I mean, if that was it, they could've done a sidegrade of Bena...but they went about it in the most disappointing way possible. And it isn't even a true sidegrade at all

thats really a kirara moment

That would be unironically useful for 4* (so long as the % is decent) 4* has no source of AOE RES reduction and it makes some maps like h7-4 a lot harder than they otherwise would be.

Kaze does not suffer from SP lockout that much because her skills have decent SP cost, and her damage is also really good as well

@qurt5101 plus the spin upon the doll spawning can also make up for some lost damage unlike bena or obviously verdant but then again bena has a more tanky doll. Kaze is probably the best dollkeeper outside of spalter if we are being honest, if only verdant took a page from any of the other dollkeeper's books on how to deal decent damage with doll or atleast not lose most of his damage when he changes

hey at least the gameplay is relevant to my rant :ceobe

The free 5 stars for the victoria arc are concentrated ass too. Having talents that would potentially fix their kits but its locked into their own damned story chapter, in which there's not really ever a spot for them to be used in the first place. At least Heidi is cool for people who don't have a bard, and also has some cool +block -block gimmicks that I'm sure somebody out there has used for some hella stylish clears. But I feel so bad for Dagda and Morgan. It reminds me of Savage, if Savage were given a passive that only works for chapters 0-3, or only works during anniversary month.

@@MuStCoMmEnT09 Delphine’s pretty cool but she’s also another 5* mystic so her base traits overall aren’t really something interesting. Thankfully, half of the welfare chapter ops (Delphine and Heidi) function as 5*s and aren’t effectively year one ops, though I imagine Delphine will probably end up getting passed up as she’s still a 5* damage unit

As a level E2 lvl60 module lvl3 Kazemaru user, I approve of this comment.

As an E2 Max M6 Module Lvl 3 Kazemaru user, i also agree

I would use her IF I HAVE HER PLEASE COME HOME KAZEMARU

I feel you. I wanted a Kazemaru from Fiammetta's og banner and i got 2 Executors and a Fia before my first Kazemaru

as a proud e2 lvl 70 m6 kazemaru user, i second that

Same here, I was surprised I found even one use for him

I was unfortunately saw this coming. Dollkeeper are a tricky archaetype to be work around. Their sole purpose of being a meatshield already taken by gravel. I'm actually very surprised when they decide to released a dollkeeper out of anyother archaetype.

​@@DrSilvergun its sad just how bad new 4 stars mostly are

​@@cefrinaldi8060I would COMPLETELY disagree Gravel fell borderline hard and there are much better options now and other doll keepers work perfectly fine and much better than gravel on being a meat shield in every aspect Its just that their sp costs were an issue wich was fixed by kazemaru and Specter alter They just made this 4 star solelly to make it a 4 star

@@kyarumomochi5146 surprisingly, this thing happen to new male ops again lol

Bena is already defensive with Sanctuary, with Kazimaru being her offensive side and specter being offensive/survival. That said, it seems like their is a bit of focus on tankyness, like the new 5* Pioneer Poncirus who's specializes in tankinis, but loses out on everything elses.

Gravel predates every executor other than red tho I don't think we can draw any conclusions from her design it is true that 4* has some archetypes that have a defensive variant while higher rarity have offensive ones but it's not universal. Part of why cutter is so imba is because she is a munchkin Her trust her module her pot all of these give ATK so she has almost as much attack as higher rarity variants at the cost of extremely poor defense.

😮 ouch

Also. do you remember the ep 13 PV, when they showed Verdant with subs. damage module? Yeah, that was a fucking lie

Totter with module so broken he sucked up all the quality out of the other 4* That's why luo xiaohei has saga's talent randomly attached to him :D

Gravel: Am I a joke to you?

@@BillyONeal Gravel has like zero dps 💀

The closer we get to fast redeploy are jaye. But i was hoping we will get 4* agent for the proper fast redeploy

That's how I feel too, why even make him and add him to the gacha pool when you so clearly don't want the players to use him for anything?

​@@obsiangravel why they pay artists and VA's when the game design is so half assed that you couldn't use these ops if you want to :(

I think he can still be good for new players, I made heavy use of Gummy over Hoshi, Blemshine, Matterhorn, Utag, etc. just because her niche of melee 1/4 healer saved so many of my ranged units from the stray attack. Similarly I can imagine new players using Verdent as a frontliner while they set up Cardigan, Popukar etc. and his regen s1 can make him a pretty good backliner for Malenthia or a Frontliner for Deverman/Lords, strats I often used while playing the first 4~5 chapters.

@@IrvineTheHunter you seriously cannot be comparing Verdant to fucking Gummy, one of the most useful amongst the 4* ranks. Verdant is useful for newbies in the same way that Quartz is useful for newbies.

​@@IrvineTheHunterit's contradiction in ur sentence, u say he can be back line when he really can't handle lane without healer. His dmg lacking and no survivability except when he be doll (0 block). At that point better use defender instead or got Benna for free since she have more utility than him.

Humus global release rant?

Well he is decent and can do some random ass thing that other repears can't (doesn't get one shot by ch10/13 cannon) So there isn't much to rant about there. I find him boring cause I like extreme ops that do one thing well and suck at everything else while he is an all rounder, but that's personal preference

​@@DrSilvergunThat is what 4* and 5* supposed to be. Focused on a niche or mechanic that can support a team. Now HG just use all their creativity for 6* and limited ops.

All the best!

I intend to do more during deadweeks Want to try doing more vids where I overnalize and ramble about stuff since I like watching those :D

Bena is a dodge tank that can hit through some amount of DEF or shred some normal enemies. Verdant could've worked, as Silvergun said, like a health doll tank that does decent damage outside of it, and it would've worked fine.

How?

Chestnut is bad so he is more niche that he is suppose to be (massive healing advantage purestream has tends to edge him out, but module is a big factor in that) but it is clear when he is suppose to be used for.

my subconscious telling me to go finish my no auto aim challenge

@@DrSilvergun Do you play on PC or console?

@@SilentSpirit671 PC

@@DrSilvergun Damn…. I’m on PS5.

TIL he is a brawler I pay a lot of attention to 6* ops as u can see

Limiteds are also honorary 7 stars so he barely counts as a reference point honestly.

​@@MuStCoMmEnT09 Dusk, W and Rosmontis would like to introduce themselves. Even as 6*, these three limited OPs are underwhelming.

I don’t think rosmontis is that weak. She’s solid

@@swift-pawedteif386 for a 6* - she is. And I didn't say "weak", I said "underwhelming"

Hoederer doesn't count he's a 6* But ye he is basically decent, Probably one of the weakest 6* guards in the game but that's still decent

​@@DrSilvergunAmongst the guard currently only Mlynar and Surtr is better than him dude. He is used like Surtr and is better than her in some case. A bit better than Silverash even for helidrop even as he could hold a lane for 60 seconds along with killing the boss as well. If he is one of the weakest 6* guard then only Surtr, Silverash and Mlynar could be considered 6* guard.

@@saiyatan Degen is a future op so we ignore her what do you think exec alter is? Yes all the other ones are so and so by 6* standards that's just what being a good 6* means Has to delete half the universe or it's bad it's why i have no interest in 6* I also don't believe he is better than SA even without his module but I don't care enough about 6* to argue this point so lets say I agree

@@DrSilvergun I would consider hoederer, Gavial2 and Executor2 on the same tier. Sorry about that.

he'd work fine for tanking faust but it's also trivial to do so outside of cc2 and i'm not sure he'd be usable there either (gravel + defender might be better

nah it already has a module it gives the doll hp

I mean yeah it does already; however, Ebenholz did get a third module so it’s not impossible. I’m definitely not coping just because Verdant is pretty and I want him to be good.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@maryhassellpetty670i’m also coping and mourning over the wasted design of pretty boy verdant … i cant believe they did him this dirty

​@@maryhassellpetty670lmao 😂

2 Answers General use/metashit: Myrtle Jaye Utage Playing for lowest 4* op like I do: Jaye DC Cutter DC is very powerful like all summoners but her value is rarely relevant unless you want to optimize the operator count down. Myrtle is the opposite great for blind clearing maps cause of dp gen but largely irrelevant for optimizing maps Utage get's swapped for cutter in optimized runs because even though it is extremely strong you rarely need utage's particular skill set, while cutter is a super generalist that does a ton of damage in most circumstances. Jaye is just broken

HG just don't make men like Jaye anymore😔

S2 at least u get damage S1 is a talent that wastes a skill slot :D

Just the fact that her doll does arts is a massive improvement (switch wastes less dps) She is tankier than him too (not by much but I'd favor DR over healing because it amplifies healing from medics in a sense)

@@DrSilvergun I feel like if his talent was different he’d be ok like damage over time arts or maybe a slow effect could be useful

Anything that has offensive value would have made it more fun imo Tanks that just tank are extremely interchangeable so unless they do cool things like bubble they're not fun to use. Why Bubble is cool 3 Unique functions Reduces enemy atk which helps protects other ops vs AOE (rarely relevant but cool nonetheless) Has a taunt so can ignore deploy order Reflects dmg that is decent for trash clear (also it scales with DEF instead of ATK so it has a cool interaction on CM's with ATK reduction)

@@DrSilvergun Not to mention her DPS is actually good despite being tank.

don't look at any info until it's out so i won't see any leaks don't particularly care but what would be useful is an atk buffer

quite a bit

Tequila is solid. But I largely agree

@@swift-pawedteif386 Tequila is solid but not because he is actually good but mainly because of how broken his archetype is Honestly legitimately anything would be insane with liberators as they just have the most insane attack scaling in the game

⁠@@kyarumomochi5146it’s also the Hp. His talent is very depressing tho. Could honestly be just take less dmg while skill is down. Or even some self heal. But ya’know. He’s still decent.

@@swift-pawedteif386 Im not saying that he is bad at all but he ISNT good because "he is made to be good" but because his ARCHETYPE is good You litterally cant go wrong with liberators as they are just like flagbearers and have insane gameplay mechanics that makes them the way they are Tequila could litterally not have talents and his s2 could not exist at all and he would still be quite good for many people to deal high physical damage as his kit allows him to Its like how puzzle is kit wise bad but his archetype is so strong that he is still extremely powerful to use

@@kyarumomochi5146is puzzle decent? I felt kinda underwhelmed by him. But I haven’t played much with him

hmm can't really agree on either point You used gravel as example her kit is "normal" What does that mean There is no executor with a kit like hers There is no executor that absorbs damage like she does for such a low cost either. yeah she is not used super often because what she provides isn't needed often. But she is a specific defensive tool and every part of her kit (some parts do it badly) help with that role. If I didn't have gravel until now and I got her today I and other 4* players would be able to find many uses for her because it is something we have no great alternative for. She is even useful to normal players for cases where u need to bait something because she costs less than any other executor. Verdant's kit is all over the place and there is no clear use case. He has high ATK low def S1 is an incredibly weak defensive skill s2 is an offensive skill with a self harm gimmick, but the doll offers no value so the self harm is pointless. His talent is regen hp on a body that won't die anyway. If the doll is actually in danger of dying (taking over 3.8k dmg in less than 20 seconds) then 4% HP regen isn't something that will help all that much compared to alternative defensive stats like DR So it's a talent that is both useless 99% of the time and bad at it's job the 1% of the time that it's actually relevant. On the 2nd point I couldn't care less about AK lore and an operator's lore has no effect on how I judge them.