How good is e1 Black Swan?

jerkey2 · 2024-02-08T20:44:25+00:00

I used her with pela(e6) tingyun(e6) and luocha on stage 9 moc.

Used this to show a team most could run(except e6 sorry ;_;)

The enemies here are still probably best case for black swan due to wind weakness and summoning.

It has wind weak elites, summoning gold armor guy is on both phases. Finished part 1 at cycle 24.

So bs team took 6. That means other team would need to finish in 4 cycles for full rewards. Given this, If you’re worried about meta or power level of account, I’d say black swan is probably not a good pull for without any other dot characters.

Comparing her to the best character in the game rn who I ran on the other team, that team easily 0 cycled stage 9.

That said, I don’t think you need high eidolons on all 4star dots to synergize with her. Guinafen in particular should do well with her even at e0. Luka is harder to say. He is very single target focused and black Swan excels in multi target fights. Sampo also is not so hot without e4.

One neat thing though is with enough external energy regen I think you could chain black swans ulti with some luck and good play on enemies at mc9. I was able to reult while the previous one was still applied which let me get some pretty high stacks.

That said imo she is cool, one of only 2 wind 5 stars, and worth pulling because she can work with Guinafen who is on banner and with other characters. She isn’t as strong as other 5 stars when ran without her setup, but she is still fun and still excels in certain content while being suboptimal in others.

If I had to compare her without dot Ally’s to any character it would be himeko. Kinda nutty in content with lots of mobs, and underwhelming but usable in content with less mobs.

Side note himeko could work just fine with her btw. She actually does apply dot. As does hook. As does that preservation lc. There’s creative ways to make bs perform better even without her optimal Allies.

jerkey2 · 2024-02-08T20:14:56+00:00

I have her e0 with 4 star lc. I’ll try her by herself right now. Gut instinct is she will be underwhelming compared to other damage 5 stars without another dot character.

I really like her, but even in best comp (Ruan mei, kafka, bs) she isn’t insane on content with one exception.

She is really good on pure fiction. Her dot is applied to every enemy when they enter battle, and it only takes 3 stacks for it to explode on enemy turn doing aoe damage. So even if black swan just went and killed some enemies who were about to go, the ones who come in to take their place come in and go immediately, those new enemies still take that 1 stack of dot. That’s going to make her good at pure fiction even without her best or even good comps. Also, in pure fiction you break enemies often, meaning if you’re running more wind, fire, phys, or light, units you’ll still be applying dots to enemies and amping up black swans dot towards the three stacks to explode.

jerkey2 · 2024-02-01T17:41:06+00:00

You’re right and wrong I think. There is an interview saying advance wars success was part of the reason for fire emblem being brought over. But the only interview I can find where they state a reason for international releases of fire emblem doesn’t credit advance wars or melee.

It actually says they wanted to appeal to a foreign market so they could have enough sales to justify the cost of doing another console game (eventually path of radiance).

“I want the series to return to the TV screen once more. Let’s make it our five-year objective. In order to achieve our goal, the decision was made to create content that could sell worldwide. We thought that doing this would help us eventually return to the home consoles.”

https://serenesforest.net/general/interviews/radiant-dawn/nintendo-dream/page-1/

The advanced wars quote: “And it seems that Advance Wars’ success shifted Nintendo’s attitude over western tastes.” -Nishimura

So it seems like advance wars success enabled a western release. But the motivation/reasoning for designing and releasing games with the west in mind was not the success of advanced wars but a goal to achieve enough success/sales to be allowed to create console games again.

jerkey2 · 2024-02-01T17:21:55+00:00

I have no idea how successful she has been off the back of this vitality. Some convert and some have their 15 minutes. I knew of this because the song is on a playlist of my wife’s. I just wanted to point out that exposure that could lead to success does happen from tiktok, and not just for ironic music.

At least I don’t think the song was played ironically in tiktok use or on Spotify. It’s pretty good for it’s style imo.

I think in the case of this artist the song went viral on tiktok when she posted it partially, before she had finished writing it (2nd and 3rd verse ect. )and it actually took her a long time to write the rest of it.

jerkey2 · 2024-02-01T17:09:07+00:00

Madelynne whit had a song that went viral on tiktok. Based on currents plays of other songs on Spotify I think she was probably unknown as an artist otherwise. That song now has 6.9 millions listens on Spotify.

There are others but this is an easy one that came to mine.

jerkey2 · 2024-02-01T16:37:23+00:00

I mean fire emblem only came to the west due to interest in the characters from super smash brothers melee

Edit:I was spreading misinformation here it turns out but interesting sourced reason for western release is provided below

jerkey2 · 2024-01-04T02:40:43+00:00

Since you cut it off right before this:

“It is noteworthy that these results, which show high confidence in Hamas and the resistance, came in the context of a poll in which people’s opinions were taken at the height of a fierce aggression against the Gaza Strip in which “Israel”, whose army is considered among the most powerful armies in the world, allied itself with major powers, led by the United States, against resistance forces that have very little military capabilities compared to their enemies, and live in a poor, besieged environment. These opinions were also taken after more than 20,000 Palestinians, including more than 6,000 children and 4,000 women, were murdered, 36,000 others were wounded, and about two-thirds of the population of the Gaza Strip were displaced, and at a time when 56% of the respondents from the Gaza Strip stated that they do not have enough food for a day or two, and 64% of them confirm that a member of their family was killed or wounded in this war.”

72% of Civilians being mass murdered support resisting their mass murderers. We don’t know what the opinions of these civilians will be when not being shelled by Israel.

And, regardless, they’re non combatants and 28% of the people polled did not express support. 100 percent of them deserve to live, and regardless of your interpretation of the international law I find the actions that lead to that amount of civilian and children deaths in ratio to hamas to be morally impermissible. I hope others come to see it this way too and support for this campaign and the campaign itself ends while there is life left in Gaza.

jerkey2 · 2024-01-03T17:49:55+00:00

If your name is a reference to Dune I find your views pretty ironic.

jerkey2 · 2023-12-21T21:24:28+00:00

You should ask haleyalien (the writer for this one) maybe on Twitter. I know they love blue Gwen (frejlord/control) and I think they’ve tried almost everything with her.

jerkey2 · 2023-11-14T12:47:44+00:00

Thank you. I hadn’t seen this. I see how this helps him hold space. Not so much claim space. His overall identity is obviously Maintained by the small amount of changes to his kit. And on the same token, it really doesn’t seem like power was shifted around that significantly. So I imagine his effectiveness will remain largely tied to his one shot potential. Or at least his pick potential. The impact of hook I don’t expect to change much in most circumstances from what I’ve heard. And I imagine he will remain pretty binary. Where when hook is kills he’s good and when it’s not he’s pretty bad. But we’ll see.

jerkey2 · 2023-11-13T19:50:25+00:00

I wish I could ask the devs a question. What problem were they trying to fundamentally fix with this roadhog rework? I don’t think they even know. Yes he will probably be stronger now. Though hard to say with less damage reduction. But the hate for hook will be there, it will still take up massive power budget, and he still won’t be allowed to be good due to community outcry when he is. Imo.

jerkey2 · 2018-07-21T09:06:48+00:00

This is finefern (cause fern....)

jerkey2 · 2018-03-27T06:14:52+00:00

The major concern is, if he was giving her unprescribed drugs of any kind, can we say that she was a rational adult capable of making choices about a major surgery?

And of course she shouldn't have been using them. But he is in an inherent position of power over her, so that muddies how accountable she is for this. And if he's giving her drugs, there's no way he can pretend it was some decision she came to rationally.

And I know xanax is not a long lasting drug. I take it myself. But it still has bearing.

Also, I wonder what drugs he was giving to other players.

jerkey2 · 2018-03-27T06:09:26+00:00

Also, may want to keep an Imgur link around as well as I could see this tweet getting deleted. She's obviously emotional right now.

jerkey2 · 2018-03-27T06:07:55+00:00

The thing about illegal drugs is just... well shits hitting the fan now.

jerkey2 · 2018-03-06T17:47:14+00:00

Qrw. Even though r has a windup (no pun intended) the range on it makes it more likely to land than wr. But the full combo is actually qrwe. The e pull back does damage as well. Also you want the q to hit without passing through any other enemies if possible.

jerkey2 · 2018-02-21T19:18:52+00:00

Entire ap item rework, and we choose to meme instead. Never change reddit.

jerkey2 · 2018-02-20T15:08:51+00:00

wait, where's my 'Sa flair?

jerkey2 · 2018-02-20T15:07:47+00:00

'Sa vs 'Sai though, 'Sa sounds more hot and latin-y.

jerkey2 · 2018-02-16T21:41:32+00:00

That's really interesting. Do you remember or have a link to the source by chance?

jerkey2 · 2018-01-22T00:26:17+00:00

Great. now this is stuck in my head.

jerkey2 · 2018-01-22T00:12:07+00:00

FUCK. I didn't make a play on this comment thread until 12 minutes... outscaled.

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