SPECIFICATIONS: >Editing mistake at 11:30. The subtitles should say "Near the start of the video I called her a "Parasite unit"". There could also be other spelling mistakes and typos I did not notice due to the length of this video and being an ESL, so apologies. >Module 2 was clearly meant to work with Skill 1, despite the exaggerated way I talk about it. The idea was clearly to make a Module specifically to synergize with Skill 1, since Module 1 literally doesn't do anything if you use that skill, and in that Module 2 works well. However, it's not worth it to get a whole module for Eunectes's Skill 1. >About Parasite Units, if you want to get really nitpicky you can argue every single unit in the game is a Parasite Unit to some extent. For example, Surtr would be a parasite unit because you have to "accomodate for her" by putting her in places where she can hit enemies. For this video, I meant units that you actively have to play around to negate their weaknesses, or their annoying kits. >Despite Eunectes being now great, I would still argue there is no reason to build her, especially if you have a turbo-stacked meta sheep super sweaty account like mine. Unless you like her. But at least now she isn't actual account damage anymore. Though, she does require a lot of investment with the Module 3, because HG for some god damned reason decided to have module materials be the most scarce and pointlessly time-gated resource in the game.

To summarize the video: Eunectes

I'm convinced that Surtr is so strong because HG realised how bad Eunectes was and went "crap, we gotta make better 6 star units. Who's next, that redhead girl? Yeah just give her like, a super strong dps or something I dunno."

Dualist defenders are defenders pretending to be guard Centurion guards are guards pretending to be defenders

More people should use a completely unrelated card game to explain gacha games. The video has a good structure and a good mixture between jokes and actual analisys of the operator

Reasons to E2 max pot module 6 m9 level 90 Eunectes: -Hot -Snek

I like how they somehow made an SP recovery mode that is worse than Defensive recovery. I never understood why they needed to add that SP trait to Eunectes, the 1 block is fair and balanced already IMO.

For some reason, her sp talent stacks with Ptilopsis. So her sp recovery is kinda cracked.

No no SUPAH you dont get it, its not about her feet, its about her thighs. If she had normal sp recovery she would be great. She could tank the two enemy archers in TC-4 for the whole time without healers, only her third skill was used at the end to fight the boss.

They fixed the Eunectes problem by releasing Surtr.

Really makes me wonder about “negative traits” as a whole in the game, because some of them are really a problem for some operators. The Abjurer branch for instance have the negative trait of only healing for 75% of their ATK on skill, but because all of their skills either give them +ATK or +ASPD, that trait isn’t much of a negative to them actually. Which would make me very upset if HG decided that their module removes this negative, even tho their are worse things to deal with on their kits, like their SP costs.

holy shit i had the same exact opinions, her entire fucking kit, stats, and archetype completely contradicts one another. and the fact that hg, for some reason, had to balance her out (till she became shitty to use) AND THEN RELEASE SURTR AFTER HER, is just a huge fuck you to anyone that rolled for her

Got spooked Eunectes pretty early on (around the time great chief rerun) Not 2 weeks after using her, got spooked by Mudrock who basically just curb stomped snek girl into oblivion, genuinely tried to use her in a few stages and it just does not budge given I can simply just, drop a better defender or place Melantha down with less drawbacks. Thank god her Module 1 came about or else she would've stayed as a toddler speed bump for enemy waves.

Oh, i use eunectes in so many stages she helps so much

Great video as usual. Also, love how you used some Neon White tunes--that soundtrack rocks.

0:06 It's me. I'm on my way to Shitaly at this instant to commit horrors this world in all of it's history and prehistory isn't ready for. Here's the thing with these activation "requirements." See Jesselton here 3:57? You drop her right on top of the boss and she solos. That's it. Almost like there's something to her being used for bigger enemies where her cost begins to justify itself for what she does on the map, and she doesn't kill the enemy while trying to charge sp because it's an enemy that actually has an hp bar. Hmm. Firstly, her role. She's a duelist, yes, in role and archetype, which is part of the defender class. However what she does better than any other duelists (the role, not the archetype) is actually surviving things for an extended amount of time, which is actually quite defender of her. Surtr's skill in contrast shortens the more damage she takes, not so good if you're against a bulky elite or boss that is actually actively attacking you and shortening your damage dealt and your time blocking; Eunectes is 35 seconds til the end, and facetanks Patriot with module 2. 5:22 She's block one because she's for heavy enemies. Blocking more doesn't help her charge faster. It does however let her die faster if she's being faced with an actually substantial force. 9:46 Harping on about her sp limitation means you aren't using her to block, which it would be 16/13 seconds of initial sp. Recharging sp without initial generally isn't something done. Most stages only have one boss, and you just retreat once the thing is dead. Some stages may have a stream of threatening elites, particularly in CC, in which you replace the helidrop antics for parking her and Saria to deal with it for the whole map. This "perfect storm of unfortunate circumstances" is actually how to create an interesting operator who specializes in a role, and both works better and justifies itself when facing a certain caliber of enemy, but generally doesn't provide as much in other situations (e.g. no bosses). The issue here that you're describing the whole time is why a duelist doesn't fit into a defender/centurion/laneholder box, when every part of her kit screams boss fighting stat stick.

as a proud(sad) snake simper. I honestly can't disagree with this video. It's just fact. However, as Eunectes is "my trashcan operator" I can't help but sit here and think about what modules would do her well. I honestly think a module that simply gives her +1 block, and maybe 0.2+ sp because they seem to love that tiny increase, would do wonders because it actually lets her have more than one enemy queued up to get clapped by her gigantic stats. And it would make it interesting for people to have to choose between constant SP regen(but slower) and the ability to SP battery her. And her being able to finally charge her own damn skill up. But for now, her current module makes her at least usable, and makes me feel like my materials were sliiiiiightly less wasted on M9 lv90in her.. slightly :,)

Gummy is a solid IS2 unit though. Not to mention the ability to heal without health restrictions has it's own benefits.

thank you for the new upload! after watching this video now i have a clear conclusion that i gonna cook m6 gummy

12:30 that's actually a really good explanation of how Fiammetta fits into my squads. I always bring archetto and an AOE guard to accommodate for Fia's particularities, but she's my favorite DPS in the game. aside from like, yalter and texalter

Great stuff!

Oh and another thing: If HG is gonna be giving branches and specific operators negative traits just to fix them with modules later on, why not just… stop giving them negative traits? Paprika on CN is a Chain medic, and similar to Chain casters her heals bounce to any allies near her target. But for some ridiculous reason they decided that it was a good idea to carry the Chain caster’s branch over: subsequent bounces reduces the healing. They had absolutely no reason to give Paprika this trait, especially because they fixed it with the Chain caster’s module. Best guess is that they did this to give players an arbitrary reason to get her module later one. They did the same thing they did with the Abjurer branch for her where she gains increased ATK and ASPD on her skills to counteract her negative trait. The problem there though is that Paprika is medic, meaning that her ATK interval 2.85s, not 1.6s like the Abjurers. So she gets her heals out slower even with her ASPD buff on one of her skills. Modules only actually buff some operators and branches. For the others modules are just bandaids.

15:14 at least they seemed to have learned it's OK to completely remove a negative branch trait with a Module- as seen with Lumen's Y Module which straight up says "no more reduced healing"

started the vid, thinking about how the view may be slightly outdated due to it being from the time before modules, but then i realized, video's LITERALLY from 1 hour ago lmaooo //sits and enjoys supah's voice

had some great laughs, thank you

I'll say it, Eunectes was bad. She was very powerful, but before her module 1 she was just such a pain in the ass to use it was virtually never worth using her for reasons beyond "I want to use Eunectes". Which wasn't a bad reason, I used her for that reason myself, but it didn't make her good. Should you build Eunectes? I'd recommend building any 6* you happen to have since for the most part they have the most interesting kits in the game. Should you pull for Eunectes though? Even after her modules I still wouldn't recommend it for gameplay reasons, she's not really bringing anything important to the table.

Hey! I wanted to hear more about Gummy!

Her S3 text said that she attacked all blocked enemies when she was released. It’s unclear if she was meant to have that feature but they forgot, or if it was removed. Her skin does give her that char aznable raging ironhide though. And a little tool belt on her tail.

I have Eunectes at module X level 2. Before her module came out, I had her at E2, and I was trying to make her work in... I want to say a ch10 stage? But she was just barely falling short. So I gave her some levels. She did worse. She was now killing enemies one hit sooner, which meant she was blocking enemies for less time, therefore her skill took longer to come online. Let that sink in. She became stronger and performed worse. By leveling her up, I had performed permanent account damage. No other branch in the game can claim to have less value. She is so fun when she *does* work, but for the love of all that is good, do not make the same mistake I did.

Naked Amiya soap is SUCH a firstworldproblem LOOL

She was one of my first 6*. I tried using her and felt disappointed, she didn't feel like she's useful. But then I realized that sometimes she can be a monster. She is a vital part of my auto deploy in the Harold boss fight in the recent Kjerag Degenbrecher event. She's weird but she can be good

The pain I feel in retrospect thinking about how I pulled for Eunectes, E2 her, and then quit ak for a while. now I have e2 eunectes before mudrock and saria I never use her now because I like to use mudrock and ifrit as my higher cost units and 3 is a crowd.

Thanks for talking about awesome snake operator

I wanted to get Eunectes back when she first came out, but sadly I didn't get her until after her module came out

The video won't say Eunectes is bad. But as a random commenter I will say: Eunectes is a baddie.

Does doing event affect gacha result? Bcuz i got her after doing her while doing her event worse is at texalter banner(still no alter😭) and last draw bcuz idk where i can get more ora i just do her event to grind some now idk where to put her now maybe she will just join the lvl1 6stars until a need her😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

I do not understand? Why high ATK is a problem?

You're onto something with the comment of the skill 3 not being AoE, it actually used to say it was AoE on the skill description when she was first released. That was patched out later on, but that + the skill animation leads me to believe she *was* designed to have the AoE feature and it was removed for being... too strong? I can't imagine that would have been too strong at all, but I'm not the balance team.

What's the name of the game playing in background? Asking for a friend

What is the game on background?

Before I got Tsukinogi I thought she was a parasite operator, but after after getting her and actually using her, I realized she isn’t, at least to a degree. Because of her SP cost on her skills she has trouble getting them up in time for some enemy waves. Ones that pretty much constantly throw them at you with little time to recover. She’s actually pretty decent In Annihilation mission due to waves generally being spaced out more. But even still I’d like hers and the other two’s SP costs reduced because that’s their main problem and that will make them much better and more usable for more players.

Everytime SUPAH said "but(t)" My eyes are blessed

The way Euenectes works fits very well in the SSS format (w or w/o module) and she's actually 1 of the meta choices I'd recommend, especially for Toron mine where you start to care a bit more about survival and block count. The mechanics of the mode completely negate all of her weaknesses and she makes a great alternative to Irene if you don't have her or even if you just want to have a backup to mitigate RNG. Unpopular opinion but I think a lot of the people that struggle in SSS or complain about it being too random just haven't adapted to the different meta and haven't adapted their play style to it. Also, there's an argument to be made that building an operator just for SSS is worth doing since it is the main source of end game advancement and you should be able to easily build an operator before the debuffs.

Heidi is good for operators of this type now, i had a lot of fun using eunectes and aurora

I mean, the only ever reproved OP by FrostByte as far I know is Lava Alter lmao. And I tought Eunectes was also know her tighs, its were she actually peaked my interest and made me put her on my "wishlist".

I’m going to be honest, I never looked at her 3rd skill sp cost and just assumed it was like nian and dusk with like 120 cost

I, too want to go indepth on eunectes

Moral of the story: just use Gummy instead.

Ok, what's this gotta do with dossoles rerun.

whats the game in bg

Cool vid supah. 👍

To fix Eunectes we just need to change her S1 to "Attack up GAMMA"

Fun video. This was narrated by Nina Conti monkey puppet that got older or his dad. (She is an amazing ventriloquist).

The subtitle for "I'm just dude on the internet, not a cop" 😌

that yugi analogy

i don't think i needed to know about naked arknights characters being turned into soap, but thanks ig...

does Ptilo increase the SP charge rate with the first module since charging permanently is enabled (even at a slow rate) ?

What your thought on passenger who most people say he become s tier with his module

bro great and informative video. can you do one for Surtr too? Im looking at her kit and I just can't wrap my head around on how to use her. I drop her down with a healer but after the first enemy is fighting with her everyone else just passes through. am I missing something here?

Eunectes was my frist 6* After 2 years of playing, I can say that mecha snake is the second best defender, only behind the almighty Gummy

I love mommy Ling as a noob she carried me in most stages I can just steam roll almost every time just with her and few vanguard units for SP

Supah, that's all well and good, but all I see is snek booba on a thumbnail and that's good enough reason for me. However I do not have Eunectes and with all those stupidly stacked new Operators coming out I am not going to go out of my way for her. She is free to spook me however. Preferably in my bed at 3am.

11:20 you sound so genuine

Those vampire enemies love to meet Eunectes with s2. Manfred too. Those vampires increases block. Also Manfred can be stunned. Practically I stall him forever with the help of Honeyberry, to prevent elemental damage. Moreover, the victoria cannon wouldn't prefer to target Eunectes, even when hit, she won't die anyway. With 4000+ HP pool she has.

1sp every 7 working days? as in only 0.15/sec, not 0.2/sec????

does the module work with ptilopsis sp boost?

If they gave her normal sp recovery then she will become too strong. 45 sp for a huge wall with ridiculous amount of damage she will enter Surtr tier.😅

I see you updated the thumbnail. Still cultured nonetheless.

I got really distracted with the Monster Hunter you're playing in the background lmao, where did you get the mods from?

I think HG made those Duelist Defenders when they weren't quite sure how to go forward with enemy units. For example, high atk units going way beyond defender's def would pressure them very hard with too much with 3 block, same for magic/true damage melee units. Eunectes might also have been really good if they went for meatshields (shieldguard) style enemies as a template, where she'd have something stuck to her like Supa's Gummy Pillow. Luckily HG didn't cheap out and went for more diverse enemies/maps. I don't think Eunectes was terrible without the module, Surtr just did her job cheaper, easier and more reliable. You'd really just use Eunectes against a boss to kill him with a single shot of her skill. In the same way, I also don't think Mostima (or Guard Chen) are/were terrible operators, just not META or maybe "MOTA" (Obvious), because if "Surtr it" doesn't work most people will be more likely to try Surtr + other units than changing the method. I also think many older players like myself might have pretty much a core squad of units which work most of the time and just add something like ethan (for those obnoxious spam thingys) or whatever to counter something specific, rather than making a squad after looking at a map and the "parasite ops" would take space away from something like thorns, saria, blaze and so on.

Now I want a video about the worst modules in the game that do nothing or make the operator worse (is there an example for that?). My most hated are Leizi, which is basically just a stat stick 80% of the time, because for some reason they made her lvl 3 refill her SP even faster so that the module effect can be useless even longer, and Iris, an operator that was balanced in a way that her skill sleeps a target just long enough to fill her attacks up, until the module gave her stats and an additional stored attack, that you can't reach with her skill anymore. Not sure why they thought destroying the natural synergy would add great amount of value there.

Man wish i got unectes on contingency cause her along with stainless would be a great synergy Eh its alright i still got golden glow

I'm so confused, isn't the ''Can gain SP from external sources without blocking'' effect for module 2 only? Or also module 1?

My least favourite parasite units are Exu and Aak. Thanks for the new term.

Wait, what? I was absolutely certain that her S3 made her hit targets equal to her block count. Did I imagine that?

Another thing to note, S3 has no range expansion. Unless a boss is right in front of the snek or being blocked by her that massive attack stat does not mean a thing, which further limits the spots you can put her in.

I use her in SSS with 2 defender and 3 guard stack using her S2 (accidentally pick wrong skill and due to my blaze die), i would say that it was hilarious 😂

Build every waifu you Support. It's on about the love before reality fights back

if the module 1 just removed her trait then she's just be straight up broken

A lot of Eunectes design could have been pretty easily fixed by tweaking her stats and giving her a Def or HP --> Atk type modifier where her damage dealt runs of a function of her Def or HP stat, perhaps only during skill activations, or having a passive that does this every few attacks or so. This would give her a 'usually off' state, and then high burst damage without compromising her functions as a Defender/Tank. Really strange to see devs not go this route when it is all over MOBA game design in their offtank type champions... and when you consider also the popularity of MOBAs in Asia as well...

I Just love defenders

> _“Perfect harmony of everything that could've gone wrong, going wrong”_ Aah, someone said it. HG just went monke when they made her archetype. Would be great if they reduce the DP cost but nooopeee. HG was like, _“Let's slap this 1 block gurl with 30++ DP cost for no fukken reason. Oh, also, she can't regenerate her SP unless she's blocking someone.”_ Now they fixed her with natural SP regen (albeit crippled), but the cost still stay the same gdi. Even Mostima got a discount. HG, wtf??

Being real, I would have preferred her modules to just give her initial SP to helidrop and use her S3 immediately than a shoddy SP gain when not blocking.

They really should make her able to charge skill without blocking enemy in the first place.

I love my parasite dog. He can hold lane better than snake feet lady.

you make me miss MHW

Wait, is guard Skadi good now?

First let's go

I'm of the opinion that modules are generally (except for abyssals and some others) not strong enough. They should be like FGO Rank Ups, a fix for a mechanic or skill on an operator that has to be earned by investing in that operator. Some operators should get skill buffs like lowering sp cost, and others like eunectes should get her sp gen fixed. They are way too expensive for a marginal + 10% hp at max level. Modules are either not worth the cost or almost perfect by improving an ops niche. Also, I think duelist defenders exist for CC's with anti-guard risks or strictly defender playthroughs, no other reason really makes sense.

You're actually wrong at 4:16, module-less Eunectes *can* gain SP from other sources *but only* when she's blocking an enemy.

This is what happened with corroserum, his whole kit is a giant contradiction while his archetype is amazing

HG did her dirty, because she's the first one of her archetype, she could be better if they tested more about this very niche archetype. At first, I don't know what they were trying to do to make a Duelist Defender. First let's talk about "Duelist" part, we had Dreadnought Guard which can do the same thing as Eunectess do with 19 DP and better SP generation. The only thing Eunectess has better is S3's healing and S2's stun, but is that the two and only good things to make her worth to use over Dreadnought to deal dmg? How about "Defender" part? Her S1 and S3's DEF increase and self-sustain sound very suitable for defenders' job, but then again her trait and archetype work against her. No one wants a single block Defender with SP issue cost up to 33 DP to defend their base. In the positive side, hybrid like her can survive longer than Dreadnoughts usually do, and deal way more dmg than any melee Defenders that do physical dmg. Then why HG did all the negative things like SP generation issue, high DP cost, only block 1 and have no AOE, is it just to balance her? Then look at Surtr, she has many broken things in her kits but the only downside is the massive HP grain in her S3, the one and only single downside, and even her talent covers it up. Back to Eunectess, so clearly it's not so "balance" to add all those negative stuffs. It's just simply poor design, it's hard but I have to admit it. Overall, Eunectess is still useable and can do some niche stuffs. But useable doesn't mean she's good, because her archetype was designed so poorly that others can easily outclass her. I wish they will rework of buff her and her achertype someday. If we happened to get her alter I would like to see her as one of these 3 archetypes: Fortress, Artificer or Summoner (but we already have a limited Summoner the chance this will happen is almost 0).

I'm not sure I agree with how you portray "Parasite Units", at the end of the day they are either just normal units but with extra steps, or units with specific applications like Shifters. At the end of the day, what really matters is the universal law of "risk vs reward" or whatever you want to call it, and in that regard, "Parasite Units" merely have more factors in the equation, that doesn't make them good or bad if you ask me, and certainly not so bad that you need to slap such a negative word on them. The bigger issue is probably how Hypergraph specifically designs such kits to hinder units rather than really exploring unorthodox gameplay patterns. By the way, fun fact, I have used Eunectes' S1 exactly one time, in H10-1 because my strategy revolved around indefinitely stalling Manfred (who inflicts the sp debuff thing in that stage) so I needed a really beefy baseline tank and Eunectes S1 was my best option.

Supah, blink twice if you are being held at gunpoint by Eunectes enjoyers

Fiametta video now is she good to have?

I figured out how to use Eunectes now I think she is one of the best Operators in the game. Trying to explain would take too long and would rob everyone else of the satisfaction of figuring it out.

guard skadi is not completely worthless do not let this man tell you lies

Eunectes Is Just Too *BiG-Brain* for the average doctor to utilize correctly. (has her at 90lvl,3M3skill and max Trust doesn't know there she is actually useful)

Cant argue about it, all facts are true like guard skadi were really bad before the drugs came in (AH module synergy) and this snek woman being an absolute trashcan when not blocking.

Just from the thumbnail, I think she is never at "bad" position. She is not Great or Meta, but she does what you expect of her, she rarely fails me when I count on her to do the job (Kill a Bulky strong enemy)