u/Pilques

What's funny is that in spite of having the biased opinion that Silver Wolf is ahh, I always keep it a hundred on informative posts but somehow these people tend to show up on serious posts thinking there's a hidden agenda war happening somewhere, I'm dead 😭

So it's like yeah I do have an agenda it's just I am not pushing it currently broddy calm down 😭

That being said: evanesia is the goat she doesn't rely on Yao guang. sw could never

I've seen some posts asking for tips against this boss and I'm not surprised, they aren't really an Elation shill on the same caliber or Pollux/Remembrance, you still need to play correctly to get a decent score.

To preface things, this team is E2S1 Evanescia, E6S5 EMC, E4 Bronya w/ S5 Poised to Bloom and E1 Huohuo w/ S5 Quid Pro Quo, so a limited cost of 6 is what we're working with here.

Depending on your investments you may want to try different strategies and obviously Sunday works better than Bronya, specially with his S1, but I don't have him.

The idea of this fight is to take as many Evanescia turns as possible to charge the ally Pommy, dispelling Pom-Poms enhanced state and dealing true damage in the process. Pommy needs 20 PL to charge and between your ultimates and Evanescia turns, they should attack pretty often.

Skill point economy in this team is very right because everyone wants to skills, so priorities are as follow: Evanescia/Bronya > Huohuo > EMC. If EMC can get an ultimate with Skill, you can choose to do so because you'll recover SP anyway.

It's imperative that you don't waste Evanescia ultimates on Pom-Pom while they're enhanced, way to dispel their damage reduction and then use your ultimates, even if you overcap on energy (E2 users may experience this).

It's also better to cast your ultimate if Pom-Pom is alone because you'll funnel more damage onto them. Killing the adds isn't as important because they refund little PL and are mostly a nuisance.

Another trick you can do is waiting to cast an ally ultimate between enemy attacks, to keep your team healthy with Huohuo. I used this many times, specially during the first wave.

Speaking of the first wave, the High Phys Res elite is tough but not immune to physical. I've seen people so afraid of them that they refused to bring Eva to this fight, even if she's one of the better options against Pom-Pom.

Speed tuning is pretty basic. Evanescia is +1 Speed above Bronya and EMC/Huohuo are as fast as possible.

"Shouldn't Evanescia hold as many CBs as possible?" yes, ideally. But in this fight, acting more often is usually better because the damage windows are tight so you need to have your ultimates ready often, plus you'll have very little CBs because we lack Yao Guang here.

My Yao is E2 so this fight was a 0 cycle naturally, but going from 0 cycles to 4 cycles after losing 4 cost (Yao is E2S1), is pretty good in my opinion. Still under the 5 cycle minimum and just enough for Stalwart.

If somehow your Evanescia is E0S0 and you also lack Yao then yeah... you might want to bench Evanescia for this one. She might be better against Dark Sam.

The dude just sits on their but doing nothing until it hits your team enough to charge it self, that and that inconsistency with HP numbers where you want less HP to charge it faster, it's just a terrible design altogether and made me hate Remembrance as a concept ever since.

There's no way to interact with Pollux unless you have some sort of HP draining, which is mostly locked to Remembrance with a few exceptions (who I also don't have lol).

Not complaining about not getting a perfect score of course, but screw that boss in general. Remembrance did irreparable damage to this game's balance and I'm glad Pollux is a rare encounter nowadays.

Funny how I said "not complaining" and then I proceeded to complain but hey, it felt justified.

Before anyone says anything, I do own slop in my account (Firefly, Herta, Screwlum) but none of them are Remembrance and by the Aeons above I'll die on this hill

Team is E1S1 Archer, E0S1 Rin (Herta), E1S5 DDD Sparkle and E0S1 DHPT.

Archer is supposed to use skill every time, Rin uses basics until her Speed buff is about to run out and DHPT skills every time too, but it isn't needed.

What walled me was my usage of Rin skills, it's much better to save some Gem Energy and only casting it every two turns or so. With my Speed tuning, she deals both decent damage and isn't lapped by Sparkle at all.

Also, saving Rin's ultimate for the second phase of Graphia for max buff efficiency helped. Archer is really good on this node.

Like, I'm trying to get Tengoku so I don't need to rely on DHPT anymore (am using Banana), but this is just absurd.

Are we sure Archer isn't a Lightning character? 🥀

Fortunately, my current build has 100/150 Crit outside of battle so I don't need it urgently or anything, but spending over 5k mats and 8 resins for piss all is kinda frustrating.

At least I got the rope (rolled 2.5 CR and 22.5 CD), just need an Orb with decent CR and I'm good.

Disclaimer: High cost team, not meant to be relatable, or insinuate Robin is BIS or that she has great synergy with Evanescia. This is purely for fun and limit testing. If you don't appreciate that, this post just isn't for you.

Team is E2S1 Evanescia/Yao/Robin and E1S5 Shared Feeling Huohuo. Everyone is using their BIS relics with 25-35 sub builds. I used the second buff that recovers energy.

Gepard side was a mindless stomp because enemies are weak to Physical (3 Cycles + 43 AV left).

Pom-Pom side is tanky as hell, even if I could generate some PL it still took a while (2 Cycles + 84 AV left).

E-Deer side wasn't so bad, the counter from the plants gave Evanescia some extra energy. With some better RNG I could have finished the fight earlier (2 Cycles + 91 AV left).

I'd love to disclose specific rotations and interactions with Robin if anyone's interested.

With Huohuo and Robin both being redeemable without pulling, I used my currency to get their Eidolons and had the idea of pairing both with Evanescia.

The idea is to buff Evanescia's speed so much that she is able to battery herself frequently with her skill + PL generation (that's a whopping 10 PL each skill) and Yao Guang's E1 does most of the heavy lifting.

The team's synergy increases because Yao scales well with Speed and she hits 220+ Speed in battle, turning some of that Speed into Elation for Evanescia.

To sum up, Evanescia and Yao's frequent turns and attacks both on and outside of their turns battery Robin to maintain complete uptime on her ultimate and Huohuo fills the sustain slot perfectly.

Speaking more on Huohuo, it's important that she skills every turn to make use of Shared Feeling and to maintain a 3T ultimate rotation, or else the team kinda falls apart.

And Robin contributes with some minor damage due to all the FUAs and Elation Skills happening. I could even build Robin for damage, but I feel like that's a waste of energy lol.

Of course, I'm not telling you you should do the same (get Robin copies for this) or that Robin is superior to EMC. In my experience, they perform about the same but that's only because both Evanescia and Yao are E2S1.

My goal is to get just a tad bit of Speed on Evanescia so she's effectively at 200 Speed, even if I have to sacrifice a bit of CD to reach this new breakpoint.

Have fun playing however you want people. If yo have any questions, I'd be happy to reply.

Thought of trying to full clear it one more time before the refresh and I was impressed by Archer's performance. Dude's a beast.

Team cost: E1S1 Archer / E0S1 Rin (Herta's S1) / E1S0 Sparkle / E1S0 Huohuo / Total cost is 9

Some notes:

• Sparkle is running Bronya's Light Cone (S3) and Huohuo is running Shared Feeling (S5) to make sure I'm able to use as much ultimates as possible out of everyone, even if Sparkle already has more than enough energy to 2T ult;
• Sparkle also has 200 Speed in battle (173 on character sheet with 4pc Sarcedos);
• Archer always shoots 4-5 arrows and Rin uses her skill whenever possible to cycle as many ultimates as possible to spread AoE damage;
• With Herta's S1 on Rin, the SP economy is pretty much solved. Everyone can constantly use their skills with little chance of messing up a rotation. Even Huohuo used her skill all the time except when she already had enough energy to ult with just a basic attack;
• Hard focusing the boss with the help of the Def Shred debuff is a must, no time to kill adds when overtime Archer's arrows deal more damage than the guaranteed 4% true damage, plus on wave 3 you need 2 arrows to kill the minions anyway;
• Archer is using Rutilant, so his Relics aren't even optimized;
• I still had two Rin turns and a Sparkle (Archer) turn, so there's still some leeway on the damage side. Worse Relics than the ones I have on Archer and Rin should still work;
• No RNG was required for this run.

The fact that Archer can 40k Pure Fiction just boggles my mind, man. He's doing as well as my Herta with similar investments.

Taking away 91% of her HP in a single hit with no break is CRAZY. Dahlia really did a number of Firefly teams and somehow SparxieCon shills Firefly more than Elation characters.

Team is E2S1 Firefly, E2S1 Dahlia, E2S1 Fugue and E1S5 BP Ruan Mei.

Now that Stalwart released I can try a fun challenge I like to do once a while, to only use characters of the same element, since have a pretty decent balance of horizontal and vertical investments in my account as a day 1 player.

What you may find interesting is how I preferred Preservation MC over Lingsha or even Gallagher and there's no particular reason for it other than some added challenge for my strongest team.

Archer had the clear that surprised me best by far. Fu Xuan sustain and suboptimal builds (had to drop Banana since I'm not using DHPT) and he still cleared Reaver with just one Cycle. That's really impressive.

And another fun interaction I'd like to add is the "synergy" of Evanescia and Robin. Since Evanescia attacks so often, she's a good battery for Robin. I had no ultimate uptime issues.

Tomorrow I'll try Pure Fiction and I'll make sure to post around the same time today. Cheers.

Damage was fine but there were some close calls with unlucky targeting, what do you think of these teams?

• Archer's team has 11 cost (including gifted Units/LCs)
• Firefly's team has 14 cost
• Evanescia's team has 10 cost

If this post gets some attention there's bound to be someone commenting "you don't need X cost to 0 Cycle, this chinese player did it with just Y" and that isn't the point. Just sharing something that feels like an accomplishment to me.

No limited LCs needed, as long as you have enough damage you can completely decimate Argenti's toughness bar in both phases.

I have Anaxa and Tribbie as damage dealers to avoid leaving the bots at 1% (it happened a lot in my test runs).

Herta's gear is great, but maybe I should have Anaxa and Tribbie as batteries instead of damage dealers? 7 limited cost and 5 standard cost.

I also just like looking at data and having things neat in a file makes it so I don't have to remember specifics like how every team I use pairs up against popular debuffs in AA like Depower and the one that requires FUAs and Elation Skills to dispel a damage reduction buff.