Antal Build: Gear, Weapon & Teams

Antal overview

Antal is a 4-star Supporter in Arknights: Endfield who fights with an Arts Unit and deals Electric damage. The main attribute is Intellect and the secondary attribute is Strength. In the story, Antal is a Savra affiliated with Endfield Industries. The Endfield personnel file rates combat skill as Standard and tactical acumen as Normal.

On the Endfield Hub general tier list, Antal currently sits in B tier, the band labelled Situational (reliable but niche operators used as budget alternatives). Best-value 4-star support. Massive Damage Amplification for Electric and Heat teams running on a tight roster.

How Antal's kit plays

Antal's basic attack, Exchange Current, is a chain of up to 4 sequences dealing Electric damage, and its Final Strike adds 15 Stagger when Antal is the controlled operator. Used next to a Staggered enemy, it becomes a finisher that deals massive Electric damage and recovers some SP. The Battle Skill, Specified Research Subject, costs 100 SP. Antal applies Focus with a long duration on the enemy and deals Electric DMG. An enemy with an active Focus also suffers Electric Susceptibility and Heat Susceptibility.

Combo Skill EMP Test Site triggers when an enemy with active Focus suffers a Physical Status or Arts Infliction. Its cooldown is 25s, dropping to 24s at its highest level. Antal triggers 1 energy explosion on the enemy that deals Electric DMG and applies another stack of the same Physical Status or Arts Infliction. The Ultimate, Overclocked Moment, needs 100 Ultimate Energy. Applies temporary Electric Amp and Heat Amp to the entire team.

Antal carries 2 talents: Improviser and Subconscious Act. At its highest rank, Improviser works like this: This HP restoring effect triggers 1 time every 30s for each operator.

Building Antal

In the weapon comparison above, Detonation Unit ranks first at R9 (105.4%), ahead of Stanza of Memorials (102.4% at R9) and OBJ Arts Identifier (97.2% at R9). Even at R4, Detonation Unit still scores 100%. The first of 2 listed gear loadouts is Tide Fall Light Armor, Eternal Xiranite Gloves and two copies of Eternal Xiranite Power Core. Every piece is broken down in the Antal gear set breakdown, and the artificing planner covers planning the artificing on those pieces.

Across the 3 recommended teams, the most frequent partners are Laevatain (2 of 3), Wulfgard (2 of 3) and Ardelia (1 of 3). Once talents pass level 9, the priority for Antal runs Skill, then Ultimate, then Basic, then Combo. To compare Antal with the rest of the roster, open operator builds or check where each partner lands on the tier list. The Antal damage calculator on this page runs the numbers for any gear loadout.

Antal potentials and upgrade costs

Antal has 5 Potential ranks, and each one changes something specific. Potential 1 improves the ultimate Overclocked Moment: Electric Amp and Heat Amp effects are increased to 1.1 times the original. Potential 2 improves the ultimate Overclocked Moment: Ultimate Energy cost -10%.

At Potential 3, when an enemy with an active Focus debuff is defeated, return 15 SP. Potential 4 grants Intellect +10, Max HP +10%. At Potential 5, applying Focus on the same target for 20s increases Electric Susceptibility and Heat Susceptibility effects by 4%.

Levelling Antal from 1 to 90 takes 1,792,290 EXP and 385,420 T-Creds in total. There are 4 breakthrough stages, unlocking at levels 30, 40, 50 and 60. Together they cost 60 Protoset, 33 Protodisk, 20 Metadiastima Photoemission Tube, 8 Cosmagaric, 5 Red Bolete, 5 Ruby Bolete and 3 Pink Bolete, plus 126,100 T-Creds. The character progression planner tallies these against what you already own.

Raising all 4 skill groups through level 12 adds 688,800 T-Creds, and the largest material lines are 472 Protohedron, 328 Protoprism, 116 Tachyon Screening Lattice and 116 D96 Steel Sample 4. Favorability bonuses add +60 Intellect in total, spread over 4 breakthrough stages. In the base, the factory skills are Experimental Arts Unit and Pun-isher Studies. Assigned to the Manufacturing Cabin, Experimental Arts Unit β will grant weapon EXP material production efficiency +20%. Assigned to the Growth Chamber, Pun-isher Studies γ will slow Mood Drop of all operators in it by 18%. Every operator's base skills are compared in the operator base skills database.