UID : 19804823

(First time posting here )

Hi, I’m Orlando. In 6.1, we got a sussy valk entering the hyperion , namely the

jade knight. Here I will give my opinion about Li Sushang performance in

Elysian Realm. Hopefully it will give some insight in the upcoming weekly chase

for 500 crystals.

Introduction

Elysian Realm is one of game mode

in HI 3, in which the reward will be renewed weekly. The buff and debuff

mechanic are updated every half patch (3 weeks) with the newly released valk

will be (usually) having the strongest synergy with the current mechanic.

The buffs and debuffs

1st half Effects

Enemies gain stun, Paralyze, and Freeze resist – A standard ER debuff.

Earn and additional 40 shiny silver for each floor complete, but enemies no longer drop Shiny Silver in Battle. Enemy Bleed increase 1% (Max 30%) For every 100 Shiny Silver Gained – In essence, this render Pardo being less strong with her exclusive and exclusive signet. 2 of her signature signets gives coin based on enemy hit or killed.

Mecha Elite on bonus stage with elemental-vulnerable shields – Physical valk will have a tad bit hard time in those waves, unless she can make it work with kosma signet.

If the stage is not Completed within 80, Subsquent enemies gain 10% reduction in Total DMG – This debuff encourage in faster clearing rather than stalling play. But what gives, 500 crystal is 500 crystal, so..

Rime Trauma Bonus TDM – Self-explanatory. Note that it doesn’t have to be freeze, but any rime trauma is counted. *cough*unlesstheresamistranslation*cough*

Hua and Kosma +2 level – This buff help in term of shieldbreaking, where kosma is essential and breach are needed. We will get into this later.

TDM bonus for countering type takedowns – Encouraging the use of countering type valk. But doesn’t really

matter as the buffs given by the right signets are far greater.

1st Half buff

The most optimal valk are the one that can take both of the most expensive buff, in which Sussy has strongest synergy here (well ofc its her patch, duh). Flamechasers has some love with unconditional +15% TDM here. Im not gonna make some tier list for which valk is better for ER, as there are too many to list. But for the main guideline, valk that has longest uptime for certain buff can go for ER trial.

Hepha boss over nihilus – Psychic valk and rime trauma debuffer are winning here, as nihilus has a long

animation and annoying dmg reduction mechanic.

Time slow TDM Taken – A nice universal buff, as most valk has time slow mechanic. This however can only

be used fully with valk that can spam that mechanic.

Weapon active TDM Taken – Same as above, but weapon active like pardo, which is spammable, or HOF pistol,

which linger for some time, are the winner for this buff. (Sad SN noises)

Flame-chasers Buff – A nice buff without any condition for flamechasers.

Bleeding/Freezing TDM Buff – This buff synergy well with the stage effect, as both buffs have different multiplier.

Stage timer TDM Taken ­– A somewhat peculiar buff, as valk like HOT or HOR can’t really stop time without

their latest weapon. Moreover, only a handful of valk can really stop timer and fully enjoy the buff.

SP Restoration TDM Taken – Nice buff for valk which can regenerate SP really fast. For valk with certain

signet, this is a crucial buff that can provide most damage with almost 100% uptime.

IMO, even if sushang is the winner here, the latest valk still can do ER for the 500 Crystal here. Take PE

or HOF for example.

2nd half effect

There are only 2 effect that are changed, which is TDM decrease that goes lower with SP spending and change of normal signet boost to helix and gold. Sushang for sure can't use helix without certain signet. But Gold is one of the strong trump cards for sushang at this 2nd half.

2nd half buff

5 Cost SP buffs – These buffs won’t directly buff your DPS but will give some noteable strengthening on later stage with gold signets. Your DPS will be noticeably lower at the start using these buffs.

Pseudo Hua buff – This buff is good for valk with so many i-frame and hua’s core effect. Do note it will be a tad bit harder to keep up against enemy with multihits or continuous aoe dmg

Mathcing type buff – Now this is a unique one. While imaginary and quantum doesn’t really have synergizing buff, some valk also can’t really do well using support with matching type. Thus, this buff can be exchanged with other late stage buff if you are struggling with using matching type support.

Character Adjustment

KYAA LI SUSHANG

Ult. Restore blade sanction –

this adjustment makes her ult. have a pivotal role on rotation, in which yourndps uptime can go start earlier.

50% Less dmg - More ****y. Yay

This adjustment, along with Blessing of jade moon, give sushang more chance for ult.

Exclusive signet

Both of this signet are essential in cloud cutter build. Great blade enables your cloud cutter (sword spam) to consume sanction faster, deal more damage, and have AOE damage. Cloudwalker make your cloud cutter and heart piercer (cloud cutter finisher) more destructive. Also enable your heart piercer to auto cast on 0 blade sanction. (120% more ice dmg pog)

In comparison, these 2 signets are vital on bolt slash spam build, as it enable your sushang to stab harder.

Smoky waft makes your build up on sanction faster and generate more SP. Shaft make your bolt slash stronger and more sp regen on back wind slash.

Jade moon on the other hand is good for both builds, but bad on standalone ego signet. On cloud cutter build,

this signet gives better uptime on ult buff and sanction time window. On bolt slash build, you can have almost 100% ultimate uptime and higher DPS ceiling with bolt slash.

Exclusive Signet Priority

Support valk

BR makes your valk loses HP, which synergy well with kalpas signet. Moreover, the bonus tdm is very good. LE give sushang capability to instantly ult. Do note you have to wait for her initial SP charge into 120 before using LE.

Why BR over AE?

AE has the same elemental breach multiplier as Sushang, in which it doesn’t stack. Thus, it is better to diversify your damage multiplier by using other support like BR, pardo, or HB.

Weapon Choice

Ofc Signature weapon takes over the 1st place as best weapon for designated valk. Otherwise, if you don’t have nocturnal, any high attack weapon will do the job.

Stigma Choice

IMHO, most replacing stigma for sushang can’t really hold a candle against her signature stig, as either their damage is lower or the uptime are hard to time with her attack sequence.

Sigils (1st half)

Sigils (2nd half)

1st half signet

2nd Half Signet

Signet Analysis

Even though Deliverance and gold signet has better buff on the stages, both of their buff duration are limited if we didn’t get enough ego signet. Therefore, we choose kalpas first even when we got 3 starting ego signets. Reason is because you can constantly keep the hp low enough for high buff with only BR as support, compared to only high burst on start with kevin or longer build up on eden. You only need kalpas until core tho, as speaking of sushang, she doesn’t really have any burst healing to really reach the 1500 charge.

Doesn’t mean that the other signet is bad, when actually deliverance and gold is just too good. On max 144%

increase of normal signet enhance, the elemental breach on deliverance added with TDM and elemental dmg buff will give your valk a huge boost on damage. Gold in the other hand is like pseudo dead[x], in which the more SP consumed, the better the buff will be along with time, although it has ramp up time. And I didn’t mention about the enhance yet, which is Ele. Resist and SP cap boost, allowing the normal signet buff to be on whole another level.

At a glance, Daybreak signets is only good at shieldbreak mechanic and a little bit synergy with other signet. But since the release of Daybreak ii, it is one of the underrated core signets that actually give more function, specifically hp loss and restoration. With certain enhance signet from Daybreak, you can actually pick decimation enhance signet for valk without hp loss and burst heal mechanism, thus giving a slot for support for replacing BR. This however come in some expensive exchange, do we want to miss opportunity for another core signet for ALL kosma enhance?

To be able to use Daybreak, the said valk must have 2 of either spammable ulti, spammable ultimate evasion, or

metric ton of multi hit with +3 basic attack normal signet. In case of sushang, this signet is actually usable, given the +2 Daybreak signet buff which make the timing of ultimate and evasion easier. And with heartpiercer build, it is actually easier to stack rend with Daybreak. The only challenge though, you are playing at constant extremely low hp, which doesn’t sound comfortable for most player. But high risk come with high reward. More so if it is combined with kalpas's signet

Other Signet analysis

I will compare some signet that as an option for Sussy. Some signets are simply unusable for Sushang, while the

other are underpowered on current mechanic.

Vill-v

The reason for this is fairly obvious. Sussy can’t spam her weapon skill reliably to keep up the buff uptime. Even on bolt slash build, the buff duration is far too short to exploit.

Setsuna

By no mean Setsuna is weak on the current patch. The TDM taken plus sushang ice buff align perfectly with this signet. However, I didn’t get to test this yet with Setsuna II, as Setsuna I for complementary ultimate spam signet isn’t really needed when picking blessing of jade moon.

Vicissitude

Hua’s signet has been long powercreeped by other +2 or latest signet. Sure the normal breach signet is good, but the uptime without core II Vicissitude is annoying. Hence why Vicissitude signet aren’t considerable option unless there is +2 buff for Vicissitude. Even when there is bonus signet level effect, you better off picking 2 Vicissitude on shop and get the core on non-bonus stage or 1 Vicissitude and core on bonus stage.

Infinity

Rip ded[x] nerf sadge. No summoned entity from sussy either.

Bodhi

Now this is a debatable option. Unless there is +2 bodhi, IMO its better to use the other signet. Even when sushang multi hits are bajillion time better than most other valk, said multihit are also the main source of dmg. This turn out into an underwhelming damage on start. There is also a considerable amount of time window before bodhi take its full effect compared to other signet. Hence why i'd only pick bodhi if there is level buff on it, because with 2 +3 level combo count, sushang can easily keep the combo count high enough to take effect. But do take note that bodhi has random debuff enhance signet on bodhi II, in which it benefit greatly for any debuff tdm stage effect or checklist buffs.

Discipline

Same as bodhi, in which there is ramp up before the signet fully take effect. This doesn't mean sushang can’t fully use aponia signet. It’s just keeping up the ramp up is longer when the valk has counterproductive attack sequence that doesn’t match with signet you are holding

Reverie

Pardo is generally good, as the signet are tied to ER game mode. Extra coin is always appreciated and the buff scales to floor cleared. Core option depends on what you are going to do with the coins, save it (core i) or spend it (core ii). The only problem is when the stage effect doesn't synergize with this signet.

Stars

Griseo has always been a correct choice, depending on the frequency of how many red/blue/yellow signets a valk can proc. Both core with all the enhance are so good, that it is reasonable to actually pick all the enhance, even though mostly only red and yellow enhance are picked.

Gameplay

Here is the gameplay for 2nd half of sussy patch using heart piercer build. I didn’t get to play with bolt slash build as I’m too busy to test more mechanic. Can’t guarantee for the 1st half upload as it is not really the optimal signet gacha. But the gameplay remains the same.

A fair disclaimer for 2nd half though:

·       Picking 3rd ego in early floor is too much gacha in itself and can’t really rely on it. But 2 ego with 1 dmg boost decimation is enough for fast clear/just clearing it. Just take my video with a grain of salt.

·       This is nearly an optimized build, there’s room of improvement but the likeliness for the star to align giving correct signet is purely luck so if you are doing for clear only, sus can just clear this with tad bit slower time.

And some notes too:

·       You have to wait for initial sp restoring to 120 before using LE, so you can instantly ulti and not waiting for build up/sp regen.

·       For as BR, use her just before you start spamming the swords

·       You can bring WE elf instead of elysia for easier gather. Honestly any strong gather elf is fine as long you can reliably do AOE dmg to the wave. But be aware that sushang sanction starting combo has gather too

·       Set your camera setting to your convenience. Sometime sussy just won’t auto target the enemy

·       You can play around jade moon and kevin buff to reliably clear 2 wave at once, by timing your weapon skill, evasion, and sanction meter. This way you will have enough boost on first wave and reliable finisher on 2nd/3rd wave

·       "this is sussy at ss0 reee" it certainly is faster, but the gameplay remains the same with tad bit longer rotation. if you are lacking in term of damage, you can use BR sup to eat more hp so the decimation signet gives more buffs.

At last, we reach the end. Honestly idk if I would post the 1st half raw or edited vid just to show how the testing go. But it will be posted for sure. I’m open to any suggestion and question, just hmu on uid(sea): 19804823 or discord Koro#4216.

Hope you guys enjoy it. Tata~