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I just wish I HAD Sideroca

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Can anyone suggest me a ak ytuber that also does these philosophical type videos. I really can't get enough of these videos. I fking love em.

You've inspired me to raise and use Quartz, as well as subscribe. I really like your style of content and approach, fully backing up claims with clear and qualitative evidence. I look forward to further content and if you cover other underused archetypes!

The speech at the end was very good, reminds me why I like these unit-driven games

There are no bad operators, just dokutahs who refuse to pronounce names correctly

Please discuss about the 'Mountain Effect,' as people tend to undervalue his capability because always treat him as a "drop and forget," yet when his S2 just wouldn't make the job done, people would instead try to make it work instead of changing their strategies (the amount of people I see deploying Mountain first and then complain about lacking DP is absurd).

Viviana needs her nuke skills

When I first upgrading and start using Sideroca, I thought s2 would be more frequent used skill (as gamepress recs too). But when I start to use her more, I find s1 more versatile on her and ended up defaulting s1 almost everywhere. On the paper s2 seems offers more dmg and more sustained heals, but -1 range on 1 block ground op is too much hit on versatility and she will also only starts hitting enemy when they can hit you which could lower the dps compared to starts hitting on 1 tile front.

i had to do a spittake after seeing 1:41 Hoederer doin 11789 phys on an empowered attack

Arts Fighters suffer from same issue that non 6* Dreadnaughts where their class encourage them to be helidrop units but they can't do that. It's other reason why Surtr is so good.

It's funny that you say " arts fighter class is about 1v1 an enemy" then I thought "huh surtr can 1v1 almost every map in the game.." 😂

as someone with both astesia and vivi, my verdict is that arts guards are confused. the general idea is that they are dreadnoughts with arts damage, but they have all the same draw backs as well as their own problems. Generally, arts damage is only better than physical in low investment or low end content because most popular physical dps' can punch through high defense like nothing, any physical damage past the enemy's defense is true damage. on the other hand, arts damage gets ruined by res no matter what stage your at, and the base attack is consistently lower physical. In regard to a general usage case, they don't do as much arts damage as the average caster of the same rarity since they're melee, they have lower single target damage than dreadnoughts because physical tends to be stronger in high end content, they're squishier than any and all defenders (shout out to arts defenders and duelists for robbing them of every single defensive niche).

I feel like you spent too much time focusing on Mousse's atk debuff interaction with her own DEF, but wouldn't it be much more impressive against things like arts damage, or in nerfing bosses so other operators can tank them?

Financially irresponsible? But I got Surtr for free. 😞

good video

I just want to let you know that the chests deal true damage based on the damage they receive, and the mushroom gives DEF. So putting the mushroom down to protect Amiya is wasteful.

just realized: the (slim) majority of Arts Guards are fire-themed Surtr (obviously), Amiya (Wrathful Cerulean Flame), Viviana (previously known as the Candle Knight), Astesia (her arts are likely similar to her sister's which are obviously both star and electricity-themed, both of which are fire-adjacent) not Mousse, not Sideroca

You don't own Viviana? Im sorry :(

actually, thinking about it it is actually possible to get Elite 0 Guard Amiya: (1) have a friend put Guard Amiya in their supports (2) only put E0 units in your squad (3) There! You now have Elite 0 Guard Amiya in your squad!

I think that comparing surt to anyone in her class is stupid She's definitely a complete outlier Like a presidents kid next to regular middle class kids She should be compared only with other hellidrop/instant delete button operators

Arts Protectors (Defenders) doesn't even have a 6-star operator yet.

I see Mousse I like the video. Thats how it works.

Nice video

Fun fact, cutter is not a arts guard

Hello Bloop! ❤

Glad to see some Mouse appreciation, recently m3'd s1 for that considerable passive debuff

Surtr actually has a defensive part in her kit, but it is really weird. Selfsustain? Nah. Defence? Nah. Barrier, shields? No and no. How about not dying for 8 seconds after being murdered? Yay let's go baby! So basically she doesn't care about staying alive until she has already died... Yeah strange, helpful, but strange. The weird part is that her S1 and S2 have no survival in her kit, Mousse reducing enemy attacks, Sideroca healing herself, etc. Amiya boosts her own talent during skill which gives her more defence so... Surtr's only skill that increases her survivability in the short term is S3, it gives her more max hp and fully heals herself. That is pretty damn good. But this skill, just like her talent, is weird for survival since she starts chain smoking, slowly destroying her own body until she collapses. So much for that max hp, which in this case actually just makes it harder for medics to keep her alive... So what did we learn today? Technically Surtr has some survival aspects, but they are all related to her dying which is a bit goofy. You'd also expect more survival in a kit of this class than Surtr eventually got. Yeah Surtr is a weird arts fighter, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that she abandons the whole subclass. I would say that she is not pulling a Mountain, I think she is pulling a Vigil, but actually did so rather succesfully somehow.

kind of offtopic, but a Mousse Fact(tm): mousse's S1 is special among ATK debuffers by applying a negative ATK buff. in arknights normal ATK debuffs are multiplicative, which decrease effectiveness the more you stack, but mousse is technically an ATK buff which stacks separately, so she maintains full effectiveness combined with "proper" debuffs. i always found it funny that multiplicative effects increase effectiveness for buffs and decrease effectiveness for debuffs...

Maybe this is a bit out of topic But seriously, who really wants Arts Fighter? Who was asking for basically Ground Caster? "Deals Arts Damage" traits is not enough for being different niches. You could also say that into pretty much all other subclasses such as Fighter, Liberator, Crusher, Mystic, Blast, Mech-Accord, Hookmaster, Chain-Healer, etc. The best operators from these subclasses have the most mind boggling kit that either nullify their subclasses weakness or just have massive number in each buffs

I had no clue Wildmane's S1 looked so silly

I will just quickly point out a max potential Perfumer heals 7% of her attack per second not 7.5% that Red number in the text is already included, never understood why the highlight the buffs from potential that way but they do.

Mousse justice!~ She's great, first E2 I got on my first account I lost. She was rlly nice vs bosses, but I always dreamed of getting Surtr. Just last week on my 3rd account (oopsie) I got Surtr, it's kinda strange going from a tactical single-target unique damage option with some light tanking capabilities to a unit who just murders everything and goes invincible. It's a little unfortunate just how much stronger Surtr is compared to Mousse... the only use case for her I see is to have her attacking while not blocking anyone so that some other unit gets the benefit of a debuffed enemy. Was also hoping to get Viviana- was my favorite NPC ever since her event, was super happy to see her as an arts guard, even if she wasn't the "strongest". Didn't get her, but being "weak" may come to my advantage, as next time she's around to headhunt she may be the distinction token character.

Normal enemies and elites having more hp and res is more pain for arts fighter. Having res ignore as module would help them a lot. Great analysis as usual.

Wow, you attack speed calculations is WAY simpler than Gamepress.’

Viviana could've easily stood out if she simply has Mousse's atk down, its that simple. That means she has 2 means of increasing survivability instead of just one that relies on RNG.