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• Relic set is Magical Girl (Crit Damage/Any³)
• Ornament set is Punklorde (Any¹/Energy)
• 60/70% Crit Rate², 134 Speed (in battle), 200+ Crit Damage
• Make sure she's slower than Aha⁴

¹ Attack and Physical Damage are negligeable, prioritize substats

² Depends if you have Yao's S1

³ Speed is relative to your team, meaning if your team is very fast, you can get away with 134+, but if they aren't, or you're looking for some specific 0 cycling strats, keeping Boots with different main stats can be a good idea, since base Speed Evanescia is also very strong.

⁴ If you're worried Evanescia might be too fast but you don't want to do math, just change to any non-Speed Boots. It's still in your interest to understand how these mechanics work but it's not a necessity.

And that's it! I see people asking for build help all the time, but Evanescia really isn't that difficult to build. You might find yourself suffering from success by overcapping on Crit Rate or getting too much Speed and outspeeding Aha, resulting in less Banger uptime.

I understand each build is good in their own merit and I'm trying to figure out how to go from my current build, if I should change anything. So to get the discussion going, I'll be giving each build a grade.

Eagle + Keel/Lushaka/Vonwacq: 9/10

> EMC can guarantee a three turn ultimate with Huohuo and an Energy Rope (standard build), therefore you can easily tune your EMC to run s pseudo 200 Speed with enough Speed substats. If you can't reach pseudo 200 or at least 181, then other builds are your best option

Sarcedos + Keel/Lushaka/Vonwacq: 8/10

> It's established EMC can guarantee a three turn ultimate, so if your EMC is faster than Evanescia, you can keep this buff active without any heavy Speed tuning and that's a free 36% CD for Evanescia plus whatever she converts off that into Elation. That sounds great on paper, but this build is only great assuming the battle lasts enough for EMC to to cast at least two ultimates.

Magical Girl + Punklorde: 7/10

> While EMC can run any main stat on the Orb and still easily hit 2.2k Attack needed to max out their self Elation buff, their damage is so low it's just not that worth it to build damage unless you have some great leftover pieces and don't feel like farming Eagle or Sarcedos for some reason. This build cares about Crit Stats, so you want 75/85% Crit Rate, 134 Speed and as much Crit Damage as possible. But at this point, wouldn't it be better to run DPS Yao Guang and Diviner EMC?

Diviner + Keel/Lushaka/Vonwacq: 10/10 if they're the only Diviner user, 05/10 if someone else is already using Diviner

> Speaking of Diviner, EMC can run this build if your Yao Guang is on vacation or using Magical Girl and it's actually a great set for EMC. Assuming you can reach 160 Speed, you just need 57/67% CR and you're good to go. Remember, this set DOESN'T stack, so Yao Guang should definitely run this and she's naturally so fast you aren't dedicating tons of substats just to reach 160.

Edit: Turns out, you can use Broken Keel and still guarantee a three turn ultimate if you're using Huohuo. So Keel provides better amp.

The beetle and his little beetlelets hit my team a total of 5 times. Every attack targeted Fugue. The odds of this are 0.0721%, GOOD LORD 😭🙏🏽

Aha's Speed stays at the same breakpoint of 142+, so it comes down to stats and Speed tuning. Any tips are appreciated.

First node is E2S1 Evanescia, E0S1 Yao Guang, E0S1 Dan Heng, E2S1 Robin (12 cost)

Notes:

• Robin and Dan Heng's Light Cones can be dropped entirely to reduce cost by 2
• Heavy speed tuning required to have Aha act right after Nikador summons the first set of spears
• Took a lot of trial and error to figure out the exact Speed my characters needed
• Still had an entire Aha Instant and one Evanescia ultimate, so you could drop cost somewhere else I guess, it doesn't really matter since this is for fun
• After clearing I tried moving Evanescia to slot 3 and figured out it guarantees her third ultimate because the big sword guy swoops her, Yao and Robin.

Second node is E2S1 Firefly, E2S1 Dahlia, E2S1 Fugue and E0S0 Lingsha (13 cost)

Notes:

• Fugue's E2, Fugue's S1 and Firefly's S1 can be dropped entirely to reduce cost by 3
• Lingsha could be subbed for Gallagher too but I wanted to do it using only five stars
• Kafka is really easy, I finished her off with two Firefly turns left and basically no damage taken, meaning maybe I could even drop Dahlia's E2?
• Underwhelming compared to Nikador but hey I still take it

Remember this is a self imposed challenge just for fun, not meant to be relatable. I'm no whale, I do like to keep investing in the same teams until I'm satisfied and I've been on the longest 50/50 win streak.

When Evanescia was revealed I was really happy I could have two fully functional Mono Element teams, so this is definitely one of the peak experiences I've had playing this game.

First side is mono Fire Break team with some hefty cost of 13. It was difficult to beat the stage using Lingsha, she didn't help much but Fugue managed to clutch the 0 cycle.

Second side is mono Physical Elation team with a smaller cost of 12. I had no issue with Robin's ultimate uptime, but I was shy 6% to completely kill Kafka, but maybe some more tries will make it a full 0 Cycle. Yao got dominated and lost her buff, unfortunately.

Minus Robin, because I got her E2 from the shop but she's still welcome at the table of honor. Does anyone else love pulling E2S1's of their favorite characters?

I managed to pull E1S1 Evanescia in under 180 pulls, I still have 160 left. That's enough to pull her E2 by the end of the version, but then I'd be broke in 4.3.

Assuming Yao returns in 4.3, should I save pulls for her E1 or should I go all in on Evanescia?

Very fun to try this out, I genuinely really like Xueyi and I hope we get more Break characters from different elements in the future.

She's built with 170 Speed and 240% Break Effect, using Firefly's S1.

The rest of the team is E2S1 Dahlia, E2S1 Fugue and E1S5 BP Ruan Mei.

E2 Fugue probably isn't necessary but it did help out since it's a long fight (300 AV almost).

E2S1 Dahlia, E2S1 Fugue, E6S5 DDD HMC and E0S0 Anaxagoatras (S5 Eternal Calculus)

After some crafting materials and all my TP from the last few weeks that's the build and I'll be sticking with it.

I'll change some pieces around when Huohuo isn't BIS anymore, but that could take a while. In fact I farmed pieces for the whole team, I even went back to get more Broken Keel Pieces.

Yao Guang has 200 Speed using Diviner/Lushaka, EMC has 182 Speed using Sarcedos/Keel and Huohuo has 162 Speed using Goddess/Keel. Everyone has a 3 turn ultimate rotation guaranteed, thanks to Huohuo.

From my simulations the team shouldn't struggle with SP or Speed tuning too. I think I'm done guys.

I have been struggling trying to decide how to build EMC for my Evanescia team. One thing I know for sure is that their damage is subpar, so both builds are prioritizing buffing and taking as many actions as possible to better support Evanescia through CB conversion and ultimate buff uptime.

With the help of Huohuo and an Energy Rope, EMC is able to achieve constant 3 turn ultimates, in fact you can even drop Lushaka/Vonwacq in favor of Broken Keel, but I kept Lushaka since I have better pieces with higher Speed. The next upgrade would be farming Broken Keel pieces I guess, I'll get onto that later.

As you can see both builds have very high Speed from Relics and Huohuo's E1, almost as fast as Yao Guang in fact.

The first build uses Eagle to achieve a pseudo 205 Speed in battle and the idea is to take as many actions as possible, resulting in more Evanescia ultimates and more Punchline. This build does not care much about rotations, so it's easier to use.

The second build uses Sarcedos and sits around 190 Speed and the idea is to save EMC's ultimate to cast it during Evanescia's turns to extend the buff through the whole battle, meaning more Crit Damage and Elation. Being this fast helps getting his ultimate again.

I am not worring too much about Aha Speed tuning since I'm guaranteed to hit over 143 with either build, so I'm just wondering what's the general consensus on which EMC build is actually better.

Evanescia build is there for reference.

That's by far the biggest damage number I've seen in any endgame content coming from my account. In one instance I got 20m but I can't replicate it.

That's AS4 against Sparxie.