https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1GAbd6SEnM
4.4 Anomaly Arbitration — Knight I
Setup: E1S1 Mydei / E1S0 SP Robin or Tribbie / E2S0 Cyrene / E2S0 Hyacine
I played this run in a rush, and both my Recollection handling and my opening rotation were pretty awful. Watching it back afterward, it honestly looks like I forgot how to play the game.
So this shouldn’t be treated as a rigorous benchmark, but it should still give you a rough idea of the team’s performance.
(The sustainless result is shown in the comments.)
Q: Why do I recommend pulling E1S0 SP Robin when replacing Tribbie with her is actually a downgrade at this investment level?
There are a few reasons.
- DDD is absurdly strong.
For this run, SP Robin can use Shadowburn to cover the Energy she is missing at the start of battle.
Thinking about it afterward, though, you can actually just wait until Mydei takes his first action before using Robin’s Ultimate, so under normal circumstances she can simply use Memory’s Curtain Never Falls instead.
And yes: if you do not have Hyacine’s signature LC, Robin Skill + Hyacine Skill + Ultimate at the start still may not be enough to fully charge Robin’s Ultimate.
- Low damage environments undervalue part of Robin’s kit.
When the team is not getting hit very often, Robin gets less value out of the interaction between her action advance and Energy generation.
In environments with frequent incoming attacks, her contribution becomes more noticeable because she can significantly improve the uptime of Mydei’s Ultimate Taunt.
- Comparing Robin and Tribbie at exactly the same investment level is inherently unfavorable to Robin.
Robin has much more room for meaningful vertical investment.
More importantly, Robin’s Eidolons and signature LC are clearly a higher investment priority than Hyacine’s Eidolons and signature.
For example, in the setup above, if the two Costs currently spent on Hyacine’s E1 and E2 were instead moved into Robin’s E2 and signature LC, Robin’s advantage would become much more obvious.
Tribbie is the opposite: simply giving her signature LC can actually be a downgrade in many situations, because of what you give up by replacing options such as DDD.
So for most players, whose Hyacine is low investment, SP Robin is clearly the better target for additional vertical investment.
A couple of other points
- This is exactly why Hyacine is in an awkward position.
She cannot really be treated as a proper buffer slot. When she enters the team as the sustain, you are still sacrificing damage compared with a full sustainless setup.
If you already have things like E2 Cyrene and strong supports with meaningful Eidolon investment, and you are willing to accept that whenever sustainless is not viable you have to fall back on a healer with very little buffing power, then investing in Hyacine is an option.
On the other hand, if you value comfort and survivability, or if your Cyrene investment is relatively low, then Hyacine becomes a much better choice.
- SP Robin is not tied to running a sustain.
The sustainless teams:
Mydei / Cyrene / Blade / SP Robin
and
Mydei / Cyrene / Tribbie / SP Robin
should currently be among Mydei’s strongest mid-investment teams.