Zuzuska's FIRE Diamond Evaluation

BURN BABY BURN!
This list of Fire Elemental Fighters will judge what the 3 BEST choices for Diamond evolution are, 3 Decent ones, and the others that struggle to hold onto practicality.

Thanks to Rift Battles quickly stealing the spot for high level gameplay, the lists will account for these newer, more difficult encounters.

As an update, I'm splitting this list into Offensive Diamonds and Defensive Diamonds.

Possible Fire Element Diamonds:
Dragon Brawler, Number One, Beat Box, Private Dick, Harlequin, Immoral Fiber, Scarlet Viper, Red Velvet, Frayed Ends, Parasite Weave, Hellcat, Blood Drive, Firefly, Sheltered, Rerun, Wildcard, Dead Heat, Oh Mai and Pyro-Technique.

Spoiler: Offense

BEST CHOICES:

Spoiler: Harlequin

Harlequin Cerebella is quite fantastic as a candidate for Diamond evolution. Her CA allows you to bait out throws and stagger, this can generally protect you from most BB3s. Her MA also allows her to remove meter from enemies and prevent them from BB3ing her on a whim. Diamonds Are Forever is still capable of devastating damage, and she’s been given a generous stat spread that can only be furthered through Diamond Evolution. Her Special Move damage and Cooldown Reduction are both great; as of the update, HQ will still reliably assist you in slamming potential enemies down with brute force.

Spoiler: Private Dick

PD Big Band has risen to one of my top choices for Diamond evolution; he excels in Durability, Resistance, and has the potential to Stunlock. In this current version, the chance of getting BB3ed is absolutely massive. Survivability has become a top priority; PD is a very bulky boi that ate his vegetables, so he’s quite a task to take down. The MAs make him even harder to kill. If you’re having an off-day, and mess up; PD will survive a few BBs, maybe a BB3 and come out intact.

Spoiler: Red Velvet

Red Velvet is mediocre at gold, her attack stat is nowhere near enough to sustain high streaks. However, her SA is unique in that she can take on some of the most difficult, defense savvy enemies in the game. Resonant Evil, Armed Forces, Brain Freeze and Untouchable all have incredible defensive SAs; Red Velvet’s Hex is a great way to get around it. With the addition of Rift Battles, she becomes ever more relevant and useful than before. She could definitely enjoy the stat boost from Diamond Tier.

DECENT:

Spoiler: Oh Mai

ATTENTION: Cellsai has done it, 3 Diamond Oh Mais as of 12_12_2018. Congrats!

Ahem, Oh Mai is the elusive Daily Relic jackpot. She semi-recently received a pretty revolutionary buff to her SAs. Oh Mai is capable of dishing out a surprising amount of damage with multiple Countervenoms and once she defeats one enemy… THE BALL IS ROLLING. She’s a great backup fighter that tags in with Enrage if your main fighter dies, and she’s also pretty proficient at snowballing an enemy team out of commission. Enrages are % based damage boosts, so Diamonding her will give her bonus stats to have fun with.

Spoiler: Sheltered

Whoa. Sheltered received a massive buff in the damage category. On critical hit, she gains a stack of enrage. Enrages are % based damage increases, so gaining 5 stacks of it in a span of 1-2 seconds is absolutely astonishing. With the benefit of Diamond Tier, she would have more base attack to stack her enrages on, making her one ANGRY Parasoul. The only things really holding her back are her unfortunate Bronze base stats. *She’s also a pretty neat support for Fighters.*

Spoiler: Pyro-Technique

Pyro Technique’s potential is still generally unknown. On paper though, Pyro-Technique has shot up to being one of my top few picks out of the Fire Fighter List. BB3 management has become pretty CRUCIAL to your playstyle. As a Valentine, her regular combo damage is pretty low, but you can utilize multiple Countervenoms to remedy this. Diamond Tier will certainly benefit her by granting her more ATK to play with.

DECENT/SUB PAR: Firefly, Dragon Brawler, Scarlet Viper, Wildcard, Immoral Fiber, Blood Drive, Parasite Weave, Number One, Hellcat, Frayed Ends, Beat Box, Dead Heat, Rerun.

Spoiler: Defensive

COMING SOON...

I'm currently writing a more detailed explanation on why each character is rated the way they are.
(Check out all the detailed descriptions here!)
(Offense - Defense) It's all still a WIP.

Let me know what you think! I would love to be convinced on if rankings need to be adjusted and mixed around.
Hoping to make lists for every element... So hang in there! Water is here!

Defensive Fire, then Defensive Water are next! After that... Wind.

 

So you're saying that this should be a list on which fighters benefit the most from the evolution itself? Rather than the strongest Fighters becoming even stronger?

 

Thanks for the feedback! I just thought about Immoral Fiber as being terrible due to her SA revolving around death. As a single carry this is an awful idea. However, if you pack a Valentine/reviver with her, you can spam her SA Death and obliterate most fighters. This is immensely more complicated than a carry has to be though. She'll move up a bit in standing... Though, she's still pretty sub-par.

 

Added the quote by Psychotron to the Parasite Weave spoiler!

 

Congrats on getting your essences! Immoral is mainly a hassle to enemies on defense, she's not too great on the attack... She's a very cool priority shifting character though! If you wanted to, you could throw her onto a defense team to spice things up.
She is acceptable for Diamonding, just remember that she won't be as efficient as most other characters at high streaks.

As for Scarlet; I'd say to practice your Eliza combos, and learn how to infinite with her in Training. If you can roll some great moves for her at the same time, then totally invest in her a bit!
(Personally I'm pretty awful at those combos, but it's amazing what you can do with her)

 

lol well, I wish you good luck with that! This is just a general guideline, as well as a list of all the Fire fighters and their respective abilities.

 

Wow... 2.5 Update contained a TON of mini bugfixes and a few alterations to certain fighters. Some notable changes are the one's done to Parasite Weave, and the BB3 usage of the AI. According to the update notes, it will become relatively common for the AI to decide to BB3 whenever it has it up. I believe that this will drastically change how all players initiate fights and maintain streaks reliably.

Point Multipliers are also pretty influential, and will urge players to fight and defeat more difficult teams. Niche Fighters will have more of a place in the meta, and countering certain defensive variants will become more important than ever. Still working on swapping around rankings and Water list is slowly but surely going to be released. Thanks for the patience and I'm definitely looking forward to seeing those social features implemented

 

I absolutely agree with Sheltered being higher up on the list! This list is sort of outdated at the moment and I'm contemplating reworking the layout entirely to resemble the newer water one. Positions definitely need to be altered as well. After personally noticing the Sheltered Buff, I realized her damage potential even at gold and do believe she's an amazing choice for Diamond Evolution. Natural Bronze stats are pretty much the only thing that hold her back.