Light "The One" Ultimate Escanor

Published November 29 2022

Last Updated August 10 2023

## Skill Effects

Scorch, Overpower, Remove Buffs and Debuffs, Fully Depletes Ultimate Move Gauge, Final Flame, Immolation, Holy Flame, Increase Attack-related Stats, Immortality, Immunity to Stat Decrease

## Food

 Raisin with Sugar

 Caviar Milk Canape

## Association

[Fire of Life] "Ultimate" Escanor can deal greater damage to enemies the higher his Crit Damage

## Ultimate

**When the hero dies, removes all effects, fully depletes the Ultimate Move Gauge, then applies 1 Final Flame. (Survival from other Unique abilities or skills does not apply when dying.)**
**1 Final Flame is removed when taking damage during the enemy's turn or when the hero uses a skill, and the hero dies after all Final Flame effects are removed.**
**Immolation Multiplier: 0.2% / 0.4% / 0.6% / 0.8% / 1.0% / 1.2%**
**Damage Multiplier: 500% / 550% / 600% / 650% / 700% / 750%**

## Unique

**Increases the hero's damage dealt by 15% after using a skill, up to 4 times. All of the hero's stats do not drop below their values at the start of the battle.**
**When taking fatal damage, the hero's Attack-related stats increase by 30%.**

## Hero Guide

### Summary

Light “The One” Ultimate Escanor (known as “Flame of Life” Ultimate Escanor in the game) is the featured character for Grand Cross’ 3.5 Anniversary. This version of Escanor shows him using “The One: Ultimate”; after “The One” ends, Escanor converts his own life into more energy to keep this ability active and make it even stronger. Escanor has a much more aggressive and fast-paced playstyle than the first Light attribute unit, Light Eternal Rebirth Elizabeth.

All of his skills added new effects and all of them are focused on increasing the damage he deals based on his remaining and/or lost HP.
Escanor can deal massive damage to all enemies in battle based on a percentage of the damage inflicted on the main target, which increases even further based on how much HP he has left; he also uses an AOE attack which increases its damage based on his crit damage and the HP lost, increasing the damage he deals, all his stats and even keep himself in battle after receiving a lethal blow, while turning himself immune to all effects. On top of this, “The One” Ultimate Escanor can’t have his stats reduced below his values at the start of the battle, effectively making annoying effects such as Extort or even deadly ones like Encroach useless against him.

However he can still be effected by Increase Damage Taken, Decrease Damage Dealt, and Decrease Ultimate Move Damage effects as it doesn't effect and decrease his stats, making them few effects that can still weaken him but thankfully few Meta Units have those effect making it not much of a issue but certain bosses sometimes have those effects.

### Pros

* Escanor has high CC.
* He’s a reliable damage source for endgame content such as Demonic Beast Battle.
* Thanks to merges, he has remarkable comeback potential when used as a sub-unit.
* Is able to avoid death and deal even more damage than before
* Can’t have his stats reduced below the levels he had at the start of the battle, making most Commandments and Demonic Beast Uniques useless against him.
* Deals massive single damage attacks with high HP and High AOE damage attacks on low HP.
* His Scorch bypasses damage cap and damage reduction effects.

### Cons

* Requires as many dupes as possible for his passive to be truly useful
* Has no answer against units that can disable attack skills or debuffs that deals damage over time without assistance from a unit with cleanse, immunity or debuff removal outside of Final Flame's effects and is still effected from Increase Damage Taken, Decrease Damage Dealt, and Decrease Ultimate Move Damage effects as it doesn't affect and decrease his stats which allows him take more damage from enemies and reduce damage dealt to enemies.
* Is unable to be saved from other revives effects once the last Final Flame is used and will die

### Skill Review

* **Burning Spear -** His first skill is a single target with the Scorch effect which inflicts 1.3% damage for every percent of remaining HP on Escanor. Additionally, it damages all enemies in battle by 30% of the final damage dealt on the main target. Usually, you should aim this at the target with the lowest defense. It can also be a good tool against Ult Rush teams that use Blue Princess Elizabeth or Blue Fraudrin since you can deal the most damage with this skill. Given that they are usually underleveled, they will take a lot of damage, making the Scorch damage on the remaining enemies huge.

* **Crazy Prominence -** This is an AOE move with the Overpower effect which deals 0.8% additional damage for every percent of HP missing. Furthermore, it adds more damage based on Escanor’s crit damage. You should try saving this card for as long as possible unless you have no other option since it does more damage depending on how much HP has lost Escanor during battle, the more diminished HP, the more damage it will deal.

* **Ultimate: Final Prominence -** Due to the Immolation effect, his Ultimate Move deals 0.2% additional damage for every percent of the hero’s remaining HP. Furthermore, it deals 0.2% for every percent of the hero’s diminished HP. The Ultimate Move level will decide how many Final Flame buffs Escanor will get when he receives lethal damage, to a maximum of 4.

* **Unique: Final Flame -** Escanor’s passive skill applies Holy Flame on himself at the start of the battle. This increases his damage dealt by 15% after using a skill, up to 4 times. Also, his stats can’t drop below the levels he had at the start of the battle. When Escanor takes lethal damage, it removes all effects, fully depletes the Ultimate Move Gauge, and applies “Final Flames”  on himself based on the Ultimate Move level. 1 Final Flame is spent every time Escanor uses a skill or receives damage in the enemy turn. As soon as all Final Flame charges are spent, Escanor dies.

### Gear Recommendation

Although Escanor is a DPS unit, his best equipment is HP/Defense (or HP/Crit Damage) to maximize his HP pool, which will increase his damage output.

#### Equipment Set

* Life (HP) / Iron Wall(Defense)

**Or**

* Life (HP) / Congeniality (Crit Damage

#### Sub-stats

* Bracer/Ring - Attack
* Necklace/Earring -Defense
* Belt / Rune - HP

### Usage

As a strong unit in his own right, Escanor excels in any kind of content varying from PVP to PVE, including endgame content such as Demonic Beast Battles.

#### PVP

Due to newer units being included in the game, Escanor has fallen off.
Although, since he has high stats and, by extension, high CC, he can be instrumental if trying to get the first turn. Furthermore, using Escanor as a Sub-unit will also grant him a great chance to win the match if he’s left alone on the field due to having an almost guaranteed merge on his first turn.
His best team is a Sins team with Light Trascendent Ban, Red Festival Queen Diane, and LR Red Lostvayne Meliodas.

#### PVE Battles

As mentioned before, Escanor can still be an excellent choice for all kinds of PVE content.

**Death Match -** He is a solid choice for any kind of PVE content such as Death Matches (Red Demon, Gray Demon, Crimson Demon Howlex and Original Demon) and can rush through Fort Solgres easily thanks to all of his skills doing AOE damage.

**Hraesvelgr -** “The One” Ultimate Escanor is a great choice for endgame content such as Hraesvelgr given that Escanor can deal a lot of damage and easily ignore some of Hraesvelgr’s passives thanks to his stat reduction immunity.

**Eikthyrnir -** Despite not counting in the attribute wheels (same as Dark Traitor Meliodas and Light Eternal Rebirth Elizabeth), Escanor can deal a lot of damage to Eikthyrnir and get around his revival unique on phase 3 on floor 3 with his Scroch effect to finish off any remaining Hp left on the boss before it fully heals back up to full hp.

**Skoll and Hati -** He can deal a lot of damage to both wolves, especially during the 3rd phase where he can hit both wolves indiscriminately and won’t have his stats reduced in any way.

**Nidhoggr -** He is able to deal high damage even with the boss' high damage reduction at high HP. On top of it he stats will not be effected from it's high Extort Debuff due to being immune to having his stats decreased.

Overall, Light “The One” Ultimate Escanor is one of the strongest units in the game although already outclassed by newer units. He is able to tank, deal a lot of damage, and deny enemy strategies such as Demon teams with Blue Festival Berserk Estarossa's Encroach to reduce stats, since he’s able to ignore most of its effects.

He is a solid choice for any kind of content and a hero that you should try to have in your roster.

## Story

Escanor「エスカノール」 is the Lion's Sin of Pride「傲慢の罪ライオン・シン, Raion Shin」 of the Seven Deadly Sins, the former second prince of the Kingdom of Castellio, and the man known throughout the Kingdom of Liones as "The Strongest Holy Knight". His Sacred Treasure is the Divine Axe, Rhitta, and his inherent power is called Sunshine, which made him renowned for gaining immense power during the day, and gradually becoming weaker with the setting of the sun, leaving him frail and submissive at night.
After noon, when "the One" reaches it's limit and begins to fade, Escanor circumvents it by converting his own life force into magic power in order to not only keep "The One" active, but also greatly enhance its already invincible power. This technique called "The One Ultimate" is Escanor's last resort and a double-edged sword, as using it will completely burn out his own life force, and eventually kill him.