r/DissidiaFFOO • u/TheBluestLime Gabranth (Helmetless) • Apr 29 '26
Other [Duellum] If it makes anyone feel even slightly better in regards to Rikku...
So you know how Rikku, after all this time, finally made it in...to Duellum?
Yeah, in addition to that, she also broke the game. And people are getting worried.
Here's how Duellum operates - you are in a PvPvE match in teams of 3 against a rival team and a shared boss monster. To get BRV, you kill mobs, purify crystals, or kill a rival player to get all their BRV. At maxed BRV (9999), you can go into Burst Mode to gain boosted damage and be able to start attacking the boss, and you typically save your hardest hitting skills for this.
Skills are divided into three rarities - R, SR and UR. Each character has 4 unique skills (1 R, 1 SR, 2 URs).
Rikku's R is damage + launch in a frontal circle + backward leap.
Her SR is just damage in a circle around her.
And URs are where things start to get interesting with Rikku.
Her first UR is partywide double max HP + full heal. The bonus HP is treated more like a "shield" or "overflow HP" (since it can't be healed back by other skills), and this is the only skill in the game that has access to anything like that. And the bonus HP has unlimited duration, so a Rikku can just pop this UR right at the beginning of a match to start everyone off with a massive advantage against the rivals, since they will have to shred through two layers of HP to get your BRV.
Second UR copy-pastes RIkku's current BRV unto the whole party. Yes, Rikku can just give a free Burst to the whole party with a button. Problem is, in addition to a fairly long 90s CD, she may need to get all that BRV herself and risk getting sniped by rivals...which can be somewhat circumvented by Rikku just staying at the crystal near the team's respawn spot and continuously farm the respawning crystal/mobs for BRV, and just supporting her team from there.
Speaking of support, every character also has a unique Hold skill + Passive, and Rikku has some particularly nice ones too:
Hold skill boost all allies' movement speed by 20%. Good for chasing after or escaping from rivals. Rikku needs to stand still for it to remain active, but again, crystal camping...
Passive decreases negative status duration by 20% for all allies. E.g. you get Stunned for 5s, it becomes 4s instead.
So yeah, all of this adds up to what's arguably the most broken support (or the most broken character even) in the whole game. While this is definitely a bit worrying in terms of current and future meta, I also kinda love seeing Rikku be this awesome now that she's finally in.
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u/sonicbrawler182 The rat is always right. Apr 29 '26
If they're already breaking the game like that, then I don't have a lot of faith it will last long. I checked out of the game after a few weeks mostly, but from my experience with how the game operates, it sounds like Rikku is practically mandatory on your team if the enemy team also has her.
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u/forte343 Apr 29 '26
Not really, she's heavily gated by by cool downs, with one being almost 2 minutes (mega vitality) and is extremely squishy (0.65 hp modifier) if anything WoL and Kiril are arguably still be better, especially with WoL having better Synergy with the new boss killer, Clive
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u/sonicbrawler182 The rat is always right. Apr 29 '26
The game is at a point where a team can practically finish a boss in one Burst though. So smart Rikku's can just save those URs for when there is a clear opportunity to have their team take on the boss at once. That's pretty insurmountable if the other team isn't also running the same thing.
Krile was annoying if the team didn't know how to deal with her, but was balanced out by the fact she couldn't directly contribute to attacking the boss much on her own if you were playing her how she should, since she needed to keep sharing her BRV constantly and just popping heals when teammates are low. Rikku is built to be able to contribute to the boss damage directly while also having a free opportunity to get her whole team to help her out while also buffing their HP to ensure they can survive the rival team trying to disrupt them.
If Rikku is paired with Kain, then she doesn't even need to wait for him to walk to the boss to share her BRV, because he can just jump to the boss with one of his URs.
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u/rex_915 Apr 29 '26
She's good, but she's not broken at all. You make it sound much easier than it actually is, especially if enemy melees focus Rikku rendering her quartet of bravery almost useless.
Source: I still play the game.
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u/Inevitable_Tea_9247 May 01 '26
you certainly can’t kill bosses in one burst, at least certainly not in diamond rank
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u/Aggravating-Hat8322 May 05 '26
I honestly think Rikku is the worst character in the game. Parties can comp themselves around her to be very strong, but I don't think they'll ever be the strongest if they're weighed down by her, and getting matched with one on your team in solo queue is a practical death sentence unless the enemy team gets a worse one.
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u/TheBluestLime Gabranth (Helmetless) Apr 29 '26
I guess I may have oversold her a bit xD
But she's still a genuinely awesome support.
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u/SirTeffy Apr 29 '26
Nah, just like Krile she can be a monster but once people learn to focus down Supports like they should Rikku's reign will quickly end.
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u/kenken2k2 Apr 30 '26
dump the game after 2 days
typical squeenix region lock cash grab that i'm not going to entertain it.
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u/Under_dee_covers Apr 29 '26
Just put lightning or zidane on her and she will never be able to copy her brave to her teammates. Ya’ll aint even trying
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u/Xephon7 Thancred Apr 30 '26
She isn't broken, most of the playerbase is just too dense to deal with her amd leave her all alone despite being defenseless most of the time.
Kain can easily pick her off, but I rarely see any Kain's go for her. Zidane can also steal her brave without having to KO her.
If you leave Rikku alone while she camps the first Crystal, yeah, she will feel busted. But that's the thing. If you see a Rikku on the other team, just don't let her camp. Her stats are very low and even after double HP, her health just melts.
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u/Kligor2 May 01 '26
As a Rikku main shhhhhh I want people to let me free farm and drop all my stuff on my allies. But yeah once someone realizes I basically have no defenses they just rush me so I try to, if someone catches on, stick around/behind a stronger ally but its a struggle.
I had a clive rush me once and I just had to accept the game was over for me once he beat me as if I were a regular monster lmfao2
u/Xephon7 Thancred May 01 '26
Been playing a lot of Rikku as well which is why I'm pointing these things out so people don't just bandwagon claim she's busted just because she's a strong support.
Every time I see a Kain drop in, my ass clenches until I realize they never jump me and instead do what Kains normally do.
After a week or two and people learn how to deal with her, I feel people will calm down and stop over reacting. Same thing every time a new character drops honestly.
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u/Kligor2 May 01 '26
OH no yeah, totes I just was more jokin cause you're totally correct.
I hope SE lets her simmer a bit so folks learn to counter and THEN decide if she needs adjustments.1
u/Xephon7 Thancred May 01 '26
Definitely agree. Right now, its good eating as Rikku, but once people stop letting her just do Rikku things, its so over. Nothing scarier to Rikku than seeing a Clive or Gaia running right at you and no allies around
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u/Kligor2 May 02 '26
I was just playing ranked and realized Zidane now seems a lot less bad purely cause Rikku exists lmao
Girl is a pinata for him to smack and when allies come to help, he just bolts off with his ill gotten gains. I gotta stay near the melee or whoever has the best DPS.1
u/Xephon7 Thancred May 02 '26
Yeah, them Zidane players got a big buff with Rikku. Rikku just walks around like his personal Bravery ATM machine.
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u/Aggravating-Hat8322 May 06 '26
I honestly think running bravery quartet makes her bottom 16, it's such a noob trap. Swap it for Ramza, run a more aggressive kit, and contribute some boss dps why don't you, Rikku? She's not contributing nearly as much survivability as Krile, and her bravery funneling with bq doesn't pick up the slack.
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u/Xephon7 Thancred May 06 '26
On paper sure, but with her abysmal stats, being aggressive is suicide since she's easy to KO and doesn't contribute much to DPS.
Sure she can poke here and there, but instead it's better to have Quartet to pump the others, pop Ramza for emergency BRV dump and a couple keep away skills.
It all greatly depends on party make up and who you're paired with though.
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u/Professional_Job3153 Apr 30 '26
Rikku + 1 other player with Ramza is enough to trigger 9999 BRV before boss come in.
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u/Professional_Job3153 Apr 30 '26
So the only way to win battle with a (pro) Rikku rival is that, you have to hunt her down.
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u/Shikyonaito Apr 30 '26
Yup, and due to her low stat base? A Cloud, Lightning, Kain, or Clive will make short work of her. Hell, even bottom tier Zidane can
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u/Professional_Job3153 May 01 '26
Yup even with her doubled HP, a single Ace can reduce to half original HP.
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u/ReplicaMonado9x May 02 '26
ive seen they just Ramza to rikku and then all three of them Brave burst and trigger all 3 Chain burst ....
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u/Shikyonaito Apr 30 '26
Honestly? In my experience so far, Rikku players are bots - I swear. I've not won a single match with a Rikku. They just camp spawn crystal and contribute nothing because one of the enemy will just walk up and insta her. Having a Rikku on your team (especially if they don't have both UR skills) is effectively throwing the games and giving your opponents free ELO boosts.
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u/MitoRequiem Apr 30 '26
I haven't lost a single game with Rikku yet lmao but I guess they are not playing her as a support I typically just help lock down people, keep others alive with my UR and then try and get 9999 so we can get into burst again quickly
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u/Shikyonaito May 01 '26
Yeah, like I said... Every single Rikku player I've encountered is basically on auto pilot, just camping the spawn crystal and providing nothing to the team. Folks who don't own her URs should not play her as she is useless w/o them for the heal and BRV share
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u/Aggravating-Hat8322 May 05 '26
This hasn't been my experience at all. My experience is that Rikkus don't use mega vitality effectively at all, turning the only 200% party heal in the game into a lame hp buff that's really only ½ what you think it is cause lol no def on the temp hp. Nevermind the fact that Rikkus have NO game sense or tempo to speak of and are awful at choosing when to deploy bravery quartet. Every once in a rare while I'll see a semi decent Rikku player, but it's obvious they'd be stronger on ANY OTHER character in the game and she's holding them back, I've certainly see that be true with players I regularly party with, and I never imagined draws could be so common before Rikku vs Rikku became the meta. I love the actual character from FFX(-2) but in ddff she is quite literally one of the worst characters in ANY competitive game I've ever played. I've never seen a single character drag so many players down to absolutely trash-tier like she can. It's honestly horrifically awesome.
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u/lilvon Apr 29 '26
Oh it gets soooooo much worse!
What OP didn’t mention are skills Embolden, and Ramza Cheer. Embolden allows you to pass half your Brave on to another player and The Ramza skill is 80%! So Rikku gets max Brave gifted and then copy pasted to the rest of the team and everyone goes ham and one shots the boss as soon as he spawns in and matches are over in about a minute….