Yo what is up guys, do you think Blade's life scaling will be stronger or weaker than other damaging characters? I mention speed is not subject to diminishing returns on blade, this is not 100% correct the more speed you have the worse it becomes however unlike other units blades rotation cost is incredibly low so he is is fine to stack max speed on like Arlan. In a NO skill point world speed would be one of if not the best stats to stack as it applies additional on hit effects, toughness break and smoother enemy management. The top supports also do not consistently buff speed for the duration of an entire fight. So while speed is very good on blade it IS subject to diminishing returns and that was my mistake but similar to Arlan it should still be one of his best stats. For more information on Blade directly from closed beta 2 you can check out Smecksu's video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7yfqNdoxq_Sknk.html&ab_channel=smecksu

This is becoming a problem. All upcoming characters are so cool, unique and valuable. Choosing which ones to go for is going to be so hard.

I had the chance to mess around with him in CBT2 and I've been hooked on his playstyle and design, can't wait for this beast to officially come out!

Blade is the char that actually got me interested in the game xD

Really enjoying all the content you're putting out, keep it up man! I was looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Blade, now I'm just even more hyped for him. Would love to see a vid on Luocha too

I just watched your silver wolf video and you already released one about Blade?! You are working hard and fast, that’s for sure

I'm planning on rolling for him and Seele as my hyper carries. I think that Blade and Luocha have pretty good synergy

This video has me even more excited for Blade's eventual release! His mechanics seem much more interesting than my initial impression of just "drain HP to deal more damage"

Can't wait to form teams for him and jing yuan cause they look so sick.

I was actually looking for this exact video showcasing some details on his kit. I'm currently experimenting with Clara+March+Tingyun, and it's actually fun seeing Clara's counter over and over again. And I think Blade can deliver more since DoT also triggers his passive. March's shield will be good since it is a semi-taunt and a safeguard against Blade's low HP. This made my decision to pull for this guy very solid. Highly versatile and unique.

I've been waiting for this one 👀

I see HP scaling. I think blade can be an absolute monster in SU turning the turtle strat into massive dps. Reducing your hp to 1 doesn't matter when you have 2k shield valur

Looks like a more fleshed out Hu Tao thanks to the turn-based nature of the game. Another cool vid idea for the future: breakdown on how the end game things works which I'm sure you already have plans for it. Don't forget to get some rest though, it's very easy to get burned out so take care of yourself and mental health first! Thank you for another great video!

Hey Grim First of all I wanna thank you for your hard work and all the info that you are providing but I wanna touch on something I was thinking about while watching the Video which is if Blade basic Atk scales of his atk while follow-up Atk and Ultimate scales better with HP don't you think that building him on HP and provide Atk buff from external sources would give us higher DMG espiccally if paired with Bronya that can also provide a Crit DMG buff because as you mentioned he will use his basic atk after the skill anyway another benefit for going this route would be to use his Ult to get 50% of his high HP stored as DMG for his follow-up ATk I know this was a long comment but I had to touch on those things hope you take them in mind

Definetly got to pair him with silver wolf and kafka for the canon team and add a healer.

Blade the hedgehog. *teleports behind you to steal all your premium currency*: "Nothing personnel, trailblazer"

What do you think about Welt as a support for Blade?

I’m gonna pair him with bronya and luocha. Bronya also gives a dmg % increase and an additional turn so I don’t really care that atk scaling isn’t the best on him. And luocha’s the best healer for him so I need to pull even though I already have bailu. Another dps like a hunt character or Kafka would be good for him since he doesn’t use many skill points.

I've decided to go all in for Blade until I get him and just spend whatever I get after on pulling Kafka, thanks. The solo runs with this character are gonna be interesting, especially with Destruction and Abundance paths

Do u think that Clara's 5* weapon could be BiS f2p option for him?

he is definitely my fav unit, i neeed him

1st time i see this vid since i want to know more about blade.. about team buildings i think is it better to run him solo?? like what other people do in the vids and some of them run blade solo on memory of chaos and can still finished it fast.. the thing with team is theres a chance that other team mates will take a hit and blade passive talent will never trigger at all and his talent is one of the best on hes kit.

2:55 "...for the most part" He remembered Herta's existence there

I already have Seele, Bailu, Tingyun and Fire MC for one team, and i love Blades design, but i also have Yangqing and dont wanna leave him behind, especially if i get Gepard in the future who would be the best character to go for in 1.1 and 1.2 in your opinion? my plan was to pull for luocha and blade but i could also go for silver wolf and use bailu with Blade instead

Blade and Loucha are awesome duos.

i will build Blade when i managed to get him so the 5 star relics with HP as main stat i get are finally useful

do one for jingyuan pleaseee

Should I get blade or level up Dan Heng?

Clara might be a great teammate to have, so he doesn't keel over too quickly and can control those health reduction charges

The only thing that I am worried is, since he is HP scaled, it's hard to find LC for him in the sea of 'atk' buffed LCs for Destruction class

Considering I pulled Bailu first, If I miss Seele 50/50, I'm saving for Blade.

Can blade pair with the preservation char?

already saved 3k jade for him :) everything for the boy Edit: now its 12k😀

another one for my all husbando team

This dude will be a monster in SU, imagine all of those stockings

I will be pulling for loucha and his him as my healer, then I hope to get pela on his banner and use her. For my last spot I am conflicted, I would ever go with tingyun to help fix energy problems, march or susheng

I was thinking, wouldn't focusing on building hp on him be the best option as he can actually get atk buffs from other chars, making the split scaling not so much of an issue?

nice im happy with my team all i needed was a good wind dps

He looks good and have cool animations lol besides that you need to know how to keep him alive but also be useful to your team.

Already told myself if I don't get Jing Yuan, I'm saving everything for Blade.

So would he be bad with gepard? Because he wants to be hit to be able to get his stacks?

My E6 Natasha with full Hp Hb build will wecome blade full heartedly ❤❤

What do you think a good blade team comp will be? I got seelee and I really want blade as my other carry, I have clara himeko and baliu as well. I am f2p so with that in mind I wanna run blade, bailu and 2 more. Would really appreciate some help.

I got bailu but id like a top tier dps but i doesn't have Seele but i hesitate between Luocha or Blade in a f2p perspective.. any help appreciated

I Will save everything for him and luocha

Basically Xiao and Hu Tao and I like that since Xiao is my main

Since I pulled for Bailu, I'm pulling for Jing Yuan. Skip SW/Loucha and go for Blade.

So he's Hu Tao? Which means his Light Cone will probably be similar to Staff of Homa...

I would take Jingyuan,tingyun,bailu and blade. but kafka is after him.......rippps not sure who to go for...like i alr got jingyuan should i still go for kafka?! haisss

i just think hes neat :) will pull

Even without any numbers, the gimmick of having to take damage to have more damage seems a bit interesting here. Kinda like Clara, right?

My question is will his ult increase his hp/heal him if he uses it while he has less than 50%?

Feels like ML Ken solo comp from Epic Seven?

Doesn't he have dual scalings instead of split scaling?

Want kafka so much but have to go blade… i have so many electric character, more just made my team dead :)

sooooooo his like an-emo hutao but star rail + vamp version?

Early lessgo

Is Asta good for Blade?

would pyro mc dmg reduction be good for him?

Good luck to everyone who's pulling for him! I'll stick with Kafka tho.

Blade or Jing Liu? 🤯

I think hes gonna be more a main carry for healing teams maybe like double healer, a shielded, and him

You get so much atk% externally so... I see this as a W. I'll just have to stack HP & Atk% will be taken care of by outside buffs.

he looks like adult xiao soo i will pull

Guess I'm saving for Blade. I think he'll be a step up from Dan Heng. Can't fukin wait

So blade is a better Arlan?

When I saw the spider lilies it was decided goodbye jing yuan see ya next time

Interesting tank design

I will take a shot here, for sport :D. Before watching the video I will say this: Yes, he will be good by default, but probably way better with his signature light cone, which is very likely to increase his HP, which no other Destruction light cone does afaik, so prepare for the swipe :D. He will work well with Luocha (auto emergency heal), but also Bailu, because he likes to get hit. She will auto-heal when he gets hit and she can increase his HP by 10% when she overheals (one of her traces). Also she can salvage your greed by reviving him if he dies. He will also work well with Fu Xuan, who is supposedly preservation character, which mitigates (/reduces) damage taken by your team, but does not shield. And for him to get his buffs, he needs to take HP damage, so shield isn't optimal. At the same time not having preservation character might make you deadge, so yeah, Fu Xuan sounds good. His best supports, not sure tbh. Bronya and Tingyun have both ATK and DMG buff, he won't benefit from ATK much (but Luocha would, if he's on the team). Yukong has ATK + crit stats and Asta has ATK and SPD. Basically every harmony character only benefits him with half of their kit, except Bronya also gives him extra attack, which is always good. He might benefit more from being paired with Nihility though, like Pela. That's just straight up damage, no downside and some extra utility (redundant with Luocha though). He is also very SP efficient, so it might be legit to just run second DPS, which has little bit of utility as well. I believe Xueyi leaks claim, that she is quant destro character with DEF shred on ult. You could use them together and spend most SPs on her and have him benefit from the DEF shred, instead of buffing him as hyper carry. In the future he will benefit the most from characters that can buff DMG (not ATK) and/or max HP and characters that might have some meme kit, that sacrifices the HP of your team members, which would double dip, with him getting buffed from it. Now I will watch the video to find out if I know anything about this game or just ... not :D

Yes, he is top tier.

I was thinking Blade,luocha,Pela,Seele as a team

Blade's ult say "Additionally, sets Blade's current HP to 50% of this Max HP." Wouldn't that heal instead of damage him if he is currently lower than 50% of his HP?

If Xiao and Hu Tao had a child...

I dont see why using Bronya with him would be an issue. Just dont use skill on him until he activates his skill lol

Seems like a 5* Arlan.

Blade is just "No u." Made to be character

Everyone talking about Jing but this character seems insane

Personally, I do not think he will be a very good unit if his kit does not go through any changes from CBT2 . His HP scaling has antisynergy with the best supports in the game so he'll never have as much output as a seele with bronya+ting AND since hes hp scaling, he can't even get a lot of benefit from fleet of the ageless which you would slap on all 3 of ur other units in the team for a free 24% attack. Considering how hard MoC endgame enemies start to hit, if you don't have luocha there's a real risk of this guy dying without a healer + shielder on the team, and then your last slot would have to be Pela which is a fine unit but nowhere near the output that bronya or tingyun could provide. Overall, unless Hoyo makes large changes to his kit or they start releasing supports that synergize with him, at best I just see him as a meme unit that can do solo's at high investment but not really a good unit overall.

After getting Seele I’m gonna save for him! I do not care lol

Saying “semi neutral” seems more confusing than just saying he uses 1 sp per rotation. A -1 unit

needs rehaul he high risk medium reward

Blade, Loucha, Fu Xuan Team

He seems busted as hell. I’ve played many turn based gachas and usually power scaling comes in not higher dps numbers but higher utility and resource economy. Blade seems like he can be a main dps AND a sp battery since he’s gonna be using basics a lot. This makes it so you can add another main dps without worrying too much about sp. I dont like his base design so I’ll probably be skipping but also hoping this game has way more costumes than genshin so if he comes out with a sick costume I might actually have to pull

So from what I understand with future units: Must pull : Silver Wolf. Everyone else. Edjt: Silver Wolf has since been nerfed. Kafka supremacy!!!

Its gonna be kinda awkward to make him work i feel. Split scaling notorious for beeing hard to make work, but thats not that big it seems like for now. What im concerned abt is you dont wanna run him with a shielder like gepard cuz u basically want him to get attacked so he loses hp, i dont see fire mc doing too good w him either cuz fire mc has a taunt, so probably you would want to run him with 2 healers, luocha and either natasha or bailu. Then theres the issue of how do u want to support him? Our current supports dont seem too optimal cuz he takes 2 actions per turn so maybe youre looking for a debuffer like pela on the enemy but with no tanks or shields how do u make sure they stay alive

he needs by far less healing then you think because even when he is at 1% health his ult can make him go to 50% any time he wnats and since his healthpool is so immense he wont die after being ersett to 50%, also you can use the ultimate at 100% just as you are doing the last stack to lose an additional 50% health, teh sheer versatility and the thought that goes into playing him is already refreshing and by god hes a badass i spent as much moeny as necessary for him even if hes not SS tier.

Hutao's dad

we have definete values now : he is a Full beyond Badass and a must Pull in teh badass meta.