Last Rite Build Guide: Stats, Greatswords & Lore

Last Rite is one of the five Sarkaz in the operator data, one of the two operators filed under Seš'qa, and the only 6★ Cryo Striker who swings a Greatsword. She is also, quietly, the most dependable name in the game's Chartered pools: across every Chartered Headhunting announcement in our archive, from [Scars of the Forge] on 21 January 2026 to [Rejuvenation] this month, her name has been in the 6★ list. She has never been the rate-up.

That makes her an odd guide subject. You are not saving for her. You are either watching her arrive unannounced from a lost 50/50, or checking whether the current pool is worth pulling through. Both questions have answers in the data, and the answers are below.

Last Rite at a glance

The attribute row needs a caveat. Our data carries two conflicting name tables for the attribute indices, and we have not resolved them, so treat "Solidification Boost" and "Ultimate Gain Efficiency" as the labels attached to her two slots rather than gospel. We do not print her per-level numbers at all, and neither should anyone quoting this page.

Her kit, as far as the data goes

All four of her skill slots are tagged Cryst. There is no split element here, no surprise Fire button on the ultimate, which is worth saying only because two other operators in the roster do exactly that. Her normal attack icon is the claymore icon, so the Greatsword classification is consistent across the kit rather than a single weapon slot.

What our data does not carry is skill names, multipliers, cooldowns or talent text. We can tell you she is a Cryo Striker built around a heavy weapon and leave the rotation theory to people who own her. Anyone publishing a numbered rotation for her is working from somewhere other than the game files we have.

The Greatsword pool she shares

Fourteen greatswords exist in the item data, and every greatsword operator in the game draws from the same pool. The count breaks down as seven 6★, four 5★, two 4★ and one 3★. The 3★ is Darhoff 7, and it is the starting weapon for all six of them, Last Rite included.

We only track Issue appearances for the 6★ tier because the pools are 6★-only. Read the middle column as history, not as a shopping list: an Issue that closed months ago is not a way to buy the weapon today.

Which greatswords have been on a banner

Four of the seven 6★ greatswords have passed through an [Arsenal Issue] pool at some point in our archive. Former Finery is the most travelled, at six Issues. Khravengger, Phantom Pain and Thunderberge have never appeared in one.

The live one is [Seal of Jade Issue], with Jade Vessel as its rate-up Greatsword. Its pool also carries Former Finery and Sundered Prince, so a greatsword player pulling that Issue has three shots at the class instead of one.

Six operators, one weapon class

Greatsword is the smallest weapon class in the roster by operator count. Two 6★ Strikers, one 6★ Guard, one 6★ Defender, two 5★ and one 4★ share the same fourteen weapons.

Ember is the 6★ greatsword user you will see most often in someone else's pull, because she has been in every Chartered pool our archive holds. Mi Fu is the other 6★ greatsword option, and the one you can actually build a team around if you already have him. Snowshine is the Cryo Defender who shares Last Rite's element and her weapon class, which makes her the natural stand-in if you have one and not the other.

Last Rite and Yvonne: the two 6★ Cryo Strikers

Seven operators in the data are Cryo. Exactly two of them are Strikers, both 6★, and they were built on opposite ends of the weapon list.

Same element, same class, no overlap in what you equip. If you are deciding which one to build first, the weapon shelf usually decides for you: a Greatsword pull and a Handcannon pull are not interchangeable, and neither are the fourteen greatswords and the twelve handcannons.

Seš'qa and the Sarkaz around her

Seš'qa is a two-operator faction in our data, and both members are 6★. That is the smallest faction in the roster with more than one member, which makes the tag more of a story label than a roster you can build around.

The wider Sarkaz group is five operators, and it is worth knowing who they are because Last Rite's records lean on Sarkaz custom more than most.

Two of the five are 6★ Strikers: Laevatain on Heat, Last Rite on Cryo. The faction and race tags carry no combat bonus in the data, so nothing here changes how she plays. It is context, not stats.

How you actually end up with her

Twelve distinct Chartered Headhunting banners have run between 21 January and 15 October 2026, each with a different rate-up 6★. Last Rite is in the 6★ pool of all twelve, and the pool has held eight names every time. No banner has made her the rate-up.

So the practical route is the off-rate pool, plus one piece of banner bookkeeping that matters more than it looks: the 60-pull reward, [Headhunting Dossier], converts into ten Headhunting Permits for the next Chartered banner and expires when that banner ends. It does not help you target Last Rite. Nothing in the current banner system does. What it does mean is that pulling through a full Chartered cycle is the cheapest way to accumulate 6★ chances in general, and she is one of the names those chances keep landing on.

Her rate-up history is a genuine blank rather than a gap in our scraping: every banner announcement we hold lists the rate-up explicitly, and her name is never in that slot. If a Last Rite banner runs later, it will be the first one.

The lore: Adelheid, who does not want to be a Nachzehrer

Her records are the best-written material on the operator, and they explain the design better than any stat table. Start with the paperwork.

An internal document from the Logistics Division politely asks whether someone can tell Miss Last Rite to stop hand-delivering written apologies for the training machines she damaged during testing. The damage, they note, is within normal limits. Other operators break more during routine inspection. She keeps apologising anyway.

The HR summary gives her name, Adelheid, and her job: brand ambassador for Seš'qa, seconded to Endfield's Specialist Tech Division on the recommendation of "Bridge Builder" Fleming, a senior consultant at Witching Hour. It also gives the handling notes. Offer snacks. Accept her silences. And do not get close when she panics, because the panic comes with freeze gases, and seeing you hurt makes the panic worse.

A bulletin from the rehab centre adds two things. First, she volunteers there and finds it calming. Second, do not tell the patients she is an undertaker. Elsewhere in the same file, a supply notice announces emergency ice melter sprays, then asks people to stop triggering her.

The childhood file is the one people quote. Adelheid grew up in the Den of the Brave, adopted by a Caprinae couple, mocked by a boy called "Biggie" Tom who wanted her out of the children's secret base. He relented because she cried and kept eating apple peelings and turnip leaves. Then the floods came, the bandits were driven out, and five families lost someone. The children followed the procession and found her on the hills with her family, cleaning headstones.

She left a roughly carved wooden statuette at Tom's grave, crooked and unbalanced, and said it was what he had always wanted: a figurine of a Competition Knight. The children tried not to laugh, then gave up and laughed, then pulled out their Knight Cards to work out how to make it more knight-like. Every year after that she led their procession into the cemetery and promised, "Tom is right here."

Her arrival in Seš'qa is the file that explains the hunger. She steps off a dirigible into a city that treats riot as decoration, cannot afford anything Witching Hour sells, and learns from a peddler that her constant hunger is a racial trait. She thinks: "I'm sorry. I just don't feel like being a Nachzehrer."

The last file is a negotiation between Fleming and M3, and it is the closest the game comes to stating her mechanical identity. Fleming calls her the Princess of the War Court, a slogan his employer has been selling. M3 asks why she is still hungry. The answer is that she refuses to feed on the dead: she respects every crew member, messenger and soldier who died in the frontiers too much to do it. A Wendigo friend's assessment is quoted back at them: "Though she did not consume the dead to strengthen herself, Death remains willing to assist her." Fleming's ask is small. Let her live like a normal child, get into trouble, grow up, make friends.

One more line, from the basic file: her Originium Arts Assimilation grade is printed as two solid blocks rather than a rating. Everything else in that section reads Excellent, Standard, Normal. Hers is redacted.

What our data does not include

Sources

Operator data from the site's own characters file (rarity, class, element, weapon type, faction, race, CV, records). Weapon pool from the item and weapon files, counted rather than copied. Arsenal Issue pools and banner pools parsed from the in-game announcement archive, which is why every number here is date-stamped. Related reading: Xaihi and Camille for the other Sarkaz with build guides, the weapons guide for the full class breakdown, and the Si banner guide for the pool she is currently sitting in.