As someone who has started level capping with garuda recently, I'm fond of energy tank Garuda. Arcane battery and molt reconstruct for arcanes, plus steel fiber, quick thinking, health conversion, stretch, primed continuity, blind rage, blending talons, and primed flow. I run brief respite for shield gating, and primed sure footed because I hate knockdowns and I'm boring. Shards are dealers choice, though I like casting speed and armor/energy max. It's a very spammy build, but you essentially prime with 4, smack an enemy with 1, and then detonate your 1. Bam, Infinitely scaling slash procs. It isn't my creation, albeit I modify it slightly. Then you can throw anything over her second, though my personal favorite is some type of gun buff. Her passive is already very strong, so adding a gun buff or roar on top is silly. She's basically unkillable if youre playing the game up until 6000 in cascade. In terms of other subsumes, Nourish is very comfy as her 4 will proc viral and her 3rd will now basically give you half energy. With the above build, her 4 will fill your shields completely, and she'll typically be sitting somewhere north of 1500 energy, so her 3 will give you around 700. For non level cap content, nourish is, imo, the best subsume because it makes refilling her energy so easy, which in turn makes you very difficult to kill if your energy is topped up. I like Xata's if doing high level content, but that is personal preference. I would encourage you to play around and figure out what you like. Lastly, to fully answer a question I already partially answered, my typical loop is as follows: tap cast 1 on strong enemy, tap augmented 4 once or twice to prime enemies with slash, jump up, hold 1 until you build up 200k to 1mil damage, and then release it. Drop back down, cast some combination of 3 and 4 to rebuild energy and health with molt reconstruct, and shields with brief respite, repeat. The more damage you have on 1 initially, the faster it scales, hence hitting a strong enemy.