Beginner Poison Comp Guide ft. Xu

[sleek thorn]

Hello there, discord rain here, back at it again for another beginner comp. Not a speedrun comp this time, because poison is slow as always, but should be able to get you through story.

Note that this comp is not the best poison comp out there (Also poison is just not that great in general atm), but is definitely something you can try if you really like xu but doesn't have any of the limited poison supports.

As always, attached is my Hard Mode Mother tree clear with standard banner wheels and the GOAT R wheels. Thanks Discord Cheri for the Faros tech suggestion, she also did a clear of hm 7-12 with only standard unit, replacing Xu with Sanga. Now onto the actual guide.

Unit choice and break point:

Xu : the new awakener in town, hot Caro Muma. She is a good Con stat stick, str down support, baby maker and poison trigger. Unfortunately, her poison application is quite lacking, hence need other poison team mate to truly shine.

Break point: e0 is perfectly fine, e2 is complete kit, e3 and OE are just nice add on.

Faros: I sleeped on faros for ages, but turns out, she might be the best newbie poison unit from standard banner, reason being her one cost is an AOE poison application, and it scales with number of tentacle hit. The only other aoe poison option is nymph, which is more expensive in term of card cost and provide less survivability. Also, faros just applies more poison with lower investment. Her exalt is also a nice source of shield and card search.

Break point: E0 is usuable, E2 she gets tentacle hit on strike and def, which means more poison application on the turn you play her 1 cost.

Aggripa: My favorite standard poison unit actually, she offers some single target poison application and good embryo gen. But most importantly, her exalt devour effect gives permanent alert. She's currently the only unit that can stack permanent alert, so that's that. The alert combo with her exalt shield, rouse shield, white stance is going to be your main form of survivability. She's great.

Break point: E0 is functional, E1 for better arith management and E3 for more babies.

Aigis: best free Caro support, she offers embryo gen, vulnerability, keyflare and a exalt stun, the GOAT of free units (obtainable for free by beating chapter 1)

Break point: E0 is already complete, E1 for baby gen with strike, E3 for even more babies.

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Wheels:

Xu can hold her event SR wheel and R wheel, doesn't matter too much, as long as it give her aliemus regen.

Aggripa will just be R wheel holder

Faros will need a Damage Amp wheel, ideally the wheel should also buff poison, for example nymph wheel that I used here in my clear. SR wheel should also be damage amp.

Aigis take a Keyflare primary wheel, and another R wheel as secondary wheel.

How to Play:

Stack poison via faros 1 cost, 2 cost, aggripa 2 cost and Xu 2 cost.

Stall and survive by utilising aggripa devour alert, Xu devour str down, devour shield in general, white stance, and alert buffed defence cards.

Remeber, as Caro Realm, you can use the red circle on the left of your health bar for a free heal , and as aequor Realm, you can tap the tentacle icon left of Health bar to swap to white stance for a free shield.

Generally, this comp want to sit in white stance for the most part for free shield, and leave it as blue stance to generate more tentacles when enemy is not attacking or the attack is weak. Red stance is rarely used in this comp, since it rely more on poison.

3. Proc poison with Xu's 3 cost and Xu's exalt right option.

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Added tips: Usually you want to use Xu's exalt left option to build up the spellbound stack, and only use the right option when your stack is full or your poison is already built up to a good amount. Note the damage is based on how many stack of spellbound you have on the enemy.

Also note that once xu is roused, her card is essentially free once you played 3 other awakeners card this turn, make use of that.

Xu's exalt gives 3 arith, allowing for a easier rouse turn of herself.

Do prioritise aggripa devour exalt for alert stacking, this is how you will live.

Rouse priority:

Aggripa -> Xu -> faros-> aigis

Aggripa rouse is quite important for survivability since it is cheap and give you free shield everyturn.

Lastly, do remember this comp is for those that dont have the limited units like Gdoll and salvador, and still want to play Xu/poison. It is also by no means the best way to clear story (we have mouchette for that) , but hey it works. (Poison is not that great in general without Gdoll, well for now anyway.)

PS: Poison relics helps , like Alot

Also, this comp has no weakness applier, picking up 1 or 2 weakness orison is highly recommended.

[vale arch]

heres the above mentioned clear of me doing H7-12 with only lv60~ standard units and wheels

This comp can do it but its slow lol

[flat grove]

Just a very little precisation, Alert doesn't work on the tentacle shields, or relics ones, just on the ones made by units and maybe wheels.

[spark echo]

Thank you for this!!! I lack some of the premium poison units so it's nice to see a budget version I can use

[short maple]

What would be a good Posse? Currently using Festival of Tides for Card Draw, Arimeth and poison

[vale arch]

festival of tides or xu posse

[slender willow]

@sleek thorn is there anyone to replace faros and aggripa

[sleek thorn]

You can also run nymph or liz

Thou I think those two teams might have more issue surviving

Because no furnace and white stance

[vale arch]

just pull blue/red

not having standard units is ultimate poverty

[slender willow]

i only have these and lv1 aggripa...with some other lv1 char

is daff and clem better?

[sleek thorn]

Uh... I guess daff can work, but she's really hard to play

[slender willow]

why

aw man

now i have to lv up faros and aggripa..?

[sleek thorn]

She just have a complicated kit to operate

I don't play her so can't really give you much advice

[slender willow]

aw

should i go roll the ultra realm banner?

or wait for next banner

[sleek thorn]

Wait for news first I think

[slender willow]

i have nymp and liz and aggripa here
i can also get faros for free

but i will have to grind their lv...

worth..?

[sleek thorn]

What are you gonna use the team for?

Dtide wise, it's worth, since you gonna make everyone level 60 eventually

I would say just try out their trials and see which poison applier you prefer

And just level 1 character first

[slender willow]

mostly story and the event ig

[sleek thorn]

I see you already have a mouchette team for story, so i assume you just want to try something different?

[slender willow]

yeah

since xu is gorgeous

[sleek thorn]

Then i think it's fine

It's not like you gonna be short on resources in long run

Level whichever you like (just don't waste the pyramids yet)

[slender willow]

so um
whats a good team for Xu
including limited units
so i can aim for smth to roll

[sleek thorn]

Best team probably involves OE Gdoll and lily

Something like Gdoll lily Xu and flex

But OE gdoll is kinda expensive

Alternatively can try

Myriam faros Xu + flex

[slender willow]

in term of card cost?

[sleek thorn]

No as in you need to pull 8 copies of her

[slender willow]

WTF

no shit

is mouch team okay for the event?

[sleek thorn]

Mouch team is ok for any event

It's top tier dps for a reason