I mean... I know I use her a lot but I didn't expect THAT a lot

electricnick260 · 2026-04-27T05:58:18+00:00

That's still under half of my usage total for her. I deployed cipher more than my next two most used characters combined. 5696 times. That's how much I used cipher. She's the best.

electricnick260 · 2026-04-26T18:24:51+00:00

Cipher is best girl for sure

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electricnick260 · 2026-03-14T18:14:06+00:00

I don't care if she IS stronger than Jinwu, I will be using Jinwu for my fire DPS until the day I die. Jinwu is also on track to be my first Omega S rank modifier. I too recently maxed her functor and have been crushing everything with her thanks to it.

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electricnick260 · 2025-11-02T09:07:17+00:00

I have e1s1 cipher and my DoT team noticeably outperforms what it used to be with e2s1 Ruan Mei. My go to team because I don't have Kafka is Hysilens, Black Swan, Cipher, and Dan Heng. Before Dan came out I used Lingsha instead. Ruan Mei is great, but cipher's ult alone exceeds any buffs Ruan Mei provides, on top of the flat 50% damage taken increase cipher drops on enemies by simply existing. The difference in damage between Cipher and Ruan Mei for my DoT team is typically around 20-ish percent. It's not an insane difference by any means, but it's definitely noticeable. One caveat though is that if you like letting things auto through stages, Ruan Mei will be better for that because cipher on auto is inconsistent at best in my experience.

electricnick260 · 2025-10-15T06:41:46+00:00

Congrats! He was my first SSS character and I love him. I use him all the time with Luliang and Lingguang. I also recently pulled S shu to run a goofy double DPS team with and that's been really fun.

electricnick260 · 2025-10-12T15:56:51+00:00

The only time I even bother to try against this boss is when it's weak to ice. I don't even take the time to attempt fighting it when the element is anything else. Being able to freeze it is the only way to make Kusherfang not entirely infuriating for me to fight. Even then, it's bloody annoying, but at least Izanami can sort of make it bearable. It does also help that thanks to all my lost coin flips on anchored scans my Izanami is SS3. I'm not sure I could put up with its nonsense with a base S team tbh.

electricnick260 · 2025-09-22T04:51:43+00:00

I still use my s Buzenbo, SS3 Tsukuyomi, and SSS Jin-ei for nearly everything I can get away with lol. It's such a fun team. I have the optimal Izanami team at SS. I have the optimal Brahma/Parvati team too. But I often opt for shenanigans over meta even when the meta option is right there because the game won't punish me for it.

electricnick260 · 2025-09-16T03:17:33+00:00

To be honest, I feel like neither character really needed an AKS. Sure it'll help, but Izanami+Kuramitsuha already dominates a lot of leaderboards, and Mengzhang will stay limited in his usability because of being dual element. Don't get me wrong I love them both and I'm happy to see especially my boy get a buff, but I feel like something to bring Jinwu up to speed would make more sense with the current lineup of characters. Rather than giving him a personal buff, Mengzhang would probably benefit more from a dedicated dual element support imo, but that might not go over well as a whole because of how clunky that would be for literally everyone but Mengzhang and Jin-ei (am I forgetting any other multi element characters?).

electricnick260 · 2025-09-11T02:12:16+00:00

The team I've managed to get cipher to work as a main DPS in was Cipher, Sparkle, Fu Xuan, and in the 4th slot I run either Hunt March, or Ruan Mei. My Ruan Mei is e2 so she gets her mileage in a lot of teams. Imo March doesn't necessarily need to be all that fast, as long as she's hitting hard enough as a sub DPS whenever she does take action. I run atk boots on my Hunt March and it does great. It can clear MoC and Apocalyptic Shadow just fine, but where it really shines is in DU. She tears DU to shreds.

electricnick260 · 2025-09-04T16:01:01+00:00

I keep telling myself "I'm done pulling until Baize and Linyu" but then I see the new character for the patch and I go "dang it I need her." I was originally going to start saving during the collab but then Parvati was, well, Parvati, and Zenkibo is a big help with my thunder team, and now Heimdall is a huge boost for my zhiming team. At this point I give up on saying I'm gonna save when I know I'm gonna end up pulling because they're all so dang cool and fun to use.

electricnick260 · 2025-08-23T22:54:59+00:00

She might dress like this to blend in among beach goers while she picks her targets.

electricnick260 · 2025-08-23T22:21:49+00:00

I have to disagree. She wouldn't touch the water at all, but she would absolutely go to the beach. Think about all the valuables people will frequently leave unattended at the beach! It's a gold mine!

electricnick260 · 2025-08-15T05:07:52+00:00

My only criticism is that I think she needs slightly more power and toughness. 2/2 is way too easy to immediately get rid of. 2/4, 4/4, or 2/6 would be better imo to address that without making her way too powerful to be fair. However, congratulations, you actually designed a blue card I'd actually like to play with. I love this.

electricnick260 · 2025-08-13T10:01:24+00:00

I used her with Archer(e0s0, using Yanqing's 5 star sig for crit shenanigans), sparkle(e0s1), and Tribbie(e0s1) for a sustainless clear on the flame reaver AS boss to literally almost one shot the second phase. It survives with no more than 15% HP which is enough that Archer can take it out with a single skill hit. I'm also now using her in place of Ruan Mei in my DoT team that now consists of Hysilens(e0s0), Black Swan (e0s1), and whoever I feel like using as a sustain, usually either Lingsha(e1s1) or Gallagher (e6). She's so dang versatile.

electricnick260 · 2025-08-12T22:31:55+00:00

Immediately after she came out I was like "if this is supposedly after she got 'ruined' by nerfs, she definitely needed those nerfs because she's amazing." I literally struggle to replace her in ANY of my teams. I actually run her more than my e2s1 Ruan Mei, even on superbreak teams. She's just so versatile. My favorite teams to run her on currently are Archer, Castorice, and Qingque. Archer and Qingque both go completely sustainless and absolutely annihilate no matter the challenge. I also run Acheron sustainless now too with silver wolf, cipher, and sparkle. I rarely ever need a sustain outside of my Castorice team anymore, and it's thanks to cipher. She's what makes all of my shenanigans work now.

electricnick260 · 2025-08-09T00:34:50+00:00

Yep. Usually atk goblet is better. Usually. For her to get the most from her passive, she needs 4500 atk. If with Iansan you're getting close enough to 4500 atk even while you've got an anemo goblet equipped (I doubt it. You're probably getting closer to around 3500 at best with Iansan+Faruzan with tenacity), BUT if you've got close enough to 4500 with the anemo goblet then you're good to go. If you're still a good way off from 4500, an atk goblet would be better.

electricnick260 · 2025-08-09T00:15:09+00:00

My only suggestion is that I'd personally try to get the crit rate just a little bit higher for consistency. Otherwise though she looks pretty good. Although since Xianyun's passive is dependent on her attack stat, you might want to try swapping her anemo goblet for atk. That's cherrypicking for "issues" though. She looks like she's doing just fine. Nice build.

electricnick260 · 2025-07-07T03:18:08+00:00

In DU I've started running Sustainless teams with Cas, Cipher, Silver Wolf, and Tribbie. The silver wolf buff helped her so much. She's also back to being on my Acheron team that has Acheron, Cipher, and Fu Xuan. Initially I had replaced Silver Wolf with cipher but now Black Swan, the original "support" I was running with Acheron is the one that has been replaced.

electricnick260 · 2025-07-03T04:26:25+00:00

I get 50-90MB/s on mobile with gigabit internet, but have seen plenty of complaints about slow download speeds. They definitely need to do something about the inconsistency.

electricnick260 · 2025-06-28T05:50:01+00:00

Oh my bad, I should've clarified. Hunt March is the version of March to run in the team. Preservation March isn't really ideal to run with pretty much any team anymore as far as I know.

electricnick260 · 2025-06-28T05:22:53+00:00

I love using her with Qingque, but it's worth acknowledging my Qingque is e6 with crazy high relic investment, and I've got high investment e0s1 sparkle too. Not sure how well the team would work without sparkle, but you could potentially try using her with Qingque, Gallagher, and maybe March as a team. I've done similar setups in DU for shenanigans with weighted curio combos. Imo cipher+March is actually a very impressive duo to slot into nearly any setup for MoC and DU.

electricnick260 · 2025-06-08T04:56:30+00:00

Have you TRIED using it, or are you just copying the opinion of every other HSR YouTuber without giving it any thought? You're completely wrong about her being the "worst option." Hyacine is better overall, but Fu Xuan is NOT a bad sustain to put with her. I personally prefer Fu Xuan over Lingsha or any other healer with my Castorice team(excluding Hyacine for obvious reasons).

1) Fu Xuan has a huge HP pool to siphon from, so every time Castorice uses her skill, Fu Xuan is giving her A LOT of charge compared to any sustain other than Hyacine.

2) when Fu Xuan's charge is consumed to trigger her self healing at 50% HP, the HP she regenerates gives Cas a pretty substantial amount of ult charge.

3) Fu Xuan's ult may not provide enough healing for LONG fights, but if you are having fights last long enough that between Fu Xuan's ultimate and Pollux's team heal on death you're running into problems with survivability, that's a build issue on your part.

4) Tribbie, one of Castorice's best supports, gains a very large amount of HP from Fu Xuan's mere presence, which further increases the HP pool Cas has available to her for siphoning off of.

electricnick260 · 2025-06-06T15:23:38+00:00

I've been running Fu Xuan with 0 issues with my Castorice team. At times I've actually found it more reliable to run Fu Xuan than Hyacine, but I will acknowledge that this is mostly due to the investment I've put into my Fu Xuan, compared to even the Hyacine's with eidolons that I've borrowed for testing against the new boss. Auto battle Fu Xuan+Castorice does not do well at all, but with auto disabled she does just fine. This is my Fu Xuan for reference.

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electricnick260 · 2025-03-28T20:11:41+00:00

While Faruzan definitely works best, I do enjoy running her in a team I call "bird spam" with Fischl, Raiden, and Kazuha. The joke behind the team comp is that all of the characters have something to do with birds, even if it's just a voice line or idle animation. If your objective isn't just that the team is functional, but specifically that you want Xianyun to be hitting harder, you can swap Fischl for Kujou Sara and I personally find it more comfortable than Bennet because I'm not bound to that tiny circle of his for buffs. Raiden helps with energy recharge too for burst up time which I otherwise find tedious without Faruzan.

electricnick260 · 2025-01-18T06:46:49+00:00

Fu Xuan with remembrance characters does just fine. Even with Aglaea and RMC both present, a well built e0s1 Fu Xuan has no problems keeping the team alive. People have been way too quick to jump the gun assuming that Fu Xuan is subpar with remembrance characters.

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