Asgardian Enjoyers, welcome!

 

Angela is a fast paced button mash kind of character very reminiscent of fighting games of old.  She thankfully also has some methods of feeling your mastery reflect in your gameplay, more than quite a few other characters.  The result is a very satisfying character with a great voice actor, great visuals and wonderful gameplay.  As this build is different enough from the others I've seen posted on here I figured I'd make a more in depth guide for her so here it is!

 

 

 

Angela's resource is Heven's Wrath, we generate it with ability use and other normal spirit income sources.  When our resource reaches full we activate Rage of Asgard which refreshes the cooldown on all of our non Signature abilities and spends differing amounts of Heven's Wrath to prevent it from going on cooldown.  This helps give her playstyle ebb and flow but results in a rather spammy playstyle so may not be for everyone.  Using some of the spirit income tech from my Moon Knight guide (Primarily the Team-up equipment discoveries) allowed me to test some different skill loadouts and helped me settle on this Axe heavy build.  An important note is the amount of Heven's Wrath we need is dictated by the ability (or in our case abilities) we wish to spam during our Rage of Asgard windows.  For our purposes slightly more than 1200 is a good balance for resource income for more frequent Rage of Asgard windows and will let us spam 5 uses of our main spam abilities.  To get this we use enchants, team-up and one of our synergy slots.

 

 

 

For gear Angela has some specific needs, particularly because she is among the characters who get cooldown reduction on her Signature for stacking cost reduction up to 50%.  Slot 3, 4, Cosmic Artifact affix, Mind Gem bonus, Loki Synergy and benefits from the Energy stat help us get there.

Slot 1 :  plays an important role in helping shore up a lot of Angela's squishyness.  As a character who uses a leap she can get into some sticky situations and FoT helps her a lot in that regard.  I don't suggest any replacements, it's very core to feeling better to play.

Slot 2 : can be a solid alternative to a cosmic slot 2 until you can farm one.

Slot 3 :  is very important for getting to the cost reduction needs for lowering the cooldown on  thanks for the tech, mikwuyma!

Slot 4 : again helps us get to the important 50% cost reduction we need.  Very important!

Slot 5 :  are very very good.

 

Ring : is best for the offensive and defensive benefits, she gets a lot of value from attack speed because her animation clipping, the health and invuln on signature are also key!

 

Catalyst : You absolutely want +spirit on medkit and spirit on hit with either 3 speed or 3 durability.  The two invisibility benefits are very nice QOL benefits but aren't as necessary as the spirit and stat rolls.

 

Medal :  is a pet piece for me it has so many good stats and benefits- including life on hit and spirit on hit.  Good alternatives are  or at early gearing to get to the 50% cost reduction while chasing gear.

 

Artifacts : ,  and  tested as the top 3 for me at my current IP, fourth slot was between or  for damage.  If you feel squishy you can use in the fourth slot for a very small damage loss (like 4 seconds on the TTK testing)

 

Runeword :  is best, until you can get it use 

 

 

 

Here's my priority for spending my Infinity points! Early on you want to get 150 points in each gem we invest in for the +1 attribute benefit before moving on to the next gem.  Using this logic I do this :

Time Gem : 37 points in Temporal Loophole and 1 point in Time Gem Infusion

Mind Gem : 75 points in  Deep Thought

Power Gem : 75 points in Strike Through

Space Gem : 6 points in Durability

Reality Gem : 150 points in Potency

From here I put points into gem infusions, max out Temporal Loophole then put points into Durability for quite awhile.  Eventually at higher IP I'll get 4.6% in crit and brut nodes.

 

 

 

Angela has two states for her rotation, normal and then during her Rage of Asgard window.  During the normal combat rotation she functions on a priority cooldown system, prioritizing abilities that give her buffs and generate resources :

Hold down  on the target.  Your priority for abilities is then  >  >  >  >  > 

 

During Rage of Asgard originally I was just spamming  but an idea struck me to try something with how the ability queueing system works for the emulator and my theory seemed to bear fruit.  If you quickly use  then immediately clip the animation with  sometimes the server lets you fit both into the same "cost window".  It's rare but worth doing, both are also very close in damage so spending Heven's Wrath on either is valuable and ending the window as fast as possible to begin generating resource again is also valuable.  This results in a very fast paced spam window for Rage of Asgard and speeds up her rotational cycling.  You can also fit in an extra use sometimes if you fit a medkit use in the middle of the Rage window, also insanely fun when you can pull it off.

 

 

 

These videos were recorded at 1038 IP and level 20 Ultimate.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for hanging out and reading the guide, hope this helps you enjoy my flavor fo Angela!

Shout out to mikwuyma and Imahuntyoudown for help with the gear and ideas for testing.  Hit me up on Discord or ingame if you have any questions.  Have fun!