💥 1.1 BILLION DAMAGE WIPES OUT GOD-BOSS SIMON IN ONE HIT?! 😱 Maelle’s DLC Build is PURE CHAOS – New Pictos + Weapons TURN HER INTO NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE… (Hits 3B Easy – Devs SCRAMBLING for EMERGENCY NERF!) 🧨💀🔥👇

Click BEFORE They PATCH – DOMINATE NG+5 NOW!

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the 2025 Game of the Year turn-based RPG from Sandfall Interactive, continues to dominate with over 150,000 daily players across platforms into early 2026. Its December 2025 DLC – packed with new pictos (passive skills), weapons, and an upgraded “Divergent Star” version of the brutal boss Simon – reignited the meta. But one build has shattered records: YouTuber BltzZ’s Maelle setup, clocking 1.105 billion damage in a single hit to one-shot the new Simon on NG+5. The video exploded to 85,000 views in weeks, with follow-ups pushing 2.1 billion. “The Queen of Damage is BACK,” BltzZ declared on X. Is this the endgame killer everyone’s chasing? Here’s the full teardown.

Launched October 2025, Expedition 33 blends real-time parry/dodge mechanics with deep turn-based strategy in a monochromatic world hunt for the “Paintress.” Maelle, the agile swordmaster, has long been DPS royalty – her multi-hit skills and stance system (Virtuose for 200% damage) scale exponentially with burns, marks, and gradient charges. Pre-DLC, players hit billions via exploits; post-nerfs, it took creativity. The update’s tools – like Burning Canvas and Gradient Overcharge – revived the madness.

The Viral Build: Maelle NG+ Simon Nuke

BlitzZ’s Honour-mode viable setup requires level 99+ characters, maxed luminas (picto upgrades), and NG+5+ for peak stats. Core: Stack 100+ burns/marks via party, enter Virtuose, consume gradient, unleash Burning Canvas’s fifth hit. Simon’s shield-steal forces no-shield play (dropping potential to 3B), but 1.1B suffices.

Character
Role
Weapon
Key Pictos

Maelle
DPS Nuke
Lorum (Lvl 33: +10% dmg per skill hit, 50% on 5th)
Frenzy (100% successive hits), Gradient Overcharge (200% on 3 charges), Feint (5th hit 600%), First Life (+25% til death), Charging Critical (gradient on crit), Lith the Sun (slow + AP)

Sciel
Buffer
Any
Fortune’s Fury (double Maelle dmg)

Lune
Burn/Mark Stacker
SKM/Bonbim (high burn)
Burn appliers

Verso
Debuffer/Invuln
Samoso (invulnerability)
Marking Shot, speed/crit focus

Maelle Pictos Deep Dive:

Picto
Effect
Synergy

Frenzy
+10% dmg per successive hit (100% on Burning Canvas)
Multi-hit explosion

Gradient Overcharge
Consume 3 charges: 200% dmg
Burn-fed nukes

Feint
First 4 hits: 0 dmg; 5th: +600%
Burning Canvas perfect

Charging Critical
20% gradient per crit/turn
Self-sustain

Lith the Sun
Greater slow; AP on buffs/debuffs
Party AP economy

Luminas: Max Cheater/Rush/Powerful for speed (3000+), 90%+ crit. Stats: 11k+ Attack, 2k+ Speed.

Rotation: Setup to Annihilation

Party Prep (Pre-Fight):

      First Strike pictos for initiative. Verso/Sciel/Lune stack burns (116+), marks via Marking Shot.

Turn 1:

      Sciel: Fortune’s Fury (x2 dmg). Lune: Burn spam. Verso: Invuln + debuffs.

Maelle Turn:

      Last Chance (Virtuose entry). Burning Canvas: Hits 1-4 (1 dmg + mark), Hit 5: 1.1B+ via multipliers (Lorum 50%, Frenzy 100%, Feint 600%, Gradient 200%, Virtuose 200%, Fortune x2, 100+ burns@10%ea via Consuming Attack).

Simon:

    Dead before Phase 2.

Multiplier
Boost
Total Stack

Burns
10%/stack
1160%

Fortune’s Fury
x2
200%

Virtuose
200%
200%

Gradient Overcharge
200%
200%

Feint (5th)
600%
600%

Variants: Maxroll’s “Easiest One-Shot” uses Dualiso weapon, Stendhal skill, Roulette RNG for double dmg (Verso debuffs, Sciel Fury). Hakanie’s 1.1B endgame: Guleson weapon, Powerful Shield (10%/shield), Energy Master AP spam.

Community Explosion and Meta Shift

Reddit’s r/expedition33 lit up: “Maelle 4.2B? Simon begs for mercy.” X hailed BltzZ: 1.7k likes on the clip. Steam forums seek post-nerf tweaks; pre-DLC billions got patched, but DLC “overdid it.”

Variant Build
Damage
Focus

BltzZ DLC
1.1-3B
Burning Canvas burn-consume

Maxroll Easy
60M+
Stendhal RNG double

Hakanie AoE
1.1B ST
Shield/AP spam

Devs silent on nerfs – Sandfall patched launch exploits, but praise “challenges like 12B HP Simon.” Players love it: “Maelle solos Act 3 Honour.”

Pro Tips: Farm luminas via NG+ repeats. Wet enemies for lightning synergy. Illithid powers? Cull burns. Party: Monoco crit builder optional.

This build cements Maelle’s throne – DLC’s “GOTY” gift or glitch? Farm it before patches. Expedition 33’s depth endures.