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Very funny prank in this week's new Annihilation map: The Thermal Heat Vents count as unkillable targets, meaning if you activate Laptop the Despacito's S3, her wolves get stuck on them forever and neutralize her global potential (as the wolves target whichever enemy is closest to them which is often the vents) making this the Goldenglow show

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A DUBIOUS little creature up to MISCHIEF

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Hmm, my conclusion is that Lapp Caster is an M9 unit.

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The funny thing is that if you ever start thinking a bit too hard about how strong operators are in lore you realize that so many shiny cool six-stars actually kinda suck ass

I'm pretty sure if Mandragora was one of them she could easily aim to be in the upper half

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Opinion on crownslayer ? She worth raising?

I think with her second module coming out in the anniversary event, Crownslayer's S3 is legitimately good. The module increases the duration of Crownslayer's stuns by a whopping +50%, which makes her S3 permastun up to 3 targets. That's 18 seconds. Eighteen. On 3 enemies. That's bananas.

In general, Crownslayer's poor reputation comes from her being a defensively-minded Executor Specialist instead of an offensive one, which is an extremely difficult niche to justify when your main competitor is 4 star Gravel.

It had to be done though, because Executors with damage are just so busted as a concept since they're low DP cost low redeployment time units that essentially have no tradeoffs once they start dealing Surtr level damage like Texas the Overpowered.

On the other hand, defense is not as valuable as offense until the game becomes actually hard (when it's trending easier and easier), and it is also really difficult to compete in the same stalling niche as a cheap 4 star that drops with a 3.5x HP bar.

It's not that Crownslayer was completely incompetent at her defense job ("she can't even oneshot a dog" she was supposed to stall enemies I'm sure any one of your 11 other operators can kill a dog), but as a 6 star her opportunity cost vs your cheaper, older choices did not make her look appealing unless you really liked her.

In CN though, she's now got one of the longest stuns in the game on a fast redeploy unit. I'm fairly certain someone's eventually going to do some infinite stun loop clear with Crownslayer S3 + Eunectes S2

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What the fuck is going ON in this event?

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This might sound dumb (I don't know everything about negative statuses and debuffs) but what went wrong with sleep in arknights? Was it just one of those that Hypergryph made and then decided not to do anything with it?

It's still there, sleep is just kind of shallow in terms of possible interactions. You can either make an operator deal damage through sleep (and thus just making it a longer duration stun which only longer because you can't normally damage sleeping enemies) or not, and that doesn't leave you with much to play around given the current tools in game.

Imo, the two most creative uses for sleep are good examples of why we don't see too much of it in the first place.

The first was Kafka + FEater bunching up enemies together. People would do meme videos where they'd destroy every enemy in a map in a single skill, mostly by sleeping the starting enemies with Kafka to make them undamageable and then pushing them backwards with FEater. Not very practical, but made for funny meme videos. HG acknowledged this niche when they made Enforcer's push deal 0 damage, but this also meant they bypassed the sleep portion of the strategy entirely.

The second was Erato + Mr Nothing's stall vs The Last Knight, who is the single most abysmally dogshit uninteractive boss that Arknights has ever made. The Last Knight freezes your operators when they hit him, but is vulnerable to CC himself.

This was before the era of Typhon or Wisadel or elemental damage, so at Difficulty 15 the most reliable way to kill the guy without relying on collectible RNG was to stall him forever. Erato would sleep TLK, making him unable to be attacked. This would charge up Nothing's talent, which stuns an enemy if he hasn't attacked for a while. As soon as the sleep would end, TLK would get hit with the stun, then Nothing freezes himself, then Erato sleeps TLK again, repeat.

This was one of the most innovative and technically impressive 5 star clears in the history of the game, and also sucked doodoo to be, at the time, the only reliable way to kill that fucking guy.

Sleep just slows the game down a lot when it's actually used as sleep, or becomes the creator of an exclusive club when units can damage enemies through sleep. They put in enough units to support the Blemishine sleep squad, so there's not much reason to add more unless they can get really creative with it.

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A delta module.

FOR THORNS????

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This one's for you, Anon

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He's so fucking funny actually

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i felt a lot of strong feelings over this

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I almost lost hope...

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"Don't worry my brother's asleep, no one will interrupt us this time-"

"Arturia can you stop fucking around."

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WE'RE SENDING THE CONFESSION BOOTH INTO BATTLE NOW???????? arknights is the game ever