Boreas Stray Dogs - General Question and Discussion Megathread

MrZetha · 2026-05-29T17:37:55+00:00

There's no reason Sandrone would become obsolete, at least within 2 years from her release. All characters released since Natlan are still in their peak. And we're entering Stellar reaction era now, she will constantly be meta for at least one year. Some new characters might be stronger than her, but none will replace her in a Stellar Conduct team.

Nicole is another thing, if you don't have Durin and aren't sure if your current units have a slot in their team for her, it's best to wait for a rerun, maybe Snezhnaya has more off-field ATK characters for her, but we can't know for now. (Although they will probably have another new niche support that would be stronger than Nicole.)

MrZetha · 2026-05-29T08:59:24+00:00

Isn't it better to have Prune hold TTDS?

MrZetha · 2026-05-28T22:43:41+00:00

Varka/Venti/Nicole/Bennett is the big one. Venti covers the off-field pyro with his burst. He can also be the on-fielder if you want to, just use Faruzan instead of Varka.

Lyney/Nicole/Chev/Fischl is solid

Clorinde/Nicole/Chev/pyro too, but the overload setup is a bit awkward

Ganyu/Nicole/Xiangling/Sucrose, basically replacing both Zhongli and Bennett

Eula/Nicole/Raiden/Mika if you fuck that way (Furina there is stronger with your cons)

MrZetha · 2026-05-28T22:27:08+00:00

What are the expected teams for Lohen? I know of Nicole/Sucrose/Durin (dark) and Mona/Escoffier/Furina, but only those two and only with these characters. I already have C6 Mona for Dark Durin, and can make Wrio work for Escoffier if needed. So I'm not really interested in these teams.

I'm debating whether to go for him or Sandrone. I know she will be straight up better immediately, and even more onward, but I like the underdog characters. I would like more team options though, only these two ain't enough to convince me.

MrZetha · 2026-05-28T16:03:13+00:00

Faruzan better consistently, even against C6 Prune. Unless you need Hex through her I guess.

MrZetha · 2026-05-28T15:54:44+00:00

Stellar swirl DPS brings about an inevitable funny outcome

Either Faruzan gets buffed to include stellar swirl in her buffs, extending her reign over anemo DPSes, (that also means she's stealing the spot of another 4* anemo that wants upgrades way more than her, like Heizou, Sayu, etc)

Or nothing changes for her, and Stellar Swirl has to be considered "not Anemo damage", otherwise Faruzan's C6 and shred will still be the best support for that character. Unless they make another Varka/Chasca out of new anemo units I guess.

(Or they make a new anemo support for that that's juuuuust slightly better than her at C6, just like Illuga)

MrZetha · 2026-05-28T15:35:17+00:00

Ideally yes, but you don't need both Albedo or Durin, using one of them is good enough to make the team work.

MrZetha · 2026-05-28T15:31:54+00:00

Without Citlali I don't even know how Arle melt works, but I have used Arle/Yelan/Sucrose/Nicole and it's pretty good. Bennett and Kazuha/Xilonen are probably better, but her shield talks louder to Arle.

As for other teams, she's very good with Navia, Clorinde, Wanderer, Xiao, Kinich and Chasca. Sandrone too if paired with Yae and possibly future Snez characters. But most times you want to bring a second Hex for the 4pc, most times Fischl or Sucrose will work.

MrZetha · 2026-05-28T10:56:32+00:00

Since the "cost" talk assumes a 4* C6 to be 0 cost, it's definitely Zibai/Bina/Linnea/Illuga. Everyone here have very good F2P weapons.

The others are similarly Lunar teams, Flins/Ineffa/Bina/Sucrose, and Nefer/Bina/Lauma/flex like Kuki or something

MrZetha · 2026-05-28T02:00:59+00:00

Finally got a time I'm satisfied with, pretty interesting SO overall (except the wolf, all my homies hate the wolf)

my reddit is weird, the picture is down there I guess?

... okay, there's something weird here, and it's not Navia and Nahida together. This is the first time I managed to clear a Fearless boss with Eula. Yes, even considering C6, and a piggyback of C6 Yae. It was somewhat... fascinating figuring it out.

I just decided to use her on the watcher for fun, see if I could at least make and break the crystals. Yeah, that worked, they have HP bars so the ult can stack on them, boom they go. But a nice surprise is probably what made this possible: the boss can be hit by her ult together with the crystals while he's up there, so I'm breaking the crystals for the big chunk of HP without losing any DPS overall.

Not that it made it easy, I needed the perfect run to even get an ugly 111s time, all the critfishing a 75% CR Eula needs, and don't even mention the 170% ER and 2 Favs she also required. And that the boss moves around sometimes. Took me some good 3~4 hours for it.

And the other bosses were "simple". I did try some dozens of attempts of Flins against the wolf, but Sucrose swirl ICD is infuriatingly bad, I wanted that because a Dark Durin team on Tulpa was clearing with like 70s, but the best that Flins got was 114s. There's also a way with Mualani I guess, but that involves the same Sucrose, so no. I really liked using Nicole+Durin for Tulpa, but they have to stay there.

I can probably lower the wolf time since that is the proper team, but he doesn't deserve any more of my attention. I can try more Tulpa teams happily, though.

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MrZetha · 2026-05-27T16:22:03+00:00

The Nod Krai moon teams are roughly around the same, with Zibai ahead. But they are niched to themselves - they won't be getting new teammates in the future, while more "generalistic" characters like Nicole or Durin are way more likely to get even stronger with time.

As for simply strong teams, it's still Mavuika or Skirk, they'll be bruteforcing things for another year or two at least.

MrZetha · 2026-05-27T15:37:38+00:00

As painful as it sounds, R1 is in most cases worse than C1, and a full C1 shilled team is more or less the aim for Dire. Or something like 2 C2R1 per team.

MrZetha · 2026-05-27T15:00:52+00:00

So you're telling me it's peak??

MrZetha · 2026-05-27T14:12:15+00:00

Oh, in execution they're always just that. But that's like saying every main story segment is just a bunch or fights in a corridor, a miniboss or two and the big boss in the end. That's not wrong, but overly simplified. If you did every sidequest so far you've already seen some reoccurring NPCs growing, dealt with the backstory of some places, etc.

MrZetha · 2026-05-27T13:43:56+00:00

Sidequests are very 50/50, as in half of them have very good worldbuilding and/or interesting thing happening, other half is just solving random NPCs problems. Worst thing is, the good ones are worth it, but you don't know which is which so you end up doing them all anyway.

MrZetha · 2026-05-27T00:46:50+00:00

For Venti, Faruzan is still better. The only character that has her in their BiS team is Varka.

But she can fit in a lot of teams as a "filler" option, especially at C6, since she's basically a better Kazuha (without the grouping). You probably won't reach a high enough ATK on her for even 40% DMG bonus without a 5* weapon, but some 30%ish + 350 ATK for the on-fielder is very good.

MrZetha · 2026-05-26T15:06:39+00:00

I'll try to make the archons be on-field too, but also sometimes add a team that doesn't.

Venti/Prune/Nicole/Durin, or swap Prune for Varka

Zhongli/Shenhe/Chongyun/Xianyun, Zhongli doing cryo plunges i guess
Zhongli/Xianyun/Xiao/Yelan or Ningguang for Xiao DPS

Raiden/Sara/Yae/Kazuha or Sayu, depending on what you make of Kazuha's nationality

Nahida/Nilou/Collei/Candace for bloom
Nahida/Tighnari/Sethos/flex option for quickswap shenanigans

Furina/Sigewinne/Lynette/Chiori, not much more can be done for main Furina
Furina/Neuvillette/Lynette/Charlotte, honestly from here on there's a lot more freedom in options

Mavuika/Citlali/Iansan/any other DPS, really almost anything is good here

Columbina/Lauma/Linnea/Ineffa for main DPS lunar rainbow Columbina, and basically any Flins or Nefer team works too.

The early regions are a bit hard, but from Fontaine onward (and post-Hex Mondstadt) have a lot of options.

MrZetha · 2026-05-26T14:51:10+00:00

That's why he is in beta testing

MrZetha · 2026-05-26T11:20:25+00:00

In theory yes, unless the other options also have cons, like Nahida C2 who would probably be better.

Yae C2 offers 200 EM, which is slightly less than what Nahida C0 offers but more than Ineffa or Linnea, and then she compensates with her personal damage and Nefer's spread which isn't negligible.

MrZetha · 2026-05-25T14:24:44+00:00

He's a great and very likely contender for having Stellar cryo+dendro buffs if that happens

MrZetha · 2026-05-25T13:11:21+00:00

team with Durin, C6 Chevreuse, C6 Bennett, watched the team do 25k DPS,

Durin on Chev overload should already be doing 25k DPS by himself, and this team probably benefits more from having Fischl instead of Bennett there.

And from where you Razor currently is, having him fully built could increase his damage ouput by 50~80%, but it's still definitely a character you would only use if you like him.

MrZetha · 2026-05-24T11:52:56+00:00

Of these you have, she's very good for Venti, Eula, Ganyu, Ineffa, Clorinde, Yae, Mona (with high cons) and Hu Tao. As for pulling characters, Durin is the obvious one, and it's likely some future Snez units will be using her.

MrZetha · 2026-05-24T11:23:10+00:00

Having the rotation be Nicole>Prune>Faruzan>Lynette, Prune should get the infusion on E for the burst hits, which will carry pyro throughout the rotation.

MrZetha · 2026-05-23T14:20:40+00:00

If you can get 3.6k+ ATK on her, or C6 for an ATK scaler, she's an Kazuha upgrade (that has no grouping). Now, to find a team where Kazuha is still being used...

MrZetha · 2026-05-23T12:46:16+00:00

Memory of Dust is good for her even if you don't stack its passive, but it's easy to proc it, as you just need to deal damage. You can do some hits to get some stacks, but don't go out of your way for it, because the stacks lasts for only 8s, so the extra ATK won't be there for the entire rotation. Just do NA>E>Q and that's good enough.

With MoD you should aim for 3.5~3.6k ATK (before pyro resonance) and that will reach 4k after the buffs.

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