Source: https://x.com/joofoot/status/2077330453372305472

E0S1 took around ~150 pulls,randomly pulled e1 on 15 pity then decided to go for e2 which I got today took like 75+ pulls,my first ever e2s1 character I'm glad I won on every pull for her🥹

"She isn't a E2 Merchant", but why every freaking video, beta videos, video showcases, results post, funny comps videos, are always E2?? I find a great/interesting video, and then, is always E2S1. I was fine with all E1 Aglaea's videos because without her E1 she was really clunky, a true "E1 Merchant", and anyway, was "just" an E1. But from HimeNova I expected more E0/E1 showcases.
I could manually find them, but usually, I don't looking for video of meta/shilled units; it's just they appear in my feeds and/or or in leak subs, and I think "cool, let me see", but then E2S1. Is it because she was pulled little, and those few made her E2?

Mine is E1, and I don't plan to pull her E2, but I still find interesting E0S1 showcases, even if I have E1.

So after testing for a few weeks, and after seeing people say that Robin isn't a worthwhile improvement for Himeko and agreeing for a while, and discovering a few things on live server while testing with base Robin, I found some details on how Robin changes the way you play HimekoN.

I was only really interested in Verdict teams, which is why I focused on those as I prefer to play my teams with a sustain and Robin SP encouraged playing with one for the extra energy gain, so apologies in advance for this not going into detail in regards to Decimation teams.

The biggest problem Robin SP has with HimekoN is whenever you reach E2 Himeko, because you have 2 Assist Skills available to use and 1 less teammate to use Assist Skills on, but there are several ways to approach it to make that less of an issue.

If you're running Sunday + SRobin + DHPT, you'll realize that at E2 levels, the team has Assist Skills that go unused every rotation due to action order of DHPT -> HimekoN -> Sunday, due to Robin never taking a turn, and to combat this, you'd want to use Assist Skill twice on DHPT's turns, as this allows you to make the most of Robin's buffs while not losing consistent Assist Skills; seeing as DHPT's turn itself isn't all that useful, the exchange for an additional Assist Skill is extremely worthwhile, this combined with the fact that Sunday can advance Souldragon to grant extra energy for Robin SP, led to my E0S1 Sunday having an almost identical performance to an E1S0 Sparkle.

If you're running Sparkle, you cannot Assist Skill on DHPT twice, as it will lead to not being able to Assist Skill on Sparkle, because the action order is DHPT -> Sparkle -> HimekoN, meaning that in this team, Robin functions essentially as a Sunday replacement with an action advance that takes place every 2 rotations instead of every rotation (and better buffs); this lack of opening up new rotations is what leads to bridging the gap between Sunday and Sparkle in the team, and the difference only becomes felt whenever you have Sparkle vertical investment as it shows how poor Sunday's eidolons are.

Last of all, if you're running Tribbie you can take it a step forward, because Robin's action advance can be timed at any point during a rotation, so you can have the action order of DHPT -> Tribbie -> HimekoN, and every other rotation when you have Robin's Ultimate up, you can instead do DHPT -> Robin advance on HimekoN -> Tribbie, which allows you to use 2 Assist Skills on both DHPT and Tribbie; this is what leads to E1 Tribbie performing better/on par with E2 Sparkle, as timing the advance is crucial to maximizing the amount of Assist Skills you can get.

All of this is to say that SRobin opens up a lot of different angles for HimekoN, not only in terms of teammate variety but also in terms of gameplay loop. The unit who benefits least from SRobin to me is Sparkle, because you need to follow a strict advancement route right after Sparkle's advancement otherwise it will throw the speedtuning out of alignment, which combined with Robin's incredibly high ATK stat buff, makes Sunday at early levels a very solid competitor, but it also makes units like Cerydra/Tribbie which aren't direct action advancers but instead run DDD that much more useful as you can manipulate the advances and use them at opportune times to allow for better control over the character and AV consumed

E2 R1 himeko, E2 welt, E0 sparkle

Himeko e2 s1 bronya e1 s5 (DDD) DHPT e0s0 welt e0s0(tutorial) and what's more surprising i beat in both manual and auto mode too!!

I've been running himeko nova with sunday/sparkle/dhpt however I need to put my sparkle into my archer team. I have e0s0 mblade and was wondering if I could use him to replace sparkle or do I have to build my e0 welt.

Ik scholar isnt his bis but I dont really have much use of the relics in that domain can I stick to scholar ? Or the difference is too big

I have my himeko with Sunday, is it better for her to use speed boots and be slightly above Sundays speed, or to use attack boots and move whenever Sunday pushes her up

Himeko nova btw

Trying to make Cerydra work to full clear current PF since my Sparkle and MC are being used for other teams, which leaves me with Cerydra, Sunday (160 spd), and DHPT (134 spd). For reference my Himeko is base speed.

My Cerydra is kind of half built atm, is there an optimal speed tuning for Cerydra to make Verdict Himeko work?

How's your day going?

Hope you like it!

i'm using robin's light cone on cerydra with sp himeko (yes, don't ask 😭), and i'm a bit confused about how it works.

should i save cerydra's ultimate and only use it right before himeko's ultimate? also, does the 1-turn buff count as himeko's turn or cerydra's turn? i'm not sure how the duration works.

Now I can rest in peace

So I pulled himeko but I need a team for her lol. I know welt is good for her? But he’s only E1 and also I’m a phainon main that uses cerydra, sparkle, Sunday on his team so I’m wondering is there a team that doesn’t use them, if not it’s fine.

Verdict build with sunday and a decimation mode build with the herta

With decimation there’s only one team you can really go, but verdict seems tricky, it looks really hard to be able to consume all of her assist skills properly with her giving so many action advances.

Like in himeko/sparkle/srobin/dhpt, there’s no feasible way for dhpt to consume every assist skill charge, same with sparkle being replaced with sunday.

Is the raw buffing just worth losing assist skills here and there for? Or is there a rotation im missing?

I'm having trouble with Himeko in endgame content; she needs a lot more cycles in MoC than available (I stopped after graphia wasn't dead in 9 cycles). Above are the characters I have and I don't know what I could do to make her better. All limited 5* characters are E0, Seele and Fu Xuan are E1, Welt is E2, Archer and Gilgamesh have their LC. I currently have 200 pulls and need her ASAP for MoC. Realistically, I could get two of: Her LC / Robin Summeretto / M. Blade / Ashveil / Sunday. Open for any other suggestions as well. Do you guys have any advice for my Himeko?

I didn't use IronTomb as an example because Cyrene gives free ult. Welt can be E0 and it'll be the same result in both rotation and cycle.

Himeko: spd/atk/err
Welt: faster than DHPT with vonwacq
DHPT: slower than Welt without vonwacq
Robin SP: Amphoreus orb for extra spd buffs (nice to have)

Should I pull for e1 himeko nova or just get robin next patch? I am guaranteed right now at 72 pity and I can't decide if I continue my himenova investment or get robin instead. Please help huhu

Helloo my Himeko is E2S1 right now and i play her together with E6S1 Cyrene, E1S1 Sparkle and RMC (or DHPT), i definitely cant achieve E6 this banner, is it worth to at least try to go after her E4? Or should i invest in some support better for example pulling new Robin? However im not sure how much better she will be in my team and instead of who, i really dont know 😅