#ch'en the holungday

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Arknights x 奈雪的茶 / artist post

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Arknights Blorbissimo Series

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[tenkain]

[astr-hal]

beach holungday

[heseipikmin]

Race Queen Ch'en

[curekiss]

[alkalische]

After hearing the Executor Alter rumours, I'm once again reminded of the incredibly funny story of how Ch'en managed to powercreep Executor in literally every way in what i assumed to be a direct, targeted attack by the folks over at hypergryph

Starting off with gameplay comparisons-

Executor's a 5 star spreadshooter?

Well, Holungday is a 6 star spreadshooter, with higher stats and TWO talents. And also live 2D.

Executor gets to choose between a big attack buff (s1) or double hitting (s2)?

Ch'en gets BOTH of those things, plus a big FUCK YOU defense and movement speed debuff (s3).

The def debuff is also higher than the amount of def ignore that Executor gets from his talent, and it's also a debuff, which means surrounding allies can benefit from it. So, y'know, better than him in every single way.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. This also extends to their base skills.

Executor's base skill makes it such that all sniper training speed is improved by +30%.

WELL, Holungday's base skill has that +30% increase, but also an ADDITIONAL effect of increasing it by +65% if upgrading to M1.

'It's alright,' you might say. 'Both of Holungday's base skill slots are for the training room. There's no way Executor's boring control center skill can be touched, right?"

THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE WRONG. Base Ch'en has that, as well as an additional effect that stacks with other LGD operators in the control center. While not particular a significant or useful buff, it's still an upgrade.

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[nero-draco]

Ch'en: Its over Lin I have the high ground!

[joanrisu]

I have a question about Ch'en Alter

What was the controversy? I took a hiatus from the game and missed the event's original run, so I'm a little lost on what happened.

[innovatorbunny]

hypergryph really said "yeah you guys dont care about dusk right??? surely you only like chalter right???? its ok if she rips off her whole aesthetic right?????"

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[kitkatmelon]

id draw mizuki but thats my 3rd Idea today and i cant do any of them because i Need To Finish The OC Art

[ouroborosorder]

i am still consistantly so mad about Hortus de Escapismo. sure i haven't read it but i have like. no interest to. you know how bad you have to fuck it in order for me to not care?? reaper is my favorite class of operator and laterano is my favorite story arc. somehow you managed to follow up on the only uninteresting plot thread in laterano and then made the 6* reaper an alter for the most boring man in the game. how did you manage this

[burstfoot]

which Operator in your opinion has the biggest disparity between game performance and lore strength?

Weak in-lore, strong in-game: Goldenglow is a hairdresser who has never once experienced combat, takes elementary-school level arts classes to control her (admittedly uniquely powerful, but uncontrolled and wild) arts, and generally has no desire to be on the battlefield, to the point that multiple of her lines are about her panicking or being baffled you select her for combat. In game, she's a 6-star caster who can directly target any enemy from anywhere on the map with pinpoint precision, and is one of the best casters in the entire game. Strong-in-lore, weak in game: Santalla, who many people thought would be a 6-star before Black Forest came out, with a reputation for a legendarily strong control over snow and ice, and a kill count on trained Ursus soldiers potentially in the dozens - is a 5 star splash caster, who, while she has an admittedly strong S2 if you know how to use it, suffers from all of the drawbacks other splash casters do - long attack interval, unreasonably high DP cost, etc.

Honorable Mentions: Weak-in-lore, strong in-game: Upcoming Zuo Le, who is a very young Yanese soldier and not particularly strong as of Vernal Winds: The strongest Musha in the entire game, powercreeping the hell out of Hellagur, who is a very experienced and trained war-veteran

Ch'en the Holungday: Ch'en is very experienced in combat. However, I don't think her putting on a bikini and getting a pressurized water gun would logically make her an infamously overpowered unit Penance: Just a judge with no combat experience, incredibly tanky and able to solo the Patriot stage all by herself in-game. U-Official: Her self-stun ability sounds silly, but being able to stun enemies for that long at 3dp and 0 deployment cost is actually one of the strongest abilities in the game and has saved me from leaking on multiple IS stages. In lore she is a stupid streamer who's money hungry and can't do fucking anything, but she's probably the strongest 1 star unit.

Strong-in-lore, weak-in-game: Rosmontis is an extremely powerful telekinetic caster who can tear buildings apart with her arts, but in-game, her subclasses mechanics mean she's handicapped by basically any enemy with above-average defense, on top of being entirely incapable of hitting aerial units.

Scavenger & Projekt Red: Both members of Kal'tsits personal special execution squad - neither are particularly bad units, but being a member of S.W.E.E.P. should probably realistically put you above 4 and 5 stars respectively. Dusk: A fragment of Sui, able to create pocket dimensions to trap people for extended periods of time within her art, a ridiculously powerful ability: Suffers from many of the same problems as Santalla being a splash caster, but at least her module and being a 6-star makes her better. Most accurately powerful unit: Logos, who in-game is the King of the Banshees and has legendarily powerful arts, is probably the strongest caster in the entire game on CN right now.

[heseipikmin]

This would be Ch'en the Holungday if HG was not fucking around with her kit design‼️

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

Been thinking about this lately but if the conspiracy theories are actually right and Ch'en got phased out of relevancy for the Holungday controversy, I think that actually is really disappointing from a lot of different perspectives. I hope that isn't true, because I do actually like Ch'en a lot as a character, and her last appearance probably shouldn't be Dossoles.