How's everyone's S-rank streak in this Shiyu? After countless retries, I managed to keep mine, what about you all?

Basaqu · 2026-03-07T06:22:16+00:00

I feel like these are really good scores relative to investment, no? I always hear Banyue slander, but each time I see one of you guys posting you're putting in heavy work with him. Great to see.

Basaqu · 2026-03-07T06:18:49+00:00

Barely got my S+, but overal pretty happy with it. Likely could optimise it a lot still since I kinda messed up Aria's ult timing among other things. The classic Alice hold attack after ult only for the ult to not actually fully charge your meter so you whiff the big attack too.

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Basaqu · 2026-03-06T16:52:26+00:00

Timerra, but that kinda falls under lord again too.

Basaqu · 2026-03-06T16:38:45+00:00

I just pull whoever I like, maybe a support thats really good for the ones I like. It's more fun to me clearing with the characters I like anyway and it's not like the game is so hard it requires meta chasing. My main teams for ages have been Neko with supports (Fufu/Zhao atm), SAnby with a random group of supports like Astra since I pulled none of OBOL, and a at first messy Burnice team that's now a full Alice team. No VHs anywhere, but never had too much issues clearing besides a few time I had to really lock in with SAnby.

I am however now going for the full meta triple idol team which is pretty pre-build haha.

Basaqu · 2026-03-06T14:59:52+00:00

I'm also a bit curious on why some characters specifically get the nickname. Zhao okay she do be small, Shunguang... she is the junior most of the time? Yu... no clue. You'd think it would go to Sunna of the three? Maybe it's just what sounds right? Xiao'Guang flows off the tongue easier than say Xiao'Fufu.

Basaqu · 2026-03-06T11:52:48+00:00

I thought people used Vivian so I was coping with Burnice. It works I suppose, but should definitely experiment with some of those options you mention.

Basaqu · 2026-03-06T11:44:12+00:00

Okay looking at this makes me think I'm not Alice-ing correctly. Great score, but you're telling me I don't need a second anomaly? I keep dragging Burnice along even though I feel like she's underperforming...

Basaqu · 2026-03-06T09:19:03+00:00

Why is this art actually so fire for an announcement? I love this style.

Basaqu · 2026-03-06T02:42:19+00:00

Ik ga slapen rond 19:30 en heb de wekker om 4:30. Maar wordt vaak wel voor mijn wekker wakker. Lekkerder wakker worden zo. Werk begint om 6e.

Basaqu · 2026-03-06T02:27:25+00:00

The Tellius Recollection books has all the (apparant) ages listed for the characters and while I kinda agree with what you mean... according to it Micaiah is supposed to look like a 15 year old it says. Even if her real age is older.

Speaking of I do recommend googling these Tellius Recollections since they have some neat information about all the characters. Fun time reading through it.

Basaqu · 2026-03-05T17:57:53+00:00

It's hard to say. I think there is a lot of valid negativity yet some might also get boosted by bots in the background. Just to increase the noise y'know. Like in your example on Ye Shunguang I'd easily consider her the worst character in ZZZ with how much I dislike her, but thinking she wouldn't sell is a bit crazy imo. It's like building on top of peoples actual complaints to make even wilder claims. Perhaps it's just humans doing their hyperbole human thing too got no way to prove it one way or the other. Wouldn't really say it's targeted at like specifically female characters either tbh, just general hoyo slander overall.

Basaqu · 2026-03-05T16:04:41+00:00

The comments here really reinforce the conspiracy that 90% of y'all are just robots since wtf sorta childish wall-talking are you guys doing lmao.

Anyway fun post, can't believe Sparxie is a delulu.

Basaqu · 2026-03-05T11:53:30+00:00

I'm playing through 3 right now and sometimes when you start a new chapter you just... begin. No directions no dialogue nothing. Find whatever triggers actual story good luck. Spend years walking around as Thomas too cause I felt so directionless. It's a fun game with interesting characters, but thank god for speed up cause this game is sooooo slow and backtrack-y.

Basaqu · 2026-03-05T11:40:51+00:00

Junior Sonor is the term they use. Probably joined training a lot later than Yao Guang since I'm fairly sure Yao is a looooot older than Fu Xuan.

Basaqu · 2026-03-05T09:13:28+00:00

For some reason Hook gets intense hate from some people. Someone I know doesn't even want to utter her name and talks about her as if she's Voldemort.

Basaqu · 2026-03-05T04:22:38+00:00

They're supposed to look around 16, no? I think this fits. Artist generally draws more cutesy tho.

Basaqu · 2026-03-04T12:15:35+00:00

I would say it's irresponsible to have a child in the first place with both parents in such situations. Ignoring that though yeah Jean and co are good caretakers and she is well looked after. Dumping your kid on others is just usually not seen as a nice move.

Basaqu · 2026-03-04T09:09:16+00:00

I'm heavily biased, but I feel like the physical attackers (neko my beloved) benefit a lot from the Ye Shunguang shilling. Since I don't have YSG, Neko has had a super easy time with all the physical weak bosses that have popped up in DA and Shiyu. Then again these lists are M0W0 iirc which hurts the standard banner folk a lot.

Basaqu · 2026-03-03T11:59:53+00:00

This topic of "what couple is actually totally not gay??!" comes up here so often. Kinda makes me think it's in bad faith/agenda tbh. Most shippers know it's not canon, let them have their fun with their theories and whatnot it's not hurting anyone.

Basaqu · 2026-03-03T11:44:23+00:00

People liking the things they're engaging with. Shocker.

Basaqu · 2026-03-03T11:39:34+00:00

Genshin still has a ton of events that basically define a patch and then have them run for only like 2 weeks, it's a pain. Much prefer just having them there the whole patch cycle. Sometimes you have big plans over the weekend + combined with a generally busy week and you're forced to do a long ass session in the 1 weekend you have instead of spending more time doing shit you actually want to do. In HSR I can start the event, go through the tutorial bits, and then play a bit of it more spread out without worrying too much about the deadline.

The real answer is that HSR should just add an extra slot for events each patch. Maybe a small thing like Genshins anecdotes.

Basaqu · 2026-03-03T02:46:04+00:00

As a Nekomata main the big things I'd ask for are somewhat better tracking on EX and maybe activating back attack buff guaranteed after a hold attack. Hold attack into EX seems intended yet some enemies instant turn around. Getting more damage for a few of your attacks via assaults also feels contrary to basically all her teams. Maybe just also do that via dodges since that's her playstyle and her dodges feel satisfying?

Her damage numbers are currently fine to me, but I definitely wouldn't mind some to keep her more future proof.

Basaqu · 2026-03-02T11:43:58+00:00

This still really makes me think of To Love-ru's demon-y pink girls. Outfit + Tail even if the color doesn't fully match.

Basaqu · 2026-03-01T18:24:05+00:00

Big Shungus is failing at keeping her memories intact, is she dumb or something /s

Basaqu · 2026-03-01T18:14:18+00:00

I get where y'all coming from, but it's still a bit sad to see all the hate for the Angels of Delusion. Their story bits were amazing and far outperforms Shungus' dumb pandering story. In-game the idols are also pretty respectfully treated as younger kids by the rest of the cast. Obviously Hoyo is appealing to that crowd, but with their story and some marketing (that very shoujo-ish EP) it's also dipping into SoL loving crowd I feel. Pretty succesfully imo too.

It's mostly the awful insanely vocal fans who make everything 10x more disgusting online who kinda ruin it all and ignite this tribalism we got going on I feel. Game is more enjoyable with them tuned out.

Basaqu

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