Iroi Guide: Kit, Best Teams, and Build

Why Iroi Matters

Iroi is a 5-star Anima character on the Liquid Arc board, and she’s the first limited character in Neverness to Everness built entirely around healing. Every sustain option before her came from the standard pool, so she’s the first time a premium banner slot is a dedicated healer rather than a DPS.

The reason she’s worth the pull isn’t just numbers on a screen. While Iroi is on your team, nobody actually dies. Any ally who would be knocked out instead drops into Regression, sitting the fight out safely until Iroi’s Ultimate brings them back. That one mechanic removes survival as a constraint for teams that want to run as much offense as possible, which is why the community consensus lands on a flat T0 in the sustain/buffer role.

Best Teams

Iroi isn’t locked into a single composition. She fills the fourth slot in whatever reaction engine you already have running, trading a plain healer for Regression safety without losing offense.

Crimson Charge

1

Shinku

2

Hathor

3

Zero

4

Iroi

Iroi’s premium shell, and the reason she’s such a strong pull for existing Shinku owners. Hathor extends Remora out to 12 seconds and adds CRIT Rate against marked enemies, Zero keeps the Esper Cycle instantly refilled, and Iroi covers Shinku’s survival through Regression instead of taking up the slot with a plain healer. The full Cosmos + Anima + Lakshana spread fires the entire reaction chain every rotation:

Blossom Duo Cycle

Cosmos Anima

Generates 1 Vita Bud near the target after triggering Esper Cycle, which blossoms 5 Vita Pistils.
Vita Pistils then fly toward targets within range, exploding every 2s and dealing DMG to an area.
Up to 3 Vita Buds can exist on the field at once.

Resonance

Nanally

More Than Passionate

Blossom Enhancement: Fires 10 Vita Pistils with Vita Bud, reducing the interval between each shot to 1s.

Mint

Transform! Super Mint!

Blossom Enhancement: Expands Vita Pistils' damage area on hit.

Hotori

Ghost Orchid Crest

Blossom Enhancement: Prevents Vita Bud attacks from pausing during Time Stop.

Jiuyuan

Seize the Moment

Blossom Enhancement: Spawns 1 additional Vita Bud and increases Vita Bud limit on field to 6.

Iroi

Mirror Image

Blossom Enhancement: Generates a Vita Bud Copy when the current Vita Bud has existed for 3s. This copy cannot duplicate and does not count toward the Vita Bud limit. The copy produces 20 Copied Vita Pistils. Every 0.5s, one Copied Vita Pistil flies toward a target within range and explodes, dealing 37.5% of the original Vita Pistil's DMG.

Remora Duo Cycle

Lakshana Cosmos

The target enters Remora for 5s after triggering Esper Cycle, slowing their movement and attack speed. The effect decays over time, and will have a shorter duration if repeatedly applied.

Resonance

Skia

Suppression

Remora Enhancement: Inflicts an additional Remora on a target when Fang Thrust locks onto them in Remora state.

Hathor

Delay Warning

Remora Enhancement: Extends the target's Remora duration to 12s and increases Crit Rate by 10% when allies attacking a target affected by Remora.

Chaos

Justice in Time

Remora Enhancement: Deals Lakshana DMG equal to 800% of ATK to the target when Remora ends, based on Remora's duration. Each second beyond the base 5s duration increases total DMG by 45%, up to 300%. Resets Remora's duration when reapplied.

Charge Triple Cycle

Cosmos Anima Lakshana

Grants the active character 10 additional Ultimate Energy when Vita Pistils hit targets affected by Remora.

Resonance

Zero

Appraiser

Creation Enhancement: Each "Creation Flower" will split into 2 flowers that fly together towards the target within range and explode.

Chiz

Hanahaki Disease

Charge Enhancement: Grants active characters 4 additional Ultimate Energy.

Edgar

Gentle Edge

Charge Enhancement: Grants 120 Ultimate Energy instantly when a character triggers Charge using a Support Skill. Disables Ultimate Energy gain from Vita Pistils when hitting Slowed targets afterward. Cooldown: 30s.

Shinku

Lone Stride

Charge Enhancement: Grants off-field characters the same amount of Charge when the active character gains Ultimate Energy. While Shinku is active and in Charge state, each trigger deals AoE DMG equal to 400% of ATK (scales with Basic Attack level, reaching 863.6% at level 11), and increases her ATK by 5% for 30s, up to 10 stacks. Cooldown: 1s.

Blossom Core

1

Nanally

2

Zero

3

Jiuyuan

4

Iroi

Built for accounts that invested in Nanally instead of pulling Shinku. Nanally increases Blossom attack frequency, Jiuyuan spawns additional Vita Buds, and Zero keeps the cycle gauge topped up while Iroi adds Anima presence on top of her usual sustain. Hotori can also slot into this shell if you own her. Without a Lakshana anchor, this team only fires the Cosmos + Anima duo:

Blossom Duo Cycle

Cosmos Anima

Generates 1 Vita Bud near the target after triggering Esper Cycle, which blossoms 5 Vita Pistils.
Vita Pistils then fly toward targets within range, exploding every 2s and dealing DMG to an area.
Up to 3 Vita Buds can exist on the field at once.

Resonance

Nanally

More Than Passionate

Blossom Enhancement: Fires 10 Vita Pistils with Vita Bud, reducing the interval between each shot to 1s.

Mint

Transform! Super Mint!

Blossom Enhancement: Expands Vita Pistils' damage area on hit.

Hotori

Ghost Orchid Crest

Blossom Enhancement: Prevents Vita Bud attacks from pausing during Time Stop.

Jiuyuan

Seize the Moment

Blossom Enhancement: Spawns 1 additional Vita Bud and increases Vita Bud limit on field to 6.

Iroi

Mirror Image

Blossom Enhancement: Generates a Vita Bud Copy when the current Vita Bud has existed for 3s. This copy cannot duplicate and does not count toward the Vita Bud limit. The copy produces 20 Copied Vita Pistils. Every 0.5s, one Copied Vita Pistil flies toward a target within range and explodes, dealing 37.5% of the original Vita Pistil's DMG.

In both comps, the same principle holds: one carry, one reaction enabler, one amplifier, and Iroi. Don’t stack extra damage dealers around her — her value comes from freeing up the fourth slot, not competing for it.

How She Plays

Iroi’s entire kit runs on Imagination, a resource generated by normal attacks, her Skill, her Chain Skill, and even her plunge attack. Everything she does either builds Imagination or spends it, and her Ultimate is the payoff.

Her lambs (Collaboration) strike up to five times on a normal attack, dealing Anima DMG and building Imagination on hit. Holding the attack charges into Daydream, which spends Imagination for a stronger hit, and holding again summons Morpheus for a sustained Lucid Dream volley.

Her Skill, Future Self Continuity, branches on press or hold: pressed, it heals the team, grants an ATK buff, deals Anima DMG, pulls enemies in, and builds Imagination; held, it drops up to three allies into Regression, swapping them out for Morpheus, Icelos, and Phantasos, who keep fighting in their place. Her Chain Skill, Bang!, is a quick top-off — Anima DMG, team heal, more Imagination.

Her Ultimate, 3.8-Billion-Year Mirage, is where all of that Imagination pays off. Below the threshold, it opens the Dream of the Horned Gate, continuously healing the whole team. At or above it, it opens the Dream of the Ivory Gate instead, healing allies and dealing Anima DMG at the same time — during this window, holding down a Regression-state ally’s portrait revives them and restores part of their HP, once per cast. Two passives tie the kit together: Mirror Image generates a Vita Bud Copy once the active bud has been out for 3 seconds, keeping Blossom alive while she’s off-field, and Sympathetic Nerves grants the whole team +5% DEF Ignore for 20 seconds every time she heals — turning her sustain directly into team damage.

In practice, that means opening on Iroi to build Imagination, holding Skill to drop Regression on your main carry, then swapping to that carry for their full damage window while Regression covers them. Come back for a pressed Skill to top off HP, and fire the Ultimate either reactively (someone needs the revive) or proactively (Imagination is high and you want the damage/DEF Ignore window). The habit worth building early is keeping Regression on your main DPS as consistently as possible — it’s both her survival tool and the setup for her next revive.

Build

Iroi scales on ATK across the board — her team ATK buff, her lambs’ attack ratio, and her console’s ATK bonus per Type III module all key off it, which is why ATK% and flat ATK outrank Healing Bonus. Energy Regen matters because it keeps her Ultimate cycling for both the revive and the damage window. Healing Bonus is only worth building if the team genuinely needs more sustain than her base kit already provides, and HP/DEF are comfort stats rather than priorities since Regression already covers survival. The Wrong Gate has no real competition as her signature — it converts the healing she’s already doing constantly into a full team damage buff.

Iroi is fully playable at zero copies. Her early Awakenings smooth out Imagination economy and Regression value rather than unlocking new tools, and A2 is the biggest single jump — it makes any ally’s skill cast trigger an assist attack from Morpheus, Icelos, or Phantasos plus a team heal, on a 5-second cooldown. If you’re weighing copies against her signature Arc, secure The Wrong Gate first.