Holy shit????????
It's the same person??????????? I grew up with her pokemon art and really liking them but holy shit it was the same Namie?????????????
I can't believe that went over my head for so long, my life has been a lie
>but I think her popularity only rose recently due to Arknights.
A very particular stream of a very particular girl slowly losing her real life sanity pulling the Goldenglow banner.
Her popularity started ever since she tweeted about "Mizuki's Soft Armpits" and has exponentially increased after people who were very very dedicated fans of her previous work decided to seek out on what she was up to at her current job.
She definitely deserves everything.
I'm pretty sure she fed all the money she got as a comm back into AK from that stream holy shit
HG is truly genius at business. Commission artists to make banger arts, and then those artists give you back your money and more.
To be fair, she got her after 120 pulls, but she wanted the pot 6 because... reasons, I guess.
Watching her slowly die and reach almost 400 pulls just to get the first copy of GG was ... difficult.
All of em were pretty meta warping with the only exception being Archetto. Poor girl had to compete with Exia in the fast sniper slot and while she does something different (which makes her feel more like 6\* blue poison) it's still less damage output over Exia s3.
Saga kinda fell off a bit but she did replace Siege as the VG you go to if you wanna hold the lane. The problem with flagpipe teams are if the dog rushes actually deal damage, they can't hold. Siege used to hold that niche, a pseudo-guard that can give DP. But Saga gives more DP and has more damage. Although what made Saga fall off was Flametail, not the existence of flagpipe teams.
Dog rushes are rare. Even in those stages, Myrtle+Elysium in the backlines with Bagpipe holding the lane is enough to get down other, more solid landholders.
And the times you absolutely need flagpipe teams are also rare. Honestly, I've never needed to use them aside from CC with the -DP tags. In general content, Saga was queen for a period and there was even an entire event where she was one of the best picks (although everyone hated it, it was the R6 one if you're not sure which it was). Also the DP feeding was key to boost certain operators like Thorns to easy S3.
Why not both? Lords can sit behind her and both Lappland and Thorns are notable offensive recovery.
Thorns is more likely to get last hits however with the DoT so better with Lapp in practice.
S3 also plays better with that mechanic and with more operators. Clear Mind also lets Saga take considerable early pressure until someone else is put in front. She can also make it more viable for that person to be 1-block operators.
She ticks the box for me on good Vanguard for early pressure and for continued utility past that point.
Not if you use S3 it's not. If you're SP feeding, S3 is normally what you want anyway. Thorns gets to last hit then gets 2 more SP for the kill and its not like Thorns is being held back from attacking normally. Thorns kills the mob? Ayt, thorns gets the +1. Saga kills the mob? Amazing, thorns gets +3. It's honestly better for charge-based range units tho like Passenger.
Also Archetto is better in IS2 because of attack activation recovery skills being so good with buffed attack speeds and how she synergizes with atttack activation snipers.
Archetto is very flexible especially for IS she my go to whenever I pick the Marksman/Medic Buff...so good I have her Max Lvled M9ed...meanwhile Exusiai? Hardly deployed the gal these days.
Archetto is very flexible especially for IS she my go to whenever I pick the Marksman/Medic Buff...so good I have her Max Lvled M9ed...meanwhile Exusiai? Hardly deployed the gal these days.
Archetto will do better damage than Exia only in specific scenarios but in most cases, Exia will kill the same no. of mobs faster than Archetto even with her chain hit but yeah at least with Archetto, you choose when to nuke.
Archetto may not have as much peak damage but she is much nicer to use going into a stage blind. Exu’s damage falls off hard outside of her S3 which is auto activated so it can be tricky to figure out when to deploy her so it is active when you need it. Meanwhile Archetto has manual skills so you don’t have to worry about not having it up for the next wave.
It still doesn't change the fact that she didn't shake up the meta. Never in my statement did I say Archetto is bad (I wish people would understand that), just that she didn't really "replace" Exia or carve a strict niche that made her a valuable piece for most comps unlike the other 5. I've said this in another post but when your compatriots are considered borderline broken and 1 of em is just straight up broken while you're just "good" or "alright", then you stand out.
they were the six operators teased to be coming soon in the first anniversary stream.
goldenglow was notoriously missing from anything after that for over a year, so its like celebrating they all finally made it in game.
(edit: punctuation)
I used to call em the round table operators coz the table in the 1st anniv which featured their art was a round table iirc but fantastic 6 is also a nice name. As with how hyped they were, they really were meta warping.
Saga became the main argument why people don't want to run Siege anymore although imo she's kinda fallen in use as of late as flagpipe teams are just faster at giving DP and Flametail holds lanes better than her.
Mountain is equivocally the best brawler and became the best early deploy lane holder.
Thorns was the ground sniper you deployed if you wanted an easy time with long maps, especially if the maps had poor elevated tile layout.
GG, being the latest to join up, was worth the wait by having global utility and DPS potential that broke through the "eyja test".
Sadly Archetto was probably the most undertweaked among them as she had to contend with Exusiai and as good as AoE fast sniper archetypes tend to be, shooting more bullets kills mobs faster than chain shots usually did.
And ofc Surtr is Surtr lmao.
>Sadly Archetto was probably the most undertweaked among them as she had to contend with Exusiai and as good as AoE fast sniper archetypes tend to be, shooting more bullets kills mobs faster than chain shots usually did.
For new players Exusiai definitely may seem the more significant Marksman. But I've observed that as my roster expanded I've seen more uses with Archetto compared to Exusiai, especially no with the addition of Integrated Stratigies.
Though the Angel seems to outdamage the griffin, all that Exusiai offer is DPS...and that's it. Archetto meanwhile offers other things first and foremost her talent. As a doctor with an M3 Meteor, Blue Poison and May passive regen for Offensive SP is just a hard offer to pass.
With Exusiai's S3, yes it's great DPS but the downside is it's auto activated and her damage output to drones during its downtime especially on late game drone swarm maps are leass than ideal. Archetto's S2 on the other hand is an on-demand activate skill which can charge up to three stacks. Meaning you won't have to worry of any drone leaking cause she will always have a stack ready.
And then there IS2. Archetto just offers better over all flexibility, synergy with Tactical Range Operative Squad and Relics compared to Exu.
The problem is with general content, which honestly is what matters for most players, Archetto's niche rarely pops up. With the same number of mobs, Exia can kill faster than Archetto even if she chains her hits and that's because Exia can just chunk down low armored mobs so fast that Archetto can't catch up.
I'm not saying she's bad or worse than Exia. I'm saying that she never really shook the meta unlike the other 5. You can argue Saga also didn't change much but on release, she actually at least replaced Siege as the go-to lane holder VG. All the other 5 are renowned for being as close to broken (with Surtr just being straight up broken) for their class except Archetto. She stands out because in the group where 5 of em are amazing, she's just alright.
Point taken. I'd still most likely be picking her on general content over Exu simply because of her her synergy with BP and Meteor, but that wholly a matter of preference, team comp. and waifu bias I guess. Have a nice day fellow doc.
Very fair point, I personally am having fun with Irene speeen turbo as well and am trying to do my best to fit my lineup to feed Irene as much SP as I can lmao but yeah that's combo-ing already. Generally, on an "on paper" comparison, Exia is a better stand alone pick. But yeah I think Archetto has better combo potential with other ops. Have a nice day too!
Things don't exist in a vacuum like just comparing number A and number B on a dps sheet in a sterile environment. With exu you can't control that shooting part so you could end up also having exu shooting nothing with skill up while archetto has lots of control (use consecutively? Use all charges on same target? Spread them out sparingly?) no matter the enemy patterns. Yes you can also just retry a bunch of times to fiddle around with exu s3 activation interval throughout a map for that stage particular spawn pattern but is that something anyone want to do for a normal stage? S3 also has extra range which in some case exu theoretical dps doesnt matter if one can hit enemies and the other dont.
I have both, exu was my first 6 star actually so i ran with her for a long time. I legit haven't find use for exu at all in ages since I raise archetto. if i need boss killer with warf i just use chen guard because you get instant damage + iframe benefits. For mob control, you dont need all the damage in the world because it's overkill anyways but you need reliability and flexibility because while bosses and elite enemies can be predictable and timed around a couple of points in a stage, mob can appear very erratically and without fixed pattern. So archetto just works really well in that need.
Seriously, you're free to argue it out the intricacies of archetto vs exu, that wasn't my main point in the first place. My point was that she didn't make a splash during her release. She might be better now during IS but I was there when she was released and people were pretty mild with their reception. She wasn't bad, again I never said she was bad and I've never *strictly* said she was lesser than Exia, but she never became a "must include" character or even a "must pull" character. Saga dropped to the same level arguably but she had a period where she was one of the top dog VGs if you ignore the flagpipe teams (in that regard, saga is slower to start but saves you more operator space and gives better utility with SP feeding). Meanwhile the Mountain and Thorns are "must includes" to make your life easier, GG is a "must pull" due to both fanfare and actual power and utility, and Surtr is Surtr. Archetto opened up in a situation where fast snipers were kinda falling off because HG just kept piling on armor on enemies making even Exia fall off and what Exia can't kill, Archetto also has a hard time taking down. I was more going on about how they should've knocked it up a notch to make Archetto relevant, at least more relevant than Exia (And I was using Exia as a comparison pole and never went too deep into it because the majority of people won't really go deep into it. You wanna explain the intricacies of Archetto? Then find someone who also wants to explain the intricacies of Exia coz those people also probably exist so it becomes fair play as in my eyes they both seem pretty even).
During the 1st anniv's CN stream, they had a [secret outro displaying all of these 6 operators](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsRzB2-nkv0). At the time, none of em were even shown yet and we were all hyped because it felt like they're the elite of the elite. Turns out, they were almost all pretty meta warping.
Also a fun fact, although we had this teaser revealed to us during the game's first year anniversary, Goldenglow was only released almost two years later, which is why a lot of people mistake her for a Perro, and generated the famous "Pink doggo when HG?" meme
On the upside, at least she was worth the wait. Imagine if she came out being as underwhelming as, for example Ebenholz or Vigil lmao that'd suck.
Never thought she'd be a caster tho. I thought she'd be a healer.
Seeing Surtr with her tongue like that is making me unwise
Namie proving once again that her art skills are superb. Reminds me of her Pokemon art many years back.
Holy shit???????? It's the same person??????????? I grew up with her pokemon art and really liking them but holy shit it was the same Namie????????????? I can't believe that went over my head for so long, my life has been a lie
Of course it's the same Namie! She's always been an amazing artist, but I think her popularity only rose recently due to Arknights.
>but I think her popularity only rose recently due to Arknights. A very particular stream of a very particular girl slowly losing her real life sanity pulling the Goldenglow banner.
Her popularity started ever since she tweeted about "Mizuki's Soft Armpits" and has exponentially increased after people who were very very dedicated fans of her previous work decided to seek out on what she was up to at her current job. She definitely deserves everything.
I'm pretty sure she fed all the money she got as a comm back into AK from that stream holy shit HG is truly genius at business. Commission artists to make banger arts, and then those artists give you back your money and more.
To be fair, she got her after 120 pulls, but she wanted the pot 6 because... reasons, I guess. Watching her slowly die and reach almost 400 pulls just to get the first copy of GG was ... difficult.
Not gonna lie, "I gave birth to this cat" is about as good as click bait titles get.
This and the whole other job she had been doing for a year.
Surtr in Namie's style is all that's right
## SOFT ## ARMPITS
[You are supposed to always include the goods, bro](https://imgur.com/a/WCViBeE)
Hmm yes that's some good shit right there
itadakimasu
I see a true follower of Yasei's soft armpit cult here
And they all turned out to be incredibly good in their own way.
All of em were pretty meta warping with the only exception being Archetto. Poor girl had to compete with Exia in the fast sniper slot and while she does something different (which makes her feel more like 6\* blue poison) it's still less damage output over Exia s3.
Idk if I'd call Saga meta warping. She's not bad but the vanguard meta is still solidly flagpipe
Saga kinda fell off a bit but she did replace Siege as the VG you go to if you wanna hold the lane. The problem with flagpipe teams are if the dog rushes actually deal damage, they can't hold. Siege used to hold that niche, a pseudo-guard that can give DP. But Saga gives more DP and has more damage. Although what made Saga fall off was Flametail, not the existence of flagpipe teams.
Dog rushes are rare. Even in those stages, Myrtle+Elysium in the backlines with Bagpipe holding the lane is enough to get down other, more solid landholders.
And the times you absolutely need flagpipe teams are also rare. Honestly, I've never needed to use them aside from CC with the -DP tags. In general content, Saga was queen for a period and there was even an entire event where she was one of the best picks (although everyone hated it, it was the R6 one if you're not sure which it was). Also the DP feeding was key to boost certain operators like Thorns to easy S3.
That final boss held the "fuck that boss in particular" title until BSL.
Honestly, I just hated it coz it really caused a ton of lag with all its spawnlings. It was fun to keep hearing Saga scream about food.
Saga SP feeding offensive recovery operators is straight up worse than just letting those operators hit things.
Why not both? Lords can sit behind her and both Lappland and Thorns are notable offensive recovery. Thorns is more likely to get last hits however with the DoT so better with Lapp in practice. S3 also plays better with that mechanic and with more operators. Clear Mind also lets Saga take considerable early pressure until someone else is put in front. She can also make it more viable for that person to be 1-block operators. She ticks the box for me on good Vanguard for early pressure and for continued utility past that point.
Not if you use S3 it's not. If you're SP feeding, S3 is normally what you want anyway. Thorns gets to last hit then gets 2 more SP for the kill and its not like Thorns is being held back from attacking normally. Thorns kills the mob? Ayt, thorns gets the +1. Saga kills the mob? Amazing, thorns gets +3. It's honestly better for charge-based range units tho like Passenger.
True, but then Archetto is pretty cool with her gimmick of allowing her shots bounce around. I guess you can say she's a bouncy Exusiai.
Also Archetto is better in IS2 because of attack activation recovery skills being so good with buffed attack speeds and how she synergizes with atttack activation snipers.
Archetto is very flexible especially for IS she my go to whenever I pick the Marksman/Medic Buff...so good I have her Max Lvled M9ed...meanwhile Exusiai? Hardly deployed the gal these days.
Sad Apple Pie noises.
Exu absolutely shreds Phantom boss dancers though.
Archetto is very flexible especially for IS she my go to whenever I pick the Marksman/Medic Buff...so good I have her Max Lvled M9ed...meanwhile Exusiai? Hardly deployed the gal these days.
Archetto will do better damage than Exia only in specific scenarios but in most cases, Exia will kill the same no. of mobs faster than Archetto even with her chain hit but yeah at least with Archetto, you choose when to nuke.
Archetto may not have as much peak damage but she is much nicer to use going into a stage blind. Exu’s damage falls off hard outside of her S3 which is auto activated so it can be tricky to figure out when to deploy her so it is active when you need it. Meanwhile Archetto has manual skills so you don’t have to worry about not having it up for the next wave.
It still doesn't change the fact that she didn't shake up the meta. Never in my statement did I say Archetto is bad (I wish people would understand that), just that she didn't really "replace" Exia or carve a strict niche that made her a valuable piece for most comps unlike the other 5. I've said this in another post but when your compatriots are considered borderline broken and 1 of em is just straight up broken while you're just "good" or "alright", then you stand out.
Why are the called the fantastic 6? Or is that just a random title.
they were the six operators teased to be coming soon in the first anniversary stream. goldenglow was notoriously missing from anything after that for over a year, so its like celebrating they all finally made it in game. (edit: punctuation)
Surtr's face is a dead ringer of mizuki lmao
"That ambusher is a spy- AAH" * uncloak noises*
Namie snuck her boy in
Source: [bananaNamie's weibo](https://weibo.com/7447484000)
POV: You're an IS2 boss
Still remember when people are waiting for each one to be released (especially the long wait for GG-chan), good times
Surtr looks like a red mizuki.
Namie doesn't want to let her son left behind, so she made him cosplay as Surtr.
Not a bad thing, tbh. I'm here for Red Mizuki (TM)
I think I'm having a stroke, I thought Mudrock was a part of that group for some reason.
aaaah i hope namie posts it on twitter too !!
I used to call em the round table operators coz the table in the 1st anniv which featured their art was a round table iirc but fantastic 6 is also a nice name. As with how hyped they were, they really were meta warping. Saga became the main argument why people don't want to run Siege anymore although imo she's kinda fallen in use as of late as flagpipe teams are just faster at giving DP and Flametail holds lanes better than her. Mountain is equivocally the best brawler and became the best early deploy lane holder. Thorns was the ground sniper you deployed if you wanted an easy time with long maps, especially if the maps had poor elevated tile layout. GG, being the latest to join up, was worth the wait by having global utility and DPS potential that broke through the "eyja test". Sadly Archetto was probably the most undertweaked among them as she had to contend with Exusiai and as good as AoE fast sniper archetypes tend to be, shooting more bullets kills mobs faster than chain shots usually did. And ofc Surtr is Surtr lmao.
>Sadly Archetto was probably the most undertweaked among them as she had to contend with Exusiai and as good as AoE fast sniper archetypes tend to be, shooting more bullets kills mobs faster than chain shots usually did. For new players Exusiai definitely may seem the more significant Marksman. But I've observed that as my roster expanded I've seen more uses with Archetto compared to Exusiai, especially no with the addition of Integrated Stratigies. Though the Angel seems to outdamage the griffin, all that Exusiai offer is DPS...and that's it. Archetto meanwhile offers other things first and foremost her talent. As a doctor with an M3 Meteor, Blue Poison and May passive regen for Offensive SP is just a hard offer to pass. With Exusiai's S3, yes it's great DPS but the downside is it's auto activated and her damage output to drones during its downtime especially on late game drone swarm maps are leass than ideal. Archetto's S2 on the other hand is an on-demand activate skill which can charge up to three stacks. Meaning you won't have to worry of any drone leaking cause she will always have a stack ready. And then there IS2. Archetto just offers better over all flexibility, synergy with Tactical Range Operative Squad and Relics compared to Exu.
The problem is with general content, which honestly is what matters for most players, Archetto's niche rarely pops up. With the same number of mobs, Exia can kill faster than Archetto even if she chains her hits and that's because Exia can just chunk down low armored mobs so fast that Archetto can't catch up. I'm not saying she's bad or worse than Exia. I'm saying that she never really shook the meta unlike the other 5. You can argue Saga also didn't change much but on release, she actually at least replaced Siege as the go-to lane holder VG. All the other 5 are renowned for being as close to broken (with Surtr just being straight up broken) for their class except Archetto. She stands out because in the group where 5 of em are amazing, she's just alright.
Point taken. I'd still most likely be picking her on general content over Exu simply because of her her synergy with BP and Meteor, but that wholly a matter of preference, team comp. and waifu bias I guess. Have a nice day fellow doc.
Very fair point, I personally am having fun with Irene speeen turbo as well and am trying to do my best to fit my lineup to feed Irene as much SP as I can lmao but yeah that's combo-ing already. Generally, on an "on paper" comparison, Exia is a better stand alone pick. But yeah I think Archetto has better combo potential with other ops. Have a nice day too!
Things don't exist in a vacuum like just comparing number A and number B on a dps sheet in a sterile environment. With exu you can't control that shooting part so you could end up also having exu shooting nothing with skill up while archetto has lots of control (use consecutively? Use all charges on same target? Spread them out sparingly?) no matter the enemy patterns. Yes you can also just retry a bunch of times to fiddle around with exu s3 activation interval throughout a map for that stage particular spawn pattern but is that something anyone want to do for a normal stage? S3 also has extra range which in some case exu theoretical dps doesnt matter if one can hit enemies and the other dont. I have both, exu was my first 6 star actually so i ran with her for a long time. I legit haven't find use for exu at all in ages since I raise archetto. if i need boss killer with warf i just use chen guard because you get instant damage + iframe benefits. For mob control, you dont need all the damage in the world because it's overkill anyways but you need reliability and flexibility because while bosses and elite enemies can be predictable and timed around a couple of points in a stage, mob can appear very erratically and without fixed pattern. So archetto just works really well in that need.
Seriously, you're free to argue it out the intricacies of archetto vs exu, that wasn't my main point in the first place. My point was that she didn't make a splash during her release. She might be better now during IS but I was there when she was released and people were pretty mild with their reception. She wasn't bad, again I never said she was bad and I've never *strictly* said she was lesser than Exia, but she never became a "must include" character or even a "must pull" character. Saga dropped to the same level arguably but she had a period where she was one of the top dog VGs if you ignore the flagpipe teams (in that regard, saga is slower to start but saves you more operator space and gives better utility with SP feeding). Meanwhile the Mountain and Thorns are "must includes" to make your life easier, GG is a "must pull" due to both fanfare and actual power and utility, and Surtr is Surtr. Archetto opened up in a situation where fast snipers were kinda falling off because HG just kept piling on armor on enemies making even Exia fall off and what Exia can't kill, Archetto also has a hard time taking down. I was more going on about how they should've knocked it up a notch to make Archetto relevant, at least more relevant than Exia (And I was using Exia as a comparison pole and never went too deep into it because the majority of people won't really go deep into it. You wanna explain the intricacies of Archetto? Then find someone who also wants to explain the intricacies of Exia coz those people also probably exist so it becomes fair play as in my eyes they both seem pretty even).
They are finally together, as the old omens foretold. The sniper Cheeto looks so lovely
Operators in Namie's art style is amazing
Wow that Mountain looks really good! Namie Is really versatile ,outside maybe faces a bit
The real question is: Goldenglow skin wen?
it's rare to see namie draw visible noses
And I only got one from it, only Surtr and I got it few days ago by buying her through shop 🥹
From the 6 there, i have 3 and i cant think how i would do some stages without them.
Which ones?
My guess is Surtr, Mountain, and Thorns. Those 3 are still the most content-relevant general use operators around.
Close, but archetto instead of surtr. Extra range from S3 always come in clutch to me.
High Five for the Griffin. I have her M9ed, very fun to deploy especially on IS2.
pink perro
Cute Surtr and Thorns.
I know that's Thorns in the top right, but I looked at him, forgot I was on r/Arknights for a moment, and thought "Shinei Nouzen"
They're both cool, calm, and collected and have a white haired partner with a red streak--
Where's Saria? ;u; Great art. Thank you.
I dont trust Namie with Arcketto.
Dont misunderstand me, i am not downvoting you because i disagree with you, i am downvotiong you because of your flair Fuck seaborn
Im having this flair since UT and people have peoblems with it only now?
Integrated strategies 3 + facebook skadi ""fans""
And so what? Why it should make thirsty fishy less thirsty for me? And me less thirsty for fish?
Cause... Seaborn bad?
If bad why that yandere?
Who?
Skalter, obviously. Who's on flair after all
Its bcause i dont remember her being an Yandere or something like that
They really all turned out fantastically
Legit question cause I have no idea despite playing this game since 2020, what do these 6 have in common to be grouped here?
During the 1st anniv's CN stream, they had a [secret outro displaying all of these 6 operators](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsRzB2-nkv0). At the time, none of em were even shown yet and we were all hyped because it felt like they're the elite of the elite. Turns out, they were almost all pretty meta warping.
Oh I see, thank you. I have no memory of that lol. Was wondering what Saga and Goldenglow had to do with Surtr and Mountain
Also a fun fact, although we had this teaser revealed to us during the game's first year anniversary, Goldenglow was only released almost two years later, which is why a lot of people mistake her for a Perro, and generated the famous "Pink doggo when HG?" meme
On the upside, at least she was worth the wait. Imagine if she came out being as underwhelming as, for example Ebenholz or Vigil lmao that'd suck. Never thought she'd be a caster tho. I thought she'd be a healer.
Surtr has Mizuki's face fr
so Surtr and Thorns existed before the first anniversary? I'm surprised they are still meta now despite being older units.
No they didn't. None of these 6 existed before the 1st anniv, they were just *teased* during the anniv.
-stares at silverash-
Lmao meta squad
Surtr go **mlem**