#dp x sp

[bluesinnamonroll]

Sorry for literally never posting i keep forgetting to take pics of my traditional art so I just don't post anything lol

Anything whoag my cringe hyperfixations slapped together <3 I swear this makes sense in my brain but i refuse to explain any of it bc I dont talk abt this with anyone

[coffeestainsandmeteorshowers]

*bangs on your door at 4;04am* au where Tweek is a failed clone of Danny and Vlad basically let him go (eg; let him run bc Vlad thought Tweek was just gna die anyways) because Tweek only got Danny’s eye colour and otherwise looks drastically different. Tweek doesn't know they’re a clone and his parents don't bring it up with them. Tweek finds out coz they get hit by lightning and “go ghost”, to which he realises he looks eerily similar to that freaky ghost kid in Amity Park and he will not let their parents escape the conversation.

Danny finds out he has another Clone Sibling™ and immediately tries to find him but Tweek is a paranoid and slippy little fucker so he can't find him on the internet at all so he treks all the way to where the Ghost Sense is taking him, ends up in this fuckin weird town and meets his OTHER clone who is the least danny-like clone he has ever seen

[emotional-otter]

Red = mcu x dp. Black/White = dc x dp. Green = dp x mha. Yellow = hp x dp. Orange = sp x dp.

How not to get adopted by bruce wayne: an incomplete guide by Evandarya. Close enough to be whole again by hailsatanacab. Raising Phantom by imp_y. Ghost in the big city by fiery_fics. BatCat Spectre by Tathartiel. A Little Overshadowing Never Hurt Anyone by Playedcrowd5610. Finding Solace by KettleFire. Wayne's haunted mansion by Tathartiel. Adopted By A Ghostling by Omnicrex. You Can't Punch A Ghost by Internal_Screaming. 30 Days of Kidnappings by Hyperintrovert. Have Faith in me by DisillusionedDanny. Batcows New BFF by ziazippy5379. Crashing through worlds by PickleofwhichisFickle64. Worthy by halfagone (milkywxy). Devil, meet Ghost by TorScrawls. Child Heroes Sometimes Need Saving by DevilsCourt. When Your Stalker Joins You For a Ritual by DevilsCourt. Contract Curfuffle by DevilsCourt. Of Course It's a Cult by DevilsCourt. How to live (when you've long been dead) by DisorganizedKitten. Sometimes We Should Fear Men, Not Monsters by UnderApollo (Jack_Vasquez). ghostly protector by Saralley. Whats One More? by CraveSweets. the lost and forgotten kids (lead the towards other tomorrows) by surely_silly. Things That Go Bump In The Night by Le_Ghost_Writer. Ghostly Adopted by spaztasticabouteverything. Sending You Off to Die!...I Mean, Japan by Kree_Minory [and the rest of that series is good]

These are all on ao3.

please recommended some dp or fnaf x [crossover here] fics please

i cant find any to read

also if you could could it be young justice related

[narwhalandchill]

got requested to share my xueyi build so!!! here it is :]

(+ EU server crew - shes on my supports rn if u wanna add me to try her out alongside e1 RM and e0s1 blade)

anyway some notes:

a bit of xueyi 101 to start out jic - the atk orb and break rope are the standard for her; her break effect to dmg% conversion A2 trace makes quantum dmg a joke whereas her sources of atk are very limited. build-wise as this freaky puppetcore weirdgirl crit/break hybrid she wants it all rly; both crit, BE and atk, but prioritizing crit until some sort of 1:2 (guides tend to put 60/120 as the baseline) is key.

S5 aeon is perfectly fine and its what i used to have on her, i pulled indelible promise in order to end the custody battle over aeon between her and DHIL lmao (+ new gacha 4* LCs in hsr are like new 4* charas luckily - indelible promise after its initial release patch in 2.0 is now a permanent offrate on all banners except for beginner, phew). the crit on it is especially nice, rly hope i get spooked with some superimpositions in the future.

she shouldnt be on glamoth anymore really - this showcase is with her on spd boots (as you can see. duh) and she does reach the 135 spd for the 1st glamoth buff requirement when with RM (which is every time i play her) so its fine, but as i swap to atk boots when with sparkle im sure you can see why it would be... suboptimal. problem is. well. look at her rope. still havent managed to roll a comparable salsotto one so 💀 we live with this.

her relics are still a bit scuffed (chest and both her atk and spd boots are. fine. but could be better) but since i often have fx and sparkle patching up her crit its fine for now.

also yes i shouldve unlocked those last few quantum dmg and BE traces ages ago but its not rly that impactful when her dmg% is already as high as it is with the amount of BE i have on her so oh well x)

obviously given her dependence on break xueyis far from an universal dps - i only use her in heavily quantum weak fights (or in SU where u can get blessings to spam her ult for the weakness ignoring attack) but when she gets to shine she shreds So hard i love her sm 🥰🥰

+ heres the atk boots build ig. not that much changing as you can see but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[asshole16]

I put some spideypool on my wall 🫡

[thelittlestspider]

the page in question

the fact that peter was looking at the selfie they took together right before wade kills him makes me sick.

[soullessdianthus]

♡‧₊˚✧˖° | Biker!Alejando X Reader X Biker!Rudy

s: biker!au with Los Vaqueros and inappropriate, polygamous relationship with a younger reader, because I was asked a few times to write for perv!Ale ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) I'm more than willing to elabroate on this au *wink wink*

w: age gap (reader is in early to mid twenties, ale and rudy around their forties), mentions of drug dealing and violence, nfsw (daddy kink, dp, oral m!reciving)

It all started innocently as you started working at the local diner during the summer break. The place was vintage and messy, but served the most delicious food in Las Almas. People came here at each time of the day, bringing their family for a meal or a drink. 

Despite being rather reserved towards strangers you enjoyed working there and talking to people. However, the night shifts were the worst part as you had to close the register and the diner alone and then walk to the nearest bus stop to catch a ride home. 

Everyone knew that nightlife in Las Almas was dangerous, especially for such an innocent and sweet person as you. Drug dealers sneaking around each corner, drunken bar fights and more – who knows, maybe you poured them a cup of morning coffee earlier? 

And those damned Los Vaqueros, a local motorcycle club who self-proclaimed themselves as a deputy of the locals. It was true that they did in fact condemn the cartel’s doing by smuggling narcotics and slowly were cleaning the city out, but they were smuggling weapons at the same time! 

The bikers would often come by to the diner you worked at to have a feast or just a couple of refreshing drinks on their way. They were customers like everyone else and as long as they were overall behaving decently, you weren’t opposed to serving them their orders. 

It wasn’t the first time you caught their vice president – Rudy, staring at you. However, it wasn’t a rude or creepy kind of staring, no. The man seemed quite polite and he always tipped you well. He wasn’t handsy and smiled at you each time you served him his favorite dessert. You grew to have a tiny little crush on him.

So it wasn’t a big surprise when the president himself and Rudy’s best friend – Alejandro finally noticed you too (it didn’t take that long to be honest). And even regarding the circumstances, you didn't mind their attention. You felt... kind of special? An apple in the eyes of older men who found you pretty. What was wrong with that?

One evening, when the sun had set behind the horizon and only a few customers were left, Alejandro and Rudy decided to stop at the diner. They sat in the farthest booth in the corner, tall walls separating them from the rest of the restaurant.

When you placed their bottles of frozen cola on the table, a sudden yank on your forearm made you lose your balance. It was the president of LV himself that pulled you into his lap with no shame at all. 

You had fallen onto his spreaded thighs, hand clutching onto his leather vest as you looked at Rudy sitting across the table with wide eyes. 

— So clumsy — Alejandro clicked with his tongue, a proud smirk painting on his tanned face when he noticed you blushing — and so pretty, no? I see why you like her, hermano.

— Don’t scare her, pendejo [sp.: idiot]. — His friend said, flustered by this whole situation. Rudy continued to play with the bottle’s metal cap between his fingers.

— Sir, I have to go back to work. 

You stated the truth, trying to wiggle out of his grip and to stand up. But the man was stronger and so he wrapped his bulky arm around your waist. His muscles were so soft and warm and...

— Ay, not so quickly, ninfa [sp.: young girl] — Alejandro pulled you back onto his lap, causing the hem of your skirt to roll up your thighs — my friend here, he always tips you well, yes?

The raven-haired man knew how to wrap a woman around his finger. Better, he knew how to cast spells, because when his coarse palm made contact with the smooth skin of your exposed thigh, you shivered with excitement. 

— Y-Yes? He’s very kind.

— You like him? — He continued to stroke your pretty leg as you looked at the soft look in Rodolfo’s eyes. — Don’t you think you should thank him? 

— I always… — You were extremely confused, when you retraced your head towards the president of Los Vaqueros and then back to the object of your crush. — T-Thank you, sir.

— Not like that, silly. Let him take you out, hm? How about that?

Alejandro chuckled and bounced his leg at the same time, causing you to catch an embarrassing gasp in your throat. 

— We can go to the park or grab a coffee if you’d like. — Rudy finally spoke, moving around in his seat, obviously content that you were even considering the offer of a date. 

You bit down on your lip, before responding as Ale pulled the clean napkin closer to the edge. 

— O-Okay, I’d like that.

— Write your number, sweetheart. 

The man who served as your personal chair pointed at the napkin. Without further fuss you grabbed the pen from the apron that was underlining your curves just right and wrote down the numbers. Only then, Alejandro released you from his grip and helped you get up, smoothing the material of skirt. 

— That’s a good girl. Go back to work. 

And just before you could glance at them for the last time and leave, the raven-haired biker playfully slapped your ass through the clothes, causing you to walk faster. The eggs that table number seven ordered must have gone cold by now. 

The two older men left you flustered, blushing and conflicted about your morals – they were probably twice your age! So how did they manage to speed the beating of your heart and arousal pool in your panties? 

That one, innocent park date with Rudy turned into another few meetings, but the whole “thing” started to include Alejandro as well. So now it was the three of you in one relationship. 

They clearly made it clear to the other club members that you were their girl, because none of them dared to stare at you for too long. Oh God, forbid others touching you. One of your older boyfriends would pick you up after work, so you didn’t have to take that shady bus at night. At the same time taking you for a short ride on their bikes. 

Dear heavens, how Rudy adored when you hugged to his broad back so tightly, afraid of falling off the motorcycle. Since the first meet up, he felt responsible for something as fragile as you.

When in public they always kept their arms hooked around you, caging from the dangers of the world – because you were such a sweet and pure soul, too good for Las Almas’ ugliness or violence. 

Sleeping between them in huge bed became a daily routine as much as them fucking you nicely to sleep. 

When Rudy was trying to keep the thrust of his hips steady and not too rough, Alejandro was a complete opposite. They would take you at the same time, raven-haired telling you to swallow his throbbing cock down your throat, meanwhile Rodolfo would play with your pussy until your slick dripped down his wrist and only then, he would finally stretch your cunny on his big, swollen shaft. 

— Come on, be a good girl for daddies. — Ale would be the one with the dirtiest mouth on the planet. His filthy remarks caused you to blush and feel humiliated, especially when he constantly reminded you how this relationship is deranged, because of the age difference. 

He fucking adored when you referred to him as “daddy” or clung to him, desperate for attention, basically crawling up his lap.

At the same time, Rudy would fuck you gently, both of his hands on your hips, helping you to stay put. The vice president was the one to worship you in bed and do all the work for you and your pleasure. He secretly loved when you marked him with your soft, plump lips – hickeys, bite marks, but also scratches on his toned back caused by your nails. 

There was a fine line between the personalities of your older boyfriends, nonetheless you loved them the same. For them, finding such a controversial little girlfriend to share and play with was like a new purpose sent from heaven. 

It was like walking around a sketchy neighborhood with two dobermans by your side.

[miltonbarbie]

What does Stan's friend group love about you? (Sp x F!y/n) </3

Warning(s): Slight NSFW

Reader is Female, and in these scenario you and your dp (Desired person, for example: Kyle) are already in an established relationship.

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Stan🎧💙 :

Dude loves any form of affection you give him, whether it be quick kisses to long, warm hugs, he feels like he'll throw up any second.

He wishes he could call you pet names but he's gonna get sick in the stomach REAL fast.

he also makes playlists of songs that remind him of you and sends them to you + puts them visible on his Spotify account

he doesn't show any clingy-ness or PDA around his friends bc cartman's such an ass and he'll get teased for days, but in private all he wants to do is cuddle w/ you and watch a Christmas movie together

loves loves loves when you mindlessly copy his actions, he think its soso cute. Like for example if he does a secret handshake with one of his friends and catches you trying to make one with yours, he's gonna die of how adorable it is.

He likes to go skating with you, if you don't know how to skate he'll gladly teach you

Get's hard whenever he sees you in a skirt 🙏🙏

Whenever he texts you and you send him pictures of yourself being all cute n' shii, his eyes widen and he automatically saves them to his camera roll with a sly grin on his face.

bro thinks he's mf swiper with his devious ass

he gets realllll horny whenever you sit with your legs crossed on a desk/table, or when you twirl your hair and make eye contact while talking to him. my guy's gonna be walking around with a huge boner the whole day in pain until you relieve him.

Kyle 🎮💚:

He tries extremely hard not to get flustered whenever you hug him from behind

Especially when you compliment his hair and play with it/start flirting with him while you do it. ITS JUST SO ENLKBVJVBENKJJ FOR HIM HE GOES WILD

"Kyle baby, you look so cute with your hair out like that .." "I- h-hah .. T-thank you .." Then he legit MELTS INTO YOUR TOUCH HE'S SO DESPERATE

he wants to act all tough and whatnot 4 you but you make him so vulnerable

what makes him hard as a fucking rock is when he's sitting down on his chair and you bend over towards him with your titties on the desk, arms crossed. HANDS DOWN CATCHES HIM OFF GUARD SO QUICKLY HIS EYES DART STRAIGHT TOWARDS YOUR TITS 😔😔

He lovesss seeing you wear his hoodies, something about it is just.. makes him feel some sort of way..

he gets really excited whenever you ask him to tutor you, it means you two get to spend more time together

If someone insults you he's gonna get MADD ANGRY

Like his anger issues will not allow someone to disrespect you like that.

he's always at your beck and call, if you need him, he's there.

Send him a bikini pic and he's gonna have a seizure.

"SHIT Y/N IM WITH MY FRIENDS WHAT IF THEY SEE IT?!??1!?!?!/11/1/ FUCK WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME AMEOIDOAEINAMSLKN"

STUDY DATES ARE HIS FAVOURITE BUT ALSO GOING OUT TO CAFE'S >>>>>>>>>>

He gets really blushy and nervous whenever your showing him so much affection to towards him infront of his friends, but he secretly likes it, he just doesnt wanna seem like a baby.

Whenever you get better grades than him he either celebrates for days or cries in a corner for hours. There's no in between.

Kyle is honestly so overprotective like if he sees a guy staring at you hes gonna straight up smack their face with a stack of graded homework assignments.

He jealousssss 🤭 he HATESSS admitting it though hes so whiny abt it too.

"Y/nn, I'm not jealousss babeee shutt uppp-uh ��😠" Like a frickin 10 year old, LMFAO WHY DO I ACTUALLY IMAGINE HIM SAYING THAT THOUGH

Kenny 🏠🧡:

Lovesss showing/giving PDA doesn't matter where you are or who you're with

Bro is soso touch-starved its insane

He holds you by the waist while he leans in for a kiss, he low-key smells like cigarettes and car gas but I'm kinda into it ngl 🤷‍♀️

Whenever he gets touchy, it's not always going to be sexual but this man has some pretty horny thoughts but you cant blame him

Hes so whiny and wants you to touch him REALLY BADLY.

"Y/nn please please please I love you so much please just this once oh my God please your so hot I'm gonna suffocate I love you just this once please please PLEASEEEEEE-" "Kenny omg calm down wtf-"

His weak spot is seeing you in clothes that bring out your figure, I mean, girls look better in a real tight sweater ifkwim 😋

The only time he will EVER be the submissive one during sex is when hes balling his eyes out about something that's happened at home, or when he's high on sumthin'

If he's going to see you, he sometimes brings karen with him because he loves the little relationship you two got going on, also his parents are always arguing so it'd be a huge relief for both Karen AND Kenny.

Send him ONE picture and he'll be begging on his knees for more

"MOMMY SORRY MOMMY SORRY- OH GOD SEND MORE- I NEED- creams aggressively YOUR A FUCKING GODDESS OH LORD HAVE MERCY GOAWDH DAYHUYHM 😍😍"

It's a big bonus if you come from a wealthy or rich family cause then you can spoil Kenny and his siblings rotten like how they deserve 😔💞

Please treat karen well she really looks up to you, your like her idol and shes def your #1 fan, she'll always be talking about you and how amazing and thoughtful and pretty you are ITS JUST SO AAAAAAA KAREN IS SO CUTEEE 😖

Kenny doesn't have much but he'll try to save up ENOUGH money to get you something nice like a headband or some nail polish 😚

He's trying.

He just wants you to be happy with him.

Please get married.

Cartman 🍗❤️:

Oh no.

When people started finding out that Cartman had feelings for the one and only, Y/n, they felt so sorry and started giving u random things and being oddly kind around you.

You were like: ???

If he sees a guy flirting or talking to you, he's gonna lower their self esteem to the MAX.

Like he'll be soso rude abt it too

"What kind of dumb fuck like you would get any girls? You got to be kidding me, your dumber than Kahl."

Once you started dating him, man everyone in the school was either shocked, no- not shocked, literally flat-out concerned for your well-being.

Cartman, REEAAAALLLYYYY .. ?

He always wants your attention, even when your busy doing something he'll be texting you at the most randomest times saying "I'm coming over", and shows up at your door in less than 2 minutes.

If you give him a hug or a kiss in public, he'll be acting all tough and start bragging to his friends. But once he's alone, he'll start giggling and twirling around like a fangirl (😨)

He has so many bad pictures of you on his camera roll but it takes all of your convincing skills to tell him: DONT. POST. THE PICTURES.

He doesn't wanna participate in any tiktok couple challenges bc he thinks their stupid. Buttt unless you offer Kyle to do it then he's def gonna cave in 🤭.

He's such a toddler too

He'll secretly want to be the little spoon often but if you offer him his face starts looking like a whole-ass sunburn with an offended look on his face

"AHEM? No we are NAWT doing that. You? Cuddling ME? No no no, its supposed to be the other way around, "Y/n" 🙄"

He'd diss your music taste and then you'll catch him twerking to your favorite song

He just like that y'know?

[lilyblackdrawside]

Duelists and Merchants both have two module types where X is the "Convenience" and Y is the "Stats". Both branches are kinda stat sticks with huge downsides in their own way. Merchants might not sound like stat sticks, but they are. For their upfront cost, you're putting a lot on the field.

The convenience with Duelist is "instead of having no SP regen, you get 0.2/s when not blocking" while their stats module gives them +15% atk and def. For Merchant it's "instead of eating 3dp/3s (all of it), eat 2dp/3s (two thirds of it)" and their stats module gives them +20% atk.

Duelists hardly see use because they're expensive to deploy and have this sp regen issue, Merchants are also pretty niche but see more play. In both cases, you'll almost always see people use the X type. It's undeniable that only having most of your DP eaten away is much more manageable than all of it and same for regening at 20% rate instead of 0% (both Duelist modules also enable being fed SP from outside sources like Warfarin, Ptilopsis or Liskarm, but X is still a lot more convenient).

Only the 6 stars of these two branches actually have the Y types in the first place, which further disinsentivizes actually going for those modules - they're expensive to get! and for all three of these operators, the Y type wasn't even out at the time of their release.

For Eunectes, both modules offer a good talent upgrade. X leans further into improving SP recovery, upping her second talent from +0.2sp/s while blocking to +0.4/0.55, which is pretty huge. Y upgrades her damage boost from 115% to 123%, which isn't that much, and her Sanctuary from 20% to 28%, which is more noticeable. She basically just becomes even more stat sticky. She leans more into her nature as a clunky stat stick. The choice with Eunectes is kinda more ambiguous. Her convenience module does a lot for her, cause the extra sp regen is quite good and her skills are really strong.

But for Lee and Swalter, the convenience module's talent boost is honestly just bad.

Lee takes his stun-parry talent from costing 5 DP and stunning for 3s to costing 4 DP and stunning for 4s. This is a ripoff. The way it works is that when he doesn't have his protective buff, he consumes 5 DP instead of what he would normally take, so upgrading the X module just pulls his talent's cost in line with the reduced continuous payment (and increases stun duration by 1s, which isn't usually relevant. The cost reduction is on level 3, stun duration on level 2). The stats on it are alright. 300 hp, 74 atk vs 76 atk, 50 def on the other is mostly a wash (but I'd rather have 50 def over 300 hp on him).

His other module however, increases his ASPD drain from 14 +/- to 20 +/-, which gets doubled from 28 to 40 when there's only one enemy. 42 if you have him at least at Pot5 (I do) and if you have him on S2 (his best skill), he sits at a cool +72 ASPD passively. While also getting the extra +20% atk from Module Y's base effect. The difference of draining 29 ASPD and 42 is a 19% reduction in the target's damage output. Together with Mr. Nothing on blue, the two cut enemy ASPD by 77 which is just shy of the cap. Add Saileach and she bridges that gap. (you'll need a flagbearer to afford the two on field) and this utterly cripples certain bosses and most regular enemies. Lee is an amazing Duelist with Module Y.

As for Swalter, her Mod X increases her attack gain from her first talent from 4% per stack to 5%, which stacks up to 8 or 9 times (potentials), so she goes from 32/36 to 40/45 atk passively. That's pretty good, especially since none of her skills have attack buffs on them and just do atk% damage, but it is just a 6% raw damage increase. It also gives her 2 coins instead of 1 on skill activation, which is nicer than the 6% more damage (less if you have other attack buffs on her).

Mod Y on the other hand gives her +20% atk as a base effect, taking her from +32%/36% to +52%/56% atk through the same mechanics (DP consumed by trait), which is an 8.6%/7.6% raw damage increase over the other module, 15.2%/14.7% raw damage increase over no module. It also has better stats on it. Mod X has +200 hp, +40 atk, +50 def, Mod Y has +81 atk, +60 def. Now, as for her talent improvement, it goes for the other one of course. (Only Fartooth buffs the same talent with both modules, fun fact. Always get ModX for Fartooth))

Swalter's second talent stops her from dying when killed and instead puts her to 70%/80% (potential) max hp at the cost of 5 DP, which doubles with each activation. Cost resets when she's retreated.

Mod Y changes it to recover her health to 80%/90%, lowers the cost to 3 DP and makes it so it goes up by 3 per revive.

Instead of the revival cost going 5, 10, 20, 40, 80(, 99?) it goes 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, ...

Mod Y makes her more affordable. You can reasonable make her immortal by just deploying a bunch of Vanguards. This talent upgrade is so much more impactful than what Mod X gives, especially since Mod Y's base effect is stronger than half of Mod X's talent upgrade.

So basically what I'm saying is to not shy away from picking the inconvenient modules on these branches and lean into their identity instead of softening their drawbacks.

If you have these operators anyway, they're all 6 stars.

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

I waffled a bit about making this but I don't have much else to be doing and it is only 10:30 in the morning and I already feel like I've been up for 22 hours so let's talk about Shu S3 versus Saria S3.

An important note I'm going to bring up here is that while Shu S3 is very good, it does technically lose out on heal coverage to Blemishine S3 under ideal circumstances. A Blemishine who is constantly attacking and taking pressure will cycle through her skill way faster than Shu ever will, even with her talent in play. It is a bit difficult to compare Blemishine's Offensive + Defensive recovery skills to an Automatic Recovery skill on principle though, and IMO the skills are meant to do different things. Blemishine's S3 is meant to turn her into an offensive threat while giving her the stats she needs to tank enemies. Shu is a healer and support unit. They aren't working on the same axis.

In looking at Shu's S3 compared to Saria's S3, I'm going to compare them directly. They are built in a lot of ways to do exactly the same things, with Shu being a much newer version of Saria's skill. I'll be comparing them on:

Range of their skills

SP Cost

Healing efficacy

Buffing capabilities

Support capabilities

Crowd Control

Range

If we compare the ranges of Shu's S3 to Saria's S3, Saria's range is bigger, having four more tiles of access than Shu. Shu does get the ability to cover a ton of tiles with her Sowing, however, so the range advantage is pretty marginal for Saria.

SP Costs

The biggest advantage for Shu is the SP costs of their skills. Saria's skill will be faster on deployment, taking only 10 seconds to charge compare to Shu's 15, but Shu's 45 SP cost on her S3 means it will be active a little less than twice as often as Saria's S3. This is huge for Shu, as one of Saria's problem is that she doesn't have great coverage with her S3, and so this skill often takes a back seat to S1 or S2 if you're using Saria for healing reasons.

Healing Efficacy

Shu blows Saria pretty much completely out of the water. She has a HPS of roughly 1,289 with her talent going at max power, and it's even higher if she's healing a target with under 50% HP. Saria's skill will usually only heal roughly 275 HP a second, bumping to 316 with her GUA-X module trait, and 286 HP a second with her GUA-Y module, and this is assuming she's been on the battlefield for the full 90 seconds she needs to reach that juicy passive +40% ATK buff. Shu's passive 85 HP/s regen and 17% Sanctuary really makes the comparison worse. Mitigation is damage you didn't need to heal after all.

Buffing Capabilities

Shu's advantage here is that she will buff operators no matter what damage type they are using: Physical, Arts, True, Elemental, they all benefit from Shu's buffs. Saria, however, provides better numbers for Arts damage, and this might initially seem like it shouldn't be true. For an Arts operator, Shu's buffs would give them an additional 56.25% DPS, which is better than Saria...by a very slight amount. But, this is assuming an operator has no ATK or ASPD buffs active at that time.

Let's take Haze for a minute as a clear example of this. Haze's normal DPS with her S2 active is 1,092.8 damage per second. Haze over the course of her skill deals about 25k damage, which is not too shabby for a 4-star! With Shu's buffs, her DPS will improve to 1,461.0, which is an impressive jump! However, it is only a 33.69% improvement on her damage, because the ATK and ASPD buffs get diluted by diminishing returns. Saria meanwhile always gives a 55% improvement on DPS, because her buff is a damage multiplier, which is applied after the other parts of the damage calculation.

So is Saria better for buffing Arts damage? The answer, genuinely, is that it depends. Saria will often give you the biggest numbers possible, but Shu has better cycle times with her buffs that Saria does. If you need your buffs to align better or you need them more often, Shu is definitely going to be the pick. If you need a big burst damage moment or your DPS points are far enough apart, Saria will be better.

Support Capabilities

Strictly speaking, neither S3 really supports outside of buffs, but the benefit from talents is important here. You need to compare Shu's Sowing with Saria's SP generation talent. Shu's tiles will give an 85 HP regen and 17% Sanctuary buff, while Saria will provide 1-2 SP every time she heals. This is another point where Saria really isn't strictly better or worse than Shu is. Shu's talent remains actively constantly, and provides an ok regen along with some damage mitigation. Saria's talent only applies if the target is healed (if they are at full SP, they do not gain SP) and can be tricky to set-up, but potentially triples the speed in which they will be able to access their skill. A common skill pairing is Saria and Shalem, which have great synergy with each other. Shalem's skill is Defensive Recovery, and burns most of his HP away. Shalem's HP is just high enough that he will recover most if not all of the SP he needs off of Saria's 10 heals, at which point he can activate his skill during the last 20 seconds and take full advantage of Saria's buff. Stages with DoT are great for Saria, who can pump an entire squad full of yummy SP.

Crowd Control Capabilites

Saria and Shu both have access to potent crowd control abilities, with Saria having access to a chunk movement speed reduction while Shu has access to her teleportation gimmick. Shu's teleportation is a bit difficult to understand from her description, but essentially, if an enemy steps onto a sowed tile while Shu has skill active, and then moves 2 tiles away from the original tile, they will be teleported directly back to where they started.

Two tiles seems like a lot, but remember that enemies typically enter a tile from its edge, and suddenly Shu's crowd control aspects become very powerful. If Shu has a sowed tile 2 tiles in front of the objective box, enemies will not be able to enter the objective box for the entire 30 seconds her skill is active. They'll just reach the edge of the box but not enter it before being teleported back. This makes Shu a much better crowd control option than Saria, although Saria is not bad by any means. This skill has a TON of unintended interactions with various boss and enemy gimmicks, on top of clustering enemies very tightly together and making them vulnerable to AoE and splash damage.

It's really good. I initially wrote this off as a funny gimmick ability but it's a great piece of crowd control and makes Shu a much more well rounded operator for having it.

Conclusion

It's often the case in gacha games, and typically in any long running game content, that after four and a half years, game pieces released by this point thoroughly outclass game pieces released at launch. Is Shu better than Saria? Yes, for the most part. But it is worth saying that Shu does not necessarily completely replace Saria. Saria has good niches to fit in as a support operator in her very powerful Arts damage buff and SP charging capabilities, but even more than that there is an entire conversation to be had about Saria's better ability to tank physical damage. Saria can have almost 1000 DEF with her talent at full power and has a 15% damage reduction on top of that.

In addition, Saria is definitely better at using her S1 than Shu is, thanks to her higher ATK and SP charging capabilities. It's not a huge niche but Saria's S1 packs a pretty potent punch that Shu's doesn't.

Shu's S3 is definitely mostly better, but Saria has moments where she shines and Shu does not.

[coffeestainsandmeteorshowers]

ill build on the clone au but hey just a reminder that we don't want you to try and make sense out of this? none of it really makes sense but that's the fun part :]

ok so. Danny doesn't know how Tweek’s temperament is, if Tweek will try and kill him, so I'd like to think he brought Dani and Jazz with him just in case. Support Sisters, you could say. But! Tweek is also unsure of his own powers and they are practically avoiding everyone like the plague. so Jazz, Danny and Ellie have their work cut out, looking for this one kid in a really small town who seems to be everywhere and nowhere all at once. Like we said, Tweek is slippery. They won't get caught unless he wants to be, or unless he fucks up somehow. Tweeks just so confused half of the time. He fucks up by hiding in a tree, knowing that he can't get down by himself. He's like a really jumpy cat when the trio find him.

[crystalelemental]

Sync Pair Teambuilding - Lear

Okay I'm feeling better today for the first time in like a week, and I feel kinda bad for giving a shorter response yesterday, so let's do this properly if I'm back.

Lear!  He's got a grid expansion!  And a role?  I don't know if that was recent, I've been gone since February.  Regardless, this means he's got some new tricks he can try, and might be relevant again! How exciting.

General Overview Lear's significant nodes are No Stat Increase effect when he uses Snatch, Free Moves Next when he hits an unbuffed foe, and +1 to all seven stats on sync.  High...Seven?  Look, it's still better than current naming conventions.

By and large this is excellent, and reminiscent of SC Zinnia, who is astonishing.  The real fun is that with MPR on Snatch, Lear does what Zinnia cannot: shuts down stat buffing forever, making him exceptional at Gauntlet.  It also prevents foes from sniping his needed innate multiplier like they could before.  Free Moves Next is effectively permanent as well, making him a non-stop persistent damage dealer who can slot into virtually any team composition.  This also, in many ways, makes him an effective partner for debuffers.  While he can't debuff himself, preventing foes from suddenly boosting stats means they can't offset those debuffs, so a sudden X Sp Def All doesn't suddenly ruin Lucian's life.  As if this all wasn't enough, Lear also got Strike role, which means his explosive sync power is now AoE.  Lear is, quite legitimate, very good following this upgrade.

Faults do, however, remain in place.  Unlike SC Zinnia, Lear cannot disrupt the opponent's actions via flinch, and he can only target one opponent at a time with Snatch.  Great for Gauntlet, but means that sides can go completely untouched in a 3v3 mode.  Given his fast-ramping capabilities, this is especially slow.  His self-buffing still leaves a lot to be desired.  He can handle crit rate, but wants full Sp Atk support, which is technically achievable, but many of the fast-acting buff bots nowadays either overshoot that mark (also full buff crit and are therefore really valuable) or just short (give +4 Sp Atk/+3 crit, but can't cap him).  But, given proper support, he can work around these hiccups appropriately, and has...frankly a ton of things in his favor.  Lear kept up, man.

Team 1: Lear, NC Bede, Anni May My personal estimation for his best team.  NC Bede is capable of assisting with fast-ramping to a ludicrous degree, and while I haven't calced it, I think the right Anni May setup can get them sync after one turn.  Bede then has Sprint role for faster access to second sync, into Lear's own Adrenaline 2.  This team ramps fast.  Anni May is able to help with X Sp Atk All if you're going too fast for Bede to full buff, and provides much-needed Terrain for full impact on Lear's sync.

Team 2: Lear, Roxanne, Bianca A slightly more budget-friendly team composition.  Roxanne is slightly wasted on a man who can apply Free Moves Next consistently, her buffs feed into his Rising Tide effect.  One hiccup with fast-ramp Bede is that Lear may not get access to the full stat boosts he needs to thrive.  Roxanne will get him there, though.  Bianca is for Terrain only.  This is a Lear exclusive damage set.

Team 3: Lear, MC Mesprit, SS Misty/Victrier Depending on your needs and what you struggle with, this is an option.  MC Mesprit is another free pair that can boost Sp Atk to cap, while providing some side buffs and dual screens support.  Misty and Victrier have Haze, which is the AoE buff removal tool that can give Lear a little more of a DPS focus.  He only needs to Snatch once for the shield, but otherwise gets to focus his efforts.  Misty can team buff defenses more effectively so I'd say she gets priority given Rising Tide.

Team 4: Lear, flinch/sleep bot Generalized Gauntlet duo comp.  Lear does still have perfect self-setup, since he has to take X Sp Atk: Ramp Up to get to Rising Tide and the sync node.  With a good flinch/sleep bot, Lear is able to remove buffs and check quite a few gimmicks on his own, while his ally just applies persistent disruption pressure.

Team 5: Lear, Anni May, SC Tate Okay someone correct me if I'm wrong on this.  Damage Challenge team?  Anni May boosts Lear's Sp Atk then sets Terrain, SC Tate spams Thunder Wave to minimize animation time while debuffing Sp Def, Lear is your sole damage dealer like it's apparently intended?  With Strike role he can do both single and multi-target stages.  I suck at this mode so I'm probably wrong but maybe that works?

Final Thoughts Lear's really good, and it's funny to see that.  See, the game goes through massive powercreep, but at the end of the day some traits are just objectively better.  Fast-ramping into a powerful nuke is, has been, and forever shall be the meta.  High DPS makes an occasional appearance as a big deal, but generally it's the nuke we all look toward, and how to facilitate that.  I think that's why, near as I can tell, Sprint has made a name for itself as a new role type, while Field kinda hasn't.  Lear packs all the components of a competent sync pair that can withstand the test of time.  Yes, bigger numbers come out, faster rampers appear, but there's just no beating the tried and true approach, it seems.

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[violetzzone]

I use safe person to describe people i feel. Safe being around/would actively choose to be around that are not someone i am actively trying to copy the interests and personality of that dont live in my mind 25/7 but i also feel like. That is too big of a genre of people to categorize by?

Fps:

- Found sibling x 3

- Possibly partner?

Dp:

- Mom

Sp:

- Other partner

- Found sibling x 3

High award of low tier sp that still is important to me:

-Third partner :3 probably would be bigger sp or maybe between sp and fp if i spent more time with, but alas, timezone s

- Found siblings partner. Maybe. On the fence. I think about them way too much for the amount of interaction we have, annoyed they might be a fp because that throws off the entire system.

Does this make sense. Also changes between headmates like. All my reflection does is think about sp partner. Thinks he is best person ever, only person willing to ibteract with a lot, i think fp

[subjectnamemissing]

Frostleaf module wishes

Base Effect: Gain +(1/2?) sp on hitting (undamaged?/unblocked?) enemy.

Explanation: It’s a DPS focused class with an innate 80% reduction on ranged attacks. Adding damage feels like just removing the penalty and besides, most of the class already removes the damage reduction on skill activation. However, lots of the class has ~40 sp for skills with 0 initial sp, making set up a major issue for the class. Yes this would likely increase the amount of stages Thorns can trivialize, and speed up helidrop Truesilver Slash. I’m willing to accept this. Stats: +ASPD, +Atk

Level 2 effects options:

Obvious Theming: Apply cold on attack for x seconds.

Attack interval means she can’t freeze without support unless using S2, which should come up faster with the base effect. During S2 she becomes Stall Queen able to keep 1 enemy permafrozen, bound, and slowed or 2 enemies semi-perma stalled assuming they don’t just have a bind/freeze immunity. She still can’t do damage and doesn’t benefit from the Resistance debuff - but she could join the vaunted ranks of golden chalice IS and SSS with other characters like Ethan, Gnosis, and Leizi. Also it would be nice to have another cold-applying unit whose debuff is not relient on skills. Fails to justify the DPS tag.

Option 2: Enemies in range have their weight reduced by 1 (probably non-stacking - unless…) Takes advantage of her unique range characteristic to go all in on supporting another lane with a dangerous enemy that doesn’t want to be blocked. Primarily useful with S1, it would enable the perpetual Mantizone even more. — Send guys flying into the stratosphere with Weedy. Experience what it is like to finally have Weedy pushing strength or Angelina weight reduction since they still haven’t spooked you in 2 years. Justify the weird pivot by pointing to Break the Ice sliding mechanics. Allow more people to experience the joy of bullying Jesselton. Still fails to justify the DPS tag.

Level 3: 160 - 180% attack on cold or frozen enemies? Increased cold duration? Boring: Attack interval no longer reduced?

[agox]

Last night I got high and wrote a program to find all of the unused elemental symbols. It turns out there’s 585 of them and it’s much less interesting the next day.

One interesting finding: I couldn’t be bothered to generate all possible one and two letter strings, so I asked ChatGPT to write me code that would do all that for me. It worked surprisingly well!

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