Damn all these pre release reviews are crazy high effort.
I will wait until she is released lol.
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u/LieLikeVortigern_
Even if it's still soon to tell how she will work, I enjoyed reading this.
Well done!
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u/thebizcuit
I wish Dora was this interesting :( he came like 2 updates too soon ig
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u/Zeitzbach
Corpo / Vortice / Murphy / Gmurphy is what I'm looking to play her with. My Lemurian side just use borrowed whale Gmurphy anyway for an A5 team so my OE Gmurphy is available to join this.
Her ramp playstyle heavily support 6-turns battle. You OE Gmurphy on turn 1 to ramp up and generate tentacle while stalling with Corpo and Murphy shield and sacrifice removal that also ramp up the tentacle damage. Since she scales off Realm Mastery, you can just use the Nautila wheel and you're pretty much guaranteed a good amount of shield and can throw in White Stance Waltz if needed.
Rouse Gmurphy and Vortices to ramp the damage side. 5 turns is more than enough to build up a lot of stuff with how fast you can cycle through the deck with Gmurphy+murphy Arith recovery and card draw into a discard if necessary to play more stuff.
Then trigger a DR to fill up any missing Aliemus for a final Corpo Exalt or OE (since you're going to be expected to use her exalt to cycle deck) and on turn 6 you just go all in with all the exalt to do a big nuke into Sacrifice. The enemy chance of surviving a sacrifice stack is very slim or they will be so close to death the 2nd tick will kill them anyway.
I might build a Returnal Line covenant if this works great in A5 so Vortice won't have to use the Deus one I built for Karen. All the extra tentacle hit is needed here with some wheels like Murphy wanting more hits to get as much Aliemus to reach the 5-exalt usage for Pursuit bonus.
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u/ReizeiMako
It’s very helpful. Thank a lot!
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u/Cross_Toss
She might be the first real Returnal Line user due to her stacking of Realm Mastery. 2-3 Stacks of Tentacle Gathering every turn potentially adds up long term especially as you ramp TDMG.
No Gathering in Divine Realm
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u/Cross_Toss
Bone-Chilling Embrace: Sanga's Posse provides +1 Tentacle Gen, Arith and some Delayed Shield. One of the few ways to generate Tentacles outside of Aequor units.
It's either, not and
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u/Cross_Toss
Sanga: White stance in Divine is a very easy way to generate massive shields for OE nuke cycles, but there is some antisynergy with eating Tentacles. Has TDMG stacking via Soulflare.
Also Rouse, and can generate tentacles with her 4-cost, though it's extremely expensive.
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u/Linasera
Had a great time reading this. I'm so excited for her.
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u/Upstairs-Escape5778
I was reading this and was surprised that base Murphy is not mentioned. Once Murphy is roused, she generates a temporary tentacle per murphy card played. Would that not help in Vortice ult? Or is there a specific caveat here which I've overlooked?
Regardless, this was a very enlightening read. NGL, as cool as Vortice is, this one might be a skip for me. Fully F2P so lacking funds rn trying for E1 Horla, then Arachne after. I might consider picking her up on rerun though. RM scaling divine seems to be a cool novelty.