r/stygian_onslaught

I want to preface by saying I'd like to NOT pull on the 7.2 banners if possible. Assuming the first team clears the electro dude (either with alyosha or xilo) and crab being obliterated, Gecko on Dire is a bit unclear.

I didn't want to crowd the image so you may assume any 4*s are C6 and 5*s have their sigs unless stated otherwise (Special Notes: Odette on R2 Freedom Sworn, Flins on Homa, Ineffa on CQ).

An idea of where the characters sit right now in terms of DPS in full premium teams:
Vesna: 430k
Sandrone: 390k
Skirk: 360k
Nefer: 300k
Flins: 240k
Melt Mavuika: 230k
Vesna w/o Odette: 230k (cleared cryo lady w/ this)

My initial thought was some sort of Skirk team with Chongyun replacing either Furina or Vod. I'm sure neither furina nor escoffier is necessary for crab so that isn't a restriction. I haven't seen any clears with C2 Bina as the only vertical for Nefer so it might not be possible. And finally Vesna looks to be benched this Stygian cycle unfortunately.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

this took me like 3 days and 90% of it was learning the Mavuika melt combo only to realize i don't have enough damage without her weapon 💀

SSA was the easiest by far and I absolutely hated it when it first came around, but now it's really just a free win lol

like what the helly. varka team is the only one that clears dire (113s), but skirk is on vesna's sig, furina is on key (and c6 like cmon), wrio r1 and odetter r1. WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING WRONG

I can clear the second fight pretty easily by replacing Furina with Vodya, but if I do that then I can’t get the clear on gramps. I’ve been at it for awhile now and not sure what to do

Edit: got the clear woo! 🥹

After spending more than 7 hours I finally made it!

At first I was using
- Yae on Tenacity and Thousand of floating dream
- Odette on Furnace and Azurelight
- Xilinen on Instructor and Favonious

There was a small amount of hp left as no matter how many attempts I couldn’t make it so I made some adjustments and I finally made it with couple attempts

I used
- Yae on Furnace and Echoes of heart R5
- Odette on Tenacity and Azurelight
- Xilonen the same

And I changed my rotation from Sandrone using her burst at the beginnings of rotation to after the first overheat charge attack. My burst went up from 700-800k to about 900k. With these change I ended up meet the damage requirement

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Having to decide which team I was going to nerf without Odette was tough. I’m confident my C2 Wriothesley could’ve cleared the maiden if I’d been able to slot Odette, but then I probably wouldn’t have been able to beat the old man.

I was actually a little surprised my Lohen team managed to clear. Slotting Mona in was just cope 😭 Maybe C2 Prune would’ve been better, but mine isn’t geared and I was already getting pretty annoyed trying to clear.

Zibai on the maiden was definitely the hardest for me because I couldn’t break her shield, so I basically had to let her heal up. I also have a C2 Mualani team with C2 Mavuika, but my Mavuika gameplay is... not something I’m ready to write home about 💀 I did clear with them, but it was around 120s, while Zibai was just a little faster. If I could actually do proper CA cancels, I probably could’ve gotten it lower on another team.

But honestly, how are you guys feeling about Stygian? Because all this really did was make me even more ready for the Tsaritsa. If the leaks about the 30% shred, 48% ATK buff and “elevation” are true, those numbers are looking very Odette C2-ish to me and could open up some really interesting Stellar team options.

Maybe Her Majesty can finally free Odette up for one of my teams and Xilonen can get back to fixing Mauvs bike before the next cataclysm 😭 Looking forward to a team where Wriothesley might get Odette + Danica <3

Anyway, I’m just giving Her Majesty to Vesna.

This is my strongest team, other characters and weapons in comments

Hit AR60 and got my first dire clear in the same day

hi

After 3 hours trying to replicate sandrone c0r1 clears from billi billi w my c0r1 (mav sig) and sucrose, i decided to give up and bring my Nicole

Chud is probably the most disgusting boss we had? Poor vesna getting cryo aura-ed lmao. The clear is not optimized at all, i just first tried with nicole and moved on to grind pavlina

the thing is... Pavlina is not trivial at ALL. She dodges, iframes, and sometimes delay her shield phase (like stare at you for absolutely no reason when u have 30 sec left). So it required quite an RNG grind, on top of optimizations in the rotation, such as skiping bennet burst before the second shied phase, and durin's burst in the first rotation too.

Weapons:

chud: Mav sig, fav, traveller sig, fav

SSA: Skirk sig, ttds, fav, Pamber

Pavlina: Varka sig, Nicole sig (i swear i wish Oathsworn Eye, she misses the ER so much), fav, Aquila.