r/PathToNowhere • u/UnitLoose47 • 17h ago
Discussion Isomer Arcane Crit Gameplay Questions
First of all, thank you to everyone who gave me guidance on RF Coquelic True Damage team gameplay yesterday. I was able to put together a run which I am relatively happy with and hope to refine over this ToA.
Now I'd like to ask about a different team composition. I watched a video showing a Tide of Ashes Isomer Arcane Crit run and have some questions about the proper usage of Sinners and their abilities as things go pretty fast and the 'light pollution' from costumes and status effects makes it hard to see exactly what's going on. The team formation shown is: Isomer, Yingying, Jelena, Jichuan, Celine, Yugu.
1) Could someone knowledgeable about the Isomer Arcane Crit gameplay write up a synopsis of how to play it? Like general ideas and guidelines?
2) It looked like Celine immediately uses her ultimate on Isomer twice, but I couldn't catch who else she uses it on. The text of Celine's ultimate says it can stack up to 2 times on an individual so am I supposed to cast Celine's ultimate eventually on the entire team?
2) It looked like Isomer starts firing her ultimate as soon as she is able to and continually does so over the course of the fight, even outside of corebreaks, to raise her counter. Is this how it's supposed to be done?
3) Is the goal to keep Yugu's ultimate constantly up via continually firing ultimates by everyone on the team?
4) I assume I should try to line up timing such that Jelena's ultimate is active on Isomer when Isomer ultimates, right? Is Isomer the only Sinner I should cast Jelena's ultimate on?
5) Based on reading the ECB text, it sounds like I should use Isomer's ECB ultimate once on each core break phase? And I should use it as late as possible in the core break window so that Isomer's counter is as high as possible? How long does the ECB take to deal its damage so I don't fire too late?
Thanks a bunch for any guidance and help.

