[Arknights] Nearl Alter S3 Is Totally Broken 

Considering he took a hit from Patriot and LIVED really says a lot about his durability.

noice

Mountain is more broken than nearl alter tough

Nearl is canonicly insanely strong and could take on Patriot.

@@kyero8724 they're just build different, one is a boss killer with massive burst dmg, the other is a sustain DPS who can take waves of enemy without pulling back.

@@AndikaPratama-nl4uc don't forget.the HP.one nuts hit from boss the HP goes real down

I mean, Skadi wasn't bad for the meta she was released in. The game just passed her by. Same for OG Ch'en.

She needs a buff. And by buff i mean i want her "assets" to be totally exposed and uncensored

@@BrandonHeat243 even back then skadi was branded as average, now she's pretty much under the dirt of all the new operators. Chen was used a lot for her aerial damage tho.

@@BrandonHeat243 Skadi was considered underwhelming compared to other 6* even at launch. The meta was less established back then and although people rated Skadi as a “solid guard,” solid didnt mean much when Lapland and Spectre were both still considered better investments if you had them. It was more that there weren’t many ops so anything that did high damage could be called solid if you pulled them and don’t have the other options. If you bring SA into the equation his S3 nearly beat Skadi’s s2m3 in an AoE despite her being a duelist. Chen is probably the only early character who used to be considered meta but is now viewed as mostly underwhelming.

What exactly do you guys think "wasn't bad" means? It's not really high praise. Not sure why you're trying to argue about it.

Until Patriot Phase 1 one-shots him?

@@nguyenphuc7387 And Nearl got 1 os'ed aswell and she wouldn't last 15seconds holding that line. There are about 10 other operators who could kill Patriot

@@Paolini_18 That's why she called duelist operator. And for Mountain, he is suit for killing a bunch of mid enemy. Every operator is good, even the *3, they just have a different traits

@@zz-fk4nl Yeah, she can kill the army and boss by herself 😎

always

FACTS

Thorns can do that too... Specter can do that too...

Only mudrock can do it without mines, but she is so expensive

Saria: _cries while holding calcification skill while Eyja throws fire from above_

@@marielcarey4288 never heard of the skadi specter duo that defeated this stage wau before surtr/thorns came? and even more easier with andreana? yeah

All of the above can be true, depending on circumstance. She relies on block and true damage. Against static bosses like Quintus, she's useless. Against bosses with low Def but high HP pool, she's useless. Against bosses with low Def but high ATK or Arts damage, she's useless. Against non-bosses, she's still fairly gimped, and does nothing to bolster the Duelist Guard archetype which is probably the weakest in the game alongside Chain Casters (and whatever Tsukinogi is). In the right circumstances, though, her high base ATK and True Damage is extremely powerful, but it's not the broadest niche, and she has trouble scaling with buffs because of her low ASPD and Block 1 nature (some of which is mitigated by the Blinding Sun summon). Does being niche make her balanced? Underpowered? Overpowered? Maybe some of all of the above. EDIT: She's also self-gimping because the summon stuns enemies, but she only deals True Damage to blocked enemies, meaning she nerfs some of her own damage potential until the stun wears off.

If you see her do well in one video but badly in another it's a question of what the user is doing differently that makes her work better. like another video showed her attacking patriot with no mines active and unblocked which meant she dealt physical damage and looked really underwhelming, but here patriot is being blocked which means she does true damage with her skill 3, and they're using mines which doubles damage output. Really it's down to you to form your own opinion, rather than based on what other players say

She's like Blemishine... well more like Blemishine is like her. both are absurdly powerful but needs a certain mindset to take advantage of their strengths and work around their weaknesses. Neither are drop and forget though, much like Eunectes. they reward players who know what they are doing and punish players who expect them to faceroll stages.

@@Vasharan calling her useless againts low def enemies is silly her damage is extremely high she'll tear through them like nothing or do you consider surt bad vs low res enemies?

@@Vasharan if irc stunned enemies can still be blocked. Rosmontis S3 doesn't wait for the stun to wear off and she only attack blocked enemies

I have never heard anybody say "yoroshikudesu"

balans

"Ch'otgun" lmaooo that's what I'll call Chalter from now on lol

I want both... and Near alter

Balans.

Balans

Lloyd can true solo the entire stage.

@@Joe-rj7wo Taiiiga Chaaaarge! (YOOO a Trails fan who plays Arknights. Perfect.)

Hahahahah that's what it ended up becoming

Knowing Hypergryph probably a little earlier than that hopefully

@@simplicityisoftenthebest7856 Dossoles probably December or January, so Near Light probably March or April. It’s going to be around 2 or 3 month gap I think.

@@Neutral_1zed but then what will global have for 2.5 anniversary

@@kronos6671 probably another one of Nian siblings for 2.5

S2 is actually pretty insane, basically Skadi's S2 but true dmg with extra true dmg & stun at the start, and didn't take deployment limit. max lvl at rank 7 deals ~33% of Patriot 1st phase hp without ant buff or mines debuff.

"Just Ch'alter it" most likely won't get too much traction since a lot of people dislike her, sadly (?)

@@gribberoni No it’s fair that people don’t like that such a strong operator is being locked behind a limited, glorified summer skin.

@@loyalflush5628 personally I just don't care for chalter because of her being essentially a summer skin. She could be the strongest operator in the game until the game servers shut down and I wouldn't care for her still. Waifu over meta

@@mathiasrryba But Ch'en is waifu tho ...

@@jaleen1105 I like her regular Guard Version. Better art imo too. Recently m3d her. Love her passive for my operators who largely rely on offensive and defensive sp regen. Also her nuking ability which has saved my butt multiple times already. Chalter Is just meh for me though

Yup. Shining Alter DPS should go through the roof because she is a legendary swordsman according to lore.

@@JediHan I’m expecting a mixture of Bibeak’s 2nd skill, Chen’s (Guard) 3rd skill and Hellagur’s dodge you know?

@@simplicityisoftenthebest7856 I prefer she have low attack speed, but hit like a truck. HUGE damage per hit and ignore Def or Res or both to a certain extent. No need for True Damage.

@@JediHan sadly lore doesn’t mean that she’ll be op in game, Skadi for example is absurd in lore but in gameplay well…

@@JediHan her staff-sword looks like a rapier so it wouldn’t really make sense for her to be slow

Me too, and now i can have urundum FOR GOOD GUY MOUNTAIN

completely forgot about this comment lol. I have successfully pulled Mountain, he's now S2M3, and I like him both as a playable unit and a character. the good ending :)

She has like 50 siblings

and s2 stuns when deployed near enemy like red

Well.not invencibility she just wont die by her own effect. I have seen her die by external forces just after her talent kicks off

@@makairidah8354 so far, only Frostnova and Emperor's Blade can do that, no others

@@MiMuMo there'll be others soon. if HG doesn't want its players to Surtr their way through future bosses, they'll be implementing other debuffs like Emperor's Blade's or just make their pathway/place not suitable for Surtr like the boss in Originium Dust EX modes.

Well it is depends on how you use. Sure Surtr is broken due to her 8 second buy time, but Nearl deals true damage. If the enemy has E rank arts resist, then Surtr is much better. But now how about A or S art resist ? Suddenly Surtr cannot do shit while Nearl TR still can damage them.

@@eternalinsignia she ignores flat def and has base attack high enough to compensate for whatever res is left. lol look at patriot. true dmg will probably be more useful...... soon.....i hope

It's a mechanic of the stage so his stats are balanced around it, and there are already boss melt comps out there for the rest. But yeah she'll need buffers/debuffers for the patriot inferno stage and the like, but hell so do all the other boss melters in that hellhole

prob s2

@@mattpet7913 no it was s3. She summoned the statue thingy as well

Enemies blocked by her or the sword thing she drops are dealt true damage when she attacks them but physical if they're not being blocked by either of the two. Since patriot does so much damage he cant be blocked for long, but nearl can stun with s3 activation which lets her block him for longer, resulting in more damage output. Some videos activate skills at the wrong time so it dramatically decreases damage output bc she'll be doing physical damage rather than true damage. That and the mine which doubles damage.

Its because in this video,the sword managed to block patriot instead of getting instantly destroyed so her dmg is converted into true dmg Honestly her S3 is not that good/broken,kinda hard to pull off the requirements needed for the damage conversion effect. you can just drop a surtr/mont3r and will get the same result with easier requirements

combination of the trip mine activating and the flag not getting instantly nuked by Patriot. AlterNearl's true damage is locked behind the condition that either her or the flag is blocking the desired target. So in this case a few things went right. First is that Patriot was in fact stunned by the flag drop so Nearl got free true damage hits off. Second was that Patriot tripped the damage amp mines, pushing the true damage even further. Third was that Alter Nearl activated the skill at different points depending on what was needed at the time (very similar to Blemishine s2 actually). First activation was when Patriot was in Nearl's attack range to get stunned by the flag, for free true damage hits. Second was done when Patriot walked over a few more mines and standing still, so plenty of prep time to flag then nuke the remaining hp of phase 1. Third activation is interesting since it's done early to allow Nearl's extended attack range to hit Patriot while buffed. Granted the hit wasn't true damage, but she got like 4 free attacks off in exchange for -50% of the flag's hp. But the rest of the hits were true damage, allowing the rest of the burst to set in. Knowing when and where to deploy the flag, and whether or not the true damage is worth the trade off of not getting free hits in or risking Nearl's hp will dramatically alter her dps performance.

yes but also no

Only chen holunday is broken

@@Armiel that's not what I meant but ok

they never said that

But they didn't? Where is this source of yours?

M1???? Sheesh

it's her talent proc

It's related to her AoE damage-stun talent fairly sure, she does it twice if the last operator deployed was a Kazimierz. Indicator to tell you.

or w/ Aak? how about Skadance?

I think a True Damage dealer is better with APSD buff than ATK, so Aak here I go:) But the main drawback of this skill is the enemy must be blocked by her or that sword so is quite niche, as there are many bosses that cannot be blocked, staying in weird position or just can easily one shot her. Kal’tsit still a better true damage dealer though.

No mate, she can't match Kal'tsit's true damage potential. 15 sp cost true damage skill compared to 40 that alone says a lot.

@@SeekGrace Have you calculated both of their dps?

it is m3 because the skill cost here is only 47

skill rank 7 cost 50

@@darkhistoria117 it's not m3, nearl was just released 16 hours ago and M3 need at least >25 hours to finish

Probably M1

@@icebatu7151 hmmmmm i didn't think of that way lol, u are right i guess

The mines let you deal 50% more damage that is a buff

@@Armiel which means she still did 2k through all that def

@@Lucarioux She does True Damage to units she or her summon block.