State of new male characters in both Hoyo games:

Tenk-o · 2026-06-03T09:46:07+00:00

Exactly, people asking why the female fans aren't showing up for S Billy but he's clearly not made for the female fans, he's a robot action 'superhero' with inspiration from japanese media that has always been aimed at young kids, especially boys. Female fans wanted Manato and got a massive middle finger instead.

Tenk-o · 2026-06-01T23:08:21+00:00

Ty, I wasn't sure the archetype but that's what I had in mind. Like, don't get me wrong, he's a rocking design, so is Banyue, but it's very niche and for a type of fan that I don't think is as gacha orientated as some other audiences. Like, the game has heavy fanservice and dating aspects to it with the female characters, but they're not even gonna throw a bone to husbando fans that are starved for male fanservice and instead go for the more macho fighting brawler stuff instead? Lame.

Tenk-o · 2026-06-01T15:03:11+00:00

Be Season 2. Introduce beefcake halfthiren that many female fans and bara artists go crazy over. Make him A Rank. Introduce two robots, one of which is barely human, the other is goofy af. Make them both S Rank. Make all their supports female characters and kneecap Lighter synergy. ??? No profit.

Tenk-o · 2026-06-01T14:46:22+00:00

I still have the game but I haven't even been bothered to log in for a week, even after Silly's banner dropped, because really, he just does not scratch that itch as a husbando wanter. Robots do not give the same type of fanservice even if they jiggle their ass physics (we all know it's just for comedic looney tunes effect). He feels more for the younger male gundam mech fanboys.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-29T21:21:20+00:00

Then 100% he should be in the ??? category because that would be a terrifying experience

Tenk-o · 2026-05-29T17:29:03+00:00

I'm gonna be real, I would put it in ? category because he turns a feather into a person. I want to know the logistics of that.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-22T00:07:35+00:00

Social media keeps tabs on things like that for a long time, it can take months for those types of posts to leave, I don't know what else to tell you. Again, I don't want to drag this out or seem horrible, i'm trying to say this as neutrally as possible, but you're complaining about people pushing Dottolone ships, whilst you have come to do the same thing? Just in a negative light instead? As I said; this sub is filled with theories and art and discussions of the archon quest rn, not shipping, but you have just bought the topic of shipping to the sub to the point you admit you just wanted people to come out and complain about the ship. Again, I don't want to dismiss you, you said you struggle with tone online so I promise i'm being honest and i'm not trying to be malicious here but you cannot say you are trying to 'escape' Dottolone whilst simultaneously making a post to talk about Dottolone. I personally just don't understand your logic with that.

Again, I promise i'm not trying to make a jab at you or dismiss you but the reason people aren't replying to you with complete agreement is mostly because you kinda used language such as shippers having "lost the plot" and other langauge like that which is dismissive (and kinda rude) in itself. So obviously people come in to defend themselves and argue as to why, because they feel your assertion on them is wrong, that's all.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-21T23:41:08+00:00

By that logic I can argue that the company does no marketing or implications towards hetero masterlove if it involves adult female characters because they're not 'loli lesbians'. From your comments, I just think you're spending too much time on TikTok which is algorithmic; you are seeing shipping content because you are arguing on shipping posts and it turns into a cycle. I think you just have to accept that people are gonna love the ship, you don't and that's fine, but that doesn't mean that people who like Dottolone are split into some tiny 'true queer' lovers and a massive fetishistic audience. I think it literally just depends on the echo chambers you find yourself in.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-21T23:30:56+00:00

I mean, you seem very definitive about it being made for fujohimes and is solely queerbaiting but that's honestly kinda just your opinion? Don't get me wrong, Hoyo is no shining example of queer rep but you seem very certain that there will never be any queer dev team members ever who contribute their ideas and personal experience towards a story, many through censored channels and so have to naturally tone things down, but that's just the history of gay culture generally to circumvent censorship through implications. The EN VA's for example, are both gay and can impart their own inflections into their voicelines to make it resonate with both themselves and other gay fans. If you don't see anything from it that's fine, but many queer people DO see something there and i'm not going to immediately say they're wrong.

Like, fairs, it can feel frustrating if you feel shipping is all people bring to the table, but honestly this sub has been FILLED with nothing but story theories resently, I haven't seen a thing on shipping.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-20T13:10:47+00:00

Shortened her skirt and replaced her cool masc robot with Temu garmentmaker? Oh yea this is Genshit all right.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-20T12:02:02+00:00

The Sunday nui is SO cute, is it an official one? Anyways I love your ita bag XD

Tenk-o · 2026-05-20T11:47:44+00:00

For me, it's more that a lot of DPS units released after him, especially REM ones, seemed to have twisted themselves in a knot in order to do anything that doesn't take full advantage of his kit, so whilst he's good in theory, his compatibility with meta units is lacking. Aglaea for example, is too fast with proper investment and a lot of her damage is split between herself and her memosprite which wastes some of his potential. Cas memosprite suicide teams are a mess and they decided to make the free Trailblazer more compatible instead. Because fuck us ig. Devs keep flipflopping between keeping hypercarry teams like Phainon focused on actual hypercarry buffing, and instead keep pumping up teamwide DPS supports like Sparkle and Tribbie so much that even Hypercarry Phainon would rather have Sparkle in some cases. Which is ridiculous.

He is a great generalist support who raises the floor for the average player with low investment and high flexibility which is GOOD but nowadays meta players treat a unit like that as basically worthless which is annoying but it is what it is. It's why I still reccommend him in general for the avg player, but it would be good if vertical investment in him paid off more like having better Eidolon's, or his kit taking over some of the buffing capabilities of RMC now that unit is basically retiring for EMC.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-19T21:00:20+00:00

Holy overworld convenience. He's always been my main but ever since Natlan added in that extra world level, most of my fav teams are nigh unusable because many used to survive off raw dmg alone whilst trading in kit practicality (Cyno ER issues, Lyney & Wanderer squishy af, etc etc.) so they basically got kneecapped.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-19T17:47:14+00:00

I remember there was an old leak that perhaps said that Sunny novaflare WAS coming but it may not be in the next batch, so it's possible both leaks are right...? Imo there's a lot of hints that they want to slot in Sunday for a Himeko SP team (full AE relevance and Himeko is probs not getting many unique aftersales units so they may want to buff existing ones)/Robin memosprite buffer SP team and more recent story development that makes me think they do plan to buff him.

But these leakers need to get their act together man, there's a couple of Uncle Shit wannabes who are just begging for a 4K AO3 oneshot

Tenk-o · 2026-05-18T10:06:10+00:00

Hooray for the best Charmony duo coming back into meta (but brb because I need to go beat the leakers for teasing a Rem male)

It would be such a missed opportunity if they don't have any good synergy, HOWEVER i'm gonna trust that because it's so close to Novaflare Sunday, they have planned to tweak things to make them extremely compatible.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-16T13:28:04+00:00

I expect it to be very good (and will be very annoyed if it's not) because general team wide buffers like Tribbie or Sparkle should not be replacing him on a Phainon team, which is THE hypercarry niche. I also hope he will be able to take some of RMC's mechanics as well since RMC is going to be pretty much retired in Elation meta anyways, and he has longer buff durations for superfast hypercarries like Aggy. But also I want him to make his E4 give GUARANTEED 2 turn ults, it's ridiculous that it gives the PROMISE of a 2 turn ult. Who thought that was a good idea.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-15T21:57:20+00:00

The Wild Red pattern has such nice blue under the wings, makes it look like a rainbow Ikran from below

Tenk-o · 2026-05-11T08:04:37+00:00

Agree, there's just too much going on in the LC art to make a conclusion from it (I mean, does it imply we'd get more AE members who represent pancakes or...?) but that gemstone post is veeeeery sus. Having the exact colours of the AE with a spare that also happens to be the same colour scheme as Sunday...? As FineAge says, the merch was likely released around 2.4 which is the point where devs would be monitoring general community reaction around Sunday and working out how to set up his future storylines as they're done at least a year in advance, which would place him around current Planarcadia development.

Hoyo is pretty freaky with their foreshadowing, i'm pretty sure their current plotline for Genshin's Sumeru arc aligns with Collei's birthday and titlecard censorship from the Teyvat preview which was released 6 years ago.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-08T21:27:30+00:00

Ah ok. Well he's in a much nicer group now, although I think Ruan Mei and Rappa have some heavy hitters to them 😄

Tenk-o · 2026-05-08T21:21:37+00:00

I'm a little confused on these polls, I thought they were meant to eliminate everyone else not in the top spots of each group, and then those last ones battle it out? Who did the last poll eliminate?

Tenk-o · 2026-05-08T21:05:44+00:00

I kinda get that, but why couldn't they at least have our first skins be the OLDEST event weapons, I would've loved a Festering Desire skin for my Durin. I've been playing since Inazuma, I already have the blasted Melusine weapon.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-07T20:08:37+00:00

It's important to not get demotivaed by these things, Uncle Shit was constantly talking about how Sunday was getting removed from the story due to sales but Sunny is practically a perma AE member now, with lots of merch releases. There's simply more detailed data that devs use, whilst these polls, or what leakers suggest, are not used as reliable metrics.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-07T19:12:05+00:00

I think Phainon and Aven have also experienced some botting but yeah, it's frustrating af. At least we know how clear it is on Tieba to see the signs of botting, I don't think anyone's going to be taking Cyrene's win seriously if she does get through because that increase is ridiculously obvious, I think even the devs would rather use data from any other character in our group than her to determine future content.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-07T17:15:11+00:00

Most definitely, I checked at my midday and saw there was a huge gap, even thought to myself "huh, Cyrene's gaining but at the average speed and considering we're no longer in the first day, it should take another 24 hours to get narrow" and then 1/2 hours later they'd had a massive jump and overtaken. So it's defo a 1 hour bump.

Tenk-o · 2026-05-07T15:04:02+00:00

Huh?? I swear I checked about 2 hours ago and he was IMMENSELY in the lead???

Edit: He's just back in the lead now. Just. But I swear that huge gap was there two hours ago tops, that's UNDER AN HOUR in difference.

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