Support roles are the unsung heroes of your team inClair Obscur: Expedition 33. While your attackers throw out flashy damage and your tanks soak up the hits, it’s your support character that keeps the whole squad running smoothly. Support characters are quietly boosting stats, restoring energy or giving just the right edge at the perfect moment. And when it comes to building a solid support setup, your choice of pictos is important.
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Some support pictos give small but steady advantages that stack up over time, while others shift the pace of a fight in a single turn. What really matters is how they fit into your team’s rhythm. Maybe you need longer-lasting buffs. Maybe you want more energy flowing so your crew doesn’t stall out. Or maybe you just want a way to recover when things go sideways. There’s a Picto for each of those, but picking the right one isn’t always obvious.
8Rush on Powerful
Hit Harder and Faster
WithRush on Powerful, any time you give someone the Powerful buff, which increases their attack power, they’ll automatically also gain Rush. Rush is a speed boost, so you’re not just making them stronger, you’re making them act faster too.
That might not sound like much at first, but it’s actually a smart combo. Powerful by itself makes a character hit harder, but speed is everything in this game. If your character is faster, they get more turns. More turns mean more attacks, more skills or more opportunities to heal or protect others. So what this Lumina effect really does is stack pressure on the enemy. You’re hitting harder and doing it more often.
7Revive Tint Energy
Revive with Three AP
Normally, when aparty membergoes down, you have to use aRevive Tint Energyto bring them back. That costs you time and resources, and even worse they come back with zero AP when they’re revived. That means they can’t attack, can’t use skills and basically just sit there like a glass statue until they build AP on their next turn.
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With the Revive Tint Energy picto every time you use a Revive Tint, the character gets up with 3 AP instantly. That’s enough to cast a spell, launch a solid attack or heal someone.
6Pro Retreat
Abandon Unnecessary Battles
WithPro Retreat, you may instantly escape unnecessary battles. This is a big deal when you’re deep in a dungeon or climbing Endless Tower floors with enemies waiting to take you out. With Pro Retreat you can explore more aggressively. You can take more risks and fight harder battles knowing you’ve got a panic button that always works.
That said, Pro Retreat is one of the most expensive pictos, costing 40 Lumina Points. So this picto is for those builds or teams that are more fragile or when you’re grinding areas full of random, punishing enemies. It buys you security.
5Longer Burn
Burn Effects Lasts Two More Turns
When you burn an enemy, that burn sticks around for twp more turns than usual thanks toLonger Burnpicto. And you know that burn might typically last, say, three turns. But with this effect on, it lasts five. That’s two extra rounds of chip damage eating away at the enemy’s health, no matter what they’re doing.
8 Best Pictos for Defense in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Some of the best defensive pictos in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 help you absorb damage without flinching, while others throw you a lifeline.
So say you’re up against a chunky boss. You throw burn on it early. Ordinarily that damage would taper off right as the boss is winding up a big attack, but with the burn damage of this picto, you candefend, recover or pile on new effects.
4Longer Shell
Extend Your Shell Life
Just like Longer Burn,Longer Shellgives you two extra turns to the Shell effect. With Shell, you may reduce incoming damage. Usually, Shell lasts a few turns, which is just enough to cover you through an enemy’s first big offensive push. But once it runs out, your characters are suddenly vulnerable again.
By stretching Shell’s duration by two turns you’re giving yourself breathing room. It means your characters stay protected through more enemy turn and you don’t have to waste a move refreshing the barrier too early.
3Greater Powerful
Deal More Damage with the Powerful Buff
If you love tearing through enemies with big numbers and explosive turns, you’ll findGreater Powerfulcool. When you cast Powerful on a character, it usually gives them a nice little bump in damage for a few turns, but with Greater Powerful, that little bump becomes a proper power spike.
Instead of your character doing, say, 70% of their normal damage, they’ll now be doing 85%. With the extra 15% on Powerful, every hit counts more. It helps you finish fights faster, break through enemy defenses quicker and maybe even one-shot threats that would otherwise take a few rounds to bring down.
2Gradient Break
Every Time You Break an Enemy, Your Gradient Attack Bar Fills Halfway
Every time you break an enemy’s stance, your team instantly gains 50% of a Gradient Charge. And you know Gradient Attacks are some of the strongest tools you’ve got. They cost Gradient Charges to use and they can dish out heavy damage, often swinging the momentum of a fight in your favor, but the problem is building up those charges can take a while.
10 Best Pictos for Offense in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Looking to hit harder in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? Here are offensive pictos that actually make a difference when you’re on the attack.
You either have to wait for them to fill up over time or work specific moves into your rotation that help generate them. WithGradient Breakequipped, you can turn every stance break into a shortcut to your next big attack. It rewards you for playing aggressively and going after those break opportunities.
1Energy Master
Gain an Extra AP
Whenever one of your characters gains Action Points (AP), they get one extra AP on top of whatever they were supposed to receive. And you know in a turn-based game like this, AP is everything. It’s what lets your characters attack,use skillsand basically do anything meaningful.
So if you’re getting more of it just for doing what you were already going to do, you’re putting yourself a step ahead, turn after turn. Say you have a skill or a buff that normally gives your character 2 AP. With Energy Master’s Lumina effect active, it’ll now give 3. That extra AP could mean the difference between pulling off a combo now or having to wait another round.
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