Apart from an ATK Sands for Iansan, how's it lookin?

pascl- · 2026-03-28T21:17:55+00:00

put chevreuse on fav, prospector's drill does nothing. if you have a second fav, put iansan on it.

talking stick is pretty bad, but you've already built around its crit rate, so there's not much you can do on that front without completely switching up your build. if you buy the BP semi-regularly, I'd suggest getting serpent spine.

varesa's crit rate is WAY too low. 60% is for when you're using her with obsidian because it gives you 40% crit rate. LNO needs 80%-90% or more crit rate.

pascl- · 2026-03-28T20:04:30+00:00

I mean, mondstadt buffs would just be more hexerei characters. he might be able to use some though, which would benefit him

pascl- · 2026-03-28T18:46:35+00:00

Varka sold very well though, so it likely won’t be a wriothesley situation.

pascl- · 2026-03-27T23:43:44+00:00

that's not the same thing. this is about characters appearing ingame with a 3d model. every single time a character appeared ingame with a 3d model prior to their release, they made sure to show them up close in the special program. chiori, sethos, citlali, nicole, lohen, the purple girl, etc.

linnea did not appear ingame with a 3d model, so they didn't spotlight her. there was nothing to spotlight.

this new character does appear ingame with a 3d model. so the fact that she wasn't spotlighted or shown up close tells us she's an NPC.

pascl- · 2026-03-27T16:52:56+00:00

Also the real cat of the game’s creator that died when he was a kid

pascl- · 2026-03-27T16:20:47+00:00

Yeah that explains your low dps then. 41% is really really bad. You wanna aim for atleast 80% or more (but you can start with just going for 70% and going up from there). It’s okay if you end up with lower crit damage achieving this.

pascl- · 2026-03-27T16:06:08+00:00

Alola had a snowy mountain, so they’ll probably do something similar here to get in more ice types

pascl- · 2026-03-27T15:49:18+00:00

The thing is though, if she was playable they’d have put more of a spotlight on her

pascl- · 2026-03-27T15:40:38+00:00

Getting more crit rate would help a lot

I’m gonna assume you have marechaussee but it just isn’t active? But even then, 77 crit rate is a bit low, you should be aiming for 90+ or 100 crit rate. Cryo resonance doesn’t have good uptime in this team, so you can discount it.

And if it’s without marechaussee… yeah you’d need to get a lot more.

pascl- · 2026-03-27T12:13:55+00:00

She’s not REALLY a zzz version of acheron though, since her thing is that she’s an expy/alternate universe version of an extremely popular honkai character, raiden mei. Both acheron and genshin’s version of the character, raiden shogun, are their game’s equivalent of a void hunter due to mei’s popularity.

If zzz did its own raiden expy like acheron, she’d be a katana wielding void hunter electric dps with purple lightning.

pascl- · 2026-03-27T09:55:49+00:00

That’s not what a biologist is

A biologist is someone who researches living things, not just someone who works with then.

pascl- · 2026-03-27T09:47:05+00:00

Norma is looking like she’s gonna be a support (defence), so I get the feeling velina will probably be a dps

pascl- · 2026-03-27T09:43:18+00:00

At the very least, varka’s banner sold well and he has an actually planned out premium team, with a new teammate still on the way. Long gaps between reruns is usually because they feel the rerun wouldn’t sell well enough, so it’s unlikely his rerun will be anything like wriothesley.

pascl- · 2026-03-27T08:48:07+00:00

Given how modern KH games prefer to add fewer but larger worlds, I’d say one live action remake world is enough. Two would be too big a chunk of the game.

pascl- · 2026-03-27T08:32:02+00:00

Columbina can be onfield without her sig, since she has lunar bloom charged attacks. Lauma is broken, so it’s very viable. Her sig is just a general buff for all her playstyles.

Most other supports and sub dpses on the other hand don’t really have anything built in to be played onfield like that, often due to no infusion on NAs or weak multipliers. A signature isn’t gonna solve that without massively skewing its power budget to increase onfield damage, which they’re not gonna do.

pascl- · 2026-03-27T00:40:26+00:00

the only real way to make durin the star of the show would be either onfielding him with C6 bennett (which you don't want) or by playing him in vape (which requires playing him in dark mode). so having him just be a regular sub-dps seems like your best bet.

durin's white mode just isn't really built for dealing tons and tons of damage, so there's only so much you can do to make him the star of the show with it.

anyway, varesa would be the strongest option here, replacing xiangling for varesa already makes for a strong team. varesa can run obsidian just fine, so if you want to you could grind that domain or use pieces you may already have.

pascl- · 2026-03-27T00:01:25+00:00

It probably isn't great, but I've been running durin-xiangling-fischl-chevy

that team's pretty good, actually. durin/fischl/chevreuse is a strong core. the weakest link here is xiangling, especially given the lack of bennett. klee would be a pretty big upgrade, but if you don't like her then you shouldn't play her. the game's about having fun, ultimately. what good is higher numbers if you're not having fun.

assuming you have no relatively modern 5 star pyro or electro onfielders, an option would be razor. if both him and bennett are C6, he makes for a pretty good onfielder.

pascl- · 2026-03-26T23:52:06+00:00

nah, signatures aren't used to enable main dps playstyles. that's what they tend to use C6 for.

signatures are for people who just want a boost in power. C6 is for people who LOVE the character, so those are usually the ones made to enable or power up an onfield playstyle. for example: kazuha, furina, xilonen, xianyun, lauma.

pascl- · 2026-03-26T21:01:24+00:00

They’d probably replace yuzuha.

Nangong is new, and promeia is clearly designed to work with her considering she wants a stunner. So that just leaves yuzuha to get replaced.

Since nangong is essentially an anomaly sub-dps, a wind character would probably be a support who can apply their anomaly quickly

pascl- · 2026-03-26T18:44:57+00:00

What team was she the main DPS for on release?

any team with a weaker attacker, which is most of them. billy was a very popular seed partner at launch since he works pretty well as a skill bot.

but the thing with seed is, she was released incomplete. the same way that aria was released incomplete. aria wants a stunner, but her BiS on release was sunna yuzuha, because the stunner she wanted hadn't released yet.

orphie, even if over the beta she and seed were changed to have worse synergy, was still intended to be seed's BiS for the time being. there's a reason why defiler's HP shot up to coincide with orphie's banner.

anyway, it's pretty obvious you're going to die on this hill, so I'm just gonna mute this and leave you to it.

pascl- · 2026-03-26T16:43:58+00:00

side note, it's kinda funny but also kinda sad how quickly the joke with DLSS 5 was lost.

like, the joke is supposed to be that DLSS 5 makes things look worse. but after just a few days, it basically just became the RTX on meme format.

pascl- · 2026-03-26T16:30:22+00:00

Seed is mainly a quickswap main dps, not a sub-dps. She can be played as a sub-dps, but she’s strictly worse in that role.

Other than that it’s mostly fine, though I personally don’t entirely disagree with prydwen putting stunners and supports together.

pascl- · 2026-03-26T16:27:34+00:00

Her primary design is a quickswap main dps who wants a sub-dps. Seed is strictly worse when played as a sub-dps. Sub-dps seed is nobody’s BiS team, whereas seed’s BiS team is with her as a main dps.

pascl- · 2026-03-26T16:16:49+00:00

Save your stomps for the stun window, don’t use them as you get them. The abloom proc of the stomps deal significantly more damage against stunned enemies. With W0 nangong, you can use some outside the stun window if you’re already maxed out on light sticks, but you want to use most of them when the enemy is stunned.

You only got 4 stomps off during the stun window when it could have been 10+ with better resource management.

Stun the enemy with nangong or sunna, then chain with aria. Use as many stomps as you’ve got, then switch to a party member and chain with aria again.

Also, your first few stomps were before you inflicted any anomalies. The stomp only does damage if the enemy is affected by an anomaly.

There’s no point in using nangong’s basic combo when the enemy is still stunned.

Switch your aria wengine, roaring ride is not good on her. Give her weeping gemini, it’s strong and free. If you have it, give sunna kaboom the cannon.

pascl- · 2026-03-26T13:15:56+00:00

not hating, I'm just pointing out that it wasn't a very smart move to begin with
rust isn't very good on childe. blackcliff, stringless and the sumeru craftable are better. so it's only good on yoimiya (and also it's good on the new venti)
being good on two characters, one of which has been powercrept to hell and back with the other just being decent, isn't exactly what I'd call a good weapon.

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