Arknights: Endfield Cryo Teams – Everything You Need To Know

Cryo Teams Effects And Gimmicks

One of the 4 main elements in Arknights Endfield, the Cryo element is a Arts-centric element type that mainly relies on different Cryo effects to deal damage to enemies. Since Cryo damage is considered as Arts damage mainly, various Arts effects and abilities boost will help increase the overall damage output of various Cryo centric teams.

The Cryo Element’s main gimmicks and effects revolves around 3 different Cryo effects, each with their own important considerations:

– Cryo Infliction: Cryo Infliction is a special effect that can be applied onto enemies using various different Operators’ skill kit. It is considered an Arts Infliction and can stack up to 4 times. When 2 Cryo Infliction and above are stacked upon each other, Cryo Burst effect will trigger, dealing Cryo damage to enemies. When Cryo Infliction and an Infliction effect of another element is stacked upon each other, Solidification effect is triggered instead.

– Solidification: Solidification is a special Cryo status that freezes the enemies in place when it is applied. Various different Cryo Operators’ skill kit interacts with Solidification to either consume it to deal more damage or forcefully applies it onto enemies.

– Shatter: When applying Vulnerability or Physical Status to enemies under Solidification, the Solidification effect will be consumed to trigger Shatter, dealing massive amounts of Physical damage to enemies. 

By utilizing these 3 special effects, the different Cryo teams in Arknights: Endfield can be boiled down mainly into 3 different teams: Cryo Burst Damage Team, Solidification Team and Shatter team. Each of these teams has their own unique considerations and gimmicks that players will need to keep in mind.

Notable Cryo Element Operators

With the effects and gimmicks of the Cyro elements explained, it is important for players to get to know the various different Cryo operators in the game, based on their roles in the different Cryo teams:

Main DPS Cryo Operators:

– Yvonne: Yvonne is the premium Cryo Main DPS Operator and is a Limited time available Operator. She specializes in consuming the Cryo Infliction stacks on enemies in order to forcefully apply Solidification onto enemies and gains extreme benefits when attacking enemies under Solidification, making her solidly a Solidification Cryo Team Main DPS. By consuming Cryo Infliction on enemies and applying Solidification, Yvonne can gain massive amounts of Ultimate Energy, allowing her to use her Ultimate to deal massive amounts of Cryo damage to enemies, with her damage being increased when hitting enemies under the Solidification effect.

– Last Rite: Last Rite is a standard Operator who serves as a pure Cryo Burst DPS character. She specializes in both inflicting Cryo Infliction onto enemies and consuming them to deal massive amounts of Cryo Damage to enemies. Upon using her Ultimate, Last Rite can deal even more Cryo damage to enemies.

Cryo Enabler Operators:

– Tangtang: Tangtang is the premium generic Cryo Enabler Operator, with her ability to inflict constant Cryo Infliction Stacks onto the enemies with relative ease. Tangtang’s Battle Skill and Ultimate allows her to create Whirlpools onto the field, which can both crowd control groups of enemies and inflict Cryo Infliction stacks onto them. Additionally, Tangtang can also inflict Arts Susceptibility onto enemies, increasing the overall damage output of Cryo teams.

– Alesh: Alesh is a Cryo Enabler character that mainly serves as a Solidification team enabler due to his unique skill kit. Alesh’s skill kit allows him to consume Cryo Infliction stacks on the enemies to forcefully inflict Solidification onto enemies while recovering SP to the team, helping to facilitate the Solidification team’s playstyle. He can also inflict Cryo Infliction onto the enemies with noticeable downtime in between due to this effect being on his Ultimate.

– Estella: Estella is a Cryo Enabler character that helps facilitate the Shatter team, with her ability to inflict both Cryo Infliction stacks and Physical statuses like Vulnerability onto enemies. Estella’s skill kit is designed so that players can easily inflict shatter onto enemies by using her Cryo Infliction stack to create Solidification and uses her Combo Skill to apply Lift and Physical Susceptibility onto the enemies, forcefully triggering Shatter and dealing powerful Physical damage.

Cryo Sustain/ Support Operators:

– Xaihi: Xaihi is a universal support Operator for the different Cryo teams, with her ability allowing her to heal the team, applying occasional Cryo Infliction stacks and applying Cryo Amplification effect onto the team, boosting the overall damage output of the team massively.

– Snowshine: Snowshine is a more defensive Cryo sustain option that specializes in parrying enemies’ attack and providing the team with a shield to protect them. Additionally, Snowshine also offers some decent utility in her ability to occasionally apply Cryo Infliction and forcefully trigger Solidification on enemies.

Other Notable Operators:

– Ardelia: While Ardelia is not a Cryo character, she is a universal Sustain/ Support character that is capable of being slotted into any team to provide massive amounts of healing and Arts/Physical Susceptibility effects to help improve the entire team’s damage output.

– Gilberta: In a similar vein to Ardelia, Gilberta is a universal support character that is able to offer amazing utility to any team, with her ability to crowd control enemies and applying Arts susceptibility on the enemies to boost the team’s damage output.

Arknights: Endfield Best Cryo Teams

Now that we have gone over all of the important pieces to make a Cryo teams and what the different Cryo effects and gimmicks are like, here are the best Cryo teams that players can make:

Yvonne Solidification Team

Yvonne	Tangtang	Xaihi	Gilberta
Main DPS	Enabler	Support	Support
Essential	Flexible	Essential	Flexible

The Yvonne Solidification team mainly revolves around Yvonne’s ability to deal massive amounts of Cryo damage to enemies under the Solidification effect, which can be forcefully applied by her Battle Skill by consuming Cryo Infliction and Nature Infliction stacks on the enemies.

Yvonne is the team’s main DPS character, with her powerful damage output. She is the essential character for this team comp. She should focus on using her Battle Skill to consume Cryo Infliction stacks on the enemies and apply Solidification to recover her Ultimate energy. Then uses her Ultimate to deal massive amounts of damage to enemies.

For the Enabler, Tangtang is the teams’ best best enabler character, capable of constantly supplying the team with Cryo Infliction stacks to allow Yvonne to consume them to gain Ultimate energy and apply Solidification on the enemies. For alternative options, players can consider Snowshine as a budget option for her ability to inflict Cryo Infliction and forcefully apply Solidification onto the enemies, or Alesh with careful Ultimate Energy Build.

For the Support Slots, Xaihi is an essential support character as she is capable of both inflicting occasional Cryo Inflictions to facilitate the team comp and applying Cryo Amplification effect to maximize the team’s damage output. Gilberta is used in this team as a secondary support character to further apply Arts Susceptibility onto the enemies and crowd controlling them to help with Yvonne’s lack of AoE effects. For an alternative, players can use Ardelia in place of Gilberta for more HP recovery and sustain.

Last Rite Premium Cryo Team

Last Rite	Tangtang	Xaihi	Gilberta
Main DPS	Enabler	Support	Support
Essential	Flexible	Essential	Flexible

In a similar vein to the Yvonne Solidification team, the Last Rite Cryo team is simpler in concept but similar in execution, with the team focusing on providing Last Rite with as much Cryo Infliction stacks as possible before she uses her Combo Skill to consume them and deal powerful Cryo damage.

The main DPS for this team is Last Rite and unlike Yvonne whose gimmick relies on Solidification, Last Rite simply consumes Cryo Infliction stacks on enemies to deal as much Cryo damage to enemies as possible. By consuming multiple stacks of Cryo Inflictions, Last Rite is able to enhance her Cryo damage output and gain Ultimate energy, allowing her to trigger her Ultimate and deal even more Cryo damage.

For the enabler spot, Tangtang is once again the top choice for her powerful consistent Cryo Application. For alternatives, players can use Estella for her easy to use Cryo Infliction, but remember to avoid using Estella’s Combo Skill.

For the support slots, Xaihi and Gilberta are once again good characters to use for these spots, as they help to maximize the Cryo damage output with their Cryo Amplification and Arts Susceptibility effects. Ardelia can also be considered for an alternative.

Conclusion

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