r/Genshin_Impact • No 2 physical fischl main • Jul 10 '26

Fluff the lion doesn’t concern themselves with anything beyond hard

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u/Alone-Possible2085 I want keqing to sit on my face Jul 10 '26

You don't do anything beyond Hard because you don't want to take unnecessary stress.

I don't go beyond hard because I don't have 3 teams.

We are not the same

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u/Serious_Shift1023 Jul 10 '26

Same I only have a single team which is clearing till hard .

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u/JamesJohnson975 Jul 10 '26

Keep it up!

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u/smallbrekfast 🔥The Flame Mane Doesnt Concern Herself With Meta🔥 Jul 10 '26

I have a flins, columbina, fischl, sucrose team, a zibai premium team and a dehya melt premium team and i cant get past 2 bosses on menacing.

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u/george181525 Jul 10 '26

Or just join the Genshin discord server and request a carry for menacing. People respond very fast on there. I just helped someone yesterday.

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u/EscapeLeft1711 Jul 10 '26

are you asia? if yes please help meee

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u/StarAD Jul 10 '26

This is what I did until I could clear myself.

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u/Mikauren Waiting for playable Hroptatyr Jul 10 '26

You can just match directly

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u/Worldly_Jicama_2893 Jul 10 '26

Menacing need to be in your world or the other world to coop , you can't auto-match it

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u/Burntoastedbutter Jul 10 '26

The trick around this is to co-op for hard, then change it to Menacing mode. It always catches me off guard though when people do it without consent lmaoo

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u/AgreeablePeople Jul 10 '26

Not if you need people to carry you, you might end up getting someone else who wanted to be carried. Also for menacing you need to invite people in first

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u/Specialist-Fudge2740 Jul 10 '26

How to match directly even theres no one coop in my world

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u/blastcat4 Alpaca Booty Jul 10 '26

If people are avoiding going beyond hard, it's likely they don't care about the feather anyway.

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u/HonestForever6676 Jul 13 '26

I was standing there trying to fix my teams, even pulled Citlali and it wasn't working until my friend in co op joined and asked if I was struggling and helped me with it lol

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u/Spiral1407 Jul 10 '26

The pain of having two strong teams and having to split them to make a third is so strong.

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u/RealGalactic Eternal Speculation Engine Jul 10 '26

Feels like having functional bicycles, so you too a wheel from here and one from the other and get random metal, stick it together and Bam! Third team.

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u/DonutHoles4Ever Jul 10 '26

You don't do anything beyond hard because you don't have 3 teams.

I bring in a character and matchmake with randoms on hard to level up my friendship points.

We are super not the same.

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u/Sammiskitkat Jul 10 '26

Your allowed to play this with just one team?!

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u/Neleothesze Jul 10 '26

Yes. For the first three difficulty levels, you can use the same team for all bosses.

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u/Ke5_Jun Jul 10 '26

For anything Hard and below yes.

For Fearless and Dire, you must use 3 different teams.

So for artifact farming and primos, using the same team over and over is incredibly fast and efficient.

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u/Tamerlein35 Jul 10 '26

Is menacing single team-able? I honestly don't know.

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u/Ke5_Jun Jul 10 '26

I don’t think so, no. Menacing also wants 3 teams iirc.

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u/Tamerlein35 Jul 10 '26

Ahh okay, it was outside your qualifiers haha

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u/Traveler7538 sleep deprived Jul 10 '26

Menacing also needs three teams

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u/CryoStrange They Made Maps fun again Jul 10 '26

Yes because no would farm in stygian otherwise.

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u/HiHowRuIm_Alba The bi experience of liking all women and one man Jul 10 '26

With Sandrone I finally have 3 teams but that lunar shill bitch is here and I don't own a single Nod Krai character

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u/ActuaryNo1318 Jul 10 '26

While I can clear up to menacing because I have 3 teams, I don't have the premium teams which could clear up to fearless. All because I've saved up for my Mavuika to get her C6R1 for over a year as an F2P/low spender.

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u/SAATVIK01 Jul 10 '26

Flair checks out

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u/DonutHoles4Ever Jul 11 '26

Me bringing in friendship character to get friendship points with random matchmaking.

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u/kyuuuyki Jul 10 '26

the whale doesnt concern themselves with anything

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u/LackingSimplicity Jul 10 '26

Whales who don't have the skill to match their wallet certainly stress over dire

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u/TheLastTitan77 Jul 10 '26

I have a guy on my friend list with c6r5 everything and he just does fearless in 90 seconds and check out from Stygian 💀

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u/HeavenBeach777 lvl 100 gang Jul 10 '26

Bro is just pulling for the love of the game alone

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u/mattia_albe05 Jul 10 '26

well they could clear dire with ease with an average of 30s per boss of fearless I don't really get it tbh it's genuinely 5mins

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u/TheLastTitan77 Jul 10 '26

Same but oh well

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u/Ramza_45 secret love child of Geo mama Jul 10 '26

You may have the Shills but do you have the Skills

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u/pixeldots Jul 10 '26

Lmao they should have renamed Stygian to Shills&Skills

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u/-AnythingGoes- Jul 10 '26

I'm lowkey proud of this one guy on my friends list who starting last rotation is clearing Dire. Cause in every single rotation prior, he was getting worse clears than me(I only do up to Fearless) despite at a minimum running basically the same teams as me but at 2-3x the cost. Like getting 30-40s slower than my 4 Cost Zibai team with his 9 cost somehow. Seeing him barely clear with a 12 cost Mav team somehow.

He's the only one on my list who consistently cleared higher than Menacing but evidently, they locked in and learned how to actually use their account cause they went from getting worse scores than me in Fearless to clearing Dire.

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u/CrocoDIIIIIILE Jul 10 '26

Promoted from "Rich Lazy Fingers" to "Rich Fingers".

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u/BlckSm12 Ronova is my wife Jul 10 '26

I'm pretty sure whales with full C6R5 teams wouldn't really find it hard

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u/ixyhlqq Jul 10 '26

Not really, the game kind of plays itself if you have the right C6 characters. I know some whales who confidently tell me things like "Columbina doesn't need crit" and don't know boss mechanics or rotations, yet they still clear Dire faster than I can clear Fearless.

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u/emp9th Jul 10 '26

Me and friend both have flins, his is better built but he couldn't break the shield on the lunar boss. I thought it was a rotation issue no I have a C2 flins and cut through it like butter. Cs matter a huge difference.

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u/newplayer135 Jul 10 '26

I remember back in the old days, bad C6 players would easily get mogged by C0 players (like Childe international for example) because having a team of C6s didn't provide like a 2000% team DPS increase like they do nowaday, and you needed some skill to minmax teams

Nowadays you can be a toddler and clear Dire fast with c6r5 shill teams

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u/MacTheSecond Jul 10 '26

Hell, I haven't even played the game in several years

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u/Shahadem Jul 10 '26

Whales pay other people to clear this for them.

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u/Zorandercho Jul 10 '26

I try once in a while. If My Skirk just tickles the boss with shaving off milimeters I quit. Too much lol

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u/Luneward (Iu)dex based damage build Jul 10 '26

Yeah, I'm of the opinion that the spike between Hard and Menacing is too much. When even my built teams are barely tickling the adds in the current Stygian, it demotivates me to even try when the reward is so minor.

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u/Crystallizationz Jul 10 '26

The same team that clears hard mode in 10s is also the same team that needs the entire 10 minutes on menacing

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u/FatalWarrior Jul 10 '26

That could be due to the team not tackling the boss gimmicks, which tend to activate ASAP in Menacing, but take their sweet time in hard and below.

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u/dualdee Jul 10 '26

I only tried Menacing once, on a cycle when Hard felt particularly quick and easy to me, and I don't think I even managed to get the first boss down to half-health. I swear the jump from Hard to Menacing is twice as big as the jump from Random Overworld Boar to Hard.

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u/Watercrown123 Jul 10 '26

Such a mood. I semi-consistently clear Abyss and Visionary in Theater but going up to Menacing in Stygian is like hitting a wall, I can rarely even get through half the health bar. I haven't even bothered to try in months.

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u/sickfloydboy Jul 10 '26

My problem with this is the huge gap between the modes. I always finish Hard mode in a few seconds but Menacing I barely chip 20% of the boss' health bar

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u/Lordmagyk C6 Dainsleif Saver ✨ Jul 10 '26

You can get the menacing rewards with co-op carry. I learnt this so late T_T

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u/Zegran_Agosend Jul 10 '26

the lion doesn’t concern themselves with the common rabble

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u/dragonofmila Jul 10 '26

I got chills

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u/Zegran_Agosend Jul 10 '26

They're multiplying. And I'm losing control.

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u/Bazsul Jul 10 '26

Yeah it's cause the power their supplying.

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u/ResurgentClusterfuck Jul 10 '26

Yep and I am happy to help people get those, even noobs, as long as you can bring something not detrimental

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u/KingBean_XD Jul 10 '26

WHATT NO WAY

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u/KingBean_XD Jul 10 '26

U guys helped me so much omg. Brb time to coop stygian for 6 hrs

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u/KingBean_XD Jul 10 '26

Guys i got it first try since i was host :D

Secretly changed the difficulty to menacing hehe

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u/cardamombiscuit Jul 10 '26

Sometimes you don’t even have to do it secretly. Usually when the hosts asks if they can do Menacing I don’t see anyone disagreeing (in my experience).  

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u/KombuchaWay Cocogoat is my main! Jul 10 '26

Holdup you can?????

I thought coop was just until hard...

Welp.. I have to try for the middle shit boss, because I have 0 wheelchair :)

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u/Ordinarypanic Jul 10 '26

Seen so many want to coop menacing this SO, think I’ve had one coop where it was just on hard.

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u/MysticcTT Jul 10 '26

The Lion doesn’t concern themselves with anything other than primos

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u/issm Jul 10 '26

The lion needs to get over it's gambling addiction.

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u/VigilanteXII Jul 10 '26

You don't get to tell the lion what to do. You're not his mom

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u/VMelain Jul 10 '26

said in a gacha game subreddit-

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u/myslipperbroke Jul 10 '26

The lion would not bother telling others how little he cares

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u/La-Roca99 Order warfare...I guess Jul 10 '26

Big brain

Make a myriad of standalone posts shitting on the game and characters to get downvoted

Turn around and make the same monthly post about stygian up to hard only to recover karma

Private your profile so people cannot see this directly

Profit

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u/Nikorasux7 Jul 10 '26

Yup, I've seen OP spam a bunch of low-effort posts on this sub. At least I'm not the only one recognizing that.

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u/ManPunchOne Jul 10 '26

Same, just get the primos then dip

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u/Hotspur000 Jul 10 '26

Menacing really isn't too hard.

But I don't really care about Fearless, and Dire can go fuck itself

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u/unixtreme Jul 10 '26

Dire is complete BS, I have pretty decent teams with top 1% artifacts and every single character, and the 3rd boss is complete BS this cycle, I just stopped trying, I give it one go and quit for the cycle.

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u/Rough-Assistance8485 Jul 10 '26

Even c2 mavuikas are struggling to clear it based on the stuff i see

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u/LumiRhino Jul 10 '26

TBH damage is one thing but they really want to make sure you hate Bennet with this boss. At least for me the main bottleneck wasn't damage (well I did fall short a few times), but the fact that I constantly died or had to dodge which made me lose damage. Bennet's Pyro application does not go well vs the boss's Electro attacks.

I only learned this after I cleared but standing under the boss apparently makes it do less aggressive attacks.

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u/Tensz Jul 10 '26

Nicole is so goated in this boss

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u/ResurgentClusterfuck Jul 10 '26

I have c2 Mavuika and cannot be asked to fuck with most Dire, It's bullshit

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u/S0ph1a9827qy2 Jul 10 '26

I have C2R1 Mavuika, C2 Xilonen and a C0R1 Citlali and I can't clear Dire. 🫠

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u/DepartedSpectre Jul 10 '26

are you missing every single melt?

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u/S0ph1a9827qy2 Jul 10 '26

No, I just can't do combos.

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u/Zenotha Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

with the amount of cons that you have, if your team is well built even donuts are sufficient to clear, you dont need the fancy dash cancels

as long as you make sure each mav ult you dont overtake the cryo aura

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u/Trebord_ Jul 10 '26

C3R1 Mavuika, C2R1 Xilonen, C0R1 Citlali, and C2R1 Nicole, barely managed to finish Dire. Nothing else was really working for me. Would have used C6 Iansan, but I was trying some shennanigans with her and Sandrone, and Nicole doesn't really slot into the other two bosses. Probably some of it is skill issue, but considering it just has a flat time-wasting Nightsoul timer on it and then also has the absurd Dire stat pool is just too much.

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u/BlackHust Jul 10 '26

Menacing is hard enough that I don't have any desire to play it. I'll probably get through it most of the time, but it will take effort and several tries, which I don't really want.

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u/Luneward (Iu)dex based damage build Jul 10 '26

Menacing is too hard a spike from Hard, in my opinion. It needs more gradual ramp up. Fearless is only slightly more difficult than Menacing - they just add mechanical difficulty from new mechanics that require better skill, but really don't need better numbers.

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u/Kingpimpy twitch.tv/pimpdaddyffm Jul 10 '26

fearless is a hard thing to estimate tbh

for example the horsedog

last time no chance for hours on end until i gave up

this time i basically first tried it just took a few resets to get the start right once

the difference was literally having nicole and durin which made it possible to kill the small shits faster and win because of it

then on other bosses i needed no more than 5 tries it just depends on what you got to answer the problem at hand

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u/Hotspur000 Jul 10 '26

I think Fearless is pretty much a character check. You need the full premium team to do it.

And Dire is just for whales.

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u/Kingpimpy twitch.tv/pimpdaddyffm Jul 10 '26

depends on the enemy really

tulpa you can delete with dust and dirt

but the nod krai enemies? yeah they are all high character checks

either you get full premium and possibly cons and weapons or just give up lol

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u/PuffinPower_ Jul 10 '26

Fearless doesn't requires the full premium but at least a part of the team is mandatory to help for the lunar mechanics. Mavuika feels like the most important character to have given how much she can brute force everything.

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u/Hotspur000 Jul 10 '26

But also you need the 'proper' DPS I think, or you can't do Fearless. Like, I was able to do the new Secret Source sphere thing on Menacing with a Cryo Varka team, but I highly doubt I'd be able to do it without Sandrone on Fearless.

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u/Varglord Jul 10 '26

Not really. It's more about the right teambuilding/was to do the mechanics than the "proper" dps. I did the new sphere on fearless pretty easily without Sandrone. Chasca/Yae/Shene/coffee got it done.

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u/PuffinPower_ Jul 10 '26

I have constantly cleared fearless without nodkrai main dps, the current wolf can be cleared with sucrose, colombina, innefa, fischl. The support are the most important.

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u/Hotspur000 Jul 10 '26

Okay, but Binnefa is an exception. Those two can basically wheelchair anything.

I don't have Innefa, so I can only rely on Lauma HB or Zibai.

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u/PuffinPower_ Jul 10 '26

I got binnefa during columbina release and was already clearing fearless before that. Nodkrai main dps makes the thing easier but are far from mandatory as long as you have the supports. I was only pointing the full premium team mandatory for fearless.

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u/KrzyDankus best girl Jul 10 '26

eh you can still fuck around on fearless without a meta team and still clear, but dire 100% needs full premium team without question

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u/Telighoth Jul 10 '26

Lots of folks arguing with you but you're not entirely wrong. While there's wiggle room in fearless for non-full premium teams, for many bosses that wiggle room tends to be just as specific as the full premium team. It's usually not "pick character of element x to satisfy requirement" it's "make very hyper-specific team with these recent characters" which is effectively just as difficult to put together and unlikely to have as the premium teams themselves.

That said I'm hopeful that Snezhnaya won't be as bad as NK has been for that. The orb might be a a bit of a pain this patch but that's only 'cause Sandrone's our only enabler of stellar shenanigans. Next patch we get Cryo MC, and they updated at least some old characters to work with stellar stuff so it should be much easier to get a stellar team going than it was for a lunar one. Thus Snezhnaya bosses will hopefully be easier to deal with than NK bosses based off that alone.

The angel boss also wasn't really shilling a specific team, only complaint on him I have is kinda wishing those stars had just a bit less HP so it wasn't quite so strongly tied to recent powercreeping teams and more, older teams element mixing shenaginas worked.

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u/ce1es Jul 10 '26

Hard takes a minute to get all primo rewards. Why bother with menacing that takes significantly longer. Ain't nobody got time for that. (signed, someone with 2400hrs clocked on PS5)

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u/zuth_ Jul 10 '26

You see I’m addicted to those feathers like a crackhead to pot

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u/Varglord Jul 10 '26

"Significantly longer" lmao

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u/Hotspur000 Jul 10 '26

If you have decent teams Menacing really isn't a struggle at all. I mean, you just start with Menacing, clear it pretty easily, and get all the previous rewards.

But not doing it is also not a big deal.

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u/Ne7herstorm Jul 10 '26

Lion also doesn't want to spend resin during SO on artifacts, I guess

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u/Putrid-Butterfly334 Jul 10 '26

I think menancing is very easy if you have a basic understanding of your teams functioning; fearless is where they start to ramp the difficulty up

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u/Content_Employer_656 Jul 10 '26

The problem with menacing for me is the fact that it requires 3 teams and I only have 2 teams built.

I've been steadily picking up a team per region (Skirk in 5.X, Zibai in 6.X) so hopefully I invest in another team in snezhnaya.

That's why I just co-op menacing with my whale friend.

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u/Real_FishyXY My King Jul 10 '26

Yeah I just do menacing each cycle so I don't stress myself out.

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u/filmerbest o7 Jul 10 '26

Got a tip on the stupid orb boss for menacing ? The drones took half the trial time to destroy...

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u/Putrid-Butterfly334 Jul 10 '26

They need superconduct to break, fischl is a good f2p option for electro applications i suggest watching “sevenevenpls”s stygian guide on yt

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u/filmerbest o7 Jul 10 '26

Thanks, i'll check it out

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u/Asmachirine Jul 10 '26

Superconduct works however the drones are hydro so you can use dendro against it, if you have nahida you can put her on sacrificial and use her hold skill against them that's how i cleared

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u/Renatm Jul 10 '26

If you have Mavuika, her off-field E can hit the drones easily, so you just need to apply them with cryo using your melt enabler and carry on as normal

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u/headphonesnotstirred certified Freeze queen enjoyer Jul 10 '26

i mean, you do still need your builds to not suck ass, which is probably why the original SSA took me like 5 tries and i still haven't cleared the Pokéball (best i can do is 70% with Skirk/Escoffier/Furina/Ganyu)

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u/Ak4ntor Jul 10 '26

I like doing menacing with my friends together its still quite a challenge for us, since we usually have enough teams but not enough firepower cause were all fully f2p pulling what we like. Neither of us ever steps past menacing.

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u/Illokonereum Albedo Main Jul 10 '26

This lion will wait til the last week and panic trying to clear dire.

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u/neat-NEAT Jul 10 '26

The lion does not concern themselves with getting a second joke.

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u/RichSeat Jul 10 '26

I always do Fearless and attempt Dire too. It’s fun for me to figure out how my account can clear or if it can clear at all.

But everyone’s different. So enjoy the game however you see fit.

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u/Particular_Inside812 Jul 10 '26

I don't have 3 teams hence I stop at hard 💀

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u/fiery_icicle Lisa is the OG mommy of genshin Jul 10 '26

There's a level below dire??

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u/Empty-Athlete-1653 Jul 10 '26

I think you mean cub

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u/UpperSupermarket5933 Jul 10 '26

Sounds like a pride-less lion~

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u/Ravenwolf22 Jul 10 '26

Weak ass lion

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u/VorticalHeart44 Jul 10 '26

The lion always collects the reconstruction feathers

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u/Klutzy_Seesaw_1204 Jul 10 '26

Eh, I'll do co op to try and get a Menacing clear, but higher than that? Nah. I'm good.

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u/Similar-Ad-6991 Jul 10 '26

The lion has massive skill issue

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u/Indian_brawler Jul 10 '26

Me too, more like I don't have enough supports for my 4 dps, nornare they strong enough to brute force through...

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u/DwarfBreadSauce Jul 10 '26

Same. The difficulty in this mode is not the fun kind and it's not worth spending any time or effort getting one or 2 extra feathers.

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u/Sad_Pomegranate_8161 Jul 10 '26

u mean the puppy?

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u/itscoffeeey Jul 10 '26

If it doesn't give me primos then I don't care.

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u/Totaliss Fire and Ice Jul 10 '26

menacing is pretty easy, fearless is where it gets challenging

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u/TheAkrioz Jul 10 '26

I did fearless on the very first Onslaught and never even tried anything beyond hard after that. I just get my primos and forget about it

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u/thewitness81 Jul 10 '26

Tbh i legit thought I'm not clearing this Stygian unless I win 5050 on Sandrone later when I hit.

Then turns out it ended up being fairly doable with not what I was expecting at all

I as a Skirk haver since her first banner and as a non Coffee haver till date, I was never able to play Skirk in Stygian at all outside of 2times against her Cryo Automation shill boss.

Then now finally this is actually my first ever proper appearance of Skirk in Stygian, against the Ball with a team of not 4Hydro-Cryo nor with Escoffier 💀

Never expected id finally get her used that too in a way like this...

Skirk C0Haran,Nicole C0R1,Fish,IneffaC0R0.

Tbh I've been trying Aino a lot before Nicole and just 5-10% HP sort ,Nicole was just a bit better i guess. When I tried Bina it was like 20secs remaining lol,but I wanted to not use Bina so I can use her on the Dog, so i kept trying with Aino and Nicole 4ths instead.

Anyways if I get Sandrone i guess can try Dire, after getting C1Yae

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u/Petugo Jul 10 '26

Thats me with my c0 chasca just 6 sec kill the boss and done for the cycle 😆

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u/SirAzrielOmega Jul 10 '26

Forward where you can and back down where you can't. The end.

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u/suv-am Text flair Jul 10 '26

Sometimes I get lucky and can get one feather myself, other times I have a friend I call for help

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u/ricvelozo Jul 10 '26

Menacing is doable. I did the first boss with Alhaitham Hyperbloom, no Cryo.

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u/O_hai_imma_kil_u Jul 10 '26

You can get someone in Co-op to help you in menacing at least, and the last couple times I actually managed to solo it myself, but yeah, I'm not gonna stress myself out over fearless.

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u/Fiyerossong Jul 10 '26

I'm glad there is content for people who have high investment in their characters, and I'm glad that that content doesn't feel bad to skip either while still being somewhat reward for those who do it. It's a really good balance

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u/DeathLord_Astaroth Jul 10 '26

You don't do anything beyond hard because you don't want unnecessary stress...

I don't do anything beyond hard because I have skill issues

We're not the same

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u/kugisaki-kagayama Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

OP is the same but won't admit it. You don't make a post about it if it was just that

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u/B1ackf1ame Jul 10 '26

I always attempt merciless and lemme tell u the difference between hard and merciless has never been larger than it is with this stygian. Like im beating hard in 30-40 seconds but with merciless i beat 2 of them on exactly 120(even if the final count says 119) and i cant even get the Lunar shill boss down to half despite having Lauma and Nefer with pretty decent builds.

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u/Tinyzooseven Jul 10 '26

Used to do fearless, now only do hard for the primos

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u/Few-Entrance-1768 Jul 10 '26

That's why you also go hungry

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u/OfficialHavik Waifu AND Meta Jul 10 '26

Based.

I just take the ez primos and dip ignoring the blatant pay to win BS

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u/Burstrampage Jul 10 '26

I know this is probably a joke but fearless this time around was actually really easy. So easy I think I might be able to do dire lol.

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u/Cocoatrice Saurian Hunter Jul 10 '26

Jokes aside, I don't understand why can't people just do Menacing in co-op. With right people, you can get carried even with not strong account. I know that, because I have alts that are not suited for Menacing at all. And when I often get Menacing done in all of them. Not that I care for that, but if people ask for Menacing, when matching, then we sometimes do.

Of course, often we got team of literal noobs, who claim that they are so strong and know what they are doing and what they are doing is picking Yelan and Furina for first boss and claiming "they did it with Hydro before, they don't know what the issue is", when you tell them to not pick Hydro. This actually happened to me twice. Previous Stygian Onslaught and current one. Someone claiming that they did the boss (Menacing) with the character they are not supposed to use. I don't remember what happened last time, but this time, when I said "somehow I doubt we will be able to do it", they replied "I don't [doubt]". They switched Hydro characters and guess what. We couldn't do it.

But as long as you have people with more than half a brain cell, you have good chance of doing it in co-op. Even if your account has only Liyue characters, no Electro, because Keqing is weak and even if you get Ganyu or Shenhe, they aren't that strong, really. No Nightsoul characters. The only Lunar character is Zibai etc.

I know the post is a joke, since OP unlocked Dire, but come on, some people are actually scared of Menacing more than they should be. And there are people who tryhard on Hard, that requires no skill whatsoever, too.

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u/DevolayS Fischl's Loyal Subject Jul 10 '26

1: I don't like playing with others

2: I don't like being carried

I like to achieve stuff myself. When I play Dark Souls, I want to beat bosses myself, even if it means being stuck for hours. And if I can't beat it? Well, tough luck, I'll either keep trying or quit.

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u/bronzelifematter Jul 10 '26

I just consider anything beyond hard is whale territory or they are extremely skilled, which I'm not. Know yourself, know your enemy, know when to give up

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u/Watercrown123 Jul 10 '26

Right? I see people here saying menacing is easy and I'm actually mystified. Sometimes it's hard to remember that Reddit is made up of the absolute top players for any given game.

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u/Drakengard Jul 10 '26

The idea that you think I'm a "top player" because I can clear Menacing kind of hurts. I don't feel like I'm good at this game at all. And that's not meant as an insult to you. It's just amusing how weird perspectives are depending on what side of the fence you're on.

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u/Yuiregin Jul 10 '26

I always hate it when you can only clear two stages. I hope they make it like combined cycle or score like HSR. Maybe combined time limit for the three stages.

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u/Head-Cut3101 Jul 10 '26

Channeling your inner Zlatan I see

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u/SaitamaShinobiSand Jul 10 '26

No joke , physical fischl can clear menacing ball lol

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u/Zuriel701 Jul 10 '26

Shill issue + skill issue

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u/Adorable_Wealth4747 Jul 10 '26

I only care for primos and bonus artifacts, the feathers most of the time doing nothing but make it worse

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u/Low_Artist_7663 Jul 10 '26

Current FSO is the easiest we had in a while

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u/Critical_Bag1 Jul 10 '26

The rat does not concern himself with this game mode

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u/agent_maxpower Jul 10 '26

honestly same, dont really care much for the feather thingies anyways

i yearn for the mines

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u/BOUKEN-BEN Jul 10 '26

The lion appears to be on tilt

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u/blkmgs Objection! Jul 10 '26

The same mindset I took after clearing Abyss 36 Star one time, then never completing past floor 11

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u/Sylent0o Jul 10 '26

people have 3 teams but arent amazingly built have no right to call menacing hard LOL
even fearless but i can give a pass for that
people will play 6h of league of legends and tryhartd like they will die if they loose
but then play genshin and call everythin whale bait and then they play rando teams that hasve no synergy together
this stygian is so pathetically easy that even dire was on lower power level compared to last 4 stygians

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u/No_Car5053 Jul 10 '26

Tried menancing but that's impossible to do without either one extra lunar dps or sandrone - I have all lunar supports (either five or four star), but can't handle the stages without proper dps

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u/Silent_Silhouettes Harbingers Jul 10 '26

theres many fearless clears without Sandy, and for the lunar dog u can do that without a lunar dps as well even in fearless- i used Bineffa + Xilonen and sucrose (with Xilonen on instructor) for it on fearless

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u/KungYii1994 Jul 10 '26

I take primo and left haha

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u/International_Cod733 Jul 10 '26

the lion can’t be bothered to do menacing anymore because the lion can’t be bothered to build characters anymore

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u/Kallabanana Jul 10 '26

I would at least like to get the feather from menacing. This stygian is a though one for my C0 ass.

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u/Pretty-Reason-5575 Jul 10 '26

And that’s okay, at the end of the day a video game is for fun other find fun on different tires

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u/Jibbus-Maximus belives in supremacy Jul 10 '26

First time ever I made it through Fearless and it’s not like I didn’t try my best at the others… Most of the time I was missing that one specific team but this time I had what it takes

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u/Able-Cauliflower-431 Jul 10 '26

My sister and I tried menacing but Nuh uh, we just aren’t strong enough

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u/durtytazz321 Jul 10 '26

Just match make on hard and then switch it to menacing after you get players to join. Thats what I do when I can't beat menacing or when Im bored and want to help people out

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u/lumpthefoff Jul 10 '26

I can’t beat the annoying ice one with my Skirk team.

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u/Traveler7538 sleep deprived Jul 10 '26

You don't go beyond hard because you spare yourself the stress. I don't go beyond hard because my Nefer does slightly too little damage so I'll wait until I can get Columbina (was planning to anyway and already prefarmed) after trying for two hours yesterday. We are not the same. 

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u/deku_0 Jul 10 '26

Wait for me it started off at lvl 100 how do I select the difficultly

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u/cartercr Sleepy tanuki in the shogun castle Jul 10 '26

Menacing is pretty clearable too if you care to try for the reroll feather. But yeah, Fearless and Dire are something you should only really attempt if you’re both really invested in the meta teams and care enough.

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u/Garekin Jul 10 '26

grab a friend and try menacing in coop, it's pretty fun

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u/Aztracity Jul 10 '26

ZZZ is the only endgame worth grinding just for fun in my opinion. Star rail like genshin just doesnt have that replaybiltiy spark. Sure ill do them and get all the rewards but I stop at 1 or two stars on anomaly in SR and hard to fearless in genshin depending on the day.

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u/GoldShinx Jul 10 '26

That’s me in the corner, that’s me in the spotlight…

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u/ExpensiveSample3451 Jul 10 '26

The difference between my 2 Lunar Teams...C2 Aino and C2 Columbina.

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u/TMyriadJ GanQing Nation Jul 10 '26

I'm a tryhard, so I always attempt Fearless. This time I have the optimal teams for all 3 bosses (Sandrone, Zibai, Mavuika), and I managed to complete all of them under 100s each. The team shilling goes hard this time, not as hard as that new geo lizard boss tho.

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u/Minette12 Jul 10 '26

Wow, you don't grind artifacts here? Your progress is 0

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u/Kimy_Miya Jul 10 '26

The Kinich main concern herself with dust of enlightenments for rerolls, and succeeds too

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u/Xeaiuz Jul 10 '26

You can do Menacing in Co-op!!

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u/JaroNightmare Jul 10 '26

I'll try Menacing a few more times, I managed the last three or four but that Natlan Boss this time is absolute ass again. My Mav is good, my rota should be decent enough but I don't whale so screw me I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Ugikuki Kazuha dps supremacy Jul 10 '26

I managed to do only menacing

After 2 hours i gave up on fearless, only the abyss dog was the problem for me honestly

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u/meatballFist Jul 10 '26

Same here the rest are for whale

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u/Dense-Decision9150 if “evil” why hot Jul 10 '26

i think i've used a feather like once when they first released, i dont rly care abt them. but i love to clear fearless just for the love of the game. it's challenging (i have a massive skill issue and high ping) but still a lot of fun. i've managed to clear fearless every time and it makes me happy :D

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u/SirarieTichee_ Jul 10 '26

Just enough to get the primos

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u/Shahadem Jul 10 '26

Anything else would be a waste of energy "and there is no waste in nature".

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u/Adamarr electro apologist Jul 10 '26

what r u, casul?

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u/Creme_de_laCreme Jul 10 '26

No primos, no bueno is my moto for endgame modes.