My thoughts on Lauma:

This druid is looking like to be the most compelling character out of all of the 6.0 characters for me. This is due to her reviving the bloom and it’s archetypes, allowing this team archetype to regain viability. Here is how I feel she does with 3 main variants:

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Bountiful Cores
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Nilou massively gets buffed, to the point that she will become the new best Sumeru character. Lauma solidifies her teams as being the best overall in AOE, while dramatically increasing single target damage to be more comparable (if not exactly surpassing) what most Natlan and Fontaine based teams are capable of doing.

Because Nilou’s teams are the most susceptible to bloom-self damage, I feel that Kokomi becomes the best hydro on-field driver for these teams, since she can easily apply hydro and heal her team at the same time. In my opinion this will be Kokomi’s most meta-relevant team (once again!).

Nahida is in a weird spot, since she technically got power-crept by Lauma in bloom. However, she can still give assistance as a offensive oriented 2nd dendro teammate, thanks to her personal damage and very high dendro application. In addition, the EM boost from her elemental burst will get the most use in Nilou bloom teams since the onfield is most likely to be triggering the bountiful cores.

If Lauma is not at C2, or if Kokomi is not being used, then Baizhu becomes the best 2nd dendro teammate due to his healing and shields. Yao Yao could also be used, but she is less flexible due to needing more on field time for her burst healing to work properly.

Aino and Xingqi should be the best 4* hydro characters for these teams.

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Hyperbloom
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As the best overall Hyperbloom trigger, Kuki Shinobu gets heavily buffed by Lauma as well. Lauma + Kuki will make for a strong Hyperbloom duo, and will give a lot of flexibility on who can be used for the final two spots.

Most hydro units work well with Hyperbloom.

Alhaitham will get some usage again as a on-field driver, and Cyno to a lesser extent. Raiden Shogun will be the second best off-field electro unit if Kuki is not being used.

Not much to say here since Hyperbloom is the most popular bloom variant and the teammates are quite well known.

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Burgeon
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Burgeon (which I am the most familiar with since I have a burgeon team) also gets buffed quite a bit, but it still the weakest of the 3 bloom variants. This is partially due to the possibility of burning, which is a bad reaction (compared to quicken for Hyperbloom) and partially due to Burgeon not having a dedicated off-field trigger (like Kuki is for Hyperbloom).

Thoma is the best off-field trigger of Burgeon, but has several flaws (shield scales on HP, not EM, he needs to use his elemental burst to use his off-field pyro, and normal attacks are need by the on-fielder to triggers the effects). Nonetheless, Thoma gets buffed due to Burgeon getting buffed.

Pyro Traveler is the next best off-field trigger for Burgeon, and has the advantage of not requiring energy and of the off-field attacks not requiring normal attacks. But they doesn’t offer any defensive utility at all, and they has up-time issues. However, as I expect the Pyro traveler to be pushed out of their other teams by 6.X units, I expect that Burgeon will end up being the Pyro traveler’s best team.

Since Burgeon teams tend to have at least some burning, Emilie could be used as a strong 2nd Dendro option to take advantage, and provide very strong raw off-field Dendro damage.

Strong hydro application will be needed. Ayato and Childe have their limitations, but they could be strong on-fielders due to them working with Thoma (they both use normal attacks) and having strong application that should be able to make Dendro cores (and doing forward vapes on burning enemies when they occur). Xingqi would be the best off-field hydro character due to his high hydro application.

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Of course, Lauma’s best team should involved Lunar Bloom, but that won’t be viable until she gets a Lunar Bloom main DPS to pair up with (whom will almost certainly will be Nefer).

I’m looking forward to seeing how the community uses Lauma when she finally gets released.