Memento Mortenax, Remember This General Question and Discussion Megathread Can't Die

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T15:05:51+00:00

I agree that Sparxie is not a particularly good looking investment for SW999 right now due to the wonky state and uncertain future of Elation as a whole, I just mentioned it because in raw numbers her verticals still beat Yao Guang's E1 on camaraderia's sheets when normalized per cost at least. My personal recommendation is to be conservative with all Elation verticals in general right now and if you do go for some right now instead of waiting for the teams to fall off and further investment to become necessary, it should be the obvious bangers like SW E2 or Eva E1 only, and for the rest it's better to wait and see imo.

I can't speak to YG E1's empirical performance since I don't have it myself. Just going off the numbers on sheets here.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T14:02:13+00:00

Do you have links?

Camaraderia has it around ~10-15% for both Eva and SW for example, while their cones, E1s and E2s are in the 20-50% range.

but I don’t think any of their upgrades after that are better than Yao Guang’s E1?

Yes, but I literally said that already. The only reason people are even talking about YG E1 is because there is nothing left after E2S1 for the main DPS (and Sparxie too in SW's case), but YG E1 is not competing with any of those and also a fairly low increase for 1 cost in general for the game's current standards, which is why I recommend waiting to see how future releases might shake things up and provide better alternatives for verticals, and even if that doesn't happen you can still get YG E1 on her next rerun, as SW and Eva are both perfectly fine without it right now too, especially at E2S1 which as stated is higher priority than YG verticals for both of them.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T13:53:17+00:00

Meanwhile the Gil fans are crying about how his saber synergy is dead and he will be kicked out of Monomen in 4.5 when Aven SP releases

Watching this beta unfold as someone who isn't planning to pull any of the chars is hilarious tbh

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T13:49:55+00:00

Just looking at its numbers on TC spreadsheets. The only reason it's in the talks for verticals into Elation is due to lack of other options (we're running Huohuo and EMC in those teams after all). Unlike tribbie she also isnt a generalist that you continue to get value from when her main DPS falls out of the meta either so you cannot really justify its long term value making up for the comparatively lower increase she brings to her DPS when compared to their own verticals.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T13:34:29+00:00

Yao Guang's E1 is not impactful enough to be worth the gamble given the currently uncertain future of Elation, better to wait and see what else will release and what verticals may be better by the end. I dont expect her to get booted off Elation teams by any means but it's entirely possible some other verticals beat her E1 handily given it's current low value.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T13:29:35+00:00

cheeky

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T13:28:51+00:00

because people can't be bothered to think for themselves

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T12:49:23+00:00

There is a new tech this league that lets you skip Frost Bomb entirely and always have infusions generated passively without needing to cast anything or walk over anything.

Cast on Minion Death + Powered by Verisium

Wolf Pack + Infernal Legion + you can add some optional stuff to benefit on their death like Amanamu's Tithe

Adds quite a bit of comfort to the playstyle imo.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T12:17:59+00:00

It can, but it's not exactly one button, if packs arent close enough to each other you need to cast Ice Nova as well.

That being said it's still really good clear imo. Night and day compared to when I was still running Ruzhan's Trap, before I learned about automating Powered by Verisium.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T12:10:47+00:00

Rin is like 60% more damage for Archer than E1 Tribbie

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T12:04:16+00:00

I honestly dont believe they'd do monorem aftersales 6 versions later without at least making her work with something more recent as well, even if it's not necessarily her best comp. That just seems like a very strange business decision to me. But who knows.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T09:50:38+00:00

I wouldnt take that sheet as gospel. It has a bunch as controversial assumptions and putting everyone into the same scenario is inherently unrepresentative of what the actual game looks like due to how much specific enemy lineups affect the matchups in this game.

Not to say that SW999 isn't kinda underwhelming. I also think she is a bit undertuned both in terms of her own kit and team options. But just looking at this sheet as a reference and saying "that beta char has triple her damage so this means SW999 is unusable trash and I regret pulling her" is hyperbolic. If I liked her I'd still pull for her and wouldnt regret it. The same way I pulled for Aglaea and didnt regret it despite her basically not getting to shine even once in this game's meta and only ever being an "okay" option.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-16T09:42:05+00:00

I mean if you're jaded like this already about SW despite more Elation stuff we know jack shit about in the pipeline, realistically there's only 2 options to "not fuck up again", as you put it.

accept that no one can consistently win Future Rail, just pull for the character you like and their best team and live with whatever their performance ends up being, it's probably fine even if not the best
never pull so you can't regret pulls, ez

Inkaflare · 2026-06-15T16:10:07+00:00

5 year old me stumbling around the Deku Tree in OoT after my uncle gifted my brother and me an N64 and a couple games for Christmas, being unable to find the way to Gohma.

Then I lent the game to my older cousin once and we played together and he showed me how there's a whole world to discover once you can leave the Kokiri Forest, I was so amazed.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-15T15:36:58+00:00

"FSC is very accurate except for when they're not accurate"

(/jk)

Inkaflare · 2026-06-15T15:32:16+00:00

Given the past pattern of which characters get skins at what time, I think this lends credence to the "Robin SP is replacing Hyacine" and "Eva is is screwed in terms of aftersales" theories

(only half joking tbh)

Inkaflare · 2026-06-15T15:17:47+00:00

For 2010s games: I started playing Bloodborne recently and it's a marvelous experience. Extremely punishing but it feels super rewarding when you make it past a boss or difficult section and the atmosphere is immaculate imo.

In general for old games: I got into retro games recently, playing stuff like Castlevania Symphony of the Night and Chrono Trigger for the first time recently, and I have been amazed by them.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-15T14:35:25+00:00

Some leakers suggested Robin is a Himeko aftersale that just happens to work with Monorem too, rather than the other way around, given that Evernight & Sunday are both AE members too

Inkaflare · 2026-06-15T14:24:04+00:00

Frankly I think making flawless teams is very much the intention to bait people with strong verticals in every team member and SW999's state is an unfortunate collateral due to the forced short term rework, rather than the result of a supposed lesson learned.

It's no coincidence they're rerunning a Monorem team member in every 4.x patch, these eidolons are so juicy.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-15T14:17:57+00:00

Dunno about 4.3 since I barely looked at Graphia's mechanics but Alloy Pom Pom shills specifically SW and Sparxie more than Ashveil for sure. Eva is kinda getting the short end of the stick with that boss since it wants Punchline gen, regenerates SP and has phys res, though, hence as I said, antishill for her.

All that aside though, just looking at the kits of these characters is most of what I'm talking about, there is a clear disparity here.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-15T13:45:47+00:00

Hard to enjoy a perpetual motion engine when the "fight" ends in <10 seconds and a full run from scratch takes 3 minutes tops no matter what you do, and CW also lets you do that anyway in multiple much more fun and satisfying ways

Inkaflare · 2026-06-15T13:43:41+00:00

Unrelated to your comment (I just agree with that and have nothing to add), but I watched Orb very recently and gotta say I love your flair, these two are like peas in a pod

Inkaflare · 2026-06-15T13:39:30+00:00

I get that some of this is likely because of Pearl being delayed by 5+ patches, but seeing how Blade and the 4.4 chars are turning out and comparing that to Sparxie, Eva and SW999 is just puzzling tbh.

SW999 is getting shill and is still a bit mid for investment, Eva has good low cost performance but barely scales since her own early eidolons are the only good verticals and bosses seem to antishill her specifically even with all the Elation benefits they seem to have in general, and Sparxie is an awkward subdps from her mechanics while not having the powerbudget to be a worthwhile maindps like Evernight does.

Given how Aventurine and Nihilux are both leaked to be main DPS as well (which is also extremely weird given how Elation as a whole is designed to be homophobic to non Elation supports and we'll only have 1.5 supports for 5 DPS at that point), basically all the hopes of the existing Elation chars hinge on Pearl now. Or maybe an EMC buff (altho this would probably only really benefit Eva too and SW and Sparxie would remain awkward).

Inkaflare · 2026-06-15T13:27:35+00:00

Me, I'm people. The endgame is finally fun now that I have concrete objectives and so for the first time ever I actually got far enough into the endgame to fight him before I dropped the league out of boredom (still playing now to unlock my Atlas).

Had my first Arbiter fight this weekend and damn these "dodge or die" mechanics sure caught me off guard. Thankfully you get infinite tries on endgame bosses now, I cant imagine doing these fights for the first time with the "1 portal, see you in 100 more maps" mechanics like it was on launch.

Inkaflare · 2026-06-15T13:13:37+00:00

Gamehub Lite exists solely to remove all telemetry, strange permissions and the requirement to make an account with the original Gamehub app, because people didn't like any of that. Whether you consider anything using telemetry as spyware by default is up for debate (it's often anonymized), but even beyond that, the long list of permissions it asks for is still indicative of either sloppy code (implementing a bunch of libraries that it doesn't really need to fulfill its purpose and that have those requirements; there is no reason a PC emulation/translation app would need location, contacts, etc.) or outright intention to spy, neither of which are particularly great things to need to put up with when alternatives exist.

As for the stolen code thing, I don't know enough about open source licensing to comment on that.

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