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[cerastes]

Would you happen to have recommendations for good, all purpose or simply just worth it 5* operators to raise in Arknights? For someone who has levelled none of them except Amiya, Cantabile, Kroos, Rockeock and Shamare

Going into detail for each and everyone one of them is unfeasible but let's start with the ones I consider really, really good and would always recommend:

Specter - Strong laneholder with self-sustain, best immortality staller in the game for the longest time and still arguably is, benefits from long-term investments in the form of Abyssal Hunter buffs, can be pseudohelidropped with S2M3. Very high HP lets her deals with Arts damage better than in-class equivalents.

Texas - Good DP generator with crowd control and above average damage. Extra starting DP from talent can enable entirely new openers, especially in endgame content. Not exceptional in anything, very reliable in just about any situation to open maps and cover light lanes.

Blue Poison - Strong AA Sniper with constant minibursts and ability to thin lanes thanks to multihits that don't compromise her single targeting, making her a tactical tool that circumvents Taunt to some degree until you can deploy your actual solutions to the Taunt source. Has one of the most famous M3s in her S1, with a charge of 2 attacks.

Warfarin - Versatile unit and easy M6, a lesser known property of her S1 heal is that it is instant, meaning she's a very reliable healer to keep someone under heavy damage alive. Rare Attack Up buff for others, which is what most people know her for. Good SP cycling and can help charge others' SP with her Talent.

Lappland - Best Silence-user in the game, as well as a solid, reliable unit in most maps thanks to her multitarget and Arts damage. You'll hear people claim she's fallen off or some other lie. She is still very solid outside of her Silence (which comes back into relevance every other Thursday anyways).

Ptilopsis - Strong, low investment unit, does not need Masteries at all in order to perform, powerful constant strong heals with S2 and has the best universal Skill Aura Talent that will speed everyone's SP charge by 30% just by existing on the map.

Elysium - One of the best utility units in the game, easy M6 with great SP production, DP reduction and ASPD buffs for Snipers, and a very strong S2 that reveals invisible units, reduces their speed significantly, and gives them a DEF debuff that stacks with other debuffs.

Cantabile - Lightweight assassin that can produce DP per attack while assassinating. Has a short timer to redeploy, so she can be an on-demand miniburst on a troublesome boss or lane, while making DP.

Any of the two Berries, Honeyberry or Mulberry - Handles Elemental Damage buildup, Honeyberry centers more on Elemental Damage, Mulberry has stronger HP heals, both are great. Honeyberry came free with your XBox, no excuse not to raise her. They also have very useful wide ranges that allow for unique safe set-ups.

Projekt Red - Lightweight assassin that can be used as a stunbomb or as a killer for light key targets. Nothing else needs be said, she gets the job done.

Firewatch and Andreana - Heavy duty shooters with wide range and unique targeting rules that specialize in dealing large amounts of damage one way or another, all useful. Firewatch can also use camouflage for fun strats, while Andreana can reap great benefits from long-term investment due to her status as a nominal Abyssal Hunter.

Asbestos - Strong Arts Guard, her S2 can target air, and is just in general very useful in balancing lanes that also need damage when you're spread thin elsewhere, or just as a fun, good unit to use.

La Pluma or Highmore - Both play very similar. Handy, self-sustaining middleweights with potent minibursts and unique three-frontal tile AoE ranges. They can get up to some truly wicked positioning strats.

Manticore - Heavy single hits with either Slow (truly constant with S1M3) or Stun and a large range with true AoE (actually hits EVERY unit in range). Straightforward use and can be used very creatively on chokepoints.

Platinum - S2 gives her extra range and strong single hits, letting her do things no other AA Sniper can do and giving you some ease of command on maps with inconvenient, distant ranged tiles. This is more valuable than you think.

Kazemaru - Middleweight laneholder with explosive bursts and ability to keep herself alive. Can hit air during Doll Form. Allows for various advance deployment strats thanks to her Dollkeeper nature, and has high constant damage during S2 uptime.

Silence - Her drone's healing is actually very powerful, a burst of healing that can actually enable some unique strategies and sustain that you'd otherwise not be able to achieve for cheap. Like her friend Ptilopsis, does not need Masteries to perform at a high level, but of course, welcomes them.

Liskarm - Very sturdy Physical damage tank that can cycle her S1 VERY quickly and has an S2 with good utility for when you need it. Can function as an SP battery for other characters as well, enabling some goofy meme strats (that carry a lot of potency).

Kjera - Great Caster with Freeze on S2. Nothing much needs be said, she's simply lovely, a caster, and can deal good damage with crowd control. Straightforward and simple.

If a 5* isn't here, it doesn't mean they are bad, there are plenty of good ones out there like Iris and Bibeak to name a few, but I consider this list a pretty integral "core" roster, from which you can then expand towards your preferences.

[knowlessman]

bnha s3e4-7

(watching OP) wonder when Top-Hat Rorschach shows up, what their deal is

'XD "oh, what's this, five people from Class A have to do the remedial homework when only one person from Class B does" says the person from Class B who has to do the remedial homework -- Ditto, I swear you had an actual personality back in the horse race -- "I'd like to know what his mental state is" pretty sure you're looking at it Mina

EMERGENCY MEETING -- I forget whether Mandalay's the pervert. If she isn't, her new nickname is Emergency Meeting. Yes I know Among Us was last relevant like ten months ago or something, shut up

dangit, Dancing Boy spawncamped Hat-n'-Clogs

oh, it's Bakuswole from the OP -- ("that's the guy who killed my parents") damn, show, not enough trauma going around already?

probably every time the show zooms in on Deku's knuckles from now on I'm gonna be thinking, "so when is that new gauntlet from Melissa gonna come in? did it get lost in the mail?"

(some dude, the Cenobite I think, found a hand) uhhhhh

hehehe Greninja sure does look like a guy combat flirting would work on, with that getup and that dumbass weapon -- wait no Froppy is Greninja, I forgot

(bakuswole asking about bakugeta) …huh. family resemblance then, possibly

(kota used Splash!) kota you dumbass -- huh. surprise title drop -- also tho. baka no hero ("idiot's hero"), you mean; you were sposed to run 'XD (p sure I have that right, p sure that's how possessives work?)

still can't get over how handface, like, doesn't have a damn costume and slendervoid is just so fucking fancy -- "I was thinking of it as an rpg when I should have been thinking of it as a tactics game" idk did you find the neoseeker guide, did you buy the right gameshark, did you try putting the cartridge in crooked you old fart -- this guy is like a televangelist among villains and for some reason he thinks in outdated video game terms. his boss even knows not to trust him with mooks now, he had to get these randos off craigslist himself (or did Slendy do it for him, I forget) and half of them are just gonna try to kill him when they realize he hates Stain. guy's a fucking loser. -- (handface holding up a picture of bakugo lecter) "in a society bound by rules, we're not the only ones being oppressed" …I'm not sure there's even been a single allegation so far of heroes abusing power or generally doing RL-cop shit (although I might've either missed it, forgotten it, or lost it in the translation). There's Endeavor's… whole deal, but do the villains in this (other than Dabi I guess) have anything behind their walls of monologue other than "society doesn't let us do murders whenever we want and that's bad"?

(eraser v dabi) this is some hard naruto shit here. dang, and he knows mud clone jutsu? how many quirks does dancing boy have? -- oh mud clone jutsu is deadpool's quirk then. : | why is deadpool here

"you're not a real hero!" maybe get a real weapon before throwing stones

"everyone! free to engage!" inb4 bakugo blows up the planet -- …("kacchan is the target") as I said, inb4 bakugo blows up the planet

dayum. tokoyami… everything's kicking off

"I'll save both of them" deku with the Bat-plan. smart guy -- "surrender yourself to dark shadow" deku you say the damnedest things to the damnedest people

lol @ bakugo's saitama face here

-- "our mission is to escort bakugo there" vegeta-chan's gonna haaate this ♪ -- "with this team, we could even take on All Might!" ah yes, the rare Good Team Comp

oh, knife girl -- sakura getting to do things!

"you're protecting bakugo? then where is he?" I thought bakugo was walking in the middle -- "bakugo doesn't belong to anyone" says the guy carrying him in a marble. …implicitly carrying him in a marble -- …oh. he got tokoyami too. dang

who is this guy todoroki's carrying, anyway? he gonna wake up at some point?

didn't take where rorschach was running to into account, didja, geniuses

"don't come after me, deku" goddammit sasuke

"fifteen students were in serious condition from the villains' attacks" camera pans over one girl on a stretcher whose t-shirt literally says "dead" wtf -- squints wait that's jiro, okay she should be fine then she just has really weird fashion sense

whenever deku's hanging out somewhere (in the hospital in this case) and you see the door open, the first faces you see are Worst Character and Worst-Character-in-Training. oh they let the whole class in this time, okay then -- pfft. kaminari's even wearing a t-shirt with an omega on it cuz that's the tier he's aiming for

tokoyami: "I'm sorry I caused you trouble" birdman, your classmates used you for your quirk (not for no reason but still), stop apologizing for having it

"all might saves everyone he can reach, I could have reached him" not with both of your broken arms trailing behind you

yaoyorozu is still the most competent character in the entire show by a handy margin. hell, she has to know how that fucking tracker works in order to even make it

we already knew captain america civil war was a bad movie but god damn, the conflict here and the sheer… actual writing behind it -- did civil war even have a plot besides "tony stark can't forgive a guy who was being mind-controlled"? I do not remember. I think in the comics it was a whole thing about whether supers should be registered and tracked and stuff?

…can't decide whether to stop for the night : | eh, we're between arcs so this's probably a good spot.

[problematickincalls1]

didn't realise you answered non call asks! wondering how many asks you post VS how many asks you delete? thank you for what you do mods :') I found my boyfriend through your posts

I would say personally I have only deleted maybe 1-2 asks, but it's been because the askers/users forgot to say what their source was, and their kintype's name was so vague that I couldn't figure it out based on context clues lol. As for the other handful of mods, I have no idea how many posts they've deleted (worth mentioning I was only added a number of months ago). Since becoming a mod I've also not seen a single bit of anon hate, not even once. So that's cool. (antis will see this and think "challenge accepted" probably, so I'm just going to do a bit of inb4-ing [predicting] before that happens, maybe)

Anyway I'm glad to hear you found a fulfilling relationship! Anything we can do to help people safely connect with others of a similar fictionkind mindset is a win in my book

[ornithia]

lol thanks for the heads up, didn't know i'd been mentioned due to being blocked (and here i was convinced she wanted nothing to do with me ever again 🙃 guess that doesn't matter when you're in desperate need of a shield to hide behind, does it )

also no need for incognito mode, tumblr is incompetent enough that all i have to do is just visit her page directly on desktop so here we go:

(under a read more bc petty shit only tangentially related to hazbin at this point and frankly, the entire situation is stupid and EVERYONE involved is an idiot, no exception, INCLUDING me bc i shouldn't even be indulging but i'll do it for you, anon -)

lmao almost forgot how long-winded her responses are, right up there with starlatte27 (who also blocked me, in case anyone's keeping tally), jfc

i ... are these statements meant to go together or are they separate? bc if 1) i don't appreciate it, and if 2) did you you just assume my gender and call me a skeevy adult turbo nerd? bc last i checked you're the skeevy one dragging people's sex lives, non-existent or otherwise, into fandom discussions while you quote and reference fucking cartoons like a "turbo" nerd. maybe take your own advice and stay the fuck out of fandom in general (also, that's not a pun, not even a bad one. seriously - a pun has to make sense, and it doesn't make sense for a virgin to have a "fuck life" if they've never had sex, what do you think a virgin is? do you need to go back to sex ed?)

but seriously - shaming people for their lack of sexual experience ... that's kind of inherently acephobic, isn't it? not to mention heteronormative and, in her own words, rather "vanilla" on the scale of petty insults (but don't quote me after all i'm just an asexual what would i know about anything i've only existed 3 whole years longer than her "experienced" authority has on this godforsaken planet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯).

oh look, more acephobic rhetoric - this is literally the shit that gets said to our faces the second we express disinterest in partners or popping out children, certainly not a sexual threat, not at all!

also, dunking on people for inconsistent grammar/small typos when she incorrectly typed my username in the post itself ... even though she tagged it correctly and it's literally on her blog and in her blocklist (inb4 she threatens to run me over with her chair or w/e ��)

speaking of spelling (and in case she or any of the others are reading this) let me spell it out - this is about the HYPOCRISIES involved, which if any of you have any reading comprehension you'll realise as you continue skimming this post

if you have to CONSTANTLY bring up your race or disability or other people into the conversation just so that you can assert your "authority" on a subject, then i'm sorry but you literally don't know your subject. oppression olympics does not work, actively attempting to "other" yourself just to seem credible in a topic is a sign of desperation and shows a lack of empathy for understanding in others. what you should be doing is aiming to educate, NOT to win as many internet/diversity points as you can possibly cram into a fucking clown show debate about headcanons on fictional characters who are dead and aren't even human anymore

(switching to paragraph form bc this is a longer response):

when it comes to jumping to conclusions ...

- whether it be on someone's "vanilla" tastes (@heartshapedcreaturefromcriptoon don't think i forgot how you judged me for liking transformers when it is neither my sole interest nor did it have nothing to do with the conversation ... and which if you actually knew anything about you'd REALISE how progressive the continuity is, tackling all sorts of "vanilla" stories and characters including gay, bi, lesbian, pan, poly, trans, ace, aro, xeno, dysphoria, mental AND physical disability, depression, coping, aging, death, oppression, politics, colonialism, and revolution, amongst others. not to mention all of the kink, since THAT seems to be your fucking basis for judgement) -

- OR someone's medical history/ethnic background (@petitprincess1 no one deserves hate anons but you also brought this on yourself for doubling-down on LITERALLY sensitive topics that ANYONE would lash out for. and as i've already explained to you, i don't CARE if 6 is a poc or not, white-passing or not, italian or not - you do NOT get to pass judgement on them or ANYONE based on mere pictures. humans are a diverse spectrum - someone tells you they're sicilian, black, albino, have vitiligo, are a natural redhead, etc - what the fuck ever, you take it at face value and MOVE ON or agree to disagree)

just - it is NEVER a good idea to be presumptuous. you don't EVER know what's fully going on in someone's life, you are NEVER going to get the full picture, and even so, experiences can and ARE subject to other factors in an individual's life. contrary to what tumblr and twitter will have you believe, NO ONE owes you a biography

(another paragraph bc why not)

while i'm addressing petit, btw - since you seem conveniently knowledgeable on laws concerning regulations surrounding sex workers and pimps (and it is DEFINITELY illegal - except in nevada. which we should address on the basis of transparency), it seems surprising to me that you wouldn't care about laws surrounding the distribution of pictures:

source: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/30765/is-it-illegal-to-post-a-picture-of-someone-without-their-permission

basically, if someone asks you to take their picture down YOU TAKE IT DOWN who cares if they have it public on their own blog YOU TAKE IT DOWN BC THAT IS THEIR PICTURE it doesn't MATTER if it's edited or blurred out or whatever. this should be apparent, there's a REASON you have to sign consent forms in order to release photographs of private individuals, there's a REASON people have a problem with paparazzi. because it's an invasion of PRIVACY and AGENCY.

someone in public, doing public things, staged or otherwise, or posting to their OWN social media? whatever.

someone in private, whether it be incriminating nudes or something as innocent as spending time with their loved ones (children, spouses, friends, w/e) in an intimate setting? NOT OKAY

if you wanted so badly to use 6's pics as evidence in your debate and if they were so publicly available, why didn't you just link to them? it's so easy, tumblr even has an option to format text into a hyperlink without needing to know code, [look i used it to literally link to a fair use image of public figue, current US president joe biden with his wife, first lady jill biden], or look, [here's another link, this time with the picture in its original context], how easy was that!

(back to bullets and to the disaster that is hearts):

i think it's fucking hilarious that you claimed i was vagueblogging about you, bc no - i was literally responding to your post, addressing the situation directly to you AND petit. and regardless of who i was addressing in each response, the fact remains that so long as it was on YOUR post, YOU would receive notifications, and that as a result YOU would inherently be a part of the conversation. this isn't some new tumblr feature it's been around for a WHILE now. and if you feel i "vagued" about you after you BLOCKED ME, think again - i tagged you, both with a nonfunctioning @ AND by tagging your #username on my blog. i WANTED you to see and be aware of my post. YOU on the other hand have been vagueblogging about ME, calling me that "other" person and using me both to shield yourself AND as an offensive tool in your little "debate" with petit - which honestly fuck you, LITERALLY as bad as starlatte27 who did the same thing in addition to misquoting after she blocked me.

also, petit is right - you are a fucking simp. you do nothing but drool over trickster in your tags. and then you dare? to reblog his post where he quotes me, the person YOU vilified, and use it to suck up to him? you disgust me, ESPECIALLY in light of your stance on "virgins" - you do realise he's also (grey) asexual, right? regardless of whether he's virgin or not - which if he is, STILL wouldn't invalidate his identity, and that the post in question was me specifically calling out starlatte27 on her acephobia. also, lol - how convenient that you seem to shit on everyone for being "ableist" when they cite mental disorders that couldn't POSSIBLY compare to you being in a wheelchair, yet you have nothing against his NPD or OCD (per his carrd, fyi, which i am reading specifically bc it's there and because i do my research before jumping to conclusions unlike you)

speaking of trickster - idgaf about him and 6. at this point i've heard NOTHING from either of them in weeks. then again, i neither follow them nor do they seem to flood the tags with drama as often as petit (or starlatte27, before she blocked me, and i only know about hearts now bc of you, anon, so thanks for that 👍 - hell, let's throw me into the mix since that's what i'm about to do that/doing it now) and i KNOW i'm not blocked since i can still view both their blogs on mobile if i visit them directly. it was certainly stupid of them to bait the main tag with the initial post that started this whole mess, but if petit hadn't thrown her (black) race card down for an argument about sicilian italians and albinism, not black people, we wouldn't have gotten this far. (also it seems one of them or a friend has started a hateblog for "receipts" which lmao, not only was that a stupid endeavor, it looks dead)

SPEAKING of race, just because being "black" is an objective fact about someone (petit) it does not give you (hearts) the right to do ... [this, which honestly i just capped below for anyone else reading this bc you'll spend all day looking for it] (tw: literally racism in the form of caricature):

(also lmao, demanding pictures from internet strangers? that's the same bullshit you've all been accusing petit of doing - she ABSOLUTELY distributed pictures without consent (reblogs count), which i already addressed, but it is NOT the same as soliciting pictures, that's on YOU and you alone)

there's so much more ... i could go on for DAYS but i'll cap it here bc why argue with idiots? you know who you are, you know what you did. this was entertaining at first but honestly i'm done, fuck this

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ps: 😂 so much for hearts bitching about having to go through starlatte27's "sore Pastel Blog" (cap below), does she even realise what an eyesore her walls of "angry" and irrelevant text/tags are? it's like it it physically hurts them to just get to the fucking point: