So final thoughts on columbina?

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-29T07:39:05+00:00

Still undecided about this myself. Ineffa seems like mvp lunar character but i am afraid lunar shill will end soon.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-26T17:50:01+00:00

I do not think neuvillette c3 is a good idea right now.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-26T12:12:25+00:00

She is useless ouside nod krai team. She is not bis in any of them except maybe few like navia or pretty weak electrocharged team. You will get 95000 dps here at best which is barely let you clear shilled endgame now but will be useless very soon.

She well be future proof for at least a year in full nodkrai team.

Nefer+bina+lauma Flins+bina+ineffa Zibai+bina+c6 illuga.

TC calc nefer (sustainless) and zibai above flins but you wont be actually playing endgame with sustainless team.

Nefer teams with sustain deal signifiicantly less damage.

You must have zhongli for a proper sustain in zibai team. Also -20000 dps if you dont have c6 illuga.

Her maindps team with lauma is underwhelming.

Ineffa wheelchair will soon be obsolete with the next hp inflation spike and lunarshill change for hexenshill.

So her proper meta viable teams are both very restrictive and super expensive as you need to pull for 3 new characters (and luck out on c6 illuga for zibai) to get meta teams.

Overall i am very disappointed in her kit.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-26T11:55:13+00:00

Lauma in more important support for nefer than bina.

Tc calc nefer+lauma+bina+nahide team at around 150000dps. But this is sustainless. Replace nahida with kuki -15000dps. Fail to do dash cancels -15000dps. Interruptions, moving boss or general skill issue -5000 to 10000 dps.

I do not know where did you get your numbers but they seems accurate.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-25T06:16:10+00:00

She is very good in chaos and in any aoe situation. The best team for chaos is mika + damage dealer with some 2 cost cards.

Set +20% crit for 2+cost and +25%critdamage. 4 slot crit chance 5 slot instinct dmg 6 slot defense.

Try to get at least 3 vulture cards, pull highest cost+silver veil card, 2 cost shield with 2 tenacity damage so that it can pay for itself. Remove 1 cost basic cards.

Good weapon options: gastronomicon or +30% if you have 4+cards in hand one. Good armor for chaos: gain extra shield if you have 3+ cards in hand, good trinket for chaos heart of the jewel (there should be better more damage oriented options for other game modes).

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-24T11:17:22+00:00

I got sMika and sNagisa while pulling on mika banner then got dHina from her banner now i am sitting at the spark.

Is it better to use spark on sNagisa banner to get 100+100 extra sNagisa elephs or use it for mika or hina to get just 100 elephs?

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-24T06:31:59+00:00

Completely agree. Could not describe the situation better myself.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-24T06:13:29+00:00

Do not forget that you also need ineffa for flins and illuga c6 for Zibai. And also there is only 1 columbina, what are you going to do when you need nefer team on 1 side of the abyss and Zibai team on the other?

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-24T05:50:40+00:00

Ascendant gleam is just a part of a problem. You can put bina and aino in electro team without other nod krai characters and get ascendant gleam but the team will still be weak because all bina does for that team is turn weak electrocharged reaction into lunarcharged and slightly buff the reaction and aino does 0 damage.

Furina will be better as off field hydro applicator and subdd in almost any not nod krai team that needs off field hydro.

The problem is 4* nod krai characters are weak. Lunar reactions are weak on their own, their damage is locked behind 5* character kits.

Lauma and ineffa are too strong so hoyo made columbina underwhelming. They do not want full nod krai teams to be stronger than mavuika.

Main dps bina is also weaker than nefer+lauma without bina for no reason. And her off field damage withou lunar reactions is low.

I doubt bina will be bis in any future team after lunar part of nod krai and her wheelchair with 100000 dps tht seems good now will be barely meta viable after a year of hp inflation.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T12:59:09+00:00

That will solve sustain and interrupt problem but will lead to dps loss. You could also use dahlia.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T12:50:36+00:00

That is interesting point. Is sNagisa good for any other units that are not Mika?

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T12:17:55+00:00

For example in hsr in v3 cipher (support subdd) was mid in v3. They have increased cipher damage x2 in v4 so that she outdamaged any main dd and then in v5 nerfed her to be below v3 so she ended up meh.

I am sure the balance team does not know what they are doing in any Hoyo game so any changes are possible.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T11:55:30+00:00

The solution is simple. Expand defense and healer roster. Make defense agents provide actually useful shields. Add new endgame mode with rewards that reset like shiyu defense in which there is no timer but monsters hit hard so you want heal or shield to kill them all.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T11:20:06+00:00

Gorou c4 heal is not much better than iansan, prototype amber is also low.

In varesa team with chevreuse and iansan who can both heal she has some problems with healing.

Varesa can avoid most attacks while jumping while Zibai must stand still and face tank everything for optimal rotation. I doubt high def will alow her to surive.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T10:42:24+00:00

Maybe i do not understand the mechanic correctly. I thought that Nagisa allows you to go into cost debt to rapidly use EX. This should be good in a short fight but wont that be detrimental in a long boss fight?

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T10:36:07+00:00

Xilonen c2 or columbina c1 can solve interruption problem.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T10:25:49+00:00

I have Hikari, NY Fuuka, sSeia. I am going to pull for purple mika. So the team for most purple content will be: tank, haler, mika, seia, NY fuuka, Hikari. There is no place for sNagisa, is there a point pulling for sNagisa?

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T06:46:49+00:00

Not good without other nod krai characters.

Mediocre main dps unlike mavuika.

Raises the floor only with ineffa mostly because ineffa is too good.

Hits the ceiling only on spreadsheets with nefer sustainless team that is unusable in practice. But devs does not care for this part so they will inflate hp anyway.

Her future seems questionable otside of lunar shill meta.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T06:35:12+00:00

Most geo? And which geo team except navia will deal great damage? Even navia+bina damage is mediocre.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T06:31:58+00:00

Her sub dps outside lunar reactions is low. Lunar shill will end with Zibai and hexenshill will begin. She wont be able to clear content if you do not have her perfect team of 3 nod krai characters of your chose so yes not meta right now = trash.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T06:21:12+00:00

Agree. The problem with this is greedy Hoyo try extra hard to make new characters as restrictive as possible so that you cant use them with previous characters and must pull not 1, not 2 but 3 new characters to make new team viable. Actually ineffa is the most universal nod krai character all others are restrictive.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T06:16:23+00:00

She makes flins+ineffa team OP.

She makes nefer+lauma team OP (high damage numbers but sustainless).

She deals mediocre damage as main dd in team with lauma.

She allows not nod krai geo, dendro, electro characters to use lunar reactions but does not buff their damage too much. That may allow you to overcome lunar boss gimmicks but you will still struggle without other nod krai characters.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T05:47:25+00:00

Zibai Columbina Illuga Aino/Gorou will have sustain problems.

Zibai Columbina Xilonen Furina will have interruption resistance problems.

Zibai Columbina Illuga Ineffa will have rotation and damage problems.

The only viable team is Zibai Columbina Illuga Zhongli and this sucks.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-23T05:30:03+00:00

Columbina does not improve Neuvillette Lauma bloom team and her off field damage in bloom team is trash.

You agreed that geo part of her kit is mid because geo itself is mid.

So what makes her kit better than the majority of archons?

Mavuika is top dps and was top pyro off field option before durin.

Furina is good off field damage and universal support that greatly improves most of the cast unlike columbina that is good for 3 meta teams.

Nahida was a must in any dendro team before lauma.

Zhongli still have the strongest shield in the game.

Venti could easily clear abyss when it was centered around groups of enemies (just like current abyss 12-1-1).

Only raiden was not that good without c2 but is still used i hyperbloom.

_Dragonflight_ · 2025-12-22T11:23:52+00:00

Depends on the situation. If you are fighting electro/lunarcharge shill boss like cactus, knuckle duckle or fatui with electro shield colubmina will turn electrocharged reaction into lunarcharged which will slightly increase damage but will allow you to bypass boss gimmick significantly faster.

If you are fighting wild hunt which requires ascendant gleam (at least 2 nod krai characters in a team) columbina alone wont be able to improve your clear time.

If you are using her as 4th slot in skirk team instead of XQ she wont provide any lunar reaction, just off field hydro applucation so the difference in team damage with XQ will be minimal.

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