Fire with Matilda for season 2
Fire with Matilda – Pure Ultimate Damage Build (Season 2)
Fire is one of the most explosive elements in Infinity Kingdom, and in Season 2, pairing it with Matilda creates a fast, high-ceiling build that can delete enemies outright through massive ultimate-based damage scaling.
This setup builds on Fire’s core strengths — fast energy regeneration, high critical hit chance, and burst potential — but trades healing suppression for raw damage output. When played right, Matilda Fire can outpace and overpower even higher-STP opponents through its tempo advantage and ultimate stacking.
The Build
Team Composition:
Trajan + Hippolyta + Empress Wu + Matilda
This combination maximizes energy regen and ultimate uptime, while keeping Fire’s signature synergy of high crits and nuke potential.
Matilda’s ultimate, “Elegant and Magnificent,” accelerates your entire team’s ultimates and compounds their damage through stacking effects — pushing Wu’s already ridiculous damage to another level and boosting the regen-control effectiveness of Hippo.
Matilda’s Ultimate – Elegant and Magnificent
“Increases all allies’ Energy Regen Speed by 20% for 9 seconds, and for every damage dealt by the Ultimate Skill of the buffed immortals, it gains a 20% damage increase effect that lasts for 9 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.”
With her Unique Artifact (available in the Golden Path Shop), this buff lasts 12 seconds, providing higher uptime and more stacking opportunities.
This means that each ultimate your team casts not only hits harder itself but also makes the next one stronger, stacking up to a 60% increase in ultimate damage.
Combined with Fire’s natural regen and crit scaling, this creates a self-sustaining snowball effect — faster ultimates leading to stronger ultimates, leading to faster wins.
Build Concept – Ultimate Damage Tempo
Matilda Fire leans into speed and scaling. Other Fire builds, like the Qin fire found here, instead suppresses enemy healing with Wounds. This Matilda based version focuses on stacking ultimate damage bonuses and racing ahead through tempo.
Compared to the Qin build:
- You lose the Wounds effect (no healing reduction), so fighting sustain teams like Theodora or Zenobia can be rough.
- You gain explosive burst, capable of one-shotting enemy immortals, especially in non-healing matchups.
This build can end fights so fast that sustain never becomes a factor.
Immortal Roles
Hippolyta – Energy Control and Regen Accelerator
Hippolyta remains the engine of Fire’s control and tempo.
Her ultimate hits 7 times with her artifact (5 without), removing 100 energy per hit for a total of 700 energy drained per cast, while also applying a 10% attack speed reduction per hit for 6 seconds.
Her regen control keeps enemies behind on ultimates while Matilda pushes your team ahead.
With Energy Burst equipped, Hippo’s ultimates cycle constantly — and under Matilda’s buff, they come even faster.
Talent: Destroyer Stance (Crit + Damage).
Hippo’s hits can crit frequently and fuel your regen-based loop.
Trajan – The Buff Foundation
Trajan provides the foundation for Fire’s crit-based damage.
His ultimate, Rain of Fire, increases all Fire immortals’ Critical Damage by 30%, and each time a Fire immortal crits with an ultimate, they gain a 10% Crit Chance buff, stacking up to 5 times for 6 seconds.
This is perfect synergy with Matilda’s Energy Regen buff — faster ultimates mean Trajan’s buffs cycle almost continuously.
His Unique Artifact adds another 10% Crit Rate for 6 seconds, keeping Wu’s crits flowing at nearly 100%.
Make sure you run Battle Excitation on Matilda as her talent, fragments available in Golden Path most efficiently.
Empress Wu – The Executioner
Empress Wu is the centerpiece of the build and the primary source of burst damage.
Her ultimate deals 600% magical damage to one target with a 60% (70% with artifact) chance to replicate the same damage to another nearby enemy — up to 3 times.
With Matilda’s ultimate buff stacked, each cast from Wu can hit exponentially harder, often deleting targets outright.
Once she gets rolling, her crits snowball the fight. In many cases, one or two ultimates are all it takes to collapse an enemy’s front line.
Matilda – The Ultimate Engine
Matilda’s job is to supercharge the whole system.
Her Elegant and Magnificent ultimate increases Energy Regen Speed by 20%, while stacking up to +60% Ultimate Damage as your team cycles ultimates.
Her artifact extends this buff to 12 seconds, allowing for nearly full uptime once your rotation stabilizes.
Together with Trajan’s crit buffs, she pushes your Fire team into overdrive — faster ultimates, higher damage, and faster fights.
This setup thrives on tempo. The faster you cast, the stronger you hit.
Fighting Scenarios
Against non-healer teams (Fire, Lightning, or hybrid damage builds), this team is brutally efficient.
Matilda’s buff lets Wu and Hippo cycle faster and deal higher damage earlier, often ending fights before the opponent’s energy cycle even starts.
Against healing teams (Theodora, Zenobia, or Dido setups), you’ll feel the absence of Qin’s Wounds effect. Here, it becomes a race to out-damage their healing rather than suppressing it. While you can do that – especially with good procs on Wu’s ultimate – in general I do favor the Qin build versus heavy healing based enemies.
Tower of Knowledge Skills
Hippolyta
- Malice Aura – Reduces enemy crit rate.
- Resist – Great vs mages.
- Energy Burst – Core for ultimate regen loops.
Trajan
- Weakness Aura – Boosts your crit hit chance.
- Oaken Guard – Defensive stability.
- Blessing of War – Boosts opening damage.
Matilda
- Energy Suppression – Slows enemy regen.
- Blessing of Rage – Speeds up your team’s regen (synergizes perfectly with her ultimate).
- Assist – Helps keep Wu’s troop count high for maximum output.
Empress Wu
- Fighting Master – Always mandatory versus CC-heavy setups (Shadow-, Earth dragons, Himiko, Tomyris).
- Chase / Concentration + Spell Disintegration – Pick based on crit level and preference (see below).
Wu’s Skill Setup Options
You can build Wu two different ways here, depending on your crit rate and playstyle:
- Crit RNG Build – Chase
- Personally, I still prefer a Chase build, even with Matilda. The reason is simple: those big Chase triggers can swing battles dramatically, letting you punch far above your STP.
- With near or full 100% Crit Rate (as Fire builds often reach), Chase performs beautifully. You’ll frequently chain procs with your ultimates and land devastating multi-target bursts that wipe entire lines.
- Consistency Build – Concentration + Spell Disintegration
- There’s strong validity to running Concentration + Spell Disintegration in this setup, especially because the Matilda build leans on ultimate damage rather than relying purely on RNG-based Chase bursts.
- If you’re finding yourself almost killing a key target in the first round of ultimates but not quite finishing the job, try swapping to Concentration — the flat damage boost might be enough to turn Imperial Fire into a delete button.
- This setup trades RNG for reliability. It’s particularly good if you’re sitting at a mid-high crit range (say 70–85%) rather than a consistent 95–100%.
It really depends on your battlegroup meta and your main rivals — adapt based on what gives you the best opening burs
Fire Dragon Setup
Run your Fire Dragon through the Calamity tree. Focus on Intense Roar, which provides +50% Critical Damage to your highest magical attacker (Wu).
With Matilda’s faster regen and longer buff uptime, you’ll often have Intense Roar, Trajan’s Crit Damage buff, and Matilda’s Ultimate Damage buff stacked simultaneously — creating monstrous damage spikes.
Stack Summary:
- 20% Crit Damage (Artifact – Annihilation)
- 30% Crit Damage (Trajan’s Rain of Fire)
- 50% Crit Damage (Dragon – Intense Roar)
= 100% Crit Damage total, before factoring in Matilda’s +60% Ultimate Damage stacks.
This combination allows for true one-shot potential.
Matilda Fire vs Qin Fire – Summary
| Comparison | Fire with Qin | Fire with Matilda |
|---|---|---|
| Control / Anti-Heal | ✅ Strong (Wounds) | ❌ None |
| Ultimate Scaling | ⚪ Standard | ✅ Very High |
| Regen Speed | ⚪ Moderate | ✅ Fastest |
| Versus Sustain Teams | ✅ Strong | ⚠️ Weak |
| Versus DPS Teams | ⚪ Good | ✅ Excellent |
Fire Qin excels against sustain and healing-heavy setups through Wounds control.
Fire Matilda, by contrast, dominates fast-paced fights through sheer firepower and ultimate snowballing.
If your meta is healer-heavy, stick with Qin.
If you’re fighting mostly DPS or hybrid lineups, Matilda Fire is a monster.
Personally, I am keeping a Qin and a Matilda maxed and ready to be swapped in, having two different formations ready to fight against whatever enemy I face. If I cannot out-damage a sustain team, I throw it to Qin to remove their healing.
Bottom Line
Fire with Matilda is a pure offensive powerhouse — fast, flashy, and lethal.
It trades control for raw tempo and overwhelming damage scaling, letting you end fights before the enemy can react.
If you’re fighting in a low-healer meta, this build will often outperform anything else Fire can do.
If you’re in a heal-heavy meta, Fire Qin remains more consistent.
Both have their place, but Matilda Fire is the definition of high-risk, high-reward Fire gameplay — and when it clicks, it’s unstoppable.
Stay tuned, I am working on a fire-sustain team with Theodora and YSS for spenders. Not finished yet, but stay tuned for future build guides!
Published: 30-10-2025