Arknights Endfield is here, with plenty of fresh spins on the typical Gacha character-building formula. Resources are limited, often require multiple steps to refine, and spent by the dozens on late tier upgrades.
To avoid a headache and ensure your late game strength, its paramount to know what you’re aiming to do with your characters. The Endministrator is with you from the start, only growing stronger and stronger as the game progresses.
Let’s go over exactly how to guarantee your Endmin is as strong as they can be, through their leveling, gear, and teammates.
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Skill Leveling Priority
The Endministrator is a Physical Damage Guard, with a focus on Vulnerability application and AOE damage. Their Combo Skill and Battle Skill are major highlights, dealing serious damage in a wide area, whether they’re on or off the field.
Their initial Talent, Essence Disintegration, is the major reason to keep them as your active combatant. Whenever their Originium Crystals are consumed, Endministrator gains a large attack buff, up to 30% once upgraded.
Endmin applies their Crystals via their Combo Skill, which procs whenever another ally uses a Combo Skill. This will be the basis of our build, making it important to focus on Endmin’s Basic Attack and Combo Skill when leveling.
Endministrator’s Battle Skill and Ultimate can seriously hurt in the right situations, but our focus should be on maintaining the Essence Disintegration buff. With a 16-second cooldown on Sealing Sequence and a 15-second lifetime on Essence Disintegration, good play will see an almost permenant boost to your damage output.
| Skill Priority | Minimum Rank |
| Basic Attack | 5 |
| Combo Skill | 4 |
| Battle Skill | 2 |
| Ultimate | 2 |
Gearing Endministrator
Weapons can do wonders amplify a character’s strong suits, and Endministrator’s are no exception. While building, two options stuck out: Grand Vision and Eminent Repute. Both of these 6-star swords give Endmin a significant amount of extra damage; the difference lies in the unique skills they offer.
Grand Vision was my preferred choice, giving a general Arts damage buff and buffing Battle Skills and Ultimate cast with 20 seconds of Sealing an opponent. This buff is literally made for Endministrator, seriously amping their damage for minimal effort.
Alternatively, Eminent Repute gives a general attack state buff, with a larger buff on offer as long as you’re popping Vulnerability stacks. This synergizes very well with Endmin, and the buff transferring to teammates makes it very flexible, especially in teams where Endmin isn’t the main focus.
For Armor and secondary gear, Endmin doesn’t need anything crazy. A few Agility Kits, Miner Overalls and Gloves, and a Buck Capsule for good measure will go far.
Good dodges can keep Endmin on their feet most of the time, but as our team lineup will show, a little extra armor never hurt.
Teams for Endministrator
The Endministrator benefits heavily from teammates who can apply Vulnerability, opening their own kit up for massively damaging combos. As such, we’ve set up two teams that can leave enemies open so Endmin can make them hurt.
Our first relies on Ember, Chen Qianyu, and Da Pan for a constant rush of fast-paced damage. Ember and Chen can both apply Vulnerability without risk of popping the stack, with Ember offering shields and healing on the side. Da Pan follows up with a massive burst of damage via the Crush on his Combo Skill, leaving the enemy reeling for Endmin to finish off.
This lineup is very consistent, allowing Endmin to focus on staying up and dealing as much damage as possible while following up on the team’s cooldowns.
For an alternative lineup, switch out Chen for Pogranichnik, a Physical Vanguard that excels at maintaining high SP and paying off big Crush combos. This goes hand in hand with Da Pan’s Combo Skill, allowing Pogranichnik to add even more damage to the stack while refreshing most of the team’s SP.
The Commander demands a bit more execution than Chen to get the Vulnerability stack to max, but can pay off with even higher highs. This lineup is some of the most fun I’ve had with Endfield, and it works great as a sidegrade to our more consistent team.
