WHAT!? Black Swan Enables "TRUE DAMAGE" & People Don't Realize it Yet... Guide, Build & Teams

[@CMaxoknight31]

the Magister of Endymion in the thumbnail got me like💀HSR ability discriptions are really approaching Yugioh level lmao

[@ahyes99]

One pend card is already a wall of text tho 💀

[@CMaxoknight31]

@@ahyes99 every card is by now lmao

[@OpGrief]

The Welt incident again 😂

[@runmanrun4112]

Take a shot everytime Welt catches heat.

[@Kizerlk07]

Context?

[@maskedqiu]

Context?

[@lunitymoon5702]

​@@maskedqiuThey're probably talking about his traces being effect resist

[@maskedqiu]

​@@lunitymoon5702Thanks

[@Crazmuss]

"Oh, as for %charactername stats you just go 120% EHR, 3500 ATK, 80% crit rate, 200% crit damage and then dump rest of your stats into speed to get at least 170 and it is fine if you get 100% or so break effect on your way"

[@Vindenci]

How to say you got all in flat def in substats without being obvious

[@ruiakami]

​@@Vindenci"My relic is not leveled..oh wait it is."

[@MrAdlez]

code was actually cooking with the characters slowly raising their arm

[@kyo_.]

they gave us 5 slots so he started the Fifth Reich

[@keq1688]

15:05 saying tingyun's name and a coffin just suddenly appears

[@AnimeWineAuntie]

“Anything = funny deboof, frens do DoT = more funny, enemy turn = boom.” This is the most concise explanation of her kit I’ve found. Thank you for this valuable contribution.

[@rsg_magfire]

Speed tuning really is only good on paper. In actuality, there are a lot of things that can ruin it. So I just slap speed as high as I can without sacrificing much of the other stats my characters need

[@The_Pimba]

Gigachad

[@vegitohaze2081]

At the very least making supports faster than dps is worth it.

[@hiimapop7755]

Speedtuning to within a single SPD between your characters is hell, both for reaching it and trying to not fck it up from external factors. I spent a good 2 months speedtuning DHIL's team, only to get a piece on him that's way too good to pass up, causing me to pretty much sacrifice all my effort. Never did it again since. The only speedtune I did since then was make the character faster or slower than the dps, and reach 134+ speed if possible.

[@utsubyo]

just play fuxuan/gepard/fire mc and you dont have to worry, speed tuning can get messed up but it's not that big of an issue and it's better to do than not do, in some cases like with bronya it makes a massive difference

[@StranglerSix]

SPD tuning is stressful. All I know is more speed = more turns = more DMG.

[@FlashKillerX]

I was doing some napkin math and thought 100% defense ignore might be theoretically possible, it's good to know I wasn't too far off

[@utsubyo]

i mean if def ignore/reduction is additive (apparently it is) then you can hit 100% and deal "true damage", quite easily in fact lol

[@andrewcook4873]

“The only thing she doesn’t have is a good ending” Ouch!

[@tikigaming1422]

8:23 Truly a very relatable build 🙃

[@ParadoX-os]

His BS is pretty relatable, though. His Ruan Mei though 💀

[@brunovieira5892]

Isnt a wind damage globe better then an atk% one?

[@ParadoX-os]

@@brunovieira5892 Not when used with Ruan Mei.

[@antimatter76]

The best most comprehensive explanation of BS. I appreciate the "tangents". They are so important to mention.

[@daiwang8111]

100% def down isnt similar to true dmg, because there is still elemental res which reduces your dmg.

[@Void_Everfrost]

thing is his last quote (combine with mei and she reach 100% true dmg). yeah...with mei you get 25% all type res (lvl 10 talent) and most ele type res last time i check on wiki are 20% so she shred the rest for black swan already (expect bronya, cocolia, yanqing the trio hell with 40% ice res)

[@ryn.x1933]

15:07 THE COFFIN SHOWING UP RIGHT AS YOU SAID TINGYUN WAS SO FOUL

[@moo349]

Bro the editor did gods work on this video 😂 the NotListening meme was so good

[@JobuSt8n2448]

Digimon World 3 soundtrack in the background. Absolute top tier content, thanks for all y’all do!

[@rah9722]

that endymion came out of nowhere, am crying well done

[@akirayuki6275]

I agree with Mr. Chode, Luocha's hair is gorgeous, truly the waifu of all time

[@Theryonas]

Oh man, listening to Code try to say Epiphany was great. Nice one again Mr. Editor. ;D

[@BocchiTheGrey]

i personally think it's best not to run any sustain with BS. Especially if everyone can reach above 134 spd and have Ruan Mei. I kill enemies with half HP, no need to heal if you can kill before you die. I think she's so versatile, but for now i run 2 dots with BS and RUan Mei, and i try to cover element type.

[@meriwidget3474]

Blak swon for dummies was the best explanation I've seen yet lol.

[@WarauTR]

Idk why I watch these, I guess it's just to see Aizy edits

[@RhythmOSauce]

Black Swan would be the type of person who would run a combination of ritual and pendulum related cards

[@nothikikai]

I pulled like 9 random times and got black swan bc I thought my luck was terrible after losing 50/50 on dhil banner

[@Coraline2014]

I appreciate Luocha breaking enemy shields for me! Luocha is my favorite healer because I don't have to think about healing he thinks for me. 😌

[@zedburg]

Hello from the future, the Algorithm gods have sent me here, they knew I was planning for pulling Black Swan on the reruns in the future (If it does happen, who knows) and I find it amusing that back then, we used to freak out over 200k damage when now the norm is like 250k+ or bricked.

[@dinzzz0000]

-_- very talented Mr Code -_-

[@Illvyore]

As always relatable build. 🗿

[@nunezdave07]

Woah nice vid Mr Code!

[@RR-sv3so]

Thank you code, I’m big dummy and loved the breakdown.

[@rambutan7768]

Not recommending Pan Galactic planar set is a big sadge for this guide. It gives more Effect Hit Rate and converts some of that EHR to Atk%.

[@VauseKV]

I watched this video with 0 context of who OkCode is and was so confused when the sudden Asian accent came out (I love this video btw it’s funny as heck)

[@Sazandora635]

Her lightcone is good but the other lightcones on the banner were a bit mediocre so decided I'd rather wait to see if the rerun has better options.

[@robgabmac]

the unbuilt Bronya hurt my soul

[@Zaxster_-3-]

Personally I enjoy the tangents, they're either informative or hilarious. Keep it up Sir Code

[@kodekorp2064]

People knew. There were videos out on release.

[@RintarouOkabe1]

for 2pc ...Why didnt he mention Pan galactic ? Is that set not viable ?

[@dubstepforever99]

It is but almost no one farmed that set and the glamoth is just barely worse, me however i have more than 120 effect hitrate so the the 10 extra wouldnt do much but the 25 atk would be really good.

[@Hiarin]

guys why welt get effect res while BS get EHR on her traces

[@Kspice9000]

Can also run penchony orb set on huohuo and bs to give bs an extra 20% dmg boost.

[@Sayanos1]

The first "weapon" I rolled for was Black swan, it's too good

[@sedm1143]

I was doing the weekly (up to 3x) swarm boss today and Black Swan's dots kept killing the adds he boss spawns over and over, who of course promptly detonated applying vulnerability and helped to kill their friends. It got to the point in the first in the first phase where the boss had all his adds, and I don't think from that point to 0% second phase he got a turn. As soon as one of the adds got a turn it would die, set of a chain reaction of deaths to it's friends, spawn more adds who'd get exploded on and get vulnerability and die when their turn came around... And of course with every one of their detonations the boss got hurt too as well as the aoe detonations from Arcana from the innermost adds. So it was just an endless chain of adds dying slowly killing the boss puntuated by my characters ult-ing periodically from the kill energy. It was pretty surreal.

[@Justme-jp8ih]

What team did you use?

[@sedm1143]

@@Justme-jp8ih The generally considered optimal Kafka, BS, Ruan Mei, and HuoHuo. My characters are decently strong with good relics, lightcones and like Kafka has her E1. I pre-farmed prisoner ahead of BS release so I had 120 EHR, high attack, decent speed, and the 4 piece bonus. There's probably some minimum damage the dot needs to be doing to set the chain reaction off. One they started blowing up at all, the vulnerability chaining around and the BS arcana 3 and 7 bonuses just made it so the others didn't stand a chance. As one spawned in when they died, the chain just kept on going when it started with the odd break which the likes of a Kafka ult or skill would just set off again. But Ruan Mei is a major steroid in all of the above. And of course high traces help too. I got her talent to lvl10 for instance because that sets the arcana multiplier and her dot is the lion share of her damage. I leveled her skill high for the def down also, though it only gets used so often (but at least the debuff lingers). Her skill debuff is a teamwide buff so for Kafka too, so it's worth more than small boost you get despite the high cost of high trace levels.

[@0v_x0]

If not running her sig LC then EHR pan cosmic set is useful

[@Aimerianano]

U forget or just not mention about Pan-Cosmic Commercial Enterprise, how good this relic set ?

[@phoenixlau]

It's solid. If you have 100+ EHR it's 3 substats of EHR better than Space Sealing Station. However, it is highly inefficient to farm since the other set is trash, so you probably want to stick to SSS or Glamoth (135+ speed) unless you're desperate for more EHR.

[@SentiNel090]

2:45 a common misconception. If you reduce the defense by 100% you do triple damage. 2x damage is a 50% reduction.

[@cat8awaffle72]

i feel lucky im a ftp who not only got her early but got her signature weapon too

[@raishinjiworks7388]

help,those DoT relics keep spamming me an Crit stat instead of EHR and Speed

[@Nightsu]

Guide, Build & Tangents

[@mr_tin_god]

Vtuber model is the primary reason Im watching this guy 😅

[@CaelusXFirefly69]

Get this notification just after getting her "noice.. I lost to welt a few days ago it s*cks because the nihility logo gets me lol 😂 thank god i still manage to get her i think around 32 pity it's free jades from event and world Chest. Man it's so pain being an F2p and having a sh*tty luck at the same time Ps: never won my 50/50 since 1.0

[@Sleepystumparknights]

I lost my 50/50 to welt and was like NOOO because I only had a few multis left and then she showed up. I can’t believe I didn’t take a picture. I lost and won somehow, so I was able to get E1. But I don’t have Ruanmei or Kafka…..

[@dedpal]

bro i feel violated by those atack + speed ratios

[@mariogarcc]

code you forgot about the effect hit rate planar set lol thats her BiS

[@forbiddensuper2369]

Got my black swan to 4k atk today she’s so good

[@TachibanaKyosuke]

I didn't even play Honkai. I just put this video in the background while doing house chores

[@lucasreiYT]

Feels good to push infect on T Rex. He cooking btw.

[@mikudayoshka]

pangalactic for ehr and atk question mark?

[@vantasethatsit9903]

I threw away my chance for Acheron to E1 black swan, i ended up finding myself praying Acheron is not broken.

[@DeIuIuu]

Hey its HSR, worst case scenario you end up getting enough pulls to get a 5 star, lose it, and have a guaranteed to the next broken unit that comes out lol

[@quackyman796]

To be fair, 2.0 gives a shit ton of rewards so you can probably save up to 30 pulls again by the end of 2.0 and 2.1 should probably also give a decent amount. What I’m saying is by the time Acheron banner is about to end you should have enough jades to 50/50 it.

[@Kspice9000]

​@quackyman796 agreed. And shop double gems reset happens as well.

[@marclenraymagdaraog691]

OMG.. like literally OMG.. why? why did you E1 her LOL? I mean If you love her that much then sure fine.. but in literally game difficulty. bro that's over kill and not that good of an investment. If you're going to E1 a character cuz you like them

[@animenews8791]

how about dr ratio with black swan?

[@johnellefa]

Everytime i see this guy's character's speed, i feel nothing but hatred 😅

[@prostobaka]

i have only Sampo e0 and Luka e0 so look like its not for me, sad coz her skill animation pretty cool

[@YourPeakVerse]

S2 ehes of spray vs s2 showtime?

[@kfcjunkie1]

Yo man I remember in one of your videos you showed us the website where you can just click to redeem all the codes instead of having to type them in one by one, would you mind showing again where that page is? Cause when I go to the homepage or go to the code redeem page itself I don't have the option or a list of codes where I can just see the code and then next to it the button "redeem code". OR anyone who reads my comment ofcourse ._.

[@Planeta1951]

RM 173 speed wtf, stats get more and more relatable

[@fierypickles4450]

What song is that comes on around 9:38

[@DanhengandAkiyama]

it feels like something from an indie game

[@MrongandNote]

She doesn't enable anything.. she can just deal true damage

[@PuddingDurian]

How lucky you gonna get from relic to get to 150+ speed been farming from the start and got maximum 135 and it's tingyun nog even my kafka

[@WizardDog829]

Pulled bs and her lc now im trying to pull for her e1

[@junkonatsumizaka5149]

I like your tangents.

[@dedcet634]

ok real question because i'm poor f2p and just losing shit (50/50) which char should i get this mommy or penacony hu tao i don't have kafka btw

[@raze2469]

mr chode the skill level 9 to 10 gives it +8% more dmg and +0.8% on the dmg ignore you think its worth leveling that up ?

[@KindaMad958]

True damage would mean 100% pen res ignore as well as def btw lmao

[@yoda-y2374]

okay code, we get that that signature light cones are for whales and of corse best in slot. thats how ptw works

[@jaguh9069]

Finally one of my character achieve chode stats 😅 My BS have 3.7k atk, 125 ehr (130 when I get the last trace) and 157 speed 🎉🎉🎉

[@shadowstorm9363]

ffs, she throws Yu-Gi-Oh cards and her skill descriptions are likewise

[@craycraypikachu2546]

im a returnee this vid gave me luck xD 2nd draw i got her ty so much ok code . hope yall get good rng too xD

[@jaykhobrekar3619]

Wait why bronya is not leveled up?

[@NeruDs]

To piss people off 😂

[@StevenLewiz]

Who should I buff wit thingyun e and q skills? Kafka or BS?

[@thegray6868]

Kafka she is the one doing most of the damage

[@marclenraymagdaraog691]

Kafka. Well let me explain this as short as possible. 1. Black Swan doesn't deal an "INSTANT" damage all she does is stack arcana which means you do not need to buff her, all she needs to do is either do a basic hit or use her Ult (if 3 more enemies). 2. Black Swan does benefit from Buffs but since she doesn't deal instant and her damage only activates on turn end, she isn't a great target for buffing. At this team Always BUFF Kafka. she can instantly trigger all dot damage and Arcana with her Skill and Ultimate. only buff her with Damage % boost or

[@Doflaminguard]

Does her sig LC need the 4 dots to work? It says 5% def ignore per instance of DoT. If theres only Kafka and Black Swan, does it only have 2 stacks?

[@darkhorse8217]

Her ultimate counts as 4 dots at once and her lightcone passive is permanent for the rest of battle. So one ult can permanently get you 4 stacks.

[@marclenraymagdaraog691]

Nope. 1. Her Ult. 2. Her Wind Sheer. 3. Extra Dot from her passive.. Herself basically triggers the def ignore 100% of the time so you don't even need to think about it.. But if you slap her light cone to other characters.. OTHER than a Nihility unit then you won't.. you need 3 Nihility dot units in your team if you have this lightcone and not Blackswan to trigger it 100% of the time.

[@chi3fmarz]

losing this 50/50 starting to hurt more everyday

[@GomuGomu4]

Is Black Swan E2 to E3(To upgrade her Talent?) worth getting?

[@marclenraymagdaraog691]

Bro.. you don't even need Edilon to make her "Worth" .. but if you're really into it.. well. it's either E1, E4 and E6 as her stopping point. otherwise if you're going to stop at E3 then it ain't worth it lol. should have stopped at E1.

[@humammaulana9092]

what is tangent?

[@loveyputra]

SHE'S DAMAGE DEALER!

[@griseo19]

Is DEF ignore is based on enemy total DEF or base DEF??

[@marclenraymagdaraog691]

16:40 at Luocha and Houhou.. ur mistaken.. quite huge.. you keep saying you need more skill points but in theory you will never need to spam Black Swan's skill.. you literally don't need too. her basic attacks can apply Arcana. and at most you will reach the average stacks of arcana.. cuz it's pretty much impossible to always reach 50 stacks like a mad lad. HuoHuo speedsthis up since her ultimate is also very good. but I would still use Luocha cuz I play on auto.. HuoHuo in Auto is trash.

[@phrofile3613]

Wait you dont need the ehr 2 piece relic?

[@phoenixlau]

Pan Cosmic is best in slot, but the difference between that and Glamoth/Space Sealing Station is less than 5% (a few substats worth). However, most people don't farm Pan Cosmic since the other set in that world is trash, so more efficient to use the other options.

[@TheDJdragonflame]

Black Swan + Kafka outdamages a Jing Liu hypercarry team. What the heck?

[@hammeredch]

How the heck ya can get to 3500 attck???

[@dispatcharmy]

Relatively new-mid player here. Should i pull for Black Swan? I missed out on Kafka previously. I do have sampo, serval and GNF built. Thank you!

[@peppy-19Gfp]

is ur Sampo e4?

[@dispatcharmy]

@@peppy-19Gfp Fortunately, yes! So i take it, he is the deciding factor, to make BS worth it?

[@peppy-19Gfp]

@@dispatcharmy yup u should.pull then when kafka reruns pull her and you'll be unstoppable

[@dispatcharmy]

@@peppy-19Gfp Thanks for your input!

[@Taiki11]

Code makes me laugh everytime xDD

[@Dom1n1cMlbb]

Do you think Dr Ratio is good with her as well? Or is kafka, black swan, supp/healer and 4 star dot character only usable? (Dr ratio instead of 4 star dot char)

[@nemasisdemarini8339]

In general you want a DoT character with her. Not burst or follow-up. But that's only if you want full on optimization. Technically speaking, when people talk about building teams for characters, they talk as thou they are the main dps, which Black Swan is for her teams. But realistically, if you want her with Ratio, he would be the main dps. And since his kit should work decently with any de-buffer or DoT character, than they should work well enough together. So yes, they should work. You should just make sure to build the team around Ratio, and not Black Swan.

[@weiss7727]

Going off tangent doesn’t bothers me, it’s more content. Surely no one gets bothered by a content creator giving more content

[@ParagonOblivion]

Im exactly 2 seconds into the video, Code. 2 seconds. And im already disappointed, in myself, for thinking my Black Swan was pretty good. 3500 ATK? 156 SPD? Cooooooooode give me 10 seconds at the least before you make me feel inadequate, my dude. ☠ Rant over, now to unpause ! :D ❤

[@simonarques5201]

Hello, i do not understand gacha really well, so in general, how much pull would be needed for guaranteed 5 stars character ?

[@NoiseRosemaker]

Different for each gacha game. For Honkai: Star Rail, there are 2 types of gacha "banners": Character and Light Cone. In Character banner you are guaranteed to get 5 stars character at 90 pulls. In Light Cone banner 80 pulls. But if this is your first time pulling, you have 50% chance to get 5 stars from standard banner, so if you want to be absolutely safe, prepare 180 tickets for character or 160 tickets for light cone.

[@simonarques5201]

@@NoiseRosemaker Thank you, that was all i needed to know ! :) Gotta save my pulls for Acheron then, got 115 right now and by the launch of her banner i should be close to a guaranteed Acheron:)

[@marclenraymagdaraog691]

You get a guranteed 5* at 90 WISHES/PULLS. but it's not 100% the character in the Banner So you need 90 + 90 = 180pulls MAX to GUARANTEE getting a character. so it's either 90 or 180. or 75(Soft Pity)

[@968Yamii]

15:12 you don't have to do her dirty like that😢 I believe she'll come back as 5* like DHIL *cope*

[@DemonSpire3975]

Booba vs booba dmg showcase... 17:33

[@Hazelify]

The best ornament for Black Swan I recommend is Pan Cosmic Commercial Enterprise in World 5, as it gives you ehr and atk based on ehr. I think based on dmg calculation it shud be the best in slot for highest dmg

[@pecpudim]

best tldr by far

[@OldDadGamer]

Dude her and Sampo is where is at lol 😂

[@emred4653]

do we even have any enemy with def high eneough to require true damage though?

[@AJLaz000]

let's all just agree that the devs absolutely didn't know what they doing at the beginning of the game... because, Welt aside, why the faq does Gepard have Ice DMG traces??? because he has 5 of them... and only 2 Defense traces... *HE HAS MORE DMG BOOST TRACES THE DEFENSE TRACES*

[@davimanggala3452]

Same with March. She got 5 Ice dmg traces, and 3 def traces

[@coreano1219]

i mean my ratio does true dmg it's imaginary but it's true

[@SinSaving]

Nice! Now back to granblue grind