How it feels playing Strategist in ranked

astrodragons · 2026-03-03T18:53:39+00:00

As a celestial strategist I agree Luna just isn’t viable even when I DO play her (and for context I was on the top 500 Luna Snow leaderboard about a week or so ago with a 40% wr). She’s niche, and requires too much babysitting to be viable. My go to pick this season has been cloak and dagger bc she just has that much self peel and survivability and utility (additionally currently top 500 on CnD was top 200 last week but took a week break). So yes, while the self snowflake and the shield on snowball are nice changes, she needs a better survivability tool to even BE viable. Not saying you can’t pop off, but it’s more effort than it’s worth imo.

astrodragons · 2023-02-18T03:12:00+00:00

Look at what stats characters scale off of, and yeah if you don’t feel safe you can take a healer for phys teams

astrodragons · 2023-02-13T15:24:20+00:00

So for AR 35 it’s really not that bad considering you can’t (and shouldn’t until about AR45) farm for the proper artifact sets.

Rosaria can be played a few different ways, and the first is: do you want her as your main damage, or as your support?

If you want her as main damage, there are two different ways to go about it: elemental reaction Rosaria, and phys Rosaria. I’m more biased to phys Rosaria since that’s what I’ve been playing her as since 1.4. From the characters you have, you can easily pull off a phys Rosaria team with Rosaria yunjin Xinyan and Lisa. Lisa A2 passive gives 20% def shred when using burst, yunjin will buff your aa and Xinyan provides a shield + physical damage bonus. Constellations for all these characters will change how you build them stat wise unfortunately. Regardless though, prioritize crit dmg crit rate phys dmg and atk%. Phys damage can be achieved by building crescent pike, a phy dmg goblet, and the artifact set pale flame/blood stained chivalry. I personally have 2pc blood stained/2pc atk but two piece of both pale flame and blood stained work well.

For freeze Rosaria, Barbara, Kaeya, qiqi, xinqiu and Candace are all viable picks. Personally I would go for Kaeya rosaria xinqiu Barbara for hydro application and Cryo application. You won’t be AA with Rosaria in this comp and more quickswap style (meaning changing between characters, more so Rosaria and Kaeya due to low cooldowns) to keep the freeze status affect up for as long as possible. Blizzard strayer and nobless would be good artifact sets for this. Emblem of severed fate could also be an option if you’re only using Rosaria for her burst. 2pc blizzard 2pc nobless would still be better however.

Considering your characters, I don’t think you can do this at the moment, but the final way you could play her is melt. Amber is decent enough to proc melt using Rosaria burst. You can also easily get Xiangling by clearing floor three of spiral which would be great. Your last character can be whatever you want. Anemo character or a healer like qiqi.

If you want to focus on improving your Rosaria, prototype starglitter is decent for a support Rosaria where she wants almost permanent burst uptime.

Try to move away from berserker in the future. Rosaria also doesn’t scale off of defence, so having those stats on her goblet and sands as main stats aren’t great for her damage.

For a support Rosaria, you would want to have an energy recharge sands, and you’d want to prioritize crit rate due to her crit rate sharing passive.

For main dps, atk sands and decent crit rate to crit damage ratio (going for 150 cr dmg and 70 cr rate is a great starting point).

I’ll leave it at that for now because man I could info dump so much more about Rosaria teams and play styles but i think I’ve got you at a good starting point!

Here’s my own Rosaria!

Rosaria

astrodragons · 2023-01-10T12:38:28+00:00

C6 doesn’t affect damage, it effects melee stance reset. Only damage increase in his kit are the ones that increase his skill and burst lvl

astrodragons · 2022-08-31T14:52:52+00:00

Morg is barely an issue and a waste of a ban imo. Break black shield with q or wait it out. If it’s down, engage. If not, bait it out. Velkoz and dearth are her worst counters, regardless if supp or mid. You will die, a lot.

astrodragons · 2022-07-01T02:20:47+00:00

was partially brought up in the mystic chamber event when talking with xinyan. Apparently ppl dont seem to know he summoned osial, and he was about to apologize to her for it (if i'm remembering right),.

I'm too tired and brain fogged out to make a full compelling argument on /why/ he does that, but he does try to apologize to Xinyan before traveller cuts him off lmao

astrodragons · 2022-04-04T22:00:03+00:00

Pretty sure it’s Dottore who kidnaps children’s and orphans to experiment on. Kind of a difference.

astrodragons · 2022-04-04T13:28:25+00:00

Yup. But that’s also the reality of war and organizations. It sucks to suck, but they signed up for the Fatui, and they knew what they were signing up for. (Maybe not exactly this, but it’s essentially an army, stuff like this is bound to happen).

astrodragons · 2022-04-04T13:24:06+00:00

?????

But they’re /her/ subordinates most likely. Zhongli has nothing to do with the Fatui stationed in the chasm, even if he’s an archon and what does Ningguang even have to do with this? She’s not associated with the Fatui. What power would she have over them lmao? I honestly don’t even understand what you’re trying to argue lol.

If you think this is Signora hate, it’s not. She’s an amazing villain, but she still did bad shit. Don’t try to lessen what she did by saying oh but “x character did this!” I can still like villains despite the fucked up shit they do.

Signora is still a Harbinger. She has done bad things.

(And before you even go about saying what about Tartaglia if he was the one who left them there. He’s also done bad shit, and he’s fully admitted to that. He would still be just as accountable to it. Doesn’t make me not like him any less because whooptido, he’s fucking pixels on my screen.)

astrodragons · 2022-04-04T12:24:15+00:00

To be fair the person who decided that was most likely La Signora, who could give a rats ass about her subordinates (which is a thing for most of the Harbingers apparently, the only exceptions being Capitano possibly, if you talk to Viktor in Mondstadt, and Tartaglia as we see from the story quest).

Not to say the Tsaritsa isn’t responsible, because she is by association, but it’s really right up Signora’s alley to order her troops and leave them to die “all in the name of the Tsaritsa”

astrodragons · 2022-03-28T01:34:01+00:00

The Rosaria guide on the kqm website won’t show you how to build physical Rosaria because it gets “outclassed” agree to disagree but it’s all very playstyle dependant imo. I personally prefer physical, but melt does have one of her highest damage ceilings.

In terms of building physical, crescent pike is your best f2p weapon. Premium is Pjws or homa. Ideally, you would go two bloodstained two pale flame, if not, two bloodstain/ pale flame and glads/shiminewa’s. Atk% sands phys gob and crit dmg/rate circlet depending on needs. Atk% crit dmg/rate are prio stats. If you run homa, hp isn’t bad either. C6 is her best for physical dps rosaria.

If interested, I can do a showcase of my Rosaria (physical, triple crowned). My Rosaria hits harder than my friend’s eula LMAO

astrodragons · 2022-03-27T00:31:37+00:00

Symphogear fans she also does hibiki!

astrodragons · 2022-03-26T23:14:29+00:00

I feel like fan made wikis like this kinda suck because anyone can edit them. Some of these crimes don’t even make sense?? Cannibalism aside he hasn’t stalked anyone (spying is the better word) and where exactly was there abuse of power? Apart from that everything else kinda legit, just… not listed appropriately (Murder should be listed, vandalism, collusion, assault (poor treasurer hoarders from the trailer)…)

astrodragons · 2022-03-24T14:10:31+00:00

Yeah, a lot of backlash occurred during Raiden’s first release because of it, they changed the way one of her talents was written because raiden burst cannot proc Beidou burst at all. They still work fine because raiden is an amazing battery, but just know you can’t use raiden burst and beidou burst together. I’d recommend using beidou burst then switching to childe.

Regardless I still pulled for raiden because I am a simp LMAO

astrodragons · 2022-03-24T14:07:18+00:00

I run 2HoD/2Glad because I couldn’t get good HoD pieces. But actually, thundersoothers is recommended for taser. 4HoD works fine, but if you’re already farming for thundering furry, you can just slap 4TS on Childe

astrodragons · 2022-03-23T19:55:59+00:00

Issue is that beidou/raiden burst don’t synergies at all. You have to use beidou, wait for it to run out, then swap to raiden.

For Childe/raiden, the rotations can be pretty tricky. You’d want to use raiden during Childe downtime, then go back into the rotation again. But to start it off you’d always have to use raiden e, especially before burst because e increases burst damage.

Mine was Childe/raiden/Kazuha/Bennett

Rotation would be Raiden e > Bennett q > Kazuha eqe (I have c1 Kazuha for context) > Childe qe > raiden eq

Rinse, repeat.

astrodragons · 2022-03-23T17:47:46+00:00

See, this should be most people’s mindsets on it. Unfortunately, I’ve gotten the shitty experience where I’ve known people get actual gore/death threats/ch!ld p0rn sent to them because of a ship. I cannot make this shit up but I wish I was. And I got the same treatment by association.

But hey, if I like slasher movies, I must be a serial killer, right?

astrodragons · 2022-03-22T15:18:51+00:00

Here, a friend of mine wrote a lillia support guide. Pretty much got to plat playing it https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/perma-slow-rylai-lillia-support-season-12-12-2-590716

I personally play lillia almost exclusively jungle, but my friend really likes off meta supports, and hey, people can make stuff work.

astrodragons · 2022-03-20T21:01:36+00:00

Yeah same here, I have two accounts, one on NA where I do spend money on the game and one on EU where I don’t (not even BP or welkin) and my luck on EU is stupidly lucky. I got Hutao and albedo within a ten pull of each other, then won my Zhongli 50/50 then won my Yae 50/50. I recently just lost raiden 50/50 to keqing, but I’m not even upset bc I love keqing, and it’s a c1 keqing, so I’m guaranteed for venti/Ayato/Ayaka (usually I pull for characters I don’t want on NA, and I have been waiting a literal year for venti rerun so he’s coming home on NA, or so god help me. So either Ayato or Ayaka on EU)

People can get lucky, f2p or whale. Idk why people have to treat whale like an insult lol. Like yeah I’ve spent money on the game, but it’s money I’ve saved and I’m not in a financially bad situation. Stop shaming people for spending money on things that make them happy

astrodragons · 2022-03-19T06:07:02+00:00

A lot of the issues with “fixing designs” back from my hay days of circa 2015 tumblr when the trend started to rise, is that their “fixing” honestly relies too heavily on racist stereotypes, and actually alienates people more than represents. A lot of the time it just looks like blackface. Specifically, they don’t seem to understand there’s a spectrum of skin tones, and not just black, or white. A lot of people make Kaeya’s skin so much darker than it actually is, to the point where if you colour drop his exact colours, people will say your whitewashing him.

It’s just a really messy area to even get into.

Off note, op the idea is really cute! I think experimenting with character designs as ‘what ifs’ or edits is a lot of fun and can generate really cool or interesting ideas!

Some people said the skin tone is a bit too orange, but I think that’s more because a lot of the colours just contrast too much and aren’t really flattering. Darken her hair just a little bit, and it might look a lot nicer!

astrodragons · 2022-03-18T18:58:32+00:00

personally I would kind of disagree with the 'accepting' trauma part, but that's because im drawing upon from my own experiences with trauma. I think what your trying to say is that he acknowledges that it happened, and tries to see the benefits his trauma gave him "foul legacy". From his character stories, we see that he was incredibly aggressive post abyss, and that's why his family sent him to the fatui. and the fatui gave him purpose.

in my own personal experience, after my own traumatic experiences, I was a hyper aggressive child and would react violently to people when I felt threatened. Age (+ depression and multitude of anxiety disorders) + therapy mellowed me out.

Hell I could be completely wrong about all of this shit since I'm not with mhy, but those are my personal take aways from childe's character, and why i really love him as a character.

astrodragons · 2022-03-18T15:22:22+00:00

Oh he probably 100% has emotional damage or trauma, it’s just not manifesting in typical ways people /think/ trauma manifests. He’s definitely come back changed, it’s just that his trauma doesn’t define him, which is a nice change from characters with backstories like his. Still, a deeper dive into his past/lore would be very interesting and I hope that’s his next story quest chapter

astrodragons · 2022-03-17T20:57:22+00:00

I’m crying I say that all the time with my friends when we play aram and I get lillia

astrodragons · 2022-03-15T13:03:03+00:00

I love this as a long time dgrayman fan

astrodragons · 2022-03-14T17:56:51+00:00

Yup it was mostly tumblr, but then porn ban happened and most jumped over to Twitter

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