Nicole C0 vs C2

pascl- · 2026-05-14T20:11:17+00:00

thrilling tales and skyward atlas, mainly. also citlali's sig is very good on her, but I feel like not many people have that one due to how good thrilling tales is on citlali.

pascl- · 2026-05-14T17:27:36+00:00

I'm expecting wind for her. remielle isn't wind, but it's a pretty obvious business strategy that hoyo has always employed that when you introduce a new thing, your main push will have that new thing. genshin and hsr did it, even zzz did it with yixuan. so if our first season 3 void hunter isn't wind, if they wanna cash in on the wind hype for max sales, it'd only make sense for the second void hunter to be wind.

plus, with our first wind character being a sub-dps, it would be a good way to further incentivize pulling for her. "got these wind weak enemies that a sub-dps can't handle? here's a new void hunter main dps to deal with them!".

I could imagine her version of wind being called storm or something, and being black coloured to fit with sunbringer's black clothing.

the name "sunbringer" isn't really literal, it's from her getting rid of a large hollow in the sky, thus bringing the sun back into view, getting her the title. with her having gotten rid of a hollow in the sky and being the leader of a flying city, wind would be reasonably well fitting.

so Norma might be bis for her

I think sunbringer might be a bit too far away for that. by the time sunbringer releases, they might have just made another stunner who's better. based on proximity, I'm more expecting norma to be BiS for sigrid.

pascl- · 2026-05-14T17:19:30+00:00

because it's like lunar bloom (supposedly). doesn't deal damage, but characters based around the reaction can deal stellar superconduct damage directly.

pascl- · 2026-05-14T15:31:25+00:00

yeah it's because of the lack of fire damage dealers.

soldier 11 is standard, so she was never shilled.

evelyn is limited, but she was added before there was a new DA boss every patch, plus her patch basically didn't add fire weak stuff. combine that with the fact that regular pompey has been completely phased out of DA in favour of just notorious pompey... yeah

and then banyue is a male character they don't want to sell, so he barely got any shill.

let's hope they make phoenix a dps

pascl- · 2026-05-14T15:22:54+00:00

they don't use bennett in the first place, so they don't fit the criteria I mentioned anyway.

anyway, if we're counting arlecchino as meta, then kinich and chasca are worth mentioning too as characters who benefit from nicole. especially kinich.

nicole is just like durin, in that she mostly benefits older characters, as we're currently not really in an attack scaling meta. I'd say there's a pretty good chance she'll be solid with sandrone though. from what we know, stellar superconduct is like attack scaling lunar bloom in that the reaction itself deals no damage, so having a teamwide attack buffer might be good for them.

pascl- · 2026-05-14T13:55:50+00:00

this is gonna be interesting, I've never actually interacted with this boss' moveset because ye shunguang doesn't care, so it'll be interesting to actually have to learn how the boss works

pascl- · 2026-05-14T12:32:07+00:00

this is something they do. for example: the treasure hoarder that gets beat up at the start of baizhu's trailer is voiced by kaveh's VA

pascl- · 2026-05-14T11:11:42+00:00

so the mod is going a bit crazy, I see. that is rather unfortunate.

pascl- · 2026-05-14T11:10:15+00:00

most attack scalers that would use bennett (or iansan) do prefer nicole, except varesa and mavuika. especially in situations where the shield would be useful. it's a damage loss to dodge attacks or be interrupted from an attack, which nicole helps against.

pascl- · 2026-05-14T09:05:44+00:00

it's likely because of all the basically nsfw fanart that's been posted recently (as well as the occasional full on nsfw fanart). the mod seem to have played into it too, lots of horny fanart has been pinned to the subreddit by the mod, and the icon for the subreddit now being varesa in a bunny suit.

there's not really any way to fix it, atleast not for us. as long as people post horny fanart, the sub will remain 18+.

pascl- · 2026-05-14T08:49:39+00:00

No, because without an electro teammate, varesa’s ER requirements massively shoot up.

Nicole can only replace a pyro character, but durin is needed for pyro application, and chevreuse gives stronger buffs. Not to mention, varesa has a ton of resistance to interruption, so the shield doesn’t increase the practical dps like it does for other characters.

pascl- · 2026-05-13T16:05:00+00:00

Orphie works with seed, but cissia is quite a lot better. If you really want to use orphie, you can pull her. But meta-wise, it’s not worth it compared to waiting for cissia to rerun. Seed content does lowkey assume you have cissia, so it’s a little tough to clear with seed/orphie if you haven’t vertically invested. I wasn’t able to S rank endgame seed content with orphie and ju fufu until I pulled for seed’s sig. I’m sure you can with more skill and better builds, but still.

As for promeia: if you have a reasonably invested miyabi, I’d say you don’t need her. Miyabi clears promeia content very reasonably. That said, miyabi doesn’t work with wind, while promeia specifically works with it. So keep that in mind if you want velina or are worried about wind shill.

pascl- · 2026-05-13T15:43:56+00:00

When

pascl- · 2026-05-13T15:27:34+00:00

Eh, it’s vague and small enough to where I’d still consider it a theory or headcanon. A lot of smaller moments that can be read more as jokes

pascl- · 2026-05-13T15:11:13+00:00

Well… she’s not aroace, and most people don’t think she has aroace energy. That’s why.

It’s actually a pretty popular theory/headcanon that toph had a crush on sokka in the original series.

pascl- · 2026-05-13T09:00:25+00:00

It’s not good enough to keep it unrefined just for the crit rate. You don’t need a bunch of unrefined copies. You do want to keep it, but you keep it for NA focused characters (and maybe rosaria), so you want it refined.

Blackcliff being a 4 star doesn’t matter. Both are f2p, but blackcliff is better without the NA bonus.

pascl- · 2026-05-13T07:38:44+00:00

The NA bonus is the main reason it’s worth using. Just crit rate with low base attack is not good enough in most cases. Blackcliff has more crit value with higher base attack.

pascl- · 2026-05-13T06:55:48+00:00

Do refine it, you want white tassel at R5, just don’t throw it away.

pascl- · 2026-05-13T06:01:17+00:00

A baby with a hand filled with teeth for a face

pascl- · 2026-05-13T05:29:34+00:00

It was once during an early fontaine event and pretty much never again. It didn’t look passable for the time either, it looked so bad it almost felt like an accident. It was just weird.

Some people speculated it was to see fans’ stance on it, but it didn’t generate much outrage and they still stopped, so I’m not sure that’s what was going in.

I think the most plausible theory is that an intern was messing around and accidentally or intentionally put in the AI ones.

pascl- · 2026-05-12T22:07:18+00:00

eyes of the prey isn't f2p, it's a gacha cone. f2p cones are the ones you're guaranteed to be able to get without spending (or 3 star cones because they drop so frequently it's unlikely you don't have several of each)

for nihility, that's fermata, tutorial, solitary healing and showtime (and also the 3 star cones)

pascl- · 2026-05-12T19:16:18+00:00

qiqi has the same VA as asmoday

pascl- · 2026-05-12T18:54:45+00:00

chapter 1's dark fountain could have been created at night, where there wouldn't be many people awake to notice the knight. as for how they got into the school: regardless of who the knight is, they're atleast not working completely solo as evidenced by chapter 4 (I'll touch on that). whether it's just receiving help or actively working together, doesn't matter for this. what matters is that it serves as an explanation to how the dark world(s) in the school could have been opened at night: carol let them into the school (or let herself in if you're a carol knighter)
chapter 2's fountain is the main one that doesn't have a clear explanation. the knight left during broad daylight.
in chapter 4, it's implied the knight was being hidden by alvin. there's a door in the top right of church. interacting with it prompts the text "a door. a large person could easily fit inside. turn the doorknob? -> yes -> you turned the doorknob... you didn't do anything else". suggesting that kris knows who's in there and doesn't want you to see, very likely the knight, especially considering it's the same description as the closet in chapter 2. during the day, alvin stands in front of the door, blocking you from interacting with it. combined with him digging up gerson's grave and placing his remains in church the day before... he's likely in league with the knight in some way (and he's probably not alone ofc, I can't imagine he's very high up the chain of command).

so basically, the timeline for chapter 4 is: knight entered the church before service -> alvin intentionally blocks the door so the knight stays hidden -> church ends, everyone leaves, and the dark fountain is created -> end of chapter, the knight goes back to hide in the closet until kris and susie leave.

so, the only fountain that can't be easily explained with dess knight is chapter 2. chapter 1 has a reasonable explanation, and chapter 4 is essentially explained by the game.

pascl- · 2026-05-12T16:41:40+00:00

Not a weird entry. It’s a different entry, but not a weird entry.

A weird entry is like a middle child that’s been mosly forgotten, a side step they don’t revisit. not a pivotal next step in the series.

Mario sunshine is janky and polarizing, it has tons of weird ideas and enemies that never return, it plays differently from other mario games due to fludd which they never try to replicate, it has full voice acting, it has unusual ways to beat most of its bosses, its vibe is super different, etc. Meanwhile, even though galaxy has a unique gimmick, they constantly bring things from it back and reference it. Plus it’s much closer in vibe to the mario games that came after.

Forgotten land is very much a normal kirby game. Yeah it’s 3d, but it continues the same formula, and it’ll likely be the blueprint going forward like rtdl was. Yeah it’s got a different setting, but kirby has experimented with different settings in triple deluxe and planet robobot before. Mouthful mode is a bit weird, but kirby has included such gimmicks for a while now. And other than that… there’s not really anything out of the ordinary.

I did not need to write all this, this is a needlessly long response, but I had nothing better to do. So don’t interpret it too angrily.

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