#Anyway I'm using Shining because her S2 blocks ALL damage. Even true damage.

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Hey Shutters. I'm a sucker for thematic team comps, and I had Gnosis E2 already, so I started building Kjera, Aurora, (& Pramanix) for that Freeze team comp, but after looking closer at it, I'm puzzling over how to actually use them. Do I just use Liskarm as a battery for Kjera & Aurora?

Also I was quite annoyed to find Degenbrecher immune to freeze, which seems to be a trend among bosses. For one of this game's 2 Duelists to be freeze-dependent when many bosses are freeze-immune is.... a choice.

Have I made a huge mistake? Pls help

Not at all. Individually, Gnosis, Kjera, and Pramanix are all powerful units who can hold their own even outside a freeze team (especially Pramanix, who didn't even originally have Cold and only got it after modules), it's only really Aurora who relies on the help as her physical damage is heavily reliant on the enemy being frozen in order to be competitive, and it takes her 2 ammo shots to freeze an enemy by herself, which is a waste of her nuking potential.

While it's true that many bosses are immune to Freeze, most Elite enemies aren't, which comes in handy during events like Contingency Contract where Risks can make Elites almost as dangerous as a regular event boss (example: Tiacauh Champions) where Aurora's ability to threeshot most enemies as long as they're frozen can be handy. Certain powerful bosses such as the bane of Stulifera Navis, the Endspeaker, are vulnerable to Freeze as well (in fact one of the easiest ways to cheese that complex bossfight was to equip the increase Cold duration mod then permafreeze the boss)

Now, if you want to use SP batteries to charge Aurora, you're going to need her module. Duelists are coded to not be able to gain SP unless they are blocking, but with their module equipped they instead gain SP very slowly while not blocking. This has the side effect of making them eligible for SP charging by allies, so Ptilopsis, Warfarin, Liskarm etc can now work on them.

Kjera doesn't have much need for SP charging. At S2M3 the SP cost is lowered to 40. While not cheap, it is at least low enough (and lasts long enough) for Kjera to be ready to take on most waves that actually needs her to freeze enemies. Take note that Mech Accord Casters look a lot weaker on paper than they actually are: their very low stats are because both the Caster and their drone fire individual attacks, and the drone ramps up in damage when attacking the same enemy as its Caster until it's doing 110% ATK. This means the Mech Accord is actually hitting for 100% + 110% when ganging up on one enemy (and Kjera's S2 brings out TWO drones for double the fun)

Your biggest challenges when running a Freeze team is your reliance on range tiles (since Aurora is your only melee Freeze operator), and large groups of enemies (since Aurora is only block 1). The latter can be solved by running Gnosis with S2, but the first problem is why this team can be pretty map dependent, but again, individually all three ranged Freeze units shine on their own outside Freeze teams anyway.

#arknights

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Coming to the horrifying realization in H8-4 that most medics have no Res at all as I watch Shining get nuked from nearly full health to dead by the boss repeatedly.

This is going to take some Thinking.

#Can that attack be atk debuffed I wonder #It'd take some tricky timing #Anyway I'm using Shining because her S2 blocks ALL damage. Even true damage. #She's one of several medics though #And she's like E2 40 already it won't be worth it to level her a ton more...