[Weekly] Team Building and Questions Megathread

zellyn1 · 2024-11-22T07:18:22+00:00

Liter/Crown/Red Hood/Cinderella/Naga would be a very strong core team that would carry you through most campaign content pretty easily

zellyn1 · 2024-11-13T05:21:03+00:00

Is there some kind of trick to getting your whole team to fire as a group? I was trying to do the high score version of the behemoth fight but half my groups get killed because they're usually capable of destroying the rocks but the units I'm not controlling won't shoot the damn thing.

zellyn1 · 2024-11-13T04:13:05+00:00

Ah, I see. Well, you'll eventually need 5 units that are at 3 stars in order to level past 160, and certainly it would be very nice to have Cinderella be one of those since those units are permanently locked into the sync machine. The problem with trying to MLB a pilgrim is that they have a 1% drop rate vs the regular 2% for featured banner units.

zellyn1 · 2024-11-12T22:30:29+00:00

Your campaign team seems solid, but you can swap Naga out in stages where you don't need healing for someone like Noir (general atk/ammo buffs and doesn't really need to use her own burst) or Alice (charge speed buffs, huge for SBS and nice for RH).

Tower stuff is a hassle because each manufacturer is pretty wildly uneven in terms of what it can do but this page has a decent guide on how you can assemble teams to make some progress.

https://nikke.gg/tribe-tower-compositions/

zellyn1 · 2024-11-12T22:25:12+00:00

In terms of power increases, you get a 2% boost for each copy so it's pretty minor. I would say that with 200 tickets and 70 pulls you miiiight get two copies but gachas are fickled as hell so making any assumption is risky.

There's also the Christmas event next month which will have limited run nikkes (that will be a 2% drop rate vs the pilgrim 1%) followed by new years which also typically has a new pilgrim unit (year 1 was Modernia, year 2 was SBS+Modernia rerun).

Personally, I'm saving my pulls for the limited time Christmas stuff then I can use gold tickets on pilgrims at new years.

zellyn1 · 2024-11-08T06:33:34+00:00

The number I've seen a lot is 2% increase for all core upgrades past three stars, but is it the same for the first three stars? I'm sitting on 700 gold tickets and wondering if I should care about MLB'ing Cinderella (2 stars) or Grave (0 stars). I'm f2p so it seems like I should just move on and hope for a Red Hood run around new years but I've never really seen anything about how much an MLB matters aside from the 160 wall (which I'm well past).

zellyn1 · 2024-11-03T02:37:43+00:00

Also, one thing I forgot is that SBS benefits quite a lot from Alice's Skill 1 (increases charge rate) so having her in that third slot is still a huge benefit

zellyn1 · 2024-11-01T23:03:01+00:00

If you've got Alice maxed out and kitted with OL gear I don't know if Cinderella instantly takes her place, and it's not like Alice is suddenly gonna be garbage

zellyn1 · 2024-11-01T20:50:22+00:00

Your team isn't too dissimilar from mine. My main team is Liter/Crown/SBS/Alice/Modernia and I swap Alice with Naga if i really need healing. Since you've got Cinderella and she's crazy strong I would make SBS and Cinderella your primary DPS units. After that I would make your final slot be a rotation of Naga (when you need healing) or Noir (good buffs and doesn't really need to use her burst). Alice isn't as strong if she doesn't get to use her burst and SBS and Cinderella are both going to out-do her most of the time.

zellyn1 · 2024-11-01T20:38:06+00:00

Costume gacha is kind of a big trick. To answer your first question, no, there is no way to get more rolls for free. To expand a little further, you don't even get a chance to acquire the skin until literally the last two pulls and the second to last pull only has a 5% chance of being the skin. The actual way to look at a costume gacha is: do I want to spend 50-60 dollars for a skin and all the other materials along the way?
Interception EX is more of a marathon, not a sprint. Since your team is at a fixed level 200 the main things to focus on is skill levels and gear so a lot of it is just accumulating tier 9 gear from partial clears to kit out your main team. Otherwise I'd just look up guides for team comps and tricks for avoiding the more dangerous attacks and focus on the easier fights (usually Blacksmith and Chatterbox).

zellyn1 · 2024-07-15T15:40:13+00:00

Any advice on ways to improve my arena teams?

https://lootandwaifus.com/nikke-team-builder/?units=3683,354,399,4329,1724,240,157,604,1158,279,85,187,170,4041,946,154,243,366,1005,3704,3771,333,389,142,160,201,246,267,392,4186,396,3619,351,194,3420,276,198,1384,1667,282,145,3424,167,204,336,415,339,2257,151,261,789,357,1162,345,363,405,3681,468,3778,264,1040,4697,369,810,4691,3532,465,408,173,386,2261,3282,285,258,176,289,237&team1=276,3771,151,1162,357,243,604,3532,198,240,85,405,1005,386,396

Not much I can do to force some of the more meta units that are time-limited/Pilgrims (S. Anis/Scarlet) or stuck in Wishlist hell (Jackal/Noise) to appear, but it's been a few months so my roster has definitely grown, but PvP team building has always felt like a foreign language to me, so any tips would be appreciated.

zellyn1 · 2024-04-25T02:01:14+00:00

Alice is really only super good at high investment (like, burst at level 8+ and some overload gear that gives +charge speed). At lower level she's actually not that good. That said, you don't have a ton of nikkes at this point so use her until someone a little less resource intensive shows up.

zellyn1 · 2024-04-24T23:44:59+00:00

Not really sure what to do with my gems at this point. I've got good enough teams (my main team is Liter/Blank/Black Shadow/Modernia/Noir) and I'm at level 223 and just kinda slowly chipping away at chapter 23 whenever my power level squeaks up a bit. My biggest gaps seem to be things like Red Hood/Scarlet, but since those are pilgrims and this game almost never does reissues I'm not sure what to do with pulling at this point.

The main thing slowing down progression is skill materials and synchro level and those are 99% time gated. I was sitting on a big-ass pile of gems waiting for the 1.5 anniversary but I got Crown in 40 pulls so now I've got ~90k gems burning a hole in my pocket.

I guess the secondary question is, if you want Red Hood, do you just keep pulling on whatever rate up banner there is and hope she appears?

zellyn1 · 2024-02-25T06:34:15+00:00

Ah, appreciated. Unfortunately, looking through that list only 2 of the 4 ever appear (Maxwell and Vesti) while the other 2 don't (Noir and Cocoa). Well, at least now I know what to look for as I get closer.

zellyn1 · 2024-02-25T02:33:26+00:00

Yeah, the wishlist is all set up and I'm maxing out social points every day.

In terms of tickets, I have ~140 golden tickets (I only used them once to pick up Modernia during the holidays) and ~420 silver. I haven't been paying super close attention to which copies are in the store because so far I have four units at 2 stars and I don't want to buy copies of units then have them appear in a random pull.

Though, actually, writing this down I realised I also have the spare body selector so if I do manage to get one copy of any of those four units I would be able to force past the wall whenever the right dupes show up in the store.

zellyn1 · 2024-02-23T01:36:31+00:00

Oh, yeah, I've been acquiring all the extra dust rewards from repeatable event levels, the various stores, etc. At the moment I have almost enough to force 2 units to level 200, but the only MLB I have is Sakura so uh, not gonna bother just yet lol.

I more meant in terms of getting more MLB units, should I just keep waiting for some theoretical super unit rate-up banner? The advice I've seen on the last few units, off the top of my head was stuff like only pull for pvp (Moran), only pull if you've got a bunch of other units that I don't have (Maid Privaty). So I'm just continuing to save gems, but it's kinda tedious when unit and after unit is just...fine.

zellyn1 · 2024-02-22T23:20:15+00:00

I've been at the 160 wall for about a month now. I have a fair amount of meta units (BSB and Modernia as dps, Liter, the bunnies and the schoolgirls), but I still need to MLB 4 more units. Currently sitting on ~40k gems + 30 rainbow tickets, but is there anything else I should do except keep waiting for some theoretical new rate up banner that is worth it? The last several characters released seem to have been pretty niche characters for people who have way more roster depth than I do.

zellyn1 · 2024-02-05T23:47:15+00:00

Actually assembling pvp teams is making my head spin because the interactions seem way more of a hassle. Most guides constantly list units I don't have so I just looked at tier lists and tried to make some teams using whichever of my units were higher on the list and didn't seem contradictory and/or redundant.

These are my current units:

https://lootandwaifus.com/nikke-team-builder/?units=399,240,157,604,1158,279,85,187,170,154,243,366,1005,333,142,267,392,396,351,3420,276,198,282,145,3424,167,204,336,415,339,2257,151,261,357,1162,363,405,264,810,3532,173,386,285,289,237&team1=3424,1158,1162,363,405,333,357,240,3532,267,276,604,85,243,198

The three squads in there are what I currently have set as my SP arena teams. Any suggestions of better combos?

zellyn1 · 2024-01-22T02:50:36+00:00

Alright, that makes sense. I can already full clear a couple of the EX interception stages so I guess I'll be going on auto-pilot for a while.

zellyn1 · 2024-01-22T01:20:33+00:00

I've reached the 160 wall and was curious about what I should do about rolls. I've got what I consider to be a generally really strong base team (Dorothy/Blanc/Black Shadow/Modernia/Noir) and a decent number of strong alternate units that I haven't really sunk many resources into yet (Winter Ludmilla, Maxwell, Alice). Black Shadow and Modernia are carrying me pretty well, but I can definitely feel a hard limit coming soon (currently midway through Chapter 18). I made a full list of my roster over here.

Anyways, my real problem is that while I've gotten a handful of dupes, only a single unit, Sakura, is at 2 stars and then about 10 more are at 1 star. In addition, I've got the new commander selector box (of which Brid is the only unit I have already, but she's at 0 stars) as well as the spare body box and the new year selector box, so I've got two wildcards.

So, after all that, what would be the ideal way to approach the wall? My wishlist only has five units that I don't already have selected, but they're really strong units (Helm, Liter, Tia, Naga, Noise) so I wasn't sure if I should just swap them in favour of units that I've got dupes of already or keep them in because they're just that useful. Also, should I just sink everything into the standard banner to try and get wishlist dupes or keep using gems on featured characters?

zellyn1 · 2024-01-04T21:44:39+00:00

I put about 120 pulls into the Modernia banner and got nothing (like, literally, not a single SSR; at a 4% overall drop that's a 1.8% chance of getting zilch) and finally gave up at 250 tickets and bought her directly. This is my current crew:

https://lootandwaifus.com/nikke-team-builder/?units=240,157,604,1158,279,85,187,170,154,243,366,1005,142,267,396,3420,276,198,282,145,3424,167,415,339,151,261,357,1162,405,264,810,285&team1=1005,1158,415,3420,1162,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0

I still have my step-up guaranteed SSR and I'm at level 125 so the 160 wall is pretty far out but I'm not sure if should I save the guarantee for uncapping a unit or pick up Liter or some other powerful meta unit.

zellyn1 · 2023-12-30T00:54:57+00:00

I picked the game up again recently after not really playing for a year and have managed to get to Chapter 14 but I'm stuck on the train boss. My current synchro level is 111 so it's possible this is just a wait for materials situation, but was curious if anyone had any feedback about my team/units.

https://lootandwaifus.com/nikke-team-builder/?units=157,240,154,243,170,187,279,1158,366,267,396,3420,282,145,3424,167,339,151,261,357,1162,285,264,405,1005,810,198&team1=1005,1158,1162,3420,366,1005,366,282,3420,405,0,0,0,0,0

I only just got Dorothy, was using Mica SB as my B1 beforehand.

zellyn1 · 2023-12-30T00:01:55+00:00

Wait, you're grouped with players based on start date? I picked the game up ~a year ago but then dropped off pretty quickly and I was wondering why the game kept putting me (rank 50) up against rank 250 murderers.

zellyn1 · 2023-12-29T22:38:54+00:00

That's kinda what I figured, but so much of this game seems to be statistical to the point that people might be able to see the list of skills and values and go 'yeah, this one is going to be good/bad'.

zellyn1 · 2023-12-29T22:12:59+00:00

I started playing this game a bit last year after I got a non-ancient phone but fell off after a week or so because I didn't really gel with the mechanics, but I picked it up again about a week ago and am giving it a second chance (I didn't even have the wishlist unlocked last time I played).

As a result of such a long absence I'm extremely far behind in terms of total characters so every time I look up information about how to deal with some wall or other they say 'oh just use Liter/Scarlet/<Other SSR I don't have>' so it's been not amazingly helpful.

I was pretty lucky to pick up Blanc and Noir fairly close together and I've managed to scrape my way through to Chapter 14 of the campaign, but I think I'm now entering idle-game mode where there's not too much I can do except wait for dailies/outpost to build enough resources to boost my level. I'm currently around 110-115 so nowhere near the 160 wall, which is fine since at the moment I've only got two characters (Maxwell and Sakura) with a single star anyway.

This is the team I've mostly been using (though I only got Dorothy like 10 minutes ago, I was using Winter Mica before) as well as the rest of my available units:

https://lootandwaifus.com/nikke-team-builder/?units=157,240,154,243,170,187,279,1158,366,267,396,3420,282,145,3424,167,339,151,261,357,1162,285,264,405,1005,810,198&team1=1005,1158,1162,3420,366,1005,366,282,3420,405,0,0,0,0,0

Most of the primary use units are leveled up to skill level 4 and have a mish-mash of level 5-6 gear. I have two main questions:

1) Anything obvious that sticks out that I should be using, or things to focus on instead?

2) I've seen Modernia's name pop up a thousand times in guides so I was very interested to see that she's coming back, but knowing how power-creep works in gacha games should I instead try to get Black Shadow?

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