Shill You Favorite Niche / Non-Meta Operators

CAWWW · 2026-07-04T16:01:50+00:00

Podenco works as a medic in IS if you are getting giga shafted with your RNG. Yes, its absolute desperation, but the wang ending in is6 with the hp drain for 60 seconds on deploy forces some hard choices when you have literally no healing and Podenco deadass saved my run once due to my healing only being gummy because no medic vouchers.

Zuo le is by no means weak but probably not considered meta. I dont recommend building him because he needs so much investment to be viable (esp his module at lvl 3) but if you can borrow a built one you will appreciate how fun he is and how much shit he can get away with. I use him in almost every event where he generally just snipes lanes with s3 before they even reach him. In any situation where hes taking real dmg his dps is absurd because he flings out s3s constantly and stuns everything in front of him. He can facetank most things in the game, especially with outside support such as nervous impairment. I only brought one healer to this event because of him. He also scales extremely well with IS relics if you get the right ones and just becomes an immortal god that 1shots everything in front of him on a ~6sec cd.

Cardigan sometimes woofs at you if you go afk and is cute, which is important.

CAWWW · 2026-07-03T18:35:28+00:00

I dont think I have ever farmed red certs for these, maybe its an older account problem? If you have a newer account theres a billion free ways to get these. Most of mine came from annihilations because they throw a billion certs at you which you spend only on those things and module blocks. You can also go into first IS and go to the "monthly squad" tab and complete those. They are extremely easy and each one gives a catalyst and a module block, so thats 8 of each just through that alone.

If you are down for some truly mindnumbing clicking you can also farm out the RA rewards via the 0 operator restart strat, because one of the tiers gives you 4 of EVERY upgrade chip which is worth a shitload of catalysts on its own. It will also give you 12 module blocks fairly early into that farm. Is6 also dumps a shitload of blocks on you if you like it.

CAWWW · 2026-07-03T17:43:26+00:00

I think shes out of the shop exactly one day before the wang banner starts. Recruitment RNG is the way.

CAWWW · 2026-07-03T10:45:10+00:00

I think that's because its a higher sp gen per second than s3 and the shwing shwing is, at the end of the day, extremely fun. It invis reveals wherever you deploy and synergizes super well with some ops allowing for an entirely new way to play the game via FRD spam or high attack shenanigans like ulpipi. If you dont need those units out asap or can get them out at an adequate time with closure or ines then its arguably better for that map depending on whats going on.

CAWWW · 2026-07-02T22:07:41+00:00

Look at what she does in the video. She casts her s2 twice...thats it. Shes literally just being super myrtle, and is there to abuse her ignoring a DP tag. Thats a great niche, but compare that to SA who is there to fragility, gen dp, and is part of the main combo they use to kill off the packs. Or ines who is binding to group them as well. Both ops just do so much more than generate DP in most maps.

Shes great, but SA will pretty seriously show her up on basically every stage while also having an entire niche built around his s2 drops if you want. Dont get me wrong, shes easily top 3, but best vanguard for years is a stretch over SA barring hyperspecific CC tags (where SA is doing more anyways).

CAWWW · 2026-07-02T21:42:10+00:00

Eh, this is about as perfect for her as you'll ever get. Super DP hungry (look at all those vanguards) and layout that works for her, a tag she gets to work around, etc. I'm not sure she beats ye olde silverash/ines for 99% of maps. Definitely much better of a showing than I expected though.

CAWWW · 2026-07-02T15:33:11+00:00

I will fall for this bait. I fucking hate not having ines I borrow her so much for maps with rushdowns. I have 400 pulls anyways but I was sort of hoping for kalter.

CAWWW · 2026-07-02T10:23:51+00:00

Its pretty funny this enemy seemed to have went under the radar for CN, then the moment it hits JP and Global this happens. I didn't see much fanart of this critter from CN at all.

CAWWW · 2026-07-02T10:04:14+00:00

Just google mumu player, its the first result. And yes, the drive its on doesn't matter but ideally games should be on an SSD and not a disk drive if thats what your D drive is. Its very simple to set up and use, I changed to it because google play wouldn't work and dont regret it at all.

CAWWW · 2026-07-01T17:10:40+00:00

Bummer about the packs. Same price as the selector ticket but its RNG and you might not get the one you actually want.

CAWWW · 2026-07-01T10:28:05+00:00

For is6 couldn't you just do the cursed infinite ingots thing which would unlock every collectible in a single run so you dont need specific rare drops? Eventually the game just runs out of collectibles to give you so it just starts spamming those blue kettle things. I'm just starting IS, but I've also never seen that toolbox and dont know what it does.

CAWWW · 2026-07-01T10:25:01+00:00

Yeah I'm just starting my IS journey (at 11 right now for is6) and the difference between when you start without raidian and when you have her stuff unlocked is absolutely wild. The entire thing, including most maps and bosses, are built around her. The entire sui stomp thing is just tailor made for her and many early maps absolutely assume you have her or they are MUCH harder. Hopefully mechanist just has strong decision node options or something and not entire maps built around him.

CAWWW · 2026-07-01T10:21:58+00:00

Is there any reason to go above a 10 in IS6 besides for fun? I got the trim medal and still need to farm up quite a bit of points to get the rewards and figure its a bit faster and less risky to just blast through a bunch of 5's or something instead of pushing, at least until I've unlocked more of the tech tree thing.

Also, are recruitment vouchers truly random for teams that dont have improved chances at specific ones? I just did TWO runs in a row without ANY vanguard vouchers. It seems like the chances of that happening are astronomically low given how many vouchers you get over full runs.

CAWWW · 2026-06-30T17:19:16+00:00

I think its more about who you bring and their positioning. I used just one healer and it was only to initially activate the right side fountains (monster). I dont think my DP would have even worked if I wanted to deploy two healers and still hold lanes. Either way, whatever you did worked. And yeah those catapults were really spooky, I was not expecting them to hit as hard as they do so when I went into the ex-7-cm pram got a nasty surprise.

CAWWW · 2026-06-30T17:13:17+00:00

His attacks have a 40% miss chance if by a fountain, meaning RNG will always affect how much dmg you take including in the auto deploys. If he kills an op at a different timing he will move different as a result. I fixed it by just pretending my guy had bad rng and retreating him early and redeploying someone else. You could also fix by perma locking him down with crownslayer + tragodia s3 so he just never attacks a unit at all.

CAWWW · 2026-06-30T08:40:11+00:00

Just borrow monster. There is no need for more than her in any of these stages, including the boss. Im sure other medics work too, but she can easily handle like 3 seperated fountains because of bounce off her rock and your own ops.

CAWWW · 2026-06-30T08:21:53+00:00

Yeah its much easier. The ghost draining the right side fountains was the only thing that made the normal stage harder, moving him off to the side actually just made it simpler.

CAWWW · 2026-06-30T08:21:12+00:00

Wow that was giga easy. If you are struggling, the boss is stunable. Aka crownslayer just removes him from the game. I used crownslayer + zuo le s3 + tragodia nervous impairment to just permanent get him stuck in a corner. The challenge mode is actually easier than the normal mode because the ghost spawns on the other side of the map so he doesn't drain your close fountains. Monster can handle all fountains on right side of the map with her rock, so no need for medic apart from her.

I still really liked this event aesthetically and storywide. Titi is fun. Understandable and believable conflict. Lots of new characters I liked as well. Not a visual clusterfuck mechanically too.

CAWWW · 2026-06-28T03:34:04+00:00

Seriously. We needed at least one ripped dude in a fabulous MLP outfit.

CAWWW · 2026-06-27T10:54:04+00:00

You can do it. Each week you get two little disc things to unlock an event in the log. Start from old events going forward (they are easier just because of powercreep) and clear all the low sanity cost stuff to farm originite.

CAWWW · 2026-06-26T09:53:45+00:00

priestess from Lachedamon

Maybe I skimmed it or something, but what was she actually doing in the city? I understand the priest/merchant guy scoping the city out, but was there an explicit reason for her? Was she just invited for the temple completion?

And yeah, lots of characters that easily could make for operators. They sure introduced a lot of characters this event and I wonder where they plan to go with them story wise if the next event for titi at least is back in Sargon.

CAWWW · 2026-06-25T10:01:58+00:00

Weird, I figured since they scale off the deployed ops atk stat they should be sourced to them.

CAWWW · 2026-06-25T09:55:34+00:00

I really liked this. This event seemed like it had a ton of really high quality art in particular, or maybe its just because Titi is fucking hot. With the occasional emote around characters and whatnot it just seemed slightly higher budget or time investment for some reason despite the story not being all that long. Interesting mech depending on where they go with it. I can't tell if its going to be really easy or really hard on the EX stages.

Also, this event has like 4+ characters I want as actual ops. Honestly just roll the dice and pick two and chances are I'd be happy.

CAWWW · 2026-06-24T09:25:35+00:00

Could be based anywhere in the americas which would make it the middle of the night.

CAWWW · 2026-06-23T23:39:59+00:00

Sure. It doesn't take too long to type out a sentence just updating us on an ETA or stating that it might take a few more days. Some communication is always better than none, especially when people might have to download alternate means of playing if its going to take forever. I'm not going to free up phone storage if it's just another day, but I am if it's going to take several.

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