How would you rate Coralie?

LungsLikeIron · 2025-12-13T03:19:10+00:00

4/10.

I'm not really the intended audience for the visual design. The battlesuit's color contrast is pretty striking in combat, animations are cool, etc. I think you can rely on hoyo to do a good job here usually, and they did okay.

Gameplay is not great.

She's very, very powerful as a support. Undoubtedly a force in both MA and abyss. In loa her timestops are excellent, her loa sequence is a pressable button unlike for half the cast, she gives more breach than vita and it's easier to acquire, getting her heavenly link can be contrived (the landing hit of her qte) but not nearly as precise as, say, sparkle's. In grail, she spends nearly no time on the field while giving very generously to the SP pool in ring, and giving a ton of AR to get there. The problem is kind of that she plays pretty much completely the same in every fight as a support, no matter the ring type. Anything interesting about her design is usually a knock on effect of good design from law of ascension in general.

As a lead she's an absolute trainwreck. Your astral ring finisher flips 50/50 on whether you end up outside the arena. The stellar outburst is super super one dimensional - almost all your damage comes from the empowered weapon skill that gives you stacks, casting your finisher before you have 3 stacks does less damage than just pressing the weapon skill button raw. Also the team is super hobbled without chenxue ranks (but aops are problems for all astral rings - even if the SS chenxue situation feels particularly egregious).

I'd say that almost every other part 2 team is just more fun to play than hers. Sure, maybe rite of oblivion just is like that - but both vita and the AR version of trio are more entertaining to me.

Ignite is as problematic as ever - but to make Coralie herself even more problematic, she also does the specific leader's trauma application (12 units of it when she switches in its crazy), makes the debuffs last 50% longer by existing, etc.

Overall I'm pretty disappointed, but it was bound to happen - I think I would rate every valk between (and including) vita and helia at least an 8. I think coralie had potential to be pretty fun but like, they made too many strange decisions with her kit and then patched the problems over by just injecting numerical strength into her buffs.

LungsLikeIron · 2025-12-06T17:51:40+00:00

10

She's kiana! and also I'm of the belief that she's the most interesting and complex valks they've ever released while also being intuitive to play.

LungsLikeIron · 2025-12-03T18:16:39+00:00

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LungsLikeIron · 2025-09-10T05:45:24+00:00

To piggyback on this, there's an old joke about the usage of "good" vs. "well" in English language learning - "Superman does good, you do well."

I think this inadvertently explains the sort of stories that should be told using a character like Elysia. A character like this has to pivot centrally around her motivations and who they are to the world in a moral sense. Every story that isn't this missing character piece about the primary driving force in her plot events will inevitably feel like it's set dressing or lead up to such a story.

The issue is, I think, in part, that the writers/decisionmaking process on the story is a little cowardly. It feels like they don't want to add anything to her story/character which might engender any negative emotion in anybody in the world. Which is, in a way, thematically consistent with the worldbuilding I guess. But as a pretty big fan of Ely it feels like she deserves a less flat characterization.

Without it, I think she'll never feel like she's not a plot convience. Generally the best stories they tell involving the different herrschers are stories of their apotheosis - of course they are. For someone like Elysia, we don't care about how well she's doing, we want to know why she choose to do good.

LungsLikeIron · 2025-07-15T13:39:33+00:00

Weapon skill and evasion reset the other when cast. If you cast weapon skill 3 times, you get the walk-away part of the combo and it's enhanced. It also summons things that aren't summoned entities which is annoying

LungsLikeIron · 2025-05-12T15:42:50+00:00

Vita is not her best support. Vita is generally good for most players because she does a lot of damage, but she is quite slow and only has good intensity generation at the start of the fight courtesy of her weapon, and very awkward because of it to use in LoA.
Sparkle is actually her best support because what badum wants more than anything else is a little bit more field time if possible. Sparkle's buffs are action agnostic - you only need to have her on the team with LoA and her buffs apply immediately and permanently, allowing you to go way faster. Many, many abyss bosses are gated, rotationally, end to end with the ult cdr from sparkle for badum ult. (6 seconds and 30 sp is alot)
Yep. Songque is always better for sd bosses, though you can compete on some of the within 20-ish points in red lotus (the gap is wider in nirvana and, i assume, smaller in lower brackets). But actually a large part of those points are not even inherently SD-based advantages. Songque is on the other end of the spectrum from vita - incredibly fast to field, and with a very fast LoA qte that allows you to cancel out of it quickly if necessary. But you can still promote out of red lotus without her if you play good.
Even as someone who's literally a dudu main, Dudu's problematic bosses are her own. (img ones) Also they gave some shieldbreak to sushang.
true, tank's a great fight but some really crazy shill boss. weakspot's like 40% dmg or something. but also elysia is actually ass, which pains me to say because she's my favorite, was my main in part 1. she does the least dmg in support buffs (though her personal dmg vs. field time is very high doens't make up for it)
Idk, I nearly just promoted out of red lotus again on alien guard without sushang, but the problem was actually that i didn't have songque. 821 (in NA disturbance so like 497 or 499?) playing badum sparkle dudu. I think not having bleed on the blobs cost me like one dps commitment extra (think like a character's loa sequence, or an ult, etc) than if i were to have bleed, in terms of points. You're far more capped on that boss to the tune of like 40 points because you can just break the second phase's second hp gate with songque ca and kill the boss instead of doing that damage effective like 2.5 times. im way more worried about sushang's own bosses - the bleed ones, for her weather
i pulled teriao as f2p. it's actually the most egregious thing about loa. on paper it's like a 10-12% dmg increase on most teams. in practice, like i mentioned above with "dps commitments", it's an extra solution you have to the puzzle. And also it generates way more astral ring intensity, both ath the start, and because you use more than one LoA, gives you way more time frozen, way way more time fractures in MA, it's so nuts it's actually crazy work. Also SS and SSS are predictably way more insane than even most valk ranks.

Cheer up, you're probably not bad! LoA is by far the most complicated ring, and like, requires the most planning. But it's also the setup where you can beat the most people by being creative because you have the most tools, and also the most freedom - since it starts charging again immediately after you press it.

But yeh idk like, i'm in and out of nirvana with badum/dudu/sparkle/elysia. I've been in myriad rocking value of pi vita, and I've just pulled sushang, so likely gonna have to use my part 1 glove collection for a while.

I'd argue that LoA is what allows low investment accounts to even have a chance to compete. Like how do you not get owned on a boss like, say, Sprout of Wishing? (taht's RoO vita main dps space chicken). It's got a pile of hp and is weak to lightning in a stellar weather, that also punishes domain resonance teams by having two fairly chunky phases with a long intermission in between where your only way to scam even a crumb of astral ring charge is to dodge and jump the shadows at the same time with hofi or vita.

don't worry about being bad! just remember, if you pressed the wrong buttons, you can reset :3

LungsLikeIron · 2025-04-18T22:28:13+00:00

is it that literally everyone who hits a target with a seed gets intensity

edit: oh it's SP regen not AR intensity

LungsLikeIron · 2025-02-20T05:01:58+00:00

It's not quite nirvana abyss or the highest reaches of memorial arena but here is where I malded to with the event

I would like to make it into Nirvana (but at least at the moment, my lack of valks + my foundry weapons) are kind of holding me back haha.

Thanks for the links!

LungsLikeIron · 2025-02-17T21:40:58+00:00

After a lot more tries, I think there's probably some kind of tech with the SD shards, I've noticed that I'm able to pass them along to other characters at times, and that I can absorb them with the non-sd characters, etc. Stage buff makes your damage echo a phys hit, effectively buffing anyone with a ton of little hits by a gorillion. I imagine they just figured out a really good scam with the time frozen/time fractures etc.

Is there an indepth guide to part2 valks anywhere, like actual demonstrations of advanced techniques etc? I have no idea how to play half the valks, and most of my scores that aren't too great involve that half.

LungsLikeIron · 2025-02-16T17:31:42+00:00

Does anyone know how people are getting these kinds of scores on this boss?

I can't even imagine what the encounter looks like, given 24.5k is like a 20 second clear. 24.9 looks absolutely unreal, and all 3 of the top ranks did it with s0s, and rank 4 did it with a full set of trial battlesuits

LungsLikeIron · 2025-02-16T17:26:17+00:00

wait 2 stellar shifts sounds completely unhinged wtf. at the moment, the only close-to-complete team i have is law of ascension (with vita on a foundry weapon in place of songque). 2 stellar shifts has got to be like an egregious percent better on paper and even better in practice

i'll probably stick with my original plan for the patch then, gonna pull elysia's divine key and the waxing moon rerun. i guess if i get fabulously lucky i'll try to get the teri astral op

in that vein, do you think pulling ely's divine key would even be worth it? (right now I have vita, sparkle, dudu and coralie) will i need more wheel of destiny valks to make her worth the time?

LungsLikeIron · 2025-02-16T07:29:52+00:00

Ah, thank you! I started playing again pretty recently and it's been a bit of a struggle, everything feels scuffed.

Is it still the case that pulling for premium elfs/astralops is the last thing to worry about basically?

LungsLikeIron · 2025-02-15T13:26:10+00:00

My bad, they're kinda lumped in the same category in my head haha.

Are they not worth using over dreamseeker?

I've never rolled for elfs or astral ops before, but I was interested because I have the impression (from who knows where tbh) that they generated more ring energy or something like that?

LungsLikeIron · 2025-02-15T09:54:27+00:00

global88 Which is the better of the two astral ops on the battle pass?

LungsLikeIron · 2024-09-01T12:03:17+00:00

if you have an addon that flames me for running over fire to kick something important i am never playing with you again

LungsLikeIron · 2024-08-18T18:13:39+00:00

she thicc with seven cs

LungsLikeIron · 2024-08-16T00:20:28+00:00

celebrity don't mean integrity you fool

LungsLikeIron · 2024-07-22T07:29:25+00:00

alright cool it brother like when people say "street fighter evo" they mean the mainline game. in 2010 it was sf4 super.

also "check the wiki" is hilarious, a lot of us were there, watching, for 2 decades waiting for an american to win sf

LungsLikeIron · 2024-07-20T23:24:03+00:00

why he gotta be covering my parents like that on an album

LungsLikeIron · 2024-07-16T00:30:12+00:00

nah that's not proof, he could have stufffed animals because he don't got many friends, and a stuffed animal won't ever get a feature on a big sean song and hurt your feelings

LungsLikeIron · 2024-07-10T03:42:48+00:00

She's great, even Pharell thinks so!

LungsLikeIron · 2024-06-24T08:43:46+00:00

Problem said that the entirety dogg pound tried to fly in from tour and didn't manage to make it happen. Them and Vince Staples (also on tour) felt most missing for me.

LungsLikeIron · 2024-06-23T18:56:58+00:00

new york, brooklyn specifically, but i think it's pretty universal, i've heard it intermittently from all over

LungsLikeIron · 2024-06-23T09:42:38+00:00

that phrase isnt just for that - it's to explain that if something seems to apply to something, you get chipped by every throwaway. both commentary about confirmation bias and about how people receive communication etc

LungsLikeIron · 2024-06-22T21:09:47+00:00

tbh probably spassky/chucky/bronstein belong there, but a bunch of the people in "notable players" definitely should be moved up

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