IRyS

**IRyS** is one of the playable characters in HoloCure. She belongs to Project: HOPE and can be unlocked through the Character Gacha. Her starting weapon is the Nephilim Blast, her Special Attack is Hope is Descending, and she has three other unique skills: Half Angel, Half Demon, and Hope.

## Starting Weapon

*Main article: Nephilim Blast*

**Stats & details:**
* 1
* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5
* 6
* 7

Level 1
**Damage**:100% (8 – 12)**Attack time**:70 (1.17 s)**Attack count**:1**Attack delay**:3 (0.05 s)**Hit limit**:2**Hit cooldown**:10 (0.17 s)**Area**:100%**Duration**:120 (2 s)**Projectile speed**:5**Range**:100Up to date with version 0.6.1692275570

Level 2
**Damage**:120% (10 – 14)**Attack time**:70 (1.17 s)**Attack count**:1**Attack delay**:3 (0.05 s)**Hit limit**:2**Hit cooldown**:10 (0.17 s)**Area**:100%**Duration**:120 (2 s)**Projectile speed**:5**Range**:100Up to date with version 0.6.1692275570

Level 3
**Damage**:120% (10 – 14)**Attack time**:70 (1.17 s)**Attack count**:1**Attack delay**:3 (0.05 s)**Hit limit**:5**Hit cooldown**:10 (0.17 s)**Area**:150%**Duration**:120 (2 s)**Projectile speed**:5**Range**:100Up to date with version 0.6.1692275570

Level 4
**Damage**:120% (10 – 14)**Attack time**:52 (0.87 s)**Attack count**:1**Attack delay**:3 (0.05 s)**Hit limit**:5**Hit cooldown**:10 (0.17 s)**Area**:150%**Duration**:120 (2 s)**Projectile speed**:5**Range**:100Up to date with version 0.6.1692275570

Level 5
**Damage**:120% (10 – 14)**Attack time**:52 (0.87 s)**Attack count**:1**Attack delay**:3 (0.05 s)**Hit limit**:-**Hit cooldown**:10 (0.17 s)**Area**:150%**Duration**:120 (2 s)**Projectile speed**:5**Range**:100Up to date with version 0.6.1692275570

Level 6
**Damage**:159.6% (14 – 18)**Attack time**:52 (0.87 s)**Attack count**:1**Attack delay**:3 (0.05 s)**Hit limit**:-**Hit cooldown**:10 (0.17 s)**Area**:150%**Duration**:120 (2 s)**Projectile speed**:5**Range**:100Up to date with version 0.6.1692275570

Level 7
**Damage**:25% (1 – 5)**Attack time**:65 (1.08 s)**Minimum attack time**:35 (0.58 s)**Attack count**:7**Attack delay**:3 (0.05 s)**Hit limit**:-**Hit cooldown**:10 (0.17 s)**Area**:150%**Duration**:120 (2 s)**Projectile speed**:5**Range**:100Up to date with version 0.6.1692275570
* Each attack fires two set of projectiles in a sine wave, one of which is mirrored.
	+ Stats are displayed for one set of projectiles.
	+ Each set of projectiles is considered a separate attack for splitting bonuses from enhancements and Growth.
		- E.g. at level 7 the bonuses are split by 7, which is the attack count of single set of projectiles, rather than 14, which is the total amount of projectiles.
	+ Projectile adding effects increase the attack count of both sets.
* Nephilim Blast is unaffected by Size Up.

### Upgrades

 **Level 7** | Blast becomes a short beam that hits many times.

## Special Attack

### Hope is Descending

**Stats & details:**
**Damage**:250% (23 – 28)**Attack time**:20 (0.33 s)**Attack count**:1**Hit limit**:-**Hit cooldown**:60 (1 s)**Area**:300%**Duration**:Special:320 (5.33 s)Delay, min:40 (0.67 s)Delay, max:70 (1.17 s)**Projectile speed**:4Up to date with version 0.6.1692275570
* Causes flowers to periodically to fall from above, exploding after a short delay.
	+ The rate the flowers are generated is unaffected by Haste.
* The flowers themselves have no effect on enemies, only the explosions deal damage.

## Skills

### Half Demon

* Damage increase is granted as bonus ATK.
* Receiving healing at full health will trigger the effect.
* Health restored through Regeneration Upgrade does not count as healing.

## Outfits

The following outfits are available for IRyS:

## Tips

* While risky, IRyS is one of the few characters able to effectively use Injection Type Asacoco due to her ability to constantly heal herself to counteract the item's HP drain, especially in conjunction with Full Meal and crit-boosting items.
* Dragon Fire is one of the most effective Collab weapons to use on IRyS, as its incredibly high rate of fire allows it to trigger critical hits more often, leading to more frequent activations of her Half Angel skill to heal her.

## Trivia

* According to Kay Yu, IRyS had been nerfed four times during development, resulting in her low HP, and even then she is still capable of being immortal quite easily, as the actual IRyS found out while playing as herself on stream. At launch, IRyS had the lowest base health in the game at only 50HP.
* As IRyS did not have any alternative design or outfit prior to Version 0.5, her Christmas outfit is a non-canon addition by the developers. However, its does reference IRyS's hatred of Santa.
	+ The outfit could have been based on Hololive's 2021 Christmas 3D outfits, although it could just be a generic Santa outfit, as the pixel art is not detailed enough to tell.
* IRyS is the first character to have their default sprite and portrait changed. This was due to the actual IRyS having her model redesigned. Her old default sprite was thus made into an alternative outfit.
	+ According to Kay, he was redrawing her new sprite live as IRyS was revealing each part of her new outfit design. By the time the stream ended, Kay had already implemented the new design into the dev build.
* The name of IRyS's Special Attack, Hope is Descending, is a reference to her debut, first MV and various popular memes that have formed around the phrase:
	+ "Hope has descended ..." is the 2nd line in IRyS debut song *Caesura of Despair*, its MV featuring IRyS descending from Tokyo Tower.
	+ "Hope has descended and is coming for you" is a popular phrase originating from a meeting between Kureiji Ollie and IRyS in Minecraft. Specifically, Ollie had pranked IRyS by decorating the latter's home with things she hates, causing IRyS to chase after her. Since Ollie was the only one streaming at the time, it resulted in a funny horror-like situation, especially after Ollie started singing the specific line from *Caesura of Despair* only for IRyS to respond in Minecraft chat with "Hope has descended and is coming for you". The phrase and the concept of a savage IRyS was later reinforced after IRyS single handedly took out the entirety of Council during an *Among Us* stream.
	+ "Hope is descending" likely also references the iconic moment from IRyS debut stream, in which she descended several times due to being nervous and dealing with debut scuff.
* Half Angel, Half Demon and Hope are references to IRyS' character lore. The first two are based on her being a Nephilim, a half-angel half-demon race. The later reference IRyS lore as a messenger of Hope. The image for Hope is the symbol for Project: HOPE.

## History

*For full list of changes, see Changelog.*

Version 0.6 [*Undocumented*]
* *Size grade increased from 2 to 3.*
* *Nephilim Blast*
	+ *Hit limit increased from 1 to 2.*
	+ *Awakened damage increased from 20% (1 – 4) to 25% (1 – 5).*

0.5 Hotfix 1
*Nephilim Blast* [*Undocumented*]

* *Awakened attack time reduced from 70 (1.17 s) to 65 (1.08 s).*
* *Awakened lower attack time limit increased from 1 (0.02 s) to 35 (0.58 s).*

Version 0.5
* *New default sprite based on IRyS 2.0 model. The old sprite is available as an outfit.*[*Undocumented*]
* Nephilim Blast no longer shoots horizontal only.
	+ *Attack delay increased from 0 to 3 (0.05 s).*[*Undocumented*]
	+ *Spread increased from 8 to 30.*[*Undocumented*]
	+ *Awakened damage reduced from 25% (1 – 5) to 20% (1 – 4).*[*Undocumented*]
* Corrected the tooltip text on Hope. (Lowered heal amount when activated)

Version 0.4
* Increased damage of Nephilim Beam at lvl 7.
	+ *Actually reduced from 30% to 25%. [*Undocumented*]*
* Increased amount of bonus damage from Half Demon.
	+ *Bonus per stack from 3%/4%/5% to 3%/5%/7% and maximum from 30%/40%/50% to 30%/50%/70%.*
* Hope also increases crit. Hope level 1 and 2 also creates a knockback when proc'd.
	+ *Passively increases crit by 5%/10%/15%.*
* *Base HP increased from 50 to 55. [*Undocumented*]*

Version 0.3
* Initial release

## References

1. ↑ Holozilla. 𝑩𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅, 𝑰𝑹𝒚𝑺 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒗 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒆....
2. ↑ Kay Yu. Kay Yu on Twitter.
3. ↑ IRyS Ch. hololive-EN (2021/07/11). 【DEBUT STREAM】Hope has descended! #irysdebutstream (Timestamped 20:10).
4. ↑ Kay Yu. kaynimatic comments on IRyS 2.0 for HoloCure.
5. ↑ IRyS Ch. hololive-EN. Caesura of Despair - Animation MV.
6. ↑ Rickchama ch.. Ollie's prank shenanigans on IRyS.
7. ↑ IRySimp. EVERYONE is AFRAID of IRyS.
8. ↑ Jibrilia. IRyS Reacts To Her Infamous "Scuff Descend" In Debut Stream【#1stAnniversaRyS】.