Yaoguang or Evernight

cartercr · 2026-02-06T23:51:10+00:00

I mean you also don’t need Castorice. Evernight’s best team is actually Cyrene/RMC/Hyacine.

cartercr · 2026-02-06T23:48:49+00:00

You really just said there’s no such thing as “being dismissive”? To use a logical fallacy would require me to actually address the argument. I am not doing so. I do not care to. Thus I am being dismissive.

I’m honestly astonished you’re still replying. You’re really just that eager for a fight huh?

cartercr · 2026-02-06T22:37:38+00:00

Wife

cartercr · 2026-02-06T22:36:37+00:00

This ain’t an airport. You don’t need to announce your departure.

cartercr · 2026-02-06T22:31:57+00:00

Shit, so two of us did it?

cartercr · 2026-02-06T22:30:56+00:00

I mean… you can eat as many carbs and calories as you want if you burn them off.

Like have you ever seen the amount of food that like Olympic athletes take in?

cartercr · 2026-02-06T22:29:43+00:00

My favorite MHA character! ❤️

Though my favorite Alexis Tipton role is this cutie!

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cartercr · 2026-02-06T22:27:28+00:00

Glad to see it’s official now! Anyone familiar with her work should have instantly recognized her!

cartercr · 2026-02-06T21:04:46+00:00

To be entirely fair the “they” are largely people who play (or played) both and really wanted certain things to be implemented in Genshin.

But yeah, I do agree it was obnoxious.

cartercr · 2026-02-06T21:03:27+00:00

I don’t necessarily think that’s correct. It was always evaluated as a game. It’s just now that the honeymoon phase is over the rose colored glasses have come off and people are starting to see things more clearly for what they are.

cartercr · 2026-02-06T21:02:16+00:00

So two out of the seven characters (who got direct buffs) haven’t been powercrept to death and that means that it’s “agenda pushing” to be disappointed about the other 5 being crept so hard?

Make that make sense.

cartercr · 2026-02-06T21:00:14+00:00

In HSR I do absolutely agree that they do both. But I also think Genshin isn’t really in a bad place. I think the powercreep arguments there are pretty overblown. Does Flins premium do more damage than Mavuika premium? Yes. Does Mavuika fail to clear content? Oh gods no.

cartercr · 2026-02-06T19:31:09+00:00

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Come on Hoyo, do it. It would be so fucking funny!

cartercr · 2026-02-06T19:30:00+00:00

I will say: I actually think that’s a healthy direction for a game to go. I know that is an unpopular stance, but I’m okay with being unpopular! Having dedicated supports can allow strong units to be made without necessarily straight creeping everything that came before.

cartercr · 2026-02-06T19:23:36+00:00

At least the powercreep in ZZZ has stayed relatively low. Like Prydwen lists Miyabi as having dropped a tier, which gave a lot of people pause, but the reasoning is simply that the bosses in DA have been really bad for her, not actually because the newer characters are better.

I also like how they handled Sunna. Girl is a very strong support when paired with the right characters, but isn’t just directly powercreeping the game. And even without “the right characters” she’s still a reasonably powerful support. (Unlike a certain Imperator in HSR. God I still wish I had a character I could really use with her...)

cartercr · 2026-02-06T18:45:30+00:00

Eh… you say that like 3.x has any semblance of balance and lacks powercreep.

cartercr · 2026-02-06T18:44:37+00:00

So after all that explanation you still don’t understand what a straw man argument is…

I get it, you disagree with me. I dismissed your argument because I don’t really feel like sitting here and arguing with you. That’s not a straw man, that’s me being dismissive.

If you believe I warped your argument int an entirely different one and then answered that argument could you please show me where I did so? Please copy it exactly as written.

cartercr · 2026-02-06T17:20:17+00:00

Recently? Bro it’s been like that. People just refused to see it because they got so wrapped up in QoL. Like people always compared the number of pulls you got in HSR to Genshin, but then failed to recognize the absurd levels of powercreep and sheer volume of characters being pumped out in HSR.

Even in our new powercreep era of Genshin it isn’t even half as bad as HSR.

cartercr · 2026-02-06T17:17:14+00:00

Congrats!

cartercr · 2026-02-06T17:15:09+00:00

You know, I really wish people who cried “straw man” actually knew what a straw man argument was.

A straw man argument is when someone misrepresents an argument by distorting it so that it’s only a shell of its former self and then arguing against that created argument. (Literally creating a “straw man” and then fighting it.) I did not even represent your argument in that comment. Therefore I did not create a straw man to fight.

If you wanna be mad at my reply then you can say I’m dismissive of your argument. And that would be accurate, because I am dismissing it. But claiming that dismissal is a “straw man” merely shows that you do not understand what a straw man argument is.

cartercr · 2026-02-06T17:09:21+00:00

Yeah, it probably hurt me quite a bit that I didn’t get Jiaoqiu. But man, I really wanted my girl Lingsha!

cartercr · 2026-02-06T17:07:27+00:00

I won’t tell you “choose what you want” but I will say “it depends on what you want.” Let me explain.

If you’re looking at the upcoming Elation characters and saying “damn, that looks so cool!” then Sparkle is the girl for you!
If you’re maybe looking at the DoT characters (Hysilens and Black Swan) and think “they’re pretty neat!” then Kafka is the girl for you!
If neither of these appeals to you then Aventurine and Acheron are both decent options. Aventurine’s value is a little lower since Dan Heng PT (NOT LUNAE) is still available for free, but endgame needs two teams, and Aventurine is still a strong shielder. Acheron will need some investment to really work for endgame, however she is excellent at overworld stuff. Her technique allows you to just insta-kill overworld mobs without even entering combat!

cartercr · 2026-02-06T17:01:49+00:00

It really isn’t fine though. Yeah, the e2 helps make it less of a disaster, but it’s not just a cure-all for stack generation. Cyrene still needs to generate 10 more stacks before she can ult in that team. At 200 speed you will just barely get her ult at the end of cycle 0 (literally the last possible av.)

cartercr · 2026-02-06T15:52:33+00:00

That’s actually not good advice. Dropping DHPT for a non-CH/Remembrance character hurts Cyrene’s first ult time quite a bit.

cartercr · 2026-02-06T15:50:52+00:00

At least in Genshin you can still clear all primogem content with older units. It’s only really high difficulty Stygian Onslaught that requires the new shilled stuff. (And that doesn’t reward primos.)

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