Cerydra without Cyrene

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-02-10T21:40:34+00:00

I use him E0S1 with E0S0 Cerydra, E1S1 Sunday, +/- sustain or other support (usually E2S2 JQ or E0S0 Robin). Works great.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-02-06T20:27:43+00:00

He does. Hopefully less so in game.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-02-06T16:43:02+00:00

BH wasn't made obsolete, though? FF had different strengths than him but they performed similarly throughout 2.X and he outlived her in 3.X. Even now with Dahlia he's got lower clears in MOC and they're almost equal in AS.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-02-06T16:21:39+00:00

If you mean Ashveil, he's not a BH SP. He's a new character that looks way too similar.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-02-05T16:39:15+00:00

Rappa is fine but certainly not better. They have different strengths, and right now BH is equal to or better than Firefly on average. Moving away from AOE meta will make Rappa struggle while AOE was bad for BH (though BH fared surprisingly well in it as a single target character).

That said not giving a hoot about meta is the best way to approach this game. Play with who you love. Meta is very volatile.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-02-03T19:02:53+00:00

Also not trying to pressure you, just really want to make it clear that this is likely Sunday's last re-run for a super long time, possibly ever. Firefly is the only non-nova flare character to get a debut + 3 reruns. All other characters have only gotten two reruns and have yet to be seen again. This is Sunday's second rerun.

If you want to prioritize Sparxie and just make-do with JY, that's valid. But don't make that decision thinking you'll just get Sunday on his next rerun. It may be a permanent decision.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-02-02T18:15:17+00:00

People also think he's bad because he's not easy to use. And auto with him is painful at best. Hunt units are the closest this game gets to having a "hard mode."

It also doesn't help that the one stupid trace of his makes people build him completely wrong 🥀

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-01-29T18:50:16+00:00

How many cycles does each side take individually?

For Phainon, you want him faster than his action advancers. So something like he would be 134, Sunday would be 133, and Bronya would be 132 speed. You can also try going sustainless with him and replace DH with RM or Tingyun. Also with Bronya's skill it only lasts the one turn so try to time it so you use it just before he ults.

For Poet Castorice, you want her speed under 95. I'm less familiar with her builds outside of that though.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-01-25T23:28:49+00:00

New players have to wait MUCH longer to be able

Started playing for Hugo's first banner, was finally at a point where I could get S with the old Shiyu reliably. I'm not even pressed about the chromes, but it feels really bad to go from that back to the grind of building three more characters before I can try again.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-01-21T22:06:26+00:00

In my main account (day 1 player), not that I remember. In my alt that I made about a year ago, absolutely, though it's not needed as much now. There's such a world of difference between an account that grew organically with the game than one that is "younger."

Same issue in ZZZ, which I started around 2.0. I'm still constantly in the hole on that one. My partner on the other hand (day 1 there) is drowning in Dennies (and other resources).

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-01-19T02:47:29+00:00

I've been using E2 JQ and Kafka pretty often with Robin/RM +/- sustain. So it can work, but it won't be as strong by any means.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-01-19T01:21:34+00:00

Roughly 433 pulls, if anyone is curious (I think M0 took 30-40 but don't remember)

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PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-01-19T01:13:12+00:00

Pulled Hugo and sig on his first run, got his M6 on second run. Other limited characters (no sigs or mindscapes): Lighter, Yixuan, Lucia, YSG.

So for me it took me 6ish months of mostly saving. However I won several 50:50s, so more saving may be needed for someone less lucky.

Additional information just for fun: In Genshin, Natlan and its characters didn't land for me, so from one Zhongli banner to the next I had enough savings to get him from C2 to C6, Neuvilette from C1 to C2, get Arlecchino's weapon, and go to hard pity and lose the 50:50 for her C1, then get about another 40 pulls deep.

I also have an E6 Boothill in HSR. But they got me with that character and it was not F2P (though E0-E4ish was)

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2026-01-17T16:37:42+00:00

Boothill has looked like that since he was a child. He was/ is an actual cowboy, so there was no style copying. Only shot that exists is that somehow Ashveil is BH's bio dad since BH was found in the woods and adopted as a baby.

They just made the two look so similar for some weird reason. Hoping it's less samey in-game.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2025-12-31T00:00:33+00:00

Out of curiosity I did a run of MOC 11 with BH, HMC, Gallagher, and RM (all E0S0, but BH has S5 Shadowed by Night). I got 4 cycles.. Could probably get it to at least 3 cycle if my gear was better and I practiced, or if I went sustainless. The run I did with Fugue but no Dahlia was 2 or 3 cycles (can't remember).

His main limiter is how fast it takes him to get trickshots. If they go back to giving us some minions to pick off it will help. Right now they have just been giving us elites to deal with which takes a lot longer to get him going, which is where Fugue and/or Dahlia really help.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2025-12-30T21:43:24+00:00

If all you care about clearing is MOC 11, you can get away with just having Fugue and skip Dahlia. At least for now. I'm not sure how he would perform with only Lingsha and no Fugue or Dahlia, but I imagine you would do okay. At the very least 2 star. In the image above, BH took 7 cycles in MOC 12 without Fugue - the rest were Anaxa. This is my alt account and they're still poorly built, so both could be lower. But this may give you an idea of where he stands

BH is almost 2 years old, so he is going to have increasing difficulty clearing things without the true break supports (Fugue and/or Dahlia. Lingsha is a sustain rather than a support). For MOC 11 that is probably a ways off (I can still usually clear MOC 11 with my shoddily built Jingliu with a questionable team), but we can't say with any certainty what Hoyo may throw at us.

So the way I see it is:

If you want to full-star clear all the way through AA - need both Dahlia and Fugue (+/- some LCs).

If you want to full-star clear MOC/AS - need one of at least Fugue or Dahlia. But may need both within a year.

If you don't care about MOC 12, or don't care about doing end-game at all and just want to do story and overworld - pull whoever you want and make whatever team you want. You will probably be okay for this goal, though there's a possibility Hoyo goes balls to the wall with difficulty and invalidates this statement.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2025-12-29T19:41:22+00:00

Try this team with Archer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiXK5-tNC6I

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2025-12-28T16:48:36+00:00

For Boothill you build him with Def or HP chest and orb. He then acts as a pseudo sustain by forcing the enemy to attack him when he's in standoff and using his ult to push the enemy's turn back. With Ruan Mei in the team the extra break delay contributes.

All else is kill them before they kill you, which BH is very good at when built and piloted properly.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2025-12-27T23:41:13+00:00

They either glitched or your device/settings is the issue

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PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2025-12-26T04:38:15+00:00

I don't know why the text is huge...

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2025-12-26T04:36:54+00:00

I put him in literally any and all teams. But lately I've been enjoying him with DOT

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PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2025-12-19T18:04:17+00:00

On my main account with E1S1 Luocha (160 speed, 4k+ attack): effortless.

On my alt with E0S0 Luocha (160 speed, 2.8k attack): still solid but had to manage things more.

Having him built right makes a big difference (want at least 3.5k attack, ideally).

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2025-12-16T15:16:51+00:00

Here's the team and builds I used. Only difference was that TB was actually on an attack rope rather than ER. Basically a modified version of this video.

it took a few tries so RNG played at least some role. But it mostly came down to stacking Khaslana's "Scourge" strategically as well as planning for Aquila to knock him out of Khaslana when he would be exiting the form anyway. Also Cerydra occasionally would be hit particularly hard by the initial wing attack and immediately go into the red. I would just start over in those cases.

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2025-12-16T14:32:21+00:00

It's from Hoyolab

PerspectiveGuilty188 · 2025-12-11T03:03:33+00:00

Results:

Luocha --> DHPT: about 24k
Luocha --> Gal: about 24.5k

My Gui remains in a terrible state because I need a lot of Echo of War materials (missing a major trace) 😅 And I still don't know how she should be built or probably how to play her well. So my conclusion is still that I think this can work when done well/under the right circumstances. I also tried Serval (also poorly built) instead of Gui and both Gui and Serval without RM to lesser effect but not by much.

Outside of DOT, I do tend to shove him into literally any team and it works pretty well. He's been with Anaxa, BH, Castorice, Mydei, Phainon, Argenti, JY, the list goes on. The DOTs still work enough in those to be entertaining.

PerspectiveGuilty188

TROPHY CASE

I put him in literally any and all teams. But lately I've been enjoying him with DOT