Academy 2024 Rerun Teaser
April is Japan’s new school year, and academy is returning to PAD with some blazing passion you only encounter in schools!
Day 2
New Cards
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Wind Band’s Draconic Songstress on Double Bass, VioneDragon / Physical
Active Skill: Charge allies’ active by 3 turns; Transform to [11095] for the rest of the dungeon (28 max CD)
Leader Skill: [7×6 board] 2.2x all stats for Wood att.; 10x ATK when matching 5+ connected wood orbs
/ Early Afternoon Draconic Songstress on Double Bass, Vione (Transform)Dragon / Physical
Active Skill: Fully recovers unmatchable, bind and awoken bind status; For 1 turn, change all members dmg cap value to 6,000,000,000 (5 max CD)
Leader Skill: 15x ATK, reduce dmg taken by 50% and deals 5,000,000 fix dmg when matching 5+ connected wood orbs; 2.2x all stats for Wood att.
Early Afternoon Draconic Songstress on Double Bass, Vione’s ID (Assist evo)Dragon
Active Skill: Fully recovers unmatchable, bind and awoken bind status; For 5 turns, reduce dmg taken by 35% (8 max CD)
Leader Skill: None
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Cheer Leader, VajrayaskaGod / Attacker
Active Skill: For 6 turns, change Leader and Helper dmg cap value to 6,000,000,000; For 6 turns, 2x ATK for God and Attacker type (6 max CD)
Leader Skill: 5x all stats when team total rarity is 35 or below; 8x ATK and +5 combo when 4+ colors attack
Cheer Leader, Vajrayaska’s ID (Assist evo)God
Active Skill: For 6 turns, change Leader and Helper dmg cap value to 6,000,000,000; For 6 turns, 2x ATK for God and Attacker type (6 max CD)
Leader Skill: None
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Swimming Club Advisor, VolsungDragon / Attacker
Active Skill: For 1 turn, change all sub dmg cap value to 2,000,000,000, Leader and Helper dmg cap value to 9,900,000,000; Unlock all orbs; Change all orbs to all att. (3 max CD)
Leader Skill: Orb move time +3 sec; 35x ATK when 4 colors attack, 50x ATK and deals 1 fix dmg when 5 colors attack; 5x HP for Dragon type
Swimming Club Advisor, Volsung’s ID (Assist evo)Dragon
Active Skill: For 1 turn, change all sub dmg cap value to 2,000,000,000, Leader and Helper dmg cap value to 9,900,000,000; Unlock all orbs; Change all orbs to all att. (3 max CD)
Leader Skill: None
Note: Academy Volsung will be your seasonal Exchange just like Halloween Linthia and NY Nordis!
Buffs
Day 1
New Cards
/ Baseball Club’s Red Dragon Caller, SoniaDragon / Attacker
Active Skill: For 3 turns, change self dmg cap value to 6,000,000,000; For 3 turns, bypass dmg void shield; Unlock all orbs; Change all orbs to fire and heart orbs (6 max CD)
Leader Skill: 24x ATK and reduce dmg taken by 78% when 8+ combo; 1.2x ATK and deals 2,000,000 fix dmg for each fire combo matched
Sonia’s Baseball Gears (Assist evo)Dragon
Active Skill: Charge allies’ active by 2 turns; For 2 turns, bypass dmg void shield; For 2 turns, change board size to 7×6 (13 max CD)
Leader Skill: None
Baseball Club’s Red Dragon Caller, Sonia’s ID (Assist evo)Dragon
Active Skill: For 1 turn, change all subs dmg cap value to 7,000,000,000; For 1 turn, 3x RCV and orb move time; For 1 turn, 3x ATK for Fire att. (10 max CD)
Leader Skill: None
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Airsoft Club’s Ace, CamillaDevil / Machine
Active Skill: Deals 5000x Fire DMG to all enemies (15 max CD)
Leader Skill: 1.7x rank exp when enter dungeon as Leader; 25x ATK and reduce dmg taken by 75% when matching 2+ fire combo
Airsoft Club’s Ace, Camilla’s ID (Assist evo)Devil
Active Skill: Deals 5000x Fire DMG to all enemies (15 max CD)
Leader Skill: None
/ Student Guidance and Gal Dragon Caller, Satsuki & KannaDragon / Attacker
Active Skill: [1] For 2 turns, change self dmg cap value to 5,000,000,000; For 2 turns, 2x orb move time; Unlock all orbs; Create 4 light, dark and heart orbs; Evolve skill to stage [2] (3 max CD)
[2] For 1 turn, 2x RCV; For 1 turn, 2x ATK for Light and Dark att.; Unlock all orbs; Create 4 light, dark and heart orbs; Return skill to stage [1] (1 max CD)
Leader Skill: 13x ATK, reduce dmg taken by 50% and +2 combo when light and dark attack; 2.4x all stats for Light and Dark att.
Satsuki’s Bamboo Sword & Kanna’s Bag (Assist evo)Dragon
Active Skill: Delay enemies’ next move by 4 turns; For 2 turns, bypass att. absorb, dmg absorb and dmg void shield (17 max CD)
Leader Skill: None
New Evolution
/ Great Witch Woke Up from Noises, Remu (Evo)Devil / Physical
Active Skill: [1] Create a fire/heart roulette that last for 1 turn; Charge allies’ active by 2 turns; Evolve skill to stage [2] (20 max CD)
[2] Create a fire/heart roulette that last for 1 turn; For 1 turn, 2x RCV and orb move time; For 1 turn, 2x ATK for Fire att. (4 max CD)
Leader Skill: 14x ATK, reduce dmg taken by 50% and +4 combo when fire and heart attack; 2.3x all stats for Fire att.
Love PAD Academy Remu’s new artwork, GungHo should consider making an entire series of cards featuring Lotta Lotta just randomly photobombing other characters.
Looks like PAD Academy Camilla has set a new record with 5x Dungeon Bonus, outdoing even her original version. Satsuki & Kanna’s Assist also stands out with the ability to counter multiple critical enemy defence mechanics all in a single Active Skill. It even appears to outclass Orihime and Alexander’s comparably similar Assist AS in addition to having an actually lower cooldown. The rather impressive Awoken Skill set including 2x Skill Boost is just icing on the cake.
Satsuki & Kanna is.just.insane. extremely powerful no holding back. no transformation. 2 attributes buff, unlock orbs, and DPS-favor awoken skills. Camilla also a great tools for farming. and lastly I’m glad they don’t forget Sonia. she was my first main in the game. Yeah it’s 10 years ago lol
As a Leader, Satsuki & Kanna appear to have a bit of a blindspot in that their Leader Skill doesn’t cover bonus attack to counter resolve, so running doubles as Leader/Helper can be risky. She’d probably get along just fine with Kaishu though, especially in light off his recent buffs and if you pull a 7×6 Leaper Swap with his transform AS (Though you’d need to have a Kaishu of your own to pull that off).
In hindsight after looking at PAD Academy Volsung, the artist who did Halloween Linthia sure had it easy. You can spot the exact spot in Volsung’s artwork where the artist started questioning their life choice (Hint: He’s wearing a speedo). 😀
Joking aside, PAD Academy Volsung is rather interesting in that as far as I’m aware, he is the first card in the game to actually lower the damage cap of your own cards below the base default to exactly 2 billion in exchange for raising damage cap for Leader/Helper specifically to 9.9 billion. Wouldn’t be surprise if GungHo starts deliberately making this a debilitating enemy game mechanic, especially with the recent surge of cards that raise the damage cap for multiple cards like PAD Academy Vione that could theoretically be used to counter it.
Don’t forget that some times lowering the cap for a good majority of subs doesn’t even matter.some of the time your teams will only have 2-3 cards doing actual damage. Lowering the dmg of a cleric or a utility card doesn’t matter.
Also theres niche uses of lowered dmg cap like final floor of un4s vdp shield being exactly 2billion.