Reuploaded video with updated thoughts about Mika. Let’s check out how strong Mika is! We’ll be going over where he does and does not work along with what to use with him.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:44 Overview
2:26 Team Rotation
2:47 Talent Priority
3:35 Burst Usefulness
4:03 Constellations
6:55 Artifacts
9:01 Weapons
10:47 Team Comps & Synergies
12:41 Rating
14:02 Issues w/Reliance on Eula & Updated Thoughts
15:55 Outro
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Again, this is a reupload. But I did update some things and I added some of my thoughts toward the end.
Eula proves that dealing a ton of damage quick can be bad sometimes 🥲
welp, at least he's gonna be a good radar for Mondstadt stuff
I'll try to get 1 or 2 or 4 or 7 for Eula
I feel like you're giving mika's attack speed increase too little credit. While bennet's buff is undoutably really strong, it only provides Attack bonus, which doesnt affect reactions. The attack speed bonus mika provides will increase the damage of any character that attacks by that attack speed bonus. So for example even raiden shogun would deal increased damage during her ult. With attack speed being such a rare buff, 25% increase also means that damage output overall will be increased by that much. And unlike bennets attack buff, characters that specialize mostly in reaction damage may actually profit more off of mika, than bennet. And while buffing characters like raiden, mika is also able to take over as a main dps during down time aswell as covering a healer slot that you would otherwise need to bring. So in a sense mika and bennet are very simmilar, yet they cover very different characters each. And looking at how much attack bennet provides, it turns out to be only 20%-30% of a characters attack stat aswell. The only real difference between the two is that bennet doesnt cover reactions at all and mika only covers attack related damage. The thing with attack speed is that there are damage brackets, lets take yelan's burst for example, which can trigger once every second. So if a character has an attack speed that hits once every 2 seconds, then yelan's burst will trigger on every attack and even after buffing the attack speed by 25% it will still trigger every attack, therefor it will trigger more often after beeing boosted. If however a character attacks exactly once every second then after boosting yelan's burst would only trigger once every second attack after 1.5s, which is less times than previously when it could trigger on every attack at 1s flat. So there are brackets where the boost is beneficial and some where it wouldnt be. So mika for sure is very nieche, but I wouldnt call him weak
Just like Sara and Yun Jin to an extent, I can look at Mika and say “wow, now I can put Bennett on another team!” But even then, I’m not sure if he can out damage or out heal Barbara with Thrilling Tales.
Good video, keep working on your English! Very good effort.
When you finally C6 your Bennett fully expecting specialized supports to be available as a replacement: Yay Mika!
mika is meant to be buff for eula only,
so.. the question "is mika too weak to be niche?" is not relevant, i think
Mika can't have issues with supporting if you're using him as DPS instead 😎
For real though, idunno why they didn't build in his detector stack passive into his kit. It's such a strange choice, he could've gotten another passive that does… Something else. Oh well, I don't even have Eula, I'm just building Mika because he's adorable lmao.
The problem with this is that it doesn't really fix the problem that enemies have an extremely large pool of Physical RES.
Even if you take into account by using superconduct and having a c6 rosaria still do much considering that rosaria is the only one that's doing the "RES Shred". The thing is Eula already has big dmg. With proper artifacts and weapons, the buffs mika gives is nearly useless.
The increase in Physical dmg and Normal atk dmg is almost useless for Eula considering she already hits hard with it. Especially if you have Eula's Signature weapon and the 4 pc Pale flame set or 2 pc Bloodstained 2 pc Pale flame.
He's only ever useful if you DO lack in physical dmg and Normal atk dmg from Eula. But even then it's not enough to compensate the large amount of Physical Resistance from enemies. Take a look at enemies with large pools of Elemental RES, they get shredded really hard because of elemental reactions and ESPECIALLY being swirled from an anemo unit. The lack of having a unit that shreds the enemies Physical RES is quite bothersome in some way.
Mika is too niche! And to add to the already existing problem, this stupid company put Mika in a banner where EULA ISN'T IN. (Yes, I'm a eula main and am extremely disappointed)
I hope we get Mika for free so I won't need to pull on that banner
great this means i can give bennet to other teams..
I will get him for physical memes
I agree with this assessment. What saves him, if so, is the healing.
He can be too niche, but i hope he will be good at this niche like yunjin, gorou or shenhe
After this I just expect getting a 5star Mika in the future to make psydical units shine again
Hoyo has 1001 ways to troll us
As always tho
I think he can absolutely be flexed more than Faruzan or Gorou.
Like in the livestream showcase, he can be used with a normal attack carry like Yoimiya solely for his BIG attack speed bonus (this is on a SKILL btw with a 3s downtime) while also filling a healer slot. One can argue "why not just use Yunjin then", well I think more choices for teams is always welcome, if you wanna use Yunjin then sure go ahead.
I think the reason why his phys damage buffs are on his ascension talents is because it's like a bonus to his kit, not the entire core of it. I think people look at him, see "physical damage bonus" and immediately say he's unusable outside Physical. Some also see his C6 "+60% crit dmg" and immediately say he's con-locked.
I will use him with Ayato because I really don't wanna build Yunjin (also in my Layla + Ayato team, Mika can add hypercarry potential to ayato, provide cryo resonance, and heals) so that leaves an extra slot for me! Maybe Yunjin even to double down on the hypercarry/freeze! Isn't that great?
ATK SPD can bring more in later patches, as of now we have the meta round ATK and EM, Vaporize/National and Hyperbloom to be exact.
Physical DPS will probably shine later as it is usually tied to cryo/superconduct, this might be copium but Mika is a potential meta character when cryo becomes the center element (copium Tsaritsa Cryo God Meta incoming lol)
They should have just had him boost atk. Eula has her own physical damage buffs so adding to that doesn’t really make a difference, even if you want him to just buff physical damage just limit the attack boost to physical hits, but a tiny boost in physical damage just isn’t that good
I mean I don’t need Mika but like he is adorable so.
Am i the only one that think he can be good with scara ? For the attack speed ? (Copium)
Time to buff my phys zhongli
Rosaria C6 is amaizing for her. But since you want a shield and Mikas healing may Not be enough without one…I think the best Eula Team would be.
Eula
Raiden
Zhongli (4 piece minilith)
Mika
I was hoping Mika would give a much higher buff than what a c5 Bennett provides but from what ive been hearing hes not worth going for if you have Eula since you'd need him at c6 to be better and even then he's only marginally better.
All i heard was "Bennet" every 5 seconds….
Crescent Pike Xiangling will be meta again
mika is gay,trust me…idk why one monkey in hoyoverse make this rat gay character,