What can you do as a free member?

Member benefits illustration

Create your free account today and unlock all our premium features and tools to enhance your gaming experience.

Member benefits illustration

Create your free account today and save articles to your watchlist and get notified when they're updated with new information.

Member benefits illustration

Create your free account today and save your favorite games for quick access later, synced across all your devices.

Member benefits illustration

By creating a Game8 account and logging in, you'll receive instant notifications when someone replies to your posts.

Comment rating feature illustration

By creating a Game8 account and logging in, you can make use of convenient features in the comments section, such as rating and sorting comments.

Premium archive feature illustration

By creating a Game8 account and logging in, you can access Premium articles that are exclusively available to members.

Site Interface

Guest
Free Member
Article Watchlist
Game Bookmarks
Cross-device Sync
Light/Dark Theme Toggle
User Profiles
Direct Feedback
Comment Rating

Game Tools

Guest
Free Member
Interactive Map Access
Interactive Map Pins
Interactive Map Comments
Interactive Map Pins Cross-Device
Check List
Event Choice Checker
Deck Builder Cross-Device
Message Board Notification
Message Board Cross-Device
Build Planner
Stat Calculator
Diagnostic Tool
Weapon/Armor Wishlist

Want more information?Learn more

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Sciel Best Builds and Attributes

Add to Watchlist (2)

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 Sciel Best Builds and Teams

Sciel is a playable character who uses the Scieleson in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. See Sciel's best builds, weapons, attributes, playstyle, skills, and character profile here!

Sciel Guides
Best Build Romance

Best Sciel Build

Sciel Build Guide

Best Attributes
1. Luck
2. Defense
Best Weapon
Best Skills
Best Pictos
Best Luminas

For Sciel, her best endgame weapon is Charnon. Focus on increasing her Luck and Defense attributes to improve her survivability while also buffing her other stats thanks to the weapon's scaling. The Pictos and Luminas above give her a lot of offensive stats, damage boosts, and AP recovery.

Sciel Best Attribute Priority

Agility and Defense for Endgame

Act 1 Act 2 Act 3
Vitality 10 10 0
Might 5 10 0
Agility 15 35 0
Defense 0 20 81
Luck 10 15 99

The values in red are the ones to be prioritized.
Act 1 is calculated with 40 points at level 15.
Act 2 is calculated with 90 points at level 30.
Act 3 is calculated with 180 points at level 60.

For the most part, Sciel's best stat is Agility followed by Luck, as you want her to attack often and deal Critical hits a lot. Additionally, Scieleson scales off of these Attributes, further increasing Sciel's damage output in the early game. Get Vitality to the same level as your Luck to give Sciel some survivability.

Once you get to the mid game, you will be changing your weapon from the Scieleson to the Rangeson, which scales off of Agility and Defense. Continue increasing your Agility as before, but this time invest more points into Defense compared to Might and Vitality. Put points into Luck every now and then to increase Sciel's Critical Rate.

Upon reaching the late game, you can swap Rangeson for Charnon, as it guarantees crits in Twilight State. This helps Sciel deal consistent damage while also applying more Foretell stacks. Invest in both Defense and Luck for the weapon's scaling.

All and Best Attributes Guide

Sciel Best Weapon

Charnon Is the Best for Act 3

Act 1 ScielesonScieleson Max Power: 3454
Element: Physical
Attribute Scaling:
Agility - S
Luck - A
No Passive abilities
Act 2 RangesonRangeson Max Power: 3132
Element: Dark
Attribute Scaling:
Agility - S
Defense - A
Act 3 CharnonCharnon Max Power: 2970
Element: Void
Attribute Scaling:
Defense - A
Luck - S

All Weapons and Stats

The Scieleson is Sciel's default weapon, and is her best weapon in the early game thanks to its B Scaling in Agility and C Scaling in Luck, which are Sciel's main stats. While it has no passive skills, its strong scaling and Power more than make up for it.

Once you get to Act 2, replace Sciel's weapon with the Rangeson to give Sciel some survivability with its Level 4 Passive skill, as well as reducing the cost of healing Skills when it reaches Level 10. This turns Sciel into more of a Support character that can still deal damage.

Once in Act 3, Charnon will be your best weapon, giving Sciel more damage and Foretell consistency because of guaranteed crits during the Twilight State. The ramping up increased damage is also great as long as you don't get hit.

Weapon Details
Lusteson Lusteson is a great alternative weapon in Act 2 with a C sacling in Agility and B in Vitality. This weapon turns Sciel into mroe of a Main DPS thanks to its ability to add Mark on the enemy, as well as the ability to transfer Foretell when an enemy dies.

Sciel Best Skills

A Mix of Support and Damage Skills

Skills
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3

In the early game, Focused Foretell, Marking Card, and Spectral Sweep will be your main sources of Foretell, with Marking Card also applying mark on enemies. Twilight Slash, Phantom Blade, and Sealed Fate, on the other hand, will be your main sources of damage, quickly whittling down the enemy HP.

Once you reach the mid game in Act 2, you can replace Spectral Sweep with Grim Harvest and Phantom Blade with Plentiful Harvest to increase Sciel's support capabilities. Grim Harvest provides team wide healing while Plentiful Harvest provides AP, both of which scale based off of the enemy's Foretell stacks.

In Act 3, you'll be replacing a lot of your moves for more support and damage ones. Fortune's Fury will be your main support skill, doubling the damage of whichever ally you select. This is great for burst characters like Maelle, especially when combined with Marking Card. Intervention also allows an ally to take an immediate turn and gives them AP which can help in certain scenarios. Plentiful Harvest will help with your AP needs.

As for damage, Final Path and Twilight Dance will be your main sources of huge damage. Sealed Fate is also a great damaging skill when paired with the Charnon weapon because of the crit guarantee. This means you'll almost always have the damage increase on Sealed Fate's hits.

Sciel Best Pictos and Lumina

Early Game Loadout

Pictos
Luminas
Critical Burn
Dead Energy II
Exposing Attack
Marking Shots
Staggering Attack
Total Lumina Point Cost: 21

Sciel's equipped Pictos give her a lot of Speed and Critical Rate, allowing her to act and hit Critical attacks more. Additionally, the effects of the Pictos give her even more Critical Chance once conditions are met, such as when she is at low health (Critical Moment) or when enemies are burning (Critical Burn).

Additionally, the equipped Luminas give her numerous helpful buffs, such as AP recovery whenever she defeats or breaks an enemy, as well as increased AP at battle start. This allows her to set up her combos without fear of lacking AP. The Luminas also gives her some damaging buffs, as well as emergency survivability in the form of SOS Shell.

Mid Game Loadout

Pictos
Luminas
Critical Burn
Dead Energy II
Dodger
Energising Parry
Energising Start II
Healing Parry
Recovery
Staggering Attack
Sweet Kill
Total Lumina Point Cost: 55

Sciel's mid game Pictos primarily give her Speed and Critical Rate, giving her more actions and damage. Additionally, Acelerating Heal synergizes well with Grim Harvest, which lets her apply Rush to everyone in the team.

The Luminas serve to give Sciel more AP when performing certain actions, as well as give her some survivability and damage.

Late Game Loadout

Pictos
Luminas
Augmented Counter III
Auto Rush
Critical Burn
Teamwork
Roulette
Empowering Parry
Energy Master
Energising Parry
Energising Turn
Burn Affinity
First Strike
Tainted
Full Strength
Painted Power
Recovery
Cheater
Solidifying
Sweet Kill
Warming Up
Second Chance
Total Lumina Point Cost: 282

In the late game, giving Sciel as much damage and offensive stats along with speed is important especially when you want to apply Fortune's Fury. Cheater also helps as it gives her an extra turn to buff herself or her allies. The rest of her Luminas can be centered around increasing her damage, survivability, and AP recovery.

All Pictos and Luminas Guide

Sciel Best Teams

Sciel Main DPS

Support Main DPS Sub-DPS
Clair Obscur - Lune IconLune Clair Obscur - Sciel IconSciel Clair Obscur - Maelle IconMaelle

Sciel serves as the main damage dealer in this party, applying Foretell stacks on enemies before detonating them with her Moon skills. Maelle will serve as the sub-DPS, dealing damage to enemies whenever Sciel applies a Mark on them. If you built Lune as a support, she can be the healer via her Healing Light skill and debuffing enemies with Slow and Burns.

When selecting your party, make sure to pick Lune first, then Sciel, and finally Maelle. This will be the initial turn order whenever you ambush enemies. Lune will apply debuffs like Burn on the enemy, while Sciel stacks her Foretell on them. Maelle can then take advantage of the Burning enemies to perform her own combos.

Sciel Support

Support Main DPS Sub-DPS
Clair Obscur - Sciel IconSciel Clair Obscur - Maelle IconMaelle Clair Obscur - Verso IconVerso

In this party, Sciel serves as the Support, providing healing and AP recovery to the party and debuffs via her Marks. Verso serves as the sub-DPS, providing buffs with Powerful while still dealing good damage. Maelle is the party's main source of damage thanks to her Virtuose attacks.

Apply Mark on enemies with Verso and Sciel's skills, while buffing Maelle as much as possible. Maelle can then detonate the Marks and deal huge amounts of damage on the enemy. You can also choose to replace Verso with Monoco, as some of his skills can help Break enemies and add marks to them as well.

Best Party

How to Play Sciel

How to Play Sciel


Alternate Between Her Sun and Moon Skills

Alternate Between Her Sun and Moon Skills
Alternating between her Sun and Moon skills is the most important part of Sciel's kit as her damage comes from the proper application and consumption of her Foretell stacks.

Use her Sun Skills first to apply Foretell stacks on the enemy and get Sun charges. Once the Foretell stacks are maxed, or if you need a lot of AP, use a Moon Skill to consume the Foretell stacks, deal a lot of damage, and recover AP.

Keep Track of the Enemy's Foretell Stacks

Keep Track of the Enemy
To maximize your Moon Skills, make sure to keep track of an enemy's Foretell Stacks by highlighting them. This prevents any accidents where you accidentally use a Moon Skill on an enemy without any Foretell stacks, or a Sun Skill on one with the maximum amount.

Take Advantage of Twilight When it Activates

Take Advantage of Twilight When it Activates
Once you get at least one Sun and one Moon charge, Sciel will enter the Twilight state. While in the Twilight State, she will deal 50% more damage and apply twice the amount of Foretell stacks per Sun Skill. Additionally, the max amount of Foretell Stacks that enemies can have will double.

Use your Sun and Moon skills with low AP costs while outside of the Twilight state to gather up AP. Once Sciel enters the Twilight State, use your saved-up AP to cast your more powerful Skills.

All Sciel Skills

※ Select the search criteria below and press the Search button to filter the data.

Search
Skill Details
Twilight Slash Skill Effect: Deals low single target Dark damage. 1 hit. Consumes all Foretell to deal additional damage.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 0SP | 2AP
Focused Foretell Skill Effect: Deals medium single target Physical damage. 1 hit. Appplies 2 Foretell. Applies 3 additional Foretell if target has 0 Foretell.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Sun Charge
Cost: 0SP | 2AP
Phantom Blade Skill Effect: Deals high single target Dark damage. 1 hit. Consumes all Foretell to deal additional damage. Can Break.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon and 1 Sun Charge
Cost: 2SP | 5AP
Harvest Skill Effect: Deals medium single target damage. 1 hit. Uses weapon's element. Heals self by 40% Health. Consumes all Foretell to increase Heal by 5% per Foretell.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 1SP | 3AP
Sealed Fate Skill Effect: Deals high single target damage. 5-7 hits. Uses Weapon's element. Each hit can consume 1 Foretell to deal 200% more damage. Critical Hits don't remove the Foretell but still gets the damage increase.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 4SP | 4AP
Grim Harvest Skill Effect: Deals medium single target Dark damage. 1 hit. Heals all allies by 30% Health. Consumes Foretell to increase Heal by 5% per Foretell.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 6SP | 5AP
Searing Bond Skill Effect: Deals medium single target Dark damage. 1 hit. Applies 5 Foretell. Also deals damage and applies Foretell to every other Burning enemies.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Sun Charge
Cost: 2SP | 4AP
Firing Shadow Skill Effect: Deals low Dark damage to all enemies. 3 hits. Consumes 1 Foretell per hit for increased damage.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 2SP | 3AP
Fortune's Fury Skill Effect: Targeted ally deals double damage for 1 turn.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Sun Charge
Cost: 6SP | 5AP
Our Sacrifice Skill Effect: Deals extreme Dark damage to all enemies. 1 hit. Absorbs allies' Health and enemies' Foretell to deal increased damage.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Sun Charge
Cost: 8SP | 4AP
Twilight Dance Skill Effect: Deals extreme single target Dark damage. 4 hits. During Twilight, extends Twilight duration by 1 turn. Consumes all Foretell to deal additional damage.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 10SP | 9AP
Plentiful Harvest Skill Effect: Deals medium single target Physical damage. 2 hits. Consumes all Foretell on a target and gives 1 AP to a party member for each Foretell consumed.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 4SP | 4AP
Final Path Skill Effect: Deals extreme single target Dark damage and applies 10 Foretell. 1 hit. Can Break.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Sun Charge
Cost: 10SP | 9AP
Dark Wave Skill Effect: Deals high Dark damage to all enemies. 3 hits. Consumes all Foretell for increased damage.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 10SP | 6AP
Marking Card Skill Effect: Deals medium single target Dark damage. 2 hits. Applies Mark to the target. Applies 3 Foretell.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Sun Charge
Cost: 2SP | 3AP
Rush Skill Effect: Applies Rush to 1-3 allies, increasing their speed for 3 turns.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Sun Charge
Cost: 1SP | 3AP
Bad Omen Skill Effect: Deals low Dark damage to all enemies. 2 hits. Applies 2 Foretell per hit.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 4SP | 3AP
Spectral Sweep Skill Effect: Deals medium single target damage. 2 to 6 hits. Uses weapon's element. Applies 1 Foretell per hit. Critical Hits apply an additional Foretell.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Sun Charge
Cost: 2SP | 7AP
Delaying Slash Skill Effect: Deals medium single target damage. 2 hits. Uses weapon's element. Consumes Foretell to increase damage and delay target's turn.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 6SP | 5AP
Dark Cleansing Skill Effect: Cleanses an ally of their Status Effects and propagates the target's buff to all allies.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 2SP | 0AP
Card Weaver Skill Effect: Deals low single target Physical damage. 1 hit. Propagates target's Foretell to all enemies. Plays a second turn.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Sun Charge
Cost: 4SP | 3AP
All Set Skill Effect: Applies Shell, Powerful, and Rush to all allies.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Sun Charge
Cost: 6SP | 6AP
Intervention Skill Effect: Targeted ally plays immediately and gains 4 AP.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 6SP | 5AP
Shadow Bringer Skill Effect: Deals high single target Dark damage to random enemies. 10 hits. Applies 1 Foretell per hit.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Sun Charge
Cost: 1GC
Doom Skill Effect: Deals very high single target Dark damage. 3 hits. Applies Powerless, Defenceless, and Slow for 3 turns. Can Break.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 2GC
End Slice Skill Effect: Deals extreme single target Physical damage. 1 hit. Damage is increased for each Foretell consumed since the beginning of the battle.
Special Mechanic: Adds 1 Moon Charge
Cost: 3GC

List of All Skills

Sciel Gradient Attacks

Gradient Attack Details
Shadow Bringer Skill Effect: Deals high single target Dark damage to random enemies. 10 hits. Applies 1 Foretell per hit.
Cost: 1GC
Doom Skill Effect: Deals very high single target Dark damage. 3 hits. Applies Powerless, Defenceless, and Slow for 3 turns. Can Break.
Cost: 2GC
End Slice Skill Effect: Deals extreme single target Physical damage. 1 hit. Damage is increased for each Foretell consumed since the beginning of the battle.
Cost: 3GC

How to Use Gradient Attacks

Sciel Character Information

Sciel Basic Profile

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 - Sciel
Weapon Scieleson
Background A calm, cheerful warrior. Once a farmer and now a teacher, Sciel embraces every day with joy, masking the pain of a tragic past.

Sciel's Voice Actors

Voice Actors EN: Shala Nyx
French: Sarah Cornibert

List of Voice Actors

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Related Guides

Clair Obscur - All Characters Partial

All Characters and Builds

All Playable Characters

All Playable Clair Obscur Characters
Gustave Gustave Maelle Maelle Lune Lune
Sciel Sciel Monoco Monoco Verso IconVerso

All Special Characters

All Special Clair Obscur Characters
EsquieEsquie -

Comment

8 Anonymous Anonymous about 1 month

LMAO level 90? For reniors drafts? No fucking way dude. You don't need to kill the bosses to get it, so level 60 should be fine if you don't suck.

7 Anonymous Anonymous about 1 month

What a ridiculous guide -- your act 3 recommendation (act 3 starting around level 30-50) of a weapon is something locked away in a level 90 area.

Author

    Please participate in our site
    improvement survey
    12/2025
    Would you assist in
    improving Game8's site?
    ×
    This survey will take about 1 minute.
    Your answers will help us to improve our website.
    We are listening to our users' valuable opinions and discussing how to act on them.
    The information collected through this survey will be used for the purpose of improving our services. In addition, the information will only be disclosed a part of a statistic in a format that will not allow identification of personal information.
    Begin Survey

    All rights reserved

    Guide Index