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Kill the fox.

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Doing a "Dragon-Slayer" themed playthrough where I only use weapons that deal extra damage against Dragons. Started with Icerind Hatchet 'cuz it's the only one ya don't have to kill anything first to get. Planned to use it to kill DTS early (which went very well) to get the Dragon Greatclaw (instead of the Dragon Halberd I dont like that weapons moveset), but the Hatchet itself ended up feeling so strong and satisfying to use that I never bothered with the Greatclaw lol. My first time ever using this weapon, did not expect so much from a little axe, even while just at the base DEX to wield it, allowing me to focus on Endurance and Vigor early on.

Using Stormhawk Deenh as aura buff, but can alternatively use Commander's Standard (part of the reason I kill O'neil as my first boss here lol) or Golden Vow AoW, or just get 15 Faith+Faith tear and use the Incantation version.

Also using Bloodboil Aromaics as body buff, but can alternatively just get 15 Faith for Flame Grant me Strength instead. Or just be more defensive and use Boiled Crabs for body buff.

These fights are without doing the Caelid grind of killing Greyoll and Greyll and such, cuz I wanted to leave the Dragons alive for until I get the Dragon-Hunter's Great Katana.

Hitting the boss may be unachievable for her

Based?

Character is Jack Atlas from Yugioh 5Ds

Original video: https://youtu.be/7sD9NCtSJR0

Bro looks so out of place, how did blud get on the team man

Run Neuvillette, 4 Cost Keqing is behind you

Run Alhaitham, Cyno has more than double your DPS now.

Run Arle, mini skirts and detached sleeves are behind you.

She's just like us fr.

Hydro dragon, hydro dragon, don't cry.

Might try to reroll the Feather for more cdmg, but since I have Scarlet Sands EM is very close in value to cdmg anyway

I have Constellations and his weapon, but still, feels good beating the Stellar-Conduct shill without actually having his Stellar-Conduct kit enabled yet. He would've devoured it if so.

Hello Cynners! I've started doing some Cryo Traveler calcs, and I'm kinda blown away by how strong they are lol.

In Stellar-Conduct, at first glance it would appear that Traveler doesn't work as a support because their off-field Cryo application doesn't work here, and they need to NA/CA to stack their Burst instead. However, based off my in-game testing with Pyro Traveler (all Traveler's IIRC share the same NA/CA animation) it only takes 5 seconds of field time to do a combo of E 2[N1C] N2Q, which would have Cryo Traveler's Burst fully stacked. Since it only takes 5 seconds, we should be able to do 3 Endseer on Cyno then swap to Traveler, and have Traveler buffed by Cyno's C1 and C2 if you have it.

And Traveler does *a lot* of damage. Between their Burst and Enhanced Charged Attack, Traveler can frontload over 1m damage, close to 2m with C2 Odette and C6 Alyosha.

But since Traveler has no off-field Cryo in Stellar-Conduct, I calced and compared Traveler in Yae's spot on the team, since we still need Odette for Cryo. Calcs are with C6R5 Traveler since we will get it for free over time anyway, but we don't know exactly when, so may not have this exact power in 7.0)

The comparisons are made at my calc standards, not KQMC (see last 2 images for details).

I compared with C6 Alyosha, C2 Alyosha, and an optimized pull priority 4-cost investment (my GN4C standard), with Cyno on a 4 star weapon but having C2 Odette and C6 Alyosha, under the pretense of them being on the same banner and pulled together.

Conclusion from calcs: From the numbers shown in the calcs, if someone doesn't have Yae and was optimizing their pulls as much as possible, using Traveler instead of Yae, and going for C2 Odette+C6 Alyosha, is a lot stronger than optimzing around pulling Yae at the same amount if pull investment (C1R1 Cyno, C1R1 Yae, C0 Odette, C2 Alyosha. Both teams are 4 total 5 star pulls) This was calced with Cyno on a 4 star weapon assuming you don't have a 5 star, but if you had something like Jade Spear, then this team would be even further ahead of the Yae team.

However: If you already have Yae, she's always stronger than Traveler - Traveler is just more pull/cost efficient due to being free, so those primos you would've spent on Yae could then be diverted into going deep for Odette and Alyosha.

But ofc, we can't know for sure that Alyosha is actually on Odette's banner (would be so stupid if he isn't tough). You also can't 100% guarantee C6 Alyosha even going for C2 Odette, so keep these factors in mind when making your decisions).

I also put in a 4-cost calc with Qiqi instead of Traveler, as this is what I had as his best team at my GN4C standard before looking into Traveler (Traveler mogs Qiqi).

Hope this info helps yall make more informed pulling decisions!

With his new Stellar-Conduct kit, Cyno is currently looking to be a top meta DPS, surpassing Flins as the strongest Electro DPS. But not only is he extremely powerful, but also extremely versatile at dealing with different boss shill mechanics.

Stellar bosses are handled by him, that's a given. But he should be able to handle far more.

Lunar Bosses: Stellar-Conduct can be triggered by an Enemy effect by Lunar-Charged, since Hydro and Electro coexist as aura. This allows Cyno to simply slot in Columbina (and Ineffa as well if Ascendant Gleam is required) to have Lunar-Charged for these boss mechanics. And it's actually still good, since Lunar-Charged does solid damage, and counts to the Stellar-Conduct stacks, meaning you'll still max the stacks out here. Furthermore, if Vodyanitsa ends up being a good Hydro support, he could use her plus Ineffa, instead of Columbina. Perhaps that could be even stronger. But this synergy also means he should be able to deal with bosses that require Hydro.

Nightsoul Bosses: Due to the above interaction between Lunar-Charged and Stellar-Conduct, by using Columbina (or Vodyanitsa if she ends up being good) we can just slot Ororon in, and he is one of the most efficient characters are dishing out a ton of Nightsoul hits. Ororon can also use Elegy for further support, if you have it.

Dendro: Although there's not really any Stygian bosses right now that shill Dendro, there very easily could be in the future (especially if/when we get Rimegrass). Similar to with Lunar-Charged, Quicken and Stellar-Conduct can also co-exist due to how the auras work, and it's also surprisingly solid, with Cyno getting Aggravates with full quicken uptime, to go alongside his Stellar-Conduct damage. If/when we do get Rimegrass and probably a better support for it than Nahida (or maybe even a Nahida buff), there's a non zero possibility this ends up being his best team, or close to it. And being able to use Dendro can also be great for a lot of different Elemental Shields.

Pyro: If facing a boss that requires a lot of Pyro, such as the Lava Dragon, Bennett can apply a bunch by just on fielding him and spamming his E and Normal Attacks during the Shield phase, and then provide Cyno a strong Attack buff after (Nicole can prob also do this but idk how much worse she would be at getting through the phases).

Anemo: Apparently (not 100% sure though), in Stellar-teams, you can have both Stellar-Conduct and Stellar-Swirl fields present at the same time, and what happens is, characters that can deal damage of both reactions (like Odette), will prioritize Stellar-Conduct. So, we could just slap in an Anemo unit like Sucrose in the 4th slot to deal with anything that requires Anemo, and it shouldn't interfere with Stellar-Conduct at all.

Geo: While there is no direct synergy with Geo here, there's no anti-synergy, so there's nothing stopping him from just flexing in someone like Zhongli if Geo is needed. With Cyno's high DPS, it should be brute forceable.

So, tl;dr: Cyno should be able to deal with the mechanics from all three most recent regions (Stellar, Lunar, Nightsoul), while having Electro, Cryo, and being able to flex his team around to cover Hydro, Dendro, Anemo, or even Pyro and Geo as well. Plus, his DPS can just get so high now, that he might even be able to just brute force some bosses regardless (like we've seen Skirk do).

With all of that in mind, it seems like he should be very future proof, almost certainly able to deal with at least 1 boss every Stygian cycle.

(Note: For any calc with C6 Alyosha, just lower the DPS by ~20% to know what it would be with C2 Alyosha instead. For any team with C6 Alyosha and no Yae Miko, she would calc higher than him. Numbers are also calced at my standard, not KQMC. Standard explained in the last image.)

EDIT: CORRECTION! Lunar-Charged does not count to the Stellar-Conduct stacks. Nonetheless, the point still stands that Cyno can flex into this if need be for boss mechanics