Zankou and Linko's kits are up
So as you might know CN is a week early patch wise compared to global wich means Zankou's and Linko's Kits are mostly 'out there' in CN and ... oh boy they're interesting. Linko especially. Based on an hour or so of translating / reading i've done:
Zankou: >!mostly just a pretty standard Main DPS. She has some intricacies and i suspect we havn't gotten her bis partner yet. She has some spicy damage buff in her awakenings but nothing quiet QoL like we saw with Mosa or Shinku. She has a DoT, She has Follow Up Attack damage and she has that stance switching double ulti we saw but doesn't require much special team-mate accomodations if you're not pulling copies. Also seems to be able to keep up Scorch indefinetly by herself as long as DoT damage is being dealt.!<
>!I'm not sure what her team would look like at the moment or more specifically if you want to go something like Daff / Mosa (her passive revolves around Scorch you want one of them) Zankou as a core then either Fadia / Haniel to try for discord or something like Sakiri + Linko to just focus on Scorch Damage and Follow Up Damage.!<
Link on the other hand: >!IS A GODDAMN TRIPPLE CYCLER (at 2 copies). She has one Node that makes her E trigger Esper Cycle Reactions and another Node that makes her Held Basic Attack Reset her E cooldown. NOW this only applies to E and only teammates she can react with, bringing in a Lakshana Character won't apply Remora for example. Her passive Buffs Hexed Damage % and also Buff Follow-Up attack Damage. Now. As a Zankou Team-mate these Copies don't seem important cos you can't 'stack' hexxed. You save Zankou some Cycle Energy but between Zankou seemingly being able to constantly refresh Scorch and If you have a copy of Linko to Free-Trigger Hexxed... Zankou's doing nothing with her Esper Cycle meeter. So for Zankou something like Daff / Zankou / Linko + Sakiri or Haniel at A0 all seem fine out of the box.!<
>!In an Anima team is where things get Nutty however and it's no Coincidence Hotori / Nanally are rerunning. Remember the old MC / Jityuan / Nanally / Hotori Team? Yes well Welcome to Hotori / Nanally / Linko (A2) / Sakiri. It's an Anima / Follow Up attack Paradise!!<
Addendum: Putting this in the original post so it doesn't get buried in a comment:
>!OK i have some ... dirty new info i wanted to double check.!<
>!Illusion state ENDS if Zankou goes Off field. A1 let's you keep her Illusion BUFF but the illusion state its self will End.!<
>!Illusion State's baseline Duration is 8 seconds.!<
>!Her DoT Heartrend or whatever it gets localized to stacks up to 10 stacks.!<
>!Her A6 lets her Enhanced Illusion State E 12% Extra Damage per DoT Stack up to 240% (20 stacks)!<
>!The window to trigger her Enhanced E is the last 3 seconds of Illusion State!<
>!Some of you might see where i'm going with this but why does this matter? Well Her DoT is 10 stacks and she can stack Sorch to 3 stacks. Where's the other 7 DoT Stacks coming from?!<
>!Almighty Lord of Tomatoes - Extends Nightmare duration to 6s.!<
>!So if you Ult on Mos and IMEDIATELY swap to Zankou and E you have a ONE SECOND overlap where you can get her full A6 Nuke - Ow and the 10 stacks of Nightmare are also benefiting from Zankou's Illusion buff (+50% DoT Critical Damage)!<
>!*) I don't know if this results in more damage vs her Awakening that makes her 300% damage buff apply to Both ultimates but i'm GUESSING you're ulting every 2-3 Illusion cycles while you'd E every cycle. Also Mosa Sneeze the non-transforming E applies 5 stacks of nightmare - hell i THINK if you only have one copy of Mosa and don't want to the Instant Cycle thing you can un-equip her transformation and just get the Sneeze each E? (Like the Tutorial Mosa) And that applies 5 stacks AND Winds up the Frying pan wich will apply some stacks and refresh the stacks at the END of the animation. You can E -> Basic attack and Switch OFF Mosa immediately, She will complete the animation before going off field. It's how i use her to consume Daff's Ult stacks.!<
>!PS: This is Psychotic levels of min maxing but there's MIGHT be an E form that has SUCH a long wind-up that you don't even need the Lord of Tomatoes with some insane sub 0.5 second timing. I know the Black Tome form for example is pretty fast compared to say the Tomato Devil form wich takes a while to wind up. (Do the Form changes also apply nightmare? I think everything she does applies Nightmare right?)!<
