Normal Campaign Best Team for Pushing

Written by Sefhi

Published on: 2024-10-12

Updated on: 2025-03-13

Current meta team for normal campaign

Normal campaign in NIKKE is nothing but a CP (combat power) check. You can clear up to mid-game without having to worry too much about team compositions.

However, after you reach chapter 20-ish, you will have to start putting some thoughts on your team and how they work together.

There are also a lot of differences between pushing content at a high CP deficit and what you will find generally in normal campaign, so we’ll make a separate guide for hard mode.

When it comes to the current best team for campaign, there are a few pilgrims, but we’ll include alternatives below:

Crown

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Crown

Iron Machine Gun Defender Burst 2Pilgrim

Skills Build Pros Cons

Skill 1

10

Skill 2

10

Burst

10

Cube: Like most machine guns, Bastion cube is the play if you have enough max ammunition lines. If not, Resilience or Quantum.

Overload: Max ammunition capacity takes priority. After that, you can fill with elemental attack, AKT and DEF lines.

• Crazy damage buff. 65% of ATK and close to 60% of attack damage means a lot of extra damage for your DPS units
• Can survive through a lot of damage and one shot mechanics thanks to the taunt and invulnerability on skill 2
• Great synergy with units that can burst multiple times or go back to a previous burst state thanks to her skill 1 (Red Hood, Tia, etc.).

• Skill 2 can be hard to sustain 100% uptime depending on the healers you have available AND positioning of your units

Helm (Treasure)

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Helm (Treasure)

Water Sniper Rifle Attacker Burst 3Elysion

Skills Build Pros Cons

Skill 1

10

Skill 2

10

Burst

7-10

Cube: Bastion is the best cube for her since if you go for the treasure, she's highly invested.

Overload: Usual DPS build; Elemental DMG and ATK take priority. Charge speed is really good too depending how many rocks you are willing to use. A line of ammo is nice.

• Best synergy with characters that proc their skills when they are healed (like Crown)
• Best (at the time of her release) burst generation in the game. Makes no sense how good Shift Up decided to make this treasure
• Can be used as an offburst just for the buffs, heals and extra burst generation OR you can use her as your main Water DPS. Incredible damage on elemental content

• Like all treasures, pretty expensive to build and fully invest considering you need gear, skills and the doll itself

Rapi: Red Hood

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Rapi: Red Hood

Fire Machine Gun Attacker Burst 3Burst 1Elysion

Skills Build Pros Cons Notes

Skill 1

8+

Skill 2

10

Burst

10

Cube: Bastion if you have enough max ammo lines. Resilience otherwise.

Overload: Focus on Elemental DMG and max ammo. ATK second priority since she gets 95% on her own already. Filler lines with crit. You can ignore hit rate.

• Can be used on both Pilgrim and Elysion towers, making progression a lot easier for new players
• Can be used on both Fire and Iron content thanks to her passive that gives her double elemental advantage
• Outside her elements she can be used as a burst 1, having the best cooldown reduction up to date
• Huge nuke burst skill with almost 3000% final ATK as additional damage
• Skill 2 attachable projectiles provide consistent (and amazing) damage through the whole fight

• Over-Spec is a stupid idea just for Shift Up to put more 1% banners

Too strong. Best burst 1 and burst 3 in the game. Best fire and iron DPS in the game. Best CDR and even when acting as burst 1 provides amazing damage on her own.

Red Hood

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Red Hood

Iron Sniper Rifle Attacker Burst 1Burst 2Burst 3Pilgrim

Skills Build Pros Cons

Skill 1

10

Skill 2

10

Burst

10

Cube: Resilience or Bastion.

Overload: More charge speed equals more damage. Aim for at 2-4 lines. Rest of the priority is ATK, elemental damage and max ammo.

• Allows more flexible team compositions thanks to her burst
• Self-sustain with wide screen taunt if you decide to burst on stage 2 (this can get her killed tho)
• Excels on most bosses and wave clearing thanks to constant pierce

• Not auto friendly for newbie players that might get confused with her kit

Scarlet: Black Shadow

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Scarlet: Black Shadow

Wind Rocket Launcher Attacker Burst 3Pilgrim

Skills Build Pros Cons Notes

Skill 1

10

Skill 2

7

Burst

10

Cube: Bastion. Even playing without bunny girls, she can self sustain and get infinite ammo with a couple good lines and the cube.

Overload: At least 1-2 lines of max ammo capacity for self sustain. After that you can focus on adding more damage with ATK, elemental damage and a mix between crit and charge damage / speed.

• Auto friendly unit with incredible damage output
• Doesn’t require a lot of investment for basic self-sustain setup with max ammo
• Like normal Scarlet, versatile unit that can be used on all content
• Wind type NIKKE units finally have a good DPS

• Pilgrim unit, either you get her on her banner or you might be scarletless for months
• Sucks to play on auto since she has an animation lock similar to A2, which you can skip, but it’s not consistent for most people

Amazing single target damage. Despite being a rocket launcher, can be built for infinite ammunition if you get 1-2 lines of max ammo and use bastion cube.

Like normal Scarlet, can be used on most content as a DPS without worrying about team compositions.

• Rapi: Red Hood is the best burst 1 (and burst 3 probably) in the game. Her CDR is amazing and she can provide the best rotations in the game, paired with her own damage even as a burst 1 makes her the best pick.
• Crown is the strongest burst 2 and buffer in general in the game. Not only she provides support for all your damage dealers, but invulnerability for herself on skill 2 and a shield for everyone in the team on her burst.
• Scarlet: Black Shadow is used as main DPS. Can be replaced with Alice, Asuka: Wille or any of the top damage dealers in our tier list.
• Red Hood is close to Black Shadow in terms of pure damage output. She’s also the most versatile character in the game, thanks to the ability to burst on any stage.
• Helm (WITH TREASURE) has replaced Naga as the best healer /support for Crown in the game. She provides constant heals, attack damage on burst and extra burst generation.

Crown / Helm synergy

Crown skill 2 “Royal Attire” last part gives Attack Damage to everyone in the team only when recovery effect takes place, meaning when she gets any form of active healing (or life leech). This buff last 7 seconds so you need someone who can consistently provide heals for Crown to maintain her buff.

There are a lot of options for heals, but Helm with her treasure is the best one since it’s consistent enough and also gives the team extra buffs, making them the most broken combination of support units at the moment in the game.

Crown positioning

After the synergy mentioned above, it’s also important to remember positioning in this game matters when it comes to get buffs. Let’s put the next scenario, everyone in the team is 100% HP, when Naga heals 2 allies with the lowest HP percentage, who gets the heal first?

If everyone is 100% HP, NIKKE will apply the recovery effect (and buffs in general) from left to right. This means if you want to consistently proc Crown skill 2 for extra Attack Damage, just to be safe, put her always on the first position of your team.

This doesn’t matter if you are using Helm since she heals everyone rather than just one or two units, but it’s important to remember.

Red Hood bursting

Red Hood is (for now) the only unit in the game that can burst at any position, making her the most versatile unit by far. This can also be confusing for new players since they don’t know when to burst with her, but as a general rule of thumb:

• You can ignore her burst 2, is the worst one out of the 3 she has
• Generally speaking, people only burst 1 at the end of the battle with her to get the extra damage going for the elite / bosses (thanks Kusa for the correction)
• Outside super niche situations, she is a main burst 3 unit, treat her as a normal DPS

About fast charging weapons

There are two type of weapons in the game you can either spam or full charge; sniper rifles and rocket launchers. Unless the character you are manually playing has a skill that activates when “fully charges the attack”, it’s always better to spam attacks as fast as possible.

This has two reasons behind it: over a 3-minute fight the DPS is higher, generally speaking, and you can generate more burst this way.

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