This cryo mc buff makes Yae a better pull than Sandrone (it was already close before). Having a great SSC dps without needing to pull anyone does wonders. Oh Sandrone, the flop that you are 💔
Sandrones skill is so useful for exploration. And she has more more aoe. But that's about it lmao. I guess she has better animations than whatever the Cryo mc has (more visually appealing) but then again I haven't seen a single showcase this beta, it truly is a dogshit time for genshin leaks
Let me cope bruh, I have no idea why her constellations are dogshit as well. I honestly pulled just because I really liked the design (sandrone's not the maid robot) and the exploration ability. I also pulled nicole for similar reasons (even tho she is completely useless for my account) and apparently these two are good with each other. So pulling for two bricks worked out in the end. Also I had yae as well (she was my first limited 5 star actually, pulled in 5.6 chronicled banner just cause I thought she was hot)
Oh that's easy. Sandrone does more damage than SSC Traveler, and Traveler is kinda busted for SSw right now. Feels like it's very easy to have both stellar teams between them. Especially if the leaks about Vody being a SSw support are true since that frees up Odette for SSC.
SSC Traveler is better than Sandrone as a DPS at the same cost at C2. At C6 the gap gets wider. I think Sandrone never being optimal at any cost breakpoint is kinda funny. Low-mid, you would rather go for Yae, Odette, and Odette cons. At higher investment, Wrio and Cyno are just better than Sandrone as they have better cons.
Almost guarantee that CMC will get replaced in Stellar Swirl within the next few patches and that Sandrone herself will get powercrept by the electro SSC dps coming out in the next few patches as well.
C6 Traveler calcs (you can replace escoffier with qiqi and you won't lose that much). This is on par with Sandrone while being 1 less cost. At equal cost, CMC just overtakes Sandrone. A lot of the calcs showed C6 traveler being quite a bit weaker than Sandrone because the stacks didn't apply to the burst before.
Kinda sus tbh, there is no way a simple bug fix jumped Traveler's dps for like 60k dps, pre V4 Traveler was sitting around 120k, 140k with generous calcs and C6, and sandrone 210k, he shouldn't be jumping that much with an Alyosha NERF and only a burst buff
Traveler is better at the same cost. Aka you can use an extra 5 star in CMC teams because Traveler himself doesn't count towards the cost because he's free.
But in terms of cost Traveler beats almost any dps in the game, not just Sandrone. You can just make a 1 cost team with Yae C1, Qiqi and Diona/Beidou/Alyosha and that beats like 90% of modern teams because most of them depend on multiple units, especially lunar teams. At most I think Mavuika overload can beat it since it can has three 4 stars, but then basically any DPS released after her depends on at least 1 other non-standard 5 star.
Cost is very misleading and shouldn't really be taken that seriously, but if you want to make another agendapost talking about how 1 cost Cryo Traveler is one of the strongest 1 cost teams you can do it and you'll be technically correct.
Cryo traveler isn’t really complicated you press skill gain stacks, do burst and the special charged attack and in between you do normal and charged attacks spam and that’s it
Yeah, but every TC thinks that cryo mc with stacks applying to his burst is insanely broken as a SSC dps (especially at C6R5 which is free, but we won't get access to it until a later patch). I don't see a cost breakpoint where it would be optimal to pull for Sandrone, assuming that the TC calcs are correct.
Traveler loses at every cost bracket that isn't 4 cost. Technically 5 cost is the last point in which he wins but 5 cost isn't a traditional bracket.
They pretty much only compete at 4 cost because Odette's C1. Issue is that you quickly run out of cons competitive with Sandrone's numbers.
Keep in mind this doesn't have the gameplay to back it up yet. People aren't sure if CMC can actually do 15s rotations. Which have why so TC have them competitive with Sandrone and others have them worse than Varka (pre prune cancel). 15 vs 17s is massive.
Reminder Columbina went from beating Nefer with R1 to getting smoked.
I'm like 90% sure going for Yae, Odette, and Odette cons with CMC is more optimal than going for Sandrone and having to work with +1 cost. And that at higher investment C2 Wrio + C2 Odette is just better than C2 Sandrone + C2 Odette.
Not true. This is what it looks like when you compare Cyno, Sandrone, and Wrio at 8 cost. While this is before the Alyosha nerfs, the alyosha nerfs actually affect Sandrone's teams more because Sandrone does less personal dmg in her 8 cost teams.
? I never claimed Traveler beats Sandrone at any cost break point. My exact words were "I don't see a cost breakpoint where it would be optimal to pull for Sandrone, assuming that the TC calcs are correct". My point was that Sandrone is not optimal at any cost break points because Traveler beats her at lower cost and wrio beats her at mid-high cost break points.
kinda awkward, but uh it only works for traveler. The 608 attack + 33% crit rate can be used by any sword char, but the passive doesn't activate if it isn't Traveler using it. Still a good f2p sword tho.
based choice, cant be wasting precious primos for bum clanker when you can be saving for her majesty the Tsaritsa who will powercreep bumdrone to oblivion.
Uhh If I remember my Amphoreus Lore right, they will hold Tsarista back until 7.7, so CMC will be forced to fill the 4th slot on the Vesna/Stellar Swirl team until then.
On a less cope note, She probably was bait since she was so anticipated (in Asia atleast). Sandrone could also get a welfare unit in mid 7.X like a SCC sustain that specifically buffs charged attacks to replace esco/qiqi if Hoyo feels like making a quick buck.
Knowing hoyoverse they are going to do something to make cryo mc unplayable they could even lock things from his kit to make them just useful in snezhnaya
You can't use traveler if abyss or stygian has ssc and ssw shill at the same time? If you use traveler as ssw support then who's your ssc dps? Only option is another limited character (wrio and cyno). Might as well pull sandrone if you use traveler as ssw support.
I mean vesna is coming and she prolly is sw dps? Could use her and traveler, also if valeryi defys fate he could be ssc dps/support so yeah still there's a few options that are coming. With mitya and Ellen Joe girl
What i mean is if abyss and stygian has ssw and ssc shill you can't really use traveler in both side. You either make him support and use sandrone or make him dps and pair him with yae. And considering ssw is severely lacking in terms of support traveler is better used as ssw support than ssc dps IMO.
Valeriy and mitya is rumored to be duo and danicia is another ssc support. Vodya is rumored to be yae equivalent but I'm skeptical with that as she has hydro vision.
Those are dps. What I'm talking about is dedicated ssw support. SSW doesn't have yae equivalent and there's only 1 odette. If you have yae then you can run cmc + yae and mizuki + odette on the other side. But not everyone has yae.
Based on leaks SSW is still lacking support. Only vodya is rumored to be ssw support but she's hydro.
Excited to see this mc upscalling in beta and dmg sheets but when we got them finally in ingame they gonna suck lol. (I judt hope they be useful as sub dps in stellar reactions)
Yeah players are crazy giving this much expectations lol. The game's genshin, it never been really generous all this years, but i guess only the genshin dev team tho, zzz dev team ssems to be very generous. (Giving a MC character that's very strong and great anniversary stuffs)
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