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Hello and welcome to this Peregrine Sword - Li Sushang Support Guide! CN Myriad has shown that Vita might occasionally wear Susannah: Overtime T / Aladdin MB, but why's that?
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✦ Table of contents ✦
Short Introduction
Team DMG Comparison
When use Aladdin on Vita?
Practical Example
Conclusion
✦ Short Introduction ✦
In 8.2 the new Sushang Battlesuit Peregrine Sword released, who is focusing on Bleed DMG.
Nearly all of her DMG is counted as Bleed DMG. During her third abyss on CN server the Myriad T100 showed an interesting set-up:
The top scores in Myriad were done with Aladdin on Vita. So let's take a look on why it is this way
✦ Team DMG Comparison ✦
✧ Total DMG per rotation ✧
Team: Peregrine Sword / Lone Planetfarer / ??? / SS Theresa
✧ Individual DMG difference ✧
I'll make a prettier one when I'm done with my Guides:(
🟄 Conclusion
While Aladdin doesn't increase the team's Total DMG it does provide a small DMG buff to Sushang.
On the other Vita and the other support deal significantly less DMG. As the Supports' DMG contribution is important especially in Law of Ascension teams it causes the team's Total DMG to fall off by ~10% when using Aladdin instead of Vita's signature set.
✦ When use Aladdin on Vita? ✦
Aladdin on Vita currently is a really niche thing.
As you saw, it lowers the team's Total DMG, but it actually has a use in some abyss cycles.
To make Aladdin better than her signature set, those are the main aspects:
✧ The stage has (only) PSY enemies for Sushang to type counter
✧ The stage should be bleed weather
✧ Sushang NEEDS to be fully geared
✧ You own the AstralOP Theresa for a second Stellar Shift
✧ Ideally the enemies aren't too tanky
✧ Your Sushang has a higher rank than your supports
As you can see those are all aspects making Sushang deal more DMG while not beneffiting her team. That's because such aspects make your Sushang's DMG more relevant for the clear.
This causes Sushang to deal the absolute majority of the team's combined DMG, making the 2% DMG buff more significant than the 20-60% DMG loss of Supports.
In 8.2 as of now there are two bosses in which Aladdin Vita might be a relevant strategy:
At higher Disturbances the point differences will be bigger once this strategy works, but at low Disturbances it should work on more abysses because hitting DMG requirements for each phase becomes easier.
If you're in doubt, you can just test out both sets.
Additional Note:
If you don't have one of your supporting character's weapon Aladdin might outdo even earlier because the Support's DMG is already significantly damaged. In that case you can test out Aladdin in any Sushang abyss if you want to be sure.
✦ Practical Example ✦
Guess who thought she'd record the videos on live... yeah Nihilius is only on week 3 and I'm killing HoS in the same Ultimate with both sets (even though Aladdin feels more safe)
However, to show what I mean, you can take this Marisa video (his channel)as example:
0:27 Vita Stigmata Run (915)
1:40 Aladdin Stigmata Run (918)
*both at 480D Nihilius
As you can see the difference isn't big, but it is there. While Vita's signature set was barely able to clear Nihilius' HP bar at the end of the rotation and needed some additional basics Sushang was able to clear without those when Aladdin was equipped.
To get an idea of how Aladdin affects the score at high Disturbances, those were the Myriad scores in CN (ios server) after finalization:
898 Points - Top 1 in Myriad
878 Points - Top 24 (?) in Myriad, highest non-Aladdin
Credits
- Thanks to Cyxo and Alpaca for the pictures of Valkyrie icons and such! Also used Alpaca's arustats website to show the upcoming abysses
- Thanks to Marisa for the abyss video example
- Love to Inari
- Website for official wallpapers in case you're interested, here
Thank you for reading my guide, I hope I was able to help you!
Have a great day and fun with your Law of Ascension Valkyries~ 
