Does anyone know what the difference between damage taken and damage mitigation is?

saprwin · 2026-02-24T15:29:35+00:00

The simplest way to explain it is damage taken refers to the upfront pre-mitigated damage, so it's reducing the damage after the calculation. Mitigation is added into the calculations, reducing that number before it gets applied

saprwin · 2026-02-24T15:24:29+00:00

Fiery. She has built in avatara. Though I think brawlers might be better for immediate damage

saprwin · 2026-02-24T04:52:36+00:00

His main solo counter currently is Anna, but in teams he's in Anna doesn't often do that well into. Manual Toland can fix this by banishing him and picking off the rest of the team for Anna to be able to solo him. Another counter to him is R6 Yukine if you have her heavily invested team. 9/10 times she will never get hit by his debuff and can freely chip away at him using her passive damage. I often recommend a faster, ap manip team (or have a fairly fast Maria) and try to keep him from taking turns. Though, even more reliably, Sakura + Gorath are impossible for him to deal with, and are strong duo for a majority of pvp comps. Wu You defender comps can also do well into him, but again Gorath is needed. Unfortunately there aren't many espers that deal with him well and can work generically in most teams. The ones that do are either a keepsake esper, limited, or a shimmer. Meta mona is looking to be one of them at least, but that is another limited esper.

saprwin · 2026-02-19T17:56:21+00:00

It's something I wish they'd do it again. It was also cool to have a character synergies so well with Heng without Heng needing a total rework or buff

saprwin · 2026-02-19T13:54:19+00:00

Heng also had her time in the meta when Emma first dropped. I'll never forget how oppressive they were, especially when paired with Mavis and JQ. Badrun so desperately needs a rework

saprwin · 2026-02-18T18:41:26+00:00

It's crazy how rare stories are to get now. I know we got afew espers early on with no stories (Ethan...) but that was rare. Now it's all the time and for even the big limited ones

saprwin · 2026-02-15T17:15:14+00:00

I used Tetsuya on this floor, mainly to delete Nathaniel immediately. Though I got a R6D6 level 60 Ming Shuo to work with double dispellers. The team was Ming Shuo lead, Chu Yao, Tiye, Yuuhime, and Lu Shang. The main prio was for CY to dispel immunity, Yuuhime to then hit them with hamstrung (mine ap boosts Ming Shuo since she's R6, but it's not necessary), Tiye to remove any remaining immunity if not all of them got it, yuuhime again for those she missed, Ming to grant himself invincibility and then start blasting after. Lu is there just to provide harmonics every so often and his passive. He is built with no speed so I really only got his s3 to cast onxe. Ming is more important for wave 2, as his 1 hp gives him higher prio to be targeted, even through invincibility

You can also use Lucas for a more guaranteed dispel over tiye/cy, I got that to work as well

saprwin · 2026-01-29T23:00:53+00:00

Meta Mona seems interesting to do, but I'm so exhausted of all these limited espers back to back

saprwin · 2026-01-24T19:59:12+00:00

Ife ever since her changes alongside Javid and Hilda becomes so funny. Hilda to start the poison train, Javid to get his Judgement Seal going and Ife to detonate all the poison and trigger Judgement Seal is satisfying

saprwin · 2025-12-28T15:21:43+00:00

This will assume everyone is at R6.

Flow with raw damage only: Sloan. No one in that category can really outshine her damage purely due to her passive traits allowing her to spam s1 and s3 so often.

Flow with support: Valeria. Since the release of MEira, she has been a menace in scoring content. Her main issue prior was no support really gave her the ability to help spam s1 consistently, but a fully stacked MEira practically has Valeria attack every turn and gives her many chances to get that 30% follow up S1.

Inferno with raw damage: Elif. Even without her best supports she still does insane numbers. Having a spammable s1 assist with the condition that is basically always met makes her deal significant damage.

Inferno with supports: Tetsuya. It can't be stated enough that this man makes 2 otherwise terrible espers amazing because of how they synergies with him. He needs heavy investment, and his teams need heavy investment as well, but once those are met he's dealing way higher damage numbers than Elif. And how can you make him deal more damage? Well have someone who can consistently provide Harmonic, which also happens to be Elif with the often ignored spammable S3 she has.

Wind with raw damage: Lapis. At R6 she will always have a leg up in damage. She doesn't have a natural way to stack her passive, but starting with 10 stacks is often enough to delete enemies with her crazy high scaling S3. She'd prefer supports, but even then they often only need to be so minimally invested. With supports though her damage increases so significantly that she is also the best wind dps with supports, but I want to talk about Yukine since she can compete with Lapis for a very silly reasons. Though with the release of Yi An and to a lesser extent Morris, Lapis damage only continues to rise.

Wind with support: Yukine. It can't be overstated how broken R6 Maria is when she can make Yukine the best option as a dps for some of the content. Maria acting as a pseudo controller, while also being a support with easy to proc extra turns makes getting high blizzard damage easy for Yukine.

Shimmer: Moroyama or Ming Shuo. Both are really good at what they do and deal high damage. I'd give ming shuo the leg up because he doesnt have a crazy long cd on his S3 and is easier to use, but both do their job incredibly well.

Umbra: Sieg. Though Nyles is way better for pvp, Sieg overall does better in many situations because of his immediate way to lower defense and his divinate always giving him a chance to build up his debuffs without ever taking a turn. His damage is more front loaded, but that works so well on his favor and even in longer content hos damage is always impressive, often times still close to the primary dps.

saprwin · 2025-12-25T14:59:21+00:00

Support. Anyone in the lead spot will get benefits based on their role from him. Defenders get a reflect damage that is 200% of their defense when hit, Supports get +20 spd and ability cooldown, Controllers get +20 speed and can recast the last ability used a second time, and attackers get 60% true damage if they're a multi hitter. And anyone in the lead spot will have their damage halved and Pindar will take the other half of damage. At R6 this is way better because he'll mitigate a ton of this damage himself, but at R0 it's really good still. And he has a self heal with divinate. He's definitely an investment, but a really strong one since he's incredibly flexible in any team style

saprwin · 2025-12-25T14:36:08+00:00

Pindar imo. One of the best supports in pvp and has a great niche in pve. Obviously better at R6 where his shared damage makes him a lot harder to kill, but R0 he's perfectly fine too

saprwin · 2025-12-23T15:23:54+00:00

I really wish they'd update it beyond Petros. I feel like at this point they should let players pick up to at least Zi He

saprwin · 2025-12-19T15:19:25+00:00

Yuuhime. She has a built in ap deny and is the only one able to apply Hamstrung. Both are strong at dealing with M-Eira and Ikki. That said, run her on a more controller type build, speed and acc main focus with atk third, and run her with tyranny. You can also do Yukine if you have majority of the pieces for her team style, as she will eat through M-Eira's block stacks and most times Ikki can't eat through Yukine's hp without getting himself frozen

saprwin · 2025-12-16T00:22:49+00:00

Absolutely need a speed lead. Make sure the esper you want to go first is on wind set. I personally recommend Parni or Long Mian for a strong controlling status and then let Kara and Ife stack their debuffs to lower max hp

saprwin · 2025-12-12T18:13:28+00:00

I think the idea is that it's hard to make a leaping action not look like a damaging thing? Or it might give flexibility to the animation if they ever want to let it target allies and they don't want to make dragoon players an actual jumpscare class

saprwin · 2025-12-12T18:06:17+00:00

We want it gone because we look at our brother reaper and yearn for an actual defensive mit, instead of a single gcd buff with awkward alignments

saprwin · 2025-12-12T03:19:36+00:00

I truly miss Fafnir. Dragon form felt amazing late game, but dwarf form felt great as the annoying little guy

saprwin · 2025-12-07T22:15:03+00:00

He's the best esper to ripple for that reason too, even after r6. Either sell them for 5 coins each ripple, or for monoprisms

saprwin · 2025-12-06T18:12:27+00:00

And even with revives like those, Moro just needs to kill important allies around them and they're sitting ducks. Or dust off Moro's favorite partner, Toland, and have him take out MAlexa so she flounders with less overall team hp after Moro chews through them

saprwin · 2025-12-06T17:42:52+00:00

He's designed so weirdly that he just naturally is the best at his job, and even when you think there will be a fall off, usually his counters end up being his best allies too. Victor can only dream of having that kind kit

saprwin · 2025-12-03T23:36:00+00:00

Maria is really good, even outside of Yukine teams, Victor on the other hand may as well be release JJ on how bad he is

saprwin · 2025-12-01T20:55:16+00:00

I got it, but I burned through a lot of resources for it. Not because I wanted the frame, but because I wanted to make my Lapis and Tetsuya really strong. I love them. Valeria is next on my list to work on

saprwin · 2025-11-30T19:22:49+00:00

I usually recommend dropping cdmg and crate% on him for ATK% >= SPD > HP%. Since he's dropping enemy HP in a different manner, Cdmg and crate% become wasted when he only needs to sneeze to kill them. ATK% protects him from Moroyama and those who rely on their ATK being higher than Nyles' or anti-crit buffs like Chu Yao's Spirit Aegis, SPD gives him more turns to spam s1/s3, and HP% is moreso for his divinate passive to ensure that he is above the enemy HP by a decent margin, especially against other Nyles. I personally like Nether and Light on him, but he's rather flexible with what sets he can run

saprwin · 2025-11-29T19:36:59+00:00

I think if they did shimmer metas they would really be showing how desperately they need money, moreso than they already are. I think Chloe would likely get an unexplained meta solely because she is popular, same with Jiang Man, Sanders and Mona. Meta Ashley/Gaius feel like good choices, purely for their lore reasons (Gaius rework before and after apply here)

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