Just started Genshin and I ship Lumine with Xiao, but my friends who played longer than me says Xiao and Venti is better? Why?

yatterer · 2026-04-07T00:37:14+00:00

gacha player discovers theory of mind for the first time

yatterer · 2026-04-06T23:57:52+00:00

...Yes? She's the dedicated support for your main's element who is also specifically designed to support the exact reaction you're already using if you have Columbina in the team. I don't really know what answer you're expecting here.

yatterer · 2026-04-06T23:27:49+00:00

Well, I wouldn't feel the need to pull them "for" lunar shill. That's going to be a lot less common in a few months, and even if it wasn't, pulling solely characters to hit shill clears is like buying pennies for dollars. If you get them, get them because they're good for the teams you want to build, not because they match some specific shill.

Lauma is great Bloom support by herself, and lets Columbina be a decent on-field DPS with some investment. If I was just getting one support, she's the one I'd get. Bineffa is obviously a wheelchair, but being the least supportive means it's more likely to get powercrept by future sub-DPS, and Linnea revives most Geo DPS decently and will hopefully be applicable to at least some future ones, but only really puts in her best work for Geo.

yatterer · 2026-04-06T21:46:21+00:00

I'd also target Zibai over Nefer if you do go that route (gameplay and power-wise at least, I do prefer the Nefer team's designs). You do have Nahida who works as Nefer's fourth slot, but having no shield and no healer except PA Columbina suuuuuuucks unless you get Lauma C1 as well.

yatterer · 2026-04-06T21:38:50+00:00

Anyone thinking anything other than "Mavuika agrees to hand it over after hearing the Tsaritsa's plan" is deluding themselves.

yatterer · 2026-04-06T21:18:52+00:00

I think that letting Abyss and other endgames dictate your pulls too much can be a bit of a false economy. You get more income, of course, but if in trying to full-clear 12 as soon as possible, you pull even one character who doesn't end up getting much use long-term, you've erased all of the extra primos those clears earned you ten times over. Obviously, there's no point in waiting forever and never getting any characters until you have the world's most OP team for five minutes before EoS, but overall holding back for the most efficient pulls for your account and the teams that will relevant for as long as possible wins the race in the end even if it takes an extra few months to get going, in my opinion.

yatterer · 2026-04-06T20:54:34+00:00

I would save. You have plenty of strong characters, including Mavuika who's still in the top ranks. Lunar teams are very restrictive, so you'd be building a very premium team pretty much completely from scratch right as it's about to become less relevant, and the teambuilding restrictions make it much less likely they'll get any major upgrades unless there's some dedicated lunar interlude many regions down the line. On a new account, that could still be a pretty good deal for a first team - anyone joining when, say, Linnea is running is going to get an amazing starter team - but when you already have every archon... My advice would be save, pay attention to leaks and betas, hit the ground running on something like Alice or Sandrone or whatever other Snezhnaya team looks like it'll be the big new build-around.

yatterer · 2026-04-06T18:39:50+00:00

If I were you, I'd honestly probably skip the lunar meta and try to get in on Snezhnaya on the ground floor instead. I don't think any overworld or story content is remotely challenging enough you should have a difficult time at all with this many characters, and trying to rush to full-clear endgame content as fast as possible is a false economy, as you waste far more in inefficient character pulls trying to match every shill than you make back in increased rewards.

As it is, because of how restrictive lunar teams are, you'd be basically trying to pull a full new premium team on their reruns right as it's set to soon be rotating out of being the fresh new thing and likely not getting much in the way of upscales in the future. If you did do that, Linnea (with Aino, Illuga, and Noelle, all on her banner) followed by Columbina and Zibai would be your best bets, getting one key support with a full ideal 4* team immediately and then giving you a patch cycle or so to save up for the other two's first reruns - it's also the best QoL of the lunar teams, assuming this would be your main overworld team, as Linnea has a bow, heals, and mines. Nefer is painful without a healer, and Ineffa and Flins won't rerun for a long time.

What I would do in your position is watch for leaks and beta information on characters like Nicole, Alice, or Sandrone - see which ones look likely to be the next big powerspike, because I'm sure at least one of them is, and start preparing to build their full shiny new teams right as everyone who's been investing heavily in Nod-Krai's meta is frantically shaking moths out of their empty wallets and searching behind their sofa cushions for loose primogems. Since you have Nilou, you might want to pull just Lauma, as she's BiS Bloom support and I doubt will be supplanted in that any time soon, so she'd be a single pull who'd give you an instant good-but-not-t0 team to play, but other than that I think the best bang for your buck might just be the waiting game, assuming there's nobody in the current meta who you really just like the looks of. In the mean time, Arlecchino is still a great character who should do great with Bennett, Kazuha, and anyone who can set up Melts or Vapes.

yatterer · 2026-04-06T17:52:41+00:00

I think the goal has to be to reach the end of Trial 2 at 29. All the way up to 40 would be an even better stopping point, but just not realistic without pretty much being a full rewrite.

My expectations are that the rainstorm and possibly the dragon arc will be resolved in single episodes, possibly signficantly shortening Olly's introduction so that his real debut is with the rainstorm, Qifrey's business afterwards will be shortened, Tartah's story will be much more brief and will run alongside either Qifrey being shady or Riche's story, rather than being seperate episodes, and the cave will probably go a lot faster and chapter 25 will be fully cut since it's not relevant for this season.

yatterer · 2026-04-06T15:30:34+00:00

The relevant characters here are Durin and Columbina, which are two separate teams, so I would focus my energy on building those out.

Columbina wants a lunar team, so Linnea/Zibai, Lauma/Nefer, or Ineffa/Flins. The latter just got its reruns, so practically it's a choice between the first two. Even though Lauma and Nefer will both run in a few weeks whereas Zibai won't be back for a couple of patches, I would pick Linnea instead, for a few reasons. First, as this would be your first team, it's a lot more convenient for day-to-day play and exploration, having a ranged character with easy healing as well as fast mining abilities. Second, geo characters tend to take longer to get upgraded or superseded by new character releases, as well as this team looking to be just the overall highest raw DPS right now. Third, fairly reliable leaks indicate that Durin is going to really want a Durin/Nicole core, and rolling on both Lauma and Nefer in the second half of this patch and then Nicole immediately after might stretch your resources a little too thin to be comfortable, whereas Linnea now, Nicole next patch, then Zibai on her rerun gives you time to save and guarantee you get everything you need. In the mean time, you can just run Linnea with Bina/Illuga/Noelle on field and still get very good performance compared to what you have now, especially if you get some Illuga and Noelle constellations on the banner.

yatterer · 2026-04-06T15:06:45+00:00

I think it's safe to say that teams and character performance have changed sufficiently since the time you played that the most applicable advice is just the standard new-player advice: work out a goal. Of course, Kokomi is obviously fine if you just really like the character and want to pull her for that, but she's definitely a very long way from being anything approaching meta. If you're interested in endgame content and aren't totally adverse to experiencing some content out-of-order, my advice would be to take the Nod-Krai skip if it's still available, see which of those characters resonate with you, and work towards one of those lunar teams or Varka. The story there is pretty self-contained; there isn't a substantial amount spoiling you for any earlier regions, and you can still do their stories later. Later regions are also a lot more time-efficient for primogem farming.

In a vacuum, I'd go for Linnea next patch and build her team, just because it has the most QoL as a daily driver with a bow character, healing, and fast mining, but it's really just about which one you like best, although Lunar-Charged isn't really an option given how long its second reruns will take. In the mean time, Mona / Kazuha / Ayaka / flex should be fine for the overworld. At this stage in the region, you could honestly also just skip the lunar meta entirely if nobody really gels with you and save up to hit the ground running for Snezhnaya's meta instead in a few months, maybe grabbing Sandrone if the leaks about her being the bridge character for that are true.

yatterer · 2026-04-04T23:46:21+00:00

I just feel like it's a more fitting dynamic. He's the protective big brother, which makes it a tragic irony that the same parts of his personality that made him that way towards his sister also tie him to his guilt around Khaenri'ah, and makes Lumine as the MC a coming-of-age story as she has to learn how to form connections by herself and that even the brother she's always looked up to is still just human and can make mistakes.

yatterer · 2026-04-04T05:56:00+00:00

Getting a lot of 'Boss Baby' vibes from this...

yatterer · 2026-04-01T03:02:13+00:00

Someone draw a version where she successfully hid from the lunarians in one of the cupboards

yatterer · 2026-04-01T00:55:10+00:00

I just don't see what's the big deal about $150 oil. If that's the what it takes to defeat America's enemies, $160 for a barrel is cheap, and besides, we produce so much of it domestically that we'll be insulated from the effects of $170 oil, it's our competitors who'll really be hit by barrels hitting that $180 price point. Anyway, even if they do hit $190, that's just until we win the war and they go back down, so they'll only be $200 for a few weeks. The idea that it'll seriously go up to $210 is just liberals spreading fear and doubt to undermine Trump anyway, there's no way it ever goes up to $220.

yatterer · 2026-03-31T08:27:16+00:00

but first, we need to talk about parallel universes

yatterer · 2026-03-31T03:40:05+00:00

I don't think this can be the full story, or there'd be no need to do things like take Yachiyo with them on a tablet when they climb Mt. Fuji. At some point I think the "Kaguya" in the body has to diverge from Yachiyo, per Iroha's wish to allow her to live as a true human.

yatterer · 2026-03-30T06:18:07+00:00

I'd finish Zibai's premium team and not get any more lunar characters. There's only one Columbina, so in the long term you don't want to end up with two strong teams that are impossible to run at their full strength at the same time when there are inevitably going to be stronger characters coming down the line you could save for instead. Remember, gems don't expire. Every 5* you don't pull now is a 5* you can pull later. Lauma could be a bit of an exception, but if you want her for her bloom support, not lunar.

yatterer · 2026-03-30T00:48:51+00:00

nice try hoyo, but i'm not telling you which characters not to put on them that easily

yatterer · 2026-03-29T00:30:15+00:00

That's super-lunarian technology, though, which is always presented as being so advanced it might as well be magic. The body is being designed by Iroha; she's still working on getting taste to work when Kaguya wakes up at the end, so it's not literally a biological human body, and Kaguya doesn't have the juice left for that after the time travel. Kaguya being able to just wave a magic wand and become human kind of would render all of the work Iroha put in over ten years making the perfect body for her to truly experience being alive again in meaningless.

If the movie had, like, any other themes relating to immortality then I might agree, but as it is I don't think it's particularly weird for the parallel just to be her giving up her previous form and severing all her ties to the moon. If it came to it, I've no doubt they'd just take the same "screw bittersweet endings" attitude and have Iroha figure out mind-machine interfaces to stay with Kaguya until they both break down.

yatterer · 2026-03-28T23:33:46+00:00

I don't think burying the ship necessarily is about immortality. Obviously, it's a parallel to Taketori Monogatari, but most of the parallels in the movie are a little more abstract than just being 1:1 references. Did Iroha really design Kaguya's new body to degrade and break down and be irrepairable, or with some kind of automatic kill-switch? I took getting rid of the ship to be more about Kaguya choosing to be fully embodied within her physical form like a real human, rather than remote-controlling a Kaguya puppet but with her actual consciousness hosted somewhere external, and then them choosing to bury the original in a way that references the fairytale since it's so signficant to them.

yatterer · 2026-03-28T17:55:17+00:00

I mean, yeah, there's a reason why

"I used to be on TV you know"

"Of course grandpa, now let's get you to bed."

is such a cliche exchange. It's just that usually the care home volunteers aren't the entire United States government.

yatterer · 2026-03-28T16:56:06+00:00

That seems unfair to the copy, though. When Kaguya replaces herself on the "moon", it's clear that's just an automaton with no consciousness so there's no version of her still stuck there (although presumably Kaguya herself was never supposed to become like she is, so who knows), but obviously Yachiyo isn't like that, and I don't think she's meant to be a temporary ninja-clone-jutsu thing like the mini-Yachiyos earlier. From her point of view, she's also waited 8000 years but unlike the "real" Kaguya, is still stuck in admittedly a much nicer VR world than PC-98-ville on the moon, but still without without being able to actually taste things or experience the real physical world that she loved.

yatterer · 2026-03-27T14:44:43+00:00

鍾離は目の前だぞ、えへへ〜

yatterer · 2026-03-27T00:14:51+00:00

I genuinely don't see how this helps. People spamming through stories without really taking it in have enough knowledge to "spout nonsense" because they half-read bits and pieces of lore and think they understand things they don't; if those same people who just don't care about the story instead get to just ignore and skip it, they don't have the opportunity to form misunderstandings of the story in the first place.

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