Special Interception: Modernia | Nikke: Goddess of Victory (2024)

This guide is specific to Special Interception: Modernia.

For a more detailed guide for I-Framing in Special Interception: Modernia, click here.

General Tips

1. The highest priority for this fight is destroying her core ASAP. When Modernia’s core is present, she will use a laser beam attack that deals high damage and stuns any units directly hit. To ensure your AI-controlled units will focus Modernia’s core rather than her wings, only skip after Modernia’s face is shown in her intro animation.
2. The second important note is to avoid breaking both of her wings. When both her wings are destroyed, Modernia enters a teleporting phase and fires down high damage, high speed missiles that are difficult to defend against and causes a significant DPS loss.
3. As Modernia’s projectiles are highly telegraphed and all land at the same time, it is possible to i-frame her projectiles and otherwise ignore them. To read more about how i-framing works in Modernia SI, check out this page.
4. Another tips is to destroy one of her two wings to reduce her damage, but this runs a risk that your other units controlled by AI may break the second wing if their DPS is too high.
5. A healer is highly recommended to have a smoother and less frustrating run, taking into account Modernia’s machine gun damage that is unavoidable and failing to i-frame bombs damage.
6. For this fight, place your 3 highest DPS units on the same side and control your highest DPS unit to manually aim at Modernia’s body. This will avoid both wings from being broken.

1st/2nd rotation

This section of the guide assumes that it’s your first/second time fighting Modernia in SI, and therefore has weaker gears (no full T9), which leads to not having enough DPS to break core or full clear. Therefore, riskier moves (fully i-framing all 6 bombs) and certain units that are very effective in breaking Modernia’s core (Snow White, Alice) have to be used to achieve full clear. (If you are content with lower stage rewards and just want an easier run, skip this section and move here.)

General Steps

1. Skip after Modernia’s face is shown in her intro animation, which will cause your AI controlled units to aim at her core. Control your highest DPS unit and aim at the core as well. Activate burst as soon as burst gauge is ready and continue aiming at her core.
2. As soon as Modernia fires her laser, take cover until the laser attack is over. Modernia will then fire 6 bombs after she finishes her laser attack. To maximize damage and break core, i-frame all 6 bombs and continue aiming at her core. As soon as your burst is ready again, activate burst and break her core.
3. Modernia will now begin to act a cycle of: Firing 6 bombs>Moving forward>Fires machine gun>Moving backwards. You should time AOE burst to clear bombs, and either clear the bombs manually or i-frame them when AOE burst is on cooldown.
4. You should seek to destroy the wing that is on the same side you place all your DPS units ASAP. This will allow you to deal with only 3 bombs, and there is very low risk of both wings being destroyed since you are using weaker gears and your DPS units are on the other side.
5. Repeat step 3 until the fight ends.

Team Composition

For this particular SI, the recommended teams are only to give you ideas to start with. Your highest priority is to build a team that can break Modernia’s core before she fires a second laser. For example, lets imagine you have a highly invested Brid with Bond 30 and 8/8/8 skill levels, and a Drake with Bond 1 and 1/1/1 skill levels. If you fail to break core with Drake in team, you should try using the highly invested Brid even though the guide here recommends Drake and did not mention Brid.

The two teams below are designed for players who only have T8 and 1-3 T9 gears but want to stage 8/9 Modernia on their first or second rotation of SI. With full DPS, you should have an easier time breaking core using this team. However, since there is no healing, you would need near 100% success rate on i-framing bombs when your AOE burst is on cooldown, and good RNG to avoid Modernia’s machine gun attack from landing on the same target repeatedly and killing one of your units.

Once you have enough T9 gears, you can replace Drake with a unit that provides healing such as Rapunzel, Helm and Soda.

Snow White Full DPS

Liter	Blanc	Snow White	Noir	Modernia
Dorothy	Guilty		Drake	Privaty

Dorothy is a decent replacement for Liter as her S1 during burst allows the entire team to do extra damage to parts (which helps to break core faster). Dorothy has to be paired with Privaty though, to ensure that cooldown rotates fast enough.

Best B2 is Blanc but she has to be paired with Noir. (Do NOT use only 1 of them) Guilty is the 2nd best B2 choice and can be replaced by Viper/Rupee.

Modernia is the best B3 here since she deals great DPS without having to use burst, and she helps to clear bombs if you are not able to i-frame all of them. Scarlet is a good replacement if using Blanc and Noir, otherwise use Drake instead.

The core unit for this team is Snow White (SW). Your goal is to use SW’s burst as your first burst in fight and break Modernia’s core ASAP. A good tip here is to NOT charge SW’s burst above 800% for mobile and 900% for PC (It is possible to reach higher percentage, but these 2 figures should ensure that Snow White fires before Liter’s buff expire without having to sweat as much) as Liter’s buff may expire, resulting in much lower damage. Refer to the steps above for an idea of how the fight should be played.

Alice Full DPS

Liter	Blanc	Alice	Noir	Modernia
Dorothy	Admi		Drake	Privaty

Dorothy is a decent replacement for Liter as her S1 during burst allows the entire team to do extra damage to parts (which helps to break core faster). Dorothy has to be paired with Privaty though, to ensure that cooldown rotates fast enough.

Best B2 is Blanc but she has to be paired with Noir. (Do NOT use only 1 of them)

The core units for this team are Alice and Admi. Admi provides reload speed for Alice, and Alice provides huge DPS in short time. Your goal is to use Alice’s burst as your burst in fight and break Modernia’s core ASAP. You would want to manually control Alice and quick tap to build up burst gauge faster, which allows you to activate burst earlier. Refer to the steps above for an idea of how the fight should be played.

3rd rotation and beyond

This section of the guide assumes that it’s at least your third time fighting Modernia in SI, and therefore has stronger gears (couple of T9 especially attackers T9). You should have more than enough DPS to break Modernia’s core before she fires a second laser, and wants survivability to reduce reliance on good RNG to clear consistently and save time. Therefore, a healer should be included in your team.

General Steps

1. Skip after Modernia’s face is shown in her intro animation, which will cause your AI controlled units to aim at her core. Control your highest DPS unit and aim at the core as well. Activate burst as soon as burst gauge is ready and continue aiming at her core.
2. As soon as Modernia fires her laser, take cover until the laser attack is over. Modernia will then fire 6 bombs after she finishes her laser attack. To have an easier time, you should clear 3 bombs on one side and attempt to i-frame the remaining 3 bombs. Even if you fail to i-frame, all units should be able to survive, otherwise retry. As soon as your burst is ready again, activate burst and break her core.
3. Modernia will now begin to act a cycle of: Firing 6 bombs>Moving forward>Fires machine gun>Moving backwards. You should time AOE burst to clear bombs, and follow step 2 to deal with bombs when AOE burst is on cooldown. When you are not dealing with bombs, control your highest DPS unit and damage Modernia’s body. (Avoid breaking both wings, otherwise she enters into teleport mode.)
4. Repeat step 3 until the fight ends.

Team Composition

The general rule for the team compositions in this section is 1 healer, 1 CDR buffer and 3 DPS units. The DPS units are very flexible, and you should always use your strongest DPS units even if they are not mentioned by the guide. As long as you are able to break Modernia’s core, your team will do fine.

Note: For all teams below that recommends Liter as B1 (except for team Noir+Blanc), Dorothy is the next best alternative for Liter (better than Volume) since Dorothy provides CDR and can deal decent damage on her own compared to Volume. Dorothy has to be paired with Privaty though, to ensure that cooldown rotates fast enough.

Pepper Healing

Pepper	Dolla	Scarlet	Modernia	Drake
		Alice	Laplace

The core units for this team composition are Pepper and Dolla. Pepper provides healing, while Dolla is the only B2 with cooldown reduction, which allows you to activate another burst rotation to break Modernia’s core before Modernia fires a second laser.

The remaining 3 units should be the best DPS units you have. Scarlet is the best option with her high single target damage and AOE burst to clear bombs, Modernia provides great DPS and Drake provides good DPS and burst generation being a shotgun unit.

Rapunzel/Soda Healing

Liter	Rapunzel	Scarlet	Guilty	Drake
Dorothy	Soda	Alice	Viper	Modernia

The core units for this team are Liter and Rapunzel. Rapunzel provides healing, while Liter acts as the CDR and ATK buffer. You should always activate Liter’s burst and only use Rapunzel’s burst when one of your units is down.

Dorothy is the best replacement for Liter but has to be paired with Privaty. Volume can replace Liter, but you will need better skills and gears on your DPS units to account for the weaker buffs. Soda can replace Rapunzel, although Soda has lower healing. Only use Liter/Volume’s burst when you have Soda in team.

Guilty, Viper and Rupee are the top options for B2 since they provide good DPS, but any other 20s B2 works too if your DPS units have enough damage to full clear already.

Helm Healing

Liter	Helm	Scarlet	Guilty	Drake
Dorothy		Alice	Viper	Modernia

The core units for this team are Liter and Helm. Helm provides healing, while Liter acts as the CDR and ATK buffer. You should activate Helm’s burst on your second burst rotation, and then activate it whenever it’s available after that.

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Noise Taunt

Liter	Scarlet	Noise	Guilty	Drake
Dorothy	Alice		Viper	Modernia

The core and irreplaceable unit for this team is Noise. Noise provides survivability by taunting the machine gun and bombs which have to be i-framed. There are 2 ways of using Noise.

The 1st method is manual control Noise for the whole fight. Therefore, putting high DPS units on 1 side is needed to avoid breaking both wings. Controlling Noise, you should fully charge an attack and release it right as Modernia’s wings snaps back to i-frame the bombs. Refer to the 1st video below.

The 2nd method is to control your highest DPS character and aim at Modernia’s body to lower chances of breaking both wings. When the bombs are about to land on Noise, switch to Noise to i-frame the bombs. Refer to the 2nd video below.

Bunny Twins (Noir+Blanc)

Liter	Blanc	Scarlet	Noir	Modernia
Volume		Laplace		Alice

Liter as always the top option for B1, providing CDR buff and huge ATK buff. Volume can replace Liter but requires your other units to have higher skill levels and better gears. Note: Dorothy should not be used here as Noir’s max ammo increase will mess up Dorothy’s CDR buff.

The core units are our bunny twins, Noir and Blanc. Note:

Core units are Blanc and Noir. Note:Blanc has to be paired with Noir. (Do NOT use Blanc without Noir)

Blanc is the main act here, providing damage taken debuff for 10 seconds, which hugely amplifies everyone’s damage. Blanc also provides healing and shielding, which helps the entire team to survive Modernia’s machine gun and bombs.

Noir is here to mainly reduce Blanc’s 60s CD to 20s. Other than that, Noir provides a small ATK buff and good burst gen being a clip shotgun unit with the lowest reload time.

The 2 remaining slots should be 2 other B3 DPS units, with once again Scarlet and Modernia being top options, easy to play and their burst help to deal with bombs. Using other DPS units such as Laplace and Alice if you don’t have the 2 Pilgrims will work fine too.