Ascalon banner

Ascalon is a powerful unit, mixing some of the best control available on top of strong lingering DPS that often sees enemies dying as they walk, with no further interaction, allowing you to focus on more pressing threats. She is a high value and comfortable unit that’s useful in a wide variety of places. But she has one major knock against her which is that Ethan is even better at control while being a third of the price and free to recruit in IS. That isn’t to say Ascalon isn’t worth raising. Far from it! She cycles much better and does a lot more damage that makes her far more valuable in general content. However, among the top meta units she is one of the easier to replace as well. The main skill to that effect, and Ascalon's only Mastery of special note, is her S2. It is her strongest DPS skill and reinforces her movement speed debuff on top of an absurdly good cycle. The Mastery gains are significant as well with a large improvement to damage, an additional 20% to the movement speed debuff, and dropping the initial windup to only 5 SP. Note that one reason S2 is so effective is that the DoT from her Talent scales off of her current ATK, so S2's ATK improvement provides a doub