Daily Questions Megathread (January 08, 2026)

Very good still. Her and Aino are enough mostly for lunar charged stuff.

I have both but always try multiple teams. She deals with anything requiring Lunar dmg. That's the Herra and technically Knuckle Duckle, Fatui Shock Trooper and Sombrero dude. 

Against the Wild Hunt you need abilities that are enhanced by Ascendent Gleam which she doesn't have. Against those you need Aino - or big dps.

They don't really become harder to defeat or anything. I didn't feel any difficulty difference. Character duel and pvp are always harder.

Ineffa is a better DPS increase to a Flins team, her shield is comfy (though you're running a healer already) and she does more damage than Columbina would. She also works well as a stand-alone unit in many other teams, either as an Electro shielder for Overload, a good Hyperbloom trigger, or as a sub-DPS in any team with Hydro. Plus this is her first rerun, who knows when she'll come back.

Columbina though is the more flexible choice if you want to experiment with her in other Lunar teams, though without other 5\* units those teams aren't 'meta'. And as an Archon-like character, she'll surely rerun soon and often.

Basically, if you're thinking about endgame, Ineffa is the clear winner. But if you prioritize fun and want Columbina first, that is a fine choice.

Is C0 Furina good enough for her teams? Is C0 Mavuika good enough for her teams?

C0 is always going to be enough to make a unit 'work', especially with the newest units. Yes, C2 is a sizeable increase in damage, but that just means that she will clear Abyss a lot faster, or clear Dire difficulty with less effort. Not that she *requires* C2 to do those things.

C2 Columbina is not crazy. For Nefer team, you are better off investing in Lauma C2 (more dps AND solves the sustain issye) followed by Nefer R1 and C1-C2. With Zibai, I would most definitely go for cons on Zibai. Flins team unfortunately scales not that great due to split damage among the team members so I am not sure about the exact math.

Yes, she will convert all Lunar reactions that exist even if she's the only Nod Krai character on the team. And as long as you trigger at least one, she'll deal Lunar-type DMG every 6s. But she can still be an ok Hydro sub-DPS in Freeze/Vape teams (which have no Lunar reaction *yet* *~~copium~~*)

Also, changing Bloom into Lunar-Bloom does basically nothing for the team unless Columbina is on-field using the Verdant Dew generated to deal damage, so maybe that's what you heard. You *should* still trigger the Lunar-Bloom DMG every 6s, but that's not much without Lauma buffs.

Depends on what party you're using, but mostly yes. 


Similar to the previous NK 5-stars, her passive transforms party reactions into Lunar versions. If your party is doing any Blooms, Electro Charged or Hydro Crystallize, Columbina by herself will make those into Lunar versions. Even if she's just off-field and not doing anything. 


If you're running some Cryo-Pyro-Hydro-Anemo comp she'll just do regular sub-DPS things. (because those element combos don't have Lunar reactions) 


No comment on how strong she is in other teams, or how much NK teams add to her power. 

Mavuika E > Kachina E > Bennett E Q > Mona E Q (TTDS) > Mavuika Q (Vape burst on Omen buff) then hold CA.

This will result in a pretty big screenshot number on your burst, but without ongoing Hydro app your damage will go down a LOT after your first Charged Attack, since Mona's app is so slow you will apply Pyro again before it applies Hydro. If you want to actually deal more consistent damage, replace Mona with Xingqiu at least, and then do C2D combos on Mavuika instead of just hold CA.

[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/Flins_Mains/comments/1pujfrw/is_ineffa_r1_worth_it/) was it on release, if you have Columbina too then another 15% of your team DPS will be LCh, so maybe +6% more value? Certainly not a *bad* weapon to risk losing to if you have Ineffa or Flins without R1.


Edit: not even +6% because you'll have other Lunar DMG buffs, duh. 

Fav is pretty much always required for Faruzan, even at C6. But if your team's ER needs are already fine, then I guess yeah, Stringless works.

It should count the maintenance.
I believe it’s when the server goes live.

Any idea what your CR counter is at? Actually gets relevant when planning over this many pulls.


Regardless, I'd guess you have a decent shot, even if full guarantee might be too much to ask for. 


3x guarantee requires 3x180 = 540 pulls. (450 if Radiance is available). 


You currently have ~190 in primo's + 20 pulls + 25 pity + guarantee worth 90 = ~325 pulls available. 


Assuming they're not all in 6.4 1st half, you'd have at least 2 full patches to find the missing ~215 pulls. Between Lantern Rite and your pile of unfinished content that seems doable. 


Side note: Spoiler tags don't really work when the untagged information makes it this obvious what the spoiler is about.

any chance you have anyone else?

- [Vibrant Harriers Aloft in Spring Breeze](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grOgtE-D9nE)

- I don't believe that lo-fi version of Whistles of Monetoo was ever released on any official album. It's not on Land of Tleyaoyotl (WoM is on disc 2) nor on the most recent Shimmering Voyage album where Hoyo usually collects that sort of miscellaneous stuff.

- [Raised on Fallen Meteorites](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rivb6CSWJlA)

what Arlecchino opened is different, was just the place the specific moon marrow was hidden

well Rerir isnt in his right mind, so there was no chance of him asking anything nicely

PJ is only a minor increase from r5 Shovel on Ineffa
whats Skirk's alternative?
cause Ineffa sig would increase Flins and/or Columbina damage too

Not really because Raiden doesn't deal lunar charged damage. She will only benefit from the crit dmg increase and the refunded energy.

But if you don't have anything better, it will be a nice stat stick.

kind of nice. assuming you dont already have Raiden signature

Yes but no. The only lunar charged damage done by Raiden is her contribution to the reaction, which is a very minor slice of team dps. Also, the buff effect only lasts for 3.5s after the equipping character bursts, so you're only getting it on two ticks of LC out of your 18s reaction.

But 674 base atk with crit secondary is still by no means bad. Just forget about the passive.

You can quick start after you reach AR 28 and finish the Liyue archon quest (Chapter 1: Act 3 "A New Star Approaches").

For exploration, you can do it. After the Mondstadt Archon quest, a teleport will be automatically unlocked, you can check the map. For the Archon quest itself, you need to be AR 28 and have completed the Liyue Archon quest. Then you can use the "Quick Start" option to start the quest without doing all the quests in between. However, I advise against using the "Quick Start" option if you enjoy the story. It’s better to complete it in order at your own pace, or you might not understand the story properly.

It wouldn't do well. Your only way to spend dew is with on-field Columbina CAs, but on-field Columbina relies on Lauma quills for over 50% of her damage. And even with Lauma, Columbina doesn't get as much out of dew as Nefer does.

Other than making dew, the actual Lunar-Bloom reaction just does exactly the same thing as regular Bloom, with exactly the same damage formulas. Crit on Raiden or Nahida won't help.

Couldn't tell you how exactly that signature violates Hoyo's rules but there's an easy solution here:

>I'm just tired of having resinless players coming into my world and doing pointless tasks like handholding them so I can sightsee with them or having to tell them how amazing they played some anime song on the lyre.

Just don't (feel obliged to) do these things.

If you go by the book yes.
However I have never heard anyone being banned personally in all this time having the care to hide uid etc.
Would i personally recommend? No. I stop to think right away is it worth gambling 5 years of account on a visual mod? For me it’s 100% not worth it.
Regardless of what you choose, do research on what your are downloading.

yes but only if someone reports you and has evidence or if hoyo updates the anticheat to ban mods

primos per day from dailies has always been 60 since day 1, events like liben are temporary. only way to increase your daily primo earnings all the time is to buy welkin

Daily has always been 60. Nothing to do with the event,

Columbina will be more universal and pretty good for many other teams, while Zibai will be locked in her own niche.

Columbina is being pitched as the "archon equivalent" for NK. Which could mean that her rerun could come around faster if previous patterns were to remain (usually reruns again before the region is over).

It can be true that Ineffa and or Columbina can be good for your account. It can also be true that Zibai could be good for your account without Columbina. Zibai's best team having Columbina can also be true. You only having enough primos for one of them also being true would mean that since you really want Zibai, you should pull for Zibai and then get her supports as they rerun. Zibai can be run without Columbina, but you can't run Zibai without Zibai.

If you really, really like Zibai. Get her now. Columbina will be back before next version. Zibai will be at least decent and up to current non-Columbina lunar team standards, so that ballparks her at 110-120k, which is more than enough for most Abyss and up to difficulty 4 Stygian.

Ineffa is decent on her own, but if you're not running LC comps, or a wheelchair comp with Columbina she's not quite that useful. Basically, she's the most powerful cog in her team, but you still want one or two of the other cogs for great performance.

He's back, he was voiced in some of the Nod-Krai stuff. For whatever reason, his voice has not yet been added to A Space and Time For You. Keep an eye on patch notes, they'll say when voices are added.

He is, he voiced Dain in the 6.1 Archon Quest. I THINK he voiced him in the 5.8 (?) Natlan AQ too?

A lot of T&SfY and Paralogism still haven't had the old dialogue backfilled in yet. We're definitely getting to the point I'd love to see the workflow for whoever has the job for getting the voice files in the game, because it is incredibly hard to believe that all the voices haven't been recorded at this point (well except for Paimon's stuff, because there's a metric ton of stuff to get updated)

Hope my point of view helps. Varesa haver, ayaka haver, escoffier haver (no skirk! i pulled escoffier FOR AYAKA and wriotesley), also lauma haver, no ineffa but neffer.

Currently, varesa is the top tier electro dps with flins. Is expected that flins surpas her (just a bit) with columbina, but without her varesa is still the electro queen, and since is not expectet to have another electro (unless surprise) in nodkrai, varesa and flins will pretty much be top tier dps till sneznhaya (which is like 9 month). For me, varesa is a must pull unless you already have flins. And even if you have gaming, varessa is way above him.

Want to warning you about escoffier: while shes and amazing cryo support, will not bring your ayaka to a skirk levels. I pulled escoffier to revive my beloved (and really well builded) ayaka and wriotesley, and it was quite disapointed.... at least snezhnaya will have some cryos so i hope escoffier will work there. But be very carefull to pull her for ayaka. I also have furina-shenhe for ayaka and... still disapoints me.
Ineffa-lauma-columbina will became kinda the new version of xiangling-xinqiu-bennet; no matter what you put in the last slot, will work. So if you want columbina for that is a safe bet.

Imo you have 2 options: varesa+bina, or bina+future flins/zibai. with 71 pitty and 2 guaranteeds varesa+columbina should be resonable.

You're fine, her buff caps at 40k hp. You already have a pretty solid build, but er is a bit low so it might be better to switch to an er sword like the pipe or fav.

Since you only care about the story, it doesn't matter, pull for whoever you like the most design or personality wise.

If you want an upgrade from Aino then get Columbina.

Your preference. Ineffa would probably be considered far more flexible overall. Columbina only if you care more about making your Nefer team better (just not huge amounts better)

I would guess around 40 pulls. Lantern Rite is the main event of the patch, and it will happen in the second half, after Columbina. Also, despite them saying that we're getting primos and fates from Lantern Rite, they usually (conveniently) give those after the first half banners are over (like 12h-24h later). So you can't use those pulls to get Columbina.

The good part is that we're getting a new region, with new quests and exploration chests/event, which help with the primo income a bit in the first half of the next patch.

247 leftover is the current max.

>Can Columbina trigger lunar bloom alone without having Lauma or any other nod krai character in the team?

Yes.

>If yes, then will there be any significant difference in total team damage if i were to play DPS Columbina with Nahida instead of Lauma?

Also yes, because...

>Since Lauma doesn’t directly buff lunar bloom damage so is she really that necessary?

Lauma does in fact buff lunar bloom. A ***lot***.

>Although Nahida’s personal DMG is way worse than compared to Lauma, she still buffs EM which is great for Columbina.

Nahida & Lauma personal damage is really not that far apart. Both are pretty low. The difference is in the buffing. 250 EM is by no means bad, but it gets heavily diluted by the other sources of EM and lunar dmg% (these are additive!) that you're going to have anyway. Lauma's quill-style buffing pulls considerably ahead.

the normal route is going the way you came from down the mountain. team mate 2 touches the way point then team mate 3 runs 2s route to where teammate 1s ended(and where teammate 4 will start) so yeah its a huge shortcut for those that can do it

It’s ok as long as she lands on her butt, I guess?

it's possible to extract them from the game files, but recording them is probably a lot easier, if you can't find them online.

This site should have the files, but no clue how to find a specific one:

[https://github.com/Escartem/GenshinAudio/tree/master/GeneratedSoundBanks](https://github.com/Escartem/GenshinAudio/tree/master/GeneratedSoundBanks)

3 tries and you've done it! (aka rule of three)

yes. probably. platform: pc? which GPU / CPU?

No clue. Her last rerun was 5.6, but she's an older unit at this point so reruns are likely to be less frequent. Could be soonish, could be months, could have to wait for a potential Fontaine Chronicled banner, which might not even happen this year

>my partner says it’s a waste because I won’t be able to ascend the player.

Your partner is wrong. By AR25, you'll have automatically unlocked waypoints in Fontaine, Natlan, and Nod Krai [you can just walk to Sumeru if you need to go there]. You can just teleport to any of those areas even if you're never been. The only place that'll be difficult for you to reach is Inazuma, since there's nowhere in Inazuma that you can access without completing the archon quest. But as far as the units coming next patch, that won't be a problem at all. All of the 5 stars featured will have materials from either Fontaine [Neuvillette], Natlan [Ineffa], Nod Krai [Columbina], or Liyue [Zibai]. So unless you lose a 50/50 to Mizuki [unlikely, but possible], you'll have no issue ascending your characters.

By now you should have a few waypoints opened in the distant regions, so you would be able to visit any area for materials regardless.

I'd just pull if there is someone you like.

The matter of fact is that every roll has a chance on getting a 5* which increases with pity aka all the pulls without getting a 5*. If you were at high pity it was very likely to get a 5* weapon. Now your chance is down to very low again. 

If you just want to have fun, Columbina giving any team Lunar reactions is very flexible, and opens up a lot of fun combos. But those teams won't be 'meta', so if all you care about is optimal primogem spending, then yes, Columbina is kinda restrictive.


Edit: with *just* Columbina. If you get Columbina+Ineffa, that duo works with basically anyone to make a 100k DPS team. Columbina+Lauma is also solid, but requires Columbina to be on-field so it's less of a 'wheelchair' team.


Flins and Nefer and to a lesser extent Zibai are also incredibly restrictive units, as on-field DPS units that need specific conditions to perform well. Running any of them without a consistent Hydro aura AND Ascendant Gleam is like half their damage gone. Luckily they start high enough that you could still play them in overworld with weird teams, but not even close to endgame levels.


Ineffa and Lauma however are the MOST flexible Lunar units, because they work on their own, and don't strictly require Ascendant Gleam either. Ineffa works in any team with a bit of Hydro, or even as a shielder in Overload. And Lauma buffs other Bloom reactions outside of AG, plus works to shred Dendro/Hydro for Spread or Burn-Vape teams in a pinch.


As for the 4* units, most of them really don't offer much value on their own merit, only in and by enabling AG teams. Aino is at least Hydro, which is the best support unit, and offers Hydro app not tied to normal attacks. And her C1 EM buff is universal.

Ineffa has better application.

Application rate isn't what matters. But off-field Raiden as anything other than a hyperbloom trigger is a complete joke, so the answer is still Ineffa.

There are 4 chests in that domain. They're all along the main path.

There's one every day. 3/5 is the counter for claiming the big box.

You can redeem the box in another person's world if you really don't want yours.

Deathmatch is a pretty safe bet for Ineffa or in general. Not sure if R1 is better than VV on Flins but R5 is probably better.


Wolfs Fang might be a bit better on Durin, especially in teams where you don't get Lions Roar passive. But not a huge improvement otherwise iirc.

Qiqi was easiest for me, but depends on investment.

Qiqi is a Ruin Guard, so I just tapped against it with OHC and Sac Sword. You could use Fischl to attack instead, but I haven't tried.


Ning is a leyline defense so it's just more annoying, not very difficult if you are aggresive to pull aggro.


Kirara isn't used as often as EM driver, which is what the challenge wants. So it's not very difficult in terms of investment, but you need to swap her (more normal) HP build.

Kirara no question. You get free hydro to proc blooms. Just load her up on em and enjoy.

I think it's implied >!Dottore was behind Rerir's return, thus the 'need' for us to retrieve the Iridescent Moon Marrow to fight him, so yes. I think the theory is that Dottore pulled down more of the moon fragments as discussed in the Prelude quest(?), and with them came more pieces of Rerir (including his heart?) and that's what caused him to gain enough consciousness to appear as a discrete 'being' and start re-gaining his power.!<


>!Columbina being rejected has been an issue her whole life, so ~500 years. It's just that whatever she did for the Tsaritsa used up most of her power and caused her to not have the power to 'resist' the world's rejection of her anymore, hence her being weak for the AQ. That plus the whole severing of ties to the world and names thing that Act 5/6 was all about.!<

No, separate pity and guarantee between banner types. (Limited Character, Limited Weapon, Standard and Chronicled Wish)

Get Ineffa 100%. Trying to run her without any other Nod-Krai 5 star is pretty scuffed.

You have around a 90% chance of also getting ineffa

If you don't have any other Nod Krai characters I would say you should go Ineffa before going for constellations.

Also with just having one premium team the question is if you should go for constellations at all and if it wouldn't be better to get a new character instead.

Eg. You could pull for Varesa that is currently on banner with the 4* that are part of her best team. And then get Columbina and Ineffa which make good team core.

With this you should have 3 good teams and can try to attempt stygian onslaught menacing/fearless difficulty.

There are two types of things going on; Direct Lunar damage, and Lunar Reactions.


Direct Lunar damage works the same as normal damage, but instead of DMG% buffs it uses EM and Lunar DMG% buffs, and ignores enemy DEF. So Flins, Ineffa, Nefer, Columbina, Zibai all deal Direct Lunar damage and want Crit stats as usual. Edit: the 'Base Damage' of these Direct Lunar hits comes from Stats × Talent MV.


Lunar Reactions (LCh and LCr, Lunar-Bloom doesn't really count here) are calced weirdly, the TLDR being if anyone crits, the reaction crits. This lets Aino trigger Fav using the 'Crit' of the Lunar-Charged reaction, even if she has zero Crit Rate, as long as Ineffa (or any other Electro) applies their element first and has 100% CR. Aino applies second, thus is the owner of the reaction, thus is considered to have Crit for Fav. 


Edit: For these reactions, there is a fixed **Base DMG × Char Level** like normal transformative reactions, then an extra multiplier for no reason (**×3 for LCh, ×1.6 for LCr**), then **x (EM Multiplier + Lunar DMG% buffs)**, and then it checks Crit Rate, and if it Crits, **× Crit DMG**. Then that's the **'damage value'** for that character. Every 2s when the Thundercloud zaps someone, it checks the 'damage values' of all the characters that triggered Lunar-Charged since the last 2s interval. It takes **100% of the highest, 50% of the 2nd highest, and 8.3% of any others**, adds them all together, and that's the final damage number that the Thundercloud hits for, **÷ Enemy RES**. Same for the Geo Moondrifts.


Lauma's Ascendant Gleam buff to Lunar-Bloom works like and stacks with normal Crit buffs, but only on Lunar-Bloom damage. But her Nascent Gleam buffs are different. They essentially give the Bloom reactions a fixed 15% Crit Rate and 100% Crit DMG, where before it was 0% since Reactions usually can't crit. Giving Lauma or anyone more Crit stats doesn't change this at all, the only thing that does is Nahida C2, which gives the same bonus. So it becomes (15+20=) 35% Crit Rate, still 100% Crit DMG.

While both lunar charged and lunar bloom are "lunar" they do different things.

Lunar bloom does almost the exact same thing as bloom. It just additionally generates a resource that certain characters can use. So the crit that Lauma gives to bloom cores is a flat crit rate (and fixed crit damage) buff to the bloom damage that you would have done with the dendro core. Transformative reactions normally do not crit at all, so having a small crit rate and damage buff allows for a small additional gain. You can spend the resource (verdent dew) with Lauma hold skill or with Nefer/Columbina charged attacks.

Let's talk about the actual reaction first -- the thing that happens when you have electro + hydro aura on an enemy and the little thundercloud starts hitting it with lightning bolts.

All characters that apply hydro or electro are considered *contributors*. Each contributor goes through a damage calculation, using their own stats and rolling individually for crits, that looks roughly like...

`level * (EM + reaction bonus) * crit`

(reaction bonus is stuff like the 10% lunar dmg% on 4pc sky & serenade)

The individual contributors' outcomes are then ranked. The #1 gets to stay, #2 is divided by 2, and #3-4 are divided by 12 (this is such a harsh reduction that basically only #1-2 matter). All of them are then summed together, and that's your final lightning bolt.

Lunar crystallize works pretty much the same.

As for lunar bloom, it's literally just normal bloom (and when the dendro cores exploded they still count as normal bloom damage). The only difference is that you also get stacks of verdant dew, which have interactions with the kits of Lauma/Nefer/Columbina.

And then there's the direct lunar reactions AKA *"what if we made it so people can't run these new characters with Furina etc."*. These are just character talents that have a line somewhere that says "I'm considered lunar-whatever damage". Ineffa a1, Lauma hold E, Flins Q, Nefer CA and Columbina E & CA are (partially) like this. These are really just normal talents except they get put through a modified damage formula that, essentially, does not consider normal dmg% at all but instead puts EM in a similar role. It crits using a character's actual crits stats as usual:

`base damage * (EM + reaction bonus) * crit` where base damage = `scaling stat * talent motion value`

Lauma burst "quills" are multiplied by crit but not the EMM: `(base damage * (EM + reaction bonus) + quill) * crit`

Lauma's ascendant gleam a1 passive gives additional crit rate/dmg to such hits in exactly the same manner that Sara's c6 gives crit dmg to electro hits, and is meant to buff Nefer or Columbina the same way Sara buffs Raiden. On the other hand, the nascent gleam version of Lauma's a1 passive gives fixed crit stats to *true* transformative reactions, exactly like Nahida c2 (and when you have both of these effects, the rate stacks to 35 but dmg stays at 100).

E: naturally, the wiki has all this stuff nicely formatted at https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Damage

You don't typically build a team around Yaoyao. You put her in a team where you want a healer/dendro applier.

Somewhere like Nefer Lauma Aino Yaoyao. Or some unconventional teams like Furina burnvape

As for best build, it depends. If no one in the team is holding deepwood, she gets it. If someone is, then I guess conder city. If the team doesn't use DMG %, then some random 2pc/2pc HP pieces for better healing.

any team that needs healing and dendro app (such as aggravate or bloom teams). she's usually on instructor or deepwood or millelith or some other support set depending on ur dps/team requirements. hp or er weapons are good, such as dialogues of desert sages or fav.

her build highly depends on your dps/team.

Bloom comes up a lot, but I actually use her pretty frequently for burn teams if an abyss rotation wants it (like that one lava boss that takes damage from pyro). My actual DPS is pyro in that scenario and then she provides good, consistent Dendro application and healing for single target situations.

She can be a decent budget option for some teams, such as Nilou bloom, but in general, she just isn't very valuable. There's other healers who provide a lot more for their team.

She's pretty handy in budget teams or just casual play, but her damage is low, and in endgame it's all about damage, since it's timed. Plus she has other issues, low energy generation, low Hydro/water application when off-field. And her healing is only good while on-field, meaning you can't run an on-field DPS at the same time. 


Xingqiu for example, has decent damage, fast Hydro app, defense from his swords, and even a small heal that nobody really remembers. So many endgame teams will pick him for the better damage, and make do with his tiny heal. If you die in endgame, you just reset and try again, dodging more.

She is decent and usable early game but she is very easily replaceable. Hydro element is just too stacked.

She doesn't generate particles to refund energy while her burst has a very high cost. Her skill cooldown is very long and doesn't sync with most rotations, and its hydro application rate is quite slow. This makes her not very desirable as an off field hydro support.

She does do a lot better if you can onfield her, but there's not many non-budget teams where that is desirable.

Shes a great healer but has problems for energy, usually a 2nd hydro and/or a unit using favonius solves that issue so she can burst whenever you need to. But you'll always have to cope with her E's downtime.

i used Barbara cause i got her to c2+ which means longer skill duration, and you could buff someone's hydro damage
which for me was Chasca so that hydro buff was good.
if i didnt have better weapon, Barbara would enable the fontaine craftable bow
and she can hold TTDS
helped a lot early. i didnt even have Bennett at the time
now i got more options to play around with, that i lately add Aino instead of Barbara, unless its spiral abyss

Uhhh, maybe Valiant Chronicles? Talk to Katheryne and it should be a new option. They're Nod Krai Local Legends though


Edit; oh, maybe the Intel Exchange. Talk to Nod Krai Katheryne as Nefer or Jahoda



Or maybe Travelers Tales, there should be a 5* book in your inventory, under gadgets iirc, next to your teapot. That's a book Katheryne gives you.

If you want to on-field her, yes. If you want to have fun and you like her, yes. If you plan to get other Lunar characters, yes but I'd prioritize them over Columbina, unless you're fairly sure you can afford both. If you don't care about them and just want meta, then no, get Ineffa instead.

You can play Columbina as an on-field Lunar-Bloom DPS with just Lauma and it works well. With further investment into Columbina and/or Lauma it can compete with Nefer teams, without needing Nefer.

On field Columbina as lunar bloom dps is a lot worse than Nefer, and you need high cons to be able to compete with C0 Nefer.

Not to that extent. Lauma is meant as a buffer to hyperbloom/burgeon reactions. Infact her passive punishes you if you have another nod krai team member. Columbina in a team like that will add her own unique properties and buff the reaction but it overall wouldn't be that big of an upgrade for just Lauma teams. For Flins and Nefer, Columbina will provide a more sizable upgrade.

In general it's better to focus on one reaction otherwise they're going to compete (accidentally trigger catalyze or Hyperbloom), which loses you lots of damage. I wonder about bloom/crystallize though. Also for story it doesn't matter.

Columbina will provide support for all lunar characters and is universal in that way. Lauma will mainly buff Nefer and Ineffa will mainly buff Flin but Columbina will buff both and even the newly released lunar crystalize reaction.

Haven't done calcs but I suspect the specific characters are better for their specific teams, however Columbia is one pull for both teams. But also Columbina can't be shared across abysses. I'd say Bina for new account, advanced account should consider how many electro/Dendro teams they already have and what substitute characters exist (c2 nahida, c6 Fischl etc)

Ineffa is greater than Columbina in Flins teams.

Lauma is greater than Columbina in Nefer teams.

If you are trying to run two NK teams simultaneously then it’s complicated

You miss out on the 2 Gleaming Moon effects for running both sets. But you do you. It won't matter in the overworld. 

No, 30 cr is a huge deal.

Even crappy pieces will heavily outperform serenade as long as you have the right main stats. You do want serenade's buffs but it can go on someone else.

well Xingqiu is rather useless for Chasca
minus the defensiveness
if you get Columbina, could try Ineffa too, and Chasca could run both
but if you dont want both, id rather recommend Aino and Ineffa rather than Columbina and Ororon

she literally has a voiceline about Toothache
but also, Ineffa **tries** to control her sugar intake

One of her idle voicelines is legit a cry for help after getting a toothache. We better hope Ineffa has some good dental software lmao

some chance after second loss
100% chance is only after third loss

except a specifically cryo or dendro dps

anything else, Columbina and Ineffa will still work

except a specifically cryo or dendro dps, i think?

anything else, Columbina and Ineffa will still work and keep triggering Lunar charges together. so they call it a wheelchair team.

i guess the other problem would just be if you try adding specifically two geos, cause then you would trigger more lunar crystalizes than lunar charges.

so putting that aside. you could still run any mix of pyro, hydro, electro, anemo teammates.

and some exceptions like Zhongli or Xilonen wouldnt really be much of a problem

Because Ineffa does a ton of off-field damage, with the only condition that the enemy has Hydro applied to them at least every 6s or so. On her own, that's already good. But Columbina buffs Lunar damage, enables Ascendant Gleam that enables artifacts that buff Lunar damage, and does a decent chunk of Lunar damage of her own too. So Ineffa and Columbina both deal Lunar-Charged damage, and buff each other's LC damage. Plus add Sucrose for shred and EM buffs, and already those 3 units can deal 100k DPS at C0R0.


The reason why Ineffa+Columbina (+Sucrose) is the new best wheelchair is because all the units work from off-field. It's like Hyperbloom, you have Nahida, Xingqiu, Kuki dealing tons of damage from off-field, and you can basically play anybody you want on-field as long as they don't destroy your Dendro aura with Pyro or steal Bloom seeds with Electro while not on a good EM build. Columbina+Lauma also seems to be a strong duo, but to get the most of it, Columbina has to be on-field Charge attacking, so it's not a 'wheelchair' in the same way.

you could check out leak subreddit, put in Ineffa search, sort by new, and should show some Columbina Ineffa teams people tried out

like Raiden Kazuha, Varesa Xilonen, Hu Tao Yelan

C0 or C2 are best. Harbinger of Dawn, a Blue 3 star weapon is like 95% effective on her even compared to her Signature so it's not a great weapon to pull unless you really like the drip.


C2 Also allows you a good chance of getting Illuga C6 which is currently her best support.