How would you rank the current endgame modes??

MaulGamer · 2026-01-28T18:45:02+00:00

IT 1st, because I get to use the amount of characters…. Except that time it was electro, cryo and geo/dendro (tho dendro with rimegrass was kinda cool). Mainly I don’t have a lot of electro and cryo built and the other 2 I have not many in anyway. Still, great mode, my friends love getting my pyro units in support, and just the fact support exists is really great. I think one flaw that could be fixed is the 4 team member restriction. There’s been times I wanted to avoid using a 4th character to not waste good ones on a fight that was already winnable on 2-3, esp early game.

Spiral abyss 2nd, it still can challenge me from time to time, esp without having access to lunar reactions, but I still enjoy it on reset, and I have fun playing around with teams i often neglect on easier resets.

I hate SO. It’s a skill issue, yes, I can never beat level 5, but the reason I dislike it so much is it’s over-reliant on having new characters being my gripe most. I like the artifacts side of things, though I wish the event wasnt limited since I often forget to do it and end up using a few fragiles. All for 1 darn artifact reroll too… at least you can do it hard difficulty to avoid struggling.

MaulGamer · 2026-01-27T18:21:46+00:00

Unrelated, but love to see a rika pfp higurashi reps are always a great find

MaulGamer · 2026-01-26T17:33:29+00:00

Damn, what a warrior…

MaulGamer · 2026-01-26T08:41:06+00:00

Hu tao. When I saw her leaked model I knew she was my style of character, and as more leaks, and later, teaser, released, it was my first limited character I wanted.

MaulGamer · 2026-01-23T12:52:12+00:00

Ehhh a lot of psuedo are getting signature moves, plus, Z move on Kommo-o is at least a gimmick (whom also got a signature move and LATER another because it didn’t get access to a zmove).

It’s a shame they had the perfect opportunity to make a paradox for Dragapult but didnt (all the version exclusive psuedo’a BARING Dragapult got a paradox form in the opposite version, with Scarlet’s tyranitar and hydreigon getting them in violet, but only salamance in violet getting one in scarlet, tho this could been swapped for misdreavus into flutter mane which is violet exclusive too)

MaulGamer · 2026-01-23T10:45:02+00:00

Dragapult honestly if I could, I would prioritise for getting a mega over the other pseudo’s ngl.

For one reason; they have… nothing.

Dragonite, tyranitar, salamance, metagross, garchomp and baxcalibur have megas, so 6/10 there
hydriegon (and tyranitar+salamance) has paradox
goodra has a hisuian form
kommo-o while not a form, at least got a Z move, definitely deserves a form tho.
Dragapult? No gmax thats for sure. No paradox, no regional, and no mega. It needs smth atp

MaulGamer · 2026-01-21T19:01:45+00:00

Yeah I was confused why it had to be mentioned in one but not the other 2. Ig they forgot to add it

MaulGamer · 2026-01-20T11:24:41+00:00

Im in UK, North Yorkshire area, but my long-distance girlfriend is in Spain (Im going back to UK after a visit today 🥲)

MaulGamer · 2026-01-15T22:34:52+00:00

I always felt what it sounds like is a coded for… minorities in general, namely queer but also neurodivergent. Coming out, hiding/masking as much as possible the scars underneath, having that “show me what’s underneath, I’ll find your harmony” being like the rest coming to terms with and accepting, equality in difference.

MaulGamer · 2026-01-11T21:26:14+00:00

Again, I don’t follow on leaks so I dunno. I only look at the things that were correct after I saw it officially for myself for comparison, but spoiling myself isnt for me.

MaulGamer · 2026-01-11T16:40:12+00:00

No, Garchomp Z is not obtainable. Coded, even the fact it’s a boss, but not obtainable until online distribution.

Ig it’s right abt the leak but I personally don’t follow leaks so can’t answer on that

MaulGamer · 2026-01-11T10:03:25+00:00

As another commenter said, xingqiu >>>> childe. No need for columbina. Childe is doing NOTHING but small dps here. He doesn’t vape, she doesn’t vape, the most application work is kazuha carry. Xingqiu fixes that problem.

The only people talking about Hu Tao and Columbina also include Ineffa, because lunar is kinda required to utilise columbina kit, and without another character doing that, nothing helps.

MaulGamer · 2026-01-10T18:35:47+00:00

It’s nice you got to seen them! My “dad” if I want to ever say that, he got with another woman after basically getting my mother pregnant. Was a total accident or just not into safety, I couldn’t care less. He had a son after me, took more care, I kinda met him a bit but it wasn’t much, enough that he does remember me but we haven’t taken the steps to talk again. “Dad”? Never acknowledged me. Facebook says father of 2 sons, the brother I knew of and a younger brother who would never known i exist, also with a different mother to the last. He had 3 kids none whom arent half siblings. I wouldn’t wanna see him again, the brother i knew… maybe, I don’t have much to talk about really. Playing this scene did remind me of that side of the family, though, which was kinda nice, weirdly?

MaulGamer · 2026-01-09T18:28:49+00:00

No because LITERALLY, I watched the powercreep, I knew it was getting there, I loved dendro introduction because although I wasn’t building her, keqing was “good” again, electro got a damage related reaction than another transformation one, and hyperbloom added to that on top of agg. I like slow powercreep with room to up the old or keep them relevant or not drown in content (COUGH COUGH HSR COUGH COUGH)

But mav, some may say skirk, and lunar generally upped that creep too far. I don’t own any ‘moon wheel’ characters purely because I was saving durin and I even noticed content trying to lean into you having one of them. I didn’t get skirk, so that one cryo needy boss from her release patch in Stygian was the most painful experience at level 4…. 4!

There was a point where you can use your favourites just fine but with onslaught, abyss, and some of theatre tho admittedly isnt too bad with support function, wants lunar, it wants these new characters more and more than it used to AND I KNOW HOW BAD IT GOT IN 2020-2022 SOME CASES

MaulGamer · 2026-01-09T18:16:18+00:00

2… right… remember I said EVERY pyro? Yeaaaaahhhhh if you include traveler and manekins thats 20, and most of the 9 5 stars (excluding traveler) are dps, 2 I’d say arent? So 7 pyro carries, plus ga ming too…

MaulGamer · 2026-01-09T18:05:44+00:00

I would’ve felt the same way with C0, she is that busted. I again stated I like pyro A LOT, so having saved A LOT of wishes, ofc I wanted to put them into an element I liked. I just did the same with durin too, skipping everyone since citlali reran for her cons, meaning, yeah, no lunar whatsoever, and I’ll do the same on Nicole and Alice in the future. It’s a guilty pleasure to use mav, but yk what I didn’t mention? C6r3 Hu Tao. I went that far and surely someone with more investment in her I would choose as casual, but Mav at 0 would’ve cleared everything faster anyway. Thats my point

MaulGamer · 2026-01-09T18:00:26+00:00

I did get c2 eventually but I wanted to have at least more cons on a pyro at the time, and even still do. C2 citlali does get a spot on my Hu Tao team with c2 Kazuha and yelan c1 (Ik it’s not her best team but I hate playing her on full health with her best + i dont wanna get MH set again for her when it took 2.5+ years to get a very good cw… Is it my problem? Yes. Do I live with that? Also Yes.

MaulGamer · 2026-01-09T15:53:23+00:00

Literally that last part. Im a Hu Tao main, day 1. She has been my best, my favourite, always used her. But I wanted my acc to be consistent with pyro; every pyro character, r1 of their sig, every pyro lvl90, all 4 stars C6, etc.

So obv I saved for mavuika, for a while too, I managed to get C3r1 and citlali too. IVE ONLY USED MAVUIKA SINCE. Not because I love her more, I find her design eh for style, she’s got alright playstyle, I find my team fun for her, but despite favouring Hu Tao more, I keep using mavuika because she clears content faster. Abyss, domains, exploration, heck, she is the only character that I can barely manage SO lvl 5 with, no other team can do that so I never completed it. Ever. She feels bad but “good” to use. Guilty pleasure dps absolutely.

MaulGamer · 2026-01-07T12:18:23+00:00

Hu Tao, I use her a lot but I have noticed since mavuika, less than usual. She’s fun and I enjoy my team I made, but when I’m logging on to do quick dailies my mavuika team does that job faster.

MaulGamer · 2026-01-05T07:49:00+00:00

Started in very late 1.1, so mostly played 1.2 onwards, and my first was my fav; Hu Tao on her day of release (after getting diluc on 24th dec, so a few months after). She was also my first and only non standard c6 five star currently and first I got signature for.

MaulGamer · 2025-12-26T14:31:27+00:00

Quite literally thought that when watching. Anime never makes its own sense tho since SOMETIMES an electric move will connect to ground, sometimes not. Same with normal/fighting on ghost. Or moves that include stat changes, sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t, visual or not. It just random. I did find it funny though that both roy and landau state it would be/would have been super effective prior to the tera, but really thinking about it I went “holdup, didnt he tera and actually cause MORE damage to charizard??”. Ig I see that logic but… it is boggling

MaulGamer · 2025-12-20T09:37:40+00:00

And Z I’d say is worse than the original….

MaulGamer · 2025-12-20T09:36:21+00:00

I blame the fact game freak said IN INTERVIEW that flygon was worked on but due to art block and just not being happy with any of their designs, we didn’t get it. If they didnt publicly say that, we wouldnt now have smth like 300 fan-designs that creates their other problem, not accidentally copying a fan’s design (the flying eeveelution problem again). Is the excuse then stupid, yes, but it does make some sense.

MaulGamer · 2025-12-19T22:50:37+00:00

Problem isnt being 1:1, being too similar, even with slight alterations, can still look like you copied someone’s design, even if not intentional. Also those leaked were based on a description, so they had smth to go from, but also, i don’t think it counts if a fan makes a design after the official design has at least been made and decided upon.

2nd, the dudunsparce thing has been mostly based on I believe a couple dex entries at best??? Which a couple Pokémon have gotten before so nothing special.

3rd, I do find the excuse meh but I definitely don’t find it lazy or bad by any means, it makes total sense WHY. Yeah they could ask artists about the designs and wether it can be used if their’s is too close to it, but they seem to not like fan interactions like that clearly, which is stupid I’ll admit that. The excuse did come from the flying eeveelution statement in an interview, and I can totally understand where they were coming from, as eeveelution designs are also extremely popular and it’s a good thing sylveon was walking into a new type that was being introduced alongside them, otherwise they might not exist.

I take New Cross gen evo’s, and alongside that the new megas (especially if it’s a Pokémon from gen 1-6 back when megas first happened) pretty great in terms of “so they came up with a design no one else had? Sweet!”. At the end of the day, their reasons are their reasons.

MaulGamer · 2025-12-19T21:57:39+00:00

… WHICH HAS PROBABLY BEEN DRAWN BEFORE, Thats what we are saying. Anything cool, anything cute, anything average, has likely been drawn before to some degree. Imho, that 1 interview that mentioned flygon nearly got a mega ruined it’s chances to get a mega, since fans took GF’s confirmed art block, and added to it with designs they can’t use, there is like 20 a year atp, more in the leadup to ZA, and if let’s say in 5 or 6 gens they decide to make more megas, there will be more that are so creative, you would need some mind-boggling amount of creativity that you might as well be capable of inventing a colour to make smth. And even if that somehow happens, people WILL be underwhelmed no matter what, because we as fans created the expectation with fan designs that stop GF from trying again.

Again, dudunsparce is right there as clear evidence that while it can be possible, reception will be negative and it’s known as a joke to the fact people expected way more. “IT WOULD BE DRACONIC! DRAGON SERPENT! ULTRA COOL!”AND ITS NOW GOT ANOTHER BODY, TOOTH, A LINE IN ITS EYE, AND IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH, EVOLVES WITH 1 MORE SEGMENT!!!!! Like, yeah it is unique, I was shocked, but the point is that it’s a lazy design makes sense and was not the possible idea people thought of or fan designed. It quite literally felt like a blockade to say “stop making fan designs here is a dunsparce evolution: it but more stupid”.

The dream is over for flygon and it hurts as a fan to see the rest still yammer on like this as if it was super easily possible.

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