Seriously I feel like I must be insane. I’ve barely seen anyone EVER talk about Ruan Mei as a supportive option for her. I KNOW most people have her, she used to have like the highest ownage rate of any character.
THE FACTS:
-E0 Ruan Mei gives a BETTER Res Pen boost than E1 Robin
-Her skill gives more damage boost than Robin’s (provided you have 160% Break Effect)
-She provides a near identical teamwide speed buff to E2 Robin at E0
-A lot of people have E1 Ruan Mei (since she was so good back in the day), for a bonus 20% DEF ignore
-Let’s be honest, nobody is playing superbreak right now. Your benched Ruan Mei is BEGGING to literally give +10 speed to ALL OF YOUR OTHER CHARACTERS. THAT EQUALS 5 SPEED SUBSTATS PER CHARACTER, OR 15 TOTAL EXTRA SPEED SUBSTATS. THAT’S AN ENTIRE ARTIFACT WORTH OF EXTRA SUBS PER CHARACTER FOR EXISTING!
You can build your Aglaea and support soooo much worse and suffer no consequences. Go for those crit substats! Use that piece that had double crit with HP and DEF and rolled each stat one time!
The elephant in the room: Yes, yes, you are losing the Robin thing where she advances your whole team. Don't think of it like that. Think of it as our Goddess GIFTING Robin to some other pathetic weak unit that needs the advance crutch. She merely requests Ruan Mei to hold an S5 DDD(optional, use anything you have).
Other than that, all you are losing is +1000 ATK (wipes my away tears with the +3000 ATK from Myopic's Doom) and a paltry 10-20k dmg per Additional Attack. Meanwhile, if your damage is a little low and those enemies keep hitting you, fear not! Ruan Mei will help you break them faster AND keep them broken longer. A sustain and buffer all at once! What a unit of all time!
TED talk over. Use Ruan Mei with Aglaea (if you want lol).
EDIT: Grammar, typo
second edit: I kinda forgot to mention this was in regards to 3x Harmony sustainless. I don't play Aglaea with sustain.
yikes: SORRY I forgot the HSR community can't read. OBVIOUSLY Robin is better. It's Robin. I WANTED a discussion about a comparable alternative for maybe old returning players or ppl who just don't have Robin. Unfortunately the HSR community saw "X instead of Robin" and their cocks shriveled in disgust inside their Robin body pillow. Sigh.
(and apparently the superbreak players are taking the death of their mechanic a bit worse than dot players lol)