Red Melascula

Published June 23 2020

Last Updated August 21 2023

## Skill Effects

Blaze, Inhale, Lifesteal, Ignite, Immortality

## Location

Draw Hero

Coin Shop

## Food

 Sweet Apple Pie

 Caviar Sugar Canape

## Association

Red Melascula has a skill which decreases the Max HP of enemies and recovers her own by the same amount once, making her tough to take down.

## Hero Guide

### Summary

[Elite Demon] Melascula of Faith, also known as Red Melascula, was one of the featured characters along with Blue Melascula in the “Burning Hatred” banner (June 24th, 2020 - July 7th, 2020). Currently, she appears in different banners and is a permanent unit in the Platinum Coin Shop, being also one of the occasional sale units in the Limited Time Sale.

Her kit makes her work mainly as a support unit with some degree of damage, primarily focused on keeping herself alive while dealing damage based on her Commandment of Faith’s ability. Her two basic skills introduced new mechanics to the game: Blaze and Inhale.

Melascula can deal decent damage with her first skill, increasing the damage she deals per Ignite stack on the enemy. On the other hand, her second skill grants her sustainability while reducing the max HP pool of her enemies. Furthermore, her Ultimate Move deals decent damage to a single enemy while adding a part of the damage dealt to Melascula’s own HP. Her most known (and infamous) trait is her Unique, which can save an ally from death.

In the same way as all members of the Ten Commandments, Melascula has her own Commandment, Faith, which applies 2 Ignites on any hero who doesn’t use a skill during their turn.

Her Holy Relic works both passive traits, her Unique, and her Commandment, increasing the offensive capabilities of the ally affected by Melascula’s Unique and then increasing the basic stats of all allies for each Ignite stack on all enemies.

### Pros

* You can buy Melascula’s dupes in the Coin Shop.
* Her second skill and her Ultimate Move provide her with outstanding sustainability.
* Her Unique ability saves an ally from dying for three turns.
* The Commandment of Faith potentially increases the damage dealt to enemies.

### Cons

* Low overall damage.
* Immortality fixes allies’ HP at 1, not allowing them to get healed while it lasts.
* In the context of her Unique skill, its effect can be removed by Buff Removal, Freeze, or Petrify.
* As with all other Commandments, it’s also applied to allies.

## Skill Review

**Death Stab -** Red Melascula’s first skill works with her Commandment (or with any source of Ignite). The Blaze effect increases the damage it deals for each Ignite effect on the target.

**Spirit Consume -** Her second skill provides Red Melascula with massive sustainability, stealing a tremendous amount of the max HP from all enemies while reducing their HP pool by the same amount, making her very effective against enemies that focus on stacking a lot of HP, such as Red Reinhard or Red Purgatory Ban.

**Ultimate Move: Summon Soul -** Her Ultimate Move is the same as her Blue and Green counterparts, inflicting damage on her target while stealing almost half of the damage dealt.

**Commandment of Faith -** Melascula’s Commandment of Faith places 2 Ignites on any unit that doesn’t use a skill during their turn. Her Commandment works excellently as a great way of increasing the damage your units deal and forcing the enemy to play in a certain way.

**Unique: Return of the Dead -** On the other hand, her Unique is her most valuable asset to any team she joins, granting Immortality to a dying ally for three turns and fixing their HP at 1. Unfortunately, several skills can remove this effect, making some units a hard counter to it.

## Gear Recommendation

Not having a reliable way of dealing a lot of damage on her own, Melascula’s preferred gear is HP/Defense to keep her alive. Another good way of gearing her up is HP/Crit Defense since she inherently has one of the highest Crit Defenses in the game, although it can lower your CC.

### Equipment Set

* Life (HP) / Iron Wall (Defense)

**OR**

* Life (HP) / Fortitude (Crit Defense)

### Sub-stats

* Bracer / Ring: Attack
* Necklace / Earring: Defense or Crit Defense
* Belt / Rune: HP

## Usage

### PVP

Red Melascula can shine in any team (being used primarily on Demon teams) thanks to her Unique. Still, if Blue Festival Berserk Estarossa is on her team, she should be placed at his left to deactivate his Commandment.

The Demon team consisted of Demon King, Festival Estarossa, and Demon Cusack in the backline or Nebula Zeldris. This team has excellent synergy because of Red Melascula since she has a commandment and the ability to provide immortality to one ally that dies, the enemy will be forced to target her. Another honorable team mention will be the Tyr team. Tyr has the taunt at the start of the match and enemies are locked to focus on Tyr most likely leading to his death or close. Same here like the Demon team Melascula’s passive will prevent Tyr from being eliminated from the match.

### PVE

Red Melascula is an excellent unit for different types of PVE content.

#### Story Mode

Melascula can find a lot of use in Story Mode since there aren’t many enemies with any kind of Buff Removal.

#### Death Match

Since she isn’t a high-damage unit, she’s not helpful in any Death Match. There are way better options than her for this content.

#### Demonic Beast Battle

Due to the long duration of these battles (which makes the immortality buff not as worthwhile) and the immunity to debuffs across many phases of these enemies, Melascula has no use in any Demonic Beast Battle.

#### Tower of Trials

Melascula shines in this content. She can help complete the mechanics on many floors thanks to her Unique.

#### Hero Arena

Melascula is a solid pick here and definitely worth considering building a team using her. Melascula is essentially a cheat code for this mode as she and Halloween Matrona can abuse both of their passives.

Overall, Red Melascula is a great support unit that can keep her utility in many kinds of content, being a flexible unit that can fit in any team.

## Story

Melascula is an elite warrior of the Demon Clan, serving directly under the Demon King as the Faith of the Ten Commandments. Like all members of the Demon Clan, she is able to utilize the mysterious jet-black matter as shown forming wings for flight. she uses it to battle in close-combat as seen in her battle against Ban.

As stated by herself, Melascula is an expert at manipulating the dying and the dead, along with their souls. She has strong summoning capabilities, having brought forth lesser demons. As Melascula was a snake that bathed in the miasma of the Demon World to gain her demonic powers, she can transform at will into her original giant hooded snake form, which possesses great strength and endurance as she managed to easily hold down Ban with her mouth alone and endured attacks from the other members of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Source: https://nanatsu-no-taizai.fandom.com/wiki/Melascula