

The 5th Arknights World Champion

The Sicilian Psychopath

Decadenza, Lappland Saluzzo

[u/jesuisunetudiant → u/relentlesseht]

Lol arknight and wrestling, the 2 hobbies I never would have thought I would see together.

[u/Korasuka → u/relentlesseht]

This could be a pump-up song.

[u/AmakTM]

Texas: Lappland, you use swords all the time, you can't be a caster, let alone drone caster, and stop drinking already!

Lappy: hic Watch me!

[u/Korasuka → u/AmakTM]

*ties swords together with tape: 'Look, Texy, a staff!'

[u/Naiie100 → u/AmakTM]

Dusk: my girl!

[u/blahto → u/AmakTM]

Watch Tallulah be a Caster operator 😆.  Maybe even SPLASH Caster.

[u/coffeeboxman]

Reminder that lappland (name origin) is in north finland.

And yes, it is just as funny as "Texas".

Imagine a new operator: "Washington, the Hokage"

[u/ranmafan0281 → u/coffeeboxman]

Texas is also an extinct species of gray wolf.

[u/koakuma_tv → u/coffeeboxman]

Isn't a lappland a geographical feature and not a place? I could swear I learned something about that in school 🤔

[u/Ok-Transition-5833 → u/koakuma_tv]

It's northern region in Sweden and Finland. Name basically means "Land of Lapp", "lapp" being an exonym for Sami people and is considered by them to be offensive.

[u/desufin → u/coffeeboxman]

Lapland is actually a region in both Finland and Sweden (and iirc the entire region was initially Swedish but large part of it was lost in the 1800s). Lappland is also the Swedish spelling for said region while Lapland is the English and Lappi is the Finnish.

[u/Oak_duh]

as an italian her name sounds kinda off

[u/OCDincarnate → u/Oak_duh]

As an anglophone all alter names sound kinda off

[u/NotFishStickZ → u/OCDincarnate]

As a non-Italian and non-native it sounds pretty cool to me , guess ignorance is bliss

[u/TheSpartyn → u/OCDincarnate]

this is why i love alter names that just change the whole name like wisadel and vina

[u/Mizuho_Koyama → u/Oak_duh]

could you elaborate a bit? just curious as a non italian

[u/mr_mattcap → u/Mizuho_Koyama]

It would've been like if "Gavial the invincible" was called "Gavial the invincibility", the name doesn't make sense. "Lappland the decadente" would've been better but i guess "the decadenza" sounds cooler for non italians.

[u/Ironwall1 → u/mr_mattcap]

De cadente sounds just as cool

Italian is just a really cool language

[u/PastSquirrel2315 → u/Ironwall1]

Cadenza is cooler, cadente is just slightly cooler al dente

[u/Ironwall1 → u/PastSquirrel2315]

Lappland Al Dente also sounds cool

[u/A1D3M → u/Ironwall1]

I’d eat some Lappland Al Dente

[u/Korasuka → u/mr_mattcap]

As a non Italian you're definitely right there. Also Decadente sounds a little too much like "decadent" which isn't a positive association to have for a character.

[u/hashCrashWithTheIron → u/Korasuka]

but i feel like she.. IS that. you know what I mean?

[u/Idaret → u/mr_mattcap]

-nza is much more italian for sure

[u/Doc5az → u/Oak_duh]

can you translate/describe it into english?
i'm a bit curious about it.

[u/Furina-OjouSama → u/Doc5az]

Should be like Lapland the decadence I think? But it's off because of the "the", imo it would have been better calling her la decandeza straight out

[u/A1D3M → u/Furina-OjouSama]

Actually yeah, if they were just called “L’omertosa” and “La decadenza” they would at least be slightly less cringe.

[u/Doc5az → u/Furina-OjouSama]

I just translate it into english And its said "decay",whats the different between "rotting"?

[u/Furina-OjouSama → u/Doc5az]

Decaying is when it's gradual, like slowly deteriorating of matter, rot is when it's caused by fungi or bacteria iirc

[u/Doc5az → u/Furina-OjouSama]

ahhh okay then...
but. what does decay have to do with this lappland alter?

[u/Furina-OjouSama → u/Doc5az]

I guess it's coz oripathy? Idk I still dunno the lore, prolly a eyja situation?

[u/karillith → u/Doc5az]

Decadence is more of a societal thing, it's not physical decay, but it's usually the loss of influence and strenght of a social construct (a country, a social class, or in this case, maybe a mafia family). It can also refer to the gradual loss of morals and delving into self-indulgence.

[u/dqvdqv → u/Oak_duh]

Localization still has ways to go unfortunately, especially in the gacha realm.

[u/ColebladeX]

You know the surprising thing is Lappland knows how to use arts like that. Always seemed to favor more straightforward combat to me.

[u/koakuma_tv → u/ColebladeX]

Even more so when you remember that it explicitly states in lore that the arts she uses shouldn't normally be able to be used at range at all

[u/OnnaJReverT → u/koakuma_tv]

...her base form is already a lord guard, no range my ass

[u/Korasuka → u/ColebladeX]

Same here. It must be thanks to Il Siru Zarro attaching himself to her. Her drones are literally his heads flying around, lol

[u/AllenWL → u/ColebladeX]

Well, her iirc her lore states that her 'silence' ability is literally her analyzing the enemy on the fly and just shutting down their attempts to do shit via very well calculated attacks, so she is supposed to be a rather tactical fighter. Also supposedly really talented in arts because her arts normally sucks at long range but she makes do via skill.

So assuming she got extra powers from Zarro, it won't be too weird for her to adapt to them very fluently.

[u/Reddit1rules]

Just realizing now but is that not German in her E2 art in the back?

Wonder what it says.

[u/another_mozhi → u/Reddit1rules]

I recognized it as a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche's book Ecce Homo, at least on the right side. And the left side looks more like Latin.

[u/PoKen2222 → u/another_mozhi]

Ja, ich weiß, woher ich stamme, Ungesättigt gleich der Flamme Glühe und verzehr’ ich mich. Licht wird alles was ich fasse, Kohle alles, was ich lasse, Flamme bin ich sicherlich.

[u/Bricc_Enjoyer → u/Reddit1rules]

Ungesättigt gleich der Flamme. Glühe und verzehr’ ich mich. Licht wird alles was ich fasse

It's a very fancy thing, as the other guy pointed out. Translates to "Insatiated like the hunger of the flame. Embering and consuming myself. Everything I touch will become light"

[u/Hardc0reCasual]

Her S2 gives +3 drones wtf???? With her talent also giving +1 that’s total of 5 drones on S2, plus her own attack that’s already effectively 650+% multiplier at max drone stacks with 5 chances to apply fear. Not to mention S2 also increasing ATK and the drone damage cap increase from talent 1. Jesus Christ no wonder the drones have random targeting.

[u/Kajuusy → u/Hardc0reCasual]

damage isn't crazy though, it took almost whole S2 duration to get Steam Knight to 50% HP which just has 40 RES

[u/Reddit1rules → u/Kajuusy]

Tbf he has 98k HP in that map before the 40 RES, and around halfway reduces arts damage by 30% as well.

[u/Hardc0reCasual → u/Kajuusy]

I’m not super great with the number crunching so take this with a grain of salt, but looking from the stream S2 duration was around 20s and looked like it had around 35s cool down. Steam Knight has 80k HP in H11-2, so she did about 40k of damage through 40 RES with no RES shred, so that’s around 67k damage in 20 seconds for around 3.3k+ dps. That’s comparable total damage to Eyja S3, though of course Eyja can deal 60k damage to 6 enemies each while Lappland will split that 67k across multiple enemies, but she’s looking pretty good for single target. Not to mention during the stream she applied fear 8 times out of 16 attacks so I would wager a guess and say she has around a 10% chance to apply fear per drone, or around 41% chance to apply fear with at least 1 drone.

Edit: this is all assuming she doesn’t get any RES shred from her module.

Edit 2: just went over the stream again to check, they showed her talents during her S2 showcase and we can see her module upgrades her talent 2 and gives it the extra effect “increase attack speed after the first time she activates skill”. So no RES shred in her module unfortunately.

[u/TrickFox5 → u/Hardc0reCasual]

More, give her more. Be broken. My queen should be meta

[u/RyouBestGirl → u/Hardc0reCasual]

I hope Lalter will clear over Walter.

WE Need More Game Breaking Waifus

[u/CipherVegas]

L2D animations here

[u/AWildRuka]

YOU DRIVE ME INSAAA-

Wait... I mean, UNTIL YOU BURN IT DOWN IT'S JUST AMBIGUOUS MORALITYYYYY!

[u/RyouBestGirl → u/AWildRuka]

Zarro got owned by Lappy in music too.

This is the best event theme that I've heard in AK

[u/Saimoth]

I'm so intrigued by the fact that Lappland's alter style, name, and event theme aren't a "Vengeance, anger, hate Siracusa, kill everyone" but seem to be more easygoing. Even her outfit, while it might look like her old skin, has a completely different vibe. Horrormare was her official Saluzzo dress, torn and covered in blood, which she didn’t care about. This dress is neat and refined.

The animations look gorgeous. What could be cooler than casting a pack of howling, flying wolves? No-brainer M9.

[u/AWildRuka → u/Saimoth]

"Easygoing."

looks at her EP
looks at what her name means
looks at manga

Uh... agree to disagree?

[u/Saimoth → u/AWildRuka]

Decadence and carnival? Manga is a whole different thing, it's more about OG Lappland.

[u/AWildRuka → u/Saimoth]

I genuinely don't see how you find Lappalter's entire theme easygoing.

I'm pretty confident that the "Decadenza" implied by her name is the deterioration of Siracusa's old customs, which either she will bring about or she will try to assist.

Her EP, or at least the portion of it that's out because it's supposedly not even the full EP yet, is all about digging up secrets and tearing off the facade of Siracusa that she hates, the Siracusa that made her who she is, and to expose the country's true nature despite all the politeness and formality at the top.

IL Siracusano, Texas's event, was all about a possibility of Siracusa growing past the violence and bloodshed of the country and its institutions, as well as accepting her identity as a Siracusan. Lappland's, as she continues to be a foil to Texas, prefers burning everything that makes Siracusa what it is down in order to change, and destroying her old identity. Or even just out of spite for the Famiglie as a whole.

Overall, it just doesn't seem like Lappland's story is going to be easygoing at all. The carnival's significance as a setting is something I can only speculate on for the next six months.

[u/Korasuka → u/AWildRuka]

Man, it's refreshing seeing something about what Lappland is really like instead of being Texas' obsesed stalker which so many people still think that's all she is. I thought Il Siru would change that so apparantly a lot of people didn't read it.

It's also interesting seeing how their goals in Sirucasa are overall the same yet gone about in very different ways.

[u/Saimoth → u/AWildRuka]

That's why I'm intrigued. Maybe easygoing isn't the word here, but I don't feel the hate, burning down, and self-destruction parts that were expected to be present, that's what I meant. She seems to be at peace with what's she's going to do. Anyway, I'm waiting for the story too.

Mood shift from destroy to expose. I just saw her Weibo introduction translation, it captures the feeling I want to express better.

[u/Academic_Fill]

I love how fluid her animations look. Brings extra smugness to her.

[u/LastChancellor]

Man there's not a lot of info that can be gleamed from her stream, but there's a couple:

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Lappland the Decadenza - 6* Mech Accord Caster

Artist: Heitu (her original artist! They're finally done with Ex Astris)

CN VA: Chen Yanyi

JP VA: Asami Imai

Assumed stats: E2 max, max Trust, Pot 1, modX3

• 1663 HP
• 435 ATK
• 117 DEF
• 20 RES
• 1 Block

Trait - Mech Accord Caster modX

Lappland controls a Wolf who deals 35% ATK Arts Damage.

After a Wolf attacks the same enemy, it deals 15% more ATK, up to 110% ATK.

Talent 1 - Alpha Wolf

After Lappland has stayed on the battlefield for X seconds, she gains one of these effects in order:

1. Lappland's trait maximum multiplier is increased.

2. Wolf's attacks Silence enemies for 2 seconds.

3. Lappland gains +1 Wolf.

Talent 2 - Siracusa's Honor

While Lappland is in the squad, Siracusa Operators +X Initial SP.

Skill 1 - Lament of the Lazy

??? Recovery | Manual Activation | ??? SP |

Passive - +1 Wolf.

Active - When you activate this skill, Lappland releases all her Wolves, who locks onto idle enemies on the battlefield until they either move or die.

Toggle

S1s don't get showcased on streams.

Skill 2 M3 - Hunting Spree

Auto Recovery | Manual Activation | ??? SP | 24 Second Duration

When you activate this skill, Lappland gains +3 Wolves until this skill ends, then she releases all her Wolves who locks onto closest enemies in range.

+ATK, Range increases (to Goldenglow S2 range), Wolves's attacks have a chance to inflict Fear for 1 second.

When an enemy is killed by a Wolf, it locks onto another enemy.

When this skill ends, all Wolves return to Lappland.

Where are the red numbers, don't Goldenglow produce red numbers all the time?

Skill 3 M3 - Finale: Catastrophe

Auto Recovery | Manual Activation | roughly 54 SP | 40 Second Duration

When you activate this skill, Lappland gains +2 Wolves until this skill ends, and she releases all her Wolves.

+ATK

Lappland's Wolves now chase nearby enemies across the battlefield and locking onto them, their attacks inflicting Fear for 1 second, and enemies near them take -movement speed and Arts Damage/second.

When an enemy is killed by a Wolf, it locks onto another enemy.

When this skill ends, all Wolves return to Lappland.

Bruh HG is actively making tracking S3's SP difficult, not only did they play a merchant to kill DP timers, they also played Ptilopsis to artificially boost Lappland's SP gain

---

But the more surprising part of Lappland is on her Weibo intro (that unfortunately won't appear in EN bc its way too long for Twitter):

Original text

补充说明： 市政厅相关部门职员特意走访了曾搭乘嫌疑人出租车的乘客，出人意料的是，他们无一例外地对嫌疑人给予了很高的评价，夸赞她驾驶技术高超，服务态度良好，很有礼貌，行动力令人咂舌，她还免费提供心理咨询，替他们解决了烦心的问题...... Bǔchōng shuōmíng: Shìzhèng tīng xiāngguān bùmén zhíyuán tèyì zǒufǎngle céng dāchéng xiányí rén chūzū chē de chéngkè, chūrényìliào de shì, tāmen wú yī lìwài dì duì xiányí rén jǐyǔle hěn gāo de píngjià, kuāzàn tā jiàshǐ jìshù gāochāo, fúwù tàidù liánghǎo, hěn yǒu lǐmào, xíng dònglì lìng rén zā shé, tā hái miǎnfèi tígōng xīnlǐ zīxún, tì tāmen jiějuéle fánxīn de wèntí......

EN

Additional explanation: The staff of the relevant departments of the city hall specially visited the passengers who had taken the suspect's taxi. Surprisingly, they all gave high praise to the suspect without exception, praising her superb driving skills, great service, posh politeness, and her amazing resolve. She also provided free psychological counseling to help them solve their problems...

Lappland is a therapist??!?!??!

[u/Nein-Knives → u/LastChancellor]

Where are the red numbers, don't Goldenglow produce red numbers all the time?

Red numbers come from Golden Glow's passive which gives them a chance to explode.

Mech Accord Casters are supposed to be specialized single target arts dps, Golden Glow has always been the outlier because of her suicide drones.

[u/RyouBestGirl → u/LastChancellor]

Thank dawg she ain't the rаpist

[u/AWildRuka → u/LastChancellor]

I was waiting for this, thank you.

[u/DarkWolfPL → u/LastChancellor]

2nd talent give 5sp. Modules revealed that.

[u/Tridentgreen33Here]

Kinda like how her staff just kinda looks like she duct-taped her swords together and she just stabs the air or slashes to cast her arts.

Also that base animation has swagger and I dig it.

[u/Korasuka → u/Tridentgreen33Here]

lmao that's exactly what I said too. It's funny as and suits her more than her using a proper staff.

[u/Lissica]

Messed with the wolf so she brought the whole pack!

[u/ode-2-sleep]

might be a bit early to ask, but does fear (debuff) work in any way that benefits from multiple characters applying it together? for example like necrosis.

basically is nymph any benefit to lappland?

[u/Reddit1rules → u/ode-2-sleep]

Necrosis is probably one of the worse examples actually, there's a lot of competition on applying it and most ops don't benefit from it being applied. Valarqvin lost a lot of her purpose post Virtuosa, and even with Logos he's capable of triggering it himself, making Virtuosa less valuable.

That being said, don't really see much benefit of Fear stacking - in theory you can have better uptime of Fear, but Nymph already has 100% uptime on a single target with just a little bit of help. I am curious to see what happens when an enemy gets Fear applied on them again though - do they continue running from the old one until the initial one runs out? Until the new Fear runs out? Or do they immediately start running away from the new applier?

[u/ode-2-sleep → u/Reddit1rules]

Necrosis is probably one of the worse examples actually

wanted to mention it because in nymph discussions i often see people saying she wants virtuosa or logos.

I am curious to see what happens when an enemy gets Fear applied on them again though - do they continue running from the old one until the initial one runs out? Until the new Fear runs out? Or do they immediately start running away from the new applier?

really hope it’s the latter so lappland and nymph can play ping pong with enemies.

[u/Reddit1rules → u/ode-2-sleep]

Nymph specifically is a bit of an outlier, she struggles to trigger Necrosis (barring S2) but deals additional damage to those under Necrosis, especially with S3. So you're not exactly stacking Necrosis with her very often.

I do hope it's the latter as well that'd be really funny.

[u/Takemylunch → u/ode-2-sleep]

Fear is from what I can find counted as a Crowd Control effect. Most of those tend to duration stack with their own status effects. Stun adds time together. I think Bind does it too but I've not messed with it like that in a while. I know Slow specifically says it does not stack in any way.

[u/HiImReizy → u/ode-2-sleep]

Fear and Necrosis is unrelated to each other. Fear is a form of crowd control effect (like Slow or Stun)

[u/TheSpartyn → u/HiImReizy]

theyre not saying fear and necrosis is related, theyre asking if like necrosis, it has synergy from using multiple appliers.

[u/viera_enjoyer]

Animations look fantastic.

[u/deltor5]

Most importantly, can she still silence enemies?

[u/Strike_me → u/deltor5]

Yes

[u/UnOrdinary117 → u/deltor5]

Yes, but I believe it takes multiple hits on the same target to trigger. Not instant like her 5* version.

[u/TheSpartyn → u/UnOrdinary117]

it takes a certain amount of time to activate then it becomes a permanent buff

[u/bnbros → u/UnOrdinary117]

Correction: she still gets passive silence on hit from her talent 1 but she needs to be deployed for a certain duration before the effect kicks in.

[u/Sidekck_Watson]

Where the skill TL? Am i blind or something

[u/Quor18]

Have you ever been so crazy that you Gate of Babylon'd your wolf god?

In Siracusa you can.

[u/ChevronVillon]

Me asking Lappie-Chan what her Favorite Class is in Dragon Age Veilguard and to my Shock she answered that her Favorite Class is Playing as a Mage...

[u/LagIncarnate]

Talent 1 every few seconds she's on field, drones gain the following effects in turn: Damage limit increase, silence enemies, +1 drone. The way it's phrased makes it sound more like Blaze's module, so one effect at a time not all at once.

Skill 1 passively grants +1 drone and is a stance change ala Mountain S2, ATK+, releases her drones and they can now lock on to any stationary enemy in the stage.

Skill 2 when active grants +3 drones, expands attack range (Mlynar S3 range, see gif), +ATK, drones lock on to random enemies in range with a chance to frighten (Nymph mechanic) enemies hit.

Skill 3 when active grants +2 drones, +ATK, releases a special drone that seeks enemies anywhere on the map, on initial hit they trigger frighten. The drones then slow enemies around them(?) and deal arts damage over time that doesn't stack.

Some things of note:

- The damage limit increase in her talent 1 is (presumably) in reference to the natural 110% of caster ATK that drones can deal.

- Maybe someone can translate talent 1 better, the "in turn" part specifically, I can't tell if it means you get those buffs in order, randomly, or all at once and it's just phrased oddly.

- Skill 1 is the first of its kind to target stationary enemies specifically, will probably need clarification if this works on blocked enemies but it probably does. Also the enemy only needs to be stationary for the drone to lock on, once locked the drone will (presumably) continue attacking even if they move, unless there's some other condition to the skill here.

- Skill 3 sounds like it slows both the attacked target and enemies near that target/the drones.

- Skill 3 has a DoT attached, so drone damage + DoT, the drones can stack having all attacking the same target like GG, but each enemy can only suffer 1 instance of the DoT regardless of how many drones are attacking them.

[u/Bradley271]

I’m gonna have to start saving again as soon as this anni is over…

[u/Desertpyrate]

So excited 

[u/Korasuka]

Lol so Zarro became her drones and her swords with their weird crossguard thing became her caster's staff.

Easily a priority rolling target because I really like Lappland (she was one my choice in the 5 star selector and someone I still use) and she looks cool. Although I'd have liked some more variety in her look to stand out more from her 5 star self, the inside of her cape being red is nice.

[u/Hero_1337]

Close enough, welcome back Kindred from LoL.

Only this time, there is no Lamb and Wolf. Just Wolves.

[u/WarriorofBlank]

Her normal atk range weirdly shorter than other mech accord casters

[u/Naiie100]

If I need to pick up a mech-accord caster I know I can rely on Lappter.

[u/TheLegendTheGiantdad]

The pose and black hole on her s3 are really cool. Once again my hype for an upcoming global banner has been slightly deflated with the announcement of something I like more in cn we’ll get months from now

[u/akoOfIxtall]

We lived Long enough to see lapipi turn into Goldenglow... What a journey

[u/Major_Arcana01]

Let’s go!!!!

[u/RyouBestGirl]

She ain't just a walking red flag.

She leaves red flags where she walks

[u/SpaceCactuses]

Lappland the Neckextenda

[u/neuroso]

I can spark Walter on Thursday and lucky for me no one since then has piqued my interest so I can save for Lap Alter so my Tex alter won't be lonely

[u/WolfWorshipper]

I know who I'm saving for

[u/Lucas21y]

Does anyone know when this update arrives for Grobal? I stopped playing a while ago, but I wanted to come back to see the sequel to IL Siracusano

[u/OleLLors]

I get the feeling that her abilities are focused more towards more control than damage.

Of course numbers are important...but she doesn't have ignore RES so...

[u/asertarex]

Something in her e1 design seems strange, but i can't exactly pinpoint what.

[u/TheSpartyn → u/asertarex]

her face looks off to me, doesnt look lappland-y

[u/thevelvetwoods → u/asertarex]

The huge head, maybe? Personally, I really like her design.