Mavuika Guide | GI Kitchen

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Version 5.3

Dec 23, 2024

Introduction

Mavuika is a very powerful character in both on field and off field DPS roles. She ditches the normal energy system and relies on team members spending Nightsoul for her to use her burst, which creates some restrictions for her teams. If you're interested in running Mavuika as an on field DPS, be prepared to invest in other Natlan characters.

If you are more interested in her off field playstyle, Mavuika offers similar utility to Xiangling and potentially better utility should you be playing her in a team with a carry that does a lot of normal attacks or has another Natlan support (preferably Xilonen).

Gameplay

Elemental Burst: Hour of Burning Skies

Mavuika consumes her accumulated Fighting Spirit, launching a single powerful slash and then riding her bike to deal enhanced damage compared to her Skill at base. Her Burst does not use Elemental Energy, like other characters' bursts. This makes it necessary to generate Fighting Spirit efficiently to use has as a DPS. The single hit from her burst cast is one of the single strongest hits in the game, especially when vaped or melted.

Mavuika also gives a damage bonus buff to the active character after casting her Burst. It starts with up to 40% damage bonus right after casting and ramps down over time.

Elemental skill: The Named Moment

Tap her skill to create a ring that follows the active character. This ring will do a coordinated pyro attack once every 2 seconds with the active character and consume nightsoul each time it does.

Hold her skill to ride her bike to attack enemies. She can slash from her bike or hit enemies while doing donuts. Not recommended outside of Burst.

She can also fly, ride over water and climb cliffs while riding her bike. Slightly lesser versions of the abilities from the other Natlan characters.

Fighting Spirit

Mavuika gets Fighting Spirit when party members use nightsoul points, or use normal attacks. You can accumulate up to 200 points of fighting spirit, but only 100 are needed to burst.

It is recommended to earn as much as possible however, because the more fighting spirit points gives her more damage and also increases her A4 DMG bonus, which is a big part of her support potential.

Builds

Level Priority

Burst

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Skill

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Normal
Attack

Artifact Sets

Artifact Sets	DPS%	Description
4pc Obsidian Codex	100%	Possibility of having more than 100% Crit Rate on some weapons. 4 pc bonus will wear off for the end of her burst
4pc Marechaussee Hunter	97%	Only use with Furina. Without her it's trash
4pc Crimson Witch	92%	Option for when you are still farming stronger sets
4pc Gilded Dreams	91%	Option for when you are still farming stronger sets
2pc Pyro, 2pc Atk%, 2pc EM, 2pc MH, 2pc Codex	88%	Option for when you are still farming full sets

Artifact stats

Sands ATK%/EM

Goblet Pyro Dmg%

Circlet Crit DMG/Rate

Crit Rate
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Crit DMG

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ATK%

Mavuika likes to vape or melt her damage, so EM sands is best in those teams. ATK% sands is still good and can sometimes be better with big EM buffs from the team. EM is not useful in teams where she doesn't vape or melt.
ER% is useless on Mavuika because she does not use energy to cast her Burst.
ATK% goblet is viable in Furina teams.
You should get 60% Crit Rate and then as much Crit DMG as possible.

Weapons

Weapon name	DPS%	Description
[R1] A Thousand Blazing Suns	121%
[R1] Redhorn Stonethresher	107%	Low atk, but high Crit Dmg. Passive is actually useful
[R1] Beacon of the Reed Sea	107%	Harder to build. Can easily get over 100% Crit Rate
[R1] Verdict	106%	Can use passive when played with Xilonen
[R1] Fang of the Mountain King	103%	Stat stick
[R5] Serpent Spine	103%	Harder to build. Can easily get over 100% Crit Rate
[R1] Wolf's Gravestone	102%	ATK stat stick
[R5] Mailed Flower	100%	Old Event Weapon, best F2P
[R1] Serpent Spine	99%	Harder to build. Can easily get over 100% Crit Rate
[R5] Rainslasher	99%	Passive only works in Vape
[R5] Tidal Shadow	98%	Best F2P if no Mailed Flower only if Mavuika is healed

Constellation

Constellation	C0%	Description
C1	114%	Alleviates the restriction of needing a Natlan teammate to ult. Better uptime for off field skill damage. +40 Atk%
C2	157%	Def shred after skill when Mavuika is not on her motorcycle. Base Atk buff and multiplier increases for big damage steroids
C3	173%	+3 Burst levels. Good damage increase
C4	185%	Her damage bonus ascension passive no longer ramps down over time and is a bit higher
C5	197%	+3 Skill levels. Decent damage increase
C6	251%	Def shred from C2 now applies while on her motorcycle. Adds a few big Pyro damage instances, but they do not apply Pyro. Helps with her overworld traversal

Teammates

Mavuika needs to have another character that consumes Nightsoul points to give her Spirit. She loves to be played in melt or vape teams. She only needs 1 character to enable either reaction, so she can fit buffers into her teams as well.

Although main DPS Mavuika is recommended, she can also function as a strong sub DPS/support. She offers pyro application, strong personal damage, a damage bonus buff to the on field character and can use Scroll. She works best with Natlan DPSs or DPSs who focus on normal attacking as they can provide her with fighting spirit. Let's look at individual units that you could bring: