268 responses to “Skirk”

1. Since her Void Rifts spawn under the Superconduct reaction, what’s a meme Superconduct comp for her?

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   • While you fight an enemy has electro aura, you can not make freeze reaction, so the superconduct is here to fix this problem.

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2. Dilemma:

   I’m basically trying to decide how to finalize the build without falling back into endless farming — because honestly, I’m sick of it.
   I have two options for artifact creation:

   3 Elixirs → Craft an on-set Crit DMG Circlet

   OR

   4 Elixirs → Craft an on-set Cryo DMG Goblet

   I could craft both of them in a week.
   But:

   If I go for the Circlet, I’d pick Crit Rate and ATK% as the two locked substats. But I already have a strong off-set Crit DMG Circlet with good stats, so unless the crafted one rolls extremely well, it’s basically pointless.
   Also, using an on-set Circlet would require me to switch to an off-set Goblet, and all my off-set Cryo Goblets are mediocre at best. The only good ones I have are ATK%.
   So in that case, I’d just be swapping the roles (on-set vs off-set) between my current Goblet and Circlet, without gaining anything significant. Pretty much a waste.

   On the other hand…

   If I use 4 Elixirs for a Cryo Goblet, I can lock Crit Rate and ATK% as substats. That gives me a shot at a stronger upgrade — and allows me to choose between Cryo DMG or ATK% Goblet depending on team comp, keeping the solid off-set Circlet I already own.

   My current build:

   On-set:
   1. Flower – 14.4% Crit Rate / 15.5% Crit DMG / 9.9% ATK%
   2. Feather – 11.3% Crit Rate / 26.4% Crit DMG
   3. Sands (ATK%) – 13.6% Crit Rate / 7.8% Crit DMG

   On-set Goblet:

   4. ATK% Goblet – 3.1% Crit Rate / 14.8% Crit DMG (crap, and ATK not Cryo)
   (I’m considering using the upcoming substat reroll system on this one when it drops.)

   Off-set Circlet:
   5. Crit DMG Circlet – 13.2% Crit Rate / 5.8% ATK%

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   • If you’re using your elixirs, you have no reason not to use make an onset goblet with both Crit Rate AND Crit Damage. Even if you’re using Furina, I feel like you’d still want cryo damage over atk%. An onset elemental goblet with double crit is just too rare to pass up

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3. Im so disappointed with her visuals, bweugh cosmic fish-slop. I wish i could have my Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade, Skirk design instead of this… Cum looking thing…

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   • oh hell naw dog, the only bad thing is that she looks bit too much like hsr, except that she looks really good, way better design than many existing characters

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     • I just dont like the theme, and i saw her fisrst design iterations that were cooler. Cosmic insect fabrics and materials look of hoyo is… questionable, they do a plastic or rumbber looking thing sprincle it with glitter and call it the “Abyss eldrich cosmic” or whatever… Its like hoyos perseption of eldrich horror is a petite woman with basic features or white hair every time. The fish animations ruin it the most for me, i could’ve beared the model in itself.

       If it looked like any of the insect looking armors aka Astalos from Mosnter hunter it would be cool, but this is like “cosmic insect fabrics” but somehow as a moe-weeb underwear.

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     • Yeah the nonsensical structure of it and how it looks like a girly mini-pajamas with such a light and see-through fabric. If to hoyo a cosmos some kinda inbetween of worlds, and the night and dreams theme is the same then im not vibing with this idea.

       Also too much sea creatures for my taste to represent cosmos ATM, i hope they dont make it just an underwater abyss but with glitter, if we ever going in there.

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   • me when i watch too much porn

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     • Go jerkoff, stop projecting.

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   • VinnieDOG

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4. Is there gonna be an v6 update on Skirk or v5 is the final version?

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5. Is there gonna be v6 update on skirt or the v5 is the final ? 😭

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6. my team will be citlali ttds cinder city
   shenhe
   furina
   ganyu or yelan
   since I dont have escoffier 💔

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7. So she’s not as niche as Nilou. Can I use her with some supps like Mavuika, Xilonen, Kazuha, Furina and Benny for Melt Skirk?

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   • tf are you talking about
     are you blind to all the discussions happened in this page?

     she remains niche to frozen and heavily demanding escoffier
     otherwise you lose over 40% damage

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     • bro calm down… yes there’s a clear direction towards the tailoring of her kit and playstyle however the descriptions clearly made it obvious that you can play her with any reaction. the strict rule is only tied to her teammates’ elements. instead of acting like an overconfident sheep, how about you actually read her kit and analyze for yourself

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       • It’s written in her kit right there, her passive directly drops her damage, team skill levels, and rifts produced the less cryo/hydro you have on the team. So it’s less ‘tailoring of her kit’ and more a hard requirement to run freeze to be effective in high end stuff. Otherwise with the teammates you suggest she’s just some kind of glorified reverse melt normal attack bot in which you’re also adding an EM stat that she needs. It’s just not good.

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   • Yes you can.
     Don’t listen to those that say otherwise.
     Her kit makes a freeze team Not useless, that’s it.
     You can use her however you want.

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   • If you’re willing to read a reply then may as well read her whole kit above and the discussion here.

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   • yes, you can use her in any team, although generally speaking freeze would come out on top but generic melt team comps wouldn’t be too far behind in that aspect. this is the reason why they directly stated every cryo related reaction to work with her talent passive other than just freeze.

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8. skirk isn’t as restrictive as everyone says she is, at least if you think about it.

   although let me put it out there that freeze team is probably still by far the best however other teams would still come close with all things considered. let me explain.

   unlike kinich, she’s not gated by reactions because kinich’s whole playstyle is centered around filling up his bar which only gets impacted by burning or burgeon. her kit clearly states that she synergizes with every cryo related reactions, although has clear favoritism towards ally ELEMENTS but not reactions strictly speaking.

   what restricts her are two things in her passive but also an indirect factor as well, which I will touch upon later: 1st one indicating that her elemental skill gains 1 level if her team only consists of hydro and cryo which honestly isn’t a big deal if you miss out on it because kazuha dmg buff and res shred for instance far outshines one measly level up.

   3rd passive can only be activated by hydro and cryo users which starts from 110% to 170% for skill and 105% to 160% for burst.
   the buff is significant indeed however you realistically only need one other hydro or cryo to achieve those whopping 110%/105% dmg bonuses and can use other characters or reactions to make up for the difference lost easily with characters like xilonen, kazuha and bennett. on the other note melt is still absurdly stronger than freeze.

   with all this being said this makes up for the loss in maximum potential. good design choice if you ask me because all they did was overadjust her scalings because they wanted to justify freeze teams being able to dish out high dmg because other competitions were just the obvious choice generally speaking. if anything she’s not restrictive but more flexible because she can make both melt/vape teams and freeze work on a similar level and potentially better, but take that with a grain of salt.

   almost forgot but the indirect factor to the restriction is escoffier. skirk by herself can survive outside of freeze teams but escoffier is a different matter. if you wanna opt outside of freeze teams then probably avoid using escoffier.

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   • Wise words.
     She’s not niche.
     She’s designed to compensate for the loss of damage of a freeze team due to the lack of elemental reactions.

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     • After some calculation it looks like the design is exactly that (while still favouring freeze). Assuming 3 hits/2.5s ICD on all attacks, she can melt around 1/3 of her damage. If she has 2 Death’s Crossing stacks by including a pyro teammate, around 200 EM will make up for the loss of a stack, which is generally what a normal reaction DPS would want.

       You will lose a number of teammates though: Escoffier is self-explanatory, and any hydro (other than Dahlia) might steal pyro aura.

       You are also more or less stuck with Mavuika if going solo pyro, since Xiangling will either have serious energy issues or deal no damage because everything went to ER.

       It *is* possible to use Bennett for pyro application and melt Skirk’s ult (I think).

       Adding more non-blue teammates means higher EM breakpoint, ~400 for 1 stack and ~700 for 0 stack.

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   • Each “Death’s Crossing” stack increases the Normal Attack DMG dealt by Skirk in Seven-Phase Flash mode to 110%/120%/170% of its original DMG and the DMG dealt when using her Elemental Burst Havoc: Ruin to 105%/115%/160% of its original DMG.

     meaning you get 10%/20%/70% and 5%/15%/60% damage bonuses for each additional hydro, cyro char right?

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     • they’re actually base dmg multiplier not the typical dmg bonus

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   • Her A4 passive is a base damage multiplier, not a DMG bonus as one might get from goblets. Therefore she only gets 10% stronger with a single stack. It is possible to make up via melt, but unfortunately Skirk’s damage comes in multiple hits (with very likely normal ICD, since she isn’t designed to deal reaction damage), which hinders melting. Her A1 triggers on everything except for melt.

     Multipliers are not the only thing that affects what playstyle a character favours. Take Ayaka for an example: nothing in her kit directly restricts her to freeze; however, she does heavily prefer freeze. This is due to her burst dealing damage in 20 hits with normal ICD – meaning only just over 1/3 of her damage can be melted, and said burst also pushing small enemies away if they are not frozen.

     This does discourage, but by no means forbid, Skirk to be in a non-freeze team. Unlike Nilou or Chev, Skirk does not stop functioning outside of her preferred team. Teammates with sufficiently strong buffs or personal damage, or possessing required utilities, will work just fine if they are needed to beat some challenge.

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     • noticed how some people pointed out that the passive is a base dmg multiplier and not a dmg bonus multiplier which is an oversight on my end. good thing you guys were here to correct me, but that by itself doesn’t bury my take necessarily… and then we get to the part where you mention ICD which I didn’t fully take into account for. yes valid concern but considering the player isn’t using any characters that buffs her attack speed, I still think melt could be a viable option other than freeze. however if characters like chongyun and dahlia are used then I suppose that there’s no point in comparing the two team comps because freeze 100% beats melt in that aspect.

       feel free to call it cope but outside of normal attack spam teams I still would like to hold on to the belief that melt might work. at least until we’re able to test it out 🥲

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       • what a delusional comment section, in what world would a few melt procs make up for a 70% base dmg multiplier, and we havent even begun taking coffe shred and furina fan fare. with how the kits work your at max buff all the time from the looks of it. How is melt going to overcome this diff. thank god this conversation is quarantined here in a forum with peeps who dont have may more brain cells to loose

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         • the copium is strong here

       • It’s not that there won’t be enough pyro aura, but rather that Skirk fares poorly at taking advantage of melt. Consider a simplified situation:
         – Skirk hits an enemy a few times. Both NA and burst playstyles deal damage in multiple hits so non of Skirk’s damage can be fully melted. Even her CA is 3 hits.
         – Assuming a 3 hits/2.5s ICD on all of her attacks, on average only 33% of her damage can be melted. Realistically 50% damage of a full NA chain can be melted, with half of that coming from the last hit. This means like Yoimiya, breaking the chain can result in significantly less damage. Her burst is worse in this aspect, as the strongest final hit cannot be melted.
         – Melt provides a 1.5x multiplier. EM provides another, which is independent and multiplied with everything else.
         – To make up for having only 2 A4 stacks (instead of 3), which is to deal 40% more damage, the 33% that does gets melted needs enough EM, that the 33% becomes 73% (compared to the 100% before melt). There will need to be 47% extra melt damage from EM, which means having around 280 EM. In the case of a perfect NA chain (50% melt), the EM breakpoint would be around 100.
         – With less hydro/cryo teammates, Skirk will need even more EM, up to 400~800. By this point the loss of ATK and Crit from building EM already bodes ill for melt.

         Without considering teammates (and her skill+1 passive, which affects the whole team), Skirk (in a vacuum) needs quite a bit of EM for melt to catch up with freeze at all, at the cost of other stats and synergizing teammates that she originally had access to with freeze.

         While you might say there are reaction DPSs with normal ICD, their kits contain nothing that makes them do just as well (if not better and easier) reaction-less.

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9. i feel soo sorry for the people who waste their primos on escoffier, especially if you already had xilonen.

   xilonen does everything she does but better. dont worry ill pray for you

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   • why you coping so hard

     don’t worry, you’ll get lucky on next Escoffier banner

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   • I haven’t pull for Escoffier nor I will for Skirk, but what you are saying is fundamentally wrong.

     First of all, they are two characters with different roles: Xilonen is a support, Escoffier is a sub-DPS with some added support traits.
     Second, they do a similar job in the right team, you can easily do the math on Aspirine like I did: assuming both teams having
     – Neuvillette C0 with 35k HP, max lvl triple crown, full proc R1 Tome, full proc 4pz Marechaussee, 344% crit damage
     – Furina C0, lvl 10 burst

     On the first team with
     – Kazuha C0, 900 EM, VV, R1 Freedom-Sworn
     – Xilonen C0, 3k DEF, R1 Peak Patrol, lvl 10 skill, 4pz Cinder City
     Neuvullette deals 101k with charged and 137k with burst

     On the second team with
     – Escoffier C0, R1 Symphony (doesn’t effect Neuvi charged and burst), full passive talent 2 proc (-55% hydro+cryo DEF), no support artifacts
     – Citlali C0, 900 EM, R1 Offering, 4pz Cinder City
     Neuvullette deals 93k with charged and 129k with burst.
     If we want to give Escoffier some support traits instead of sub-DPS, then let’s assume she has about 3k ATK and 4pz Days Past: she’d proc a >13k healing every second for 6s after burst and with this bonus, Neuvillette damage increases to 105k for charged and 134k for burst.

     As you see, they are pretty darn close, aren’t they.

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     • bro is using a team that doesn’t need escoffier like bro she has a 100% up time on her 55% ice ress sherd also is like the best support for skirk who looks mid without her xilonen C2 is in her C1 also need like 3 seconds to do her skill and burst I freaking own both and xilonen feels like a downgrade for freeze teams

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   • I have both of them. I don’t consider Escoffier as waste of primogems because she makes Freeze so much better than before and I really enjoy playing with that reaction. Escoffier can also give very good Cryo application but Xilonen can’t so she’s good that way, too.

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   • team wide healing:

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   • Xilonen has less res shread, doesn’t do 1% of the personal damage Escoffier does, doesn’t have team wide healing and doesn’t apply cryo

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   • skirk needs all party members being cryo/hydro to make better use of the passive talent

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   • while your copium crying this, skirk passive talent is screaming for espresso.

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   • dude, have you read skirk’s skill ? skirk will be much weaker if she doesn’t play with hydro and cryo teammates. =)

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   • Me when I salt so I’ll be grape fruit instead.

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   • The hard truth is you need to touch grass young chubby ubby.

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10. If I play her with Furina and Escoffier, MHunter artifacts stay as the BiS, right?

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    • no it’s maiden beloved

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    • it’s top 2 set with furina for her (if you don’t have a sign or crit rate weapon)

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    • her own bis set is better even with Furina in there

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      • No

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