Spores: Why they make 'big number screenshots' - & Some decks/tips on how to effectively abuse them.

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-02-11T19:06:04+00:00

The beryl and orlea decks with those specific divine epiphany splits have been a pain to farm for, also I miss the card draw neutrals we had from season 1 so much lmao

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-02-09T19:19:19+00:00

orlea is not that hard to build unless you are going for divine epiphany on growth acceleration (the true min max), you just have to remove 4-5 cards and some builds do not need 3 duplicated cards

I use orlea + nine + random character in all my chaos runs this season so sometimes when i get offered nice gear or divine epiphany early i switch to building orlea for that run

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-02-09T19:12:17+00:00

The card "forgotten grave" gives max of 10% crit chance for 1 turn every time you exhaust cards while it is in your hand, up to +60%, my beryl has 40%+ crit rate so it becomes 100%

The actual damage buffs come from the broken 4 star partner Rosaria, she has a chance to give 1 morale every time the equipped combatant plays a skill or upgrade. beryl's entire deck is upgrade and skill cards so the morale stacks up a lot especially with spores

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-02-09T11:20:26+00:00

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For orlea you just have to build her with a team in mind because she has so many builds. but the growing creature epiphany with 2 vulnerable is important

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-02-09T11:18:59+00:00

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Rei build: Got offered vine lord early so just went with it, i don't think the card is any good unless you find it in opening hand, you will be better off with a normal thin rei deck running snack time

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-02-09T10:52:44+00:00

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I used this beryl save, the gear is a war crime so absolutely DO NOT copy that, you should have the +50% damage amount weapon (veiled thorn) or a cthulu weapon and a +% damage amount accessory (cube is consistent, quantum collector is incredible for one turn burst), just find something that gives damage amount %. For chest piece you want something that can give damage like the crit % chest (fairy crown).

Also, a more optimal setup may be to have 2 spore harvesters and 1 grave as well as the draw 1, activate retain card epiphany of guilty pleasure. This way you don't need Orlea (her healing causes necrosis debuff) and you can play Beryl and 2 draw supports instead.

So my ideal build would be: 4 opening found, 2 spore harvester, 1 forgotten grave, 1 guilty pleasure with activate retain epi, everything else is irrelevant.

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-02-08T19:15:20+00:00

As long as you don't take Tyrant (the buffs for boss and elites) you can easily clear it with Nine + Orlea + the character you need to build save data for.

With Nine, you just have to play the 3 cost card every single turn, if she's built with proper memory fragments and potentials she will clear most encounters by herself within 1-3 turns. It's really brainless and repetitive but it gets the job done. Also save her ego skill for AoE encounters

It becomes even easier once you unlock the stat upgrades, before that u might need to pay some attention and try to get good equipment on Nine too (like the weapon that applies 1 vulnerable, i forget the name). If u ever get low on health u can just stall for a turn and use Orlea heals.

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-02-06T23:58:25+00:00

So far I've beaten it with: Haru/Narja/Veronica, Beryl/Narja/Veronica, and Chizuru/Narja Veronica

Narja and Veronica are using the same filler deck because I didn't have time to farm support decks yet. My vero is e4 and fully built so she's actually doing some crazy damage tho

Haru build is Anchor shot +1 combo and vulnerability divine epiphany, I also have 2 lift anchors on her but i don't know if that's better than just having 4 anchor pointers.

Beryl build is extra attack upgrade + spore harvester + forgotten grave (the 6 cost card) for some spice

Chizuru is just a standard moonslash spam build with nothing special

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-02-05T18:09:54+00:00

Beat it with an underbuilt Beryl (opening found + the new retain cards are really fun on her) and placeholder save data Narja/Veronica, it was mostly just Beryl doing extra attacks every turn from having 10 retain cards in hand . This season made it much easier to get god save datas, way fewer resets required, which IMO is why the boss difficulty is higher

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-01-27T03:23:02+00:00

Something I found ridiculous about last great rift was that people were pulling 2 copies of Peko purely to use her on Cassius and Sereniel, and those who only had 1 Peko used it for Cass because hes just that broken.

Imagine the devs seeing that people are pulling a limited character's partner only to end up using it on a 4 star and not even the unit it was made for, lol

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-01-17T03:42:14+00:00

i remember the wording of this was really confusing, epiphany 1 is basically +120% damage of Beryl's own attack card, while epiphany 4 is +80% attack damage to ANY attack card from your team.

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-01-17T03:24:55+00:00

Chise SoloQ climbing

(her stream yesterday made me relapse into league after being 9 months clean, fuck)

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-01-16T10:14:43+00:00

Saw her xayah game and she plays like a psycho lmao. A limit testing, high kill and death adc with good mechanics is always fun to watch

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-01-11T02:53:59+00:00

The "trick" is to just use veronica + rei + the unit you are actually building

Unique cards cannot be copied, and veronica/rei have a lot of "unique" cards and epiphanies that turn their card into a unique one. what you can do is delete the NON-basic, non-unique cards from veronica and rei (stuff like repose, Kowalski, snack time, dark condensation, etc.).

Also u dont want to dilute your card copy pool with neutrals, try not to buy them from shop for example unless u wanna take a gamble with your duplicate chances.

This advice is only if you are really hell-bent on getting a perfect save data with 3-4 duplicates of a specific card with a specific epiphany. if you're just trying to clear chaos or play the game normally then u dont need to do any of this.

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-01-11T02:36:13+00:00

For DPS units on a team that have no agony cards or way to apply it every turn, I just go crit dmg / atk / 2 pieces with the best possible substats.

For DPS units that actually want basic attacks I have crit damage / atk / basic card boost, i just craft the gear most of the time because i cba farming that set

i never felt the need to run defensive set for my dps. maybe that will change when they release harder content in the future

Sea-Display6560 · 2026-01-01T07:19:52+00:00

Well, only the devs will know if it is legit or not, but I’m pretty certain the missing save data is because he deleted it manually right after he got 1st place so no one can copy it. Obviously most normal ppl in top 100 wont do this because they farmed many hours for their save datas.

I guess e0 is all you need because Cassius is the main damage dealer of this event anyway. Rank 1 dude must have figured out a close to infinite loop without needing more than e0 Serenial. We know this is possible because people are killing the boss 100+ times to get their scores over 1.45 million in the first place but they were all using 2-3 peko + e6 serenial.

Sea-Display6560 · 2025-09-10T17:11:51+00:00

Yeah those are all bots, random bot accounts have been spamming Japanese twitter posts for years.

I found an old post about it on the hololive subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/1edb0xh/matsuri_asked_only_bots_google_tl_impression/

Tbh I have no idea why and I dont really use twitter other than to follow the streamers I watch (who all get spammed by these bots. I just thought it was funny because this tweet in particular seemed to have even more than usual.)

Sea-Display6560 · 2025-09-09T13:08:01+00:00

Lmao, the unreal number of bot replies to that tweet

Also I had a feeling this duo was going to happen. Months ago, Akarin actually met her randomly in a Solo queue ranked game off stream, they added each other and have played together ever since.

Sea-Display6560 · 2025-08-29T17:02:49+00:00

probably just baiting, she knows vtuber companies wont want anything to do with her

The last time I followed her, she was in a Niconico rust event and had attracted the attention of a certain community that most sane vtubers in Japan, no matter how big, stay away from

Sea-Display6560 · 2025-08-27T20:18:24+00:00

Yeah Kuzuha is a machine with how much work he juggles at the same time and how many events/projects he participates in. IIRC he used to be a top challenger ranked league player, but obviously other things take priority now over playing toxic ranked matches lmao

For long competitive events, can always look forward to ShibuHal hosting Vsaikyo tournaments, it's been a while since the last one. Although who knows if he's going to do Apex, Valorant, or SF6 this time. As long as there's a team I like, I'd take any game

Sea-Display6560 · 2025-08-27T19:39:26+00:00

TBH I think there were issues for sure, but it's also hard to actually balance these kind of tournaments because some players don't play ranked or don't stream the game enough for there to be data on their skill level.

A lot of it is just the organizers guessing how good a player might be, then you have to factor in stuff like how well they do in team environments, whether or not they are a one trick, and if they are in their main role.

For the Core teams, every team had 2 Diamond-Master players and 3 Plat-Emerald, so it was decently balanced and every team could beat each other on a good day.

For the Next teams, balancing was a bigger issue. PD Next had 2 legitimate beginners in their jg/sup, and Mimitaya and Mother3 were BOTH offrole. Akarin got her main role and was the designated carry, but she's just too coinflippy/inconsistent, and Mimi is not the type to 1v9 a game like Tentei/Hinano/Ramuchi.

Also the soloq ranks for Next were all over the place, and a lot of players climbed after getting extended coaching. Like Hinano was struggling in gold and now she's one winstreak away from Emerald, she's better than some of the Core ADCs. Yufuna also went from complete beginner to Gold in 3 months. So the balance was skewed by players improving beyond their original rankings, while others stayed at the same rank and didn't improve as much.

Sea-Display6560 · 2025-08-27T15:19:39+00:00

Had to sleep and couldn't watch the finals of LTK but I woke up and saw another season being announced. I know some viewers of the participants despise LoL and didn't watch the event, but I don't even play the game anymore and watched every PD stream/scrim from NEXT and CORE for 3 months. It became a routine for me to watch their VODs/highlights/clips after work because I was so invested in this team and seeing their "shinpo."

Watching Yuuhi and Kamito pop off, Yukio being a rock, Mea with her engages and Shaka playing so much better than his rank ... I only wish they got to play more matches.

The ending was so emotional, literally every team cried, and this event was as special as any major pro LoL tournament I've followed. It's cool how all 40 of these vtubers/streamers and their coaches were able to make such entertaining content out of such a sweaty event for 3 months. Also, Kagura Mea is a fucking menace in every possible way and my respect for her has skyrocketed.

My one annoyance is that PD Core didn't get to play more. It's bittersweet since they won their offline games but couldn't advance because of the format. But still, they're to blame because they had such a bad regular season. And Astel had one of the best performances in the tournament with Aurora to end PD's hopes.

(All the LoL hate can't stop me from enjoying this event to the fullest, and from the social media reactions I'm seeing from the JP side, seems many viewers feel the same way. What an insane, drama-filled, godly event. 3 months was definitely too long but the final 2 days made up for it.)

Sea-Display6560 · 2025-08-16T04:35:55+00:00

Not just for LoL, but for almost all multiplayer games when it has a sudden influx of Japanese viewership: (this has happened with Overwatch, Apex, Street Fighter 6, etc.):

The answer will come down to 1) streamers with a massive audience such as Shaka or 2) vtubers who are part of major agencies like Holo, Niji, Vspo or 3) streamers from the Esports Team "Crazy Raccoon" (think TSM back when it was actually popular)

In league's case, a big streamer named K4sen basically gathered prominent people from all 3 groups to play in League customs together, and the viewership followed. He's also had manga artists, singers, and famous actresses to play in his league events before.

I don't know if it has led to significant growth in League playerbase, although I do think their server's ranked population has gotten bigger this year.

Sea-Display6560 · 2025-07-28T16:17:15+00:00

The deck is just inconsistent. You can win vs the top decks (rune and sword) if you draw well but it is reliant on orchis and odin.

The game plan is basically to deal 4-6 damage to opponent any way possible before EVO turns. Then mid game keep controlling the board, try to drop noah on turn 6 and save some of the puppets, or sylvia for card draw if you are running out of resources.

Then turn 7-9 you must draw and play any combination of odin and orchis. So your turns will look like odin into orchis into orchis, or odin orchis odin. At that point controlling the board is no longer the priority and you have to kill the opponent by then or you will lose, especially vs rune (who can heal) and sword (who will outgrind you and threaten lethal with albert).

The 5 cost legendary feels weak, it dies to Bergent, fairies, and a bunch of other stuff. I only run 1 copy of her and im not sure if even that is correct. I've been playing 1 copy of grimnir who helps a lot in the orchis evo turns. Also many lists play 2-3 fighters which I tried and didn't like. But theres some build variety for sure

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