The weapon damage for the secondary notes that spawn counterclockwise is reduced to 75%, while the weapon damage for the secondary notes that spawn clockwise is reduced to 50%. The secondary notes are not affected by Anvil boosts. The extra damage from the Growth upgrade is divided by 2 for the secondary notes. Secondary notes are affected by the damage modifiers from Solo, ATK Up, Unit, and Lightness Stamps. Secondary notes are not affected by the Crit Up Stamp. The secondary notes from AZKi’s Awakened main weapon can activate secondary effects, except themselves. These secondary notes can also be activated by the Bomb Stamp. This can lead to two sets of small chain reactions. One chain reaction goes from primary note to secondary notes to secondary explosion (🎶🎶💥). The other chain reaction goes from primary note to primary explosion to secondary notes (🎶💥🎶). Secondary notes from primary note (🎶[🎶]): These secondary notes are affected by the Size Up Stamp and Knightly Milk. These secondary notes scale very well with increased size, due to them being directly and indirectly affected, resulting in them essentially being double buffed. The secondary notes are directly buffed by having their own size increased. The secondary notes are indirectly buffed by the primary note’s size being increased, since the primary note can hit more targets and therefore activate more secondary notes. Secondary explosions from secondary notes from primary note (🎶🎶[💥]): These secondary explosions do not inherit Anvil boosts. Weapon damage is reduced to 22.5% for the secondary explosions that come from the counterclockwise notes, while the weapon damage is reduced to 15% for the secondary explosions that come from the clockwise notes. Secondary notes from primary explosion (🎶💥[🎶]): These secondary notes are not affected by the Size Up Stamp and Knightly Milk. Weapon damage is reduced to 22.5% for the counterclockwise secondary notes, while the weapon damage is reduced to 15% for the clockwise secondary notes. The “+10% song damage” from AZKi’s Encore! skill adds 1 damage per stack to the base damage of this skill. This allows the extra damage to be multiplied by early damage modifiers, such as the one from Study Glasses. AZKi’s special counts as a ranged attack. AZKi’s special only inherits 75% of the extra damage from the Growth Upgrade.
Yeah those secondary song notes really do act oddly in some ways, though it's clear they were intentionally limited in ways to keep AZKi from being so OP. I remember a time even within the last year where there were so few active users even playing AZKi, that people were spreading blatantly wrong things about her kit; outrageous stuff like saying her secondaries could also chain react and split so with enough RNG your notes could split a dozen times. Thanks for watching!
I had a thought while watching this, candy might be really good for AZKi, as it would cause the main weapon to hit twice, giving a second chance to cause the extra notes. You'd lose a little damage per hit, but would be getting much more hits in. Also money farm would benefit further from more hits and projectiles procing greed. Might have to try that out next time I play. 🤔
AZKi has a pretty versatile kit, there's so many items that work well with her; candy, beetle, headphones, pillow, glove, membership, superchat(with greed), milk, pepper (esp. w/ jingu), breastplate, mask, glasses and halu. Where other characters want a few certain items because of synergies, AZKi can almost take whatever and do something with it. That said, some item choices will be more effective than others based on your other item choices. AZKi was the hardest for me to gachikoi back in 0.5, the death spiral towards the end of s2h got me 3 times x-x never had trouble with it before AZKi, and not afterwards either, just couldn't dodge it for some reason lol.
Whenever i play as Azki, there are times when she just slowed down so bad that the character ended up getting gang up to death. I did not select any of her skills because of that and rely on stats up or stickers.
This is always the sort of approach I've had with her in previous runs too. Like with this week's video on Sora, both of the Gen 0 singers I find have a bit of a skill ceiling to them! It pays for both to read through their skills and analyze them first. While effective, sadly neither AZKi nor Sora are anywhere near as simple and pick-up-and-play as 80% of the roster is. Thanks for watching!
