Well OK, things might not be that dramatic, but it does appear that at long last someone is going to seriously challenge Gala Cleo for her throne of dominance in the Shadow roster (and the Dragalia Meta in general). Realistically, while Gala Alex is going to do a LOT more damage than Gala Cleo on paper in a vacuum, what has and does make Gleo so good isn’t her own personal DPS, but the fact that you can stack three or four of her and their buffs combined produce an insane amount of damage together. Gleo is not getting pushed out of the meta by Gala Alex, but the fact is that if you’re using one or two Galex’s with Gleos the numbers are frankly ridiculous.

But this is mostly a review of Gala Alex, and I’m going to go ahead and say yes you should pull right up front. Galas are typically the absolute best banners to pull on thanks to their increased rates, and Gala Alex’s insane damage potential is just icing on that cake.



There are a few things that make Gala Alex so very, very good. The primary one is that she is both a perfect poison enabler and a perfect poisoned punisher. Her S2 inflicts Poison, while both her S1 and S2 deal bonus damage to poisoned foes. She also drops a foe's defense on her S1, and dispelles buffs from her enemy with both skills during a skill chain. The rest of her skills are approximately the length of most Doctoral Theses, but to sum up, they deal more damage if the foe's defense is down, if they’re poisoned, and if the foe is in a break state, if they are used during a skill chain.

Basically to deal optimal damage, you want your foe to be poisoned, and you want to maintain a defense down debuff on them. Her skills are unique in that they share a single skill gage, but that skill gage can hold up to three charges. Once you use a charge, you have a short window to gain all the various benefits during the skill chain. The optimal way to do this seems to be to store up your skills, then use them to maintain Poison and the Defense Down debuff, then prioritise swapping skills to continue the skill chain if they are in break state, or continue using the same skill to continue the chain if not.

If that seems overly complicated and confusing, that’s because it is. What it does lead to is absolutely monstrous damage potential for Galex. The dust is still settling on the meta, but it’s safe to say that Galex is going to be even more desired than Neferia, thanks to her ability to poison, dispel, and put out even better numbers. That’s not to say that Neferia will be useless, but Galex is definitely going to be a new feature of the meta.



Verdict: Yes. Gala Alex is very much worth getting.