Mika Schmidt is an upcoming playable Cryo character in Genshin Impact. He is a member of the Knights of Favonius Reconnaissance Company and always diligently fulfills all the duties that come his way.
Gameplay wise, Mika is pretty unique: he uses 2 weapons - a crossbow and spear. Check this article for Mika's complete kit, including abilities, talents and constellations.
1. Mika Normal Attack: Spear of Favonius - Point Passage
Mika Ascension Stat: HP%
- AA: Performs up to 5 consecutive strikes using his crossbow and spear.
- CA: Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to lunge forward, dealing damage to opponents along the way.
- PA: Plunges from mid-air to strike the ground below, damaging opponents along the path and dealing AoE DMG upon impact.
2. Mika Elemental Skill: Starfrost Swirl
Mika uses his crossbow to attack, granting nearby active characters in your party Soulwind, which increases their ATK SPD. Will take effect in different ways if Tapped or Held.
- Tap: Fires a Flowfrost Arrow that can pierce though opponents, dealing Cryo DMG to enemies it comes into contact with.
- Hold: Goes into Aiming Mode, locking on to an opponent and firing a Rimestar Flare at them, dealing Cryo DMG. When the Rimestar Flare hits, it will rise before exploding, launching Rimestar Shards into a maximum of 3 other opponents, dealing Cryo DMG.
ATK SPD Bonus: 13 - 25%. Soulwind duration 12s. Cooldown 15s.
3. Mika Elemental Burst: Skyfeather Song
Derives the ability to spur his teammates on from the recited prayers of the knightly order, regenerating HP for all nearby party members. This healing is based on Mika's Max HP, and will grant them the Eagleplume buff. When the Normal Attacks of characters affected by Eagleplume hit an opponent, Mika will help them regenerate HP every 2,5s based on his Max HP.
Characters affected by this type of state can only regenerate HP in this way once per short interval of time.
Use heal: 22% + 2.5k. Eagleplum heal: 4.4% + 500 every 2.5s. Cost 70, CD 18s.
4. Mika Passive Skills
P1. Rapid-Fire Suppression: The Soulwind state caused by Starfrost Swirl will grant characters the Detector effect under the following circumstances and in the following ways, increasing their Physical DMG by 10% If the Flowfrost Arrow hits more than one opponent, each additional opponent hit will generate 1 Detector stack. Each opponent hit by Rimestar Shards will generate 1 Detector stack. The Soulwind state can have a maximum of 3 Detector stacks, and if Starfrost Swirl is activated again during this duration, the pre-existing Soulwind state and all its Detector stacks will be cleared.
P2. Geomorphological Mapping: When a character simultaneously affected by Eagleplume and Starfrost Swirl's Soulwind scores a CRIT Hit with their attacks. Soulwind will grant them 1 stack of Detector from Rapid-Fire Suppression. During a single instance of Eagleplume, 1 Detector stack can be gained in this manner. Additionally, the maximum number of stacks that can be gained through Soulwind alone is increased by 1. Requires Rapid-Fire Suppression to be unlocked first.
P3. Demarcation: Displays the location of nearby resources unique to Mondstadt on the mini-map.
5. Mika Constellations
- C1. Contingency Factor: The Soulwind state of Starfrost Swirl can decrease the healing interval between instances caused by Skyfeather Songs Eagleplume state. This decrease percentage is equal to the ATK SPD increase provided by Soulwind.
- C2. Chaperone's Ingress: When Starfrost Swirls Flowfrost Arrow first hits an opponent, or its Rimestar Flare hits opponents, 1 Detector stack from Passive Talent "Rapid-Fire Suppression" will be generated. You must have unlocked the Passive Talent "Rapid-Fire Suppression" first.
- C3. Reconnaissance Veteran: Increases the Q Level.
- C4. Sunfrost Encomium: When Mika's own Skyfeather Song’s Eagleplume state heal other party members, this will restore 3 Energy to Mika. This form of Energy restoration can occur 5 times during the Eagleplume state created by 1 use of Skyfeather Song.
- C5. Signal Arrow: Increases the E Level.
- C6. Companion's Counsel: The maximum number of Detector stacks that Starfrost Swirl's Soulwind can gain is increased by 1. You need to have unlocked the Passive Talent "Rapid-Fire Suppression" first. Additionally, characters affected by Soulwind will deal 60% more Physical CRIT DMG.
6. How good is Mika?
Mika is pretty much the new premier support for Eula. His whole skill set is designed around healing (which Eula needs), and Physical damage bonus (which for now benefits only Eula). The attack speed buff from his Skill is also fairly usable for Eula as well. His Cryo element also allow him to battery Eula and give her Elemental Resonance.
The bonus given by Mika is based on how many enemies player manages to hit with his Skill. For each enemy hit, the active character would gain one buff stack of 10% Physical damage (max 3). The 2nd passive increase the max stack to 4 and give an extra stack.
This means in single target scenario, the maximum Phys damage bonus Mika can give is only 20%, but if there are 3 enemies, players can get up to 40% instead. Similar to Faruzan, Mika's C6 is fairly busted. It increases the max Phys buff stack to 5 (50% DMG) and gives the active character an extra 60% Physical Crit DMG. Eula users should aim to get C6 Mika.
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