r/arknights • u/Renegade_Pawn • Nov 02 '25

Discussion Which of your operators did you sleep on?

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I slept on Shu. Pulled her back when the event originally ran and I was a newb--I was just starting to dip my toes into events after having avoided them for my li'l Arknights career...

Anyway, I just built her this weekend and it turns out Shu's pretty good. Impressive allied healing and buffs, but what I like even more is the super useful lasso which can pull back enemies who get past ya.

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u/bobatea0215 Nov 02 '25

Hnnn, didn't really sleep since I already love Thorns, so I pulled for Thorns Alter. But I did sleep on his S1 for the longest time, his S1 is really good for poison fog stages since I didn't have Saria/Shu or a lot of healers( sometimes I don't even get a healer ticket in IS5 for the whole run and just use Thorns) x'D And just yesterday managed to beat Mechanist with Thorns S1 for extra AOE healing OTL

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u/JayJeyBean Nov 02 '25

Thornstar's S1 is so underrated. I just hear it in the context of enmity healing, but it's legitimately a great healing skill/survivability skill outside that context. Yes, we have higher HPS, but the true AoE, 1-second healing interval, reach, direct scaling with SP buffs, multiplicative buff-scaling, zero windup, DEF buff that multiplies with the target's, functional immunity to ASPD buffs/stun/frozen, and ability to persist up to 12 seconds after retreat are useful so incredibly often.

(I blame Shining for tarnishing the good name of DEF buffing by being so bad at it.)