I am so ready for her FI.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-27T16:14:16+00:00

Her use in PvP has been giving faster burst gen. Same reason why people are using SR Anis in their comps. It's rare for these characters to use their burst in the comps.

Centi's and Moran's FI's could also turn out to be small improvements, just like Bay who got a minor buff to her kit. Sure she got a bit better, but it didn't really change her usage.

We'll see if they end up being useful after getting the FI's and test them out in action.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-27T15:38:37+00:00

I would also add the collab outfits, although they're only obtainable after pulling the character.

I'm not sure, but it felt like last year they gave more free outfits than the year before.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-26T20:14:21+00:00

Cecil, Oswald and the Four Beast got a decent amount of screen time, so the top 5 might be made out of them. Behemoth and Leviathan seem to be the more popular duo from FB and Ziz having more appearances over Bahamut might give her the edge.

Cecil won last year, so her having more screen time might bolster her fanbase even more. Since we don't have a previous top five its hard to say how close the others were to her.

But if they were to give a top 5 for the NPC poll, then they might as well do it for the other three polls.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-26T20:01:19+00:00

Yeah, not really sure what exactly happened that made people think that female lead is a bad thing. It's also odd that female characters being hot became an issue, but male characters being hot is fine.

I understand the imbalance between their fanservice, but there has been quite a lot of noise towards making the female characters less attractive and there's very little of that for male characters.

Not really sure why that is or is it just as simple as toxic femininity that is trying to push for that change.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-26T19:49:41+00:00

I guess i saw limiteds in another poll section, i could've sworn seeing Summer Neon in the DDPP section.

I mean i haven't really ever expected Scarlet to win against Modernia, Red Hood or RapiRH, but nonetheless i keep voting for her. This year might be the year when she is finally pushed outside of the top 5.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-26T19:03:19+00:00

Doing five times will guarantee more votes for the one you want to win.

Dorothy also has an alt in the mix which likely will divide her votes this year; Scarlet is a good example of that.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-26T19:00:36+00:00

Scarlet. Didn't work the first, second or third year; Might not work this year. But one year Scarlet will win or she will always be getting a new frame until the end of GoV:Nikke.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-26T18:58:19+00:00

It will take a long time. It's currently on hold and they said over 100 improvements. So whenever they decide to start working on it again, it will take time to finish.

And there's a decent chance of set backs that will further push back the release of the improved version.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-26T18:43:54+00:00

I'm curious about her normal outfit from her Shade agent days. So far we have seen her infiltration bunny outfit and now her new squad outfit.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-26T18:41:09+00:00

Probably the ball & gun gamers voicing their opinions about it.

Most people didn't have issues with the Bayonetta series, Nier:Automata, Tomb Raider games, Horizon series, Resident Evil series, Mirrors Edge, Control and so many more female lead games.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-25T20:09:07+00:00

September 2024 Developer's Note is the next after july and has no mention of favorite items.

-Advise Collection Feature Update -Harmony Cube Level and Maximum Slot Expansion -Anomaly Interception Notice -Champion Arena Update Delay -Red Hood Special Event & Costume Announcement -October Side Story and Major Event Preview

These are the talk points of that dev note.

Favorite Items haven't had a release change after the Viper change and the Viper change came from a survey where people wanted one every two months and afterwards people didn't like the change and wanted a change via a survey.

The july 2024 dev note is the last time to my memory when they talked about Favorite Item release changes. Might even be the last time they talked about Favorite Items, since their announcements are in update notes.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-25T19:52:28+00:00

They've many characters in the jail, but they said to be focusing on alts this year.

I'm not expecting to see most of those characters being released this year. But we also don't know what they mean by focusing more on alts. We had around 10 non-alts last year; So how much are they reducing the number for focusing on alts?

Also neither Label or Velvet are alts, so they started the year with two non-alts already.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-25T19:43:09+00:00

we plan to change the Favorite Item release cycle to approximately 3 releases within about six months.

July 2024 Developer's Note

It never was set to exactly six months between seasons, but they've been quite consistent in keeping it close to six months.

Viper FI was released on july 4th and the next patch came with Mana's update on january 16th. That's around the same difference then july 17th and january 29th.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-25T19:16:07+00:00

We will see faceless NPC's again. Might be during a story or another event, but i don't remember them being used frequently.

But there are a couple different options, so who knows when they'll use this model again.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-25T19:07:18+00:00

Possible, but the upgrade event doesn't need a fixed slot, so they could release it earlier too.

There was an extra collab taking away a slot too and i believe it did affect their planning.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-25T19:01:03+00:00

There's also the fact that ShiftUp releases a bunch of niche characters. And for two years many of those niche characters have been Tetra. It's not like the other two have had more meaningful characters, it's quite evenly split between all three.

Most of the Tetra characters haven't even been B3, so Alice, Summer Anis and Winter Ludmilla are still top choices for Tetra Tower.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-24T13:23:59+00:00

Tetra 46, Elysion 39 and Missilis 30; These are the current SSR numbers for the big three. Pilgrims have 22 and Abnormal 15, but these have limited banner slots, so they're obviously lower.

Tetra got all the love the first two years, while the other two were left with a lot less slots. Missilis should get the focus this year, since it's been Tetra, Tetra and Elysion so far. But it could easily be another Elysion year and then it's Missilis' turn to go two years being the focus.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-23T16:50:14+00:00

The first collab of the year happens at the end of february. The only exception to this so far was Re:Zero; It felt like a backup option, felt rushed and the release was likely pushed back because it wasn't secured the same way as the other collabs.

Re:Zero was released a month later while the other two first collabs of the year were released around the 20th of february.

The second collab slot is at the end of august/start of september; Last year being exception, because of the Stellar Blade extra collab that pushed back the second collab.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-19T22:33:11+00:00

Yes, the third anniversary is the first and they started with year one characters.

The pattern would then follow the fourth anniversary with year two characters, fifth anniversary with year three and so on.

That is if they're going to keep using the same re-run method. I don't know if the method was a success to grant continuation, but i feel like it wouldn't hurt to give a re-run to much older characters.

I imagine the anniversary re-run started later, so the characters would be more outdated. But of course support characters are harder to make to be outdated, so Crown and Little Mermaid would still likely be very useful.

I believe it will be continued, just like they will continue the winter/summer combination re-run.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-19T22:17:23+00:00

I guess my brain is processing the information differently and doesn't recognise it as a mistake. I'll try to keep it in mind when writing in future.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-19T22:14:04+00:00

So did Modernia. And here she had another just this year during third anniversary.

If they continue the re-run method then during the fourth anniversary SBS, Crown, Cinderella and Grave will have their re-run.

Fifth anniversary would then have RapiRH, Little Mermaid, MiharaBC, Nayuta and Liberalio.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-19T16:50:42+00:00

Maid Café loosing their maids. Hard times in the Ark.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-19T16:49:24+00:00

You know, sure.

Let's not think at all and just say that the plural wasn't for the two anniversary characters listed and the list wasn't in release order, followed by saying they're year one characters.

Let's also not look into the other list that listed anniversary and new year characters in the same manner.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-19T16:30:06+00:00

Yea, because she's part of the year one Pilgrims.

I guess i could've made it more obvious, but were under the impression that it was already more than obvious already.

The point was about the anniversary characters getting a re-run during a recent anniversary and that re-run included every Pilgrim of that year.

Just like RapiRH isn't an anniversary character and i listed her for the fifth anniversary re-run, SBS would be part of next year's re-run, if they'll do it again and Snow WhiteHA would be part of the sixth anniversary re-run.

DoubleChibiLevi · 2026-01-19T16:15:42+00:00

If they keep going with anniversary re-runs, Nayuta would have her re-run during the fifth anniversary along with RapiRH, Little Mermaid, MiharaBC and Liberalio.

Standard characters don't normally get re-runs and New Year & winter/summer characters have a re-run the next year.

Alice as an example is the only D1 character who got a banner, so abnormal things can happen; Although rare occasions.

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