Pamina Best Build and Skill Tree Guide

Build and skill tree guide for Pamina in Sword of Convallaria (SoC). See the best gear (weapon/trinket/tarot), skin, tier, and review here!

Pamina's Tier & Basic Info

	Rarity	Legendary
	Role	Breaker
	Faction	Night Crimson Fortitude Iria

Movement Stats

Pamina's Tier

Overall Rating			Reroll Rating
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Single-Target Rating			Multi-Target Rating

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Pamina Pros and Strength

Pamina's Character Overview

Strike Back Specialist

Pamina specializes in utilizing Strike Backs when attacked by enemy targets. Not only do her strike backs deal a lot of damage, they also have a large number of uses, and even a life steal effect. Because of this, a well-built Pamina can easily solo carry a number of stages in the game.

Increase Damage with Defense

Pamina takes the best offense is a good defebse backwards quote quite literally thanks to her [Indomitable Stance] passive. This skill takes a portion of Pamina's defenses and adds them to her AoE attacks. Note that increases received from Engravings and Buffs also affect the increases to her AoE attacks.

Taunts Enemies

Pamina can inflict Taunted on foes with a number of her abilities. This forces the affected target to use normal attacks on Pamina. The largest weakness of characters that specialize in counters is that an enemy needs to attack them first. Pamina can circumvent this weakness by forcing her enemies to attack her.

Beware of Immunities

Some enemies are immune to Taunt, and this can lessen Pamina's effectives. However, enemies who are immune to Taunts are instead afflicted with the [Pamina's Challenge] debuff, which increases the damage that they take. So in the end, it's a win-win.

Signature Weapon Interactions

The triggering conditions for Army-breaking Spear can easily be met by [Onslaught - No Foe Can Stand]. Triggering these conditions allows Pamina to re-use powerful attacks, so if you want her to be more active, consider pulling for her signature weapon.

Defense-Oriented Builds are Viable

As a strike back specialist, Pamina needs to have the durability to withstand attacks from many different sources. Focusing on increasing her attack will make her vulnerable against Seekers and mages in higher difficulties. Therefore, it is important to create a defensive foundation with her Gear and Skills.

Star Level Up Priority & Recommended Stars for Pamina

Aim to Reach 2★ → 3★ → 5★

Star Level Up Priority	Recommended Star Level
	2★ → 3★ → 5★

When upgrading Pamina’s star level, it’s best to either stop at 3-stars or go all the way to 5-stars. Start by aiming for 2-star and 3-star to increase her number of counterattacks. If you plan to run Pamina in various content, 5-stars is worth pursuing as it adds even more counterattacks along with NRG recovery and debuff cleansing effects.

Best Builds for Pamina

Solo Carry Build

Basic Attack								Reaction								Ascension
Powerful Attack								Upright Spirit								Will of Unbreakable Steel
Skill
Onslaught - No Foe Can Stand								Breakthrough Spear								Indomitable Stance
Weapon								Trinket								Tarot
Army-breaking Spear								Maverick's Cloak								Temptation of The Devil

This is a build meant for facing off against multiple enemies alone. Initiate fights using [Onslaught - No Foe Can Stand] and then wipe them out with counterattacks. It is also viable to substitute Maverick's Cloak for Crystal Burst Armor if you prefer.

Counterattack Build

Basic Attack								Reaction								Ascension
Powerful Attack								Upright Spirit								Will of Unbreakable Steel
Skill
Indomitable Stance								Counterattack Slash								Onslaught - No Foe Can Stand
Weapon								Trinket								Tarot
Army-breaking Spear								Crystal Burst Armor								Destruction of The Tower

This is a built meant to utilize Pamina as an offensive tank. The gear and skills included in this build are meant to emphasize counterattacks while keeping Pamina healthy with her Reaction and the Tower Tarot's [Life Steal].

Single-Target Build

Basic Attack								Reaction								Ascension
Powerful Attack								Upright Spirit								Will of Unbreakable Steel
Skill
Rapid Combo								Who Dares to Contend								Inertial Chop
Weapon								Trinket								Tarot
Skeleton Spear								Disaster Bottle								Hierophant's Laws

This is a build that leans towards supporting and single targets by utilizing [Pamina's Challenge] to increase damage and [Who Dares to Contend] to bolster allied defenses.

Priority Skills

Skill	Priority and Details
Indomitable Stance	★★★★★ A passive that reduces damage taken while boosting the damage of AoE attacks, including those from your Trait. It’s an excellent Skill that blends offense and defense—especially worth prioritizing in [Strike Back]–focused builds.
Upright Spirit	★★★★★ While increasing healing received, this excellent Reaction also removes debuffs and restores HP each turn. It's generally a good choice to slot.
Onslaught - No Foe Can Stand	★★★★★ This powerful Skill lets you move great distances while dealing damage and inflicting debuffs, and it also grants reduced damage taken and the [Resolve] effect. It pairs especially well with the weapon [Army-breaking Spear], and one of its key strengths is how easily its cooldown and cost can be reduced to zero. Prioritize equipping it for battles against multiple enemies.
Powerful Attack	★★★★★ Generally, equip this Basic Attack as it deals high damage.
Counterattack Slash	★★★★★ Enables Counterattacks against enemies 3–8 tiles away and increases the damage dealt by both your Trait and this Skill’s Counterattack. It not only lets you retaliate against ranged enemies but also greatly boosts [Strike Back] damage, making it a high-priority Skill to equip.
Breakthrough Spear	★★★★ An AoE attack that nullifies [Resolve] and includes a selectable Skill with knockback. Both are easy to use with just 2 NRG and no cooldown, but you should only equip this Choice Skill when you have a clear strategy in mind. Remember that some enemies, like Alexei, are impervious to the nullification.

Skill	Priority and Details
Who Dares to Contend	★★★ A Skill that boosts the durability of both you and your allies. In single-target battles, it’s worth equipping if you want to bolster your entire party’s survivability.
Shield-breaking Fierce Thrust	★★★ A Skill that inflicts -40% Physical Defense and knockback in an area. AoE knockback can be highly effective in certain stages, so equip this skill when you have a specific strategy in mind.
Frontline Action	★★★ While increasing SPD, this is a skill that reduces damage taken by 20% when HP is 70% or higher. Useful when you want to act before specific enemies or reduce damage taken.
Rapid Combo	★★ An easy-to-use single-target Skill thanks to its 0 cooldown. Its buff removal is also handy, so when building for single-target battles, consider this or [Breakthrough Spear] as your primary damage option.
Inertial Chop	★★ A passive that boosts damage dealt when using active attacks. It's a solid choice when you're building with a focus on offense.
Front Defense	★ The effect of greatly reducing damage taken from the front is very useful. However, Pamina cannot gain the effect of facing the front when attacked, except through the [Parry] buff of [Who Dares to Contend], so generally, equip [Upright Spirit] over this.
Surefire Attack	★ As a Breaker, Pamina is innately weak against Seekers. These Seekers typically have some form of [Dodge], so this skill can sometimes help when facing Seekers, but you will always want to have more appropriate answers to those types of enemies, so this skill has a low priority.

Recommended Gear, Tarots, & Engravings

Recommended Weapons for Pamina

Army-breaking Spear

Double-Sided Halberd

The Silent Guard

For Pamina, the [Army-breaking Spear] is definitely the top recommendation, since it has excellent synergy with her [Onslaught – No Foe Can Stand] Skill. Other strong options include the [Double-Sided Halberd] for maximizing damage output and the [Silent Guard] for builds that focus on durability.

Recommended Trinkets for Pamina

Maverick's Cloak

Evergreen Pendent

Cooling Powder

For Pamina, trinkets like the [Maverick’s Cloak], which gives a big stat boost when she stands out on the battlefield, are highly recommended. The [Evergreen Ornament] is also a great pick for stacking buffs, and [Cooling Powder] helps ensure her vital [Life Steal] effects aren’t nullified. She also pairs well with other options like the [Crystal Burst Armor], which boosts the Strike Back damage of her [Counterattack Slash].

Recommended Tarots for Pamina

Destruction of The Tower

Dream of The Magician

Temptation of The Devil

[Tower] massively enhances Pamina's [Strike Back]s and Skills, [Magician] grants Pamina a guaranteed damage boost, and [Devil], continuously boosts Pamina's stats as the fight continues. If you're focusing on durability go with [Hermit] to bolster your defenses.

Recommended Engravings for Pamina

Resonance	Effect
Sword Wand	Before actively attacking, for each 1 tile traversed, increases ATK and DEF by 4%, up to 12%. The effect lasts until the start of the next turn,
Wand Wand	After using a [basic attack], [skill], [strike back], or [assisting attack], gains 1 random [Level 2 Attribute Buff].
Wand Cup	At the end of the turn, there is a 50% chance to gain [Engraving Resonance]. Effect: When using an [active skill] next time, refunds the NRG consumed and resets the CD. The skill effect has a CD of 4 turns. (Does not trigger in real-time combat. The effect changes to increasing HP, ATK and DEF by 5%)

Engravings like [Sword + Wand] to boost your stats, or [Wand + Wand] to gain multiple buffs at once. If you aren't equipping the [Army-breaking Spear], [Wand + Cup] is also recommended to reduce a Skill’s cooldown and cost to 0.

Pamina Skill Unlock Priorities

Recommended Skill Set

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Normal Will of Unbreakable Steel	RK13	Unique
Counterattack Slash	RK11	Frontline Action
Surefire Attack	RK9	Powerful Attack
Shield-breaking Fierce Thrust	RK7	Onslaught - No Foe Can Stand
Upright Spirit	RK5	Front Defense
Inertial Chop	RK3	Indomitable Stance
Breakthrough Spear	RK1	Who Dares to Contend

Pamina can fight alone since she can remove buffs and attack while also increasing her durability. We recommend taking skills that affect multiple targets.

Skill Details

Breakthrough Spear	Cost: - CD: -
(Decision) Selects to use Break - Endless Force or Break - Invincible.

Who Dares to Contend	Cost: 0 CD: 3
(Support) Inflicts Taunted on the target, the character recovers 30% HP and gains Parry and DMG Reduction II for 22 turns. Also grants △DEF II to all allies within 4 tiles of the character for 2 turns. If the target is immune to Taunted, inflicts Pamina's Challenge on them for 2 turns.

Inertial Chop	Cost: - CD: -
(Passive) After initiating an Active Attack, deals 20% physical DMG to all enemies within a 1-tile radius of the character.

Indomitable Stance	Cost: - CD: -
(Passive) Decreases DMG taken by 15%. When performing an AoE Attack, 15% of the character's M.DEF and P.DEF is added to their P.ATK.

Upright Spirit	Cost: - CD: 1
(Reaction) Increases healing received by 15%. At the start of the turn, dispels 3 debuffs from the character. If the character has no debuffs, recovers 20% HP.

Front Defense	Cost: - CD: -
(Reaction) When hit by an active attack from the front, the DMG taken is decreased by 30%.

Shield-breaking Fierce Thrust	Cost: 2 CD: 3
(Physical DMG) Deals 60% AoE DMG to the first enemy in each column within a 3x2 area in the target direction, inflicts ▽P.DEF II for 2 turns, and knocks them back by 2 tiles.

Onslaught - No Foe Can Stand	Cost: 3 CD: 4
(Physical Attack) Jumps to the target location and deals 70% AoE DMG to all enemies within 2 tiles of the target, inflicting Taunted and Vulnerable II for 1 turn. After attacking, the character gains Onslaught for 2 turns. If the target is immune to Taunted, inflicts Pamina's Challenge on them for 2 turns.

Surefire Attack	Cost: - CD: -
(Basic Attack) Deals 100% physical DMG and inflicts ✗ Dodge on the target, lasting for 1 turn.

Powerful Attack	Cost: - CD: -
(Basic Attack) Deals 110% Physical DMG.

Counterattack Slash	Cost: 3 CD: 4
(Support) The character gains Counterattack and Counterattack Slash, lasting for 2 turns.

Frontline Action	Cost: - CD: -
(Passive) SPD is increased by 50 points. When Healthy, DMG taken is decreased by 20%.

Will of Unbreakable Steel	Cost: - CD: -
(Passive) Level 3 Effect P.DEF is increased by 20% and physical DMG taken is reduced by 20%.

Pamina's Trait & Skills

Pamina's Trait

Trait	Max Effect
	[Unyielding Heroine] Ignores block, increases P.DEF by 30%, and 30% of P.DEF is added to P.ATK. After entering battle, gains Unyielding Heroine, which can be activated up to 4 times per turn. When triggered, the character dispels 1 debuff and recovers 1 NRG. The character's DEF is increased by 15% for each 1 enemy within 2 tiles of the character, up to 30%.

Stars Unlocked	Effect
	Ignores Block, increases P.DEF by 25%, and adds 30% of P.DEF to P.ATK. Upon entering battle, gains Unyielding Heroine, which can be triggered up to 3 times per round. The character's DEF is increased by 15% for each 1 enemy within 2 tiles of the character, up to 30%.
	Ignores Block, increases P.DEF by 20%, and adds 20% of P.DEF to P.ATK. Upon entering battle, gains Unyielding Heroine, which can be triggered up to 3 times per round. The character's DEF is increased by 15% for each 1 enemy within 2 tiles of the character, up to 30%.
	Ignores Block, increases P.DEF by 15%, and adds 20% of P.DEF to P.ATK. Upon entering battle, gains Unyielding Heroine, which can be triggered up to 2 times per round. The character's DEF is increased by 15% for each 1 enemy within 2 tiles of the character, up to 30%.
	Ignores Block, increases P.DEF by 10%, and adds 20% of P.DEF to P.ATK. Upon entering battle, gains Unyielding Heroine, which can be triggered up to 1 time per round. The character's DEF is increased by 15% for each 1 enemy within 2 tiles of the character, up to 30%.

Pamina's Base Skills

Skill	Range
Slash
[Basic Attack] Cost: - / CD: - (Basic Attack) Deals 100% Physical DMG.
Rapid Combo
[Skill] Cost: 2 / CD: 0 (Physical DMG) Single-target attack. Deals 20% DMG and dispels 2 buffs on the target. Then performs Pursuit, dealing 130% DMG.

Skills That Can Be Learned at RK1

Skill	Range
Breakthrough Spear
[Skill] Cost: - / CD: - (Decision) Selects to use Break - Endless Force or Break - Invincible.
Who Dares to Contend
[Skill] Cost: 0 / CD: 3 (Support) Inflicts Taunted on the target, the character recovers 30% HP and gains Parry and DMG Reduction II for 22 turns. Also grants △DEF II to all allies within 4 tiles of the character for 2 turns. If the target is immune to Taunted, inflicts Pamina's Challenge on them for 2 turns.

Skills That Can Be Learned at RK3

Skill	Range
Inertial Chop	-
[Skill] Cost: - / CD: - (Passive) After initiating an Active Attack, deals 20% physical DMG to all enemies within a 1-tile radius of the character.
Indomitable Stance	-
[Skill] Cost: - / CD: - (Passive) Decreases DMG taken by 15%. When performing an AoE Attack, 15% of the character's M.DEF and P.DEF is added to their P.ATK.

Skills That Can Be Learned at RK5

Skill	Range
Upright Spirit	-
[Reaction] Cost: - / CD: 1 (Reaction) Increases healing received by 15%. At the start of the turn, dispels 3 debuffs from the character. If the character has no debuffs, recovers 20% HP.
Front Defense	-
[Reaction] Cost: - / CD: - (Reaction) When hit by an active attack from the front, the DMG taken is decreased by 30%.

Skills That Can Be Learned at RK7

Skill	Range
Shield-breaking Fierce Thrust
[Skill] Cost: 2 / CD: 3 (Physical DMG) Deals 60% AoE DMG to the first enemy in each column within a 3x2 area in the target direction, inflicts ▽P.DEF II for 2 turns, and knocks them back by 2 tiles.
Onslaught - No Foe Can Stand
[Skill] Cost: 3 / CD: 4 (Physical Attack) Jumps to the target location and deals 70% AoE DMG to all enemies within 2 tiles of the target, inflicting Taunted and Vulnerable II for 1 turn. After attacking, the character gains Onslaught for 2 turns. If the target is immune to Taunted, inflicts Pamina's Challenge on them for 2 turns.

Skills That Can Be Learned at RK9

Skill	Range
Surefire Attack
[Basic Attack] Cost: - / CD: - (Basic Attack) Deals 100% physical DMG and inflicts ✗ Dodge on the target, lasting for 1 turn.
Powerful Attack
[Basic Attack] Cost: - / CD: - (Basic Attack) Deals 110% Physical DMG.

Skills That Can Be Learned at RK11

Skill	Range
Counterattack Slash
[Skill] Cost: 3 / CD: 4 (Support) The character gains Counterattack and Counterattack Slash, lasting for 2 turns.
Frontline Action	-
[Skill] Cost: - / CD: - (Passive) SPD is increased by 50 points. When Healthy, DMG taken is decreased by 20%.

Skills That Can Be Learned at RK13

Skill	Range
Will of Unbreakable Steel	-
[Ascension Skill] Cost: - / CD: - (Passive) Level 3 Effect P.DEF is increased by 20% and physical DMG taken is reduced by 20%.

Weapons That Pamina Can Equip

List of Weapons

Double-Sided Halberd	Pendant Halberd	Doomsday Scythe
Skeleton Spear	Nameless Staff	The Silent Guard
Cornucopia Spear	Army-breaking Spear	Sharp Spear
Guardian Spear	Armor-piercing Spear	Pointy Spear
Defensive Spear	Spear

Pamina's Voice Actor & Release Date

Pamina Voice Actor

Released on Friday, February 28

Pamina was released on Friday, February 28. Since the character is added to the standard banner, they can still be obtained even after the limited-time banner ends.

Pamina's Skin

Initial	Ascended

▲ Unlock Ascended Skin when character reaches Star Level 5.

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