How to Paint the Town Red: Lust Guide

Want Lust? Expensive. Got shards? Easy win

Introduction

The early days of Limbus are behind us, several genuine metas have emerged and some are worth building your entire account around so why Lust? Because PM loves Lust for some reason

Canto III saw N Corp dominate for a while and they were bleed
Canto IV is primarily Sinking/Tremor
Canto V gave us Poise/Bleed
Canto VI gave us Sinking primarily, with some extremely good EGOs for Tremor/Lust
Canto VII gave us the true "Lust" meta

It's not so much a "Bleed" meta anymore, it's evolved to something that I'll refer to from now on as the "Lust" meta and so far, I'm fairly confident that they roll higher than any other Sin/Status team

There's a reason for that, and one that will be quite painful for anyone wanting to become a Lust metaslave - it's walpurgis units.

(I'll try to update this guide as the Lust metaslaving evolves)

If anyone wishes to contact me, my discord : robur01
Also my UID - V592428764

Where to start?

There does exist a "Best in slot" or BiS for every identity, and so what are we looking for them?

• Bleed - Anything Lust benefit in one way or another from Bleed
  
• Bleed Count - Without it you're missing out on x50 the DMG
  
• Lust Affinity - Because Lust RES and A-RES synergy exist
  
• Bleed Activation - Save me Kurokumo Ishmael...
  
• EGO Ressource generation - Also called why PM loves Lust and hates everyone else
  
• Passive Support - Lust doesn't have ways to cycle through units so support meta it is
  
• Teamwide buffs - The usual

There's plenty of other guides explaining how to do MD but this one will first and foremost focus on story play and the long battles formula, the truth is that there's no content in the game beyond Canto end bossfights that remotely need such a strong build
It also probably won't help much for min-maxing challenge content like Refraction Railway, as sin resistances and speedkills are more important, but has been able to reliably clear still

There isn't anything you won't be able to clear with this build but it'll take time to build-up is the tldr

【Glossary】

Because the guide is starting to get quite large, CTRL+F and copy paste the emojis to see every part that mentions a specific sinner

🚌	Sinners
🪶	👻	🎠	🚬	🌇	🔮
Yi-Sang	Faust	Don Quixote	Ryoshu	Meursault	Hong Lu
⛈	⛪️	🪓	🐣	👢	🪲
Heathcliff	Ishmael	Rodion	Sinclair	Outis	Gregor

29/05 - Message of the Update

From now on, I'll use this category to talk about future content and thoughts on whether this playstyle is thriving, what to be expect and so on
Expect an update every week or so


Canto 8 has every reason to be based around Gluttony/Rupture, it's not a bad shout investing in it, even if you plan on running a Lust as your main because as RR5 has shown us, we now need two full teams

What this means is that one team that has less of X/Y EGO ressources, might farm with another said ressources
Lust Team struggle at Sloth the most but Tremor is kinda nowhere ID wise atm, Wrath/Burn could be interesting but is locked behind getting both magic bullet on WP, remains Glutonny/Rupture which the upcoming season will tell us whether good or bad

Unbreakable coins meta favours Lust for its high amount of heal on hit effects, having barely to rely on EGO to survive, but also means that we need an exponential amount of bleed count to stack, which is important to look at for in the future

1/04 - If the Sweeper Stage didn't explain to you why you must have a full team with 12 identities ready on the field, the event is subtle foreshadowing of what's to come I'm afraid
Get ready to run 12 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sinners (one day)
Showing up to the function with the 12 Lust absolute resonance

MotU :

At last! Season 5 has ended..
Anyone who didn't get the bloodfiends you'll have to make do with what you can for Lust

Cleared before the nerf award
The wide array of choices and passives stacking you get from the Lust team is quite mental
This team can undeniably clear but for all Canto 8 friends and foes, EGO will go a long way

This guide is still very much gonna sit in a corner until something happens for us

【Identities and You】

It's time to discuss identities! They're the foundation of your team, whether new or old account, it's worthless to go for E.G.O without having the ID to go with them first.


I got asked a build order once :

• Your first goal is to get whatever is season limited, this includes the Bloodfiends but also Kurokumo Ishmael and Heathcliff, those units won't be available in dispenser at the end of Season 5 (If Blurn, consider LCE Faust too)
  
• If Walpurgisnacht is around the corner, it is mandatory to get Rodion's Sanguine Desire (win condition), afterwards Lob Ryoshu and Regret Meursault would be S tier, grab Wingbeat last (if Blurn Magic Bullet)
  
• If you have Kurokumo Ishmael and/or Regret Meursault, going for R Corp Meursault would be a decent pick
  
• Ring Yi Sang the most busted unit in the game
  
• N Corp Faust is a great pick for her passive atm
  
• N Corp Sinclair, grab him if you're a freshie with the Season 1 selector or live laugh love
  
• Honestly don't spark Hong Lu, his canto is around the corner, wait for what's next
  
• Is your team full of level 45-50 IDs? E.G.O grind time, pick based on which unit you play the most around and try as best as you can to focus on the key WAWs

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Here's what I consider to be the metaslave Lust team, some units can be used to replace specific ones, if I didn't mention it but it's still bleed give it a shot, a lot of IDs got benched and others just don't clash as well anymore

• The Bloodfiends

Units so good they're balance breaking

Don - The Manager of La Manchaland

Archetype : Main DPS

Project Moon thought it was funny making all of her skills hit S3 levels of clash values and made it so her own S3 rolls 2-3 times higher than the average S3, her upgraded S1 does bleed activation, her S2 does absurd AoE damage and her upgraded Defense gives a huge one turn shield for all her allies. Hardblood is required for her upgraded skills, she can consume Bloodfeast for it, or can gain up to 6 per turn from other bloodfiends consume Bloodfeast themselves.
Fun fact - Out of all the bloodfiends, she has the lowest max HP and highest speed, extremely busted for passives!

Rodion - The Princess of La Manchaland

Archetype : Support / Sub-DPS

Teamwide % damage increase, half her skills roll 18+ and her S2 gives "On self and 1 ally with the least max HP: 2 Attack Power Up" and guess which Bloodfiend has the least max HP?
Also applies quite a lot of bleed count and heal friends, her Defense reduces Bleed Count on allies which is extremely useful, specifically in Canto 7 with unbreakables
She's just having a nice time with her friends

Outis - The Barber of La Manchaland

Archetype : All-Rounder / Sub-DPS

Just an overall strong unit, yes she is the weakest of the bloodfiends but she gains coin power from bleed and has great values
Also her s3 turns also in a mass attack, as of right now she can clash with virtually anything except the stuff that was intended to be clashed by EGO
Also a rare source of Glutony

Gregor - The Priest of La Manchaland

Archetype : Tank / Sub-DPS

The joke is that he's one if not the greatest tank in the game but he has a stagger threshold which he automatically goes beneath so any counter or unbreakable coin will stagger him, afterwards though? The indomitable Gregor spirit deals great damage, has absurd self-heal (through Ailing Heart which he gains every turn) and a S3 able to heal 100+ HP while dealing hundreds of damage, his passive allows early SP gen and support gives on hit heal which is always nice specifically in modern content where enemies are guaranteed to hit you
Since he applies self bleed on himself be careful of an enemy applying bleed count, you don't want him to hit a 25x10 bleed damage or else he'll melt
The EGO you run on him will be very important to make him even more tanky
A tip for newbies - Hong Lu Fanghunt Office Fixer support passive removes ally bleed count on turn start (they're good friends)

• The Walpurgisnacht IDs

Don't talk to me or my EGO ever again

Ryoshu - Lobotomy E.G.O:: Red Eyes & Penitence

Archetype : All-Rounder / Potency ID / Support

Absurd ID that does everything you could ever need through her Unique charge which actually is two charge :
Penitence grants her a shield which proves its usefulness in modern content with unbreakable coins dealing damage to her alongside absurd SP gain.
Red Eyes All of her skills deal 1-3 extra bleed
Her S3 then turns into a Lust nuke which clashes 30+ easily and afterwards she has one turn where she'll heal the rest of the team, her clashes are also absurd
Also Lust resonance gives teamwide heal and SP gain on S3
Only issue? She applies no bleed count and she's a festival unit

• The Old Guard

We don't talk about 00s and N Meursault

Faust - The One Who Grips

Archetype : Support Passive / Potential SP battery

Unfortunately powercrept like crazy, she still retains the greatest relevancy and the BiS for Faust, just don't count on her to clash, her S1 at 10, S3 at 12, only saving grace is her S2 at 16 and even then, however she's still a great support, S3 giving a teamwide 10 SP actually has a lot of uses and she still applies an absurd amount of Nails which translate to Bleed Count! Gaze is a very good buff but isn't worth running her low values
Her support is actually the best part, 15 SP per turn to the lowest SP ally still retains massive relevancy.

Sinclair - The One Who Shall Grip

Archetype : Gorilla

Him being a bleed ID is mostly a joke but he does count toward activation Bloody Mist so you know...
With a total of 2 bleed in his entire kit, he's only noteworthy because Sinclair has nothing better and his values are still absurd even ot this day, also synergize well with Grip Faust as she gives him 2 fanatic (translates to +2 power) on passive activation

On a hypothetical Lust Bleed Burn team, he also somewhat shines (even uptie 4), you could even run Dawn Office if you wanted to

• The Meta Slave

Project Moon loves us

Yi Sang - The Ring Pointillist Student

Archetype : Debuff god, enabler of teams / DPS

He's everything you could ask for, insane damage, a baseline of "here's a lot of bleed" and an extra of "here's a lot of random ♥♥♥♥" (still a bleed unit btw)
His support grants SP heal to the Lust team even if you don't run him
Tldr he's one of the best there's genuinely no reason not to own him

Yi Sang has arguably the worst EGO of all of the sinners for a Lust team but he doesn't need much more than his base kit, as S2 can do up to 12 bleed count
Rare source of Sloth in S3, very very welcome
Somewhat poor clasher in modern content

• The Couple

Taking out the dog (nuclear bomb)

Ishmael - Kurokumo Clan Captain

Archetype : Count ID / Sub-DPS / Bleed Activation / Support Passive

Until this event, Pequod Captain would've been BiS for Ish but instead we got a mental unit which does everything we want, Bleed, Bleed Count, Bleed Activation (99x3)

Previously I thought she was like Kuro Hong Lu, with a support passive of +1 bleed on fastest ally, but turns out she's +1 bleed potency or COUNT on skill and coin effects, which synergizes really well with anything bleed, but more specifically R. Corp Meursault

Great clash values too, do note that she is BARELY bleed count positive, the only way for that to be a thing is for you to go out of your way and sacrifice 3 kurokumo so she gets her passive Battle Ready but ehhh
Biggest issue I have with her is that she's built to be played with the rest of Kurokumo who are hilarious bad.. except Heathcliff and thankfully she gets +1 bleed on every slash, +1 slash power and turns Heathcliff attacks into unbreakables on Lust RES

Heathcliff - Kurokumo Clan Wakashu

Archetype : All-Rounder / Sub-DPS

Great values, great debuffs, an okay support but he's just kinda there
Guard dog ID of doing counter attacks on whoever attacks his friends and he gets buffed from having his wife around
Good bleed values but kinda mid bleed count
The real reason why I love him is that he has a clashable counter that is Lust, meaning he's ALWAYS ready to do a resonance, combine it with Binds passive making him give 3-5 offense/defense level up on RES/A-RES and all of a sudden he becomes top tier

• The Book of Stoicism

He deserves his own category now

Meursault - R Corp. 4th Pack Rhino

Archetype : Count God

PM made a 5D chess move and he went from "oh yeah did you know he does like, 6 bleed count on his s3" to becoming the greatest bleed enabler of the game?

Now that we know PM actually made Kuro Ishmael passive deal +1 bleed OR BLEED COUNT he does in a single turn 12 Bleed Count
With his own passive he can act first to use it with luck, as his passive increases his max speed considerably, allowing him to outspeed every other unit (5 charge --> 2 max speed, capped at 6)

He kinda needs Regret to be able to clash however

Thanks R3 for help on discord~

• The Joke

Uptie 5 will fix him

Hong Lu - Tingtang Gang Gangleader

Hong Lu has a few options at bleed and they all kinda suck
Kurokumo Clan Wakashu support passive gives 1 bleed to highest speed (he got powercrept)
Hook Office Fixer is technically a good bleed ID.. if you really must, limited tho
Tingtang Gangleader isn't good but he does have Lust and good damage, I just use him as a support, Gambit's 20% head coin damage to ally with the most coins is still S tier

【E.G.O. and how to go Bankrupt】

Welcome to the real reason why I think we shouldn't talk about a Bleed team anymore but a Lust team! Hope you have plenty of ressources because this is where the real endgame is at

Basically you want almost EVERYTHING that is Lust affinity for a panic button of resonance
Anything else that inflicts Bleed, does teamwide buffs, gives SP/Healing, builds Sin resistance or has an otherwise good passive is worth looking at as well

This also discuss E.G.O that aren't necessarily Lust, as they benefit us in one way or another or are the current Best in Slot for a specific identity's risk level

Almost all of these screenshots are taken from my account hence why I'm POOR

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I might go in more details for the rest of the EGO over time, if you don't have any ideas consider :

• Don's Wishing Cairn (4 bleed count)
  
• Sinclair's Lifetime Stew (Could be good Loopium but I'm really not sure)
  
• Uptie Don's La Sangre de Sancho
  
• Uptie Ryoshu's Forest for the Flames
  
• Gregor's Legerdemain (Maggots)
  
• Ishmael's Blind Obsession (teamwide buffs are awesome)
  
• Sinclair and Faust' 9:2 (Very low priority and kinda ♥♥♥♥ Fluid better)

• WAW E.G.O

Don - Yearning-Mircalla

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
3	3x4 (5x4)	15 (23)	7	🎠

It's a nuclear bomb, absurd damage, absurd passive, % based damage (even if capped) and 7 attack weight, running the bloodfiends will give you the ressources needed for it

Ressources : 5 LUST / 3 GLUT / 2 PRIDE / 2 ENVY - 15 SP

Rodion - Sanguine Desire

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
21	12 (25)	46	1	🪓

Let's say the boss attacks 15 times per turn and you just have ONE bleed count remaining but 99 bleed, and that next turn he's about to attack another 15 times
Use this EGO for the Combat Start passive and now you'll have dealt an extra 1500 damage while retaining your bleed count, they're probably staggered if still alive and that means you'll have a whole turn of stagger to apply more bleed too
Also on-hit effect can deal 300 lust damage, as a bonus

What the hell were they smoking
Also rolls 47 at IV if anyone asks
Walpurg though, mandatory for any bleed comp, and it's lust, the rest is almost flavour

Ressources : 1 WRATH / 3 LUST / 3 PRIDE / 3 ENVY - 15 SP

Gregor - Garden of Thorns

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
20	10	30	4 (7)	🪲

THE teamwide LUST buffer, and while absurdly expensive it actually becomes interesting because Uptie IV makes it so at 6 Lust A-RES, the buff apply for two turns
So at max resonance :
7 attack weight / +20% Lust damage, +2 Lust Power Up teamwide and heal 22% hp to 7 people
(The heal's useful for priest self damage Gregor)
See Gregor-o-nomics

Ressources : 2 of EVERY SIN - 30 SP

Meursault - Yearning-Mircalla

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
5	4x4 (6x4)	21 (29)	1	🔮

Bleed activation, a powerful AoE, the debuff he inflicts is strong for a bloodfiend team... but he's not a bloodfiend?
I want to believe they'll give us a bloodfiend ID at some point but until then priority to raise that one is very low
Update : R Corp Meursault is meta af so go wild

Ressources : 4 LUST / 3 PRIDE / 4 ENVY - 10 SP

Ryoshu - Contempt, Awe

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
10	7x2	24	1 (6)	🚬

The issue of a Lust team is that it focuses a lot on.. you guessed it, Lust
Contempt, Awe synergizes with Lust but the passive is what really matters, "gain 1 additional E.G.O ressource for a random, least-owned Affinity"
Basically loopium material AND lets us get the 2 of each ressources needed for Gregor
The buff Gaze of Contempt has great uses and totally won't break the game when we figure out a way to get 100% damage reduction with it and time it with an otherwise instakill move

Ressources : 3 WRATH / 4 LUST / 4 PRIDE / 3 ENVY - 20 SP

• HE E.G.O

Rodion - Hex Nail

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
8	8x2	24	3	🪓

That one's absurd in many ways, it's not one you would use to kill enemies but instead one to build up your Rodion, you'll probably heal Gregor with that E.G.O. too but what really, REALLY matters is the passive, making all of Rodion's attack deal a one time per turn +2 bleed and 1 defense level down (it means basically nothing but at least it counts as "yet another negative effect" in calculations I would assume) AND makes it so the whole team inflict up to 2 Curse from being hit which is useful in a world of unbreakable coins and counters
Also makes Rodion takes 0.5x from Envy, the 3 Nails are nice

Ressources : 2 LUST / 1 PRIDE / 4 ENVY - 25 SP

Ishmael - Wingbeat

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
3	7x2 (up to x7)	52	1	⛪️

While you could run Ardor Blossom for its clash values as it overlaps in Sin ressources for a Lust Team like Wingbeat, this is still one of the most stupid E.G.O of the entire game for single target damage
Beyond the 60% Glutonny Fragility and 5-20 bleed, the damage and healing is absurd
That's a total of 217 "power" worth of damage btw
Walpurg as well unfortunately

Ressources : 1 LUST / 3 GLUT / 2 PRIDE - 25 SP

Heathcliff - Ya Śūnyatā Tad Rūpam

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
18	8	26	1 (3)	⛈

Heathcliff's only Lust E.G.O, primarily support, lets him do decent AoE, the 2 Attack Power Down and the 25 SP for 4 other allies are both great things to have (Regen SP in an EGO chain), the passive and price can be however a bit of a problem, he's rather low priority

Ressources : 2 WRATH / 2 LUST / 2 SLOTH / 2 GLOOM - 25 SP

Ryoshu - Red Eyes (Open)

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
22	8 (15)	30 (37)	3	🚬

You could use 4th Match Flame if you don't have this one, it's primarily a great clash EGO that synergize with the other Red Eyes E.G.O, it's cheap cost and ability to roll 37 with bind are really interesting in the current meta
The passive is a nice extra for "bothering" to use that in a battle
Comes with an Envy Ineff and Glut Endure but Fatal Wrath and Pride so beware of the bosses affinity

Ressources : 2 WRATH / 2 LUST / 3 ENVY - 25 SP

• TETH E.G.O

You wanna fill Teth with whatever you have honestly

Don - Lifetime Stew

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
21	4	25	3	🎠

Lifetime stew is undeniably a strong contender 5 LUST? That's it? for a 25 rolling skill?
The passive is a blessing and a curse but honestly it is so easily spammable in the correct team comp that I actually really enjoy it, you also do NOT have to enable the passive at all times, time your fights accordingly and you could even farm Lust that way, or switch before a bossfight and so on, it has the niche use of being a Lust burn count source which currently means potential for reliable Blurn
3 Attack weight at IV is also appreciated

TLDR if you're losing the tide, light reliable clash EGO good, otherwise Wishing Cairn significantly better BUT it's a Teth slot

I don't have Wishing Cairn myself which is why it took me so long to mention it, my relunctance to have people actually use it is due to its Sloth price as it is the second hardest ressource to get and has more uses than being a bleed count nuke, but if you hoard correctly or if a battle where Don gets more than one coin occurs, you'll easily be able to make use one or the other

Ressources : 5 LUST

Hong Lu - Roseate Desire

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
19	9	28	3	🔮

The joke is that it would be great if only Hong Lu had a good LUST unit
Great passive
Kinda mid debuff
It's your "oh I don't have Lust on hand" resonance panic button
3 Attack weight at IV

Ressources : 4 LUST / 2 ENVY

Ishmael - Roseate Desire

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
29	-13	29	3	⛪️

It's a great debuff EGO and you can use it for resonance panic
Passive gives free bind which and debuffing the boss speed in focused encounters is always great
Only issue? It rolls -13 on heads

Ressources : 1 WRATH / 4 LUST

Outis - Ya Śūnyatā Tad Rūpam

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
19	4	23	2	👢

Another source of Lust Fragility and gives LUST dmg up on self with no drawbacks beyond two fatal resistances, also corrosion gives up to 40% fragile
Refunds SP, Also extra power up?
Two issues however, she has to play first, the buff doesn't last an extra turn, also sloth cost..
I have to run tests

Ressources : 2 LUST / 2 SLOTH / 2 PRIDE

Faust - Hex Nail

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
16	10	26	1	👻

Faust BiS for Teth slot
Single coin, and pierce fragility, only issue is that it is FOR the turn only
3 curse and 3 nail to synergize with the bleed team and Rodion's own Hex Nail
Otherwise sucks because Faust is mid
Uptie 4 is great

Ressources : 6 ENVY

Ryoshu - Red Eyes

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
18	6	24	3	🚬

Lots of free bind
Synergy with the other Red Eyes for lots of clash
Biggest sin is to be ugly to look at
3 attack weight at IV

Ressources : 2 LUST / 2 GLUT / 1 ENVY

Gregor - Lantern

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
16	8	24	3	🪲

Gregor is at low hp because he's your beloved bug tank? Wiggle finger at the enemy and heal back to normal level in a one-sided (or clash because it still has okay values)
To be combined with Suddenly, One Day, for best results

Ressources : 1 SLOTH / 4 GLUT

• ZAYIN E.G.O

Placeholder for Zayin

Gregor - Suddenly, One Day

Base Power	Coin Power	Max Power	Atk.W	Sinner
14	14	28	1	🪲

I used to foolishly think, "legerdemainn has bleed count! it must be great in a bleed team!" until you realize how very little the amount of glutony you have in your team, you can't even do the a-resonance needed to proc the passive, at least for now, so instead we use Suddenly, One Day
It does synergize perfectly with Priest, as his passive makes him able to survive one turn without going below 1 hp, after which the passive will apply, heal him 15 hp and prevent him dying from 1 bleed, allowing you to use Lantern and heal him back

Also really useful because it's sloth and sloth is the rarest ressource in our team, using EGO gives you the respective ressource and ZAYIN ones don't cost you whatever colour they are

Ressources : 3 LUST / 1 GLOOM

Uptie La Sangre de Sancho and Forest for the Flames to IV

I personally run Holiday on Heathcliff for the extra potency but Bodysack is cheap af

【Strategies and funny builds】

Combination of overall useful knowledge and random hilarious stuff you can do with this build
Needed an outlet for these man

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Gregor-o-nomics

It came to me in a dream
Here's how it works, if you can sustain more turns of absolute resonance of the Garden of Thorns E.G.O this bumps the teamwide buff to +40% Lust damage and +4 Lust Power Up, as soon as Gregor is done

But then, PM heard my plea and said "sure let's make it worse"
In any Mirror Dungeon, grab Rusty Commemorative Coin, the E.G.O gift that lets the first 1-coin attack of the turn be doubled
If you go out of your way to double both turns, that's +80% Lust damage and +8 Lust Power
One problem however, that's also -120 SP over two turns and you're not allowed to use any non-lust skills so no fluid sac

Yeah




Unless you get any E.G.O gift that give him S.P like Faith, 3 times is his limit
With Infinity MD you can definitely use that strategy reliably, although beware for the absurd EGO ressource sink

Here's a discord link to that occurence, intervallo 7.5-1 spoilers [cdn.discordapp.com]

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Don-Nuke

Basically, Infinite MD means you have to meta slave to beat floor 10, so here's how you get stupid damage numbers in a quick tldr :
Obviously start with a ++ Wound Cleric
- Get the Bleed EGO gifts, obviously Bloody Mist for coin power, the bleed IV that gives everyone bleed and the hardmode bleed fusion to have an easier time
- The Pierce EGO gifts, for Rodion and Don, Dueling Manual for damage and Punctured Memory for coin power
- Get the Crit EGO gifts, Nebulizer, Four-Leaf Clover and very important Clear Mirror, Calm Waters for the crit damage and +15 offensive level, also Frugality for damage
- Getting the stuff for EGO ressources is very welcome as f9-10, you have to speed dif Yearning-Mircalla to reach stagger threshold on any non single target fight
- Get the damage up & Charge EGO gifts : More optional, Lightning Rod, Charge-Type Gloves, Curriculum Vitae, Wrist Guards, UPS System, Bloody Gadget for damage
- Get the Tremor EGO gifts : Bell of Truth and a ++ Downpour for 40% fragile
- Sinking and Rupture can be stacked but are less of a priority
- Burn? Ignore burn ig
- Get Lunar Memory and the Lust Stone
- Replace Don S1 with a S3 to help



Combine with Gregor-o-nomics for best results

Lust and Burn

Theory discussion spot of "oh this could be a thing in the future"
For some extremely weird reason, Lust resonance exists for burn as well, kinda brother/sister relationship, very rare to see a Wrath ego without Lust for example and vice versa

So what's a Lust, burn bleed team?
It's basically gear shifting for mono-target bossfights from specific Sinners which happen to have burn compatibility in the Lust Team, that is to say Sinclair and Faust primarily for potency combined with Don for count to afterwards have 99x99 burn count and then have the other sinners actually apply bleed all the while burn keeps ticking each turn
...and then you run Magic Bullet Outis
"uhh barber outis or ring outis?" ♥♥♥♥♥ we run MAGIC BULLET here

Visionary or schizophrenic call it

This may die later on in the future but for the time being seems decently easy to run :

Main components :
Don - Lifetime Stew (Infinite guaranteed burn count)
Outis - Magic Bullet, ID and EGO (Honorary Lust member)
Yi Sang - Ring Pointilist (Infinite almost guaranteed burn count)
Faust - LCE (EGO Ressources and kills herself after applying lots of burn)

Secondary components :
Ryoshu - Forest for the Flames (Uptie doesn't give much, just remember it's a source of potency)
Ryoshu - 4th Match Flame (Absurd amount of burn and 10/10 passive)
Gregor - Suddenly, One Day (Gambling!!! 40% chance of a good status)
Sinclair - Lifetime Stew (Unreliable but decent source of burn and comes with EGO AMP)

Other source of burn can be found here and there but will sacrifice something in Bleed/Lust so beware

Conclusion and Changelog

PM loves Lust

Stop calling this the bleed team this is the Lust team now

You might struggle to apply Bleed until you get to the first stagger threshold of the boss at which point you'll have one turn in advance worth of Bleed Count and you'll loop, beware of whether the part you're targetting is breakable or not
If you're afraid of losing the count, Rodion's here for that
The rest is just setting up ressources (specifically in dungeons) and hitting them with the greatest nuke on earth

As much as I love Manager Don and the fact she can hit 4k+ on a single skill in MD, the real strength of Lust team is not them being individually strong but instead absurd together
Ryoshu, Yi Sang, Rodion, Don and now Ish compete for the damage leaderboard really well

Also it's entirely possible to run 4 sinners, Don and Rodion as 1st and 2nd, then Outis and Gregor as bloodfiends
Means that they get 2 attacks per turn (and Rodion's S2 does stack, +4 power is stupid)
You can clear an entire hard MD with only those 4

I kinda expect next Cantos to just almost ignore Lust altogether considering how busted its became but we'll see (they just gave RR5 a passive that caps debuffs at 50, GOD)

Feel free to give feedback or to play around with the concept

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Changelog :
9/02/25 - It's out, mwah~
10/02/25 - Added the main HE E.G.O, SP cost and changed a bit the guide layout
13/02/25 - Added Gregor-o-nomics
17/02/25 - PM made an oopsie and Ish actually does +1 bleed count on support hence :
- R.Corp Meursault is now the god of bleed
- His E.G.O are now relevant since he can be used
20/02/25 - RR5 is out, turns out there's a limit per category so I changed the layout yet again, added a build order, the MOTU and others little details
07/03/25 - Added Don Nuke, I'll update my personal best over time if I ever beat it
14/03/25 - Slowly updating the guide and added Glossary
28/03/25 - I worked my magic and the glossary works
1/04/25 - Went back to IDs and added Archetypes
13/04/25 - Added lots of stuff for Gregor
16/04/25 - Added Blurn

[Robur01]

As for "oh but she makes Don S2 arguably worse" this is definitely not true anymore in MD where the memory now buffs coin power and worst case scenario you'll use an EGO for hardblood rotation
One issue however, Barber has a gluttony defense which can be annoying for emergency resonance, hence why when I'll get around doing TETH you want to have the statue even if it's stupid expensive

[Robur01]

Bloodfiends/R Meursault/Ryoshu for anything hard
MD you wanna run 5 units with bleed for bloody mist but otherwise just 4 bloodfiends works
For RR you might be able to win decently well by having the above be your team on section 2-3, need to find a way to clear section 1 easily though and the rest of the core 6 isn't really up there

As for Outis, I fail to see what makes Ring Outis good, sure she applies Bleed and if you have no better you could run her, but her Bloodfiend ID is still significantly better
Barber has healing on hit (very relevant in modern content), attack weight, a LOT of coins (useful for MD) and pretty good bleed potency
No bleed count but that's fine

[Biggy-Jay jukem]

Any comments on the outis debate? Ive read a lot and most people tend to favor ring outis, although discussuon is primarily pre kuro ish. Also whats your most commonly ran teams in the different parts of the game?

[Regrettable Acts in 1 Step]

I think this is a well made guide, but I think you should add a section of IDs that generate bleed count since bleed is very obtuse in stacking it

[Robur01]

Considering we're nearing the end of season 5, consider trying to clear Refraction railway 5 that's just got announced today and will release on the 20th (that will give you a guaranteed 000 from the season) and sparking the Bloodfiends you'll be missing as those will be gone from the dispenser as soon as season 6 starts

It's not a bad shout to just bring ish/heath together instead of full bloodfiend but based solely on time left, I'd go for the bloodfiends and then from there on you can just grab whatever you're missing
After season 6, get the IDs that are in standard like yi sang
You might even have time to do all of them

[Rov]

so if I currently have kurokumo ishmael,heathcliff,ryoshu(with the WAW) , manchaland don +rodion I should be fine with at as a five man team ( I am new to the game and kinda spent like 145 pulls where I got almost all kurokumo and blade of lineage, then discovered I could grind the pass and I am near the 120 mark, bought ofc since I really love don and the id + her ego). Or should I aim for full manchaland team +ying sang and as 6th guy for md I would bring heathcliff with ishamel and leave ying sang on bench ( I still need to farm for outis,gregor,ying sang ids from your recommandation).

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[Robur01]

"Joke" subcategory is for units that don't have an ID matching the themes of what you'd think is a Lust team and yet count as they are still extremely good

It's definitely something I'll expand upon at a later date, which support passive etc, I would've never noticed base don without that comment lmao
Enjoy bleedin'

[OH NOİ]

There are two Lust/Bleed units forgotten here. Not that they are useful or good, but I think they should make it into 'The Joke' category those are R.B. Chef de Cuisine Ryōshū and Base don lol both of them only relevant on support passives these days but still a good mention for lust/bleed

[Hole™]

this guide is so good it makes me want to kill myself