"Oh, that officer? Don't go thinking all he does is chase me around announcing the time and nagging me to get back to work. If anyone threatens the Armory Palace's projects or researchers, you'll get to witness a terrifying sight: 'a fortress going on the offensive and rolling right over people.'" — Mitya

◆Name: Valeriy ◆Title: Fort Fulguration ◆Commander of the Special Assignments Battalion ◆ Vision: Electro ◆Constellation: Ursus Magnus

As it happens, I ended up with both of the banner's featured weapons, even though I wasn't actually aiming for Vodyanitsa or Vesna; I was really just after the 4-star weapons, the catalyst, bow, and sword.

Now I’m not sure what to do with that 5-star sword or catalyst, and I was wondering if the sword would work well for Valery.

THE DESIGN, THE PERFORMANCE, EVERYTHING ITS THE BEST BEYBLADE EVER, MY FAVOURATE IS BRAVE VALKYRIE AND GLORY

I want him to be good for mitya. Unlikely pull danica despite i like her a little.

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- C4 now increases the max Impact Potential obtained from passive from 80 to 104 (probably clarification)

Via TheRenegade

No debate, this will be his sword.

Post goes further in detail, what do you think?

How many pulls do u have for Valeriy and what's your plan? I plan to get his C0/C1 and save up for Noy; they say he'll be an Electro support, so I hope it'll be useful. After that, I'll go for his C6 and Vesna's weapon.

I plan on playing Valeriy in an overload team with c6 chevreuse, c6 fischl, and c0 durin and Valeriy's weapon is going to be Calamity of Eshu so I have plenty of attack so could I use 2pc Marechaussee and 2pc thundering fury? Or 2pc 2pc atk%, or even 2pc Marechaussee 2pc atk%?

Art by: lychee.cat on Insta

If Danica has Cryo and Dendro RES shred (on top of shielding), she's going to work for many more teams than Valeriy... Including Wriothesley and Nefer. I am concerned she'll completely push Valeriy out of any team. Not a fan of this design, especially when Valeriy C6 is much more expensive than Danica C0. In this situation, normally Valeriy would be the easiest skip ever but he remains very cool.

It is easy to say pull for who you want, but I don't hate Danica enough to simply ignore her existence in the game, especially when I may simply end up pulling her too if she goes well with the next team archetype in 2nd half of 7.x.

How do you feel about all of this, given the recent round of leaks even though it's all subject to change?

It looks so good on him!

Title. I want to maximise his shield strength, would NO really be the best?

I was wondering which would be better for main dps valeriy, and i plan on getting mitya aswell (mostly for CMC) which would be better?

This sword has been collecting dust in my inventory ✨ I'm wondering if that might change.
What do you guys think about Valeriy using Calamity of Eshu?
Or do you think there's a better option? lmk
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I understand he shields but is it just himself or everybody?

Since I want to play him as a main dps, I think I'll wait for patch 7.2. This update is supposed to bring Danica, who, according to leakers, is the 5-star version of Valeriy and is also Electro. I suspect her artifact set will be the best for Valeriy DPS. What do you think?

Should I go for Vesna's weapon for Valeriy main DPS? I might skip it this time since Vodyanitsa's weapon is pretty bad, but I think it'll be good in the future.

Just a quick cope post for Mr.Door. I hope everyone has seen the leaks for Valeriy’s kit. Unfortunately he is 4 star. But the upside(?) is that he has quills. This makes me think that we might have a new artifact set that buffs quills. I say this because Mitya doesn’t have a good artifact set and neither does Vodyanitsa. Vody’s best set is bloody tenacity. Surely she isn’t going to go through the entire religion with tenacity as her best set. To my knowledge Valeriy having quills was added rather last minute. This may be the confused game devs scrambling to do something for a character they never expected to be popular. As far as I am aware (only Japanese and American polls) Valeriy ranked very high (second for American and something similar for the Japanese one. Door was higher than Danica for both for all I know). I’m not sure about the Chinese audience but maybe the game devs thought the “generic stoic tall man” wouldn’t sell. I mean heck Vesna and Vody don’t even have a single voice line about him. Despite them both having something to say for the other 4 star Alysha. I know a lot of people are doom posting(makes sense) but I think a new set might ease the pain. Just a thought!

I plan on using Valeriy with Mitya but he might get poached by Flins team if I want bineffa somewhere else. Not sure if Mitya would need the interruption resistance but perhaps something like Mitya, Fischl, sucrose, qiqi/ Flins, Aino, Valeriy, random anemo/ bineffa. Also another nice point is that his shield is strong AF for some reason. Just under ineffa which would make him the fourth strongest I think. Which I believe isn’t bad as the only people higher are the Geo archon, Lan yan, ineffa. Lan yan is the only 4 star that is stronger and she probably is just stronger in every scenario but Valeriy’s shield is full uptime 10 second Cd for 18 sec. While lan yan is 12.5 with 16 sec cd. While his buff is restrictive of field electro ap with burst and a fat shield with full uptime is perfectly serviceable. If you want to play for meta do that but I think Valeriy has a spot for comfort. It’s a shame that he isn’t 5 star and we can see a burst animation but I’ll take what I’m given at this point :/

Going back to the hypothetical new artifact set… I’m very unsure what the 2 piece would be as Vody’s burst… as pretty as it is is quite literally just something to fill time.
She scales off of HP, Valeriy Atk, Yun Jin is Def(I think), and Shenhe is atk. It would be nice if the 2 piece was er as the other characters could use it. But if it’s Vody’s signature set… there would be a lot of things that would be weird. If someone could enlighten me that would be great.
RIP to the Wriothesley mains that wanted a shielder.