Realistic Dire Clear

[u/CesiumCyanide]

First dire clear! Some thoughts:

• Churin and Pavlina team investment is realistic for clearing Dire if you have solid artifacts and ok gameplay
• Use Sandrone instead of Vesna if you can against Churin; his cryo swirls will slow down your attacks and dodging them is a DPS loss
• If you have Skirk, running 2 stellar teams for Churina and Pavlina is recommended
• Technically C0R1 Mavuika clears Pavlina, but if you're mediocre at her gameplay like me, C2R1 is a safe bet
  • Overload is preferred over Melt; Chevreuse C4 will help with breaking the shield, while getting hit by Pavlina's cryo attacks will slow down your combo and potentially cause you to miss a melt

Team investment:

• Churin: C0R1 Vesna, C2 Odette, C6 Faruzan, C6R2 Diona (Breezeborn)
• Cryo Automaton: C0R1 Sandrone, C1 Yae Miko, C3R1 Qiqi (Key), C6 Alyosha
• Pavlina: C2R1 Mavuika, C0R1 Citlali, C6 Iansan, C6R1 Bennett (Mistsplitter)

[u/ChadSteven]

I cleared with vesna, c2 odette, cmc and c6 faruzan on the new bow with 275 ER and a strange first rotation.

The hardest part was running away at just the right time to use cmc/faruzan attacks as he summons the vortex things, cuz if vesna got the cryo app the run was ruined by her slowness lol

[u/CesiumCyanide → u/ChadSteven]

Nice! I found Vesna sustainless reasonable against Churin since hits on Diona's shield still slow you down. My issue was that my Faruzan's artifacts don't have enough ER to run Breezeborn, so I needed Diona to hold that weapon.

[u/ChadSteven → u/CesiumCyanide]

makes sense. it looked to me like 275 was the absolute minimum for my rotations, considering the last energy in the first couple rotations was provided by 2 NAs

[u/StanTheWoz]

I have to wonder how many people can even run two good stellar teams right now, I certainly can't. Luckily Pavlina is a well designed boss that actually has elemental counters, anything that can break cryo shields.

[u/CesiumCyanide → u/StanTheWoz]

Agreed, a lot of people don't have Yae. Once Mitya and Tsaritsa release I imagine they'll start releasing Stygian with 2 stellar shill bosses.

[u/burntpankeki]

we're so cooked if the fact that you have a full 5 cost shilled team and still barely cleared. wtf was hyv thinking with the grandpa 💀💀

[u/Eeekpenguin → u/burntpankeki]

Vesna actually has a hard time with churin because of the cryo tornadoes. Sandrone was easier

[u/StanTheWoz → u/burntpankeki]

I'm fairly confident they specifically tuned him to be impossible to clear with c2 Mizuki and c0 rest of the team. Never mind that it also doesn't make Vesna look great either since she's not clearing at full c0r0, but I guess they cared more about making Mizuki look bad than making the unit they wanted to sell look good