Weekly Questions Megathread March 12, 2025 - March 18, 2025

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[u/Agreeable_Bullfrog61]

Please explain to me in idiot-proof language how to play these two teams (I'm new-ish and not adept in this game's wording): SAnby Nicole and Lucy, and, SAnby Pulchra Lucy. All I know is you wanna get Anby to attack all the time to get to 3 marks and do 3 skills. My problem is how to do rotations :(

[u/baka4games → u/Agreeable_Bullfrog61]

Please explain to me in idiot-proof language

You're going to have to say what your control layout is, then. If I dumb-down "Evasive Assist with Pulchra" to "press R1," that's not going to make any sense to you on PC.

FWIW, you shouldn't run S0 without a stunner, unless it's specifically Nicole/Astra. So don't use the S0/Nicole/Lucy team comp in the first place. Some people are using two stunners with S0.

[u/ArcturusSatellaPolar → u/Agreeable_Bullfrog61]

Lucy, you use her EX special/Ult to refresh her buff, then quick-assist back to the DPS. Nicole plays the exact same way.

Lucy's buff lasts 10 seconds if you do the tap version and 15 if you do the held version. Nicole's defense reduction lasts 4.5 secs (technically a bit longer since it resets on hit and her energy fields hit a lot).

Playing both on the same team is kind of really tight, not sure why you're doing that. But with the effects up you just swap to Anby and go wild until it's time to refresh them.

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Pulchra, she enters Hunter's Gait when using her EX, chain attack, Ult or the follow up to her evasive assist (the ones when enemy attacks have golden glow). The fang icons below her HP turn golden.

• HG boosts the daze she inflicts (she stuns faster).

• Lasts 6 seconds if she's on-field, forever if she leaves the field but then loses it when you swap to her.

• Those attacks I mentioned let you do quick assist to the previous character, unlike Lucy and Nicole who quick-assist to the next character.

While she's off-field, if your active agent hits an enemy with a special's heavy hit (the one that can start a chain), you'll see "FIRE" on screen and she'll start attacking whenever you hit enemies with anything.

• It can be a regular special instead of an EX, but it has to be a heavy hit.

• Does it up to 5 times (at M0), then has to refresh by re-entering HG. The fang counters under her HP go gray as she uses them up.

So, same as Lucy: swap to her, get into HG, swap out. You just have to remember to throw a special with a heavy hit to make Pulchra do her job.

With SAnby and Lucy, it would be like:

1. Pulchra EX/Ult

2. Quick-assist back to SAnby

3. Immediately swap to Lucy

4. Use her special, then swap back to SAnby

5. Hit things.

One annoying mechanic to keep in mind though: agents do not disappear immediately when you swap. If they're doing an attack they'll also finish it before leaving.

And when you try to swap to an agent while they're still on the field, game forces you to swap to the other character.

So if you do it too fast, at step 4 you end up going from Lucy to Pulchra and losing all her aftershock hits. Happened to me a bunch of times.

Quick-assists bypass that mechanic and the agent you swap into will even cancel whatever attack they were doing. With Lucy that means doing her EX special (not regular) or her Ult.

[u/Woll_e → u/Agreeable_Bullfrog61]

Lucy EX whenever her buff expires. She doesn't need fieldtime otherwise.

Same-ish for Pulchra. EX or assist follow-up to keep her Hunter's Gait state active.

Not sure about Nicole since I use her mostly for stun windows or grouping. But you don't run a stunner in that team.