In Strinova, Eika is a close range specialist that is very dangerous to play against. Find this character key features, best build for demolition, and guides down below.
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Eika Key Features
Eika is one of The Scissors with and official of Duelist. Her skills are use for winning close range gunfight. Nobody want to stay within 10M with Eika.
Eika primary weapon is name Wildfire. It's a powerful automatic shotgun that can 2 or 3 shots enemy to eliminate within 10M range.
Eika is a very strong character for aggressive playstyle who like to rush and take down enemy during the early of the round.
As an Entry fragger, you need to know how to position yourself to catch the enemy by surprise and combine with Eika skills and weapon powerhouse to win against enemy.
Down below we cover every aspect of Eika character from how to effectively use her skill and ultimate, her weapon stats details, to the best Eika build for Demolition and her best awaken.
Eika Skill Details & Best Way To Utilize
Eika skills consist of Sol Battery, Purgatory, and Firestorm, this 3 skills are very powerful to take enemy position, disabled enemy, and heal yourself when out of gunfight.
Sol Battery (Passive)
In-game description: Each shot on an enemy accumulates Heat, up to 100 points. At max against stringified enemies increases. Other skills can consumer Heat for boosts.
Tip: As long as you hit your shot during your gunfight, your weapon will become stronger overtime and even when fighting against enemy in paper mode, you will still win.
Purgatory (Q)
In-game description: Eika summons a spherical Flame Cage. Enemies passing through its walls take Burn DMG. The skill ends early if no enemies are inside. While Eika is within, her primary weapon deals extra Burn DMG to enemies inside. Consuming 100 Heat increases cage wall DMG.
Tip: This skill is very powerful that you should use during the entry to take the position in front of you and make enemy hard to win fight against you when they are inside your zone.
Firestorm (Ultimate)
In-game description: Summons up to 3 Firestorms per round, force gliding and dealing Burn DMG to enemies in range. Consuming 100 Heat increases Firestorm size, Burn DMG, and highlights enemies.
Tip: This ultimate is use to counter the enemy when they want to retake your site, it can disabled any enemy that want to defuse your bomb by simply throwing them into the air.
Tip: There are countless to use this ultimate and disabled all enemy that want to come into your way, make sure you have perfect timing in order to take full advantage of this ultimate.
Eika Weapon: Wildfire Stats & Details
As mentioned, Wildfire is insanely powerful, it's fire quick and has very low spread in each projectile, which allows you to be very accurate in close range.
Find more details about this weapon down below:
Note: This is base stats. No build apply on it yet.
- Damage (10M): Head: 7 | Body: 6 | Leg: 4
- Damage (30M): Head: 5 | Body: 4 | Leg: 2
- Damage (50M): Head: 3 | Body: 3 | Leg: 2
- Rate of Fire: 350
- ADS Speed: 42
- Accuracy: 9
- Handling: 67
- Magazine Capacity: 17
- Reload Speed: 21
The prime range of Wildfire is around 1M to 10M, at this range it's a nightmare to fight against this weapon because you will eliminate any enemy extremely quick as long as your hit their body.
This video showcase the Wildfire recoil pattern with control and not control, you can see that by simply dragging down the mouse to counter and you will land each shot at the same target easily.
Since, the Wildfire recoil is all vertical, you can mix it with jump shot to make yourself even harder to get hit, just remember to control it properly to avoid missing any shots.
Best Eika Build in Strinova
Disclaimer: This build is only for Demolition game mode. Please read the awaken list first.
Awaken # | Details |
Awaken 1 1 Blue 1 Green | Enemies stringified within the Flame Cage take Burn DMG. |
Awaken 2 1 Blue 1 Yellow 2 Green | After casting her active skill, the cage radius shrinks inward every second until reaching the minimum size. |
Awaken 3 1 Blue 2 Yellow 1 Green | Eika restores a proportion of HP based on the Head consumed. HP also gradually restores as Heat naturally decreases over time. |
Whe reading our build guide, please pay attention to our color: blue, yellow, green.
1st Awaken Build
The first awaken is call Pyro Strings, this awaken make your first skill even stronger, and enemy will be more scared to fight against you in your zone.
In order to activate this awaken you need to buy 1 blue and 1 green. Here are our recommendation build:
- First Blue: Increase Bullets
- First Green: Heavy Armor
This first awaken will improve Eika weapon bullets and make Eika stronger in gunfight and also has a higher chance of surviving after gunfight.
2nd Awaken Build
The second awaken is call Encroaching Cage, this second awaken make your first skill last longer but seems to nerf it a little bit, so you can skip it.
In order to active this awaken you need to buy 1 Yellow and 1 Green. Here are our recommendation build:
- First Yellow: Purgatory: Cooldown -5s
- Second Green: Stingified DMG Reduction
Our second awaken build make the first skill more usable multiple times in a round great for position secure.
3rd Awaken Build
The third awaken is call Flame of Life, this waken is the best awaken that you need for Eika.
In order to active this awaken you need to buy 1 Yellow after the second awaken then you can switch into this awaken.
Here are our recommendation build:
- Second Yellow: Sol Battery: Damage to Heat Conversion +5
The reason we said this is the best awaken for Eika is because she can recover HP when she's not after gunfight, which make her survive longer to fight against more enemy.
Best Secondary for Eika
Eiko primary weapon is a fully automatic shotgun that tend to run out of ammo quick. Here are the best secondary to compensate that:
Secondary | Summary |
Stinger | Stinger is a fully automatic SMG that deals good damage with low recoil control. |
Emberspit | If you want to deal more close range damage but you don't want to aim, you can use Emberspit instead. |
These 2 secondary will help you survive more when your primary is run out of ammo during gunfight. It has low recoil and deal great damage, just what you need for back up.
Best Tactical Items for Eika
Tactical items is very important for Eika to choose correctly, it can disabled the enemy even more when combine with her skills.
Tac Items | Summary |
Flashbang | Flashbang is a great tac item to utilize and caught enemy off guard when you are close to them. |
Smoke Bomb | Smoke grenade is great if you want to retreat from the gunfight or you are a defender and you want to delay enemy plan to attack your site. |
You can also swap to Slow Grenade or Windstorm Grenade if you want to disabled the enemy team.
You can also get Healing Grenade to extend your survivability even more.
Other Characters Build
Michele | Nobunaga | Kokona |
Flavia | Yvette | Ming |
Meredith | Lawine | Kanami |
Reiichi | Eika | Fragrans |
Audrey | Bai Mo | Celestia |
Maddelena | Fuchsia | - |
End of Eika Build Guide.