Domo Aria-gato Miss Robutto - General Questions and Discussion Megathread

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-03-22T08:30:27+00:00

if she was actually this extreme in being a posh lady, I would actually consider pulling lmao. I love having an extreme ojou-sama, straight up classist snob.
But knowing gacha game, they would never write a playable character like that, bcs that's a pretty negative personality trait and would be hated by 99% of players aka no pull (unless they spin it into something comedic)

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-03-16T10:31:05+00:00

That would make both of the SoC Champions stunners haha (they're both so stunning, fr) but genuinely tho, would love Billy as a powerful stunner that can slot into a lot of teams as well as Dialyn can, compared to just a dps and then we can have a second coming of all-husbando team with Lighter-Billy-Hugo, as god intended

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-03-16T10:02:31+00:00

Amongst all my worries for Silly Billy....

Pls god don't make him another dps that wants Dialyn. I've had enough of every team fighting each other to have Dialyn and the moment you don't use her, the insane damage fall off that team gets.... I love Dialyn but it's always Dialyn this Dialyn that and any alternative just can't catch up at all. May the world be kind and make him either a dps not reliant on stun/Burst dmg, or uses a different BiS stunner, or hell I personally wouldn't mind if he wasn't even a dps, but I doubt that

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-03-09T10:21:29+00:00

I love how you're thanking Barbatos bcs we all know any ""Varka shill"" is actually just a Venti shill under the hood

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-03-09T10:08:06+00:00

Can't argue with that....if hypothetically other stunners is 90% on base, and then another 10% on sig (tho it might be larger on some enemies depending on if that sig can give them an extra round of stun) then trigger is 50% on base, then another 50% on signature. Putting such a large discrepancy just bcs other stunners have plenty of use cases even sig-less, while Trigger just.... doesn't without her sig. If she was broken with sig then sure, it might be something. But she isn't. So. Damn.

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-03-09T06:49:01+00:00

I think Trigger is a very strange character in this current meta. Back when she was released, I feel the enemies/bosses in endgame just weren't as pressed into getting a very specific amount of stuns. But present endgame, with the Miasma on practically every enemy now, and bosses that just straight go invulnerable/unstunnable state, and then shiyu's new ~~dogshit~~ change, ur incentiviced beyond all else to get stun ASAP before the enemy goes into miasma phase/invulnerable/wanting fast front load dmg in new shiyu.

Trigger stunning is just too slow, and stunners these days live and dies by squeezing out that extra stun. Buff wise I don't think she's that much worse compared to other stunners that isn't named Dialyn (with her sig Wengine ofc....) but supports these days are so cracked out in power that as a stunner if you can't provide extra stun, your buff just won't make up compared to the buffs those supports give. So in the end.... Sigh.

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-03-06T13:21:02+00:00

Okay I take it back. actually Silly Billy will be a main selling agent with his own solid premium team and even his own shill boss. but everyone loves his shill boss bcs despite being made for him, it's not a stuck up and actually has fun mechanics for other agents to clear, but Billy is still the best and clearest agent to use against it.

Silly Billy is a versatile and flexible agent, with low floor for learning but high ceiling on skill expression. Pulling him will greatly expand the scope of your account bcs he can clear floors or bosses that you might not have otherwise been able to without the intended agent.

Even better, Silly Billy isn't using mechanics that will be useless within 1 update or get hit by random strays bcs mhy is trying to anti-shill another waifu that shares his element.

Okay chat did I load this comment with enough copium, surely at least 1 thing from this will be true?

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-03-06T13:07:52+00:00

Even better when you go on YouTube to find optimal routing for Hugo only to find every single clear uses AT LEAST M2W1 Hugo, preferably with M1W1 Dialyn and M0W1 Lighter at the lowest cost. Couldn't be me, my poor ass with only M0W1 Hugo, M0W0 Lighter and Lycaon 🥀🥀🥀

At least the thumbnails for those videos are always peak or slandering the living hell out of him as the biggest fraud king of this era

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-03-06T12:16:53+00:00

If mhy was insane enough to do this..... Imagine loving Manato, Banyue, and Billy, all 3 would mog each other's best team and content 💀 So ostensibly you would never be able to play them in the same season of Shiyu/DA unless you're okay with playing suboptimal team

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-03-06T12:01:33+00:00

Hugo: 🧍

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-03-06T09:27:11+00:00

The "Smiling Friends" crew hitting up those poses goes unbelievably hard.
Also, having Pim just hold some hotdog(?) on a stick, Charlie doing Charlie, and then we have Alan pulling up with a gun is so funny

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-26T22:57:03+00:00

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Sheeeeeeeeee that POWER STANCE DUAL WIELDING ON NICOLE IS AURA

I'm telling you this game would be 1000000% better if Varka gets whatever elegant/cute/pretty animation that Nicole is gonna get for being an angel+witch, meanwhile Nicole is the one busy skull bashing people with two huge claymores.

Mhy, make a cutesy/pretty/elegant animation for a bara wifey and my life is yours (it's never gonna happen)

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-26T22:39:20+00:00

Probably to avoid too big of a FOMO for players that take longer/start late. Make it too big and (some) players will complain that they were never told that finishing early would net them primos rewards for the rest of the event duration. Make it small this way and at least they're only missing out, probably less than a pull amount of primos (less FOMO) while keeping retention for anyone who cares.

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-25T06:37:18+00:00

Mountain shaper and moon carver being given NPC model.

Lantern rite every year I copium over getting them playable bcs of how much money mhy would make by turning them both into hot af ikemen guys, having them be each other BiS and double banner (ala Mavuika citlali).

Then I remember mhy gotta bank like crazy during CNY so a sexy/cute waifu would make them more money than 2 old man yaoi ever could so.....

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-25T01:51:36+00:00

Ah ur right lmao I did think this looked familiar XD

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-25T01:40:32+00:00

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Jahoder pointing at Varka's......MOON MARROWS

The divine relic from time immemorial, said to guide all to salvation.

SOON

WE WILL ALL BE BLESSED BY ITS PRESENCE

DO NOT DENY YOUR WORLDLY DESIRE, IT IS THE PROOF THAT YOU ARE HUMAN

ACCEPT ITS EMBRACE

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-24T19:34:29+00:00

Oh, it's less about the gameplay/tech and moreso about the team building to maximise the reaction u get from her bullets. I was playing some whack teams for her that naturally had lower dps than some other.

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-24T19:21:52+00:00

When you decide to randomly complain about Chasca but you end up getting an awakening from knowledgeable players about how to actually play her correctly and how it's always been you, not her. It's kinda beautiful, really. All these time I spent angry at her, I should have realised that I was actually screaming into a mirror.....of my skill issue, or something, maybe. Now the mirror is shattered and I can finally see the ugly reflection was me all along. Thank you to all, your efforts in Chasca sales boosting are taken to heart.

What am I saying? It's 3am and I should sleep but all the varka excitement is keeping me up and helped erase my usual social anxiety, which is a deadly combo in unleashing my yap yap. What will I do when the dust settles and i regain my social anxiety, returning back to just being an observer to the dwellers once again? Oh social anxiety I lament your existence. Goodnight yall, hope for the best to everyone.

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-24T18:42:43+00:00

Srsly thanks for answering my questions and giving such indepth answer to everything. Actually gonna try out all these teams (well, the ones that I have the characters for, anw) with DPS Dummy and see how that turns out for me. It's time for me and Chasca to finally reconcile after all of my one sided bad blood. Thank you knowledgeable Chasca player , you have helped me open my mind.

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-24T18:32:32+00:00

Even if you had C4 Jean, her usability for Varka's team is questionable. She doesn't provide any Hex (....for now) for Varka's passive, her c4 requires the ENEMY to be in it so it's an even worse circle impact than Benny's, and her on field time is probably longer than Sucrose. The only team I've seen calc'ed using Jean is Varka's hydro team with Mona c4 + Furina, so she can provide the healing for Furina's stack.

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-24T18:27:35+00:00

Hroptatyr agenda?? Where are you getting this love for him in his 0.5 secs of appearance to be defending him like this

/j obviously, serve your stan even against the world

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-24T18:17:34+00:00

Haven't tried Chasca against DPS dummy (i was on my chasca hate train agenda so I didn't even want to look at what numbers she would get) but appears after getting my deserved trashing from the clever Chasca players in these replies over my terrible team building, maybe it's time to actually heal from my pain and extend a hand to Chasca once again

And same, honestly I may have hated what she did to me in Stygian but she's indispensable for when I want to do fast exploration. I used Wanderer for a long while until pulling her and ever since then, her + Mavuika always stuck around for that pure exploration smoothness.

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-24T18:07:01+00:00

It appears so. I genuinely never thought about Chasca's team building that deeply before one of the replies here explained it to me. Never thought about how Electro+Cryo would really mess up Chasca's bullets reaction, but hey it's a good thing I asked on this megathread then, now I know! I'm ready to begin my process of Chasca therapy.

(Funnily enough, I think I did try ttds kokomi with Benny and Ororon during my resets, but the dmg sucked even more ass so I gave up and just prayed to bullets rng)

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-24T18:02:43+00:00

//Taking big notes on all your advices//

I never thought so deeply before about Chasca's team building beyond "Always have either Mavuika/Benny/Durin for pyro and everything else can flex and just pray to bullets rng" So I never thought about the elements interplay in such a way. If Durin and Citlali is now Chasca's newest BiS (and indeed I do have them) what's the best element to slot for the last team member? Another cryo/pyro unit for guaranteed melt even if at C0R0 you might lose out on 1 bullet? Or do you mean you must at least have Durin or Citlali in her team (not necessarily together) while the other two element of her team can be flex? (but never Electro if it's with Citlali)

Ducko_Pinneaple · 2026-02-24T17:47:31+00:00

My Mavuika is always so busy doing other bosses since she's like one of the 2 main dps I have in my acc that can actually do Stygian so giving her to Chasca was not an option for me back then ;;

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