Her art is fantastic! I do think she's an interesting unit, but the fact that she revolves around levitate and yet can only levitate each enemy once (and not for very long) does feel bad, at least on paper.
@@theoreticallyme4548 after looking it up, "Rinaldi" also seems to be the italian version of the name "Renaud", so you're right, I doubt you could find someone called like that
if I could add something to Aroma, I wish her skills could refresh her talent. S2 perhaps could refresh it on-kill. S1 could refresh it outright for the next hit. Would emphasize *cleaning* with S2, and stalling persistent *stains* with S1 :3
5 stars (at least the ones theyve been designing since the time of Cantabile?) exist to be resource dumps for longtime players. Once arknights runs out of places to throw resources into, the drive to login and burn sanity will greatly diminish. Its why despite purposely being designed to be worse than gacha 6 star alternatives, the investment costs are actually not too much lower. Essentially they're just style picks for the most part, what I actually want is a game mode scaled for 5 stars that doesnt let you use any 6 stars so they feel like they have some purpose
Worst part is that we used to have 5*s with valid niches or solid DPS, nowadays the best 5*s are just revamped versions of existing ones like Bassline and Nearl.
It's nice to see you making consistent operator reviwes, also focussing on the often neglected lower rarities (since 6* Reviews seem a dime a dozen). Though, it's still mystery enemy time! I think I know why you said this one's tricky, as there are two enemies matching this exact stat line. The Heavy Defender Type-S (P10) and the Herculean Prisoner (C18) have, at least on paper, the same base stats, with the exceptions being Attack Interval and Movement Speed (the defender attacking a bit faster but moving a bit slower). Though unfortunately to arrive at this conclusion, one needs to consult outisde sources, since the ingame enemy archive refuses to give us numbers. A third enemy has the same letter grades, though not the same statlines: The Possessed Heavy Defender Leader (P6) has 16k HP and 800 ATK instead. If I am to decide between P10 and C10, I'd choose the Herculean Prisoner, as him having a mechanic makes him the more interesting enemy. Speaking of P10 however, the Archive strikes again. This denomination is not unique to the Heavy Defender Type-S, but is shared with the Enrages Posessed Bonethrower. Weirdly enough, this isn't true for the other posessed enemies having the same denominations as the Heart of Surging Flames enemies. The Posessed are numbered P1 through P12, while the HoSF enemies go from P01 to P10, With PA1/2, PB1/2 and PG1/2splattered in between. The enemy numbering from Ye Olden Days sure is something...
She was the reason I pulled on the ascalon banner, I have Qani, Ho'ol, Irene all built cause I love saying upsie daisy to enemies, With Odda and Aroma I'm hoping we get some less status immune bosses soon cause I wanna give them uppies
As a Lupo knight player i am happy with her, she does decent Arts dmg, is cute and her talent is useful as well. I would have liked if her module would make her levitation time higher. (Or Levitate by skill activation or something) But ither than that, she is quite versatile. (Ps. I also finished IS 2 by searching for the Levitation relict but it didn't appear after over 10 trys, sadge)
Got Ascalon in 20 pulls, kept going to 90 for Aroma. Disappointed in her gameplay even though I expected little, but her design and voice lines still managed to exceed my expectations.
IMO, she’s a good bit better than Corroserum just because she has a useful effect that is almost always helpful, and solid consistent damage. This means she is reliable and has synergies - I’m sure “levitates enemies once they reach her range” will have SOME good synergy, and worst case it’s a solid one-time stall ability. Corroserum, meanwhile, has the same damage but only has the utility of Silence. And, Silence is just not a very useful effect most of the time nowadays. Considering that his Silence’s uptime isn’t great, you don’t even have much reason to use him over Lappland, or other operators with Silence.
@@kyarumomochi5146 Eh, I wouldn’t say it’s hilariously weak, it’s functionally a much weaker version of Ines’ talent, which I think is strong. Think about it less like a levitation effect and more like a Stun that activates as soon as the enemy reaches the attack range of your units- it’ll stall them somewhere you can control, so that you can hit them a bit longer before they reach your units. It also keeps enemies in her attack range for longer if she is perpendicular to their path. I also feel like you’d use S1 on her most of the time, since her S2 doesn’t seem like it’s that good without support from other operators who can Levitate (admittedly mostly due to the poor uptime). Which does functionally give her an excellent cycle Dunno, I mostly just feel like Corroserum has almost no redeeming qualities while Aroma has one or two
Bro still think silence is useless in 2024 when literally having underties CC. Corroserum is bad but he is miles ahead of Aroma because at least he can consistently apply his effect instead of doing literally nothing after first hit. Not to mention DPS wise he is actually better than her.
@@patroka You literally cant compare ines and aroma Ines is a frd, can be a laneholder and she does SO MUCH MORE than the bind, also the bind has NO immunities normally Aroma is 30+ DP cost Has none of the capabilities of ines And levitate is super commonnto be immune to Calling it "super weak" is an understatement, they are day and night apart. Aromas talents is going to be just as useful as corresums silence niche
@@januszpolak254 Uhhh it is. Silence is one of the weakest debuffs ever and undertides was 3 years ago Last actual silence heavy event was SN wich was 2 years ago and silence isnt even the best option for that event any.kre
I really like Aroma, and I feel like, while she's hardly very good herself (being compared to Corroserum is, itself, damning) she pairs extremely well with another operator known for being... Underwhelming. Aroma + Ho'olheyak should SHRED flying enemies and any light-weight trash. with Aroma keeping them in Ho'ol's short range and Ho'ol applying more consistent Levitate for Aroma to hit harder and both of them turning the levitate effect into higher damage against Aerial as compensation - Qani is pretty decent at a very specific niche himself if I feel like making a team of leviknights
The thing is Aroma isnt actually contrubuting much damage when Heyak is in the calculationt o begin with, ur always better off bringing simply better damage units as even with the synergy aromas damage is too low for even 5 stars
It feels like HG tries their hardest to make a horrible unit and ended up making it Her talent is essentially useless, her skills barely do anything with it and she lacks anything else, and even with levitate support her damage is one of the worst EVEN FOR 5 STAR STANDARTS Yeah dont know what HG was even thinking
They were afraid with Ifrit being so strong, but after Corroserum and now Aroma I think it's pretty evident that it's not the archetype that makes Ifrit great, but her busted kit.
@@slonik0002 They legit gave her a broken res debuff and good sp cycling skill with ALREADY good sp costs on skills with good multipliers and tought the class was broken...
the world would be 1038 times better if she had more than 1 chance to levitate i get that ines was god with this talent(but with bind) but. she costs 3 times less and can redeploy twice as eariler aroma is super cute though and that's all it matters(also she works with odda who's conveniently free lmao) also this is the part where i promote my crackship between aroma and paprika: girlies dealing with being forced to see violent bs at a young age wahoo
@@sundoll3710 Also ines can reliably lane hold with that talent as no enemy is bind immune (with very few exceptions) while levitate immune enemies are very common
DP cost and redeployment time don't mean anything. The reason why Ines's bind is so much better is because her skills don't actively rely on it for them to be good (her kit being so spread out is why she's so amazing). Aroma would've been better if her skills offered some extra utility and not just more damage against levitated enemies.
@@thanoof No they absolutely do Ines is a melee unit so controll is already super good Frd means she can bind same enemies more consistently and low cost means you can solely use her for the bind at the times too They absolutely matter
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i see we're diving into the most serious questions Kuma
Her art is fantastic! I do think she's an interesting unit, but the fact that she revolves around levitate and yet can only levitate each enemy once (and not for very long) does feel bad, at least on paper.
if she could levitate more than once, even on a long cooldown, would make her so much more useful
If S2 could levitate every hit that’d be so much better but not even be too strong.
Because it is bad
@@slonik0002 I think they need to balance her against Ho'olheyak, but yes, I'm sure there's a way to increase her CC without making her beat a 6*.
@@xtranathor8143 make it apply every time she power strikes
When I see her e0 art, I can't help but think that she looks like a Re:Zero character.
she does resemble felix
and she has a male last name too
I still can't believe her last name is "Rinaldi"
as an italian it’s quite common for last names to be gendered, and not fit the person’s gender
@@oak5972 I get that she's siracusan, but i've never heard an italian man named "Rinaldi".
For context, Rinaldi is a male name in Indonesia
@@theoreticallyme4548 after looking it up, "Rinaldi" also seems to be the italian version of the name "Renaud", so you're right, I doubt you could find someone called like that
if I could add something to Aroma, I wish her skills could refresh her talent. S2 perhaps could refresh it on-kill. S1 could refresh it outright for the next hit.
Would emphasize *cleaning* with S2, and stalling persistent *stains* with S1 :3
I'm glad everyone loves her E2 art
5 stars (at least the ones theyve been designing since the time of Cantabile?) exist to be resource dumps for longtime players. Once arknights runs out of places to throw resources into, the drive to login and burn sanity will greatly diminish. Its why despite purposely being designed to be worse than gacha 6 star alternatives, the investment costs are actually not too much lower. Essentially they're just style picks for the most part, what I actually want is a game mode scaled for 5 stars that doesnt let you use any 6 stars so they feel like they have some purpose
Worst part is that we used to have 5*s with valid niches or solid DPS, nowadays the best 5*s are just revamped versions of existing ones like Bassline and Nearl.
It's nice to see you making consistent operator reviwes, also focussing on the often neglected lower rarities (since 6* Reviews seem a dime a dozen).
Though, it's still mystery enemy time!
I think I know why you said this one's tricky, as there are two enemies matching this exact stat line. The Heavy Defender Type-S (P10) and the Herculean Prisoner (C18) have, at least on paper, the same base stats, with the exceptions being Attack Interval and Movement Speed (the defender attacking a bit faster but moving a bit slower). Though unfortunately to arrive at this conclusion, one needs to consult outisde sources, since the ingame enemy archive refuses to give us numbers.
A third enemy has the same letter grades, though not the same statlines: The Possessed Heavy Defender Leader (P6) has 16k HP and 800 ATK instead.
If I am to decide between P10 and C10, I'd choose the Herculean Prisoner, as him having a mechanic makes him the more interesting enemy.
Speaking of P10 however, the Archive strikes again. This denomination is not unique to the Heavy Defender Type-S, but is shared with the Enrages Posessed Bonethrower. Weirdly enough, this isn't true for the other posessed enemies having the same denominations as the Heart of Surging Flames enemies. The Posessed are numbered P1 through P12, while the HoSF enemies go from P01 to P10, With PA1/2, PB1/2 and PG1/2splattered in between. The enemy numbering from Ye Olden Days sure is something...
Was hoping to see her s2 in action with Odda, but I'll have to try that for myself.
Cool video, though, it answered some questions I had !
ifrit S2 + ho'olheyak S3, if it only worked once
Mystery Enemy is "Herculean Prisoner" from Mansfield Break.
Or "Heavy Defender Type-S" from HoSF, they both have the exact same statspread.
She was the reason I pulled on the ascalon banner, I have Qani, Ho'ol, Irene all built cause I love saying upsie daisy to enemies, With Odda and Aroma I'm hoping we get some less status immune bosses soon cause I wanna give them uppies
Unfortunately there's still the weight requirement that can affect Odda and potentially Irene.
Well if there's one thing we know about Kuma is that he likes a power strike
I'm not getting Aroma from this banner but that E2 art is very convincing 👀
Felyx Argyle's long lost sister 😭
I like your non 6* reviews, they've made me look more seriously at my roster outside "Ugguh uh Meta" units.
Speaking of Levitate, I hope (cope) they changed the halved duration on heavy enemies...
Wish her s2 did something with the tallent, maybe it procs continuously by for less levitate duration, or just straight up have levitate on skill
Sadly didnt get her Got Ascalon tho
As a Lupo knight player i am happy with her, she does decent Arts dmg, is cute and her talent is useful as well. I would have liked if her module would make her levitation time higher. (Or Levitate by skill activation or something) But ither than that, she is quite versatile.
(Ps. I also finished IS 2 by searching for the Levitation relict but it didn't appear after over 10 trys, sadge)
IS 2 doesn't have the levitation relic, only IS 4
Bish thinks she's House MD in her E2 art.
is the mystery enemy the dublinn shieldguards from ch9? big defense and res gets bolstered by the phalanx buff
Got Ascalon in 20 pulls, kept going to 90 for Aroma. Disappointed in her gameplay even though I expected little, but her design and voice lines still managed to exceed my expectations.
I smell Aroma of victory for IS
I like her design that why I want her, 60pull and didn't get her though. Im not willing to do anymore pulls
The only Character I didn't get from Babel. :(
She synergies with Ho'olheyak 😁
IMO, she’s a good bit better than Corroserum just because she has a useful effect that is almost always helpful, and solid consistent damage. This means she is reliable and has synergies - I’m sure “levitates enemies once they reach her range” will have SOME good synergy, and worst case it’s a solid one-time stall ability.
Corroserum, meanwhile, has the same damage but only has the utility of Silence. And, Silence is just not a very useful effect most of the time nowadays. Considering that his Silence’s uptime isn’t great, you don’t even have much reason to use him over Lappland, or other operators with Silence.
I mean you could argue that correseum has better cycles and silence atleast sometimes works while levitate once is hilariously weak
@@kyarumomochi5146 Eh, I wouldn’t say it’s hilariously weak, it’s functionally a much weaker version of Ines’ talent, which I think is strong. Think about it less like a levitation effect and more like a Stun that activates as soon as the enemy reaches the attack range of your units- it’ll stall them somewhere you can control, so that you can hit them a bit longer before they reach your units. It also keeps enemies in her attack range for longer if she is perpendicular to their path.
I also feel like you’d use S1 on her most of the time, since her S2 doesn’t seem like it’s that good without support from other operators who can Levitate (admittedly mostly due to the poor uptime). Which does functionally give her an excellent cycle
Dunno, I mostly just feel like Corroserum has almost no redeeming qualities while Aroma has one or two
Bro still think silence is useless in 2024 when literally having underties CC. Corroserum is bad but he is miles ahead of Aroma because at least he can consistently apply his effect instead of doing literally nothing after first hit. Not to mention DPS wise he is actually better than her.
@@patroka You literally cant compare ines and aroma
Ines is a frd, can be a laneholder and she does SO MUCH MORE than the bind, also the bind has NO immunities normally
Aroma is 30+ DP cost
Has none of the capabilities of ines
And levitate is super commonnto be immune to
Calling it "super weak" is an understatement, they are day and night apart. Aromas talents is going to be just as useful as corresums silence niche
@@januszpolak254 Uhhh it is. Silence is one of the weakest debuffs ever and undertides was 3 years ago
Last actual silence heavy event was SN wich was 2 years ago and silence isnt even the best option for that event any.kre
Yeah, the only meta reason to use Aroma is probably rogue mode with levitate relics.
I like powersrikes too
I really like Aroma, and I feel like, while she's hardly very good herself (being compared to Corroserum is, itself, damning) she pairs extremely well with another operator known for being... Underwhelming.
Aroma + Ho'olheyak should SHRED flying enemies and any light-weight trash. with Aroma keeping them in Ho'ol's short range and Ho'ol applying more consistent Levitate for Aroma to hit harder and both of them turning the levitate effect into higher damage against Aerial as compensation -
Qani is pretty decent at a very specific niche himself if I feel like making a team of leviknights
The thing is Aroma isnt actually contrubuting much damage when Heyak is in the calculationt o begin with, ur always better off bringing simply better damage units as even with the synergy aromas damage is too low for even 5 stars
Aroma has the best en voice ngl
I second this, I really wish he used her EN voice instead of JP for the intro!
Made her S2 27/42 23 seconds instead of 25/40 25seconds, why you gotta be like this HG?
bom video
Blast casters on their way to be most useless archetype in the game.
Feist's back must be hurting like crazy carrying the entire artificer subclass.
Squeaky Clean.
It feels like HG tries their hardest to make a horrible unit and ended up making it
Her talent is essentially useless, her skills barely do anything with it and she lacks anything else, and even with levitate support her damage is one of the worst EVEN FOR 5 STAR STANDARTS
Yeah dont know what HG was even thinking
They were afraid with Ifrit being so strong, but after Corroserum and now Aroma I think it's pretty evident that it's not the archetype that makes Ifrit great, but her busted kit.
@@slonik0002 They legit gave her a broken res debuff and good sp cycling skill with ALREADY good sp costs on skills with good multipliers and tought the class was broken...
the world would be 1038 times better if she had more than 1 chance to levitate
i get that ines was god with this talent(but with bind) but. she costs 3 times less and can redeploy twice as eariler
aroma is super cute though and that's all it matters(also she works with odda who's conveniently free lmao)
also this is the part where i promote my crackship between aroma and paprika: girlies dealing with being forced to see violent bs at a young age wahoo
@@sundoll3710 Also ines can reliably lane hold with that talent as no enemy is bind immune (with very few exceptions) while levitate immune enemies are very common
DP cost and redeployment time don't mean anything. The reason why Ines's bind is so much better is because her skills don't actively rely on it for them to be good (her kit being so spread out is why she's so amazing). Aroma would've been better if her skills offered some extra utility and not just more damage against levitated enemies.
@@thanoof No they absolutely do
Ines is a melee unit so controll is already super good
Frd means she can bind same enemies more consistently and low cost means you can solely use her for the bind at the times too
They absolutely matter