Limbus Company Bleed Build: Coins, Count, Roster

Bleed is the status archetype that makes the enemy spend its own turn damaging itself. The Wiki definition is short and worth quoting exactly: Bleed means “The next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage.” Two consequences follow from that wording, and they explain most of why a Bleed squad feels the way it feels in combat.

First, the trigger belongs to the enemy. The damage lands when the afflicted unit tosses an attack skill Coin, which is before the coin resolves, so an enemy that attacks into your Defense skill line still pays the Bleed damage for every coin it threw. Second, the effect is counted, not timed: the definition says “the next Y time(s)”, which is a Count, so a long-coin enemy skill eats more of the stack per turn than a one-coin skill does.

Potency and Count, because every status argument below depends on them

The status page separates the two values a status effect can carry: “Generally, Potency determines the strength of the effect, while Count determines its duration.” The same page adds the removal rule that decides how long any stack survives: “In single-value or double-value modes, if one or more of the values reach 0, the status effect is removed from the unit. Additionally, the values of a status effect are always consumed before they are gained or inflicted.” And it records the ceiling that governs most keyword statuses: “Max Value, the maximum value of the status effect. The default Max Value is 99.”

For Bleed that machinery means Potency is the fixed damage per coin toss and Count is how many coin tosses the stack can still pay for. Building a Bleed team is therefore two separate problems: keep putting Potency on the target, and do not let the Count drain faster than you replace it.

Every harvested Identity that inflicts Bleed

Identity (7 in the harvested roster)	Skill	Sin	Damage type	Coins	Coin Power
Kurokumo Clan Wakashu Hong Lu	Cleave (Skill 1)	Lust	Slash	1	+ 7
Kurokumo Clan Wakashu Hong Lu	Cloud Cutter (Skill 2)	Pride	Slash	2	+ 4
Kurokumo Clan Wakashu Hong Lu	Cloudburst (Skill 3)	Sloth	Slash	3	+ 2
The Middle Little Sister Don Quixote	Checking the Book (Skill 1)	Wrath	Blunt	2	+ 3
The Middle Little Sister Don Quixote	Proof of Loyalty (Skill 2)	Envy	Blunt	2	+ 6
The Middle Little Sister Don Quixote	A Just Vengeance (Skill 3)	Pride	Blunt	4	+ 3
The One Who Grips Faust	Cackle (Skill 1)	Envy	Pierce	2	+ 3
The One Who Shall Grip Sinclair	Amoral Enactment (Skill 2)	Lust	Blunt	4	-4
The One Who Shall Grip Sinclair	Self-destructive Purge (Skill 3)	Wrath	Blunt	3	-12
The Pequod Captain Ishmael	To Me! (Skill 1)	Envy	Pierce	2	+ 4
The Pequod Captain Ishmael	Pursue Them to the End! (Skill 2)	Pride	Pierce	3	+ 4
The Pequod Captain Ishmael	Harpoon of Obsession (Skill 3)	Wrath	Pierce	4	+ 3
The Pequod Harpooneer Heathcliff	Stalk Prey (Skill 1)	Pride	Pierce	2	+ 4
The Pequod Harpooneer Heathcliff	Snagharpoon (Skill 2)	Envy	Pierce	3	+ 4
The Pequod Harpooneer Heathcliff	Sever Knot (Skill 3)	Envy	Pierce	4	+ 3
The Ring Pointillist Student Yi Sang	Paint Over (Skill 1)	Gloom	Pierce	3	+ 3
The Ring Pointillist Student Yi Sang	Sanguine Pointillism (Skill 2)	Lust	Pierce	1	+ 8
The Ring Pointillist Student Yi Sang	Hematic Coloring (Skill 3)	Sloth	Pierce	4	+ 3

Sin distribution across those lines: Envy (5), Pride (4), Lust (3), Wrath (3), Sloth (2), Gloom (1). Damage-type distribution: Pierce (10), Blunt (5), Slash (3). The homepage status archetype board recomputes coverage counts from the same dataset on every build, so the ranking numbers live there instead of being retyped into this article and drifting.

What the roster table does and does not tell you

What it tells you is factual and load-bearing: which Identity lines carry the Bleed Keyword at all, at which Sin, on how many coins, and at what printed Coin Power. That is enough to reason about dashboard economy, because a one-coin Bleed line at high Coin Power is a clash tool, while a four-coin line at low Coin Power is a coin-dump tool that spends the enemy’s Bleed Count for you.

What it does not tell you is relative strength. The dataset has no per-Identity damage multiplier table and no enemy HP curve, so a power ranking of these seven Identities is not derivable from anything we hold, and this page refuses to invent one. The same discipline is why the site publishes an identity stat database rather than a tier list.

Where the coin math actually bites

Bleed’s value scales with how many coins the enemy throws at you, so it is strongest against multi-coin enemy skills and weakest against single-coin burst. The harvested lines above show the same trade-off on your side: Bleed infliction sits on Skill 1, 2 and 3 with different coin counts, and the coin count of a line is what feeds the Dashboard, chains and Clash chains in turn. Read the two columns together rather than the status name alone.

Nails is worth naming separately because the Wiki treats it as a Bleed variant rather than a new archetype: “Unique Bleed. Turn Start: Gain 1 Bleed and increase the Bleed Count by X. Turn End: Halve this effect’s Count. (Rounded down)” A Nails carrier therefore shows up in Bleed conversations without its skill lines printing the Bleed Keyword in the table above.

How this page was built

Every identity row above is rendered by scripts/write_guides.py straight from src/data/builder-data.json, and that file is written only by scripts/harvest_identities.py, which parses the Wiki source of each listed Identity page. Those pages were fetched and stored byte-for-byte under researchPack/sources_raw/ with SHA-256 hashes registered in a manifest, and the fact gate rebuilds its numeric whitelist from those bytes, so a number that appears here has to appear in a snapshot. Panel values are shown as the Wiki prints them (base HP plus per-level growth, Speed range, Defense modifier); we do not print computed level-65 panels in prose because a computed total is not what the source page contains. Where the snapshots stop short of an answer, this page says so rather than filling the gap.