
Caster
Pudding
★★★★
Columbia
Introduction
Pudding is a 4-star character in Arknights. Pudding's weapon type is Staff and class is Caster. Faction: Columbia.
On our Arknights tier list Pudding is C tier, 218th of the 293 characters ranked, from where 8 current tier lists put Pudding.
Is Pudding good?
Pudding's attacks chain to multiple additional enemies, up to four at Elite 2, slowing every target the lightning jumps to along the way. Diffusion Current lets those chains bounce back and forth between the same two targets instead of always needing new ones, which helps in tighter enemy clusters.
Her ATK sits below average even with her buffs, and each jump loses damage without her module equipped, so she needs decent investment before the chain lightning really pays off.
Strengths
- Attacks chain to up to four additional enemies at Elite 2
- Every enemy hit by the chain gets slowed
- Diffusion Current lets the chain bounce between the same two targets
- Purchasable through the Shop Vouchers Store
Weaknesses
- High DP cost and attack interval
- Below-average ATK even with her buffs active
- Each jump deals 15% less damage without her module
- Diffusion Current needs targets clustered close together to work
Profile
Pudding is a female Aegir. Her birthday is December 21st, and she stands 156 cm tall. Pudding is voiced by Penelope Rawlins in English, Hina Tachibana in Japanese, and Kim Sae-hae in Korean.
Background
CHA-Y: To Pudding, nothing beats the time spent kicking back and relaxing in a Sami cabin.
On Sami's south border, Columbians have obtained land and resources from the Sami through trade, nomadic cities following caravans and mining ships crossing age-old tundra.
The founding of trade enclaves represents the first time in a century the Sami have opened borders, Columbian caravans and corporate engineer teams becoming frequent guests at Sami's frontier.
Ever since she was young, Pudding's frequently gone with her parents to Sami, headed for that ancient land.
Ice and snow blanket the earth wide, sunshine spilling over and refracting, as if a realm paved full with gems.
But this is only one corner of Sami.
"On the tundras of Sami far from civilization, in the forever hibernal Fjal Vetrtonn, most Sami by far still carry on their millennium-old ancient way of life.
They're far removed from the Columbian enclave, indifferently surveying all from the Fjal Vetrtonn and bone-chilling winds.
Time freezes upon their skin," says the Sarkaz owner of the coffee shop.
"Don't you want to go deeper and see? See the sights of those tundras and mountains, how the Sami get along with nature in the wilderness.
"Am I allowed to? " Pudding hesitantly asks.
"I'm not sure if they'd welcome a city person like me.
"Sami does not defy its own fate. We know what it faces, and know how it will respond.
And so Pudding signs up to join a local supporting construction project, departing early morning one day, going with the team of Columbian engineers into the Myrkwood that she once only gazed at from afar.
In the primordial woods, the Sami steadfastly distance from modern technology.
Only one subset, a wetland settlement near to the autonomous region, is willing to receive the Columbian engineers' help.
Constructing a base station, connecting cables, turning on the village's first bulbs.
. . Pudding stares at the faint lights, and the grin of satisfied wonderment on some Sami faces, and it suddenly hits her just what technology means to these people.
But it's only in places more remote still, where the true secrets of the Sami lie, a land the Columbians cannot pry into.
Pudding's vacation will be over very soon.
She writes up her experiences in the village into a report, and puts it inside her suitcase, ready to take it back to Columbia.
I'll come back again very soon, she thinks happily.
Yet because of one accident, this hope, ordinary by all rights, spends a long, long time delayed, before she can make good on it.
A Columbian Aegir electrical engineer with Sami lineage, Pudding contracted Oripathy from an accident at work which prompts her to seek for both employment and treatment at Rhodes Island, where she is assigned as an assistant of Closure who is responsible for maintaining the R.
I. landship's electric systems. Her electronic engineering skills allow Pudding to provide combat support through conducting Arts attacks channeled from her staff as well.
Stats
- HP1,326
- ATK542
- DEF108
- Block1
- DP cost31
- Redeploy70s
- Attack interval2.3s
At Elite 2, max level. Each bar is measured against the highest value in the Arknights roster.
Skills
5Electromagnetic Waves
TalentATK +10%
Tactical Chant β
Skill · Manual · Auto recovery · Initial SP 10 · SP cost 35 · Duration 25sASPD +75
At Mastery 3
Diffusion Current
Skill · Manual · Auto recovery · Initial SP 20 · SP cost 35 · Duration 20sATK +110%, attacks can jump between enemies up to 4 times
At Mastery 3
Equipment Maintenance
Base SkillEquipment Maintenance: When this Operator is assigned to a Power Plant, increases the drone recovery rate by +15% Pudding's first base skill, Equipment Maintenance, increases the Drone generation rate by 15% when she is assigned to a Power Plant. Equipment Maintenance increases Drone recovery rate by 15% while Pudding is assigned to a Power Plant.
Overclock
Base SkillOverclock: When this Operator is assigned to the Control Center, if there are 2 or more Operation Platform assigned to Power Plants, all Factories' productivity +2% (only the most effective one will take effect when assigned Operators have the same skill effect) Her second base skill, Overclock, increases the productivity of Factories by 2% when at least two Operation Platforms (i. e. Robot Operators; Castle-3, Lancet-2, Justice Knight, and THRM-EX) are assigned to Power Plants while Pudding is assigned to the Control Center. Overclock increases Factories' productivity by 2% if there are at least two Operation Platforms assigned to Power Plants while Pudding is assigned to the Control Center.
How to get Pudding
Available in the Shop Vouchers Store since Near Light (6 copies; later purchases give Pudding's Token)
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