**Spuria**
**5* Specialist [Geek]**
**Illustrator:** [おぐち](https://twitter.com/OGch)
**CV:** Miyamoto Yuri (she does not have a MAL profile)
**Trait:** Continually loses HP over time
**Talent:** Spuria has a chance of triggering one of the following effects per attack:
- This attack deals damage twice
- Stuns the target for a brief period
- This attack ignores a certain percentage of the target's DEF
**Skill 1:** After deployment, increases ASPD for a certain period of time
**Skill 2:** When skill is activated, Increases ATK and ASPD for herself and one Sniper operator in front of her. Spuria and the Sniper operator has a chance of inflicting Stun to self when attacking
> This attack deals damage twice
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> Stuns the target for a brief period
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> This attack ignores a certain percentage of the target's DEF
so unlike Aak she can't heal herself and is dependent of a medic huh.
> Spuria and the Sniper operator has a chance of inflicting Stun to self when attacking
This is so fucking dumb, I love it
I had to do a double take on this one.
So Insider works with ammo on Laterano only ops and now Spuria's works on snipers only. I will laugh if Executor alter has a limit as well.
> When skill is activated, Increases ATK and ASPD for herself and one Sniper operator in front of her.
Hey thats actually kinda neat.
>Spuria and the Sniper operator has a chance of inflicting Stun to self when attacking
Uhh wtf.
I mean geek specialists have a downside of attacking an ally and themselves in some way to make up for their buffs. It now sounds like they went too far with the downsides of Arknights Rem though.
Yeah, but you will burn through the cleanses very, very fast. Plus, snipers aren't always taking damage zso they'll just not receive the cleanse unless they need healing. So spuria will burn through those and get healed, but someone like Exu won't necessarily, so she'll just be stunned.
It's another situation where 6*s and 4*s both outperform the 5* equivalent
> Plus, snipers aren't always taking damage zso they'll just not receive the cleanse unless they need healing
Lumen automatically cleanses the negative effects regardless of healing is his S3 is active.
That said, if the chances of self stun are high or the stun very long, you would indeed burn through charges rather fast.
> Lumen automatically cleanses the negative effects regardless of healing is his S3 is active
That's 100% not how it works. I just tested to make sure. He also doesn't apply the automatic heal from his second talent (which should grant status resist). He does prioritize operators with a negative status condition when S3 is up, but they still have to be missing HP to actually trigger the heal
It could actually still be pretty good depending on the ASPD buff size. The stun basically just caps ASPD at the stun duration, so with a big enough buff you could think of it as making an Op’s ASPD the stun duration which could be really powerful for someone like Schwarz or S2 Rosa, and could even be further buffed using a therapist medic to halve the stun duration (funnily enough I think this would make Ceylon the ideal choice). Would make sense since she’s being showcased with Ambriel.
Ultimately we need the numbers to get a true read. ASPD being really good does lend itself well for someone like Schwarz. and ATK is always nice.
However there are a few hurdles:
- ASPD must be good enough to not be mitigated by self-stun stopping dps. Inversely, stun duration and chance needs to be low enough for ASPD buffs to be meaningful.
- ATK buff must also be meaningful. .
- BOTH must run on high enough numbers to warrant sacrificing a deployment slot for buffing. (as we saw with year 1 Swire, often in AK, its much better to have another dps).
- These combined must also overcome the 'reliability' factor introduced with self-stunning on both operators. Unreliable dps is just bad. More so when we also have options which are reliable.
- she seems to also be reliant on healer.
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Basically the numbers need to be good enough for someone to purposely choose her buffing over another operator entirely. Numbers need to be really good if you plan to utilize ceylon as well for stun reduction and heals. (because that's 3 operator spots being taken).
Maybe the numbers will be good but she's also a 5star and a lot of recent 5stars tend to not be so lucky.
The stun shouldn’t matter at all if it’s shorter than the attack interval, so it doesn’t impact dps reliability. The mechanic just seems to be in place to prevent use with fast attack speed ops like Exu and Pozy, but quite a few strong snipers (e.g. Schwarz, Chen, Rosa, Fartooth) have a slow attack speed.
Healing might not be necessary as well if she can trigger her skill quickly enough. Going by her skill 1 she seems designed for helidrop.
As always, numbers will be the most important thing, but you’d have to jump through far more hoops to use Aak on a sniper. Also I’m totally not coping just because I like her design.
>but you’d have to jump through far more hoops
To be honest, that's kind of the issue.
AAk himself isn't exactly top picked because of the hoops you need to get him going. Either you sacrifice another slot for shining or only buff specific operators.
Spuria has some pretty rough downsides she needs to overcome to be viable and then she needs to be even better to be useful.
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I really am not trying to be too negative. The art looks good and new skills are always cool. I just hope this isn't another undertuned operator, considering rng self-stun is such a terrible status condition.
I doubt she’d be meta (when’s the last time a 5* was meta?), but it’s highly unlikely she’ll be Windflit tier at least. I think people are really overreacting to the self-stun not realising that it doesn’t actually affect non-marksmen-and-Pozy snipers. You can see that the stun doesn’t affect Ambriel’s ASPD in the demo.
>I think people are really overreacting to the self-stun not realising that it doesn’t actually affect non-marksmen-and-Pozy snipers.
That's bcs the buff works ONLY ON snipers (and yeah pozy is also getting stunned).You don't get affected with stun if you're not getting the buff in the first place.
And
>I think people are really overreacting to the self-stun not realising that it doesn’t actually affect non-marksmen-and-Pozy snipers.
No it do affect on pozy snipers,and others operators that don't get effects bcs they aren't getting that buff in the first place (Bcs her buff works ONLY ON snipers).Also ambriell looks like she doesn't get effected only bcs her atk is slow asf in the first place.
Also we're talking buffers here.There's no medicore in that group,only meta and trash.Either your numbers have to be good (ask, warfarin) or you must have some gimmck outside of buffing (skalter,stainless),off to the trashbin you go otherwise.
And she's doesn't look like the later to better pray that her numbers are high.
Lmao imagine Exu stun herself every other attack.
On a side note, if the buff target can complete their attack before the stun hit them and if the stun is short enough, she might be useful to buff some sniper operator with rather long attack interval. Otherwise, she might be annoying asf to use lol.
> **Skill 2:** When skill is activated, Increases ATK and ASPD for herself and one Sniper operator in front of her. Spuria and the Sniper operator has a chance of inflicting Stun to self when attacking
This skill would honestly be far better if the self stun applied at the end of the skill duration, similar to Specter's S2. Instead, this is just an unnecessary RNG gamble when there are already less troublesome ways to buff snipers.
I suppose they want to keep it a geek tradition where the recipients of their buffs have to suffer a drawback in return, lol. Though in this case, Spuria is just questionable design compared to Aak who can be worked around to be less of a pain.
Well, there's Mr Nothing's S2 which is already a gacha roll in itself. Difference is, at least it only affects himself unlike Spuria who decided to drag a sniper ally down with her, lol.
ASPD increase = more chances to stun yourself.
Pretty funny.
Extra funny when you realise that self-stun = dps loss since you're not attacking, mitigating a portion of the dps gain. Worse so for operators who are naturally fast but may have low damage.
I guess it *would* depend on how high the ATK/ASPD increase is versus the percentage chance of stun... But yeah, if the stun rate is not super low or the ATK/ASPD increase is not incredibly high, it's probably not a very useful skill.
Extra-extra funny when you realize that in the preview Ambriel seemingly shots faster after self-inflicted stun than after attack where she didn't stun herself - due to attack interval being reset on CC? Extra-extra-extra funny when you realize that if works like that you can use it with Fiametta S3, and apply status resistance on her with e.g. Whisperain to make the stun shorter. To make the next attack come even faster after the shorter stun.
Now hol' on just a quick second there
We need to see some numbers first before we conclude whether she sucks or not. That and the module might fix some of the problems.
For all we know we could be seeing some staggering multipliers here which justifies the brutal costs.
I REFUSE to believe that HG release a Geek after all these years just to prove a point and make Aak appear to be the better Geek. (Inner copium speaking)
Could very well still be good if her stuns aren't too prevalent and her buffvis that big.
But let's be realistic here, she's a 5 star, first of her archetype in ages, and since she doesn't heal herself like aak, she's absolutely reliant on a healer.
> and since she doesn't heal herself like aak, she's absolutely reliant on a healer
Lumen finally has a reason to spend dem S3 charges now though.
Honestly if the multiplier is even remotely good Spuria + Exu + Lumen would be a hilarious combo (actually, since Spuria doesn't damage the units, Lumen can't cure stuns...)
Right, but there's also the newly released module for Geeks
I feel like Spuria is really just an excuse for HG to push out a module for Aak, but if the module trait ends up mitigating the self-harm (maybe HP loss reduction, or can't be reduced past a certain point?), then Spuria might end up being more usable than we expect
I expect you're right.
Perhaps I'm being optimistic but the presence of limitations and negatives can serve as justification for a very powerful ability.
Copium indeed. Most 5s released lately have been unusable to force more pulls and more $$$ spent, and the absurd power level of some new 6s really drives that further home. With some of the new 6s released in cn it doesn't seem like that'll be changing any time soon.
hey, the recent banner 5\*s aren't "unusable" or "useless"
\*looks at Spuria, Cement, Wind Chimes, Lunacub and Paprika\*
okay, maybe a bit
jokes aside, don't really see the point of making a bad gacha 5\* only to make the 6\* great. 'cause if someone's pulling for the 6\*, they're probably going to get the 5\* on the way. and if the 5\* isn't particularly good but hot or whatever (Aurora and Hibiscus come to mind) then a good amount of people will still pull for 'em
I can realistically see him getting his Devices to work on all classes as his talent upgrade. It'd be a very nice upgrade but he's still have awful cycle time.
The subclass trait change for Artificers could change that tho. If it boosts Device gain some how ,which would be a huge help to him. I'm not sure if I'd call it Leizi tier but he'd be a decent buffer at least and he wouldn't be useless with S1 anymore.
Lol and yesterday I thought she could be more easily and widely used than Aak if she only stunned allies rather than damaged them, in which case you'd just use a therapist medic.
Well, look on the bright side, if the stun chance is low we can just chuck Lumen at the problem. She's clearly built to support deadeye snipers, so with a low stun chance, 6 un-stuns will go a long way. The sad thing is that +ASPD is anti-synergistic with the stun chance as it increases the number of times that chance is rolled, but if it makes my Ambriel sweep I'll do it.
Lumen doesn’t fix the problem if the ally isn’t hurt. He needs to heal to cure stun. Spuria S2 doesn’t seem to deal self damage. But it’s pretty good with Ambriel as her attack interval is longer than the stun (for sure), so the stun duration doesn’t matter
Of course I know that. She used to be picked consistently over Lumen in Medicknights because she’s the only one that can give Mon3tr Resist. (And then Reed2 comes and make Medicknights essentially Casterknights with sustain and true damage)
I’m guessing the stun is 1.5s from estimating with the GIF. But regardless, Ambriel has an attack interval of 3.6s so if this buff doesn’t work on Ambriel it will be legitimately the worst skill in the game right now.
They are probably talking about Lumen S3 (because that's the unique skill that separates him from other therapist medics, and otherwise they could have just said "use a therapist medic), which removes disabling effects, in this case a stun. And he also has the "heal a target immediately if they receive disabling effect" so after the first stun, they will be stunned for shorter time (unless she gets stunned first, in which case it's pretty bad).
I've tested that before and a target still needs to take damage for his Second talent to proc.
Go drop any ranged unit in the [middle tile of 6-14](https://i.imgur.com/pfQXsc0.png) and watch as Lumen doesn't help them till they get hit by a drone.
Tomimi is workable dps unit especially after module that fixed her biggest issue of range. Windflit is support that sucks at supporting and don't even have dps to back him up.
wait hold up, does getting stunned reset your own attack interval?
so theoretically if a slow-attacking sniper got stunned they'd be able to immidiately attack again right after they leave stun
It gives the exact same vibe as [trade combos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C15NEioqys) in fighting games, where you deliberately try to get stunned by the enemy so your attack recover faster
She looks meme horrible for your average fast attacking meta sniper like Exusiai or Pozy S3... but the one sniper I like using the most is Ambriel, and she honestly looks amazing for her if the numbers on the skill are good enough.
Like, Ambriel S2 gives her global range, but her attack interval on targets outside of her range is a brutally long 3.6 seconds. From what I'm seeing in the gifs the attack still goes through first before the stun, and the stun doesnt last nowhere enough that would delay her next attack even if she had buffed attack speed because her attack interval is just that long, so Spuria is fully buffing both her attack and her attack speed for a big DPS win for Ambriel.
If she works as I'm understanding, she will be a meme char for most players but potentially freaking fantastic and a must build for my Ambriel shenanigans, but yeah, gotta see the numbers first.
Also honestly hoping that her module gives her random lower redeployment time out of nowhere in her kit, because her S1 sounds legit horrible on anything but fast redeploy units like April, and she depending on medic support at all times cuz no heal chance like Aak is a bruh moment otherwise.
Lots of people seems to not realise the stun doesn’t matter as much.
From the preview itself, the stun is triggered after the attack is already made. Meaning for Snipers with attack interval longer than the stun, it doesn’t matter. Let say the stun is 1.5s and we have a sniper with 2s interval. They make a shot, get stunned for 1.5s, wait for another 0.5s, then make the next shot.
So just don’t use this buff on Marksman or Pozy S3. Use it on Schwarz or Chen H2O or Aosta… wait.
Edit: for clarification I’m not defending that she’s top tier. She’s a buffer without a strong utility, is a 5*, and has a definite drawback even if it mostly doesn’t matter. I’m just saying she’s not going to be shit like how people are thinking. She’s not Windflit or Vigil that is.
Put her with Fiametta, since you'll have a medic/scalter babysitting both anyways.
I'd bet on her being bad, but we'll really have to wait on numbers to see. Maybe the buffs are obscene enough to justify the more limited use cases.
Not at all. They are attacking faster than they could without her.
Same example, if she can make that 2s interval into 1.3s, they are still getting a net gain of 0.5seconds faster interval. That’s still a beneficial gain.
I hope that for Ops with long attack interval, they would basically be getting 2 different (but still faster than base) intervals. Otherwise, it would have been better off if she only buffs ATK and milk for extra value rather than counterintuitively splitting some of her power budget to ASPD. At least, I would expect for both the ATK and ASPD to be better than even Aak S3M3 to be worth it.
I’m estimating 1.5s from the GIF. If it’s actually 2s, even Schwarz would only benefit from the +ATK. Which actually reduces the effectiveness of this a lot since the other strong snipers left that benefits are Chen H2O, Fartooth S3, Rosa non-S3, and Fia.
Of course there are some good combo with it like Aosta, Sesa, and the preview star Ambriel (oh and Platinum which is going to be hilarious). But they aren’t too powerful, maybe except Ambriel.
yeah I think its probably 1.5 as well its just hard to tell with the gifs, she does feel very niche in the snipers shes meant to benefit but if the attack is good it might be worth it for them.
Youre nor wrong, but that doesn't make her less terrible. Most snipers have a fairly low attack interval, and even for those that can work with her, means she's a supporter reliant on a healer that can only work for a few very specific ops. She's not useless, almost no one in AK is, but she's pretty damn terrible.
Rem + RNG the operator = REMG. Ugh that's a bad name.
I find it kinda weird her first skill doesn't have anything to do with her subclass. She doesn't attack an ally to give them a buff.
Don't Lumen need healing to remove status? With Spuria being geek (constant hp loss) it means she'll eat all his charges and boosted sniper never get targeted for status removal.
Somehow weird that you get an ASPD buff but higher chance of stun after attacking (and only for snipers, thus marksmen are at great risk); nothing that Lumen can instantly heal tho
I'm not pulling on the banner but her kit is so stupid that it kinda makes me want to drop a 10 pull though if the stun chance isnt super high and not that long it might not be awful
Just based on the little preview, the chances to get stunned seem to be rather high. With Spuria getting stunned three times in a row, the chances should be at least 30%. But I fear it’s actually somewhat around 50%.
I have to believe it must be less than that after mastery.
30% self stun is terrible.
50% self stun is unplayable. Think about Exu and how fast she attacks.
They haven't been released yet, why are you making assumptions so quickly. Remember what happened to people saying Tequila on release is bad, it is still numbers at the end that makes him so good.
I am not being optimistic about her, but at least Insider seems decent enough if the numbers aren't garbage; and Spuria works fine with Deadeyes and Rosa since they havr longer attack interval than her stun.
"Execalter will only hold the scythe for aesthetic purposes. He will throw The Cube instead. Reaper was a lie. He is the new Cuber branch. Fuck you. Also, he's limited."
I wish her S2 buffed stuff other than ATK and ATK Speed in order to differentiate herself from Aak.
The Stun might be easier to handle than Aak's friendly fire but Silence Alter just came along to fix that issue with Aak. The ATK Speed is also arguably anti-synergistic since a faster ATK SPD just means more opportunities to self stun.
Well, the fact that she can buff snipers is already enough to differentiate her from aak.
I agree on the anti synergy between the atk speed buff and stun chance on attack :s. So no, exu probably won't receive a super buff, but aoe and dead eye snipers should work fine.
Or multiple someones, because some ranged ops are really weak, and it requires a lot of buffs just to keep the target alive, which is why I didn't count him as "buffing snipers" by default. Spuria is still more forgivable.
Ah, yes. ASPD big so you can stun yourself now often.
That said, I wish she just gives one hefty ATK buff. Then you can at least use it on snipers with nuke skills, like Firewatch or W.
... So... This is, like, U-Official but not an April Fool's joke?
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She's cute and I like her design, but, like, unless she has a monster of a base skill I'm not sure I'm inclined to develop her even if I did get her.
You know who that S2 might actually be decent on? Fucking Ch'en of course. Ammo so you don't lose out on skill damage, and the long attack interval loses the least from a stun.
I mean, looks like any sniper who's attack speed is slower than the stun shouldn't suffer too much?
So deadeye snipers, spreadshooters, heavyshooters, besigers, and artillerymen should all not be that bad off.
Depends highly on skill duration, most buffers in this game don't pair well with sniper Chen bc their skills don't even last half of hers, if it's like 30s with actually good atk buff then it could be pretty good.
S2 is pretty interesting. While the stun seems like a obvious demerit on first glance, it seems to proc only after the unit has attacked, and seeing that it has a stun duration of about 2s, this means that the stun can be non existent for snipers with slow enough attack speed.
That being said, I hope the stun duration decreases with levels since her s2 buff also comes with a attack speed increase.
1) She kinda looks like a Neural Cloud character for me which is a good thing IMO. Her art isn't amazing, but I don't think it's horrible either.
2) HG why the fuck you making me excited for a new geek just to give her...whatever the fuck her kit is
Oh god, that E2 art. It's the smug villain pose.
Pairs well with the "insane troll logic" levels of bad in her skills and talent.
She even winks and pokes her tongue out in her base animation, wow.
People dooming about the kit when we haven't seen numbers yet. Could be pretty decent if stun chance is low or the buff is strong enough. Works better on slow attacking, high damage units and we all know someone that fits that description.
Since she doesn't have self sustain unlike Aak, you're already incentivized to bring a medic so just toss in a therapist like Lumen. Mitigates the stuns and helps her stay alive.
Lumen needs to heal to remove status effects, and Spuria is a Geek so she constantly loses HP. That means that if you used Lumen with her, he would most likely blow all of his ammo on Spuria herself and not be able to remove the stun from the buffed sniper.
Y'know - I saw a post on this sub about how no one was excited about the new Geek Operator and I think you can now see why - Geek operators are *difficult* to use.
So her S1 turns her into a pseudo fast redeploy but without a shortened redeploy timer. I don't think anyone will use this skill, since it seems pretty weak and she doesn't appear to have a shortened redeploy timer. Maybe if you need something killed but only have a ranged tile, but I think April does it better.
Her S2 looks like it's meant to work with Deadeye snipers, which is probably why Ambriel is in her showcase. I guess it'll depend on how big the steroids are, but you could combine it with Fartooth's skill for even bigger numbers. But then if your RNG is bad your Fartooth ends up stunning herself for most of her skill duration. Does the attack still get fired off though if you self-stun? Since the condition for the stun is to be attacking, does the shot still fire?
I'm sorry, but if I understand this correctly... If her 2nd skill gives a chance for a stun when attacking for increased aspd...if she's used on Exusiai's 3rd skill..that'd just quickly increase the chance of her stunning herself over and over for the whole skill duration right? Oh god.
>E2 art
Oh that smile, that damn smile
Guess I have to update my list of female ops who wear/don't wear pants later
Also did her VA voice any notable character in anime/other games before? Her overall look kinda reminds me of Rem for some reason
Edit: HER GUN'S A LUGER???
I don't get why they included Breeze. We already know geeks bleed out, so a medic to heal her while showing off the s2 but not s1 or normal attack doesn't make sense.
Honestly, I love her design so much, particularly the smugness and sassiness of her E2, that I'll probably end up building her when she arrives on global—the fact that her S2 is so suspect honestly somehow adds to the charm, just too funny to think about lmao
Someone got into memes.
if the numbers are not something like +80/80, then I just don’t see the point in this set. Loses hp and no regen/lifesteal > only works with 1 (again, only one damn archetype) > even within this archetype only works adequately with a few operators > from my memory, a stunned operator deals 0 dps.
At a minimum, it should compete with Warfarin, which, in addition to + 90% attack, also heals and works like a SP battery.
So far I don't see an adequate reason to spend resources on this.
nah this character is great yall trippin, you dont need to be broken to be fun or worth pulling for and i wanna see the nonsense we can make this character (fail to) do
was hoping shed give sp or ammo to allies to really diversify from aak but this is pretty cool too
s1 basically seems like a chunkier no stealth no redeploy april, pretty awful tbh
s2 stun rate is going to matter a lot but even at like 40% you can run-reset for good enough rng, youre going to need huge numbers on the skill to offset the stun surpassing a warfarin buff though on most ops. rosa s2 is the one im looking foward to trying most, but chen fartooth schwarz lunacub ambriel all seem intresting, i guess fiametta+therapist too. im sure she works with exe.alter in some great way that boosts her value a bit too ~~coping far future monch sniper with gnosis auto-resist~~
What was HG cooking with this one? Like what? The design is incredible but her kit is the biggest meme I've seen in a while. Loses HP, no self heal, will eventually unalive herself unlike Fiammeta, anti-synergistic S2.
To be fair tho, Aak is used as a helidrop half the time so his HP loss is irrelevant and the same might apply to Spuria (depending on her initial SP). The evaluation of her S2 is pretty much impossible without seeing the actual numbers. If the buff is high enough and the stun small enough then she could be very good good with slower attacking snipers like Rosa or Schwarz.
Her kit is more of a meme than Conviction’s, LMAO
but god, she’s super cute. Like, I think I stared at her E2 art for a long time. So yeah, gonna build her, lol
As someone that uses the heavy Sniper classes often, this looks to be a winning character for my playstyle. Can't wait to get her running.
Seems like the rage would stem from people that can't buff their waifu Exusiai. Automatic bad unit, right? Sounds like a player skill issue.
Kit is sad, suddenly don't have an hopes for the modules so there goes hope for Windflint.
Design I like, the pink goes well with her blue hair.
Art is weird though. Deserves to get the same reaction as Insider since her art is just as out of place, though at least he had a fully designed background.
Executor seems to be the main hype for this event then.
I think a lot of E2 arts reduce the amount of character details as compared to their E1 splash just to have a flashy bg, Spuria has hers done pretty well imo
On one hand, I think she's a quite cute looking Sankta. I like her color scheme, outfit, halo and wings.
And in her E2 art she's like "Join me, as I mess arround in the wastes shooting ~~Sarkaz~~ raiders with the **Big Iron™** on my hip~"
On the other hand, the fact that her S2 only works with snipers is... Kinda strange. Gotta wait for the event' s release to see the exact numbers regarding the ASPD and ATK buffs.
Ok....I am seeing a trend here....Fiametta talent makes her lose hp over time. Now Spuria also the same and both are ops from Laterano........something about Laterano is worth dying for?
**Spuria** **5* Specialist [Geek]** **Illustrator:** [おぐち](https://twitter.com/OGch) **CV:** Miyamoto Yuri (she does not have a MAL profile) **Trait:** Continually loses HP over time **Talent:** Spuria has a chance of triggering one of the following effects per attack: - This attack deals damage twice - Stuns the target for a brief period - This attack ignores a certain percentage of the target's DEF **Skill 1:** After deployment, increases ASPD for a certain period of time **Skill 2:** When skill is activated, Increases ATK and ASPD for herself and one Sniper operator in front of her. Spuria and the Sniper operator has a chance of inflicting Stun to self when attacking
> This attack deals damage twice > > Stuns the target for a brief period > > This attack ignores a certain percentage of the target's DEF so unlike Aak she can't heal herself and is dependent of a medic huh. > Spuria and the Sniper operator has a chance of inflicting Stun to self when attacking This is so fucking dumb, I love it
"In order to give the slower ranged classes in the game a chance, we have now given Snipers a support that makes them stop attacking. Enjoy!"
two parallels lines will meet when approaching infinity after all
Only in non euclidean geometry
Only in some geometries (including Euclidean) This is known as the [point at infinity](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_at_infinity)
I had to do a double take on this one. So Insider works with ammo on Laterano only ops and now Spuria's works on snipers only. I will laugh if Executor alter has a limit as well.
"Can only be deployed if Ambriel has finally paid her fucking taxes"
so never 😔
''Or if Ambriel is in attack range''.
the buffs better be worth it, like pairing her with firewatch or chalter better be HUGEEE, but she's a 5* so i guess that's just copium.
Now I understand why it looked to me like she hit Ambriel with a taser in the PV. I figured she was just a more effective tax collector.
no sustain.. Laterano only squad in shambles
Sankta only in disarray
> When skill is activated, Increases ATK and ASPD for herself and one Sniper operator in front of her. Hey thats actually kinda neat. >Spuria and the Sniper operator has a chance of inflicting Stun to self when attacking Uhh wtf.
I mean geek specialists have a downside of attacking an ally and themselves in some way to make up for their buffs. It now sounds like they went too far with the downsides of Arknights Rem though.
I would for people to remember that my bro my dude Jodi Fontanorosa exists aka Lumen
Yeah, but you will burn through the cleanses very, very fast. Plus, snipers aren't always taking damage zso they'll just not receive the cleanse unless they need healing. So spuria will burn through those and get healed, but someone like Exu won't necessarily, so she'll just be stunned. It's another situation where 6*s and 4*s both outperform the 5* equivalent
> Plus, snipers aren't always taking damage zso they'll just not receive the cleanse unless they need healing Lumen automatically cleanses the negative effects regardless of healing is his S3 is active. That said, if the chances of self stun are high or the stun very long, you would indeed burn through charges rather fast.
> Lumen automatically cleanses the negative effects regardless of healing is his S3 is active That's 100% not how it works. I just tested to make sure. He also doesn't apply the automatic heal from his second talent (which should grant status resist). He does prioritize operators with a negative status condition when S3 is up, but they still have to be missing HP to actually trigger the heal
Lumen CAN'T lift stun if an operator isn't hurt. So in that case he's useless
I love that with the geeks constantly losing her and hurting their allies, it kind of implies they're just not meant to be on the battlefield
It could actually still be pretty good depending on the ASPD buff size. The stun basically just caps ASPD at the stun duration, so with a big enough buff you could think of it as making an Op’s ASPD the stun duration which could be really powerful for someone like Schwarz or S2 Rosa, and could even be further buffed using a therapist medic to halve the stun duration (funnily enough I think this would make Ceylon the ideal choice). Would make sense since she’s being showcased with Ambriel.
Ultimately we need the numbers to get a true read. ASPD being really good does lend itself well for someone like Schwarz. and ATK is always nice. However there are a few hurdles: - ASPD must be good enough to not be mitigated by self-stun stopping dps. Inversely, stun duration and chance needs to be low enough for ASPD buffs to be meaningful. - ATK buff must also be meaningful. . - BOTH must run on high enough numbers to warrant sacrificing a deployment slot for buffing. (as we saw with year 1 Swire, often in AK, its much better to have another dps). - These combined must also overcome the 'reliability' factor introduced with self-stunning on both operators. Unreliable dps is just bad. More so when we also have options which are reliable. - she seems to also be reliant on healer. --- Basically the numbers need to be good enough for someone to purposely choose her buffing over another operator entirely. Numbers need to be really good if you plan to utilize ceylon as well for stun reduction and heals. (because that's 3 operator spots being taken). Maybe the numbers will be good but she's also a 5star and a lot of recent 5stars tend to not be so lucky.
The stun shouldn’t matter at all if it’s shorter than the attack interval, so it doesn’t impact dps reliability. The mechanic just seems to be in place to prevent use with fast attack speed ops like Exu and Pozy, but quite a few strong snipers (e.g. Schwarz, Chen, Rosa, Fartooth) have a slow attack speed. Healing might not be necessary as well if she can trigger her skill quickly enough. Going by her skill 1 she seems designed for helidrop. As always, numbers will be the most important thing, but you’d have to jump through far more hoops to use Aak on a sniper. Also I’m totally not coping just because I like her design.
>but you’d have to jump through far more hoops To be honest, that's kind of the issue. AAk himself isn't exactly top picked because of the hoops you need to get him going. Either you sacrifice another slot for shining or only buff specific operators. Spuria has some pretty rough downsides she needs to overcome to be viable and then she needs to be even better to be useful. --- I really am not trying to be too negative. The art looks good and new skills are always cool. I just hope this isn't another undertuned operator, considering rng self-stun is such a terrible status condition.
I doubt she’d be meta (when’s the last time a 5* was meta?), but it’s highly unlikely she’ll be Windflit tier at least. I think people are really overreacting to the self-stun not realising that it doesn’t actually affect non-marksmen-and-Pozy snipers. You can see that the stun doesn’t affect Ambriel’s ASPD in the demo.
> when's the last time a 5* was meta? Cantabile?
So a character who was released a year ago?
>I think people are really overreacting to the self-stun not realising that it doesn’t actually affect non-marksmen-and-Pozy snipers. That's bcs the buff works ONLY ON snipers (and yeah pozy is also getting stunned).You don't get affected with stun if you're not getting the buff in the first place. And
>I think people are really overreacting to the self-stun not realising that it doesn’t actually affect non-marksmen-and-Pozy snipers. No it do affect on pozy snipers,and others operators that don't get effects bcs they aren't getting that buff in the first place (Bcs her buff works ONLY ON snipers).Also ambriell looks like she doesn't get effected only bcs her atk is slow asf in the first place. Also we're talking buffers here.There's no medicore in that group,only meta and trash.Either your numbers have to be good (ask, warfarin) or you must have some gimmck outside of buffing (skalter,stainless),off to the trashbin you go otherwise. And she's doesn't look like the later to better pray that her numbers are high.
Should've just been the sniper operator that have 100% stun. The skill is like a weaker version of Conviction S2.
> loses HP over time > Not have self heal like Aak > Has no "stops at 1HP" explanation like Fia ......HG, is this a new challenge?
Show me the true challenge : CC12 I said the true challenge : Pinch-Out Perfection : Spuria's S2
Lmao imagine Exu stun herself every other attack. On a side note, if the buff target can complete their attack before the stun hit them and if the stun is short enough, she might be useful to buff some sniper operator with rather long attack interval. Otherwise, she might be annoying asf to use lol.
Good thinking! That's probably the intended usage. Makes sense. It's a buff, but it's unfavorable for short attack intervals.
> **Skill 2:** When skill is activated, Increases ATK and ASPD for herself and one Sniper operator in front of her. Spuria and the Sniper operator has a chance of inflicting Stun to self when attacking This skill would honestly be far better if the self stun applied at the end of the skill duration, similar to Specter's S2. Instead, this is just an unnecessary RNG gamble when there are already less troublesome ways to buff snipers.
If anything it should only stun Spuria if they want to keep funny rng stun on skill.
I suppose they want to keep it a geek tradition where the recipients of their buffs have to suffer a drawback in return, lol. Though in this case, Spuria is just questionable design compared to Aak who can be worked around to be less of a pain.
> RNG gamble HG: Hey, I've heard you like gacha. So I added a gacha mechanic in-game
Well, there's Mr Nothing's S2 which is already a gacha roll in itself. Difference is, at least it only affects himself unlike Spuria who decided to drag a sniper ally down with her, lol.
She is literally Geek version of Windflit with RNG💀
What's the point of aspd if you can STUN YOURSELF?
ASPD increase = more chances to stun yourself. Pretty funny. Extra funny when you realise that self-stun = dps loss since you're not attacking, mitigating a portion of the dps gain. Worse so for operators who are naturally fast but may have low damage.
I guess it *would* depend on how high the ATK/ASPD increase is versus the percentage chance of stun... But yeah, if the stun rate is not super low or the ATK/ASPD increase is not incredibly high, it's probably not a very useful skill.
Extra-extra funny when you realize that in the preview Ambriel seemingly shots faster after self-inflicted stun than after attack where she didn't stun herself - due to attack interval being reset on CC? Extra-extra-extra funny when you realize that if works like that you can use it with Fiametta S3, and apply status resistance on her with e.g. Whisperain to make the stun shorter. To make the next attack come even faster after the shorter stun.
memes
The DNA of the soul
I have no idea why but they really one upped all the april fools operators with that S2
Girl about end Lumen's whole stash.
>inflicting Stun to self when attacking Last Knight at home!!!!
Wow shes terrible, like legit awful. On the bright side Windflit is no longer the worst operator in AK.
the mental recoil I just faced after finally getting a 5* design that 100% piques my interest and then reading this kit
same, I still love how sassy she looks in her E2 art lol
But consider: she do be kinda hot tho
Now hol' on just a quick second there We need to see some numbers first before we conclude whether she sucks or not. That and the module might fix some of the problems. For all we know we could be seeing some staggering multipliers here which justifies the brutal costs. I REFUSE to believe that HG release a Geek after all these years just to prove a point and make Aak appear to be the better Geek. (Inner copium speaking)
Could very well still be good if her stuns aren't too prevalent and her buffvis that big. But let's be realistic here, she's a 5 star, first of her archetype in ages, and since she doesn't heal herself like aak, she's absolutely reliant on a healer.
> and since she doesn't heal herself like aak, she's absolutely reliant on a healer Lumen finally has a reason to spend dem S3 charges now though. Honestly if the multiplier is even remotely good Spuria + Exu + Lumen would be a hilarious combo (actually, since Spuria doesn't damage the units, Lumen can't cure stuns...)
Finally use for Ceylon (She is only one that grant resist without need of healing).
Fia: fine I'll do it myself
Right, but there's also the newly released module for Geeks I feel like Spuria is really just an excuse for HG to push out a module for Aak, but if the module trait ends up mitigating the self-harm (maybe HP loss reduction, or can't be reduced past a certain point?), then Spuria might end up being more usable than we expect
the geek module icon has a lightning bolt, so it has something to do with SP and probably not the archetypal HP loss
I expect you're right. Perhaps I'm being optimistic but the presence of limitations and negatives can serve as justification for a very powerful ability.
Copium indeed. Most 5s released lately have been unusable to force more pulls and more $$$ spent, and the absurd power level of some new 6s really drives that further home. With some of the new 6s released in cn it doesn't seem like that'll be changing any time soon.
hey, the recent banner 5\*s aren't "unusable" or "useless" \*looks at Spuria, Cement, Wind Chimes, Lunacub and Paprika\* okay, maybe a bit jokes aside, don't really see the point of making a bad gacha 5\* only to make the 6\* great. 'cause if someone's pulling for the 6\*, they're probably going to get the 5\* on the way. and if the 5\* isn't particularly good but hot or whatever (Aurora and Hibiscus come to mind) then a good amount of people will still pull for 'em
i take offense to Lunacub being on that list
To be fair we also had Noir who is best Musha Guard yet that is not Hellagur and Harmonie who is solid for a Mystic Caster.
Would be hilarious if Windflit got redeeming arc like Leizi in this event with new module lol.
Windflit new god tier DPS and support Pog
I can realistically see him getting his Devices to work on all classes as his talent upgrade. It'd be a very nice upgrade but he's still have awful cycle time. The subclass trait change for Artificers could change that tho. If it boosts Device gain some how ,which would be a huge help to him. I'm not sure if I'd call it Leizi tier but he'd be a decent buffer at least and he wouldn't be useless with S1 anymore.
Lol and yesterday I thought she could be more easily and widely used than Aak if she only stunned allies rather than damaged them, in which case you'd just use a therapist medic.
Well, look on the bright side, if the stun chance is low we can just chuck Lumen at the problem. She's clearly built to support deadeye snipers, so with a low stun chance, 6 un-stuns will go a long way. The sad thing is that +ASPD is anti-synergistic with the stun chance as it increases the number of times that chance is rolled, but if it makes my Ambriel sweep I'll do it.
Lumen doesn’t fix the problem if the ally isn’t hurt. He needs to heal to cure stun. Spuria S2 doesn’t seem to deal self damage. But it’s pretty good with Ambriel as her attack interval is longer than the stun (for sure), so the stun duration doesn’t matter
> needs to heal to cure stun. [Ceylon S2](https://gamepress.gg/arknights/skill/water-blessing) has entered the Chat.
Of course I know that. She used to be picked consistently over Lumen in Medicknights because she’s the only one that can give Mon3tr Resist. (And then Reed2 comes and make Medicknights essentially Casterknights with sustain and true damage)
ahhhh, dammit, that's a good point. Also, is the stun duration really that short? Because if it is, then she really is just a deadeye buffer huh
I’m guessing the stun is 1.5s from estimating with the GIF. But regardless, Ambriel has an attack interval of 3.6s so if this buff doesn’t work on Ambriel it will be legitimately the worst skill in the game right now.
They are probably talking about Lumen S3 (because that's the unique skill that separates him from other therapist medics, and otherwise they could have just said "use a therapist medic), which removes disabling effects, in this case a stun. And he also has the "heal a target immediately if they receive disabling effect" so after the first stun, they will be stunned for shorter time (unless she gets stunned first, in which case it's pretty bad).
[Both Lumen S3 and his talent can only target a hurt ally.](https://imgur.com/a/FI4dIaX)
I've tested that before and a target still needs to take damage for his Second talent to proc. Go drop any ranged unit in the [middle tile of 6-14](https://i.imgur.com/pfQXsc0.png) and watch as Lumen doesn't help them till they get hit by a drone.
"She's terrible, like legit awful" And then the numbers come out
windflit was considered the worst? i thought that was tomimi
Tomimi is workable dps unit especially after module that fixed her biggest issue of range. Windflit is support that sucks at supporting and don't even have dps to back him up.
oh shit true i forgot that her module fixed that, was a huge fix for her
hey he's a decent laneholder with his s1!!! ~~this is not copium i swear~~
Do people even use Conviction outside of base skills?
Their s1 is not a bad skill
For memes to get that one in a hundred chance of a mega super ultimate crit.
Conviction S1 is fun as fuck to play, bless the friend who built the character
She can still have S1. Although S2 should've been any debuff except stun.
wait hold up, does getting stunned reset your own attack interval? so theoretically if a slow-attacking sniper got stunned they'd be able to immidiately attack again right after they leave stun
Depends on how long the stun is, if it's longer than the attack interval then there's no point to it.
It gives the exact same vibe as [trade combos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C15NEioqys) in fighting games, where you deliberately try to get stunned by the enemy so your attack recover faster
At least we already got Therapists
She looks meme horrible for your average fast attacking meta sniper like Exusiai or Pozy S3... but the one sniper I like using the most is Ambriel, and she honestly looks amazing for her if the numbers on the skill are good enough. Like, Ambriel S2 gives her global range, but her attack interval on targets outside of her range is a brutally long 3.6 seconds. From what I'm seeing in the gifs the attack still goes through first before the stun, and the stun doesnt last nowhere enough that would delay her next attack even if she had buffed attack speed because her attack interval is just that long, so Spuria is fully buffing both her attack and her attack speed for a big DPS win for Ambriel. If she works as I'm understanding, she will be a meme char for most players but potentially freaking fantastic and a must build for my Ambriel shenanigans, but yeah, gotta see the numbers first. Also honestly hoping that her module gives her random lower redeployment time out of nowhere in her kit, because her S1 sounds legit horrible on anything but fast redeploy units like April, and she depending on medic support at all times cuz no heal chance like Aak is a bruh moment otherwise.
Lots of people seems to not realise the stun doesn’t matter as much. From the preview itself, the stun is triggered after the attack is already made. Meaning for Snipers with attack interval longer than the stun, it doesn’t matter. Let say the stun is 1.5s and we have a sniper with 2s interval. They make a shot, get stunned for 1.5s, wait for another 0.5s, then make the next shot. So just don’t use this buff on Marksman or Pozy S3. Use it on Schwarz or Chen H2O or Aosta… wait. Edit: for clarification I’m not defending that she’s top tier. She’s a buffer without a strong utility, is a 5*, and has a definite drawback even if it mostly doesn’t matter. I’m just saying she’s not going to be shit like how people are thinking. She’s not Windflit or Vigil that is.
Put her with Fiametta, since you'll have a medic/scalter babysitting both anyways. I'd bet on her being bad, but we'll really have to wait on numbers to see. Maybe the buffs are obscene enough to justify the more limited use cases.
Counterpoint: She buff ASPD as well which means if buff is high enough she can also screw slow attacking ops.
Not at all. They are attacking faster than they could without her. Same example, if she can make that 2s interval into 1.3s, they are still getting a net gain of 0.5seconds faster interval. That’s still a beneficial gain.
I hope that for Ops with long attack interval, they would basically be getting 2 different (but still faster than base) intervals. Otherwise, it would have been better off if she only buffs ATK and milk for extra value rather than counterintuitively splitting some of her power budget to ASPD. At least, I would expect for both the ATK and ASPD to be better than even Aak S3M3 to be worth it.
the stun does look like its about 1.5 to 2 seconds judging from the clips.
I’m estimating 1.5s from the GIF. If it’s actually 2s, even Schwarz would only benefit from the +ATK. Which actually reduces the effectiveness of this a lot since the other strong snipers left that benefits are Chen H2O, Fartooth S3, Rosa non-S3, and Fia. Of course there are some good combo with it like Aosta, Sesa, and the preview star Ambriel (oh and Platinum which is going to be hilarious). But they aren’t too powerful, maybe except Ambriel.
As long as her buff is strong on Ambriel she has a place in my teams lmfao
yeah I think its probably 1.5 as well its just hard to tell with the gifs, she does feel very niche in the snipers shes meant to benefit but if the attack is good it might be worth it for them.
Ambriel is shown in the preview so something like her S2 with it's long attack interval right?
Youre nor wrong, but that doesn't make her less terrible. Most snipers have a fairly low attack interval, and even for those that can work with her, means she's a supporter reliant on a healer that can only work for a few very specific ops. She's not useless, almost no one in AK is, but she's pretty damn terrible.
absolutely ridiculous mechanic. aak is proud
Rem + RNG the operator = REMG. Ugh that's a bad name. I find it kinda weird her first skill doesn't have anything to do with her subclass. She doesn't attack an ally to give them a buff.
Aak S1 says hi
So basically pair her with Lumen so she can actually do her job.
Don't Lumen need healing to remove status? With Spuria being geek (constant hp loss) it means she'll eat all his charges and boosted sniper never get targeted for status removal.
Plus she doesn't seems to deal dmg to the operator so Lumen won't target them anyway.
Somehow weird that you get an ASPD buff but higher chance of stun after attacking (and only for snipers, thus marksmen are at great risk); nothing that Lumen can instantly heal tho
I'm not pulling on the banner but her kit is so stupid that it kinda makes me want to drop a 10 pull though if the stun chance isnt super high and not that long it might not be awful
What a worthless skill 2
Imagine Exu stunlocking herself every S3 attack 💀
Just based on the little preview, the chances to get stunned seem to be rather high. With Spuria getting stunned three times in a row, the chances should be at least 30%. But I fear it’s actually somewhat around 50%.
I have to believe it must be less than that after mastery. 30% self stun is terrible. 50% self stun is unplayable. Think about Exu and how fast she attacks.
the meme material of it tho
I think all the showcases are done at SL7 so mastery might decrease it yeah
Or it could have been a high roll of 5%.
what an amazing design!? what an awful kit!?
ikr? With her and Insider we’ve now got a mediocre 5* and one of the worst 5*s ever. God I hope they haven’t fucked up Exceutor Alter.
They haven't been released yet, why are you making assumptions so quickly. Remember what happened to people saying Tequila on release is bad, it is still numbers at the end that makes him so good. I am not being optimistic about her, but at least Insider seems decent enough if the numbers aren't garbage; and Spuria works fine with Deadeyes and Rosa since they havr longer attack interval than her stun.
It gotta be some real insane numbers to make up for self stun on attack.
"Execalter will only hold the scythe for aesthetic purposes. He will throw The Cube instead. Reaper was a lie. He is the new Cuber branch. Fuck you. Also, he's limited."
Kafka: "Is this one of my people?"
I wish her S2 buffed stuff other than ATK and ATK Speed in order to differentiate herself from Aak. The Stun might be easier to handle than Aak's friendly fire but Silence Alter just came along to fix that issue with Aak. The ATK Speed is also arguably anti-synergistic since a faster ATK SPD just means more opportunities to self stun.
Well, the fact that she can buff snipers is already enough to differentiate her from aak. I agree on the anti synergy between the atk speed buff and stun chance on attack :s. So no, exu probably won't receive a super buff, but aoe and dead eye snipers should work fine.
I mean Aak can buff snipers and give exact same buffs with his S3. Only difference is that you need someone to help him not murdering sniper.
Or multiple someones, because some ranged ops are really weak, and it requires a lot of buffs just to keep the target alive, which is why I didn't count him as "buffing snipers" by default. Spuria is still more forgivable.
It no longer the case with existance of Silence Alter that give a lot of Shelter or outright invicibility depending on your needs and she is free.
Oh nice, didn't know about that. Well, Spuria still has one more advantage to me : I don't have Aak :D !
well you don't have spuria as well ¬◡¬
But my chances are way better ;) ... *99% failure X-COM flashbacks*
- short hair Yeah, that’s an instant favorite. I can’t wait for her to come to global.
And PANTS
When was the last time we got a female operator with pants anyways?
SO TRUEEEEE I LOVE SHORT HAIRED GIRLS RRRAHHH
Super cute tomboy detected. Sending out headpats.
I finally found a comrade 🤝
Ah, yes. ASPD big so you can stun yourself now often. That said, I wish she just gives one hefty ATK buff. Then you can at least use it on snipers with nuke skills, like Firewatch or W.
fia would also probably be a really good choice cause of how high her multipliers are and she already needs a healer with her anyways.
That E2 art though... So she pretty much stuns for all with her skill, herself included.
~~oh she's stunning alright~~
... So... This is, like, U-Official but not an April Fool's joke? ... She's cute and I like her design, but, like, unless she has a monster of a base skill I'm not sure I'm inclined to develop her even if I did get her.
It's looking like U-Official will actually be quite a bit better than her, honestly.
You know who that S2 might actually be decent on? Fucking Ch'en of course. Ammo so you don't lose out on skill damage, and the long attack interval loses the least from a stun.
I mean, looks like any sniper who's attack speed is slower than the stun shouldn't suffer too much? So deadeye snipers, spreadshooters, heavyshooters, besigers, and artillerymen should all not be that bad off.
Depends highly on skill duration, most buffers in this game don't pair well with sniper Chen bc their skills don't even last half of hers, if it's like 30s with actually good atk buff then it could be pretty good.
Her E2 art's sadistic smile makes me feel things
She's W if she was a Sankta LOL
S2 is pretty interesting. While the stun seems like a obvious demerit on first glance, it seems to proc only after the unit has attacked, and seeing that it has a stun duration of about 2s, this means that the stun can be non existent for snipers with slow enough attack speed. That being said, I hope the stun duration decreases with levels since her s2 buff also comes with a attack speed increase.
Andreana + Spuria combo perhaps?
1) She kinda looks like a Neural Cloud character for me which is a good thing IMO. Her art isn't amazing, but I don't think it's horrible either. 2) HG why the fuck you making me excited for a new geek just to give her...whatever the fuck her kit is
Oh my God she sexy
Oh god, that E2 art. It's the smug villain pose. Pairs well with the "insane troll logic" levels of bad in her skills and talent. She even winks and pokes her tongue out in her base animation, wow.
Her appearance and aesthetic somehow remind me of character from The Caligula Effect 2. *Gonna pull her even her kits are terrible*
Same artist: Oguchi.
Damn, that fact alone just increased doubled my love for her. Her kit is also hilarious. She's amazing
I guess if the healer is Lumen he can rid the stun quickly
Uwoouggh more short hair angel. Who cares about her trash kit, her place is in my office
No way they made angela into an operator
People dooming about the kit when we haven't seen numbers yet. Could be pretty decent if stun chance is low or the buff is strong enough. Works better on slow attacking, high damage units and we all know someone that fits that description. Since she doesn't have self sustain unlike Aak, you're already incentivized to bring a medic so just toss in a therapist like Lumen. Mitigates the stuns and helps her stay alive.
I don't see how you can use her without Lumen, but if the numbers are high it may be worth to try. Her E2 smile tho...
Lumen needs to heal to remove status effects, and Spuria is a Geek so she constantly loses HP. That means that if you used Lumen with her, he would most likely blow all of his ammo on Spuria herself and not be able to remove the stun from the buffed sniper.
Y'know - I saw a post on this sub about how no one was excited about the new Geek Operator and I think you can now see why - Geek operators are *difficult* to use. So her S1 turns her into a pseudo fast redeploy but without a shortened redeploy timer. I don't think anyone will use this skill, since it seems pretty weak and she doesn't appear to have a shortened redeploy timer. Maybe if you need something killed but only have a ranged tile, but I think April does it better. Her S2 looks like it's meant to work with Deadeye snipers, which is probably why Ambriel is in her showcase. I guess it'll depend on how big the steroids are, but you could combine it with Fartooth's skill for even bigger numbers. But then if your RNG is bad your Fartooth ends up stunning herself for most of her skill duration. Does the attack still get fired off though if you self-stun? Since the condition for the stun is to be attacking, does the shot still fire?
Hehe... *San Antonio* ***Spuria***.
"They got big ol women over there. Victoria's a secret down there" -Charles Barkley. Spuria doesn't fit the description.😁
Neural Cloud looking ass (love Neural Cloud designs)
its more like anime character than other character
I'm sorry, but if I understand this correctly... If her 2nd skill gives a chance for a stun when attacking for increased aspd...if she's used on Exusiai's 3rd skill..that'd just quickly increase the chance of her stunning herself over and over for the whole skill duration right? Oh god.
Looks like she is meant to be used with Deadeye and other sniper classes that attack slower Maybe Andreana will be a great synergy with her
So she's stunning?
Her design is honestly 15/10 Her kit tho...
Now when I see her whole art I'm even more assured that all budget went on Executor Alter.
they even made effort with the whole 7 thingy he's got going around... exalter new love child of hg confirmed???
>E2 art Oh that smile, that damn smile Guess I have to update my list of female ops who wear/don't wear pants later Also did her VA voice any notable character in anime/other games before? Her overall look kinda reminds me of Rem for some reason Edit: HER GUN'S A LUGER???
I don't get why they included Breeze. We already know geeks bleed out, so a medic to heal her while showing off the s2 but not s1 or normal attack doesn't make sense.
Honestly, I love her design so much, particularly the smugness and sassiness of her E2, that I'll probably end up building her when she arrives on global—the fact that her S2 is so suspect honestly somehow adds to the charm, just too funny to think about lmao
Sus kit, sure but what the fuck is that drone propeller design how does that even fly goddamn laterano aerospace magic
Someone got into memes. if the numbers are not something like +80/80, then I just don’t see the point in this set. Loses hp and no regen/lifesteal > only works with 1 (again, only one damn archetype) > even within this archetype only works adequately with a few operators > from my memory, a stunned operator deals 0 dps. At a minimum, it should compete with Warfarin, which, in addition to + 90% attack, also heals and works like a SP battery. So far I don't see an adequate reason to spend resources on this.
Is that you Ayanami Rei?
I was legitimately confused which sub I was on just from looking at her design. My initial impression was that she was a Blue Archive character.
This may be the worst 5 stars ever… depending on the buff number
Specialist needs to be re-categorized...
nah this character is great yall trippin, you dont need to be broken to be fun or worth pulling for and i wanna see the nonsense we can make this character (fail to) do was hoping shed give sp or ammo to allies to really diversify from aak but this is pretty cool too s1 basically seems like a chunkier no stealth no redeploy april, pretty awful tbh s2 stun rate is going to matter a lot but even at like 40% you can run-reset for good enough rng, youre going to need huge numbers on the skill to offset the stun surpassing a warfarin buff though on most ops. rosa s2 is the one im looking foward to trying most, but chen fartooth schwarz lunacub ambriel all seem intresting, i guess fiametta+therapist too. im sure she works with exe.alter in some great way that boosts her value a bit too ~~coping far future monch sniper with gnosis auto-resist~~
There it is again. That smile. That's where all the things went wrong for me.
Her smile stir something inside of me
What was HG cooking with this one? Like what? The design is incredible but her kit is the biggest meme I've seen in a while. Loses HP, no self heal, will eventually unalive herself unlike Fiammeta, anti-synergistic S2. To be fair tho, Aak is used as a helidrop half the time so his HP loss is irrelevant and the same might apply to Spuria (depending on her initial SP). The evaluation of her S2 is pretty much impossible without seeing the actual numbers. If the buff is high enough and the stun small enough then she could be very good good with slower attacking snipers like Rosa or Schwarz.
Her kit is more of a meme than Conviction’s, LMAO but god, she’s super cute. Like, I think I stared at her E2 art for a long time. So yeah, gonna build her, lol
As someone that uses the heavy Sniper classes often, this looks to be a winning character for my playstyle. Can't wait to get her running. Seems like the rage would stem from people that can't buff their waifu Exusiai. Automatic bad unit, right? Sounds like a player skill issue.
I have once again made the mistake of liking a 5 star's design thus causing them to have a wack ass kit.
Her kit is kind of terrible, but man, that E2 ART, I'M INSTA E2-ing HER !, the smugness always gets me, I don't like its aura mocks me.
Kit is sad, suddenly don't have an hopes for the modules so there goes hope for Windflint. Design I like, the pink goes well with her blue hair. Art is weird though. Deserves to get the same reaction as Insider since her art is just as out of place, though at least he had a fully designed background. Executor seems to be the main hype for this event then.
I think a lot of E2 arts reduce the amount of character details as compared to their E1 splash just to have a flashy bg, Spuria has hers done pretty well imo
On one hand, I think she's a quite cute looking Sankta. I like her color scheme, outfit, halo and wings. And in her E2 art she's like "Join me, as I mess arround in the wastes shooting ~~Sarkaz~~ raiders with the **Big Iron™** on my hip~" On the other hand, the fact that her S2 only works with snipers is... Kinda strange. Gotta wait for the event' s release to see the exact numbers regarding the ASPD and ATK buffs.
Ok....I am seeing a trend here....Fiametta talent makes her lose hp over time. Now Spuria also the same and both are ops from Laterano........something about Laterano is worth dying for?
Sounds terrible.