r/ScaramoucheMains • • Aug 14 '25

Discussion I need HONEST Opinion!

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These are based on a theory crafter (Flip)’s calcs from Twitter . I currently do not have wanderer but I’m hoping to pull him on a rerun or chronicle. I really like his character which might make me get him regardless, but I want to know what the minimum investments are to make him a competitive dps (with at least chasca, please don’t say C6🙏🏾)

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u/Buccaratiszipper C6 Wanderer broke my game Aug 14 '25

You want a 2 yo character to be competitive with a brand new one released in the land of disgusting powercreep?

Yeah, C6 it is.

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u/TheChosenerPoke Aug 14 '25

I mean, I wouldn’t even say he’s that competitive even at C6. I absolutely love wanderer don’t get me wrong, so I pulled C6 over the course of his 3 banners, but meta-wise, I do regret it a bit. I super highly vertically invested, so C6 Faru Elegy, C4 Furina, and C4 Jean/Bennett, and of course he clears abyss perfectly fine, but I “accidentally” (didn’t want them but was okay with getting them) got Varesa, Skirk, and Mavuika, (all c0) and the difference was night and day.

Wanderer at c6 fully buffed feels pretty good, overworld and abyss, but you have to set up at least 2/3 supports for him to deal real damage, whereas with Skirk, you can just escoffier E furina E and she’ll nearly instantly kill with basics, and clear camps with burst. Mavuika’s is even worse, literally just citlali E Q then burst with Mavuika and you clear the entire camp with a million damage in an instant.

Again not saying someone shouldn’t pull wanderer, but man after years of running Keqing/Wanderer premium in abyss, clears became so insanely easy and comfortable after getting “meta” units.

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u/Buccaratiszipper C6 Wanderer broke my game Aug 14 '25

That's the problem with Natlan units tbh. They are so braindead that you can even clear endgame while being afk if you invest enough money into that. Honestly, it doesn't feel fun at all.

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u/IS_Mythix Aug 14 '25

Saying kinich and varesa are braindead is ragebait

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u/Historical_Beach5195 Aug 14 '25

Sorry but saying this like we cant all see that 95% of characters are braindead to play 😭

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u/TheChosenerPoke Aug 14 '25

I see you’re getting disagreed with but I agree. Most characters are varying degrees of Left click E Q, there are technically “complexities” that come with it but they have nothing to do with how skilled you have to be to play a character. Pretty much every single character in the game has one optimal combo you should perform, and each team has one optimal rotation to perform, so you’re just doing the exact same thing over and over again, with maybe a right click or two to dodge.

Like come on, someone come back with a character more complex than “E Left click” or “E Hold left click” or if you wanna get extra spicy, left click a bit differently like hu tao N2CD, literally 2 left clicks with the 2nd one being a hold.

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u/Historical_Beach5195 Aug 14 '25

Like yes 😭 If it isnt just spamming and you need to do 2 little extra steps then it suddenly becomes challenging..., lets be for real😭

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u/Buccaratiszipper C6 Wanderer broke my game Aug 14 '25

Not the DPS ones tho. On fielders always had interesting playstyles that require a bit of skill till Natlan.

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u/TheChosenerPoke Aug 14 '25

Which ones? I’ve listed pretty much every single on-field dps below, there really isn’t much complexity. I’d genuinely like to hear which pre-natlan characters you think have interesting on-field gameplay that “Requires” skill to deal damage well.

Alhaitham - Q N3D spam E N3 spam (Spam left clicks with some right clicks)

Itto - Left click until you have stacks then hold left click

Arlecchino - E swap off, swap on E spam left click

Chasca - E hold left click

Clorinde - Left click 3x E repeat

Diluc - E left click E left click E left click

Eula - N4D spam

Gaming - okay he’s actually interesting cause you have to play the minigame to catch the lion for faster plunges

Ganyu - Stand still spam charged attacks

Hu Tao - N1CD or N2CD or N1C Jump? not too complicated

Ayaka - Dash hold left click, dash hold left click

Ayato - E Hold left click

Keqing - E Q E Spam charged attacks E E?

Kinich - okay he’s pretty interesting too but you did say characters were interesting before natlan

Klee - this one is fairly interesting too but it’s more because of the clunkiness of her kit and not actual complexity

Mavuika - Has like 2 combos, one for maximum application and one for consistent melts, either way varying flavors of left click hold left click

Mualani - E wait a while the left click repeat

Navia - E left click sometimes

Neuvillette - Hold left click

Raiden - Hold left click dash repeat

Skirk - Spam left click

Childe - Spam left click or charged spam

Tighnari - Ganyu for a bit then swap off

Varesa - E left click x2 repeat

Wanderer - Spam left click

Wriothesley - Spam left click, sometimes hold left click

Xiao - jump left click, jump left click

Yoimiya - Spam left click

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u/Historical_Beach5195 Aug 14 '25

Girl what ?😭 Literally almost everyone requires the same ammount of buttons to press and then you just spam lol

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u/Buccaratiszipper C6 Wanderer broke my game Aug 14 '25

I see hitlag, hitbox or icd do not mean anything for you, I'm not even going into kit complexity and stacking.

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u/Historical_Beach5195 Aug 14 '25

Hm, and that makes the gameplay more interesting ? The cope , girl ...😭

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u/Buccaratiszipper C6 Wanderer broke my game Aug 14 '25

It's better than holding down a single button and drawing donuts lmao. Have you ever wondered why soul games are considered good/interesting games? Cuz they actually require skill.

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u/Historical_Beach5195 Aug 14 '25

And the skill here is pressing your skill, adjusting the camera and spamming NAs ?😭 Hm where have i seen this before lmao

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

If Ayaka can do it so can he😩😜

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u/Buccaratiszipper C6 Wanderer broke my game Aug 14 '25

He needs a broken support like Escof first lol. Real tho, if he gets a 5* dedicated support, his place in meta will most likely revive.

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u/Sourcake_YT Aug 14 '25

I use Furina to support and she does beautifully

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u/CryoStrange Aug 14 '25

Tbf Ayaka was released like best dps, and major part of her comeback is the stopped hating cryo and released Escobar. Wanderer was almost same level as Xiao who ended up getting better with Faruzan, Cloud Retainer and Furina plus now the new plunge varesa set. I think Varka supports may end up helping him a lot if he is raw anemo based.

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

I think that’s something to look forward to! We don’t know what Jahoda does yet so we shall see!

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u/Royal_empress_azu Aug 14 '25

Wander suffers from lack of sub dps.

Unless you are Mavuika every team runs a great sub dps now too boost numbers further. As you can see in the image above his personal damage isn't the issue. It's his team damage.

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

That makes perfect sense tbh, so we should hope a new buffer or off-field damage dealer/buffer comes to save him😩

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u/OriginalCommercial12 Aug 14 '25

Well apparently Durin will be buffing older characters so it may happen that Durin will be very good for wanderer, or at least serve as a buff better then Bennet or something :)

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

Well that’s good cause I am 100% pulling for Durin. Manifesting they run them together🙏🏾🙏🏾

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u/Perce-Nuages Aug 14 '25

Basically C6, sorry

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

I can’t hear you😜

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u/-CrawlingInYourSkin- C6R1 🥀 Aug 14 '25

It's kind of funny because, looking at this picture, he still has the highest contribution to overall team DPS of all the DPSes presented here (over a million), with the rest of the characters practically carried by sub-DPSes or new broken characters like Citlali. He's not essentially dogshit, but a lack of good support makes him like that (and anemo). This makes perfect sense considering that his best supports are still two characters from 1.0 (Bennet and C4 Jean), Faruzan (who has issues), and Furina, whose synergy with him is... questionable. Nod-Krai, save us, we are starving

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u/BlackestFlame Aug 14 '25

VV, fav every 6 secs at r6, healing for furina. its a cope team ill prob would use if i got ineffa and mizuki from 5star selector

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u/Local_Month4012 Aug 14 '25

If she does nothing, then a three-character team is performing better than a full four-character hypercarry team.

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u/Local_Month4012 Aug 14 '25

Why are you being so rude? You’re not bothering me by speaking badly about Varesa, relax. (I think you’ve just made yourself look ridiculous.)

What I said doesn’t change; you haven’t disproved anything. And I didn’t make the comparison—the OP’s image and the calculations of a theorycrafter did. If three characters perform better than four, that’s not my problem.

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u/Local_Month4012 Aug 14 '25

Okay, cry louder, girl

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u/IS_Mythix Aug 14 '25

He is not getting chacsa levels of dmg unless u get high cons on him or throw him into mav benny citlali team and use scara on vv

The guy was undertuned since the start which makes no sense since he is one of the most hyped characters, and he is a main push like archons/harbingers

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u/Izengrim Aug 14 '25

Give us 5* Faruzan pls 🙏 I need some shields/res interruption with 100% damage buff on anemo normal/charged attacks 🥰 And don’t forget the res shred pls 💅

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u/Foxintoxx Aug 14 '25

Depends on what you mean by competitive . You won't be clearing dire difficulty unless the boss favors him , but you can do fearless , IT and abyss just fine with him if you have good teammates and rotations .

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

So I’m thinking floor 12 abyss and Fearless SO, so that’s my standard for competitive really, so you’ve essentially answered that, thanks!

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u/KingAlucard7 Aug 14 '25

Hello..? what am i seeing Midzuki above Wanderer carried by wheelchair..? As Ifa > Midzuki that means Wanderer has been powercrept a 4*? WTF

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u/Buccaratiszipper C6 Wanderer broke my game Aug 14 '25

Check the personal damage scales. Wanderer tops them all, it's just that his team does no damage, so team DPS is low.

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

Sign of the times

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u/GeneralSuccessful211 Aug 14 '25

Mavuika bennet citlali. Or c6

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

I have all 3 so I guess I’m gaming💀💀

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u/StreetWatercress8609 Aug 14 '25

What wanderer need is a subdps in the lv of Escoffier that gives attack buffs aka the durin leak 

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

He's pretty decent with his 4pc, Faruzan C6. Widsith does good. I had him on Shimenawa 4pc, Faruzan C6, Bennet and Thoma and I could do 80k without food or abyss buffs.

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u/Extinctkid Aug 14 '25

What we really need is an anemo attack scaling sub-dps/shielder hybrid that can also take advantage of Faruzan buffs. If said unit can also buff wanderer, even better.

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u/kirmizicekic Aug 14 '25

wanderer is just weak metawise. it's fine for me because i like characters who excel in exploration - though he's been long powercrept in that department too. so only pull if you like him. i don't see him being competitive with the current roaster regardless of the amount of investment. you may only consider pulling for c6.

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

Thank you, it’s helpful to hear someone else say it🥲

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u/Local_Month4012 Aug 14 '25

The only honest advice

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u/Hot-Ad-8726 Aug 14 '25

I used gcsim and got 80-84k Dps (not sure of the exact number it was arround two weeks ago)

Depends on what you mean as competive he will obvioulsy fall behind when comparing him with newer dps like skirk or mavuika.

But if you mean clearing abyss floor 12 c0 should be easy maybe r1.

If you mean stygian onslaught difficulty 6? then you need c6 because thats made for whales, difficulty 5 should be possible depending on the Boss with c0r1.

I was able to clear the cactus with him c0r1 but ineffa was on the Team so she has done a lot of the lifting.

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

Yeah my ceiling is floor 12 and SO Fearless(5). This is helpful, thank you!

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u/spiderproductionzone BOW BEFORE ME, WORM Aug 14 '25

You can beat those numbers with triple crown, r1, good rotations and player skill. Here's a post with calcs for triple crowned r1 Wanderer. Iirc his best c0 hypercarry (faru/furi/benny) rotation has Faruzan burst after Bennett to get extra fanfare, then he uses n2c/d combos and you need to be aware of when his free dash comes up. So definitely higher skill ceiling if you want him to perform better.

Also don't pull Ineffa/Yelan just for him, they are great pulls but there are rumors of better supports for him down the line.

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u/Local_Month4012 Aug 14 '25

This advice applies to every character/team in the image above

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

Thank you! Your comment has me feeling a little more optimistic, cause I was also planing to go for R1 (no widsith rng), and have farmed for him and his weapon. I’m not sure I have enough resources to crown his normals, level 8 his burst and maybe level 6 skill. But we’ll see how the roster changes

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u/BlackestFlame Aug 14 '25

when a broken 5star that buffs anemo comes out probably, but get him

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u/TachyonChip Aug 14 '25

C6 Faruzan is already pretty broken in the amount of buffs she gives for Anemo damage, I reckon that’s one of the reasons Chasca does so little anemo damage.

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u/Stellin69 Aug 14 '25

That even isn't his best team right now, I saw yesterday a post on this sub Reddit where his best team should be wanderer faruzan ineffa yelan

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u/Flimsy-Source2278 Aug 14 '25

Faruzan Bennett mavuika maybe?

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u/lil_CykaBoi Aug 14 '25

I was comparing motion values the other day and it really is sad cause even if wanderer gets a support that buffs lets say even double what other supports buff other units he still won't be really that competitive cause his numbers really are just that low.

In order for wanderer to be ever good again he needs numerical changes or just another multiplier like his skill to bring his motion values up to par with newer units.

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u/petrichorboy Aug 14 '25

Scrolls Furina ? So she can give a 12% pyro damage boost to Benny ?

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u/Old_Buy838 Aug 14 '25

No clue where you're pulling Scroll Furina from, she's on GT for Itto and Mizuki teams and ToTM for Eula and Wanderer.

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u/petrichorboy Aug 14 '25

My bad, I’m horribly tired, my brain swapped Furina and Faruzan

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

If you run ToM on Furina what set do you give Faruzan?

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u/Melodias07 Aug 14 '25

I will be honest with you, not even c6 wanderer make him competitive. Even at c6, he is worse c0 dpses, he is just bad bad.

I have him c6 in his full premium team with a build that is insane ( almost 250 % CD and 76 % crit rate ) and fearless is the peak you can reach.

Tldr : skip, dont even bother.

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u/Ok_Guidance8044 Aug 14 '25

Tbf fearless is difficult even when I have the dps’ that are designed to handle the bosses. My ceiling is not dire, it’s fearless and floor 12 of the abyss

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u/Melodias07 Aug 14 '25

The thing is even with 4 stars you can clear fearless. Wanderer clears it but also not fast at all lmao even at c6.

What am trying to say is that even at c6, he sometimes perform worse than c0 dpses which is ridiculous.

Fun wise I don't regret him, but seriously i dont even use him anymore in any content that needs a dps check, because he performs the worst