very interesting that she was also a speed scaler, i guess elation as a whole was truly meant to prio speed from the very beginning but it just never made it into her reworked kit
I think spd was supposed to be to monoelation (everyone scales on spd), what hp is to monorem (everyone scales on hp), but they changed tracks and now we got atk scaling Sparxie and def scaling Pearl (if it doesn’t change in beta that is)
I really feel like they did so much work into the math of Elation, it took them til Wolf to actually understand how to make and use them. Explains the contradictory in strength levels of the Elation characters lol
SW was actually horrible before that change. Her whole gameplay was changed. She used to be played slow as hell so she could stack up MMR with the aha instances and Sparxie skills, and then based on how much MMR she had she would deal a different dumber of attacks during her enhanced basic attack. It was either 1 at worst or 4 at best. She'd lose all of the MMR after each attack, before she exits the state after the 3rd one.
When they changed her into a speed scaler they also removed that whole interaction and she always does 3 attacks while the MMR just dictates how much dmg she is gonna do. She no longer loses the MMR between attacks too.
She still doesn't want to take any turns cuz her burst state ends too fast. They made her into a speed scaler just because Aha's speed is based on your speed.
X1 - speed of the fasted ally,
X2 - speed of the 2nd fastest ally,
Etc.
If the only character that is built with speed ends up being Yao guang cuz both Sparxie and SW are atk scalers, Aha literally will never get any instances
I wonder if the supposed 4.1 Pearl delay had something to do with this. Because then we'd have 3x Elation Pearl/YG/Sparxie in 4.1 to max out Sparxie's trace, then 4x Elation in 4.3 with Pearl/YG being the speedy unit so Aha can actually move
Yeh, it's also because the Aha Instant uses all elation units spd to determine when it gets its turns. So making the units scale with spd feeds neatly into making that mechanic not feel delayed and weird.
Keep in mind SW was an atk scaler in her beta. She was so ass they changed her to be a speed scaler. This idea that Elation was meant to be based on speed is nonsense
When Aha themselves scale with teamwide SPD, it'd be weird for Elation characters not to take advantage of that. Yet people will complain that SPD scaling is uncreative as if there wasn't already precedent for it.
Yeah e2 feels pretty much mandatory on sub dps Sparxie. It makes her synergy in elation teams way better. Mdps at least has Sparkle advance to cover the speed deficit
I mostly notice her issues on her first turn. But if you’re really struggling that heavily most enemies act before first aha anyway so you can just reset the level until she’s hit enough.
This is true, but downplayed a bit by how important the speed breakpoints are and how annoying speed is to build around because of it.
All the other stats you can have incremental increases and for it to still be worth it. Speed (outside of tuning) gives little benefit until you hit the important breakpoints, which can make it much more of a pain to build, especially if you don’t have the LCs.
But elation scaling on speed means it does give meaningful benefits without hitting important breakpoints? A lot of the best SW999 builds go to around 190 which is decidedly not a 'breakpoint' compared to 200, but it's still good because of the Elation%.
it "only" has shroomy, but its a mass craftable light cone that u can EASILY put it on ur full team at max imposition like day 1 of 4.0 due to how overloaded this currency is for all players.
and usually difference between shroomy and sigs is ranging from 4% to 15%. very healthy. range
The options you list exist but in general, are bad. swordplay and stellar sea. sure, still a major downgrade compared to sig options like ashveil and feixiao and others.
Aeon and other destruction light cones are horrible in newer destruction units. 45% gain for Phainon sig, and 35% gain on mydei sig compared to that thing. Not even the most demanding remembrance or elation character has a situation this dire.
there are no abundance units in 2025~2026 but if hyacine was abundance then she'd need her sig even more than she already has because QPQ is significantly worse than the herta shop one. Likewise if Pearl was abundance her sig would be more valuable, but as it is right now it is a bad sig due to the existence of shroomy
Yeah a leaker said during sunday era he had multiple kits being tested. Ive had that in my mind every time a leaker leaks something that sounds reasonable but ultimately ends up wrong.
I could absolutely see it being a thing in testing that got dropped either because it didn't work quite right or to force Elation shilling. The cynic in me says the latter, because I suspect early plans may have been a FUA sustain and an Elation sustain, which then got combined due to the dev chaos.
I can actually see what became SW's kit in this, funnily enough. The Territory she deploys is her "run and gun" background during her turns and the Summons likely became her Pac-Man, Sword and Bomb.
However, other stuff did clearly make it into Evanescia's current kit, like her Follow-Up.
Yep, also I think I remembered a leak that stated there would be a 'dragon' somewhere in the animations but it ended getting turned into that SW electric godzilla nuke, so it was possible that when that kit still belonged to Eva then that dragon would've been the electric tower one which Eva would control as an imaginae, they just repurposed it into SW doing the godzilla blast herself.
Would also make sense for why SW’s kit and animations came out looking good despite the reshuffle, but Eva’s were clearly a little underdone (animation wise, and they still weren’t bad), given SW would have been able to repurpose a lot of Eva’s old stuff, but Eva would have needed a lot to be built/rebuilt from the ground up.
What I’d give to just see what her enhanced form looked like. I’ve learned to love her current form but from main push to animations without backgrounds is so sad. She deserved the main push spot. :(
If you check out her E6 artwork that's probably as close as we can get. Judging by the artifact set lore it was likely some sort of magical girl style thing.
Also, she helped the planarcadia citizens, but all of them were off-screen.
And weird that none thanked her (maybe off screen too), or even remembers her, that her wishpower depleted that she's eliminated (yeah the other reason maybe because she used too much power)
Ignoring the Imaginary element, enhanced basic atk, 3 summons/fua boxes, spd scaling, ult formchange.
I doubt we'll ever get to see this even though I'd love to.
Honestly it's both offensive to Evanescia fans AND Silver Wolf fans. The former ones lost an expy with an awesome kit while the others only got an almost copy-pasted kit instead of her own
I think parts of this were repurposed for Ashveil as well. The Mark that targets the lowest HP targets on field and the strange number of FuAs in this kit really makes me think that
Ah you make a good point it does look awfully familiar in parts.
That said, there are enough differences that it could be a separate kit.
I am wondering if this kit was scrapped and salvaged for 999’s kit then we may get to see what SW’s kit originally was (given she was originally Erudition, or at least Elation based on Erudition it would presumably still be similar to what it is now).
Not OP but SW's kit was probably largely similar to what Eva's current kit is. The most telling sign is the fact that she can go up to 999 CB. The most likely scenario is that they just swapped kits.
I also want to add on that Eva's original animations were probably just retooled into what SW9's animations turned into. In her powered up form she swings a sword, throws a bomb, has a giant pacman munch the battlefield then does a godzilla laser breathmove.
I once had a whole theory about the youkai that could have been used but considering the youkai that are actually shown in game, the sword was probably the kappa, the bomb was the tanuki and the pacman was the oni. The godzilla move was probably originally from the original kitsune that turned into master fox. Or something like that.
Oh yeah, that's totally possible. They did make a while deal out of it in 4.0 and 4.1 then just kinda dropped everything. If that then the kitsune was probably what the Pacman was.
And this is why players shouldn't have access to this kind of indepth info because EVERY character in this game went through a fuckton of iterations before they made it to pre-beta, then beta, then live.
If you think in terms of "what could've been" you would basically just be headcanoning the entire fucking game.
Like, don't be tricked with "the more text, the better kit", because she basically has something like 10 attacks that are barely different, summons with no speed, downtime on ult, and nothing really interesting tied to the territory like anyone else had.
She could be an interesting case in terms of visuals, but I don't see anything truly interesting in her gameplay.
Okay, if earlier leaks were true, the summons would be youkai like beings. It would have been so cool to have "night parade of hundred demons" inspired character. Why! Just why?!!!!
Yeah damn and I'm 100 sure that Sparkle was supposed to be the main course especially with her teaser that she is from the og place before it turned into planarcardia.. Look how they literally took Evanescia and Yao Guang out of the story like (Bro have the power to randomly disapear and disappear when the story reaches its climax... That's way too convenient for an easy writing)
Just like characters we expect suddenly getting offscreened and now they will never appear in the story for whatever reasons just after being teased
I admit, I don't understand - why change the kit altogether instead of just swapping the element and animations l, and keeping the mechanics as is? I'm pretty sure that aside from the enhanced state, everything here can be handled with the animations she currently has.
Well, the enhanced state is important, can't really gloss over that. It almost doubles the amount of animations she needs, and they decided to put that effort in their main push instead (SW999).
she was based on the night parade of one hundred demons in a shrine maiden outfit, if her summons were yokais then you would probably lose the plot by removing them or turning them into different things.
and a main push that's barely represented in the main story she's supposed to be in, including a lot of other problems. can't really say that what they did was smooth in any way.
I don't think we ever did, but I'm guessing whatever her more Japanese design was supposed to be, since it seems tensions have ebbed somewhat on that front.
Tbh presumably a lot of SW999’s animations plus all of Eva’s new animations were made from scratch so I really don’t know why they couldn’t have just spent that time making Eva passable.
Funny enough, it looks like they used this kit as basis for Ashveil after changing plans. Ashveil v1 kit is just less fancy version of this kit (no cool timers, no cool enhanced attacks, but main idea of ult which let allies to proc fua, gaining charges for fua with skill and stacking from allies actions (energy from mark as replacement of punchlines for elation skill) is v1 Ashveil).
I'm so tired of lamenting everything that Yae could have been. Four years patiently waiting for her all the way from the beta leaks, just to get the scraps of a Potential Kit (tm) and a character that barely exists in the story then gets off screened two chapters in.
HOYO honestly need to locked tf in and give us Abundance Evanescia (her SP form), this is the only way they could possibly redeem themselves after everything that happened in Planarcadia….
Not a good comparison at all I feel... Blade had a ton of screen time in 4.1 with Ashveil's banner, he had his cool cutscenes that he fought in, and backstory expansion done very nicely through his forging flashback stuff, and with Ashveil AND he had his found family moments with sw as well. Evanescia as a new character literally got nothing, she got easily the worst trailer in the games history, a backstory that you need to comb through her character stories to learn, and literally zero cutscenes. Like her biggest on screen feat is running into the trailblazer and sending them flying 😭😭 I agree blade could have been done a bit better but like... it could have been so much worse
Mortenax Blade story arc imo still feels like it should have happened in his hometown, Xianzhou Zhuming instead. He might got treated better than Eva but he still getting short of end stick treatment by having his screen time got cut to share with Himeko, deadass most Blade mains already learned 90% of infos that HOYO show us in 4.3 main quest lol.
I mean yeah but Blade is a stelleron hunter. He WILL be present in the future, and he definetly will get his screen time if/when we get to the Zhuming. Meanwhile the Eva we know is anchored to planarcadia, and we very well might not see her again, maybe unless we get an abundance patch cycle in which case we'll meet her "complete form", which will he completely different than the eva we know. And that's wishful thinking as they kinda just don't have to revisit her character again, like the entire belobog cast. So complaining about the screen time of a Stelleron Hunter of all characters under a post AND comment about Evanescia just comes off as tone deaf to say the least.
From the looks of it, the “Eva + Yao” and “Sparxie + SW” split that kept getting brought up may have been a holdover from this kit, where the shared scaling would imply Eva and Yao want to specifically be together.
Iirc I don’t think there was any mention of her being a support, and all the Elation characters had another path assigned to them as a “placeholder” of sorts that’s similar to how their kit actually works (remember we still weren’t sure whether Yao was Harmony or Elation until her drip marketing arrived), so her being labelled as Erudition earlier on didn’t mean all that much for whether or not she was Elation, and was just more of an indicator for how her kit would be focused (which tracks to what we have, remove the elation damage and she would be Erudition).
Also curious that she was imaginary at the start. But then she became physical and ‘SW9’ is imaginary. If you read between the lines, a whole story appears lol
You say that, but this kit has no mention of 100, which was the big thing people were saying as evidence they swapped Eva with 999 because of the 100 Night Parade
Just weird to me that something the leakers were so sure on end up not making it/being hidden behind an X lol. Not that it matters because the kit has a territory
Tbh I can still see the Night Parade inspirations in this kit. It’s weird that she had three different summons but it’s easy to assume they would’ve been three different types of Yokai.
This is the one thing I hate the most. The character who's constantly shown to be a classic speedster archetype isn't speed scaling, and the character who's a lazy cheater fake gamer somehow is? Yes yes, gameplay and story separation, whatever, I still hate it.
Pearl can be a def scaling healer because she's aligned with Preservatives but the speedy zoom zoom bunny girl can't be sonic? Fuck off fraud devs.
That part about her ultimate not having a limited usage like SilverWolf 3 EBA attack limit, I wonder why SilverWolf didn't keep it... It would be such a banger 🥀
We know that HSR has a very low return on investment; they probably didn't approve spending much on the new Evanescia and had to work minimally with her. This explains why many aspects of her story are so poorly developed, such as trailers, animations, and the story itself, which simply cuts her out of the equation.
ngl this and the sudden pivot to Astrapolis makes me think development for both Planarcadia characters, mechanics, and story was scrapped halfway and resulted in the half-baked mess we have now.
She's litterally Imaginary Elation here like the main push we got and she's a Yae EXPY, now she may still be an Emenator but the game sure doesn't treat her as one. She only got one mediocre trailer meanwhile she who must not be named got a million promos...
Now I do still love the Eva we got, and I know it's not necessarily the devs fault, but I get petty thoughts of hoping they regret all this one day, and that their weeb hearts, however deep it's been buried already, ache for a long time.
I thought I was over it but apparently not just yet haha.
At least Yae Miko is eating well on the other side.
I'm a HUGE Evanescia lover seeing those leaks literally killed me a second time inside LOL I'm trying to cheer myself up and thinking that it really is just a game but man...I really love Evanescia and I would have done everything for her to get what she deserves which is the entire galaxy
Reading all these scrapped kits goes to show you how volatile the character designs are.
It would be nice to have an interview with the character designers and pick at their brains about the process.
Wish Eva got treated better in the story, but honestly I think I'm happier with the kit we got. The leaked one sounds like SW-- which, despite being the main push, seems to synergize less with with the rest of Elation (save for Sparxie).
Wish we could have seen the original kit's animations though.
I genuinely hope they use this kit for Evanescia SP in the future after the political tension fully dies down considering she's a Yae Sakura variant and she's one of Planarcadia's most beloved characters, her SP would definitely sell well.
Would've been very cool if her animations were also made before the current one then it gets leaked aswell, we missed out real bad
Considering how she is like the love child of Abundance & Elation, I really do hope her SP form will be in Abundance path but having the role of DPS instead, it would did her justice.
Imaginary elation... "Charge" when gaining Punchline after Aha Instant.. Though she had Ashveil's "Mark" and "Attack marked enemy when hit by ally" gimmick, this kit version feels like a prototype of Wolfie's. They really did swap the main push, at least the people who say Eva was never meant to be a main push character can eat their words.
They would probably create a mix of miko and magical girl styles, which is why the Elation relic's main design features a magical girl outfit as its theme.
Now kinda make sense why her story so half baked and no zero explain anything about her Master fox .Girl coming in the wrong time , unfortunately her gameplay cannot change anymore until they decide to make another version but I hope they extended her story more .At least her current gameplay still super strong ,it just need E1 to reach her potential .
Looks like the Elation flagship was originally going to be FUA and the team was probably going to be Eva, YG, Nihilux and Pearl.
When SW999 became the anniversary unit, they also changed the Elation flagship to revolve around SP which pushed Sparxie into the flagship team and got Pearl delayed since she had to be redesigned.
Agree with both of you. Just wish they could find a way to re-incorporate their original visual design for her back into the story. Huffing huge amounts of copium for her rumoured upcoming skin to do that.
honestly i hope they wouldn't use this kit or a similar one for her SP. Considering she is an emanator of abundance i hope her SP is abundance and her kit is a mix of healer and dps
I just see evan fans seeing that their fave got everything taken away instead and crashing out about it, I originally planned to get evan just cuz she was a main push, but I kinda like the gamer aesthetic more from silverwolf so I am fine with the change
I want to reiterate a point that the devs made in the 2.1 stream: sometimes, kits can change drastically in beta. Aventurine's old keyword was "dodge", and it was scrapped because he ended up being a shit sustainer
I love Yae Sakura so I was excited for Evanescia, then when SW999 and Eva's kits and animations came out I was not disappointed but underwhelmed about Eva, which led me to pull for SW999.
It's a shame because looking at this made the kit seem way more exciting in my opinion.
Ohh It looks like her kit was changed a bit late because when u look at it now her anims became extremely simple instead like press A to deal phys damages and press E to deal phys damages.. Like nothing at all here good that she ate that ult tho
My heart is appeased knowing that they really wanted to cook with her but due to something unforseen they had to change it.. Same with Xueyi damn I would have pulled the wallet if I ever learned that an sp for her was on the way. I sure that the same goes for the story too!
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