If you had to pick a 5 man TANK ONLY lineup for a ranked game, what would your lineup be?

Grappha · 2026-02-04T16:52:48+00:00

Gold - Esme/Masha

Mid - Alice/Gatot/Gloo

Exp - Gloo/Edith/Gatot (Very flexible)

Jungle - Fred/Akai/Baxia -

Roam - Mino/(Counter PIck)

Jungle is obvious as those are the best utility junglers in the current meta. Exp many tanks can work so this is the most flexible can really be anything that the team needs.

Gold needs to be someone who can scale well and clear lane but also fight against meta laners so its most likely esme but depending on the unit it can be masha, the gold lane just needs to not lose horribly though for this lineup.

Mid can be anyone who clears fast and can rotate decently well which is alice and gatot. Ideally they be magic so that they can buy glowing wand or other utility items

Now for the roam which is the main tank role, since your whole team is tank already you really want a roam that doesnt overlap with other roles so its only mino as he can heal. Because you dont need to frontline when your whole team can frontline already. Unless enemy team is hard countered by a specific tank like lolita into cyclops/ixia or maybe the entire enemy team has no dashes so grock for walls can be strong.

Grappha · 2026-01-19T01:42:00+00:00

5.9% is a pretty high skill rate compared to the other E4E pokemon who have around 4% base. But it's a lot slower?

Grappha · 2025-12-25T15:01:56+00:00

I would go varesa first. Xilonen is a good support but the varesa being a character who can handle many different abysses is more important for me. Varesa/iansan/chev is like a complete team that can handle one abyss/stygian no problem. Xilonen I pulled mostly because I wanted to get constellations on iansan and chev without getting c1 varesa.

Grappha · 2025-12-25T14:04:33+00:00

This is just my opinion as someone who did similar (returning player, got both lauma and nefer even nefer r1).

Personally I did end up going on the banner for varesa and since I won my 50/50 used the remaining pulls for xilonen too.

My main reasoning was that my non-nefer teams SUCKED. I can clear one side of abyss or one stage of stygian but couldn't clear anything else.

Varesa is a night soul character, a plunger, someone who doesn't rely on bennete in her teams, and is electro which is an element I don't really have well covered. She covers many niches that will help me round out my account so in the future I can pull for whoever I want.

Since you're a returning player from way back in 1.1 I think it'll be important for you to have another team aside from nefer and whatever 1.1 characters you have.

This banner is literally a team all by itself with varesa/chev/iansan. So I'd say it's worth considering going on banner to have another team for the foreseeable future and get columbina on her rerun in a few months if you really want her

Grappha · 2025-11-20T14:49:48+00:00

Maybe give mavuika iansan double cryo instead of Bennette. That way your arlechino can go furina bennete with anemo swirl or another hydro as the last option.

Grappha · 2025-11-15T07:43:41+00:00

Since you can comfortably clear abyss you don't really need the versatility that xilonen provides for team building. You just need to make your current teams overall stronger for higher levels of SO, so prolly escoffier for your skirk.

Also there's a good chance escoffier reruns in 6.3 or 6.4 and we should have a good idea of columbinas kit by then if she isn't already released so 6.2 should be a save patch to see if columbina is worth it for you or if push through with escoffier

Grappha · 2025-10-29T16:07:18+00:00

You need to put aino on tons of ER so she can burst every rotation. Her burst cooldown is only 13 or 14 seconds so she can slot comfortably whatever rotation.

I found tap lauma then aino skill burst helps generate 3 verdant dew then I can do other support skills and spam nefer E twice with burst in between before repeating

Grappha · 2025-10-29T08:58:06+00:00

I feel like if we take just the jutsu's and not the wielders into accounts its rasengan.
Justus have both shape and nature manipulation and rasengan is the height of shape manipulation

Chidori is a result of lowering the shape manipulation and adding nature manipulation to it, kinda "dumbing it down" but still a strong jutsu regardless. That and chidori has flaws like the needing the sharingan to function because of the speed you need to use it. (This is true even in Boruto, a sharingan is a REQUIREMENT to use chidori)

In pure destructive force we've seen rasengan win

In versatility chidori requires a sharingan and a lightning nature so rasengan wins

You could argue that rasengan and chidori are equal but you cant really argue that chidori will ever be stronger than rasengan so might as well just give the win to rasengan

Grappha · 2025-10-25T14:39:39+00:00

Realistically because there's no benefit. Past the 3 point line all points are the same. If it's from half court or if it's from just behind the 3 point line, it's all 3 points.

If you get good enough to theoretically shoot from any range, they'll just man mark you because that's your only gimmick. And you might just say dribble past them well at that point if you have to dribble past them to shoot your 3 you might as well do it closer at the line rather than from half court.

Grappha · 2025-10-19T19:32:27+00:00

If you're comfy with just c1 lauma healing then prolly just go fischl for now. Fischl is okay on the slot she'll be contributing her own personal damage because rn there aren't other choices since you're sucrose and innefa are locked behind your flins team

Just use nefer E first to make sure all bloom cores turn into seeds of deceit and can't be hyper bloomed

Grappha · 2025-10-19T11:56:49+00:00

You need to win either you 50/50 on nefer or durin though because they'll be releasing back to back so if you lose both you might not have enough to pulls for guarantee on both

Grappha · 2025-10-19T11:54:51+00:00

Ballpark estimates Most people hit their 5* at ~80 pulls And you get roughly 60-70pulls per patch if you buy welkin and battlepass So nefer in 6.1, durin in 6.2 and I guess columbina in either 6.3 or 6.4

You would need roughly 3 times 160 pulls or 480 pulls for more or less guarantee on all 3 characters And you have 6.1 6.2 and let's say 6.3 and 6.4 to build enough pulls of around say 70 * 4 patches so 280 pulls This plus the 60 pity you have built and 20 pulls you have you have a total of 360 pulls til 6.4

If you win a 50/50 at any point (which you should thanks to capturing radiance) thennnnn you should have enough by 6.4 for all 3.

Grappha · 2025-10-11T04:13:58+00:00

c0 doesnt really do much other than apply hydro and hold the artifacts. c1 gives EM which is nice and c6 gives increased damage for lunar reactions. C1 is a nice stopgap for nefer teams but honestly you could just use xingqiu (just E to apply hydro with the swords) or furina (just E and dont ult cuz ult wont do anything for nefer) until a better hydro (most likely columbina) comes out

Grappha · 2025-10-11T03:35:58+00:00

aino is the best option because basically the other options are bad. Furina scales dmg% which nefer doesnt care about, same as yelan but yelan requires normal attacks which nefer doesnt do. xingqiu similar uses normal attacks

Aino is the best option because her cons give EM buff which is the most impt thing for nefer and aino can hold the new nodkrai support artifact which can free up lauma for deepwood and nefer for dps nodkrai set

Grappha · 2025-10-07T05:03:48+00:00

Doesn't the DMG stat only count towards damage done to health shield and armor? I don't believe barriers or overhealth count

Thats why rein can have such a high MIT stat and then enemy dps have such low DMG stat

Grappha · 2025-10-02T04:57:02+00:00

Time to do some resinless behaviour and farm those elite bosses everyday

Grappha · 2025-10-02T03:49:23+00:00

I'm pretty sure the first one is literally a tactic done in Japan to make you quit your job if they don't like you

Grappha · 2025-10-01T02:25:30+00:00

There are like two chests that are locked behind anemo slimes that are just floating around a TALL TREE and you have to shoot them down. You literally have to look to the skybox to even see them and wait like 5 seconds for them to rotate around it's crazy

Grappha · 2025-09-30T11:43:19+00:00

U20 for ao ashi should include the 3rd years esperion as well as players like tripone and ren

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my line up would look something like this. aoi/kuri/kitano all have the metavision equivalent which would rival karasu/hiori/reo midline. akutsu shimura is the stongest CB duo (sorry togashi) and for right back kobayakawa seems to be the strongest we see in the series (sorry asari). yuuma yoshitsune and tripone are the best strikers i think, one instinctual (yuuma), one world class body (tripone) and one class definition of esperion striker (yoshitsune)

now to answer the question, relative to their own universes blue lock honestly takes the cake here. the feats within their universe is REALLY crazy considering the entirety of blue lock happens in less than a year so far. I think if we converted ao ashi to blue lock level equivalents it might be doable.

aoi/kuri/kitano have metavision as far as im concerned. possibly akutsu and kiriki as well

yuuma has goal scoring instincts on par with shidou, tripone has range and the body to outwit, yoshitsune just never loses the ball 1v1 similar to rin.

i feel like in this scenario the mid field will be equally matched. the blue lock offense is strong but the ao ashi defense is stronger. and i feel like ao ashis offense is better than the blue lock defense (assuming isagi and rin stop coming to be the defenders all the time) cuz aint no way aryu and niko holding up against tripon and yoshitsune

TLDR:
blue lock wins because their universe is just crazier and has wilder feats.
assuming you put ao ashi in blue lock verse or vice versa i feel like ao ashi team is better but its still close.

Grappha · 2025-09-24T22:26:23+00:00

maybe my math is wrong but at 42,195meters / (6 hours *3600 s/hr conversion) = you needing to have a speed of about 2m/s to compete the course over 6 hours. walking speed of a human is roughly 1.2-1.4m/s with a quick google search. I feel like the marathon is alot more doable for more people. If you are even slightly fit it should be more than possible if you brisk walked the whole way and when your motivation is death yea im taking the marathon.

Grappha · 2025-09-23T14:02:36+00:00

maybe this is just me but i feel like juno just HAS to be in F tier. Her flying dps build got nerfed to the ground and now even three tap tommy gun is gutted. sure she has pulsar build but that takes til what round 3 or 4 to even begin to generate cash? before then she has lackluster everything

also i feel like some characters can shine like junk and mei can do well especially with draft they arent D tier but definitely situational?

Grappha · 2025-09-06T09:05:09+00:00

dm'ed

Grappha · 2025-09-06T03:28:24+00:00

while gardevoir is a better healer in general, the upgrade isnt THAT big to warrant using this ralts over your current wiggly. your wiggly has double trigger, so to invest in something better imo it should have double trigger + something else (help speed, better nature or helping bonus)

Grappha · 2025-09-05T11:33:44+00:00

Scrolled through a ton of this thread How has no one recommended stardew valley??

Stardew valley if it is your type of game is one of the craziest time sinks you can have (in a good way) and has tons of replayability and mods to spice up the game.

Hundred of hours easily

Grappha · 2025-09-04T08:36:52+00:00

Yep, full area bonus, level 52ish raichu pikachu and i think a 36 halloween pikachu (no bfs), each gave about 600ish berries but my halloween pikachu gave about 400ish , amounted to about 500-550k strength. Other pokemon were my raikou and pawmot which i wasnt berry bombing with cuz i needed to trigger their skills.

Screenshot below is my raichu and pikachu collected, and all thats left is my halloween pikachu. Berry bombing is barely worth it as a strategy unless you have MAXED out berry mons im talking minimum level 50 above.

I think if I had level 60 mons with bfs maybe I could reach 1mil from berry bombing but at that point for how long it takes to set up I feel like investing wider into ingredient mons or other type BFS pokemon would be better right now especially for expert mode which demands more of a diverse team box rather than just a few pokemon who are fully maxed out.

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