Gacha Smack you totally forgot about the BEST IN SLOT for Xueyi (Misha LC 4-Star)

@GachaSmack07

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I did lol just a straight up banger light cone banner overall

I saw the notification and it said "black swan is more versatile then you" without the last word and I just thought that was way too funny (especially since a lot of people are doom posting about her alr)

@czjns

5 ай бұрын

people are doomposting cus shes bricked w/o kafka

@satyamkumar8805

5 ай бұрын

That's exactly what we call doomposting ​@@czjns

@The_Real_Paradox

5 ай бұрын

@@czjns as to further proof my point

@TheEmperorRaidou

5 ай бұрын

It sounds like something Smack would say lmaoooo ​@@The_Real_Paradox

@NeFlorence

5 ай бұрын

@@czjns As a Main-DPS? Sure. As a Sub-DPS/Debuffer that can apply Def Shred for your team AND deal DMG on her own? Fuck no. It's about how you look at her. I mean, if I say that Seele is a horrible Tank unit, does that take away her exceeding as a DPS?

The Kafka/Black Swan/Ruan Mei mommy team just a few days away. Stay strong, bois.

@Ef_Art

5 ай бұрын

🤕🤕🤕

@kizgaming2352

5 ай бұрын

HuoHuo : Im in danger

@LizardExterminator

5 ай бұрын

now we just need a 5* mommy sustainer to complete the team

@ant1one__

5 ай бұрын

And Natasha if you need sustain

@CalebD476

5 ай бұрын

@@LizardExterminator Fu Xuan lil bro

"their Arcana effect is regarded as Wind Shear, Bleed, Burn and Shock effects." seems like this means characters such as serval and hook for example will benefit from their bonus damage against enemies with shock/burn respectively

@Kspice9000

5 ай бұрын

And kafka and guinfei... since there a helluva a lot more useful.

@shadow-faye

5 ай бұрын

Guinaifen mainly is gonna love that

@zeyez4961

5 ай бұрын

@@Kspice9000yep, both Kafka and Guinaifen can detonate her arcana DoTs while the ultimate effect is going, which means some people will use that trio to melt the enemies in one wombo combo (Luka can detonate too, but its single target, harder to use) plus this Epiphany state effect could allow characters like Serval and Hook to take that ride for their own talent... in fact, need to test if Serval's ultimate can extend Arcana stack duration before it reset while "Epiphany" is active, since it extend any shock DoTs by 2 turns

@jaykhobrekar3619

5 ай бұрын

Oh yeah i never thought about that. If arcana is considered as other dot it can be triggered by 4 stars too

@Thoithe1

5 ай бұрын

Himeko too

Black Swan Ult extra dmg could apply to follow ups as well such as Clara or Blade. If a boss hits Clara during its turn, and Clara fua, it would still be considered the boss' turn.

@eraxop2547

5 ай бұрын

Also kafka

Kafka ,BS and Mei is a team imma be using for quite a while . Most likely with HuoHuo for sustain.

@Thunderdroceon

5 ай бұрын

Exactly what I'm going to run. Huohuo is perfect for DoT teams as she gives ernergy and attack, she also frees up my Tingyun for another team

Motion to make “WinMG” the official abbreviation of the abbreviation.

@kmo9790

5 ай бұрын

Seconded! I do need a WinMG dps for my teams.

I think the easiest way to describe epiphany stacks, is it works like the curio that acts as 1 of each path blessing. You dont have the blessings, but you have placebos of them.

ayyyy can't wait for 2.0. personally obv gonna pull for her, best of luck for yáll black swan wanters out there

Super hyped for Black Swan. Couldn't focus when I saw Gacha with the Minecraft Steve fit on. Awesome vid

" DEALS WOMEN.. OH I MEAN DEALS WIND DAMAGE" 😂😂😂

Trend of the Universal Market stonks going up. Your preservation unit helping stack Arcana. Nice.

@tissuepaper7977

5 ай бұрын

My S4 copium lc coming in clutch 😂

bro thank god you exist cause i shit you not i believe myself to be a pretty smart individual but you explaining all of that and ESPECIALLY her ulti?Damn i would have not understood how that shit works .Yet again another amazing vid.

Bro you have the best vids. Always pumped when you upload. Good luck on your pulls! I’m skipping for Acheron but Black Swan looks sick

Imagine the 4 star SW lightcone that gives 8 energy when you attack def shred enemy, that might make it good so that you don't need tingyun with her but we lose DOT% from Sampo lightcone and def shred from her signature LC. This character is really versatile and kafka with black swan, never thought we get a DOT meta. Honestly, can't wait for the next guide video smack 😊

@XLbuffLive

5 ай бұрын

I kinda think 4* SW lightcone will be the best choice, honestly. My Sampo lightcone at S2, so yeah it has dot damage, but not as much hit rate.

@miggy6258

5 ай бұрын

​@@XLbuffLivewhat actually a lot of people are missing is that... SW 4* LC will be really good on ERR + Wind set+ vonwaq 160 spd kafka for subdps detonation and then making Black Swan just a pure DPS.

@ec2552

5 ай бұрын

@@miggy6258 enabler role kafka gg

4 stars can also proc arcana because it's considered burn/breed/shock/wind shear btw for example Guinaifen ult proc burn damage, E4 Sampo can proc windsheer damage, Luka can proc breed with his enhanced auto attack So in theory you can proc arcana 3 times in the row with 3 of the 4 stars i mentioned

@Warmness

5 ай бұрын

You can proc *breed* with Luka

@Yumiaia-26

Ай бұрын

Bleed* XD

Seems like a crazy kit, had to be insane for hoyoverse to test her numbers lol. Can't wait for her release to see how people do with her and how she performs. Thanks for going over her kit some with us and giving you're input about it. Am still saving for Acheron though, 120 tickets so far! lol

@kklap3219

5 ай бұрын

good luck on acheron pulls, she looks super cool

@Lucydity_

5 ай бұрын

Ayo, good luck on your Acheron pulls in the future. I'm currently saving for Black Swan and Acheron even though rn i just have 114 tickets (i could have 184 tickets by now but i made a mistake by pulling for Kafka's LC and got Clara's instead).

Great vid man! ;]

Cant wait for a sparkle video

thank you sir for making my planning easier

I decided i was getting her with her first trailer 8 months ago. Was just hoping she would also be good. All this sounds great imo

We really appreciate that you simplifying the details of every character's kit you made it to be easy to understand.. Thanks. BTW I really love the background music it's from Legend Of Legaia am I correct?

thx for the video bro

Black swan kit is very broken I can't wait to get her and build her I'm going to max out all her traces because I love her that much💜💚

woooo 40 secs in xD gonna watch it tom need to sleep got work

Bro I was waiting for video since they release her kit

Her kit makes her potential to fit in any team and not just DoT team😍! Obviously if you already built a DoT team she will elevate the whole team thanks to her dbuffs but you can also bring her with any hyper dps character you have because she will give that def & res down on enemies which will make your dps character do more dmg🔥 that’s amazing!

@daywins._life9004

5 ай бұрын

so my team rn is : argenti ,blade,bailu and bronya and idk who i should replace black swan with😭

LETS GOOOOO BLACK SWAN REVIEWWWW

man i want to have these dreams gachasmack having bout characters' kits man

I think the ult having “bleed, shock, wind shear and burn” is important because it means it can be retriggered by other characters like Luka’s enhanced basic attack

@Kspice9000

5 ай бұрын

Nope. It's purely so a char pops the dot it will add stacks.

@mariobalaguer3328

5 ай бұрын

That's what that means, yes. If Arcana is at 10 Stacks and they have the Epiphany debuff on their head, Luka can SHORYUKEN them to blow up the Arcana DoT for a % of the damage, since it's now regarded as Bleed..! It's such a sick Ult for DoT units that aren't Kafka!

@pinkinglily6447

5 ай бұрын

I have just about every DoT characters now. I cant wait to pull black swan and test her synergy with the others

glad u clear this kafka needed situation almost snipe kafka and hoping to get her but i only want her

I don't think Epiphany will cause Arcana to act as 4 debuffs for the sake of debuff counts, I think it just means that it will fulfill any condition related to those debuffs, for example if something needs a burn buff to trigger, Arcana will work for that. Would be fucking cracked if I'm wrong though.

@pinkinglily6447

5 ай бұрын

This is the case, actually. Just like wind shear from sampo is considered as 1 debuff despite having 5 stacks, pretty sure arcana is still considered as 1 debuff even when enhanced by epiphany. With her signature LC, we can only speculate until shes officially released

@Calithilhel

5 ай бұрын

@@pinkinglily6447 Her LC states for each type of debuff so I think either way it fulfills the LC on its own, otherwise the LC would state something about the count but it only requires different types. Can't be certain but I'd be extremely surprised if Black Swan's ult didn't fully trigger her Epiphany. What it is that I think it won't work towards is say like Dr. Ratio who wants three debuffs, Epiphany would be several kinds of debuff but it's still just one named debuff so will only count as oke for it.

Wooo🎉

i stg you gave me a free haircut on wednesday lol i sat down to get a free cut and dude straight up sounded like you! haha

I want pull her if i have more jade but do you guys think sparkle maybe the most best banner from the value for us who dont have that much jade??

in certain situations you can actually ult during an enemy turn like i think while they're getting hit by dots if you're fast enough or between bosses' double actions but there's other ways to do dmg too like clara's counters blade's follow up ratio's follow up (when clara or blade proc wiseman's folly) also i think clicking ult during an enemy turn and it activating after their attack but before the next turn starts also counts as during enemy that enemy turn and if it does than seele can have a whole turn during an enemy turn if she ults and kill another enemy lol

@Kspice9000

5 ай бұрын

Don't think so since it'll pop on enemy first turn and then immediately resets

@markusbertelsen6812

5 ай бұрын

@@Kspice9000 If you ult during someones action the ult goes behind them while still on their turn. That is also why you can Jingliu enhanced auto get to 0 stacks then ult and remain in enhanced state. She gets the extra stack from her ult before her turn ends and therefore doesn't exit the enhanced state. Ulting after an attack before your turn ends can also make your ult hit enemies before you lose some buffs at turn end. So you should in fact be able to ult during someones turn and take advantage of that if the game logic doesn't change how it is currently.

I'll be running 4* SW LC because of the consistent 3T ultimate regardless err on rope or ornament

the arcana being treated as wind sheer, bleed and so on, might trigger some other interactions as increased dmg from effects or something like guens fire kiss

I look at Black Swan being paired with Kafka for like max difficulty SU / Gold & Gears / Etc. Things where you have high def & HP enemies where stacking multiple instances of defense shred is important AND where its one team. Having Black Swan and Kafka, imo, means you can fully enable TWO DoT teams for stuff like MoC or even Pure Fiction (probably less pure fiction but you never know...). And being able to run 2 DoT teams could be highly valuable. Either way, Black Swan feels like a unit every player can benefit from.

since you cant ult between enemies attack and claras counter does it still count as enemy turn? black swan clara support would be kinda cool. maybe even break clara becuase why not

She dope. Ima cop this chicka

I forgot I had to win a 50/50 to get black swan since I got Ruan Mei. Guess Ill go for it and then try the light cone banner for some 4*. Also can get bronya with my 5* select or someone else if I lose the 50/50 to bronya? Gotta decide between eidolons or new character like himeko or clara

Idk about Tingyun... personally, like running her as a hyper carry, with or without a another 4 star dot character.... she would need to have a low enough energy threshold, to where Huohuo and Tingyun could manage to keep at least a somewhat respectable uptime on her ult. She's looking to be a true dot character, so idk how many extra turns is it going to take to kill the enemy. but, I'll wait on your guide. My personal belief tho, is that she really wants the retrigger. side note: I know you don't really like tutorial, but that can potentially help with the uptime on her ult

@Thunderdroceon

5 ай бұрын

I agree that Kafka's retrigger is way more valuable to BS than Tingyun would be.

Good luck to the black swan wanters. I’ll be saving up for second half for sparkle, her LC, and our generals LC.

Just as ult is not considered a turn after our characters turns if we activate ult just after taking action ... Also follow ups of Clara and blade can also take benefits of black swan's ult debuff I think...

I farned out 134% EHR and 141 speed with the S4 Sampo 4Star light cone and the Pan-Cosmic 2 piece... so ready for her!!! I can see a zero sustain team with Black Swan, Kafka, Tingyun and a third DoT unit based on the weakness of the floor. (Sampo, Gwen, Kuka... weirdly Himiko for break/burn)

Will ratio work with defense down on from her kit ?

Her sig LC has an interesting feature in that it synergizes with her kit even if she's not the one wearing it. A different nihility unit can get the same effect if they hit a target after BS has ulted. Just a cool little feature. I wouldnt assume she gets the 3 stacks of prisoners set when she has epiphany up but the rest of the stuff I think is a safe bet. I think arcana will still only count as one dot/debuff but be 'tagged' as burn/bleed/shock/wind shear. If im wrong then BS is that much stronger and im certainly cool with that xD I'm curious to see if Clara's FU attack counts as "on the enemiy's turn" to see how much that modifier can be used outside of dots. She really has much more support potential at E1 when she gets access to resist pen. I think at E0 the def shred on her skill is nice but honestly Pela can maintain an even stronger def shred that hits all targets and costs no sp so she's not gonna be a Pela replacement unless you are looking for Wind damage in particular or want something with more personal damage than Pela. That being said theres nothing stopping you from running both. More of her kit is actually def ignore rather than def shred which only effects her damage not the rest of the party. All in all im interested in BS but I kind of see her as a unit I'd preferably want to get to E1S1 before I'd be really happy with the investment.

The best thing to do when the time has come . Roll her before the 2 Days Mark.

Between Def shred, Arcana, Epiphany, Wind Shear and her LC/Skill def shred i think she’d make a crazy debuffer for either 4pc Diver or 4pc Prisoner Dr Ratio for people who dont have Silverwolf or Welt

10:50 maybe when the enemy has a two action turns? like most elites act twice, so you can intercept by using like kafka ult between the window of the first and second action

hmmm i wonder if counterattack like clara or march 7, is counted as enemies turn's?

About the ultimate " take more dmg in their turn " , a lot of bosses usually do two actions in their turn, so you could definitely weave an ult inbetween imo, may be harder on basic mobs

tingyun, ruan mei, huo huo lots of good pairings for this queen can’t wait to get her!!!

Since you said she pops off with Tingyun, is she best for a hypercarry team with Ruan Mei and HuoHuo? Or will dual dps be just as good?

I just realized that Luka can trigger Black swan's dot when she has epiphany, since it would also count as bleed. Same as Guinaifen and Sampo, which I think is gonna be awesome. Thought only Kafka can pop her DOTs, didn't expect this interaction. Though I'm not sure if it would work, I'm assuming it will though.

2.0 is rough for my F2P heart. Black Swan will make my Kafka team OP but I also skipped Fu Xuan and planned on saving for her rerun which should be soon. Throw Sparkle in the mix. I planned on skipping her but her kit is incredible. I have to stay strong and believe it's possible to get all three.

@jaykhobrekar3619

5 ай бұрын

Well aventurine is coming so also keep an eye on his kit to make decision.

@dante19890

5 ай бұрын

if u gonna commit to a dot team u dont need Sparkle, she is more for hypercarry dps

@TheRoleplayer40k

5 ай бұрын

Maybe consider supporting the game giving you so much playtime and buy a welkin pass

SW event light cone about to be wild for Black Swan

The trace that adds arcana on ally attacks actually referrs to DoT detonations not application. Kafka and Sampo's E4 can detonate Arcana without BS ult while Luka and Guin need need the ult. Arcana is regarded as wind shear all the time.

She is going with my Kafka for sure as I may even add Sampo 😂 for fun, and ruan mei.

Yessir

curious with her ult regarded as all other DoT does that mean Luka and Guinaifen can trigger the arcana DoT (not the additional effect) as well ?

@Kspice9000

5 ай бұрын

No. They only add to stacks like kafka does.

who should i use my guaranteed for guys? ive set my head on sparkle ,coz harmony is always good right? but the thing is i dont own DHIL and only have qq 75% built atm. ive read that sparkle doesnt give much to bladie and jingliu. correct me if that is wrong. plus i dont have kafka( i dont build any of the dot char). but BS looks pretty interesting.

@dilucragnvindr130

5 ай бұрын

If you don't have problems in skill point management then you don't really need Sparkle but these skill points provision allows your characters to spam their skill and gain energy so you can quickly use ult. Her crit dmg buff is single target but her skill point provision can be useful for duo DPS teams where you can spam skills. The 2.0 new boss locks away two of your characters so duo DPS is really a must because you don't want a solo DPS being locked away while all your remaining characters can't do anything.

@ddreamer789

5 ай бұрын

I think you should take sparkle. BS can work without kafka but you already have blade. I suggest you need to focus on elemental coverage for picking DPS. Sparkle not only gives extra SP, she also gives buff Critical damage so still works with hyper carry units.

Its like we must choose between playable path of nihility (blackswan) or path of propagation (sparkle)

Hi from Belize Smack. I heard from the pod cast with volkin you wanted to know how much time people put into the game daily. Well for me i have a full time job and at its current state, I log in every day for about 15 minutes just to auto out the trail blaze power and thats it. I use my day off to do MoC and content like SimU and story for new patch content. Mostly like 2 to 3 hours on new content

Its a given she will be great for Kafka, but these debuffs she applies also means W + Dr Ratio is a great pairing with her as well

Her lightcone is literally like a pela ult, I might have to pull for it if I dont get sampo’s lightcone (no sw event lc 😭)

From what i remember her tech doesn't halves total chance, only base chance, but mb it just bad wording, cuz with enough ehr she can basically capout her arkana stacks

hey smack, i had a dream about a unit who scales with nihility characters in the party and is a dps. do you think black swan would fit well with this hypothetical dreamlike unit?

Now that preservation LC that burn the enemies is useful

So having Black Swan on the team, is like having the Aeon of Nihility IX from Simulated universe on the team. The only difference is, IX has four major blessings to give, while Black Swan depending on the level of investment, might have only one or two to offer us in battle?

My account is so oversaturated with wind but god this unit is sick.

I have to ask, just on a hypothetical level, but isn't that LC just BIS on Kafka too? Just like... in general the attack%+def ignore seems massive even for non-black swan duo dot comps.

being able to pull Dr. Ratio’s light cone and it being so good has now converted me to pulling for light cones 😂

13:20. Star Rail devs must agree with you since Black Swan is running with Tingyun and Guinaifen.

Is there a unit I can play instead of ruan mei? I have a Kafka 🤔

Perhaps the bosses with multiple actions in their turn can be interrupted by ults to take advantage of the debuff from Epiphany?

I've been looking around in a lot of TC and deliberating with myself but i'm not sure, so i'm looking for your opinion Smack. If you run BS in a Kafka comp, what is more valuable, running Kafka with PAYN or BS with her LC?

@Kspice9000

5 ай бұрын

Kafka with payn. Adds an extra shock dot which will add more arcana stacks without using an extra party slot.

@PrimordialGold

5 ай бұрын

I would say BS with her LC. Kafka LC value lies in inflicting another DoT so you have 3 dot on enemy making full use on prisoner set. But you can get around of it by simply breaking enemy, bringing another character that inflict dot like Asta or simply using preservation character with universal market lightcone

@StreakBreaker42

5 ай бұрын

@@PrimordialGold I have been leaning towards BS LC, but the problem I see is that if I run that team with another def shred unit like pela or E1 Ruan Mei, you will over stack on def shred, which makes BS LC lose value. BS E1 seems to be the best of everything, but i'm high on pity on the LC banner.

@StreakBreaker42

5 ай бұрын

@@Kspice9000 And the speed form PAYN will also enable you to detonate more arcana stacks, which is really nice. But whats bugging me is that the 4* on PAYN banner is so bad for me (got S5 landau and S5 perfect timing), while the BS LC banner is really good.

@kklap3219

5 ай бұрын

@@StreakBreaker42 bro....overstacking def shred isnt a thing. The more def shred u have, the stronger and more valuable it becomes. Ur watching TC channels and still dont know that?

Correct if I'm wrong guys but I think Epiphany would work with counter attacks such as Clara's and Blade's.

With Black Swan release maybe Sampo guide update would be nice 😊

Glad to listen to this ill be skipping her LC since I have E1 Ruan mei ill probably go over 100% def shred with it so its not super necessary lmfao

Cant wait to lose my 50/50 even though i farmed gear for effect hit rate in the DOT set. Best of luck to everyone in their pulls.

@Thunderdroceon

5 ай бұрын

Best of luck to you too!

im not too sure about using her as a dps without Kafka but hey, if you can showcase it when she comes out, more power to ya!!

I hope I can get her early cuz I have really bad luck and the only 4 star nihility lc I have is the f2p kafka bath one

im glad they made arcana the way they did so that she isnt reliant on kafka. the fact that they make the stacks deal damage instead of the stacks being the damage means that kafka isnt impacting black swans performance as much as using luka without kafka as an example

Im curious to test if tingyun e6 is better than ruan mei e0 for the kafka/swan combo in terms of consistency and damage.

@Kspice9000

5 ай бұрын

It's definitely ruin mei/huohuo. Tingyuns OK, but your gonna want to be boosting both kafka and bs energy gain.

@frilo369

5 ай бұрын

@@Kspice9000 I don’t have huohuo so will have to test it

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Schrodinger's Smack: "Will Kafka be her best meta team? Probably! Probably not!"

Okay, I see. Basically, it's arcana arcana arcana.. then arcana then has a chance to arcana before she arcasas. Yes.

so swans ult makes people take more dmg in their turn? i wonder if it works with Claras counter.

Im gonna try a ratio black swan dual dps comp. Might be interesting.

Makes me think you want a couple of copies of her lightcone, maybe you could use one on Kafka or other DOT characters lol.

I still haven't decided if i will use her together with Kafka, Guinafen, and HuoHuo for more Dots or i will swap Gui with RM. I would love to see your suggestions everyone, Gacha Smack too ofc.

@dilucragnvindr130

5 ай бұрын

If you have Kafka's LC and equip it to Guin then she can also apply shock DoT from the LC. Just try to match the element so if you know if you need guin or kafka but Kafka's DoT trigger is really amazing.

@bromegaman5962

5 ай бұрын

Mei gives too much to DoT teams to not use her. Asta would probably be the next option so you can get Kafka or Swan to 160 speed for 3 actions per cycle. Plus the attack buff is nice and she can apply burn DoT on basics. Gui and Pela are fine options especially if you have the Resolution LC on them for extra defense shred.

Who should be first? Kafka or black swan? Im guessing black swan but asking does no damage

So we want over 200% eff hit rate for her technique to be above 50% on the third stack?

If Epiphany works with extra actions/FUA, she could be a nice pair with Clara.

likw you said that lightcone banner is great

My only concern with Black Swan is how her Arcana works. If the target dies from a random DoT, do Arcana still trigger? If it works exactly the same as other DoTs, Arcana will be completely wasted. No adjacent damage, no extra Arcana stack for other enemies.

@nguyengiang4183

5 ай бұрын

Yah, it works just like you think, because the talent said that the enemy gains Arcana stack for each DOT dmg they received in their turn THEN they'll receive all the Arcana stack dmg. So Arcana dmg always go last, if they died before the Arcana hit them, it will be wasted.

I know Kafka is the DoT queen, but it does seem like Swan will work solo. I couldn't pick up Kafka ... would Swan work well with Acheron?

CAN YOU MAKE KAFKA NEW BUILD FOR BLACK SWAN TY