It's calculated against the attacking enemies accuracy, rolls twice on a critical strike to potentially downgrade it to a normal hit and uses an entropy system to avoid lucky strikes on either side. ‣ Evasion: Evading a hit avoids all its damage aswell as ailments and stuns it would cause to you. While their damage ceiling is usually lower, DoTs allow you to damage enemies while moving which makes it easier to avoid their damage and can improve clearspeed. The length of this duration depends on the DoT source. "Coup De Massue" translates to "Crushing Blow", while “Coup De Grâce” translates to “Knockout”.‣ Damage over Time: Unlike hit damage, Damage over Time (or DoT) applies consistent damage per second over a duration to enemies.”La Force d'Ancêtres” translates to “The Strength of Ancestors”, which may be where the name of her Signature Ability, Ancestors' Strength, comes from.
The reduced health from Glass Cannon can also be offset by consistent Life Steal. Glass Cannon: By increasing her attack by as much as possible, Guillotine powers up most of her abilities from Soul Harvest to Life Steal.Additionally, because her Souls grant her increased Critical Hit Damage by themselves, increasing her Critical Hit Rate is extremely powerful. Increasing Critical Hit Rate and Critical Damage helps accomplish this. Precision and Cruelty: Guillotine relies on being aggressive and dealing consistent damage to feed her blade and gain extra souls.Increasing the amount of life stolen can be a huge boost to her defenses survivability in long Quests or Alliance Quests. Recovery: With her Signature Ability unlocked, Guillotine has access to a Life Steal effect at all times.This also results in decreased Special 3 effectiveness due to its Soul-based percentage damage. If she is facing off against an enemy that largely outclasses her, she cannot keep up the damage fast enough for her Souls to stick around and provide their bonus, thus weakening her combat advantage significantly. Guillotine relies on constant damage output to build up Souls.Additionally, her Heavy Attack has the longest reach in the game, allowing her more opportunities to break blocking foes. Guillotine has one of the longest reaches in the game, allowing her to strike foes before they can close the gap in a charge.Timing her second Special Attack just as Ultron starts his Self-Repair can cut him down extremely quickly. Guillotine's Heal Reversal effect on her second Special Attack can have devastating results for enemies with reliable Regeneration effects.Her percentage based damage on her third Special Attack allows her to deal massive damage and put her at a good advantage. Guillotine performs at her best when fighting foes that are stronger than herself.La Fleur du Mal consumes all available Souls and deals 2% of the opponent’s Health in Direct Damage per Soul consumed.Even a killing blow may be an act of mercy.Guillotine’s ancestral sword consumes 2 Souls to place a Phantasm on the opponent, reversing all active Healing effects for 10 seconds.Thrusting her bestowed blade into the earth, Guillotine strikes her opponent, then delivers a heavy overhead slash.Guided by the wisdom of those that came before, Guillotine strikes down her foe with a mighty cleaving blow.Minimum X% Health steal regardless of current Soul count. All Attacks: The Souls of her ancestors empower Guillotine further, granting a 10% chance to steal X% Damage dealt as Health for every 4 Souls she possesses.Critical Hits: Critical Hits lacerate opponents with a 50% chance, inflicting Bleed and dealing X damage over 4.5 seconds.Passive: A layer of Armor provides an additional X Armor Rating.Souls expire every 10 seconds and grant Guillotine X Critical Damage per Soul. Passive: For every 6% of maximum Health that Guillotine removes from her opponent during combat, she feeds her ancestral blade and gains 1 Soul.The current Guillotine uses the blade to punish the guility and keeps the sinister instincts of the sword in check. For the will of the sword is strong, and its thirst for blood is limitless, and many have succumbed to its whispers in their minds. Across the centuries, many have wielded the enchanted blade - some for good, some for evil. Born of a mixed French-Algerian heritage, the mysterious Guillotine is the latest in her bloodline to inherit "La Fleur du Mal", a mystical sword with dark supernatural powers.