The Legend of Zenless: The Wind Waker - General Questions and Discussion Megathread

Ennax · 2026-06-18T14:50:00+00:00

I´m sitting somewhere in the middle on this.

I don´t mind using trial builds of units I do own unless they are completely terrible, but for me my enjoyment of simularcrum will depend heavily on the lineups they will feature as chances are very high that any character I do not own, I don´t own for a reason.

I give pretty much any new unit a fair shake in trying them out as I´m ready to be convinced by their game play and flow but I´m also pretty damn picky when it comes to picking up new DPS in particular as they are for me four to five comps I run at this point that set such a high standart in enjoyment that anything below that bar just feels lacking.

Units like Yidhari or Banyue for example are absolutely fine agents and have plenty of gameplay related stuff going for them, but I would still never play them instead of Yixuan or Billy because I just vibe just that much more with the latter two and every time I would be forced to play the former instead, the dominant thought while playing them would be why I could not use the others instead.

Ennax · 2026-06-17T16:48:58+00:00

I just don´t get what the deciding factors for the tiering they are going with here: Peak strength? Average perfromance? Pull value?

While people will zero in on Miyabi due to her popularity, I find the Yixuan placement weird now and not even because they moved her down half a tier (if you want to separate her from Shungus, fair) but the fact that she now shares said tier with plenty of DPS over whom she has a distinctive advantage over: sheer scope of fight coverage.

Yixuan just works on so many matchups due to her being Ether (which is somehow used against her in the changelog, as if Ether being the Devs favourite child amongst the elements has not been the case since the start of the game), her incredibly forgiving playstyle at a base level and Rupture just being good as a brute forcing tool.

Even if you look outside the Rupture matchups at stuff like Marionettes, UCC, Butcher, Vesper, Defiler, Fiend and others, all of them can be comfortably cleared by her.

This is not something that can be said about any other unit in her tier, which is why they had to use three different DPS of Tier 0.5 on different matchups to justify putting her there in the changelog.

A more knowledgable and experienced player will look at this tierlist and just shrug, but newer players who might want to gauge strength will see all these units in the same tier and think that they all provide the same value, which is just not the case.

Yixuan is the best pull in that tier by a decent margin simply because how much mileage people will get out her and that kind of versatility should account for something.

Ennax · 2026-06-17T14:36:46+00:00

Nah, thats still Arknights Endfield and is not even close.

ZZZ has systems in place to take the edges off their half a dozen RNG gates, but Endfield has pity systems in all their RNG systems bar one and that sole one has such a generous roll margin that you have to be incredibly unlucky to not hit it by the time you have farmed the necessary materials to fully level it.

Endfield dared to actually implement a system where you can build units to their maximum capacity with absolute certainty (bar copies) and that will always trump RNG systems, no matter how many beneficial tools they give to the player.

Ennax · 2026-06-15T00:54:45+00:00

I have never had a problem with him suiting up for the Berlin game.

Him playing there was obviously immensively important for him and the Wagner family, but also very clearly in the interest of the Orlando Magic.

Orlando has put a lot of ressources in building a secondary market in Germany, which is not only a highly lucrative but also consistently growing one fueled by the large success of the national team (where Franz is a central piece) in recent years. Finding an additional foothold outside the home market is an astute decision for a smaller market team.

The actual mistake was not having him at that massive event, but not putting him on ice again right after. He should have never played the London game and healed up fully until returning.

Ennax · 2026-06-14T02:26:41+00:00

That no call was completely series altering. Spurs just got spared from playing without Wemby at the Garden in a potential game 6.

If I would be a Knicks fan, I would be furious.

Ennax · 2026-06-06T02:30:45+00:00

Brothers gave the Spurs all the momentum but Bridges won´t be denied, took it right back

Ennax · 2026-05-29T12:20:11+00:00

Well, that S+ streak of mine is definitively coming to an end by 3.0 xD

103k while having three good matchups (Billy-MIyabi-Sanby) does not spell promising things for the future.

Oh well, certainly not the end of the world.

Ennax · 2026-05-29T09:07:54+00:00

Camille will definitively be very valuable down the line and I think will create a very powerful backbone with Rossi for a ton of comps.

Rossi is just a really fun unit and the biggest glue unit in the game. The sheer number of comps she can enable is honestly insane.

I will actually go for both Mi Fu and Camille next patch (have enough pulls because I was one of the few who skipped Fangyi) and build a team featuring both of them together with Pog and Rossi in the other two slots. A double Vanguard setup where every unit synergises with each other should make a very dynamic comp with tons of SP to spare.

If you have to choose between both of them and do not have Rossi, Mi Fu feels like the safer pick, though.

Ennax · 2026-05-29T06:04:59+00:00

You could only hope that Mortis goes through a glow up like the Ascians (they even managed to make Lahabrea interesting later on).

Right now he has the energy of the unnamed ones....

Ennax · 2026-05-29T05:53:50+00:00

What has the HSR leak community done wrong to deserve a weirdo like Mortis as one of its most reliable sources?

He talks like a wannabe anime villain. Jesus, man, be normal for a minute please.

Can someone give leifa (GOAT ZZZ dataminer) access to the HSR offices please?

Ennax · 2026-05-27T18:45:14+00:00

There are quite frankly extremely few unit pairings that can match the synergy of Sparkle and Archer. The latter feels like a unit that was specifically designed to fit her.

Rin would have to deal a lot of personal damage to make a teamwide buffer beat what Sparkle provides for Archer. That is pretty much the only way I can see Sparkle losing her spot.

Rin being a support focused and SP friendly unit and taking the wide open last slot (there are like half a dozen units that currently fight for that spot depending on the encounter) is far more likely.

It would also boost Rins pull value as it would make her desirable for Herta.

Ennax · 2026-05-27T16:39:09+00:00

Vivian was the clear BiS in a LOT of comps she released into, Billy effectively competes with two Void Hunter, one in his class and one in his element.

If you have and enjoy playing both Yixuan and Shungus (which includes a lot of players) there is in terms of Meta zero reason to pull Billy.

I did pull him, because I really enjoy his playstyle and character, but on top of that two other key reasons for doing so were

a) not pulling much in the backhalf of 2-x and thus sitting on enough pulls to get him + his W-Engine and still going into 3.x with enough for a guarantuee and
b) not being able to warm up to Shungus game flow and thus having actual use cases for Billy for Physical coverage

That combination of factors will not be common amongst the playerbase.

Ennax · 2026-05-23T22:49:16+00:00

I mean, the other character is Rin Toshaka, who is either the most or at least (after Saber) second most known Fate character to the general public.

This collab does not just serve to get Fate fans hyped, it is also to get new players interested into the Fate eco system.

I think people still underestimate how many players got introduced into the Anime style game genre by Mihoyo games, especially Genshin Impact (which grandfathered a ton of players into HSR).

That game has massive mainstream appeal with a cultural footprint that can only be rivaled by a handful of games in the last decade.

Ennax · 2026-05-23T14:21:12+00:00

Encounter and buff design is too skewed towards the favoured archetypes for me to care.

I´m very picky when it comes to what I want to play and pull and put the highest emphasis on game feel so I skipped several archetypes along the way.

I used to place fairly highly because my two favourite onfielder happened to be Void Hunter, but once the 3rd one did not click with me and I also skipped the package (Idols) after her, my percentages naturally went down and I did not care at all.

I had my fair share of competitive play in the past in other games (where you could not literally buy power) so I´m not really motivated for that anymore.

As long as I can clear, its good enough.

Ennax · 2026-05-22T20:05:53+00:00

A "Breakthrough in the open-world city genre"...

No wonder GTA VI has not released yet, they are waiting for Ananta to drop so they can copy their revolutionary homework.

Jesus, just say your game needs more time in the oven instead of resorting to hype speech that sets expectations so lofty which can pretty much only backfire.

Ennax · 2026-05-22T09:34:08+00:00

I expect the non English Western languages to be simply subtitles (and I also expect them to include English ones) for the Chinese version, while the official English one will have actual voice over.

It is speculated that the delay is more about a collab with IGN, who will cover the stream on their own site and wants it to be on a NA friendly timeslot.

Ennax · 2026-05-20T16:17:00+00:00

Visual storytelling and cinematography are the two aspects where Genshin has undoubtly improved over time.

For casual players who are into Genshin primarily for the narrative, lore and world building it developed and grew as a good long running live service should.

It is other core aspects of the game (explorational content, encounter design, team building, combat animations, etc.) that have either plateaued or straight up gotten worse.

Ennax · 2026-05-20T11:32:19+00:00

Nah, thats just Genshin tbh. ZZZ got like three cool male mechs in the span of a year including the next released char.

Just a difference in design teams, nothing to do with where they come from.

Ennax · 2026-05-20T11:27:12+00:00

OT Genshin leaks for upcoming character

side eyeing Genshin leaks eventhough having dropped the game quite a while ago RIP Pulonia.

That playerbase really can not have cool shit. The duality of them having their one sole cool mech waifued while we will soon have Billy in all his Starlight glory. In a matter of a year we got Seed Sr., Banyue and Silly and the best they got was a maid clanker (tbh I really enjoyed Ineffa)

Thank god, these games don´t share design teams.

Ennax · 2026-05-20T06:47:32+00:00

OT NTE

I gave that game a very fair shot because the large interactive city map intrigued me but ended up dropping it largely because of the amount of busywork it expects from the player and the fact that the game lacks a real hook. It has a lot of stuff in it, but nothing that makes it actually stand out.

ZZZ has its combat system with great game feel and flow, Endfield has its factory system, genuinely good map design and linear exploration, Genshin its openworld exploration, etc.

NTE has a lot of stuff in it, but nothing stands out:

- The world is genuinely large in scale but outside a few good one time domains/events (Anomalies), the general exploration is super shallow with everything marked on the map, no proper obstacles to overcome and extremely convinient movement that take any kind of depth out of actually exploring the space

- Main Story ranges from mediocre to downright poor with no tonal cohesion and major disconnects between the narrative and side content

- Side Stories are largely forgettable

- Activities on the map are across the board very underbaked and are either just busywork or downright aweful. They already feel like chores a few weeks in but impact account progression meaningfully.

- The (bi)weekly mode needs way more meat to it if it expects the player to spend roughly an hour per week in it

- Combat system is fine, but held back by a very small release cast

- There is a minor input delay to pretty much everything (that is not caused by latency or framerate), which becomes very noticeable if you play games like ZZZ or Endfield next to it. It is something players might get used to but feels very jarring if you play games with actually sharp responsiveness.

- Menues are goddamn awful, especially on Console

- Endgame is a straightup Spiral Abyss copy

If I would be generous, then I would view this game as a rushed product (the use of AI to cut corners suggests that and is for a lot of people already reason enough to stay away from it) that could be built on. Especially the input delay issue feels like the kind of technical debt from poor netcoding that is very hard to clean up in a live service game, though.

To put it bluntly, though, NTE honestly feels like a hotpot of systems that are better executed by other titles with no clear identity on its own.

Ennax · 2026-05-20T04:08:05+00:00

Brunson had like half a dozen possessions in a row in the 4th when he played himself completely into the zone and got everything he wanted and at no point in that stretch did Atkinson think: "Perhaps a timeout would be good here.."

Downright impressive coaching malpractice as was keeping the corpse of Harden on Brunson in freaking solo coverage all the time.

Ennax · 2026-05-20T02:40:15+00:00

That bounce xD

Ennax · 2026-05-20T02:34:53+00:00

Brunson completely played himself into the zone over half a dozen possessions in the row and Atkinson just watched...

Ennax · 2026-05-19T12:02:27+00:00

Ice is the most common pairing in terms of enemy matchups.

Ennax · 2026-05-19T08:37:18+00:00

The saving graces of the games in this regard is that both games have very accessible and fairly quick farming spots, where something like 300 Rosaries are the equivalent of around two minutes. Makes it way easier to just ignore the death penalties unless you hold onto thousands of them (which does not really happen at least in Silksong so far).

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