u/ActionKid98

Aizen requires a lot of field time which he is well equipped for, his basic atk, technique, battlefield skill and Ult all create large amount of dmg, therefore creating less field time for Aizen robs him of creating more dmg on the field. Aizen's black coffin + character swap can fill up Toshiro and Ulq's Ultimate, following this play style you can use toshiro and ulq just for their Ult and have Aizen enjoy his field time,

BUT... Toshiro's ult requires to be built up with basic attacks to be used which means you take more field time away from Aizen and give it to Toshiro, from the gameplay teasers it seems Ulq is the same way.

Now with szayel, if you face a guild boss which is a 90 second battle, szayel only uses 3 seconds of his total field time and you can release a total of 3 Ultimates within the duration of the battle (you can test this), his ultimate is built by Aizen's black coffin + character swap so he requires 0 actual field time for any attack, he only requires field time to tap the ultimate button and for the animation to play out

also, Szayel's stamps+weapon (lvl 25 stamps + A1 weapon) involves increasing entire teams Spirit dmg by 10% on a counterattack, releasing Ult gives Spirit Mastery 4%, When using special atk all Spirit characters gain 50% crit dmg and on-field character (Aizen) gains 15% Ultimate Charge Rate ALSO, the Mayuri/Kisuke Bond gives teammates other than Szayel Crit DMG increase, Kisuke/Aizen/Szayel is an instant max win, only time you'd get the most out of toshiro or Ulq and use all their abilities is if they run as main dps without aizen on the team

might be flagged as a little bit of a "complainer" post and i know people were hoping for VL so Ichigo might please them but Strike team is the most under developed team in the game, yoru and Grimm are dupe heavy characters and you need a very good soi to buff them.

Personally im hoping for Shinji that is my wish but i can acknowledge people want Ichi and thats okay but the timing is really bad, it had to be strike support before anything else, even from a f2p perspective strike is not friendly to new players so they miss out on a lot of the Frenzy and trial modes, even the endless mode and that one event that requires all 4 teams which is the events where the real rewards are, they are automatically disqualified from playing any of these bc Strike doesnt even have a "broken" character like the other teams have, If thrust rerun isnt Mayuri then a lot of newer people might still just have Kisuke and Rangiku as support with a very deflated Nemu

I'm hoping at the very least we get an SR+ support for strike

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Also, i asked a lot of people on reddit and discord even in world chat, the recurring suggestions for strike support is: Akon (bc he fits in with the other 3 scientist supports) Omaeda (for the Soi fon synergy) Starrk (bc he didnt wanna fight in the anime while being intelligent) Shunsui (bc he is deceptive and fights based on strategy) and another mention was Baraggan

Desert is giving 10 jades a stage, hollowfication is only 50 jades, Blade updates new boss in 4 days, even Hueco Blitz is just sitting there taking up space. It feels like a very very slow first week with not much to do, perhaps they were too busy getting White and Ulq developed and might work on new better events next week, but with it being the first week and theres not much to grind, im definitely reminded of previous updates being more fun and rewarding than this