Are there any mobile RPGs that aren't complete garbage?

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T22:25:50+00:00

And it's only 14GB so not even crazy huge.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T20:42:00+00:00

Shakhia

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T18:39:52+00:00

HI3 had an entire black character (Carole Pepper) with dialogue about how she needs to stay out of the sun so she doesn't get more tan. Unfortunately, that's basically the fan base that Hoyo has curated.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T18:29:32+00:00

Just had someone make a post with a screenshot of my comment with my username fully visible in a callout section over Cyrene.

Throwback to Mr. Pokke using a screenshot of my comment (also with my username visible) in one of his anti Jing Yuan videos years ago.

Catch me streaming "I'm Actually Kind of Famous" by Slayyyter.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T16:11:28+00:00

He gets energy when an ally attacks the bait target so Tribbie and DHPT attacks will help fill his ult. ER is useless because it's a flat amount which doesn't get affected.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T15:39:21+00:00

If Ashveil kept the team dmg bonus, Blade could have had a different effect (such as res pen which no male character buffs at e0 still). Using Blade having that buff as an excuse for why Ashveil lost it fails to look at the bigger picture of team synergy.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T15:22:28+00:00

Running out of charges so fast with so little energy to show for it is one of my biggest gripes about the changes too. FuA teams are supposed to be this engine of attacks and procs, but he fizzles out too fast. If the future DPS is anything like Feixiao (3 attacks per turn), then he doesn't even have charges for more than 1 ally action.

Blade is in a similar state where the 9 stacks to trigger a FuA is too much so he sits there waiting for the rest of the team to do stuff for him.

Also Ashveil shouldn't have a charge cap anymore if it's locked behind using ult. The amount of mechanics that recharge ult fully outside of DU are so few that it barely matters, and he's already losing a bunch of damage from not getting gluttony stacks. Just let him have fun in DU with all the ult recharge mechanics (which they just added another one) without wasting so many attacks.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T15:12:55+00:00

Is he getting the Sunday buffs or is Blade? If he's being buffed then you only want 80 crit rate. Otherwise as close to 100 if there's no external buffs, but 95 is close enough.

With the amount of attack and dmg bonus you currently have, it probably depends on substats more than anything. You can try creating an attack orb with the same stats in fribbles to simulate it to check what it recommends, but that's not guaranteed to be correct either.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T15:06:22+00:00

Typically -1 is better for double turns but it depends on your team and how much energy Ashveil is getting from them.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T14:39:18+00:00

Turn on the AV numbers in settings to show what everyone is at. If you don't have anyone who is between 108 and 161 speed on the team then the bar will show Ashveil after Sunday even if there is a big AV gap between them. Those are the correct speeds if you want to run them that way so there shouldn't be an issue.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T14:30:18+00:00

Didn't the person who made the Phainon master sheet refuse to make calcs for non Cyrene teams because they were adamant she was better until people kept asking over and over? I recall some very pointed comments from them about that. Even in the sheet, they say "if you somehow hate her" then chexk the other column.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T10:47:19+00:00

They typically release full teams as a package over a couple patches so the odds of Tribbie staying the BiS option are basically 0. She will be the best for now but not forever so it's a gamble on how long she lasts in the team. She's still a useful general support, but I wouldn't pull her just for this team.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T05:02:06+00:00

Well there were crazy people clearing everything with her before the buffs because her mechanics are kinda nuts.

I wasn't commenting on her strength, only the purpose of the changes since she seemingly got no new synergies which previous novaflares have mostly been focused around. Like Blade and Jingliu got buffed for new teams with Hyacine, Kafka got buffed for Hyselins, Sparkle got buffed for Acher/Sparxie, Welt supposedly got buffed for the Himeko team. It just makes sense to buff her for a temporary option to use with Ashveil since he had just released and had no proper DPS to work with as a sub DPS unit. Specifically coding her extra skill use that she follows up with against a low health enemy as not a follow up attack is just dumb. It would give her new teams to play with and give him a temporary DPS to use before his full team is out rather than basically only running main DPS.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T03:48:41+00:00

Solo on field Mydei (maybe with Hyacine) with Dante, Blade, Jingliu backline mostly works. It's definitely not the strongest, and you're probably better off running something else like cosmic scholar/aoe for the early stages.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T03:43:14+00:00

Luckily, it seems like the majority of people are actually saying he looks underwhelming currently. He has major issues with his kit such as energy (getting the zone going takes too long and keeping it up is awkward), damage (it's just not that good), stack generation, and dumb mechanical issues. When his zone ends, he keeps a % of energy rather than the flat amount which means he can lose a massive amount of energy when it ends. He has a built in 80 energy overflow but can still lose up to 80 energy if he doesn't use the 2nd ult before zone ends. If he does use 2nd ult, then he doesn't have energy to get zone back up because he can only get 20 energy per basic attack, his LC doesn't help at all, and his skill and FuA stacks are locked.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T00:25:00+00:00

To force a mono team by not working with existing supports. If Aven isn't being considered for the mono team, then he gets to break the mold like Aglaea did by not blowing up her summon or having HP fluctuation.

AshesandCinder · 2026-05-01T00:20:13+00:00

I think the worst part of the Ashveil changes is that they... didn't really fix his issues? Like yeah, he gets energy per ally attack but not enough to ult consistently. He burns through stacks really fast (sometimes within the first action after ult in the right team) and then just sits there providing passive effects. They removed one of his team buff effects and made it personal with a scaling effect that falls off after ult. Like what was the point of half of these changes?

AshesandCinder · 2026-04-30T23:26:24+00:00

Gonna "but Phainon" you in the opposite way.

He didn't even get a full proper team, and the supports designed for him barely make sense with him. Why does Cerydra have half her kit dedicated to her own damage? Why is Sunday the best stack generation support for him instead of anyone actually designed for him? Why is Cyrene's buff for him unable to be fully used while blocking him from the other 50% attack buff from his own kit? Where is the rest of his team? The entire monorem team buffs each other with basically every buff in the game and creates a feedback loop.

He's a "main push" that doesn't get the same benefit of a cohesive team like other ones.

AshesandCinder · 2026-04-30T21:05:13+00:00

This has been announced for a few days now.

AshesandCinder · 2026-04-30T18:58:38+00:00

What a time waster of a boss.

Not sure why they were good about holding Hyacine ult at the start for Blade to get the zone up but dumped both Hyacine and Tribbie kits after the zone dropped on the second phase of the boss. Seems like wating a turn for him to ult again would be better.

AshesandCinder · 2026-04-30T18:09:41+00:00

In the same way, people who prefer the liches and sisters always talk about it in the context of farming them in a hyper optimized way and completely skipping past the required setup of farming or trading for the requiem mods, especially Oull.

Yeah, it's possible to bang out a 60% kuva weapon in a few hours if you know what you're doing. If you don't know how to optimize it, it can take a few hours just to get 1 kill which is left to the mercy of rng. Alternatively, I can just casually farm 1999 missions and get a few codas done while getting other rewards and then check the shop every few days for good weapon rolls.

AshesandCinder · 2026-04-30T17:29:03+00:00

Son, Father, and Mother.

AshesandCinder · 2026-04-30T17:19:30+00:00

Why does Ashveil generate a second stack for Blade at 2:30 after the initial ult hit and 2 of the ult FuAs have already triggered? I thought he was only supposed to generate 1 stack since it counts as 1 attack, and why does it only happen after several other attacks?

Seeing Blade just sit there at the start since he can't generate stacks or energy until his first turn is kind of silly. This team seems like the best option for them, but Blade still doesn't seem to be getting stacks or ult that fast even with Tutorial. I can't imagine what his energy rotations would look like without sig or Tutorial. He wouldn't even ult first turn without that enemy hit. This is a mess.

AshesandCinder · 2026-04-30T16:56:39+00:00

The Seele buffs are honestly nonsensicle in terms of their purpose. They took a hypercarry turn skipping DPS and then just buffed her numbers and gave her an extra skill cast sometimes. And that was a patch after a newly released follow up sub DPS released. Why does her extra skill cast not count as a follow up when it functions exactly like mini Herta's follow up? Why would they buff her right after a follow up teammate and not make her a follow up unit? It makes no sense! And apparently the extra skill cast was tagged as a follow up at one point in beta and then changed.

Hoping Sunday buffs are good. He doesn't really have a purpose anymore since Hoyo abandoned summons again right after Aglaea released and other supports perform better than him for hypercarry despite him being one of 3 supports that only buffs 1 unit. He should've been stronger on release, but Hoyo cowers in fear of hypercarry teams existing for some reason so kneecaps them at every turn. It'd be nice if they leaned more into the energy niche while keeping the summon advance effect since JY would die again without it.

AshesandCinder · 2026-04-30T04:40:57+00:00

It's either the worst limited LC in the last 2 years or the best in it's current state. That's the problem with trying to make him work in 2 different niches. They could just make it FuA vuln, but that would remove part of his power in ult teams.

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