With the release of the Limited Banner for the long-awaited operator Kal’tsit Esperanta in Arknights, it is very important for players to know how to play this overpowered operator to maximize her potential as one of the game’s best Operators. In this guide, we will go over everything players need to know about Kal’tsit Esperanta and how to properly play her to unleash her fullest potential in Arknights.
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Arknights Kal’tsit Esperanta Guide – Everything You Need To Know
General Introduction
Kal’tsit Esperanta or Kal’tsit Alter is a 6-Star Operator of the Medic Class and Watchman Archetype. She specializes in healing allies within her range, dealing powerful True damage to enemies within her attack range and offering an entirely unique effect: Area Wide Operator Re-deployment.
General Playstyle Analysis
Kal’tsit Alter’s main strong point lies in her 2nd and 3rd skill, each with different usages but incredibly powerful effects that makes her one of the best operators in the game. When using her 2nd skill, Kal’tsit Alter will expand her attack ranges and will attack enemies instead of healing allies. When attacking enemies, Kal’tsit will use medical units, dealing powerful true damage to enemies hit and recovers HP for allies surrounding the targeted enemy. This attack will last until Kal’tsit uses up all of her ammo and will deal powerful True damage to the target enemy.
Upon using her 3rd Skill, Kal’tsit Alter will gain a special Tactical Anchor Point, has her attack stat increased and allow her to heal multiple allies within her range at the same time. Upon deploying the Tactical Anchor Point anywhere on the map, Kal’tsit Alter will immediately redeploy onto the Tactical Anchor Point and allow herself to bring along at most 2 Operators within her attack range with her to the new Deployment spot. This effect allows players to relocate multiple operators on the field at once, allowing players to strategically deal with multiple waves of enemies or bosses outside of the operators’ range with ease.
Talent and Skill Analysis – Best Skill To Prioritize
Now that we have gone over what Kal’tsit Esperanta’s general playstyle is like, it is important for us to have a deeper look into Kal’tsit Esperanta’s Talents and Skills in order to best see what Kal’tsit Esperanta excel at and which skill should players focus on mastering and using for Kal’tsit Esperanta:
| Talent 1 | |
| P1 | Max HP and DEF +25%, Block +1, and Block range expands; life restoration unit lifts off after deployment, causing Kal’tsit Esperanta to Take Off |
| P2 | Max HP and DEF +30% (+5%), Block +1, and Block range expands; life restoration unit lifts off after deployment, causing Kal’tsit Esperanta to Take Off |
| Analysis: Kal’tsit Esperanta’s amazing talent that boost her survivability massively and allows her to take off, making it essentially impossible for ground enemies to attack her, helping to keep her on the field for as long as possible. | |
| Talent 2 | |
| P1 | Other allied Operators gain 1 Shield when entering Kal’tsit Esperanta’s Attack Range, and also gain a buff that restores 50 HP per second for 30s (does not stack); buff heals [Rhodes Island] Operators for double the amount |
| P5 | Other allied Operators gain 1 Shield when entering Kal’tsit Esperanta’s Attack Range, and also gain a buff that restores 60 (+10) HP per second for 30s (does not stack); buff heals [Rhodes Island] Operators for double the amount |
| Analysis: Kal’tsit Esperanta’s 2nd talent allows her to protect the team momentarily whenever an operator enters her attack range and allow her to grant the entire team a passive heal effect that is extremely useful against stages with chip damage from the environment. This healing effect can even stack with other passive heal effects from other operators’ talents as well. | |
Skill 1: Kriza Responda Bastiono | |
| Lv1 | ATK +20%, ASPD +20, all other Flying allied Operators have expanded Block range |
| Lv7 | ATK +75%, ASPD +35, all other Flying allied Operators have expanded Block range |
| Mastery 3 | ATK +90%, ASPD +50, all other Flying allied Operators have expanded Block range |
| Analysis: Kal’tsit Esperanta’s 1st Skill is an unfortunately extremely niche skill that grants her additional attack and attack speed buff in addition to granting all flying allies extended block range. This skill is not used often as flying allies are few and far between and while the buffs are beneficial to Kal’tsit Alter herself, her other skills have more uses overall. | |
| Mastery Priority: Low. This skill Mastery Level only improves the healing slightly and doesn’t really affect the effectiveness of the skill, making it not worth the materials invested. | |
Skill 2: Repuŝado Defenda | |
| Lv1 | Attack Range expands, ATK +80%, and attacks now release medical units (prioritizing enemies) that deal 280% ATK as True damage to all enemies around the target, Slow them for 5s, and restore HP equal to 100% ATK to all allied Operators around the targetSkill activation grants 10 ammo; can manually deactivate skill |
| Lv7 | Attack Range expands, ATK +125%, and attacks now release medical units (prioritizing enemies) that deal 350% ATK as True damage to all enemies around the target, Slow them for 5s, and restore HP equal to 170% ATK to all allied Operators around the targetSkill activation grants 10 ammo; can manually deactivate skill |
| Mastery 3 | Attack Range expands, ATK +150%, and attacks now release medical units (prioritizing enemies) that deal 380% ATK as True damage to all enemies around the target, Slow them for 5s, and restore HP equal to 200% ATK to all allied Operators around the targetSkill activation grants 10 ammo; can manually deactivate skill |
| Analysis: Kal’tsit Esperanta’s 2nd skill is her main damaging skill, with it allowing her to change from healing allies actively into being able to deal damage to enemies actively within her range. This skill is without a doubt, Kal’tsit Alter’s best damage skill as it allows her to deal an absurd amount of True damage to multiple enemies within her large attack range, turning her from a useful healer character into a True Damage DPS machine. Not only that, whenever Kal’tsit Alter deals damage to enemies, she also heals allies surrounding the enemies, making this an incredibly all-rounder skill. | |
| Mastery Priority: Highest. This skill’s Mastery Level improves the skill’s damage output and reduces its SP cost by a massive amount, allowing Kal’tsit Alter to deal even more damage and heal allies even more. Therefore, players should prioritize mastery of this skill as soon as possible. | |
Skill 3: Renaskiĝo Malkatena | |
| Lv1 | Gains a Tactical Anchor Point; ATK +80%, Attack Interval decreases significantly, and heals 1 additional target; after deploying the Tactical Anchor Point, Kal’tsit Esperanta Moves to its position, and up to 2 allied Operators within her Attack Range can be brought along and deployed elsewhere within her new Attack Range |
| Lv7 | Gains a Tactical Anchor Point; ATK +125%, Attack Interval decreases significantly, and heals 1 additional target; after deploying the Tactical Anchor Point, Kal’tsit Esperanta Moves to its position, and up to 2 allied Operators within her Attack Range can be brought along and deployed elsewhere within her new Attack Range |
| Mastery 3 | Gains a Tactical Anchor Point; ATK +150%, Attack Interval decreases significantly, and heals 1 additional target; after deploying the Tactical Anchor Point, Kal’tsit Esperanta Moves to its position, and up to 2 allied Operators within her Attack Range can be brought along and deployed elsewhere within her new Attack Range |
| Analysis: Kal’tsit Esperanta’s 3rd skill is her main healing and utility skill, with its activation granting Kal’tsit Alter a massive boost in attack, allowing her to heal 2 allies at the same time and massively reduces her attack intervals, helping to optimize her healing capabilities. However, the main attraction and utility of this skill lies in her Tactical Anchor Point. When this skill is active, players can deploy the Tactical Anchor Point onto any ranged titles on the map to immediately re-deploy Kal’tsit Alter to that position and allow her to bring along 2 Operators within her attack range with her. This essentially serves as an instant way for players to be able to re-locate 3 Operators at the same time to another area of the map completely free without needing to worry about re-deployment time, allowing players to plan their battle plan more strategically. | |
| Mastery Priority: High. While this is Kal’tsit Alter’s main healing and utility skill, the benefits Kal’tsit Alter gains from Mastery 3 this skill when compared to its level 7 stat is only 25% increase in Attack, which isn’t a lot. So players can consider mastery this skill to mainly reduce its SP cost. | |
Tips & Tricks For Playing Kal’tsit Esperanta
Finally, now that we have gone over and analyze all of her abilities, let’s go over some of the tips and tricks players should use to best optimize Kal’tsit Esperanta’s gameplay:
– Turn Kal’tsit Alter Into The Best True Damage DPS Character In The Game With 2nd Skill: As mentioned, Kal’tsit Alter is considered one of the game’s most powerful True Damage DPS character mainly because of her powerful 2nd skill, which allows her to deal powerful damage to enemies within her extended attack range from afar. As this skill is a very active skill and true damage is one of the sources of damage that few operators have access to, players should consider using Kal’tsit as a True Damage DPS character for most stages by using her 2nd skill as her main skill.
Additionally, it is important to note that since this skill is an Ammo skill, it synergizes incredibly well with Operator talents that interact with Ammo Skills like Exusiai Alter’s Ammo Damage increase talent, allowing Kal’tsit Alter to deal damage to enemies.
– Learn To Use Her 3rd Skill Re-Deployment Effect Properly: The main utility effect for Kal’tsit Alter and one of the main things that set her apart from other operators in the game that heal a lot or do a lot of damage is her 3rd skill’s ability to relocate herself and 2 other operators within her attack range with essentially no cost.
However, there are certain nuances that players need to pay attention to when using this skill:
Firstly, Kal’tsit Alter can only relocate herself if the Tactical Anchor Point can be deployed, meaning players will need to have a suitable ranged title readied for this relocate effect to activate.
Secondly, Kal’tsit Alter can only bring along at most 2 Operators within her attack range when she relocates, and the game will only count the LAST 2 DEPLOYED Operators within her range, no matter if they are a melee or ranged operator. This means that if players want to use this relocation effect of Kal’tsit Alter, you will need to plan your deployment order very carefully before activating her skill and deploying her Tactical Anchor Point.
Finally, upon using her relocation effect, the 2 operators that Kal’tsit brings along can only be deployed within her new attack range. This means that if there are no deployable melee or ranged titles in her new range, players will not be able to re-deploy the 2 operators and they will be considered retreated upon her skill duration ending. Additionally, please keep in mind that upon deploying the Tactical Anchor Point when her skill is active, the 2 other Operators will be retreated temporarily right away and need to be re-deployed within her skill’s duration, otherwise, they will be considered retreated instead when the skill duration runs out.
It is also important to note that players can use Kal’tsit Alter’s 3rd skill as an enhanced healing skill without the relocation effect as long as you don’t deploy the Tactical Anchor Point as well.
– Use Kal’tsit Alter Alongside Exusiai Alter: One of the most powerful synergy in the game with Kal’tsit Alter that players can use is by deploying her alongside Exusiai The New Covenant or Exusiai Alter.
Not only does Exusiai Alter boost the damage output of Kal’tsit’s 2nd Skill thanks to it being an Ammo Skill, she will also supplement Kal’tsit Alter’s damage with her own damage when Kal’tsit Alter attack enemies with Ammo based skill within her attack range.
Additionally, Exusiai Alter’s 3rd skill amazing instant redeployment effect can be synergized extremely well with Kal’tsit Alter’s 3rd skill relocation effect, allowing Exusiai Alter and Kal’tsit Alter to redeploy a single Operator 3 times in a row without any re-deployment downtime or cost in addition to resetting their SP.
Conclusion
With that, we have gone over a complete guide on how to properly play Kal’tsit Esperanta in Arknights. If players want to get your hands on this incredibly versatile Limited Operator in the game, then don’t hesitate to take advantage of Enjoygm’s special discounted deals for Arknights Top Up and get her right away while her banner is still up.
