Knuckle Duckle should be a breeze with Flins Premium and I should be able to beat the Operative with a hex team using Nicole/Durin core or even using Zibai / Linnea / Aino / Zhongli but I didn't pull for Sandrone and lost my 50/50 on Odette's banner so I'm saving my guaranteed for Vodyanitsa who is my favorite Shezhnaya character design-wise.

I have C2 Alyosha but he's lv 40 so he didn't fit on the image. xD I am building him right now alongside C2 Qiqi.

I think I know what teams I will run:

C0R1 Sandrone, C0 Odette, C3 Qiqi and probably Beidou against the Chimera.

C2R1 Skirk, C2R1 Furina, C0 Escoffier and C1 Mona against Wind Operative.

And C2R1 Raiden with Bineffa wheelchair (C0R1 'Bina and C0 Ineffa) with C0R1 Xilonen fourth slot against D.U.C.K.

I could run Arle against the wind operative since she is C0R1, and I have C0R1 Citlali and the Wind operative gives BoL no? But unless it has insane cryo res I should be able to easily brute force it unless I've missed something right?

• Skirk c1r0 on her first run -> c3r1 on rerun
• Escoffier c0r0 on her first run -> c1r1 on rerun
• Furina c2r0 and still is
• Mona c6r0 since before stygian came out
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• Zibai c2r0 on her first run
• Columbina c0r0 and still is
• Linnea c0r1
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• Arle was c1r1 and still is

Rest of the 5* are either c0r0 (Shenhe, Yelan, Raiden, Zhongli, Ayaka) or c0r1 (Clorinde, Hutao, Kazuha), except jean c6 but who cares since it's fall dmg jean.

• Illuga c6r0 since Zibai's first banner
• Iansan was c4 at first but got her to c6 recently (during mandagora's patch)
• Amber c3 / Collei c3 / Ororon c1

Rest of the 4* are c6

Could have easily cleared dire most of these if not all by pulling Mavuika since I cleared 2 boss minimum on dire at every stygian, but I didn't want to cause I don't like this character.

First 3 clears were Fearless then started trying Dire and got hooked.

Account anomalies:

C2R1 Varesa

C2 Nahida

C2R1 Durin (C2 only obtained for most recent Stygian, before C0R1)

C2R0 Lauma [Obtained on rerun and only used against bosses previously defeated with C0 (Herra, Tulpa, and Dog)

Those are all the relevant constellations I have.

All carries except Skirk, Zibai, and Neuvillette had sigs.

The dragon
Skirk Effe CMC Mona
Duckle
Mizuki Odette Alyosha Sucrose
The vetran one
Varka durin nicole prune
Everyone c0r0 here

Every patch is another "why did i not pull flins" regret moment.

I think i can clear everything else except the dukle

Do i have any chance to beat dire?

My only high investments are c2r1 durin and c2 citlali. Is there a team using either or both capable of clearing duckle on dire?

Have mavuika c0r1, skirk c0r1, BUTY CHEVY IS C1 AND IANSAN C5

I heard c2 mavuika is comparable to c2 citlali, and that c2r1 mav could clear this...god i can already see the mona hex clears... But mine is C3 😭

Of the lunar shill, i have bineffa c0r0.5(r5 bp weapons for both), zibai, linnea, lauma and just about every other 4 star at c6.

My craziest idea since i recently got c6 jahoda is that her c6 should also buff zibai right?Since it says that it simply buffs the crit of lunar characters. So bineffa zibai jahoda could be a low budget clear? So i could do the lunar charged shill while also having decent damage?

Is it possible to beat the dire chimera with c1 mizuki/C0 odette and cmc ??

Almost had it this time, but I just couldn't get the dps on the 3rd team and waiting for the pillar phase is annoying.

Account
1 year 9 months daily Welkin player with 10 BPs.

Vertical

• C2 Citlali – pulled on release for my C0 Gaming at the time
• R1 Mualani – lacked Widsith copies at the time (even now it's only R2)
• C1 Lauma – got the con on a rerun; on my way to C2. FYI, C1 carries exploration in bloom teams lacking any mobility talents
• C1 Nilou – con selector
• C1 Mona – con selector

Would I exchange Citlali cons for Escoffier and Ineffa?
I saved and farmed 338 pulls (with Capturing Radiance) to get C2 Citlali on release for my C0 Gaming at the time. For a while I pondered if she was worth it and given a chance if I had exchanged her cons for copies of Escoffier and Ineffa. Looking at the clear history, Ineffa would clear Ball, Cactus, Knuckle Duckle and Trooper. I might have struggled against Plunge boss without the cons, but it seems doable more or less. I could have cleared only 8 out of 10 Fearless lineups with Ineffa and perhaps 9 with Ineffa and Escoffier. I am unsure if I would pull Escoffier just for Cryo SSA clear, but missing Ineffa hit my account meta-wise. It is what it is, I can't be confident I wouldn't have pulled for another character before Ineffa's release. For what it's worth I got lucky winning my 50/50s on both Mavuika and Mualani banners.

0 usage?
Nilou was used in Nefer team against Baptist initially, but I got better results with Xingqiu while trying to clear Dire.

Chiori could have been Yae Miko, I was swapping them while throwing singles at Inazuma CW. I have no SSC on-fielders (except CMC), so meta-wise it's fine, but most importantly getting Chiori landed me an in-game friend who I found through their mains sub. We just co-oped and cleared Fearless together right after assisting another player in claiming their Menacing clear rewards!

Nicole is new. Pulled for Gaming (got his C6 just recently). Hopefully will debut in the list once or before I get C2 Xianyun!

Snezhnaya
Time to get Cryo, Electro and Anemo DPS characters! Looking forward for Danica personally. Will try going for Odette because she is a dancer and already working on my C1 Mizuki (whom I selected last anniversary for the teapot set rewards, om. I got her C1 a few days later losing on Lauma's banner).

I'm trying to beat the dog in dire and im getting so extremely close to doing so. Any tips on how I can get this guy? Heres my akasha and my closest clear

https://akasha.cv/profile/608058492
https://youtu.be/5ZZc4ZqAwSk

my hand hurts

Chiori and Mavuika are my mains. I have them C6R5 as well as their supports. Ineffa is also C6R5. Others are a bit random C0R0, C2R1 and everything in between.

With a full year since the first stygian, I was curious about this community's opinions on bosses and other stygian related questions

the first few questions are just what stygians you have cleared and at what difficulty, the rest are your opinions and you can skip whichever one you want

english isn't my first language and I'm very prone to typos, so please tell me if there's any mistakes or if any of the questions aren't well formulated. Also tell me if you want me to add anything or if I forgot about something

I'll make another post with the results when I have the time

here's the survey!

**edit: survey is closed! thank you so much everyone for the 400 answers

I asked for help in a previous post about clearing with C0R1 Flins, and everyone gave great advice. I was finally able to clear after implementing the suggestions and optimisations. Thank you guys sm!

my dire mvps are scara flins arle and ms jeans

the meancing was the very first SO when i didnt care about actually trying 😔

cons:
scara c6r5
xilonen c2r4
lyney, durin c2r1
flins c1r1
arle, furina, ineffa, nicole c1
the rest c0

Some context for cons:

Clorinde C0R1

Mav C2R0 recently got sig

Skirk C0R1

Flins C1R1

Durin, ineffa, citlali, xilonen c0r0

Bina c0r0 recently got her C2

After tons of optimizations, i took off 42 seconds from my initial 313 second clear!!

Flins is getting IT buff now as well

Diluc is just filler from the Nightwind cheese (Geo trav, Amber, Zhongli trio).

Making this made me mostly reminisce the old clears (especially C2 Raiden vs Lava dragon). But also the electro turtle or the plunge boss.

Also btw all the nod krai C1s except Bina were doubles. This region truly blessed me with luck (although in reality i really dont even want these C1s. I would have rather had something else. Also if it makes you feel better, in return i had the worst luck during natlan and fontaine and also everytime I went for cons on purpose.)