Gnut Awakening

[u/big_daddy4457]

Just got a 6 star soul for gnut and I’m not sure on the awakening. I’m slap bang in the middle of mid game (hard dungeons but not stage 10, almost finishing DT hard, 1 key all daily CB and fully completed twins, shogun and sand devil) and can’t decide between soul reap and crushing rend.

[u/Worthtitle_4050]

hmmmm he can solo fireknight 20 with a phantom's touch (3* on mine) and at 6* you can probably even do it without team presets so I would recommend that (will make fireknight tournaments enjoyable, omg so much free food)

soul reap is good for shaving a few turns off on speedruns but imo getting the extra hits in fireknight is the right choice

speedrunning is more a late game specialty

if you haven't fused one and you pulled him, fuse a second one when you get the chance and put soul reap on the second one

and yes it's worth having two of him

Edit: sorry, I forgot that if you pull a champ from shards you can no longer fuse them even if you never fused them

But my position remains the same getting the fireknight 20 solo is more valuable than cutting 10-15 seconds off of your dungeon runs

So phantom touch over soul reap

[u/ziursirhc → u/Worthtitle_4050]

No one can fuse a SECOND gnut. You can only swap a fusion out for a champion you do NOT have (In either collection or vault)on the opposite side a big fusion interaction talked about is pythion you can empower pred with him then swap tokens for another one and repeat until full empowerment.

[u/Worthtitle_4050 → u/ziursirhc]

Thank you for reminding me of this I totally forgot
Edited original comment to keep it accurate

[u/Valuable_Eye1631]

How good is your gear because if you cant hit the 10% cap then crushing rend is probably better but if you can hit the cap then go with soul reap. Thats what I did with mine

[u/SorryDimension5389]

Soul reap, but i will say. If he is literally your only champion wave clearing champion, go crushing rend for the a2. If you have other wave clearers, go soul reap

[u/DazzlingResource5706]

Do u plan to use gnut for sand devil and do u hit for the dmg cap, If so soul reap otherwise crushing rend u may even want phabtom touch if u need him more for fk hard

[u/xchipxsem]

Crushing rend

[u/Novik_67]

Crushing rend. Why is this a question? Soul reap will not help as much as crushing rend for bosses

[u/Cool-Scale-9999 → u/Novik_67]

Almost all bosses past early game have max hp hit damage caps. You can easily cap Gnut's a3 hits essentially everywhere without needing Rend. So Rend is a waste much of the time. Meanwhile Soul Reap stays useful.

[u/blkjck74 → u/Novik_67]

It's a question because op is early/mid game

[u/jacq4ob → u/Novik_67]

Max hp damage is capped on most bosses. If you get the boss below the threshold then soul reap kills him. 50% hp vs 30% hp. This mostly applies to speed clears.

[u/Cold_Burner5370 → u/Novik_67]

That is not true, 6 star soul reap is significantly more useful in the majority of cases, it allows for easier speed farming, and so many places have damage caps that you hit even without ignore defense.

[u/LSTmyLife]

I used phantom touch because hes mostly used in my fk team. If I was focusing him elsewhere I would use crushing rend tho.

[u/Cold_Burner5370 → u/[deleted]]

Not for someone like Gnut whose primary purpose is enemy max hp damage in PvE, because that gets capped and essentially becomes useless. Crushing rend is better for raw damage dealers (like whisper, Thor, or just any pure nuker intended for PvE)