The Shorekeeper Guide – Early Analysis

The Shorekeeper, being the first limited support released since the game’s launch, has been on everyone’s radar ever since the rumours of her hit public discourse. Combining healing and offensive buffs makes her a better generalist than Verina, but make no mistake in assuming that she will strictly invalidate her - The Shorekeeper is a buffer first and healer second, the exact opposite of Verina’s archetype. Rather, she ends up being a strong sidegrade, made especially more valuable due to the overall lacking support lineup.

And more importantly, Shorekeeper’s presence in your roster would allow Verina to finally rest up. Poor girl could use some sleep after all this time supporting every team ever...

Skills

Kuro Games have thankfully toned down the amount of prose in the skill descriptions to manageable levels and mostly limited it to The Shorekeeper’s Forte Circuit, though they still insist on needlessly giving every little thing its own unique name.

As a general rule of thumb - unless specified otherwise, the damage portion of her abilities scales with her ATK stat and the healing portion scales with her max HP.

Basic Attacks

The Shorekeeper can perform four consecutive attacks in moderately quick succession, dealing Spectro damage. Additionally, each successful hit will generate a Collapsed Core near the struck enemy, up to a maximum of five present. More on those in the Forte Circuit section.

Her plunging attack, aside from working exactly as you’d expect it to, will also generate a Collapsed Core on hit. The description does not specify whether hitting multiple enemies will create more than one, but it's fair to assume that is the case. Curiously enough, the Dodge Counter move she also has access to does not seem to generate Collapsed Cores.

The Shorekeeper’s heavy attack works a bit differently from other characters’ however, and as such requires a closer look.

Upon using heavy attack input while her Forte bar is not full, The Shorekeeper will assume the form of a blue butterfly and begin to continuously consume stamina while moving forward. This does not count as actually flying though, so any ideas you might’ve had about soaring the skies this way can be immediately put to rest. As a consolation, she will automatically pick up nearby plants in this form... by turning them into more butterflies. Really.

For every second spent in her alternate form, The Shorekeeper will generate a segment of her Forte bar. Once she uses any offensive action or all of her stamina is spent, she will turn back into human form and deal Spectro damage to a target, as well as generate a Collapsed Core for every Forte bar segment gained this way.

Resonance Skill

The Shorekeeper restores HP of all party members and summons five butterflies to automatically target and kamikaze themselves into nearby enemies. Basic attacking immediately after casting lets The Shorekeeper skip the first portion of the chain. Aside from being able to cast this in mid-air, no gimmicks here.

Forte Circuit

Collapsed Cores

Hitting enemies with basic and plunging attacks creates a Collapsed Core near a struck enemy. Up to five of them can exist at the same time and each can exist for up to 6 seconds.

After the Core expires, it will turn into a butterfly and immediately seek out either the enemy it was created from or the closest enemy within range if the original target had died or moved out of range. If The Shorekeeper creates a new Collapsed Core while the maximum amount already exists, the oldest one will immediately expire.

Empirical Data

Every time The Shorekeeper attacks an enemy with a basic attack, plunging attack or her Dodge Counter, she will gain a stack of Empirical Data, filling up her Forte bar by one section per stack up to 5 maximum. The gain rate is actually listed in the Forte description this time, but the short version is that all mentioned moves grant one stack and Basic Attack 3 grants two.

Casting a heavy attack while her Forte bar is full will have a slightly different effect depending on whether she is mid-air or on the ground. While on the ground, The Shorekeeper will deal five instances of damage and pull all enemies nearby, and while in the air, she will instead use a single stronger attack without the pull effect.

In both cases, all of her Empirical Data gets consumed and The Shorekeeper forces all of her Collapsed Cores to immediately expire.

Resonance Liberation

Upon casting, The Shorekeeper creates a moderately wide zone centred on herself, called Outer Stellarealm, which lasts for 30 seconds. Once created, and every 3 seconds thereafter, the zone will heal all characters present inside it for a portion of The Shorekeeper’s max HP.

When a party member uses their Intro Skill within the bounds of Outer Stellarealm, the zone will be enhanced to Inner Stellarealm. In this state, the zone’s effect will be enhanced to also provide the characters within with bonus Crit Rate of up to 12.5%, scaling with The Shorekeeper’s Energy Regeneration stat.

If another character uses their Intro Skill, the Inner Stellarealm will be further enhanced into Supernal Stellarealm. On top of both effects listed, it will also provide all teammates present within it with up to 25% bonus Crit Damage, again scaling with The Shorekeeper’s Energy Regen. It will also enhance Shorekeeper’s next Intro Skill usage, but more on that in a second.

In case you do not want to do the necessary maths, both crit-related effects require 250% total Energy Regen to reach their cap - 100% base, plus 150% from any other source.

Intro and Outro

Intro

The Shorekeeper’s Intro Skill has two variants.

The first variant, Enlightenment, is the default state of her Intro. After a short delay, The Shorekeeper will heal all nearby party members and summon five butterflies to track and ram into the target, dealing Spectro damage. In this version of the Intro, the damage dealt is considered as Resonance Skill DMG and scales with The Shorekeeper’s ATK.

The second variant, Discernment, is used when her Resonance Liberation reaches the state of Supernal Stellarealm. The Shorekeeper will release her energy, healing all party members and dealing Spectro damage to all enemies nearby. This damage scales with her maximum HP, is considered as Resonance Liberation DMG and is guaranteed to critically strike. However, this variant of the Intro will also consume the Supernal Stellarealm.

Outro

The Outro Skill summons two butterflies to orbit the party members, granting the team a two-part buff that lasts for 30 seconds.

The simpler of the two effects is the team-wide 15% All-DMG Amplify effect. This needs no introduction, but for the reminder’s sake, it applies multiplicatively after all other buffs and effects.

For the second effect, whenever the on-field character gets staggered or knocked up for any reason, pressing the dodge button will immediately break them out of the animation and trigger perfect dodge, with all its benefits and other effects working off it attached. This can happen five times per Outro use and has no cooldown for triggering it - though ideally you’d never want to have to use it, for obvious reasons.

Inherent Skills

The Shorekeeper’s first Inherent Skill, Life Entwined, is a spin on Verina’s skill Grace of Life. Once every 10 minutes, when a character other than the woman herself takes fatal damage, The Shorekeeper will prevent them from going down and transfer 50% of her maximum health to that character. This effect cannot down her and it will heal for that amount regardless of how much of Shorekeeper’s health is actually consumed.

Her second skill, Self Gravitation, increases Shorekeeper’s Energy Regen by 10% when any party member is present within her Stellarealm. If the character in question is Rover (Male), regardless of their chosen element, the effect extends to them as well.

Resonance Chain

Sequence 1	The Shorekeeper’s Stellarealms generated by her Resonance Liberation have their radius increased by 150%, their duration increased by 10 seconds and no longer end prematurely upon using her Intro Skill Discernment.
Sequence 2	The Outer Stellarealm now also grants 40% ATK Bonus to the team members inside it.
Sequence 3	Casting the Resonance Liberation now grants an additional 20 Concerto Energy to The Shorekeeper, once every 25 seconds.
Sequence 4	The Shorekeeper gains a 70% Healing Bonus to the healing applied through her Resonance Skill.
Sequence 5	The pulling effect of The Shorekeeper’s Basic Attack 3 and Forte Heavy Attack Illation has its range increased by 30%.
Sequence 6	The Shorekeeper’s Intro Skill has its base damage multiplier multiplicatively increased by 42%. Additionally, casting the Intro Skill will additively increase The Shorekeeper’s Crit DMG by 500%.

Possible synergies

As a character tailor-made to fill in the support role, The Shorekeeper will synergise well with almost every Resonator in the game, save those filling the same role as her.

Should you pull?

First and foremost: if The Shorekeeper is a character you will enjoy playing or is your waifu, then don't let this stop you from pulling her. At the end of the day, it’s your account. Note that we will be using information provided by the latest beta test and this information is subject to change.

Regardless of your decision, always remember to spend responsibly and to never use “building pity” as an excuse for gambling.