Red Tarmiel

Published May 10 2022

Last Updated August 28 2023

## Skill Effects

Flood, Adaptation, Increases Basic Stats, Restrict Skill Effects, Heal, Increase Attack, Decrease Damage Dealt, Detonate, Disable Ultimate Move

## Association

[Advent of Ocean] Covenant of Light Tarmiel can deal greater damage the more HP he has remaining.

## Hero Guide

[Advent of Ocean] Covenant of Light Tarmiel, commonly known as Red Tarmiel or Arbus, was the featured unit in the [The Four Archangels] Special Pick Up Draw (April 26 - May 10, 2022) and is the second version of Tarmiel. You can also find him in the Guaranteed SSR Draw and the Race Draw II. As a unit, Tarmiel is capable of dealing a lot of damage depending on how much HP he has left, massive AOE damage with his Ultimate Move, and introducing a new effect: Adaptation along with a new version of the Grace of Ocean that heals him or the unit which he’s linked to, if they receive damage during the enemy turn on each attack. Furthermore, his Unique increases all allies’ basic stats every time he heals himself with his Grace.

### Pros

* Tarmiel works as a support in a link and the frontline.
* His Grace can condition players to play around him in a certain way, whether he’s on the frontline or linked to a unit.
* Furthermore, it helps in keeping units alive beyond their usual durability.
* Thanks to this, his Grace allows him to be useful even on late-game content such as Demonic Beast Battle
* Able to increase his teammates and his stats by taking attacks or by buffing them.
* His Holy Relic allows him to stop his enemies from Ult rushing

### Cons

* Infect can counter his Grace
* Enemies with debuff immunity can stop his Decrease Damage Dealt, Block Skill Effects, and Disable Ultimate Move Debuffs
* Grace Doesn't work in Death Match
* His buffs can be removed by buff cancel
* Grace healing is fixed at 30% Damage taken and can't be increased unlike his Blue Counterpart

##### Gear Recommendation

His preferred equipment will be HP / Defense since his goal is to survive and increase his allies’ stats as much as possible. This gear also applies to him being a link to give extra survivability to the unit on which he’s bestowing his Grace.

#### Sub-stats

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

### Usage

A top-tier unit, Tarmiel, can be helpful in all game stages and allows for flexible strategies involving increasing the durability of a DPS unit or a tank. He’s useful even in endgame content such as Demonic Beast Battle.

#### PVP

The optimal team composition for Red Tarmiel in the frontline is a full-Goddess team, including Light Eternal Rebirth Elizabeth, Light Mael of Sunshine, and Blue Tristan as a sub. A hero like Blue Nanashi can also help them stay on the field and create a more oppressive environment if the enemy attacks carelessly. As a link, he can be present on your tank or any unit you decide needs extra durability.

#### PVE

On the other hand, he can also be helpful on different types of PVE content.

**Story Mode:** As a link, you can use him to deal with massive damage dealers in Story Mode, helping you complete difficult stages by healing the unit linked to him over time.

**Demonic Beast Battle:** Tarmiel shines in this content by increasing the survivability of a unit that you think might be targeted or who won’t have that much chance to lifesteal. Although he’s not a good choice on Hraesvelgr since on Floor 2, Phase 2, if you can’t kill Hraesvelgr in one turn, he will kill your entire team since (the effect which makes him miss when he hits a taunt won’t take effect due to Tarmiel’s Grace). Nidhoggr, on the other hand, is his best Demonic Beast Battle since he works as a frontline and a link unit. Just keep in mind that for Nidhoggr’s battle, he or the unit to which he’s linked should have the least amount of HP compared to the rest of his team to guarantee that the enemy targets them.

**Death Match:** On the other hand, he isn’t as useful for Death Match since his Grace doesn’t work in this type of content. You should instead use Blue Tarmiel.

**Farming / Fort Solgres:** Since he only has a single target skill and a buff, he’s far from usable in this type of content. However, he can still be helpful as a link.

Overall, Red Tarmiel is a reliable unit, one of the best in the game since his introduction— a reliable source of durability and a unit that you MUST have on your roster.

## Story

Tarmiel is one of the Four Archangels of the Goddess Clan. He is also one of the commanders of Stigma alongside Ludociel and Sariel. As one of the Four Archangels, Tarmiel is an extremely powerful goddess. He was confident that he could eliminate the Ten Commandments within ten seconds. Tarmiel's young and old looking heads can fire a holy beam from its eyes and loud blast attacks from its mouth respectively which makes any attempt of flanking the three-headed Archangel difficult.

Little is known about his personality but he seems to be a rather sensitive person since he was seen crying and praying to the Goddesses for an Earth Crawler and several knights he had just killed. He’s taken hostage with the protagonists (except for Meliodas) by Drole, but Gilfrost helps them all by teleporting everyone to Liones. A few days later he reappears as the human vessel of Tarmiel of the Four Archangels who reveals that Arbus died days later fighting a lesser demon, at that moment Tarmiel manifests himself through his staff and asks Arbus’ soul for permission to use his body to fight the demons, to which Arbus agreed.

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