Doll Info :: Ribeyrolles1918
Ribeyrolles1918
AR
#171
Type: AR
Rarity: 4 *
Obtainable from:
- • Obtainable from standard production
- • Obtainable from heavy production
Affects AR
- Increases damage by 20%
Affects AR
- Increases damage by 25%
| Stat | Value (per dummy link) |
|---|---|
| HP | (x1) (x2) (x3) (x4) (x5) |
| RECOV | (x1) (x2) (x3) (x4) (x5) |
| DMG | |
| ROF | Max cap |
| ACC | |
| EVA | |
| CRIT % | % |
Equipment
Pending implementation
Crimson Echoes
ICD: S.
CD: S.
Crimson Echoes
ICD: S.
CD: S.
Mechanical Longitudinal Wave
ICD: S.
CD: S.
Doll review
Overview
The craftable four-star French AR Ribeyrolles is one of the very few privileged ARs that provide buffs to her backline AR teammates. Featuring a strong 20% Damage tile buff and a Skill that will boost the backline’s damage output by over 55%, Ribeyrolles is an easy choice for the core of many AR Echelons — though she falls short in comparison against M4A1 (her closest comparable), she is still a very prominent tile 4 pick.
Ribeyrolles’ paling performance can be attributed to her own mediocre DPS because of her low RoF and inability to boost her own damage output through her Skill, as well as her long Cooldown that makes Ribey ineffective against late-game enemy compositions. Overall, while not as infallible as M4A1, Ribeyrolles is a very clear and solid second choice when it comes to tile 4 ARs.
Pros
Tiles affect other ARs
Ribeyrolles provides a 20% Damage buff to adjacent ARs through her tile buffs, which is an extremely rare ability that cements her as a core member of AR Echelons.
Skill buffs teammates further
Ribeyrolles is able to further boost the backline’s damage output to absurd levels through her Skill. It also affects anyone standing above or below Ribeyrolles in battle, regardless of class, further boosting her versatility.
Cons
Bad DPS
An inability to apply her Skill buff to herself combined with her low RoF tanks Ribeyrolles’ DPS by a considerable amount.
Mod review
Overview
Check the mod priority guide: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ty239kyJbBs1sLhTo1JvSWuN0mIJsK1nwVdI6OLLtXo/view?rm=minimal
Isn’t it precious? Seeing our sickly little friend Ribeyrolles doing so much good? Once a friend of many AR echelons, Ribeyrolles did fall off as the meta went on. With her upgrade, she now returns to the fray as a highly effective support AR.
Only one aspect of her Neural Upgrade even really matters, and that’s her new Skill 2 Mechanical Longitudinal Wave. In addition to the usual buffs she gives during Skill 1, she now also applies the “Echo” effect. This grants 10% Damage and Accuracy to ARs, and 15% Evasion and Damage Reduction to SMGs. The buff lasts for 6 seconds, and stacks up to 3 times.
But what’s really special is that units will spread Echo to adjacent units 2 seconds after they receive it. Then any newly affected units will again spread Echo. As Echo can stack 3 times, this means you can keep Echo going basically forever.
This doesn’t mean you should avoid kiting and doing movement just to keep Echo going. If someone needs to move to avoid major damage, please do so! Avoiding damage in the first place is still far superior to taking slightly reduced damage.
With her new and improved support capabilities that highly benefit both ARs and SMGs, Ribeyrolles makes for a standout doll. As the only important part of her new kit is her Skill, MOD2 is all you need. Her SPEQ-Set grants her some extra utility through some shields on the 3rd, 5th, and 10th Echo; it’s neat but not necessary for Ribey to excel.
Isn’t it precious? Seeing our sickly little friend Ribeyrolles doing so much good? Once a friend of many AR echelons, Ribeyrolles did fall off as the meta went on. With her upgrade, she now returns to the fray as a highly effective support AR.
Only one aspect of her Neural Upgrade even really matters, and that’s her new Skill 2 Mechanical Longitudinal Wave. In addition to the usual buffs she gives during Skill 1, she now also applies the “Echo” effect. This grants 10% Damage and Accuracy to ARs, and 15% Evasion and Damage Reduction to SMGs. The buff lasts for 6 seconds, and stacks up to 3 times.
But what’s really special is that units will spread Echo to adjacent units 2 seconds after they receive it. Then any newly affected units will again spread Echo. As Echo can stack 3 times, this means you can keep Echo going basically forever.
This doesn’t mean you should avoid kiting and doing movement just to keep Echo going. If someone needs to move to avoid major damage, please do so! Avoiding damage in the first place is still far superior to taking slightly reduced damage.
With her new and improved support capabilities that highly benefit both ARs and SMGs, Ribeyrolles makes for a standout doll. As the only important part of her new kit is her Skill, MOD2 is all you need. Her SPEQ-Set grants her some extra utility through some shields on the 3rd, 5th, and 10th Echo; it’s neat but not necessary for Ribey to excel.
- MOD1 | NOT RECOMMENDED Doesn’t enhance her support capabilities anywhere near enough to make her relevant again.
- MOD2 | RECOMMENDED Now with Skill2, the true support potential of Ribeyrolles is unleashed!
- MOD3 | NOT RECOMMENDED Oh boy, a unique ITI!! (/s) Unless you really want the new art, save your resources.
- SPEQ-set | OPTIONAL With her 2-Set, Ribeyrolles now grants 50/100/200 HP Shields to allies when they receive 3/5/10 Echoes. These do not repeat. Ribeyrolles’s SPEQ-set offers some defensive support for her team through three waves of HP shields during Echo applications. Not necessary for Ribey, but not bad either.
Full analysis
Notes:
- Echoes being emitted are indicated by a red hemisphere expanding outwards from the T-doll emitting the echo.
- Non-ARs/SMGs can receive and emit echoes, but they do not benefit from any buffs.
- Ribeyrolles Mod’s skill 2 buffs stack multiplicatively.
- Retreating her does not stop the echoes.
- Echoes cannot be emitted by units that are moving, moving units delay their echoes until they stop moving.
- When receiving an echo, an ally unit emits 1 echo 2 seconds later. Even if they receive more than 1 echo stack within 2 seconds, they only emit 1 echo. After emitting that echo, the ally unit does not emit any more echoes until receiving another.
- Each echo stack has its own 6 second duration
- Ribeyrolles Mod’s echoes reset the 2-second internal echo timer for adjacent nearby units that have echoes, preventing 2 directly adjacent T-dolls from emitting an echo at the same time.
- This usually locks the whole team into a 4-second cycle, where half the units emit an echo in the first two seconds and the other half emits an echo in the next two.
- Many non-T-dolls can also receive and emit echoes, such as taunt fairy, twin fairy, General Liu clones, P90 clones, Welrod Mod shield, Agent 416 mines, etc.
Due to the limited duration of an echo stack, the number of echo stacks a T-doll can have relies heavily on how many units are adjacent to them.
Basically, a unit with 1 other adjacent unit alternates between 1 and 2 stacks every 2 seconds. 2 adjacent alternates between 2 and 3 stacks every 2 seconds. 3 adjacent stays at 3 stacks permanently. This cycle starts within 4 seconds of the first echo being received.
It is physically impossible to get 3 stacks on only 5 units at all times. F formation has 1 adjacent to position 1, 3 adjacent to position 4, and 2 adjacent to the rest. B formation is the same except it’s position 7 that’s left out. C formation gives the backline 2 adjacent and both frontline units only get 1 adjacent unit. Cross formation gives one unit 3 stacks and everyone else only has 1 adjacent.
This is unfortunate, because it means at least one DPS always misses out on the optimal number of stacks. Moving Ribeyrolles Mod to the blank space means she no longer gives her skill 1 buff to both DPSes. C formation is the best for DPS, Q and D formation are best for survival.
Due to the slow spreading nature of Ribeyrolles’ skill 2 means she is not just a burst DPS buffer. A good portion of her buff is tied in the skill 2 echoes, which take around 4 seconds after using her skill 1 to fully kick in. It’s only after the second skill activation onwards that she provides her maximum buffs. She is actually quite fine even for longer duration fights, prefers them even. More fighting time gives her more time to spread her echoes.
For optimal DPS and on the assumption that Ribeyrolles is Mod 3 instead of Mod 2 for some reason, Ribeyrolles does actually prefer her special equipment over the VFL. Her preferred body slot is the #2 processing chip because her base rate of fire is so bad.