u/SharkPower664

Been farming this set for months, and now, i have a near perfect archer. Absolute Cinema.

My first Aeon tier-rated character.

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Been playing the game since the 29th of feb 2024 (2 years) and I normally never spend money on any vid games. This is the first time I have spent money on a vid game, and it was 1000% worth the money. Anyone who is thinking about getting this skin, should get it within its discount period.

Hope everyone who wanted this skin, would have gotten it till now, or get it within its discount period, All hail Castorice.

I own Cerydra, I pulled for her cuz I love her design, character and story. I pulled her knowing she was made for Phainon/Anaxa and I have no regret even though I own neither of them. I do not own mydei and I sometimes use her with my Archer for the sake of using her.

I feel like, as a 5* Harmony unit, she is very underwhelming who gets beat in many aspects and is very half-baked. (might be because my cerydra is built bad? i don't think so, but yeah)

All I am is just a tad bit confused about her kit and what she could've been.

She is a skill-atk buff unit that buffs skill dmg and does a copy of that skill after reaching 6 stacks. But she has really high self-dmg multipliers that do jack-shit cuz she literally only damages once, and thats during her ult. Her other instances of dmg, where she deals a bit of dmg from the buffed ally is very little and doesn't make sense to have such high self crit dmg multipliers :/

Her buffs as a harmony unit is very less as compared to her competition and even her "skill dmg buff" does not outclass other harmony units that can buff most units just universally, ex- Ruanmei, Tribbie and all. For me, my e1s1 ruan mei, tends to be better than my e0s0 Cerydra for archer. Ruanmei is as old as a universal support as it gets. Hell even Welt at e4 is better than my girl😭😭(in a sustain-less team cuz of his action delay)

In one talent she does not pull up the character but gives her and the selected ally a 20speed buff, which is aight ig, its and alright talent, no complaints, its fine.

Her talent, where only once instance of ult used by selected ally provides one military merit only once throughout the match is something i find extremely dumb and it can only be used by Phainon backed up by Cyrene who won't be ulting often. -> weird talent which is very unviable :/

Why does she have such high dmg multipliers and self buffs if she has no source of dmg? if she had follow-up attacks like tribbie, it would have made sense. I feel like she got the Jiaoqiu treatment for Acheron. Literally can barely exist in any other team than Phainon and Anaxa (that too tribbie is better depending upon the team), when used otherwise, is just one of the worser options with wayy better alternatives. Even if the dps is 100% reliant on their skill, like archer - who still benefits more from tribbie, who is an aoe dmg buffer, and still does better than Cerydra for a single target-attacker unit like Archer who does only skill dmg.

Her e1 is just for Phainon with providing 2 energy, but the def by-pass is pretty good.

I just feel like, she could've been a good unit if they made her a sub-dps where like every 2 stacks of military merit obtained, she does a follow-up atk, and also her buffs on the ally increases by every singular increase in Merit points where once it reaches 6 stacks, the normal skill used does alot more dmg and all. If she follow such a route, her dmg multipliers wouldn't be a waste and also her "Harmony" aspect of buffing characters wouldn't be soo underwhelming.

Harmony characters that are released for a niche should be doing the best job in that niche, is what i believe. Ruanmei in breaking and break teams was undisputed, but as time came by, she got powercrept-> to be expected of an old unit but she still pushes through -> unliek cerydra who is a newer unit and worser :CC

I hope they are able to fix her kit in the future with a GOOD novaflare, as i love her. I will be pulling for her LC in the future so she can become somewhat more viable.

Team are:

Node 1 -> e2s5(tutorial) Welt, e1s1 Sparkle, e0s5(event lc) Cerydra, e1s5(DDD) Tribbie.

Node 2 -> e2s1 Castorice, e0s1 Evernight, e1s1 Hyacine, e0s0 Cyrene