After several threatening letters from Chelsea, Cygame has finally released Gala Luca in exchange for their hostages. As a Gala exclusive, it’s safe to say that he’ll be good, but how good exactly? Obviously he’s worth summoning for, but Luca is going to simply be a solid, above average Adventurer, not a game breaker.

The most relevant detail to G!Luca is that he outclasses Yachiyo by a wide margin. As Yachiyo has been an essentially mandatory part of Light teams since her release, that earns him a spot in the meta. He’s also a bit better than DY!Malora in a vacuum, though her Defense down ability means that in relevant group content that gap narrows slightly. Basically though, G!Luca will become the new fixture of both Master High Zodiark and Dark Mercurial Gauntlet, and may even be the key piece that makes Light based groups viable for high end MG after the release of other powerful Light Adventurers in the past month.

But, on to the unit analysis. Luca’s kit is based on crit, crit, and more crit, but it also revolves around having unique buffs on Luca. His passive Connecting Call gives him 4% crit for each unique buff icon on Luca, up to a cap of 28%. Luca can personally give himself 12% crit from this passive, by giving himself a buff that increases his critical rate by 3% for 20 seconds each time he scores a critical, but each of those buffs is unique and they do stack. So, essentially, Luca can get a baseline 21% crit from his own buffs, with room for four more buff slots for an additional 16% crit from his teammates. It’s not that hard to stack buffs on Luca, with G!Euden being his best friend and Chitose not being far behind in that regard. While I wouldn’t expect to keep the full 28% from his passive up at all times, you can easily get to 20% and stay that way.

The rest of Luca’s kit synergizes incredibly well with Connecting Call. His S1 gets a 10% increase to the crit rate for each unique buff icon, and it’s not hard to get this skill to a 100% crit rate. That makes his S2 even better, as it increases his critical damage by 80% for 10 seconds. Flurry devastation is normally a good passive for 13% crit, but on G!Luca it’s pretty great and can even get you to 100% crit on all your skills with the right wyrmprint combination.

Interestingly, G!Luca doesn’t have a duel resistance, instead getting 100% Curse res, and his resistance being similar to an Adventurer with Mana Spirals as it increases his crit rate by 15% when he’s hit with an attack that could Curse. That’s cool, though personally I would have liked to have the poison resistance as Luca’s going to be getting pretty close to 100% crit rate anyway.

So, all in all we have an Adventurer who has a clear home in the current meta, a strong kit that synergizes well with existing Adventurers, and a weapon type that is very useful. As I said at the start, he’s 100% summoning for.

Final Verdict: Yes. Luca will have a place on every Light team going forward