Best Lepic build in The First Descendant: Skills, Weapons, Reactor & Modules

Lepic is a potent choice in The First Descendant, offering spectacular AoE and impressive overall damage potential. To get the most out of him, you’ll need to pick the right weapons and modules, and we’ve got you covered with our best build.

Lepic is a Descendant who deals mostly in Fire damage, usually meted out by his grenade and launcher Active Skills. We have him sitting at A-Tier in our list of best characters in the game and he’s more than deserving of that reputation.

With the best build, Lepic is a fantastic option in The First Descendent.

Best Lepic build in The First Descendant – Recommended

Best Lepic Skills

With the different ways that Lepic excels in combat, two skills stand out as the biggest parts of his rotation. The first is Traction Grenade, which pulls enemies together and within range. This is critical because a huge part of Lepic’s damage potential comes from AoE attacks.

This is where Overkill comes in as the main damage-dealing ability in his arsenal. The powerful shell that it fires is particularly effective against large groups in close quarters, which is why Overkill becomes so impressive after Traction Grenade has done the hard work.

All Lepic skills

Below are all of the available skills for Lepic in The First Descendant:

• Close Call (Passive): There is a chance of surviving fatal damage during battle.
• Grenade: Throws a grenade forward at the enemy (extra Burns when Overclock is active).
• Overclock: Increases all Skill ATK and adds a Burn effect to Grenade and Overkill for a set duration.
• Traction Grenade: Throws a Traction Grenade forward to pull the enemies within range.
• Overkill: Fires a powerful shell at the enemy. The shell is maintained at the landing point for a set period of time, inflicting constant damage (extra Burns when Overclock is active).

Best weapons for Lepic

The best weapons for Lepic are:

• Thunder Cage (SMG)
• Afterglow Sword (Sniper Rifle)

Thunder Cage is a solid primary weapon in its own right, but it comes into its own in the hands of Lepic. As a primarily AoE Descendant, Lepic’s Active Skills unfortunately cost an exorbitant amount of resources.

NEXON/Dexerto

The Thunder Cage’s Overcharge Unique Skill causes an AoE electric shockwave after landing a final blow. This helps bridge the gap for when you’re lacking in MP but still need to dish out AoE damage.

A big part of the game is still dealing damage to weak points and bosses with large health The Afterglow Sword Sniper Rifle does a great job of dealing damage to enemies’ weak points, and bosses with big health pools – something that Lepic lacks.

NEXON/Dexerto

The gun carries the Nightmare Reaper Unique Skill. This causes the Death Propagation effect when hitting an enemy’s weak point, adding 5% damage per stack for each subsequent weak point hit.

Best Reactor

Reactors play a significant role in The First Descendant, offering improvements to skills, damage output, and overall effectiveness in combat. For Lepic, you want to be going with Reactors that have a high Skill Power and improve Fire.

Skill Power is going to help across the board, and Skill Critical Hit Damage is also nice to have, improving damage with each Critical Hit. The best reactors to go with are:

• Burning Singularity: Boosts Fire and Tech damage
• Burning Mechanics: Boosts Fire and Singular damage

Best Lepic modules for Lepic

Best External Components

External Components are one of the areas where players are beholden to heavy grinds and the RNG gods. That said, if you’re looking to round off your build with the very best on offer, here’s what you should go for:

• Max HP
• HP Recovery
• Max Shields
• DEF

Lepic can be fairly squishy, particularly against enemies with high single-attack damage. Addressing that issue should be the central focus of your External Component hunt. As such, we have gone for improvements to Max HP and HP Recovery, as well as Max Shields and DEF for further survivability.

How to unlock Lepic

Lepic can be unlocked in The First Descendant by collecting a variety of items and crafting resources, and then talking to Magister Anais and you’ll be able to research him for a cost of 400,000 Credits.

The resources you’ll need are as follows:

• Enhanced Cells
  • Semi-permanent Plasma x290
  • Monomolecular Energy x499
  • Highly-concentrated Energy Residue x34
  • Lepic Enhanced Cells Blueprint
  • Gold x200,000
• Stabilizer
  • Superfluid x571
  • Shape Memory Alloy x462
  • Crystal Biogel x43
  • Lepic Stabilizer Blueprint
  • Gold x200,000
• Spiral Catalyst
  • Metal Accelerant x519
  • Carbon Crystal x554
  • Complex Carbon Activator x60
  • Lepic Spiral Catalyst Blueprint
  • Gold x200,000
• Code
  • Intercept Battle: Obstructer (Amorphous Material Pattern 102 required)
  • Vespers: Void Fusion Reactor – Vespers Ruins
  • Vespers: Abyssal Void Fusion Reactor – Vespers Lost Supply Depot
  • White-night Gulch: Abyssal Void Fusion Reactor – White-night Gulch Mountaintops

That’s our guide to the best build for Lepic in The First Descendant. We’ve got a ton of other build guides on offer, so if you’re running Bunny, Ajax, or Freyna, make sure to take a look.