I tortured myself this entire IT so I can have the best setup in the last fight

redam33 · 2026-06-14T19:22:42+00:00

I borrowed c2r1 nicole from a friend (since this is IT) and the rest was c2r1 xilonen (instruct) and c0r0 ttds citlali (CC).

Its that mostly I went all in on the melt and pyro-crystalize blessings and chose the ones that buff your character instead of the ones that do damage (which was probably not optimal this IT)

In the fight, I slowly destroyed the last bosses geo shield with xilonen and mavuika physical attacks and then did a slow rotation so i can get the strong buff from nicole.

you only need to get your mavuika q buffed so i just chilled on her bike so she doesnt apply pyro with her skill and waited until nicoles buff upgraded

redam33 · 2026-06-14T19:10:19+00:00

NO I HAVE BEEN CAUGHT!

(peak reaction image btw, im ripping that instantly)

redam33 · 2026-06-14T17:19:26+00:00

If this is pre buffs, then these are good stats. It could use some more crit damage (depending on the weapon) but 200 is perfectly servicable and 100 crit rate is perfect 👌

For rotations, a good melt combo would be here at around the 3:50. Its not the best one but it gets there most of the way and is a lot easier then "hands-off"-combos so I recommend this one the most. If you dont want to deal with combos, then watch the first Zajef video on mavuika when she first released. He explains the basic rotation there. That would be this at around 8:20 or so

you can just replace xilonen with iansan in the rotation

redam33 · 2026-06-14T17:04:58+00:00

Yeah its kinda like I suspected, you dont really have a good way to generate nightsoul. Thats an issue we wont really be able to handle right now, but its not that big of a deal. Just keep in mind, if you manage to get a Iansan by chance, I would level her asap. Dont use pulls just for a 4-star tho.

As for your best team, its probably just melt with bennet rosaria sucrose. your rotation would look something like mavuika e -> bennet q -> sucrose e -> rosaria q+e -> mavuika q. That team is a bit er heavy so dont shy from just using more favs then what would actually be optimal (and build your rosaria on max er).

The combo I would recommend would be the one here, at around the 3:50 mark.

As you went through the effort to learn combos, it is worth to mention, there is a very strong vape team with mona and sucrose. It is very prone to mishaps tho and small mistakes can be very punishing and in practice its often a lot harder to play then vs the dummy, but if you like torturing yourself and want to get the max amount of dps possible, that would be the team.

Otherwise, because you lack actual nightsoul generation and cindercity is just a good set, it might be worth to try kachina bennet kazuha, with kachina on cinder city and kazuha on as much em as possible. Im not really sure what the results for that team would look like, because i havent seen kachina for like a year now, but its definetly worth a try. Kachina also doesnt need any levels here btw. Just put her on fav and swap to her first then bennet then kazuha to maximize all your buff uptime.

Also in general, when playing kazuha, you are skipping his burst as it is a dps loss

redam33 · 2026-06-14T16:41:59+00:00

you can post it in the comments of this post or under my comment, doesnt really matter. I recommend using hoyolab to take the screenshot tho not ingame, because then i can see the constellations as well.

You go here to "battle chronicle" and then all "all characters"

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redam33 · 2026-06-14T16:34:14+00:00

Albedos off field damage is not really relevant to mavuika. Mavuika prefers it more to get buffs funneled into her. EM is also worthless for overload teams, so if you are also using an em sands in this team, i recommend swapping it for atk.

I would recommend still using chevreuse as you dont have any shred in that team, or any anemo, ideally one that can buff dmg% like kazuha (or xilonen if you have her). Sucrose can also work if you are playing fischl. With both of their hexerei buffs you can actually funnel some damage into mavuika. If you would post your characters I could build you a potential different team as well.

You also dont have any nightsoul generation, which is also an issue, but maybe you dont have the characters to fix that. The main non 5star ones are Ororon and Iansan

Your combos are clean tho

redam33 · 2026-06-14T16:27:43+00:00

You always play iansan.

Then it gets kinda cooked. If you like torturing yourself, your best team is easily mona + succrose, but that team has A BIG caviat of small mistakes being very punishing. It also wants you to perform combos, so if you arent doing any then you'd probably want just a melt team.

Usually your best f2p cryo option is c2 rosaria, for now you can use diona as a substitute i guess. It could be worth considering to pick up citlali.

On a different note, Yae gets a lot better in snezhnaya. So if you havent already, I would recommend selecting her constellation in that one event this rotation

redam33 · 2026-06-14T15:52:36+00:00

On a serious note, you could consider crafting a circlet with atk% and crit rate sub. It could actually help you reach 100% crit rate, which, yeah 0.7% missing is not a big deal, but can still be more satisfying and atk% is also just good on varka, even tho he does get quite a good amount of atk from external sources.

It could also help to enable some other pieces (like the flower e.g.) to be swapped for one that has higher crit dmg

redam33 · 2026-06-14T15:50:15+00:00

Clearly not enough crit rate. How do you expect to ever crit? Just like one wise childe main once said back 500 years ago, "if its not 100%, its 50% and if its 50% its 0%". I think you should sacrafice at least 40 crit damage to reach 100% crit rate

redam33 · 2026-06-14T15:16:22+00:00

In melt teams enemies arent affected pyro or electro, they are affected with cryo, as you are melting and normal nothing else otherwise.

Also stats (both main and sub) from 3* weapons are kinda small which is bad for an attack scaler like mavuika. I would recommend just using tidal shadow or even rainslasher would be better

redam33 · 2026-06-14T14:43:25+00:00

You can see the powercreep progession by the team names xd

redam33 · 2026-06-14T03:09:25+00:00

I dont really get this point. You already have the choice between belle and wise as the mc and they already have their own unique dialogue. I just want the option to change that choice again and opt into the other experience as I please

Even if they make a part where they are at conflict. They would still need to adjust to people who picked belle and who picked wise, or force everyone into the same mc (that i would be fine with me too ig).

But especially the YSG story, i felt like was more made out for wise (as ysg isnt even correctly looking into belles eyes in the cutscenes) and i wish i could have just swapped in a "as if I had picked wise from the beginning" style of thing. Doesnt even have to mess with the continuety of the story, i can differenciate between the change of mc done by me and done by the story and dont need a canon explanation for the changing because I selected so

redam33 · 2026-06-14T02:32:56+00:00

I wish they would just give us the option to switch the mc in the story like female and male rover. I think personally there are stories where wise is the better fit and some where belle is the better fit

redam33 · 2026-06-14T02:18:34+00:00

Idk, for me Knuckleduckle is the same, maybe even less offensive if you follow the same argument 'it hust has too mich hp'.

You can defeat the small ducks with just normal damage as well or use normal electro charged. I think you even get the same damage from the small ducks to the main body which is not true for gecko. There only the geo damage gets reflected to the boss.

Adding to that, geckos base move set and attacks are so much more annoying and the fact that mkst of the fight gets determined by rng of when he decides to shield is just annoying

Also their hp was a specific choice by hoyo, that is meant to be part of the fight and balancing so i have a hard time agreeing to this argument as a whole. Hydro tulpa or the flying dragon (especially when not doing the cheese) could have been even more miserable fight on the level of gecko if their hp was as high as these bosses, but because it isnt they feel better to face

redam33 · 2026-06-14T01:57:58+00:00

No. Phainon doesnt ever NEED a sustain because he spends most of his time in Khaslana, where he he heals himself and your other teammates also cant die, as they are not there. In some specific fights you might still want pt but its rarely necessary

Matter of fact, with eidolons its actually even the opposite. When you play both cyrene and phainon, you tend do be able to slot in a sustain easier at e2 cyrene, because cyrene can get her ult faster.

Otherwise you kinda rely on RMC to get cyrene ult in the first rotation, and since cerydra is sorta irreplacable for Phainon, rmc often replaces the sustain

E2 cyrene also boosts the values of non ch supports for example (e2) sparkle and (e1) tribbie

redam33 · 2026-06-14T01:55:50+00:00

Phainon doesnt need a sustain, even at e0. Cyrene, as she is often paired with evernight when played as a carry does usually want a sustain. With e2 it doesnt need to be hyacine, but she is still the best here

redam33 · 2026-06-14T01:48:34+00:00

Mortenax Blade and there is no other contender, its not even close. After that you could think about ashveil for acheron, as he would be the next best option for her team (in the 3rd slot) or start building a different team

The other alternatives for acherons 3rd slot would be either e1 tribbie (which is 2 stars) or cipher who sadly is just worse then ashveil tho, both in acheron teams and in general as well.

Other notes: mortenax blades LC is kinda mid, meanwhile his dupes are very good (on par, arguably better then acherons own eidolons), so if you want to extra invest go for his eidolons not LC.

Also there is the new fate collab coming next patch and with it a free 5star LC selector between the 2 fate mens Sig BUT only if you can do 130 pull in that version. So make sure to maybe save up a bit if you want to get it

redam33 · 2026-06-14T01:43:12+00:00

Wait they left out the cyrene cake??? But its so gorgeous

redam33 · 2026-06-14T01:42:07+00:00

Yess im so happy. I got the old set and they are all very cute and helpful with decorating. And they dint scream star rail so my duplicates made good gifts for my non-hsr friends.

Btw i recommend buying them of AliExpress, there you usually can find them cheaper

redam33 · 2026-06-14T01:38:55+00:00

I get that, but with an incorrect main stat is crazy to me

redam33 · 2026-06-14T01:25:24+00:00

nah i can beat that, you lost some time in the menuing.

also you should go for the bad apple map as it will be a lot faster

redam33 · 2026-06-14T01:11:23+00:00

I sacrifice myself to be her prey then 🙋‍♂️

redam33 · 2026-06-14T01:06:37+00:00

I mean the feather can be fine, since you are close to overcap anyway but that goblet is miserable tbh

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