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I think you nailed exactly why people are actually disappointed. Viviana's kit feels like someone just designed a generic arts guard kit and slapped it onto her. Nothing really screams Candleknight. Great video!

She's basically the epitome of that meme: > Boss when you fight against him > Boss when you unlock him as a playable character

i like how astesia looks i like how astesia plays i like how viviana looks i like how viviana plays i need no more i am at peace

viviana is THE duelist, she sees an elite or boss and goes "you wut, you wanna go, well have at thee"

i think another important point to bring up is that viviana is a REAL arts fighter, unlike surtr. hg has historically been wary of making arts too strong. it's why casters typically attack slower than snipers and have higher dp costs, but there is only one form of melee arts damage (without being dependent on skills): the arts fighter archetype. because of this concern, arts fighters' kit feature a lot of defensive/survival oriented abilities. mousse lowers atk and increases her def, astesia increases her def, sideroca has self-healing, guardmiya has arts dodge and i-frames/res increase, and then... surtr has brief immortality. it's hardly a hot take to say that surtr broke the archetype-- we all know this. she was such an offensive nuker that i think we, as a playerbase, forgot what arts fighters are actually supposed to do. viviana, therefore, is a RETURN to what arts fighters are meant to be. however, this ended up being disappointing because her kit is relatively lackluster and dps is easier to conceptualize than survivability. that's just how it goes, for better or for worse. as i recall, there are story reasons for why she doesn't have her nuke from near light/cc8, but i will also say that that is not inherently acceptable. it's still going to be a disappointment, justified by lore or not. personally, i do not mind, but i know *many* players do, for which i do not fault them. even the lack of an homage bummed people out. edit: also, imo, it's really annoying that they decided to give viviana steal but not do anything meaningful with it. i would have loved to see res stealing expanded upon, which could make her much more competitive.

with viviana I was honestly expecting an AOE version of ebenholz. because you could clearly see the design space for it with her holding charges by lighting up her candles and possibly having a trait where her normal attacks do aoe damage with the range going up depending on how many stacks of charge it has. Pretty easy to design an operator with those machanics, like one skill where she wont attack without full charge and it charges faster, or one that just lets her build up charge higher than her limit and she wont attack, and you activate it again to let her attack again to nuke something. Or, if they really wanted the shield bit, another phalanx caster. the fact they made her a guard with basically nothing of her actual boss appearance is just really weird. Especially for how they managed degenbreacher, the first W, and mudrock.

I feel like it would’ve made more sense to have her role be crowd control and the that would’ve also made sense with her boss version, instead of trying to directly do what surtr does. I got 3 copies of her trying to get Virtuosa but hey, I’ll give Viviana her chance

Good video. The vivi slander has been over the top. She has an S tier design and voice. And a B+ tier kit. She's easily incorporated. I do wish they had given her a flashier S3 aesthetically

I think one consistent thing I'm getting from your operator videos is that Manfred is a really well made boss. He actively discourages a lot of common unga bunga and gives a nice chance for operators with other niches to shine.

I just started the game coz my friend showed my virtuosa. I got her and Vivianna, and the more I look at her the more I fall in love with the candleknight. Thanks for this video!

I still think Viviana should have had an infinite skill. She has a clear focus on dueling elites while staying on the field but then they didn't give s2 or s3 "upon second activation, duration becomes infinite". Edit: Yeah you have the same opinion as me. I like a lot of "bad" 6* (Ho'ol, Vigil, Lessing, etc) but I feel conflicted on whether or not I even want Vivi (I am waiting for the end of free pulls) bc her kit is like, really plain with no fun synergies or cool ideas behind it, but her design and effects are so nice

In my opinion the main reason why people are disappointed is that she completely lost her identity :(

yeah i wanna use Viviana but unfortunately i haven't successfully pulled her yet

Viviana is one of the few operators that I pulled not because of meta-or gameplay, but because I loved the character. And to be honest, I had fun using her for this event story. She's been performing better than expected. I will say though, if HG really wants to elevate this character to new heights, then they should give her a module that allows her a small (or fixed) chance of marking enemies and making them detonate several seconds after, dealing 3x3 AOE arts damage (just like Reed Alter, minus the chain-explosion). It fits in line with her lore abilities as well.

i E2'd viviana and never looked back!!Shes no surtr, but i love her especially since i dont have a lot of meta 6*(my luck sucks)

haven't watched the video, but I wanna say thank you for this, I feel like the community collectively disregards any arts fighter that's not surtr, even tho I personally love all of them as characters, i have to admit they're not my first choice for any stage really, so this series of videos you do is really nice, cuz a lot of characters I like for whatever reason are also weak lol.

yeah, I agree-vivianna’s moveset really doesn’t scream candle knight-no fire, no light, just slashes that she’s not really known for I feel like they could’ve given her explosions as part of her moveset as either a defensive tool or to clear minions around bosses-if that’s too broken, then follow the ‘illumination’ part of being the candle knight and have her give bosses increased taunt along with a mark/invisibility ignore! also this is more of a me thing but I wish her shields aren’t melee-only-a lot of bosses nowadays and even back then use ranged attacks or even don’t use melee in the first place-making them also block ranged attacks from those bosses would be nice, too…

I''ll bet none of the criticism would be there if she just had her WTF BOOOOM!!! nuke implemented in some way, even if just the freakin visual effects... Arturia was already the Meta, Viviana was supposed to be the fun, gimmicky shit, like Irene or Bikini Swire!

I have P3 Viviana against my will.

What I love about her is that she fits so damn well with both versions of Nearl on a line, she's THE back up for a line with Nearl The Radiant Knight S3 and her own S3. Put a Shiningale combo with them and they're absolutely powerful.

To me, Viviana is a bit self-contradictory. With her S3, she prioritises attacking Elites, but wants to be deployed where that priority is not really needed. Add the extra range and there's suddenly the impression of deploying her behind another unit to focus the Elites among the common enemies. But that means voiding her Shield, which can only block melee damage. And a question I have regarding her is how blocking a common enemy affects her damage dealing. Is she still attacking the incoming Elite? I get that this is not really a concern in the use-cases you have shown, but it is relevant when thinking about making full use of every aspect. Because there's always something left on the table otherwise. Still, even a Module that gains benefits from the Shield would only do so much. A benefit when she loses it would incentivise dueling, but that either makes her priority rather niche or fail to make full use of her extra range again. A benefit to having it would make using Viviana's S3 comparatively lacklustre when actually dueling, since that benefit might not be active on her next attack. Best of both worlds would be a benefit to the Shield that sticks around long enough for Vivi to attack again and get it back. Given that there's a 16.6% of NOT getting the Shield in three hits at the moment (without Potentials), even a small increase of 5% would bring that down to 1 in 8. Still not completely reliable, but enough so that her damage in this offence orientated META would improve. Her S2 is more consistent in this, even if it turns her into "just" a direct upgrade to Astesia. Still, it would be the way I use her most at the moment. We don't have a lot of good options when it comes to melee Arts Damage Dealers that can also take a punch. But this too greatly diminishes the impact her Shield has. Because she isn't dueling as much anymore since she turns into more of a lane holder. In the end, Viviana really does not live up to the hype. The big nuke in her enemy version was just too much. Although I have to say that this playstyle was kind of foreshadowed. Vivi's match against Margret was marked by how well she endured the onslaught by ways of using her Arts to both mitigate and counter the Radiant Knight. Meaning that this version is much more lore accurate than the other. For now, I am hoping that discourse around her calms down soon and that we will get to see some high profile uses for her on EN servers.

So as a fairly new player, the thing i understand is most players aren't disappointed cuz shes bad, they are disappointed because she isnt as good as they expected her to be. To me this had let some confusion on her kit and the disappointment confuses new (perhaps also older players) into thinking that shes bad. Thanks for clearing it up

I like how both you and I pet our operators heads on the main menu, I went to do it as you went to do it in the video lol

Ok so I've started playing 6 days ago, ad apparently the Virtuosa/Viviana banner has a 20% chance to drop a 6 star in my account, now I have both of them, and just with the daily free pulls. I've heard of how Viviana is considered weak and trash, but honestly I don't care so much since I'll consider my account completed once I'll get both Exusiai and Nian; anyway, thanks for the video and for explaining why she isn't trash, I have no idea yet of what her role in the story is, but I really like her design, she looks so seraphic and majestic, and will really like to use her.

Thank you for the guide video!

Thank you for this and your other videos. I really appreciate the more casual perspective where not everything has to be meta. Viviana is the operator I really wanted from this banner, and I know I will enjoy using her, even if she isn’t the “optimal” choice.

I'm glad that there's content out there showing off the operators that don't get enough spotlight. Keep up the good work man!

I wanted her because she left a strong impression. I pulled for her even though her kit dissapointed me. Thanks for the analysis, I think I might enjoy her more now

As a story reader I don't mind them not giving her an explosion skill. I am a bit disappointed they don't utilize the shadow manipulation aspect of her power for her gameplay.

Using Surtr vs Viviana feels like the difference between using Silverash and Mlynar.

I love Viviana she only need a module to ignores art res to be same as surtr hope HG give her that

This channel deserve more attention like this video, thank you for being a good doctor.

I know this is a lot of copium but it would be very interesting if they gave her an elemental module (epsilon?) and she starts dealing burn damage. It would be very fitting for her both aesthetically and gameplay wise (burn damage deals arts damage explosion + lowers enemy res by 20)

I was looking for this, thank you ^^

currently pulling for Arturia and got Viv was sad at first but the way you explained her kit made me want to build her...i have been looking at this the wrong way Thank yous and now I sub to thee 💖💖💖

I was going to build her regardless of thinking she was bad but you really changed my mind here about her being bad. And yeah I think she gets the hate because she's the same role as the easy button of Surtr, and performs absolutely nothing like the boss.

I LOVE that you were headpatting Viviana in the lobby at the end of the vid. And yes, I agree with what you said at the end. She's not bad, far from it. It's just she's not the candleknight we expected, which is a big bummer more than people think it is, considering that other bosses that become playable (i.e. W and Mudrock) had been designed to keep the playstyle of their boss counterparts. It's a shame that injustice was done to her, by how beautifully designed she is as a boss only to be so distant from it when playable.

As a low budget player, I can't really afford to spend hundreds of rolls on someone who does what my current operators do, but not quite as well. Heck, even if she were free, I'm not sure I'd rush to max her out

imo a lot of the issues come from Arts Guards as a whole being, kinda... outdated? Surtr is mostly used specifically for the helidrop and RES Ignore, we are at a point of the game where in hard content (operator power is kinda fully irrelevant on normal content) where theres not much space for this, Surtr was never the best DPS to begin with, she got a lot of her value in the role condensation she does, being a helidrop boss killer that has RES Ignore is massive for her value, Surtr escapes her own archtype just like Mountain does. It's so tragic that Vivi wasn't a Mystic Caster, a Mystic Caster AoE focused variant would have been so great

Vivian is a good operator, I would even go as far as saying she’s great. But this exact situation with Vivian being compared to Surtr is exactly what happened when Chongyue was compared to Mountain. Not every new operator in the same sub-class has to be as strong if not stronger, which is why I am scared for the next sword master operator to come out because they’re gonna be compared to Degenbrecher, which will be an uphill battle

He wanted to "squeeze" this into his upload schedule and it ended up being his most viral vid 😂😅 great video dude

I didn't get Viviana... got pot 2 Virtuosa instead. Still a great video my guy! Knowing I can't even have her but knowing that someone appreciate her, makes me feel a bit better of not having her Edit: Nvm I got pot 3 Vituosa now 💀

I’d say the “problem” with Vivi is that she plays like a 5 Star with inflated stats. (Or a 6 Star with two S2s) The player base is used to Guards who are either AFK perma-skills like Mountain & Thorns, or Heli-drop F*ck You buttons like Surtr Also, you’d expect Vivi to be a Mystic Caster. I honestly imagined Shining Alter to have a kit like this

Thank you, now I’m motivated to build her

i pulled Vivi on the 10 pull free thingy, but my problem with her is that she gives the 'i gonna 1v1 solo bosses' vibes wich made me not want to build her so much, cus i'm used to use the whole team to kill bosses, in fact i compared her with guard Amyia wich is the one who usualy tank the boss wile every other character gives suport due her true damage and pasive buff to every operator making her a solid pick for the job.

The problem I have with her is more or less the same as with Skadi and Ebenholz. They are Boss slayers but need to be completely invested in order to work, compared to blaze or thorns who work just fine at lvl 60 with no masteries or mods. In other words, high investment ops that may not see as much use as a lane holder or crowd controller, so I'd rather build cheaper and more versatile ops first. Still got her though.

got vivi on the free pull and assumed it was going to be a bad run. Thanks to this guide i got a new backup to rotate when Surtr is on cooldown. Really missed that triple hit part when i first read on her S3. Thanks for the great guide!

You earned a sub my fellow doktah. As time and time again, there's no bad operators, just bad doctors.

I got Vivy in 21 pulls and I thought that with my pulls I couldn't get another 6* anymore, so I leveled her to E2 and got some mastery on her S3. (Got Virtuosa in another 30 pulls) Used her in IS4 and she was really fun especially with some nice arts and range attack buffs she got 3k per hit and deleted everything in sight. I would still buff her 2nd Talent. In theory my idea for talent 2 is that she could generate "candle" shields against elite enemies and bosses that could act as damage reduction / heal back once broken. She could stack max 2 candles and 3 with pot 5. Idk about the strength of heal or dmg reduction, but I think it would feel more candle-ish and would be help of indicating when the shields are working. Over all she looks beautiful in E2 art and I am tempted to M6 her.

I like how people talk about some operators so negatively (sometimes inspired or enforced by some shallow content creators) and yet these "niche" ops happen to be a hidden gem. Eunectes for example I used to block Zarro on the S Stage of IlSiracusano, The Last Knight in IS3, the Avenger in CC12 (she could keep it stunned even with invincibility). Ho'olheyak helped against those sheep in So Long Adele (Though i can't say for sure if by levitating they lost their carmine steam bonuses). Wind Chimes survives slow hard hitters where many others wouldn't and with Quercus healing she's functional as a laneholder. People also don't seem to talk enough about Cliffheard who can deal almost 2k true damage + stun every 15 seconds to 3 enemies (aerial included) which bypasses damage reduction mechanics, like Touch of Sanguinarch in ch10. And being a helpful against Manfred as well. I even remember there was a point, a bit before module, that people talked bad about Ebenholz and yet, with one Warfarin buff he skipped boss HP% related mechanics, because with little management he did lots of damage. Just teaches me when community talk so negatively about an operator I should be skeptical. At least to try and check out more about them.

Hi, thank you so much for this. I’ve been playing very casually since 2021, and when I pulled Vivi this banner, I decided I’d actually try to start picking some five and six stars to level instead of relying on my favored fours and threes, and it was hard, wading through all of the comments about how terrible Vivi is. I will say, I wish you had more, “So you want to use,” style videos. You have a very great, clean way of explaining things! I’d love to see your takes on other characters too.

Thanks for the review, I finally figured out how to use it. I was disappointed with her even though I was waiting for her as a playable character before the announcement in China. She's so sweet as a boss. I think the developers should have given her either massive damage as a surt or without 2 activation. so that she could immediately smash her face and not wait. it was also possible to give 1 skill with the torso so that it would give much less attacks, but it acted constantly. In short, such wonderful art against the background of a bunch of broken operators, you know the paternal feelings when your daughter was not appreciated and was given a bad skill.

i think i get it now, tysm, because ever since i got my vivi pot 1 what i initially thought was a total waste of my remaining materials to get her to e1 lvl 70 now is actually worth something. And after levelling up my virtuosa (which i luckily obtained later on with omertosa) i will definitely consider viviana e2

Wanted Vivana, pulled for Viviana, didnt get her instead got Virtuosa. Suffering from success Now i await the dragonlady!

Arts guard are generally focused on Defense and Survival, except for Surtr. The red haired one is meant for aggresive play when necessary. You can use Both of them. IMHO I'm glad to get Vivi, I'll build her soon and know she is my assistant

Pov: You have lost the 50/50 in the virtuosa banner

I got her and I’m happy! I just love her design!

lol in some of your examples, surtr will survive longer and deal more damage with just better medics behind her, but yeah I get your point. I will be building Viv anyway

People being mad for a character not being good enough is something i can never understand since my game plan is just: - "Is that character playable?" - "Yes" - "Use them." that goes for U-Official too xD

Idk what it is, but i'm slightly obsessed with Arts Guards and Swordmasters. I'm loving Viviana so far and her E2 art is beautiful. I love flowy things. I'll probably end up M3'ing S2 as well.

Thanks for this. Viviana is my most anticipated NPC becoming playable and I was pretty devastated when CN players said she was bad. Having a better understanding of her strengths gives me hope that I can find ways to enjoy her anyway. I'd hope she gets a cracked module but... any mod she gets, Surtr would also get. So I feel like unless they do something similar to Gladiia, where her mod3 removes the restrictions on her full power talents, she may be merely 'fine' forever. Maybe she'll get a delta module that gives her burn elemental damage or something, that would be fun.

both my viviana and virtuosa are still at lvl 1 cuz the star of the show for me on this banner was skadi alter and my journey saving 300 pulls for her since god knows when lol i like to do some lvl gaming runs but even at that, viviana doesnt seem to do much ngl

Great video! So much to unpack on this one. 1) I love it when people don't go the route of echoing community rhetoric of XYZ character is bad but instead go, "what is this character good at and how can you use them" so kudos to you sir. 2) It's not uncommon to give 6* operators skills that mirror lower rarity operators and often each of their 3 skills mirrors a different lower rarity operator's niche in some way. Take Saileach for example, she has a pure dp skill, a heal (like myrtle) and an AOE slow (like elysium). Obviously mirrored doesn't mean exactly the same, they can have compelling changes to make them more interesting. 3) Having 2 "Surtr's" is not necessarily a bad thing. You can use BOTH of them in your team. 4) I never really say any character is bad but there was something about Viviana that irked me a bit and that was the approach they took to her design. Some of the stuff you alluded to already, she is clearly an aoe arts damage dealer as an enemy and none of that was brought over into her kit. Now in fairness to HG on this point they had just released Qiubai like 6 months earlier so that would've been a bit redundant. *cough* Yato-Alter *cough* However, before Viviana we had exactly one 6* arts guard, Surtr. Surtr's specialty is killing bosses primarily, she can be used for other things of course but most people use her to kill bosses or very strong enemies. So now when I look at Viviana's kit design and see all the benefits are triggered by bosses and elites I'm like "seriously, you gave her a niche focused on the same thing that the only other 6* arts guard in the game already does?!?!" In other words I am irked by the developers but I don't think that inherently makes her bad, it's just kind of a meta annoyance that hangs over her like a cloud. I guess they were going to make her redundant one way or the other whether they made her aoe arts or a boss duelist. I assume they thought that the latter had more wiggle room for originality but we're only left to wonder what she could've been if they had gone with a kit more in line with her enemy abilities. All that having been said, I'm not saying that she's a carbon copy of Surtr. I think that there can be instances where having to wait 90 seconds for Surtr's redeploy can be a big liability for example, so having the ability to stay deployed more consistently can have benefits and you gave a few great examples of that.

It's eerily thematic that Viviana, the subject of much speculation and rumor from the in-lore press, would herself be scrutinized and judged by the playerbase.

Oh, neat. I just finished her M9. She's quite fun to use so far.

Honestly, I feel like the only reason why Viviana is ok is because game is just let you get away with using her, by that I mean - general content in AK is pretty easy to the point even bad ops can do some fair job here and there, while I wouldn't say she's unusable, I could say her kit is flawed, but at least not killed by enourmous sp costs like for some other ops

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Viviana is strong, but if she gained the ability to cause an Arts AOE explosion every time her shield was destroyed a.k.a Candlelight Blast, that would've been enough to give her a complete identity (plus RES shred, of course).

I think it's absolutely correct that the loss of her identity is what really makes people mad and/or disappointed. But I also have to say that while she's good at her niche, the real issue is that Arts Guards as a whole are incredibly unnecessary if you aren't a very new player because there are so many casters that both do more damage and have RES shred on top. Eyja, Ifrit, GG and Ceobe to name some, not to mention the specific niche of clowning on bosses can include dropping a RES-shredding Texas with S2 to assists the casters as the laneholder. Hell, Kay's new module makes her super effective against precisely the bosses Vivi is, to the point that she could step all over the massive stat-sticks in DoS (doing 50-75% of their DEF as bonus arts damage per hit at that speed is ridiculous, even Eyja can't keep up if the HP bar is large enough). I also think people really wanted her shield to be good to break her out of that very small niche. Once you need backup dancers in the form of healers, she also drops into the pile of any other laneholder that can clown on a boss, such as Chungus whose bonus damage ignores everything because it stacks so high. In other words, she'll function but someone else is probably better when healers enter the scene. It shouldn't dissuade you from pulling a cool character, it's just the old "someone much better is right around the corner" routine (Degenbrecher) so non-waifu pulls for a regular unit can't be recommended if you don't have a large roster. She ended up spooking me on my daily free pull today, so I won't complain because her character design is fantastic.

I've literally never heard of Virtuosa before this event whereas I knew of and loved Vivi since the Near ones.

Holy shit this is such a good video, you're a life saver

Thank you for making me feel better, I was trying to get Texas, 300 pulls in got 7 viviana :))

In the process of leveling both Virt and Vivi, both are E2 already. I like the duelist fantasy S3 provides and think it’s a solid addition to the roster of duelist ops we have. She’s our best arts duelist by far, which isn’t saying a ton but it’s the thought that counts. She’s kinda like an arts dreadnaught in a sense. Also she cheeses arts damage with S3 alongside Nightingale, 100 res is funny.

Am I happy she's here? Heck yes! Am I happy I pulled her? Yep! Am I gonna e2 L90 M3 her? Yep! Do I wish she actually DID something with her, you know, candlelight? ...also yes :/

So does her shield block melee only or what's going on in the Manfred clip Also Surtr's 8 sec immortality can be better depending on the threat. A high HP pool combined with it can wall out a high atk fast aspd enemy that'd shred Vivi, but Vivi definitely wins out on slow, hard hitting enemies.

As a Viviana stan(I almost got bankrupt on resources rolling for her) I greatly approve of this video! She might not be perfect in terms of gameplay and meta, but if there's a will there's a way, and I will always try to find a way to make her shine

She is not the Candle Knight, Viviana is a girl who goes back to her country and let Candle Knight at Kazimierz, Candle Knight is her Kazimierz’s Knight persona, and she see it at another personality (see ”talk after promotion 1” in wich she talk about her and Candle knight like two faces of the same coin, and the two are contradictory)

Isn't she more of a lane holder instead of helidrop like surtr? Her s3 is best to deal on consistent wave of elite, surtr on the other hand is best on dealing against single huge wave of enemies or dueling boss?

I just want a good operator in a good game. Viviana, initially, I didn't expect much from her, now she's my dub assistant x)

The only and only things that I'm upset about viviana is that she doesn't have that candle knight explosion from the boss version.. Other than than I'm quite happy with her

I think she's supposed to be a lane holder with a mix of elite and boss killer. So at least she's a bit different with surtr in terms of role (helidrop). Although i would have preferred if she can cast her nuke like in cc#8. Something like a huge arts aoe with long casting time

Ppl just dissapointed that she doesnt nuke enemies with s3 but cmn, we were told during all the event she was a great swordfighter rather than caster, am dissapointed enemies dont explode but sure i love having an arts guard with more than 2 default block and that can just stay in map

You have enlightened me. Thank you. My stigma has fallen, if only partially. Really though, my main problem is "This isn't Viviana, this is a Astesia Alter in a makeover". This feels nothing like what the candleknight did. Meanwhile, Degen is literally next banner and uhhhh Lol, Lmao. I wish they could rework her, but afaik due to chinese gacha laws they cannot change chars so greatly.

Hundred and 180 pulls: -3 viviana -1 mizuki Fuck it we ball builded her just for coming home trice my 1 year of savings? Back to zero Nian rerun is comming? Fuck it like bro she's dedicated to stop me from getting virtuosa she my main dps now.

What if her 3rd skill 2nd activation was permanent? Would that make her more desirable?

wait which background is that in the end i like the grey aesthetic better than my current surtur l2d w/ beachfront background set up

Thanks! I ended up getting Vivi and I was wondering how to make good use of her.

What I find annoying is that she debuts in a event were pretty much all enemies have high RES. I like her for what she is, but one cannot ignore that most people want big numbers on their screen.

I think her S3 does fit her identity as candleknight who uses both light and shadow arts but her S3 sword slashes on the enemy do seem.....slightly lackluster visually to me compared to the damage you do with it. Just a nitpick tho. (could be done on purpose perhaps as a design choice, like a fast but small rapier you can barely keep track of)

Thank you for making this video. I ended up pulling a ton of this banner and got max potential Vivi. I was disappointed because everyone just says she’s meh. This makes me actually want to build her up and use her. I have a max Surtr as well, so it’s not like I’m missing out on arts damage. Though the self drain after is painful. Hopefully people start to use and appreciate her more. I know I am.

thanks for the vid. i need something to make me feel better after pulling 4 vivianas before 1 virtuosa

If i want to use an OP unit, i'll use Mlynar. If i want to use a unit I like, i'll use Viviana.

Not every character needs to be a press to win button lol.

I find that Vivianas greatest strength is her range extension. Arts fighters typically have 1 tile attack range and are squishy and never want enemies to touch them. Surtr gets over this by literal godmode, the others get over it by hefty attack reduction or big def/healing. Viviana has the advantage of working equally well behind a defender or a wall. "She is designed as a duelist, albeit one with many conditions applied" nah bro, she is basically Lappland behind a wall who trades silence for a lot more arts damage. All the benefits with none of that pesky downside like "why doesn't she work without a medic?" or "skill ran out, couldn't generate shields and was one shot".

You use Viviana for her status. I use Viviana because waifu. We are not the same. 🗿

If there's one thing I would like them to give Viviana, it would be a mechanic where her unique arts are actually used. Twin Towers Spoilers ahead for Viviana's arts prowess: Viviana's arts in story is a sort of shadow manipulation to what I understand, while Viviana's in game mechanic is to just generate shields by hitting. Enemy Viviana also does explosions n' stuff right? What happened to this? It would be cool if in the end of Viviana's 3rd skill, she just busts everywhere according to the amount of times she attacked enemies. Either way, I pulled for her even though it took like 280+ pulls because... She's the damn Candle Knight, her VAs are outstanding, and just like you, I'm not much of a meta player. Meta has lost meaning at this point in my AK journey and I just pick who I like as long as it's possible.. Though my favorites are the Siracusans and Abyssals Edit: Right, and her illustrator is Chuzenji. I love my Chuzenji works

for me, it's the minus res missing. she has a chance for fix, BUT BIG NO of that until the next 6 month atleast.. 😢

Haven't played in two years and too much shit is going on. I loved how we just had to smash them all away using silver daddy and ice cream queen back then

I did not expect another nuker, because those like Surts are a design mistakes and makes them forever meta. Now they design enemies, like Manfred, around more balanced units like Viviana. She also has lane holding ability against medium or even strong enemies. She’s overall BALANCED and that’s a healthy thing for a game. We need options, not another meta-breaker, that’s gonna be a problem if you miss it (looking at you Mwynar…). I am SO happy with Viviana, instantly S3M2 and now trying to push chapters to 13 so that I can finally M3 her skill, and I will probably push her S2M3 as well. I waited for her to be released and I will not tolerate anyone who says “but she was stronger as a boss and now she’s meh” - you are disrespectful to our Candle Knight.