Best Luck Build

This is a guide to the best luck build in Metaphor: ReFantazio. Read on to learn more about the best luck build, best archetypes, best skills to use, and the recommended characters to use for running a luck build in the game.

Best Luck Build Guide

Luck Build Overview

Best Luck Build
Archetypes				Characters				Tier Ranking
Merchant Strength Archetypes				Protagonist Strohl Heismay				B Tier
Equipment						Skills
・ Abacus						・Fortune Slots ・Gold Rush
Strengths
✓ Increased chance for Crits and Status Ailments ✓ Decreased chance of receiving Critical Hits ✓ Great for farming items
Weakness
✗ Magic Skills cannot crit ✗ Less consistent than a normal Strength Build

Running the Luck Build will increase your chances of performing critical hits and inflicting status ailments on your enemies. It also raises your item acquisition rate, enabling you to use items for support when needed.

The Luck Build will mostly rely on Strength for your offensive capabilities since Magic Skills inherently cannot crit.

Luck Build Stat Priority

Running a Luck Build will require you to raise both the Luck and Strength Stats, as both will increase the likelihood of performing powerful Critical Hits against enemies.

Best Stat Builds

Best Luck Build Archetype

Best Basic Archetypes For Luck Build

Archetype	Explanation
Merchant	The Merchant Archetype is the ideal Archetype when running a Luck Build. Offensively, some of its Skills have an increased Crit Chance, which synergizes well with the Luck Stat. Besides that, Merchants are also great for farming items, which again synergizes with Luck.
Strength Build Archetypes	Generally speaking, Archetypes used in a Strength Build are also great for Luck Builds since they benefit from the increased Crit Chance. All you need to do is make some modifications and change the Inherited Skills to boost Crit.

If you plan to run a Luck Build, consider using the Merchant Archetype, as well as any Archetype that uses Slash, Pierce, or Strike attacks. The best examples for these are the Archetypes that also benefit from using a Strength Build.

You could also lean towards more Status Ailment oriented Archetypes, but these are more situational and overall perform worse than a Critical Attacking set.

All Archetypes and How to Unlock

Best Equipment For Strength Build

Merchant Archetype Line Build

Seeker Line Build
Merchant	Tycoon
Weapon	Armour
Fortune Abacus	Hero's Cuirass
Gear	Accessory
Knight's Last Stand
Inherited Skills
Spirit of Adversity Almighty Boost Charge Concentrate

This is a general build that aims to increase the Merchant Lineage's Crit Chance and Damage. Optionally, you can use the Fortune God's Abacus instead to increase the damage of your Money Skills. The downside however is that the weapon has less Attack and the spells will cost triple their base amount.

If you do use this Fortune God's Abacus, make sure to replace Spirit Adversity with a Slash, Pierce, or Strike Skill so that you have an extra attack that doesn't waste your money.

How to Unlock Merchant Archetype and Skills

Archetypes Used in Strength Builds

Archetypes that use Strength-based Slash, Pierce, and Strike Skills generally also want Luck to be on the high side. Getting Critical Hits is extremely valuable since the attack will only consume half a Turn Icon and the damage boost stacks with other buffs you may already have!

Best Strength Build

Best Skills To Raise Luck

Best Support and Passive Skills for Luck Build

Skill	Type	Description
Diligent Desciple	Passive	✦ Brawler Increases critical hit rate by 5%. Boost increases further if Archetypes of the same Lineage are present.
Trader's Summit	Passive	✦ Merchant Increases effects of consumables by 1.2x. Increases further if Archetypes of the same Lineage are present.
Rebellion	Support	✦ Commander Increases Critical Rate for one ally for 3 turns.
Sleep Shot	Pierce	✦ Gunner Only usable from back row. Deals weak physical Pierce damage to one enemy. May inflict Sleep.
Poison Shot	Pierce	✦ Gunner Only usable from back row. Deals medium physical Pierce damage to one enemy. May inflict Poison.
Aim Support	Passive	✦ Gunner Increases Hit Rate by 10%. Boost increases further if Archetypes of the same Lineage are present.
Hex Shot	Pierce	✦ Gunner Only usable from back row. Deals heavy physical Pierce damage to one enemy. May inflict Hex.
Art of Dance	Passive	✦ Masked Dancer Increases success rate of skills that inflict status ailments.

The Passive and Support Skills listed above will help increase critical hit rate, item potency consumption, and status ailment infliction. The Hex Shot, Poison Shot, and Sleep Shot are from the Gunner Archetype, with all of these skills relying on the Luck Stat to be successful.

Use Inheritance Skills to Acquire Skills From Other Archetypes

If you want to access a specific skill from other Archetypes you haven't equipped in your party, try using the Inheritance Skill to assign the desired skill you want to the Archetype you choose to have in battle.

Skill Inheritance Guide

Best Characters For Luck Build

Best Characters to Use For Luck Build

Character	Explanation
Protagonist	You will be able to freely control the stat allocation for the protagonist, which makes him ideal to have when running a Luck Build.
Strohl	Strohl's stat allocation prioritizes Strength compared to the other stats, which can help you dish out powerful Critical Hits against enemies. One of his Bond Abilities also increases his Crit Chance against certain enemies!
Heismay	Heismay's Agility is great if you want to use Luck to farm items. This way he can act first and has an increased chance to flee if all you want to do is Steal items from enemies.

List of Characters

Best Equipment For Strength Build

Best Weapons and Armor to Use For Strength Build

Besides the weapon types of Strength Archetypes, you'll also want to look out for Abaci for the Merchant Lineage. Make sure to look out for these weapons on your journey.

If you don't have the best possible equipment yet, then you can use whatever you have available in the meantime.

List of All Equipment

Metaphor: ReFantazio Related Guides

Best Builds

All Builds Guide

Recommended Builds

Character Builds
Best Protagonist Build	Best Strohl Build
Best Hulkenberg Build
Stat Builds
Best Strength Build	Best Magic Build
Luck Stat Build	Best Agility Build
Best Endurance Build	-