A complete guide on how to play as a Lepic character in The First Descendant, including his class skills, role, and everything you should know.
Lepic Character (Class) Overview
Lepci is a solid character choice for beginners, with powerful demolition abilities and good survivability. Overall he can become a great damage dealer, and his specialty is causing massive area-of-effect damage with his grenades. However, players will have to commit to progressing his character and upgrading modules because he’s not strong right out of the gate.
Lepic Character (Class) Features in The First Descendant:
- Role: AoE Dealer
- Feature: Even the tide of battle is swayed by his unique cheerfulness. However, his prosthetic right arm shows that within that cheerful personality lies a darkness.
- Battle Concept: He subdues the battlefield with his powerful prosthetic right arm and grenade.
- Pros: Strong AOE burst damage
- Cons: Needs character progression
- Passive Skill: Close Call
- Active Skills: Grenade, Overclock, Traction Grenade
- Ultimate Ability: Overkill
- How to Unlock: Chosen as starting character, bought in-store, or crafted
In The First Descendant, characters are your classes, each possessing unique skills, passives, and ultimate abilities. You have three base game characters: Lepic, Viessa, and Ajax. Moreover, as you progress, you can unlock more characters through research and crafting them.
The First Descendant class system resembles games like Destiny 2 and Warframe. You will have three standard abilities with cooldowns based on their power. You can also use multiple guns and accessories to develop your build. Furthermore, each class has its pros and cons and optimal usage. In this First Descendant guide, we will describe how to play the Lepic character, how to unlock him, and who would enjoy this class playstyle.
Should you play Lepic in The First Descendant?
Players familiar with grenade-centric soldiers will want to select Lepic as their starting character. He is a beginner-friendly character who is easy to access as one of the three starting characters you must choose from. What makes Lepic a good starting character is his AOE-friendly grenade damage. Area damage (AOE) helps clear mobs and non-boss fights, allowing faster leveling. Moreover, he can spam his ultimate, providing high damage. However, expect a slow start to utilize his power because Lepic is mod/gear-dependent fully.
Furthermore, his passive skill, Close Call, will give you a chance of surviving fatal damage during battle. While this does not give him any extra buffs for players looking to do top-tier damage, it does give him a survivability boost that can help newer players just starting.
Who is Lepic? – Story
Lepic’s recklessness and apparent lack of fear in battle are a result of his previous experiences as a member of the 44th Grenadier Squad. A battle with the Vulgus took out his entire squad and his right arm. Consequently, Lepic had to deal with a lot of survivor’s guilt, which at times pushed him to near self-harm. Medical records now show that he has been ‘completely cured’ but the events of that battle have still left more than the physical scars.
Additionally, as part of his recovery, Lepic received a prosthetic arm, culminating in the Magisters’ technology. With his return to the front lines as a Descedent, Lepic uses it as part of his deadly arsenal of weapons.
How to Play Lepic – Character Gameplay
Lepic can do great damage, has high survivability, and is great for beginners looking for a more simplistic character. He’s a mobile soldier with a flare for demolition but not as fancy and flashy as some of the other descendants. However, his AOE damage abilities benefit from being effective against both groups of enemies and single-target bosses.
Lepic’s main gameplay loop is via the Overclock ability, adding burn effects to grenades and overkill for a set duration. Overkill is your ultimate and fires a powerful artillery shell, while grenades do massive explosions. Thus, timing Overclock before you throw a grenade or use Overkill adds burning or damage over time (DOT). Lepic is a simple grenade spammer with heavy AOE, but the trick is reducing his cooldown and managing the Overclock ability.
Area Damage and Single-Target Damage: Lepic excels at creating area-of-effect damage and removing packs of mobs. Moreover, you can benefit your group with the Traction Grenade ability. This grenade pulls enemies into the center, creating a nice focal point for everyone to throw all their damage abilities at. Make sure to activate Overlock before a grenade for extra burning damage.
Movement and Speed: Lepic is your standard soldier character in The First Descendant, and his speed is fairly average. He won’t be dashing around the battleground like Bunny, but he’s not a slow, lumbering tank.
Bosses and Ultimates: Although Lepic’s strong suit might be AOE, that doesn’t mean he is weak against powerful, single-target bosses. The way to amplify your damage in single-target situations is by rotating grenades and the burning status effect with Overlock. Grenade to trigger burning, and as it’s fading, activate overclock and your ultimate to keep up the pressure.
Defenses and Survival Tips: Lepic’s passive skill, Close Call, is an innate boost to his survivability, giving you a chance to automatically recover some of your health after sustaining otherwise fatal damage.
How to Unlock Lepic in The First Descendant?
To unlock Lepic in The First Descendant, choose him as your starting character, purchase him from the store, or research him. If you decide to pick another character at the start of the game, you can choose to craft Lepic later on to gain access to the character. Furthermore, to craft Lepic, you will need:
- Lepic Enhanced Cells
- Semiconstant Plasma x290
- Monomolecular Extractor x499
- Highly Concentrated Energy Residue x37
- Lepic Enhanced Cell Blueprint x1
- 200,000 Gold
- Lepic Stabilizer
- Superfluid x571
- Shape Memory Alloy x4672
- Crystal Biogel x39
- Lepic Stabilizer Blueprint x1
- 200,000 Gold
- Lepic Spiral Catalyst
- Metal Accelerant x519
- Carbon Crystal x554
- Complex Carbon Activator x60
- Lepic Spiral Catalyst Blueprint x1
- Lepic Code
To research and craft Lepic, you must speak to Anais in the Albion Mountains area. She will grant you access to the Research Institute, where you can choose to craft additional descendant characters. There is an ultimate Lepic character unlock, but it will require more farming and is an advanced character.
Lepic Passive and Active Skills
All characters in The First Descendant have one passive skill, along with three active skills and an ultimate to choose from.
- Passive skills: Passive buffs are bonuses that are automatically applied to your Descendant when the situation meets the requirements.
- Active and Ultimate skills: You activate these directly, and the effects vary by character. Each character has unique skills to match their role and playstyle.
When you play as the Lepic character or class in The First Descendant, your main goal will be maintaining your uptime on the Overclock skill. This will boost the damage of your main damage skill Grenade by applying the Burn, which causes an additional damage-over-time effect. Moreover, you’ll also want to ensure Overclock is up before firing off your ultimate skill, Overkill. It will apply the same Burn effect to the artillery shell your ultimate fires off.
Passive Skill
Close Call – You have a chance of surviving fatal damage during battle.
- Usage – sadly, this is a weak point for Lepic. While it sounds good, nothing about this passive increases damage or defensives, and it is randomly based.
Active Skills
Grenade – Throws a grenade forward, inflicting AOE damage.
- Usage – this grenade does strong AOE damage, but you’ll want to activate Overclock prior to throwing for extra burn damage.
Overclock – Increases Skill Power Modifier and inflicts Burn on enemies damaged by Grenade and Overkill. Burn deals continuous damage for a certain period of time.
- Usage – this skill is your main focal point, which increases skill damage and burn status effect. The base cooldown is 20 seconds, and the damage over time burns last for 7 seconds. Grenade has a 6-second cooldown, while Traction has a 25-second cooldown. Therefore, you’re likely to always have at least one grenade up prior to activating Overlock.
Traction Grenade – Throws a Traction Grenade forward to pull enemies for a certain period of time
- Usage – the main usage of Traction over standard grenades is the pulling into the center effect. It will draw enemies into the center from a 9-meter radius at the point it lands. This grenade is ideal for packs of mobs, and acting overclock when you don’t expect to kill them instantly.
Ultimate Skill
Overkill – Switches the equipped weapon to Overkill. While Overkill is active, MP is continuously consumed. When MP runs out, it returns to the original weapon. Overkill bullets create an area of effect where they hit that deals continuous damage.
- Usage – since your MP (resource) determines the duration, you’ll want to wait until full or nearly to activate. When you activate Overclock just before, you can expect extra burn damage but it will cost 20 MP. This is by far your best ability single target and AOE, and with Overclock extra burn damage, it perfect to melt bosses or mobs.
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