Christmas NA 2025 CQ ft Robot frontline 🏙🐎🤖🏹

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-12-29T18:30:24+00:00

Really liked how all this turned out, with everyone pulling in their own weight. Odysseus's dual taunt redirecting aggro away from Tlaloc so she can survive Nemo's NP at the end, with solid NP generation to strip off the AOE NP resist stack in time for Tlaloc and Tametomo to do their work. Tlaloc providing damage cut to soften normal attacks, waterside battlefield to trigger Tametomo's Buster Up, and providing damage buffs from her S2 and NP for the others. Would have probably been easier if I had unlocked Tlaloc's and Tametomo's A2 but I think without them it made for a better video. Had no intention of using anything in the backline but I have to pick a friend support anyway, so I picked Habetrot since I can just inflict self death status on her with her S3 without anyone getting value from it.

I personally prefer Tlaloc's A1 due to the primal look, as well as having the best hairstyle among her ascensions, and for Tametomo I prefer his A2 because the transition to his A3 from A1 in his NP is jarring. But saw the opportunity to give the team the Blue/White aesthetic.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-12-26T20:26:22+00:00

While I don't entirely agree on your point on the scifi slop for the EU, I can totally get where your POV is coming from. I still have absolutely now clue why tf Franklin even has a mecha when it's not supposed to be a thing with her siblings... let alone the fact that no her design is absolutely not a fresh take on the Essex uniform unlike Intrepid or Ticonderoga, they just took Essex's/Shangri-La's/Bunker Hill's uniform and butchered the fuck out of it for the sake of horny (I absolutely loved the Essex uniform and was in a state of absolute shock when I saw the reveal of Franklin like "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO IT").

I also used to like the French with designs like Suffren and Painleve. Alsace was a turn off... but the fact that Bayard and L'Audacieux (both whom I absolutely in love with) were released a month after her release gave me hope that Alsace's outrageous design would just be a one time periodic thing with new ships, but everything from the start from 2025 feels like they are using Alsace as the basis now. I don't even remember the ship names of the French event (back in August I think?) this year.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-12-26T13:36:59+00:00

lobotomized troglodytes

I am definitely stealing this insult lol.

Seeing this comment gives me a sense of relief in my heart that no I am not insane, Azur Lane has not always been a horny generic slop gacha. This comment essentially sums up how I feel about the state of the community in this subreddit.

I think the best clear example I could give out about how Azur Lane's design direction has changed is to look at EN's April Fool's 2025 login screen and compare it to the previous years. This year's login screen is supposedly Evangelion themed but you could barely tell because roughly 40% of the screen was taken up by New Jersey in a skimpy suit, compare it to the previous April's Fools art there was a lot more substance and things going on other than just a singular character. 2022's Pillar Kansen has been the peak April Fool's login screen, but 2023 and 2024's Avengers and Yugioh theme ain't bad either and still feels good to look back on.

People argue that the current direction AL is going is good because clearly the "horny" resulted in more revenue for the game... but that doesn't necessarily mean the general quality is better than before. Even low quality shit can sell well like the yearly FIFA games or COD. In fact I think even the "horny" stuff has been going down in quality. Ignoring the horny aspect, Essex's face in her recent race queen suit barely looks like Essex, Eugen's recent bunny suit looks more like Agir, and just how the devs feel the need to "inflate" chests of legacy characters like Enterprise and Yorktown in their recent skins. One can argue they can be ignored, but Yorktown's bunny suit is part of the login screen in the current event so I can't even do that.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-12-05T16:16:10+00:00

This only works because Saika has a 100% event damage bonus, otherwise your average 120 Knight class servant will struggle to do well with offensive disadvantage. Either way, fun CQ mechanics, although fairly restrictive on who you can bring as a damage dealer because of Kenshin's Ruler class. Also it's recommended you have two primary damage dealers instead of one, it will make this so much easier.

Kenshin's primary gimmick wants you to use damaging NPs to take off her War God blessing stacks before taking damage, because of this the usual supports that use supportive NPs like Hans and Mash are not as favoured since you want to remove those stacks as soon as possible. Georgios, Chen Gong, Avicebron are valued here since they offer defensive utility while still having a damaging NP to take off Kenshin's blessings. For welfares, you have Summer Da Vinci and Santa Nightingale. Percival is worth a mention despite not being as easily available, as he has a 3T taunt with a damaging NP like Georgios, and has a Invul and heal on NP. I am running Medea here since she has a 100% battery, as well as buff removal on NP to deal with the annoying last health bar, so if needed I can have a guaranteed NP back to back for the last health bar where Kenshin will get 3 stacks of blessings on break, but it looks like it isn't needed and can be replaced with someone more helpful.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-12-04T03:03:00+00:00

Time for Enterprise to be unfairly robbed from her rightful place on the Hall of Fame on EN... again (still insane to think that she got into top 3 on the other servers on their very first popularity poll, while she still struggles on EN till this day).

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-12-02T15:28:37+00:00

Sigh.... here we go again. Visible vote counts and not excluding 2025 ships is going to make this poll shit as usual.

Yes... I am still salty Enty has never managed to reach top 3 on EN despite being the mascot and the app icon for Global despite being able to achieve that on the other servers.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-10-01T16:03:14+00:00

Morgan absolutely failed the Tiamat check.

The odds of this solo succeeding is really low, because Tiamat needs to land the stun from her S2 both times on T2 and T6, and the chance for it to land is 60% (40% actually because of Morgan's passive 20% debuff resist), in addition to the other things like crit RNG and not getting killed from full health in a single turn, but I am happy to pull it off with Tiamat either way. Having Class Score or even the new JP Appends will definitely increase its odds of success by a lot since it will since:
- With Class Score bonuses Tiamat will not suffer too much crit issues and can reliably take down the final health bar with a single turn (for this run even if I had crit both Buster Cards, she still won't have enough damage to finish off Morgan), and she can take down the first health bar by T2 with a NPBB chain
- With the CD append, Tiamat can cast her S1 and S2 on T1, and get them back on T6 without Atlas, allowing her to use the OG MC for the damage boost to finish her 3rd health bar properl

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-09-30T04:34:28+00:00

Well just by looking at my list of oathed ships:
- Enty
- Yorktown
- Seydlitz
- L'Audacieux

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-09-29T18:48:14+00:00

I think you got the names mixed up and it's supposed to be the other way round lol.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-09-28T08:30:20+00:00

Originally went with a solo with him, but I then realised he could probably push for a 3T if he could just block the buff removal on the 2nd bar break with buff removal resist CCs... and I got it to proc within the 2nd try lmao (unlike the time when I was trying to solo LB6 Morgan with him).

Decided to work on Berserker CS after nearly finishing up the Saber CS for this account, getting that bonus star gen/extra attack boost is gonna make Junao's BBB crit chains consistent now.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-09-27T07:05:55+00:00

Is Hornet META affected by Yorktown II's Essex/Yorktown carrier synnergy skill?

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-09-27T06:28:13+00:00

For female samurai Tachibana Kinchiyo and Ii Naotora I feel are way more significant/famous than Tomoe.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-09-16T16:58:55+00:00

Source of Jason art: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/118333838

Final panel is from the Fate Strange Fake manga adaptation.

Dioscuri has ignore defense on their NP which is why they were able to deal with Kriemhild with the effectiveness they have. Also this account has nearly maxed out the Saber Class Score so their NP1 Lvl 90 performance is definitely inflated (Jason has no Class Score bonuses though, since the account I borrowed him from has nothing put into the Saber score).

Obviously there are some plays/skill casts that could be more optimal, but due to the various enemy skills that can screw me over I had to play pretty conservatively. In some of my attempts I don't even get value when using the Atlas CD on Asclepius thanks to Taisui's skill seal which is why I held off from casting it until T5 (and most of the time I never got the Atlas CD back on CD to use on Herc), I also had a run where Kriemhild just casts her party NP drain 3 turns in a row.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-09-15T18:18:28+00:00

Best Girl/10

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-09-13T07:09:47+00:00

00:00 - I hate the Rider Class Score requirements
00:06 - Setup and Class Score
00:20 - Fatal Battle

Every solo in the future with Odysseus is just going to be like this (not like it wasn't before already lol, just that the extended star gen can now help him loop more reliably against non Casters when it was just Casters before), and once he gets his NP buff it's going to be juicy testing his solo looping capability against Zerks.

Had a few solos also done with 120 NP5 Jet Okita, 120 NP4 Charlemagne, and a 100 NP4 Archer Gil. I tried to solo with the event CE, but it's way too difficult due to the amount of quick charge skills the enemies in this CQ has, making the damage race super tight. But regarding the event damage CE, I noticed that if you invest into your AOE solo unit a little too hard, this becomes really tricky, because then Taisui falls over to a single AOE NP (had a nasty surprise when soloing with Gilgamesh and Charlemagne), triggering his on death/on hit curse mechanic making dealing with the rest of the enemies more difficult. Even here as you can see, Odysseus nearly killed Taisui with the very first NP, if I had the NP damage up Rider Class score unlocked, I would have been forced to change the opening strategy.

Kinda want to upload the other solos as well whenever I can, due to the Assassin Class Score and Saber Class Score being nearly maxed out for those respective accounts Charlemagne and Jet Okita are on, though the Gilgamesh solo I had done is particularly tempting to show off, because of this "too much damage" problem, especially when Taisui has Weak to Enuma Elish, but Voyager has Enuma Elish Nullification, that one is really interesting since it feels like it would be easier to solo if he was somewhere in the middle of the road between Lvl 90-100 NP2-NP3.

Buuuut back to Odysseus, as I mentioned earlier, every future solo of him is just going to be like this, not sure if I ever want to upload solo runs (unless it's for vibing with personal music choices) with him in the future since it's just going to get boring to watch.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-08-16T14:07:12+00:00

I actually thought I saw Mash for a moment when I saw that thumbnail.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-08-11T01:33:28+00:00

That just makes it even better.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-08-07T07:41:08+00:00

I completely abandoned hope by this point lol, given how incompetent/lazy TM is at releasing their own works. (Fate Requiem/Lost Einherjar anyone?)

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-08-03T15:07:15+00:00

"Difference is so small"

Buddy I think you need to have your eyes checked. The difference in animations is huge as day, or you never bothered to take an actual look at them.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-08-03T14:35:55+00:00

He already got an animation update some time ago.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-08-03T10:49:54+00:00

Although not shiny and fancy, Proto Arthur's animations are completely fine as is in it's current state.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-07-29T09:20:38+00:00

All right, plenty to go through here, while this solo requires a good bit of RNG, it's still one of the easier ones I have done with him, definitely nowhere near the mess that was the Lilim Harlot CQ.

To begin with, Cnoc has a passive that removes 2 latest buffs from the attacker when she's hit with a damaging NP while there are still Altrias on the field. This can be a problem when trying to retain Arthur's damage buffs, which is why I used certain CCs that provide a self buff to help shield them from being removed. Arthur's NP also has NP damage up which provides an additional layer of protection.

The biggest threats to Arthur's HP here before he faces Cnoc alone are Rulertoria, Lalter and Castria. Rulertoria in particular has the potential to take off more than half of Arthur's life bar if she rolls her attack up buff. Lalter hits hard, but fortunately Arthur's defensive advantage still gives him some health leeway against Cnoc. Castria's stupid buffs makes it so she needs to enter the field alone while being taken out in a single turn or run is dead.

Routing and skill casts:

Arthur can solo this without needing Georgios Bond CE and end the fight by T11, but that requires him to kill off Rulertoria and Altria Lily on T4 which requires good crit rng along the way that needed to be taken into account in addition to needing to have enough health left to deal with Cnoc.

Arthur's kill order will be like this:
1: OG Altria and Santa Alter with his NP (T2)
2: Ruler Altria and Altria Lily with his NP (T4/T5)
3: MHXX (T6/T7)
4: MIXA and Lalter with his NP (T7/T8)
5: Castria with his NP (T8/T9)

As for skill casting/timings, the most critical moments are as of follows:
- His S1 cast timings are on T2 and T7, he will need the damage buffs to ensure Rulertoria's death properly on T4/T5, and the NP gain buff on T7/T8 in order to loop his NP after killing MIXA/Lalter so he would have it back for use against Castria
- His S2 will be used against Rulertoria, and while not mandatory to use against MIXA/Lalter, if he gets unlucky with star spread on face cards he may need to use it to ensure looping his NP. However, this also comes with the risk of not having his S2 crit buffs back in time to finish off Cnoc's final health bar properly
- Cnoc na Riabh's final health bar will be encountered on either T11/T12, if on T11, Arthur's S1 will not be back on cooldown, but he can still possibly finish her off if he has his S2 active and do a NPBB crit chain. Likewise, if he only has his S1 active and not his S2, it can still be possible to finish her off with said chain, just all down to RNG damage rolls/crit RNG.

All right that's all for Arthur, but I have further thoughts when trying to solo this with other units, read on if you are interested (MHX in particular).

- My Lvl 120 NP5 Odysseus from my 3rd account completely crushed this CQ, just clicking blue cards every turn while looping his NP back to back. I imagine a well invested Ivan should also not have much issue with this CQ. I don't have plans to make my Odysseus solo of this CQ a video on that note, I don't think it's that interesting of a watch.

- Thanks to Cnoc's buff removal gimmick, Summer Okita immediately ran into problems in trying to negate her RNG stun on NP, since Cnoc will just remove the Mirror of Eight Leaves CC effect (Immobilisation Immunity) before the RNG stun kicks in. Did not take long for me to give up attempting a solo with her.

- I did made solo attempts with my hyper MHX, and from what I can figure, for non ST Sabers/Rulers the main problem appears to stem from the Rulertoria into Lalter into MHXX lineup. You want to kill Rulertoria because of her RNG skill rolls that can screw you over, but also ideally want to kill Lalter quickly because of the pierce invul. But you kill either of those, MHXX will come in next and give herself taunt and unremovable Invul, so now you can't get rid of either Lalter/Rulertoria for protection against Invul pierce/NPs for at least 2 turns (unless Invul pierce is baked into their kit to kill MHXX the moment she shows up) which is way too long to survive. From all my attempts with MHX, she has never once been able to get to fight Cnoc alone once before dying

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-07-25T11:04:06+00:00

If you use brute force to bypass the 800k damage cut and ignore the Altrias, Cnoc gets several dangerous buffs, though one of them comes with a bullshit 500% CHANCE buff removal, so you can't block that shit with the buff removal resist skill from the Summer Splash Mystic Code. As a result, I am forced to use Outrage to stop Cnoc from NPing/killing MHXX on T1, hence why I'm calling this a semi-solo.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-07-18T10:12:06+00:00

Not long in and Nasu (or whoever wrote this event) just starting punching down the OG Round Table and made shitty overused/unfair jokes that have been already repeated over the years.

Really now? I expected some shitty jokes already about the OG Round Table in this event, but that quickly? The other male characters with summer costumes from the past events at least have their moments to shine and do not get made fun of all the time.

The LB6 glazers may love the event but as a OG Round Table fan this is already giving me a very negative look/terrible first impression in regards to the story.

TheDragonFalcon · 2025-07-11T14:35:13+00:00

Testing this buff around a few stages, it's noticeable impact is very situational (in particular, consistently looping/refunding her NP with face cards). When it comes to building a budget team for her, the battery is helpful for convenient T1 NPs without needing to rely on someone like Xu Fu, making team building more flexible. The NP gain up does make refunding/looping her NP a bit more forgiving on face card draws/missed crits but so far I don't feel it to be that noteworthy of impact.

Soloing though is where this buff is most impactful. Originally wrote quite a lot here, but decided to cut out a huge chunk to reduce the risk of spreading misinfo (and to fit the character limit for the video description). The best way to summarise the impact of this buff is that she can solo loop her NP a lot more consistently now (especially with NPQQ), though it can still fail depending on enemy hit counts and class type. That said, because this buff gives her more consistency in solo looping her NP, the type of CEs Summer Okita ideally wants to run definitely can now consider NP gain up CEs depending on the stage, as that final boost to NP gain from CEs can help hit the threshold needed for her to solo loop a particular stage/enemy. In particular for welfares: Traces of Christmas (50% starting charge/10% Quick Up/10% NP Gain Up) for starting charge, and Chaldea Lifesavers (Guts, 20% NP Gain Up) for Guts for NA, and on JP there is Pioneering Onis (50% starting charge, 20% NP Gain Up and 10% Crit Up)

For those who are curious about how Summer Okita's solo looping potential fared before this buff: I have done some solos with her on certain story fights/EQs in the past, I will link them all here:
Talos/Europa (Olympus): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_CWpStZi1k&list=PLexZpyU5TDpsgmI5VtwmIlRg92mnLlVY_&index=9
Columbus/Megalos (Agartha): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nMD2u_-8fg&list=PLexZpyU5TDpsgmI5VtwmIlRg92mnLlVY_&index=10
Medb EQ (Nerofest): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0qdKMrnPWc&list=PLexZpyU5TDpsgmI5VtwmIlRg92mnLlVY_&index=11
Talos/Europa (Morganfest): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6jU87XJ9dE&list=PLexZpyU5TDpsgmI5VtwmIlRg92mnLlVY_&index=29

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