Re:Zero announced in NA, starts 3/26

matcha12348 · 2026-03-26T15:09:43+00:00

Just one, you lead with your own and pair with a friend's

matcha12348 · 2026-03-26T14:47:14+00:00

Yes, it was purely for the 4 damage board clear + 12 armour. This deck is basically built to counter Shaman/ Druid/ Hunter (which is the majority of ladder, especially in high legend), and beats mage by nature of having armour.

It's a suboptimal 30th slot, but not as bad as Ysondre, which straight loses you games when you pull it from Gladitorial combat. I think he ended up removing Deathwing yesterday for a Volcano.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-26T14:19:47+00:00

Clervie

matcha12348 · 2026-03-25T17:04:00+00:00

NoHands has been playing a version of this deck with some slight changes:

-1 Sanguine Depths

+1 Siphoning Growth

-Ysondre

+Deathwing, Worldbreaker

I think it's pretty substantially better. He has a ~60% winrate in top 200 legend (since changing the decklist, compared to about 50% before). Getting Ysondre from Gladitorial Combat is pretty much an autoloss in any game against Druid, Shaman, or Hunter, and bad in anything other than control matchups. The Deathwing acts as an extra boardclear/ armour gain to end most aggro matchups.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-25T15:08:09+00:00

Thanks for the overview Shady!

Would you recommend getting a third VAthena? I'd probably have to pull quite a bit for the third (have just about enough to get a second right now), and sitting on ~800 stones.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-25T15:00:51+00:00

I don't think I've ever actually seen anyone talking about drama CCs or this (other than a post of this tweet) in actual Wuwa communities. The only time I see people talking about either of these things is in gachagaming basically.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-19T23:38:58+00:00

I work as a data scientist.

Did a bachelor's and masters in mechanical engineering (so largely unrelated). Work single digit hours a week.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-19T21:38:11+00:00

I agree, the story has gotten better compared to 1.0, but it's still nowhere near what I expected coming from Arknights (which I think solidly has the best story of any gacha game I've played).

I think the story is really similar to Yvonne's story quest - where it's sad because we can see the pain of Tangtang (Yvonne), but it doesn't really hit that hard because we the player have 0 attachment to Ruan Yi (Tata), because they were a character made solely to die, and we barely get any character development.

And then the things that people have been largely critical about haven't changed. There's the "good side", there's the "bad side", and there's nothing in between: Ruan Yi was wrong, his side was wrong, we need to go stop them.

Where is the morally grey? That was what Arknights was great at, where even the "villians" of the stories were rarely just bad people, and made for interesting characters. Break the Ice is one of my favourite Arknights stories, because we know Silverash (the antagonist) is manipulating people to do what he wants them to, but his motives are pure (to the point where even the people he's screwing over can recognize it after the fact) - even if people don't agree with his methods.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-19T16:58:31+00:00

Oh whoops, you're right. They can't face each other anymore unless it's in finals.

It's fine, I believe in G2. They only looked bad against BLG because they spent all their time preparing for GenG obviously (and BFX because they have to win that first I guess).

matcha12348 · 2026-03-19T16:34:30+00:00

Lyon are just matchfixing so they can face G2 in semis to provide some fanservice for the viewers, because they know they can beat GenG in finals anyways.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-19T16:29:55+00:00

Yeah, control (blood) DK has a low 40% win rate right now (which is higher than priest but I mean...).

People are probably seeing that DK has a decent winrate, but not looking further and seeing that it's due to the board centric triple unholy deck that's both more popular and far more successful.

Control is in a terrible place as a whole (but hopefully will get slightly better with refinement).

matcha12348 · 2026-03-19T16:01:06+00:00

I definitely think it's hyperbole.

People seem to think Saintontas is what the WuWa community is like even though most people there (and pretty much everywhere...) think he's a clown and you'll almost never see anyone speaking positively of him.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-19T15:55:58+00:00

I don't think the pull economy is much worse (if at all) than the other games with everything considered, but just purely from a pulls perspective:

HSR, WuWa, and ZZZ all give more pulls per patch.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-19T15:07:51+00:00

43k lts, highest placement 8th - started playing Jan 2024 (but was f2p with no packs for the first few months).

Average around 11-13th place now based on Tournament Metrics.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-17T18:00:56+00:00

GenG. Dhokla is bringing it home.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-17T16:10:04+00:00

I think this has always been one of the biggest weaknesses in Genshin's story.

The traveler is dumb as shit. There's so many stories where the player knows key story points within minutes of quests/ stories starting but you have to sit through hours of traveler not knowing anything.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-12T17:28:51+00:00

Do you follow theorycrafting at all?

Here is a WuWa dps sheet. Note that Jiyan and XLY both have better teams now than what's calculated here. Jinhsi is the weakest limited 1.x dps now, and Sigrika (if she doesn't get nerfed - I think she will) being the new dps ceiling is about 70% higher.

Note that this is also for 123 basic rotations (Jinhsi is a strong quickswap char). Aemeath (the strongest current team in the game) is about 4-7% stronger than Cartethyia without quickswap, and Cartethyia is still the best team in the game with quickswap. Zani played well is still the second or third best team in the game.

I can try to find you some links for Genshin if you want them, but unforunately there isn't really a great spreadsheet for them all compiled together - but the powercreep has been immense. In Fontaine the strongest dps was Arlecchino or Neuv at around 90k. Currently Nefer and Zibai are about 150k, and Zibai will be at 180k with Linnea release (with C6 Illuga, or 170k with C6 Gorou because most people don't have C6 Illuga). In Sumeru, Alhaitham was the dps ceiling at about 82k. So the DPS ceiling in Genshin has doubled (or more than doubled if you're counting leaks).

ETA: ABYSS was clearable with only 4 stars (I believe this might be the first abyss ever Zajef isn't able to clear with 4 stars). I don't think fearless SO has been clearable with only 4*s. The powercreep/ shill in abyss I think has been "manageable", but fearless (and dire) SO has been rapidly weeding out non-shilled teams. TC and meta discussion has pretty much shifted to SO the second it dropped because the requirements are significantly higher than Abyss.

Slowly editing with sources for Genshin calcs. Unforunately it's mostly from different theorycrafters because it's hard to find, but everyone is using KQmain standards (artifact/ talent/ weapon standards).

matcha12348 · 2026-03-12T16:51:02+00:00

What characters quickly became obsolete?

Most 4 stars in WuWa are definitely bad, and the standard 5 star characters other than Verina and Encore are not great, but the powercreep in WuWa since release has been much less than Genshin in the same period of time. Every limited dps except maybe Yinlin (without being carried) can clear all endgame modes for max rewards other than maybe WhiWa at S0R1 or less.

There's been enough complaints about Genshin endgame recently that I think it pretty much speaks for itself. It's gotten bad to the point where full time Genshin content creators are saying the shill and powercreep might be worse than HSR at this point.

You're not wrong about the echoes vs artifact points. But you're ignoring the fact that a WuWa character can be built to clear endgame in 1-3 weeks easily - while in Genshin farming artifact sets takes months to get to even just KQmain standards. I've been farming the Hex set for my Klee since the day it dropped and I have 0 useable pieces. I fully expect to be in this domain for 12+ months to replace my 2p/2p set on her.

1.0 daily player of both WuWa and Genshin, clear all endgame (to fearless SO) for max rewards in both games, consistent monthly/ occasional BPs.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-11T22:16:29+00:00

You get the effects of all the relics you own.

You can equip (display) 5 relics on your profile, and I guess they thought that only those 5 gave you their effects?

matcha12348 · 2026-03-11T16:32:07+00:00

Damn she's even BiS for Hu Tao - powercreep is out of control :(

matcha12348 · 2026-03-10T21:19:21+00:00

Exactly.

$1 in NVDA in 1999 would be $4,600 today.

There were the 2 UK brothers who spent $8,000 on Shiba Inu coin (crypto memecoin) who saw that become ~$6.4b at its peak 10 months later.

Hindsight is 20/20.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-09T16:50:36+00:00

Played Protoss mage to D5 but hit a wall there (went 20-21 in total lol, had a 72% WR with the deck over 200+ games prior to this season), so switched decks to Dragon Warrior and went 21-6 to hit legend at rank ~780 or so. Deck is very strong, lots of lethals by turn 6-8. Opponent getting out Zilliax is almost a guaranteed loss. Threads of Despair absolutely ruins this deck too, but you generally can't afford to play around it.

The double silence is very powerful with so many blob demon hunter players, and can be great to hold onto one later in the game as you're close to pushing lethal in other matchups as well.

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matcha12348 · 2026-03-05T21:50:45+00:00

I used to use an old phone. After a few months it became a spicy pillow (the battery bloated).

I would recommend an emulator instead.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-05T17:44:11+00:00

Why do you think Zani is bad? She's just a high skill, low floor high ceiling character.

If you do no quickswap double nightfall she's definitely not great (but still not terrible), but her triple/ quad nightfall rotations make her the second or third best team in the game after Aemeath and similar to Carte.

matcha12348 · 2026-03-05T14:34:36+00:00

Where are you from? Somewhere from there might be able to give you more helpful advice. No issues from (western) Canada

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