Saya and Selyne Hard Counter

Every slot has a job. The cards below show the exact synergy, its rank range, who it affects, and a mapped route to recruiting that pal.

Primary Dark carry01

Bellanoir Libero Core attacker

Learns Apocalypse at 30, Nightmare Bloom at 50 and Dark Whisp at 70 natively. Nightmare Stare fires Nightmare Bloom on activation, and its damage multiplier on that skill climbs from 1.1x at rank 1 to 2.5x at rank 5, on a 30 second cooldown.

Nightmare Stare is an activated skill, so no passive party effect is surfaced here: the payoff is the multiplied Nightmare Bloom window itself.

Recruitment route

Summon it at a Summoning Altar. Bellanoir Libero is a raid boss: build a Summoning Altar, use its slab, and beat the summon. Mapped tiers run at level 45 and level 80.

Rotation carry02

Bellanoir Libero Core attacker

The second copy buys a fresh Nightmare Stare window, a second health pool, and recovery time for the first: while one copy's 30 and 20 second cooldowns tick down inside the sphere, the other is already casting.

Nightmare Stare does not stack across copies. This slot exists for cooldown rotation, not a bigger multiplier.

Recruitment route

Summon it at a Summoning Altar. Bellanoir Libero is a raid boss: build a Summoning Altar, use its slab, and beat the summon. Mapped tiers run at level 45 and level 80.

Weakness amplifier03

Croajiro Noct 1 effect

Raises Dark damage that strikes an elemental weakness by 25% to 40%, for you and your pals alike. Selyne is weak to Dark, so the bonus applies to every hit this party throws. It works from the party slot and never deploys.

• Dark Damage vs Elemental Weakness25% → 40%You and palUnique effect · does not stack

Recruitment route

Catch it in the wild. Spawns at levels 61 to 62 across 449 points on the main island.

Stack engine04

Orserk 1 effect

Every bullet you land gives the active pal 1% to 5% Attack and Defense for 5 seconds, stacking to 30. Full stacks are worth up to 150% of both, and they start decaying the moment your fire stops.

• Attack and Defense per Bullet Hit1% → 5%Active palUnique effect · does not stack

Recruitment route

Catch it in the wild. Only spawns on the World Tree region.

Shield underwriter05

Silvegis 2 effects

Cuts shield damage by 65% to 80% and shield-regeneration delay by 30% to 60%. You spend five minutes on foot feeding stacks; this is what lets you hold ground through Air Blade chip and leaked beams.

• Shield Regeneration Delay Reduction30% → 60%YouUnique effect · does not stack
• Shield Damage Reduction65% → 80%YouUnique effect · does not stack

Recruitment route

Start with the mapped field-boss encounter. The lowest mapped encounter is level 62.

Compare every surfaced partner effect at base rank and full condensation. Effects marked Unique can still scale by rank, but a second carrier of the same species adds nothing. Two different species carrying the same effect do add together.

Pal / role	Partner effect	Affects	Rank 1	Rank 5
Croajiro NoctWeakness amplifier	Dark Damage vs Elemental WeaknessUnique	You and pal	25%	40%
OrserkStack engine	Attack and Defense per Bullet HitUnique	Active pal	1%	5%
SilvegisShield underwriter	Shield Regeneration Delay ReductionUnique	You	30%	60%
SilvegisShield underwriter	Shield Damage ReductionUnique	You	65%	80%

Values verified against current partner-skill rank curves

Both Bellanoir Liberos run the same four cards, and the safety-first version deliberately declines the biggest attack passive in the game (the rejection table says why). The support three carry trainer implants instead; Reload Master (4% reload speed per copy) and Idiosyncratic fill any slot left over.

Every item here keeps a named buff running; nothing is filler. The Plasma Rifle is deliberately absent from the required column because its Legendary schematic is this fight's own 10% rare drop, and a guide should not require its reward as its entry fee.

A pal-damage build, so your points buy uptime rather than headline damage: the Bellanoirs never read your Attack stat, but your bullets, your shield and your legs decide whether their buffs stay live.

1. 1HealthFirst. You are on foot in a level 80 arena for five minutes, and the telegraphs that leak past the shield hit you directly.
2. 2AttackSecond. It scales the rockets that clear adds and summons, and it is the only stat your filler damage reads.
3. 3StaminaThird. Strafing Seigetsu Flash and outrunning Diamond Rain are sprints, and a stamina bar that empties mid-telegraph is a death.
4. 4Weight and work speedLast. Neither exists inside a tower.

The repeating loop between phase events: two carries, one buff gun, one drone stream. The order below is what keeps the multipliers overlapping instead of taking turns.

1. 1Deploy, then Megaboost immediately

   The Megaboost Gun buff is the cheapest damage in the loop and costs one trigger pull. Make it a reflex on every deploy, both copies, every cycle.

2. 2Hold drone fire until the counter reads 30

   Orserk pays 1% to 5% Attack and Defense per bullet hit for 5 seconds, stacking to 30. Full stacks are up to 150% of both, and the five-second duration means the buff is rented, not owned: keep the drones connecting.

3. 3Stare into a committed animation

   Activate Nightmare Stare after Selyne locks into a cast. The multiplied Nightmare Bloom is the loop's whole payoff, and a teleport mid-beam refunds nothing.

4. 4Spend the three casts, then swap

   Nightmare Bloom, Apocalypse, Dark Whisp, in that priority. When all three are down, recall and deploy the rested copy rather than idling on cooldowns. Serenity's 30% reduction is what makes the two-copy cycle seamless.

5. 5Recall on Comet Barrage, always

   The only super-effective hit in the fight lands on whichever Bellanoir is out. Pull it, ride the meteors out on foot behind the shield, redeploy after the last shock wave.

6. 6Leave Croajiro Noct in the sphere

   Its 25% to 40% weakness bonus works from the party slot and does not stack. Deploying it adds a body the boss can kill and nothing the damage math wants.

Five minutes against 567,300 HP, three adds and two summons, all billed to the same clock. Every window below assumes the quick-swap loop from the rotation section is running; what changes is what else you are doing while it runs. The summon trigger is boss health, so its clock position assumes you are holding pace. The checkpoints are the diagnostics: miss one and you know which minute to fix.

1. 1
   0:00 to 0:30Clear the Moonflower screen

   Rockets into the grouped two Genin and one Jonin before any carry work. Alive, they split Bellanoir's targeting, drain your shield and occupy the ground your drones want. If Bellanoir's AI drifts onto Selyne early, command it onto individual adds until all three are down.

   All three adds are dead and your shield is still up.

2. 2
   0:30 to 1:00Build the machine

   Deploy the first Bellanoir Libero and put it on Selyne. Megaboost it, then open sustained Drone Launcher fire and hold it until Orserk reads 30 stacks. Activate Nightmare Stare only after Selyne commits to a cast, so the beam window is not wasted on a teleport.

   Nightmare Stare has fired with 30 stacks live before 1:00.

3. 3
   1:00 to 2:30Run the quick-swap loop

   Bellanoir one spends Nightmare Bloom, Apocalypse and Dark Whisp, then returns to the sphere while Bellanoir two takes over, re-buffed and re-Stared. Your whole job is bullet uptime: the stack buff lives five seconds at a time and dies whenever you stop shooting to reposition.

4. 4
   2:30 to 3:30Hold pace through the punish casts

   Comet Barrage is the recall check: pull the active carry, ride out the shock waves behind the shield, redeploy after the last meteor. Everything Neutral gets strafed, everything ground-marked gets left early, and the loop restarts the moment the arena quiets.

   Selyne is at or below half by 3:00, the pace a five-minute kill plus a summon phase requires.

5. 5
   3:30 to 4:30Kill the extra Selynes on sight

   Near the end two additional Selynes join the original. Do not race the bar through three overlapping beam and ice patterns: turn rockets and Apocalypse onto the summons the moment they spawn and delete both. A maximum-damage party can gamble on ignoring them; a repeatable clear cannot.

   Both summons are dead within roughly twenty seconds of appearing.

6. 6
   4:30 to 5:00Spend everything

   Back to the loop with no reason to bank cooldowns: both Nightmare Stares, every Bloom, the Megaboost charge you were saving. If the pace checkpoints held, this window is the last stretch of the bar, on a boss taking super-effective Dark from every source you own.

Eleven attacks, five of them Neutral, which is the quiet half of the Dark argument: Bellanoir Libero resists the biggest single numbers on this table. Group the rest by what your hands do. Strafe the front-loaded bursts, leave the ground telegraphs early, and treat the composition punishes as recall checks rather than dodge checks.

The first entry is the build this page used to recommend. It was not wrong about the type chart; it was wrong about what hard mode does to the type chart.

An endgame shopping list, but a short one: two raid clears, three catches and a kitchen. Condensation order matters more than acquisition order.

1. Run the Bellanoir Libero raid twiceBoth carries come from the summoning altar raid line: craft the slab, clear the raid, hatch the egg it leaves. You need two separate copies. Nightmare Stare does not stack, but two independent cooldown pools are the entire quick-swap plan.Bellanoir Libero guide
2. Catch the three supportsCroajiro Noct, Orserk and Silvegis never leave the sphere in this fight, so combat IVs matter less than partner-skill rank. Any catchable copy is a valid starting point; condensation is where the numbers come from.Croajiro Noct guide
3. Condense in priority orderBellanoir Libero first (the Nightmare Stare multiplier climbs from 1.1x to 2.5x), then Orserk (1% to 5% per stack), then Silvegis (65% to 80% shield cut), then Croajiro Noct (25% to 40%). Every headline number on this page is the rank 5 value; a rank 1 party runs roughly half the build.
4. Farm the Dark accessory schematicsLord of the Underworld's Baton, Lyleen Noct's Talisman and Katress Ring are all schematic-gated crafts. The ring also asks for ten Katress Hair, so budget a Katress hunt for materials while you chase the schematics.
5. Stock the consumablesMammorest Curry needs Mammorest Meat, so one big kill feeds several cooks. Craft Advanced Recovery Meds and at least two Revival Potions (both level 61 technology) before stepping in; a run that survives a downed carry usually spends one.
6. Know what the clear paysThe first hard clear awards the Saya Hat, and the Legendary Plasma Rifle Schematic is a 10% roll. Plan on repeat clears if the rifle is the goal, which is exactly what a repeatable build is for.Legendary schematic drop rules

Keep the build's identity while adapting the lineup to the pals you own or the encounter ahead.

JetragonThe Dragon-side carry if you want the other weakness. It hits hard and flies fast, but Freeze Wall, Blizzard Spike and Diamond Rain all strike it super-effectively, turning three neutral pokes into three punishes.SelyneYour own Selyne boosts its Neutral and Dark attacks by 15% to 30% while ridden. A serviceable third Dark body, but mounted play pulls you out of Drone Launcher range and starves Orserk's stacks.