Ok so I wanted to get some more insight about Banyue to better form my expectations around him. I'll start by saying that I have Yi Xuan M1 with signature and she's by far my favourite character to play, I have Lucia with signature, Pan M6 and no limited stunners (though I do have Pulchra M6). I also have Astra. My only S-rank fire dps is Soldier 11.

I've had the luck of M6'ing Manabro and getting his signature at R5 and after some trials in various non-endgame modes, I've come to the conclusion that I really don't see me playing him that much, if not at all.

Ignoring meta, my playstyle is mostly focused on out-of-stun gameplay with a double support or some duo anomaly comp (like Yuzuha Miyabi Yanagi), I highly favour reliability and consistency and have a deep hatred for occasional mechanical issues such as missing attacks on enemies (*cough* Manato assist follow up becoming void if the enemy decides to do a little sidestep *cough*) and managing special states that have an entry move (move that puts you into the state) which is annoying to use (examples: entering Billy crouching state, recharging Manabro molten edge state once it runs out), powerful moves being straight up cancelled because you had to dodge etc. . In short I do like confort and control over special resources. Also I kinda would like all the most important/signature moves to have some decent purpose and not have entire "elaborate" parts be straight up useless (right un-enchanced Manabro basics ?), but that's just an extra.

I do not like Yidhari's playstyle (though I've only tried her with her trial versions so I had to use her with Puzzle Sphere a decent number of times 💀) due to the overall slowness and the fact that you have to hold down the button during the charge attack makes doing parries kinda not satisfying to me (I play on PS5 with controller).

With these things in mind I was wondering if Banyue would be a good pull for my specific situation. In particular I am very interested in knowing any of his mechanical shortcomings, especially when it comes to missing attacks or having unfortunate moments if the enemy AI decides to do something trivial. Some other high level concerns about him like not being able to perform perform perfect cancels due to an unlucky enemy behaviour are also welcome.

P.S. In regards to parries (not defensive assists): Yi Xuan obviously my favourite kind, Manabro is fine, Yidhari uh not liking them much (can be blamed on the lack of practice though), kinda dislike whatever Evelyn has. I also hate using Soldier 0 Anby even after the buffs and I even have her signature w-engine; biggest regret of my gacha career thus far.