RANKING EVERY OPERATOR - Year 1 Operators

[@SUPAH_SUPAH_SUPAH]

I think I developed multiple attention span disorders in the making of this video. Never again a video this long. JOIN THE DISCORD SERVER RIGHT NOW GRAAAAHHH discord.gg/superincorporated prts-room is the Arknights chat

[@kyarumomochi5146]

I think only issue with this tierlist is the placement of angie. Other than that this is litterally solid. Finally someone that actually defends specter being better than lappland. So many people regard them at the same tier and its hilarious

[@adamniefael5546]

Yeah, it would probably be better for you to make the Year 2 OPs in 3-4 videos- Though I am not too proficient in getting the best out of YT so yeah, though imo, it's better to watch a shorter video but have it more frequently than a long but less frequent

[@MisterEchoMissPandora]

THE W ALTER SKIN IS BETTER THEN THE OLD ONE!!!!!!!! FIGHT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@zannax351]

I think the only thing I would point out is that if you're using skadi as a sort of fast redeploy with her S2 she really doesn't need any of the AH module buffs to do her thing since the survivability doesn't really matter if she's just gonna be dropping in and out of battle like a FRD. I honestly used her a ton just on her own like this without any AH buffs and she was really useful, I mean not after texas alter came out but that's more texas alter being broken than an indictment on skadi. Honestly even in this role without any AH buffs she's a lot better than most of the E or D tier ops at the very least. I also think you're not locked to using all 5 AHunters like you keep bringing up, you only really need specalter and gladia since andreanas buffs are fairly minimal and I don't even think regular specter gives buffs? And both specalter and gladiia are also just good units worth deploying on their own merits (also just seem to find gladiias pulling utilities a lot more useful than you made them out to be to be honest, her skills cycle fast and the map control both S2 and S3 have is great) But idk ive been a lot less active on AK recently so what do I know

[@randomdude4730]

​@@kyarumomochi5146Just curious.Where would you put Angie

[@Area_GnC]

Oh look at you, finally remembered your channel's password.

[@RezaLaCanaille]

Oh no, the Skadi part is as long as Gummy's. Oh no...

[@frosty7269]

No, it is 1.5 times shorter.

[@NikkiTheViolist]

17:40 it kinda sucks that "stages with water tiles" doesn't mean "stages that have water in it" but instead means "summer event stages that are water-themed" (tbh i learned this just like i learned how Folinic's "Environmental damage" doesn't mean "damage from environmental sources" but instead means "you're just gonna have to test it for every single individual possibly-environmental source if you want to know")

[@Nanashi74yan]

your second point also applies to silence.

[@jvperrin]

@@Nanashi74yan Eh, not so much nowadays, it's marked pretty clearly in the enemy description with an "X" by the ability if silence can be used to cancel it. Definitely used to be a major problem though!

[@winwiddie6270]

mr supah you forgot to put a subway surfers split screen

[@Ghicci]

This guy talked about Skadi more than any other operators in this video

[@lucasmitchell9027]

Man is on a mission to prove his controversial opinion right.

[@zzamumo5302]

tsundere behaviour

[@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon]

Fanservice for free.

[@kingofthejungle5338]

there is no way you can convince me that they DON'T hate frostleaf holy hell

[@Joseph-gy2rn]

Just need to remove the attack speed restriction and put a freeze on her kit, I don't understand why they hate Frostleaf so much.

[@corhydrae3238]

I don't think they hate Frostleaf. The main story (at least as far as I've read) posed her as kind of a huge badass. I think her performance is just a case of them not thinking her kit through enough, which is fair considering how difficult it is to properly balance a game like this before release.

[@lapplandkun9273]

@@corhydrae3238 Unfortunately, while I stick by that all operators have their uses and niches. Frostleaf I can't defend at all, because I honestly think she's terrible. She's so abysmally bad you can't make her good like with Skadi or Flamebringer or make her semi function like them and build around them. You literally cannot synergize her with anyone at all. Her module did little to nothing for her at all.

[@cob-codeofbrawl7668]

Skadi summarize: 90% yapping

[@Mikufan-lb7zu]

I especially loving when almost OG operator compared to **LIMITED** operators. Just... What? She so powerful so can be compare with limiteds? With SOLO playing???

[@SUPAH_SUPAH_SUPAH]

​@@Mikufan-lb7zu Is this the new cope? You're the second guy that mentions this. Cry me a river

[@Mikufan-lb7zu]

@@SUPAH_SUPAH_SUPAH I'm not a big fan of Skadi and guards overall, and even prefer any content to go through the "Exusiai haha buff team" + random bullshit go, but when OG operator is compared with the limited of later years and good coparable, this is the very first thing that comes to mind

[@imtoolazyforaprofilepic4961]

​@@Mikufan-lb7zu Cope

[@AsterTF]

@@Mikufan-lb7zu bro is trying too hard with it 😭😭😭

[@CruelestChris]

Greythroat should always be introduced as "Rhodes Island's top racist."

[@Tyranid_Hive_Mind]

​@crikeybaguette4564 i was tempted to say delphine, but then i remembered what the damazti cluster did

[@Sho_veL]

Call me biased, but I don't think she meant it. Ace hinted that she was just asking honest questions and blaze took it to heart both in game an in anime if my memory serves me correctly.

[@Isomeria450]

@@Sho_veL She was just socially awkward due to lack of experience. In Twilight of Wolumonde where she is already Senior Operator she is actually solid leader.

[@xLuis89x]

from what I remember, she is specially wary of the infected... is infected a race now?

[@Joseph-gy2rn]

Ch'en?

[@awesomesauce980]

You know, at this point Im pretty sure Skadi is just to SUPAH what Exusiai is to Kataokasan.

[@darkshado124]

Blaze has carried me for most of the game. She is my second most used operator outside of Myrtle and Exusai. Since I don't have Mountain, I usually use Blaze with a healer to hold a lane. She's still great, just not as flashy as Homeless Uncle, Ice Cream Addict, Weaponized Typing, or Spread the Bloodline.

[@Hel1mutt]

also its kinda niche but if you use Whisperain with her module she heals around 50 hp per second which is cool

[@lucasmitchell9027]

I though she was pretty mid until I built her module, now she's kinda nice. Granted, I have like every other lane holder in the game built already.

[@adrin181]

​@@Hel1mutthey thats kinda cool! it might never come in handy except in IS, but thats kinda cool!

[@akety3570]

ONE TINY. LITTLE. MINUSCULE DISAGREE. AND I MUST PREFACE THIS BY SAYING I AGREE WITH THE PLACEMENT ITSELF, SINCE WE'RE NOT DOING ANY NICHEKNIGHTS. Skadi and most AH only need Gladiia with her Module to be good. Andreana and Specter(s) buffs are pretty irrelevant to Skadi, she just wants to profit off Gladiia's talent to have crazy survivability against bosses and ranged ennemies. Also (i know, that makes 2 disagrees) Gladiia is comparable to Mountain in laneholding situations. She requires investment for that but the downplaying was pretty crazy.

[@lucasmitchell9027]

My man literally never used Gladiia in his life and it shows. I was also a non believer until I tried doing a welfare only account. Then I noticed that Gladiia with just her module was better than every other unit in the account save maybe Tequila. Then I built her on my main and saw how she's just ranged mountain without the AoE and with waaaay more utility. And now with Ulpianus on the horizon the AH squad is looking even better, as every new member powers it up exponentially. The argument itself for Skadi needing other (already good operators) to work is kind of stupid when just as the video starts we assume that operators don't exist on a vacuum. You have really good operators like Blemishine and Stainless fixing SP generation problems for otherwise bad operators, but those operators are ranked badly because you assume neither of these exists. The entire video is just Supah trying to warp the argument around his subjective opinion. This exist or stop existing just for the sake of him being right.

[@franxx941]

what skill for making her a laneholder s2? Cause i have build both her and Mountain but i rarely use Gladiia as a lane holder? I mostly use her for set up with nukers, mostly cause the only skill i maxed is s3.

[@Donna0]

I agree, I use Skadi and Gladiia as the only AHs on my team. And it works perfectly, Skadi tanks well as a fast deploy and not to mention its s3. Here Supah exaggerates by saying that it takes all the equipment to prove that she serves. Not to mention that it's stupid for me to compare it with limited characters, for a reason they are limited not everyone has it and I'm not going to use the supp unit box for a character of the same archetype, it would have worked better to compare it with Lessing

[@akety3570]

​@@franxx941Yeah, S2 at M3 has pretty good uptime, multi-targeting, range expansion, good damage, and can cancel attacks if the target's being shifted. She additionaly has Regen and a Sanctuary effect. I didn't have Thorns until the So Long, Adele run and until then, Gladiia filled his shoes perfectly when i needed a laneholder hitting flying foes.

[@akety3570]

​​​@@lucasmitchell9027Eeeeh, i wouldnt say that about that last sentence. Of course there's some bias in the video and SUPAH can't know every single thing about ops especially if they're not meta. From what i understood here, operators are not reviewed in a vaccum, it's just that what we look at is "what does the operator does/provides for the squad ? Is it useful ? Can someone else do it, but better ?". How well they do in a nichenights isn't taken into account. But yeah otherwise i agree, you know he hasnt touched any abyssal hunter except maybe specter lol

[@zancloufer]

In defense of Skadi Abyss Hunter synergy; (1) You only really need Gladia and SpecterAlter. Adriana's buff isn't that big and Specter is more there to crimp other AH buffs then provide them herself. So that is two extra slots not four to make her optimal. (2) You didn't spend ~4 team slots to make one unit good, you used 4 team slots to get 4 good/decent units. You did allude to this in that you use AH squads to have two jacked Specters. Having said that I wouldn't put her that high, but she should probably be C or B tier. A really dumb stat stick that had one use, but holy shit she is a stat stick. Like 1v1ing Patriot or Steam Knight with just passive buffs. Though maybe powercreep is getting so bad that the new DPS units just delete bosses before they become a threat, so maybe Skadi is kinda bad.

[@nitronome]

Skadi is the worst unit in AH team At least adriana can hit flying While skadi is just spectres but worse

[@ledsenkatt]

​@@nitronomeGood luck getting her to hit the drones with that Def priority

[@hieutrang3635]

@@nitronome No, harder enemies can easily have near 2k DEF. Specter won't deal as much damage to them as Skadi, and Skadi can be redeployed multiple times.

[@alonso7599]

Actually just gladiia makes skadi as good as an average operator. Specter buff although significant, skadi stats are beefy enough she just need that self healing

[@livingrain]

You'll let me do the dorothy segment if you ever get to her right Mr Supah?

[@jpupper428]

PLS DO

[@stef2337]

Gummy enjoyer roasting Skadi in 50 minutes, truly tierlist of times

[@TerryBradstreet]

Skadi-enjoyer sadly agreeing with absolutely everything. I wanted HG to give Dreadnoughts a new Trait like they did for Abjurers, but instead they just released Nearl Alter with a busted kit to make up for the terrible subclass.

[@stef2337]

@@TerryBradstreet pain

[@LWKYArknights]

Woooooo yeahhhhh Cutter is finally hereeeeeee Everyone can tell how much Supah was gonna shit on Skadi by the length of her section

[@CruelestChris]

TIME FOR CUTLERY

[@alejanproh2961]

very long yapping alert: The PvZ comparison isn't quite accurate, as the entire game was built with Sunflower specifically in mind, whereas AK offers you a wide variety of DP generating options. PvZ2 is a better analogy because Sunflower has actual competition in that game, specifically Sunshroom, Primal SF and Moonflower which all outperform her and essentially function as that game's Myrtle. Bagpipe's E2 talent is PvZ2's Gold Bloom, though Bagpipe does more than GB and has a lower opportunity cost (pvz2 only has 8 slots max, some gamemodes or levels having less). Also, the best plant in PvZ1 is Puff-Shroom and it's not even close.

[@bloxguy999]

I'd say bagpipe would be like enlighten-mint from pvz2 but much more consistent and imho the best pvz1 plant would be imitater but puff-shroom is a really close second.

[@jpupper428]

0:29 the fact our boi has to explain this just shows how ingrained the "there are no bad operators" bullcrap is ingrained in the community. Technically, every operator is viable under certain conditions but you can't be a vanguard that produces 2 DP a pop and say you're good at your job.

[@SUPAH_SUPAH_SUPAH]

If you check the comments there's already some people completely ignoring that entire Rules section, anyway.

[@AzureRoxe]

@@SUPAH_SUPAH_SUPAH To be fair, you yourself ignore your own rules multiple times.

[@israyantidien4287]

Maybe the best operator is the friend we made along the way

[@Isomeria450]

My best friend is the guy who constantly shares Texas so I could have her passive while also filling my 12 slots with whatever I want.

[@jeirust9768]

I really shouldn't be surprised by Supah at this point that the segway to vermeil was talking about her artist's hentai

[@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon]

Kentaii did nothing wrong

[@shiawase8694]

their twitter havent posted since 2022's halloween 😭😭😭😭

[@kyarumomochi5146]

SKADI PART IS LONG AS GUMMYS WHAT THE HELLLL

[@diomauwu5959]

35:18 If you count Mostima module for her ranking, i'll count Leizi module too since is one of the few module of a 5* that actually do something for the operator. It doesn't make her broken, but give her a niche in SSS or IS with some aspd buffs and make her usuable in normal content, so atleast is a B tier.

[@Sazandora635]

It won't make them suddenly amazing for the stated reasons, but seeing Skadi and Gladiia's buffs stacked on Ulpianus will be amusing due to the Crusher archetype's bloated ATK/HP stats. That man is not going to die on an Abyssal Hunters team.

[@Mikufan-lb7zu]

Hoe have 6488 HP and 1656 atk solo And then if he will got +24% atk and +50% HP increasing... 9732 HP and 2053 atk in stat just when he DEPLOYED, before any skill working

[@randomperson4198]

​@@Mikufan-lb7zuis this including specalt buff or no? If no without is already funny nunbers

[@Mikufan-lb7zu]

@@randomperson4198 Spectral included Overall team buff: *+22%(+24% with Skadi p5 ) atk, +50%(+53% with Spectral p5) max HP, +30% damage reduction, +3.5% HP regenration per second, +20 (+22 with p5 Andreana) aspd increasing, +5% damage dealing, +0.5 SP generation per second addditional* **And every operator not just deployed like some dulls but also working and dealing damage**

[@theordinaryex-vampire1914]

Leizi has a module that turns her from dogshit to pretty usable in normal stages, and godly when she has access to attack speed buffs. You should see how she steamrolls SSS mode.

[@DanilKaliyzhniy]

2:48 It'll be Vigil, obviously

[@almondbread8255]

Don't forget about the material you find in nether It's going here too

[@Kristhanos]

Always remember the "2 DP"

[@alonso7599]

A certain laterano blue woman

[@yammoto148]

Okay I expected the Skadi talk down but not the Gladia one. Like how she is one of the best operators in the game even before she was the crutch of Abyssal knights. Like 1 she has decent aoe arts damage on her S3. 2 she can lanehold almost as good as thorns with her S2. And her S1 is the most consistent pulling skill in the game. Her only real downside is low hp which makes her module necessary for harder content so she doesn't get hit by a stray one shot.

[@ThaDude]

Gladiia is a real glass cannon and I like her for it. At first, I thought she is just a stronger puller but when I used, her she pretty much does so much utility. In one stage, you can redeploy her for a different role.

[@bumibomber]

Yeah Abyssal Knights are one of the best nicheknights groups and he just completely shit on them for being expensive and not working outside of with each other, despite the requirement of having an optimal account??? A shame cause I think the rest of the placings are almost spot on. (Lappland and Liskarm deserve to be A they're so useful for specific hard maps or events) Also I'm sick of the Shining downplaying, she's phenomenal for making good and reliable AFK farm setups which is what youre doing 99% of an event.

[@yammoto148]

@@bumibomber Supa only downplays Shining because of the flat defence she provides being worthless, and I agree, but her S2 is one of the best shields in the game, and on its own let me turn very non-tanky ops into very unkillable beasts. Like I always feel like its a bit too risky to use a more meta healer, like Lumen, and Eyja because if they die the rest of your team is at risk, but Shining is much less subject to die because of her S2 and better st healing. Like Sussuro can get sneezed on and disappear and Pitopsis is terrible when her skill is on CD, but Shining at least works well enough that I can go into an op blind and still come out without loosing anyone. Plus he overvalues Nightingale's lanterns tbh despite them being very good.

[@Garmenides]

@@yammoto148 Same with Perfumer. He put her in C tier while putting Silence in A tier with the reasoning of "her drones can be deployed anywhere, have good uptime and heal in AOE" which is true. But guess who do that also, without doing anything, with 100% uptime, with all her skills doing that healing even better and while healing units that's can't normally be healed? Yeah, Perfumer.

[@lucasmitchell9027]

@@yammoto148 Flat defence now more than ever is not worthless.We have lots of units that have insane damage but super low defence (like crushers, nearl alter, chongus, etc). And then you have the fact that flat defence is then multiplied by other % based defence buffs, so even if the op has high defence (like quora or hoshi), you still end up with a good defence boost. Hell, you can make an argument that Skalter skill 2 wouldn't be as overpowered if it didn't also gave your ops defence, as that's a pretty good reason why it make for a good healer replacement.

[@ordemarebys8050]

10:50 tehehe "foten" insted of often tehehe

[@GranMaj]

The Gladiia slander is actually insane. She is one of the most versatile unit. She can tank better than a lot of operators that are designed to tank, good utility and massively buffs AH operator. And the biggest merit of Gladiia is that she was free. Now with Ulpianus playable, lets say that Gladiia becomes even more valuable.

[@alonso7599]

Id also like to ad that she does a decent lane holding while still at the cost of 13 DP

[@Lenvyathan]

I disagree with Spot being bad in IS, in IS4 specifically he has been one of the MVPs of the first 2 floors of difficulty 15. You can make do without getting a Medic, get 3 block (decently) high def operator for those early swarm stages and still start with a 6* operator, which is pretty huge. Also he's just a decent defender pick at any point of the run if you're out of hope or don't want to spend any.

[@blankbudder]

HOLY FUCK DUDE MY DAD WALKED IN WHEN YOU STARTED TALKING ABOUT SHAMARES OUTFIT. I NEARLY HAD A HEART ATTACK

[@merphul]

Supah having to defend himself from the people defending him for the joke he sarcastically makes about himself is the most Supah thing Supah has said in a long time.

[@azuzuni]

while nian as defender might be slighltly power crept, its worth mention that with module she has 4 block count by defaulkt, 5 with S2 which also silences target, and her S3 provides block count to other operators around while also giving element resistance this gives her a unique niche where she can make 2 block operator block opponents that require 3 block count, or she can do great job in IS#3 against ending 2 boss to remove freeze debuff from allies while allso blocking upcoming enemies personally shes A tier

[@ThaDude]

I can't believe the best ops that are hard to be powercrept are the utility and support operators.

[@januszpolak254]

I mean it makes sense. DPS operators become powercreeped as soon as someone that can deal more damage come. Supports can do many different things.

[@CruelestChris]

It's like that in most gatcha, Genshin took three and a half years to get to the point Bennett wasn't appearing at a >90% rate in every Spiral Abyss. It's often because the OG support has some game-breaking interaction they don't want to repeat, as with how Arknights in 5 years has never made another character who does anything approaching what Nightingale does with RES.

[@t0uchme343]

What's that? Skadi is SS tier because all my fish friends stay together? That's good to hear!

[@Inosix]

I think some of the operators added were meant to prevent you from getting guaranteed 5 star from recruitment. For example, Cutter added something else to the Nuker category that could be contained from requirement, meaning no longer guaranteed 5 star Firewatch.

[@CruelestChris]

Well it didn't _really_ do that, it just meant that the Nuker tag didn't drop 90% of the time because the only person who could use the tag was a 5-star, like Summon does now because it only has Mayer.

[@Yats6417]

Dude. Supah. You wanna know something funny, I created a custom Kernel bannner as a new player with Ch'en and Mostima just cause I liked the characters (Yes, I know I shot myself in the foot by doing this, but I think if I woulda gotten one of them in like 10 or so pulls it would been worth it) And ended up getting an off banner Bagpipe, I entered a mine of turds of my own choosing only to find a diamond deposit there xD

[@burpium1767]

Finally i can touch myself while listening to an Italian ranting randomly.

[@Sambath-oc8ss]

I gotta disagree with Leizi. While I do agree that she is F pre-mod, Post-mod her is decebtly good. Depending on the mob counts (and them being unblocked) you can end up recharging her quite quickly and her dmg is honestly quite good. I don't want to be THAT biased so, at the very least I'd advocate for her to be at E or D. She does well enough on her own without needing extra help (besides the usual like heals)

[@hartoramasenju4012]

Yeah the Skadi section is long, suuuurely Supah talk about how good she is, right?

[@TerryBradstreet]

Dreadnoughts deserved a new Trait like HG gave to Abjurers.

[@Dodo-mc2vm]

Beehunter has the tinest niche of her attack hit twice, like Gravel but she's still in F tier because of Gravel which is a fast-redeployer

[@chokodechibi1327]

I love this videos because of how insightful they are, and the humor is so great i dont feel like i am being overfed information

[@godo9358]

"I swear i'm not usually this negative" (c) Sypah lies as effortlessly as HG makes modules for 4 stars

[@KuroeNezumi]

It's frustrating because Vermeil is pretty nice on s2 being able to hit two targets at once when there's a bunch of stuff you have to hit (specially aerial enemies) but with the amount of big damage operators that can just kill both targets fast enough that the difference isn't noticeable, it's not like I can argue in favor of that being distinctive enough to push her above others.

[@horrible_taste89]

Unironically, having multiple videos on the background while talking about the operators helps a lot. It makes me more concentrated on the video. Thank you Soup Man.

[@demonicvi]

The fact that I only have year one units and just came back to playing and am being told all my units are ass really hits like a truck. Back in the day these units were the most wanted, most op of em all :,)

[@Mikufan-lb7zu]

Supah for 6+ minutes tells why Skadi is bad... And still loses to himself "This is a team game and you are forbidden to use a team" (which do another thing independently of each other)

[@KuroeNezumi]

He very deliberately states that he's doing comparisons on an individual basis of what they do...and the fact that Skadi barely does anything notable without Abyssal Hunters (so 4 units dedicated making her better), and what little she does alone is comparable if not inferior to other units, makes her bad.

[@thefool8224]

@@KuroeNezumi my problem is that he decided that without spending 4 slots on other units she is useless but also useless if you dont spend the 4 slots in other units. so from the start she never had a chance

[@Abslicker420]

NOO LITTLE ITALIAN BOY, YOU DONT UNDERSTAND. SKADI IS GOOD WITHOUT ABBYSAL SQUAD

[@ledsenkatt]

Shot gummy at 0:11, how do you sleep

[@JackAcegard]

They maybe aren't meta today after few years. But thank you be here with us in our first years ✨️

[@leon02356]

37:00 I was looking at that defender on the left and was like, "Who the heck is that?! I've never seen that operator!" Then I noticed it's just a civilian standing on Cuora.

[@GlebSeva]

17:28 counterpoint. He is great at taking down pilon targetting enemies. Gelato Stops or something like that.

[@TheSlimeHunter]

Funny thing about W S2 is that it's potentially the best CC skill in IS. If you get the the ticket that stuns enemies when an allied unit is defeated and any other item that enhances CC durations her mines stun enemies for at least 12 seconds which is enough for her skill to loop and permastun any ground unit.

[@Rynth]

Even if I don't quite agree with every single placement, like Schwarz/Abyssals, I do agree with a solid 90%+ of these. Considering tier lists will always have some degree of opinion involved and everyone will always disagree on at least 1-2 picks, I'd say you nailed it!

[@larsthememelord3383]

7:33 ignoring that all the other abyssal hunters also get buffed thus giving you 4 extremely good units 2 (don’t know much about specter alter but shes probably good aswell) of which are good on their own

[@crazyaxemurderer1233]

Excuse me but gladiia doesnt gather dust in the deployment bar... because her passive only works when shes deployed and i want my specters to have that sweet damage reduction and hp regen.

[@SoilworkWT]

10:50 smh my youtuber doesnt check his subtitles

[@Lomata-j6w]

Mostima on thumbnail: *Profusely sweating* Result: B tier(good) Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

[@PossiblyCool234]

I'm not exactly an experienced AK player, but i find that Flamebringer can work strangely well with any defender sitting behind him, this makes his laneholding a WHOLE lot more consistent and bonus points if you have liskarm.

[@clydethehobo2687]

My initial reaction was 'Didn't he already make this video?' so I may just be stupid. Grani and W were two cornerstones of my team when I first started playing, back when Grani was the only Vanguard I was building and I'd failed the tutorial because I didn't fully grasp that I was supposed operators in front of the enemies and not to the side. Side note: THRM-EX was year 1? Damn, guy's older than I thought.

[@harunammie4898]

8:11 given the nature of AH squad, this got me laughing hard

[@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon]

These comparisons and tierlist videos bring out the best of SUPAH.

[@brunoluz3989]

the CEo of arknights himself must have a grudge against Frostleaf

[@govinlock8568]

As someone that played F2P games for over a decade, I can say powercreep is inevitable on those game in order to keep the money rolling. What they can do is to slow down the powercreep.

[@acridcesium_9971]

38:24 The best pvz1 plant is the puffshroom, which I guess in AK terms would be the wirebugs from the MH event, or maybe Dusk S3 if it was permanent.

[@dokutah7374]

I agree with most of these But miss me with that Gladiia c tier slander

[@NoManIsland99]

I'm surprised you didn't mention Waai Fu's atk debuff skill, which is as situational as the silence, but I think arguably better

[@mistared4021]

I know the initial disclaimer explained it, but durnar is saved HARD by being free and one of the first units that fills some of the serious holes in early rosters.

[@iamthezero2621]

Vermeil is such an interesting case of an official artist just straight up making hentai of their characters lmao. This isn't super uncommon, but it usually happens to hornier gacha games, so I wonder if the artist got blacklisted by HG or something.

[@doctorhealsgood5456]

I hope not. He is based for doing it.

[@RSRB32]

6:45 what do you say? You don't know if you make a full squad of Abyssal Hunter (I heard Ulpian release on CN)

[@galeria_m]

i would love to point out that he chose vigil to symbolize the yappers.

[@wildfire_]

I’m expecting that skadi segment as a seperate video

[@AnastasiaPhantom]

Leizi's module makes her okay as she restores SP per target hit so she can gain UP to 5 SP per attack on top of it being auto charge skill. She also deals decent damage, Since the original part of her passive increase her attack to 1,3 against unblocked enemies and her skill removes the dmg reduction and while the slow is brief it is still 80% one, so she deals pretty decent dmg on stationary or moving enemies. I wouldn't say she is amazing but F tier feels wrong.

[@thejuggernight1406]

so I am gonna disagree on the weedy placement. granted my usage of her was up to about a year after her release (so about a year) I eventually got bored of her playstyle and wanted to use other ops so I switched her out. so I am assuming she just got worse but I found that she has surprisingly high damage and shift when the mobs don't just die is basically just a super long stun. at least in function of stun reduces your damage taken. I feel like C tier is really low. I feel like she is at least B tier I would consider putting her in A teir. if hoshiguma can get B tier while being the best unit you will never need IDK maybe someone with actual use cases beats them out.

[@VerbalPumpkin]

W 😭😭 my best operator. Stopped playing in 2020 and started again a few days ago. So basically I'm screwed is what I'm hearing 💀

[@mcdoomer194]

I dare argue that Spot can be moved up 1 tier, cus his Phys Dodge can help him and nearby allies become surprisingly tanky during his skill duration.

[@klayrollivan5558]

Vermeil's artist singlehandedly making us remember her existence I kneel

[@azuzuni]

as for W, she deserves higher rating for 3 reasons, firstly she has one of the most consistent stuns within 6* operators that can interupt, while still dealing enough dmg to take down heavy def enemies secondly her talents are decent, she gets 60% dodge which makes her relatively tanky on her own and has lower aggro so shes fine being placed late in fight or away from medic thirdly her modules, one module increase dmg all enemies take during stun which basically boosts her atk more since she applies stun before dmg calculation, and works good with stun army, 2nd module further boosts her atk by like 20% which makes her hit really hard despite being year 1 operator maybe shes not boss killer nuker but definitelly is capable of wiping out crowds easily which makes her perfect as support for lane holder (note am W simp)

[@DrJohn-ip3be]

yeah nah totally agree, most of the tierlist is pretty accurate but the W slander was way off... you said it all: insane CC and very high dps (no boss killer but we got specific units for that) before even looking at her camo talent (also her module gives her additional SP for every dead enemy, so CC is even more frequent and even higher dps). Also synergies with stun operators just makes things even better I'd argue minimum A tier, especially compared with other 1st year operators

[@Santisima_Trinidad]

I don't know what your on about SUPAH, this video isn't particularly long. It's only 48 minutes, not even breaching the hour barrier.

[@Phos9]

Ah that old pet peeve of mine, focusing on Waai Fu as a means to silence exploding spiders, though judging by her module that puts you in company with the developers. I do find it remarkable that your choice of background video was of her more standout use of applying atk down, and no, Shamare doesn’t invalidate her because her skill cycle doesn’t line up with every attack you need to be concerned with, the stage in the background video is of exactly such an example. Waai fu is also frequently much easier to incorporate into strategies because she doesn’t need to remain on the field and can, for example, be interleaved with another helidrop. Shamare is generally stronger, but isn’t always the better choice. That said, her silence does have one meaningful advantage over most other silence appliers, and that’s true aoe on her S2 meaning there’s no risk of her attacking the wrong target, something both Lappland and Texas toast can run afoul of.

[@Phos9]

Oh I should mention, even having said all that she’s probably just C tier by your scale, as I mentioned, her module tells me she doesn’t have many fans in the HG office

[@almondmilk8494]

I think they’re personally making frost leaf so bad for you specifically.

[@Murmur_3565]

I have no idea wether Supah considered modules or not But since he ranked blaze kinda low and fallen off and leizi trash sp Id say he did not

[@LozerLudo]

shoutout to the single time where flamebringer was useful for me on the guard/vanguard chip stage back when there were barely any self healing guards and i was too stupid to do good medic placements.

[@sonarii7621]

elysium also works well now bc his talent helps walter

[@KingOfHarems]

I feel like a lot of good year 1 operators are still good even in late game, but they feel like they have just had better replacements for the general case. Blaze got Thorns’d, Schwarz got typewriter’d, Ceobe got Eyja still exisiting. The operators are still good, but they just aren’t the best. (Blaze may be a exception for tankyness over Blaze, but look at Mudrock)

[@lucasmitchell9027]

addressing reed: mixed damage is not generally bad, in like 90% of cases it's equal or even better than one single type. Why? because enemies either have high defence or high resistance, not both. an enemy with 1000 def will generally have 0 arts res, so reed will do good damage (not great, just good), and an enemy with 50 res will have little to no armor, so reed will do good damage. Only in extreme cases (like first phase patriot, or some chapter nine enemies) will mixed damage be straight up inferior. What makes her bad is the fact that for some reason her talent gives her res instead of more damage. If she had Vigna's or Bagpipe's talent she'd be A tier.

[@TerryBradstreet]

Her Talent is especially weird after Blue Poison set the precedent for having RES despite your subclass even without a Talent for it. Or heck, Pramanix and other Five Stars can have two Talents.

[@Yggdraigon]

You know that the thing is serious when the DOOM odst kick's in. Result: grilled orca

[@SmokuZnadPotoku]

"Aak's thing is that he exists solely to buff others and nothing else" Meanwhile me using him as a literal Tank for a boss (still have a video for it) and as a Sniper with his S1 xD

[@littleone3412]

Well at least my favorite crocodile doctor briefly showed in the tierlist for 10 seconds or so. That's already more attention than she ever got, thank you, funny little italian.

[@RoboMuskVsLizardZuckerberg]

As someone who build Frost Leaf I can explain: S1 afk operator on Integrated Strategy doing guard start

[@newCoCoY6]

With Ulpianus around the corner it's not gonna be "Skadi's lesbian polycule" anymore, It's gonna be Ulpianus' harem.

[@TheBladzAngel]

Don't forget her cold also is very short and thus debuffs other ops who rely on cold since cold cannot stack on frozen enemies. If she applies the freeze from someone else's cold. F.

[@munsterotaku3058]

Can't wait to see one day someone with more SP cost than Mostima. If we get one day a 200SP, at this cost i expect a Nuclear warhead

[@Mikufan-lb7zu]

Shining s3 cost 120

[@amirunsyafiq]

Mostima technically has 78.5 SP cost as her +0.4 SP will reduce her total SP cost. So, SA has 90 SP cost (78 if you redeploy), Eyja has 80 SP cost). Still doesn't mean that she is good now, she still suck.

[@stugiii_ausf_h]

Distinguishing Supah's sarcasm from the actual analysis is a form of art.

[@xtranathor8143]

You mentioned that the game is moving more towards crowd control rather than buffing, which makes Aak's value lower. I think you should try his S1 with his module - it's hilarious how good his CC is and he can survive without a healer in most stages. This means both his S1 and S3 have very different but very useful niches. I say that, but the attack speed buff on his S3 is still good for his personal damage and CC; the downside is that he has to use it on someone otherwise it can't be activated.

[@oberon5657]

Supah sensei giving May some headpats! BLESSED definitely deserves it after carrying the early IS2 runs (also still useful in IS3 with s2) with that in mind, it's quite amazing she hasn't received a skin yet

[@ogcipher4967]

Coming back to the game years later and seeing that 3/4 of my operators are just trash really makes me reconsider my life choices

[@TheRyderShotgunn]

bro i think i got brain broken seeing shamare's canonical underclothes

[@jasonsmith4082]

Your sarcasm and tips are equally amazing I hope you always enjoy Arknights.

[@honestlordcommissarbrighte7921]

I comfort myself knowing that in an alternate universe, Frostleaf is given love. Dear God why cant I have this one thing.

[@Durngor]

For Purestream you said and wrote D Tier, but put her in C. More importantly Bison or Link (TLOZ)?