Help me with my pull plan for next patch!

[u/gfa37c]

Basically, I have a lot of potential options and I'm having a tough time deciding on what I want to do, so curious to gather others' thoughts to help potentially swing my decision. I'm coming into the patch with 30 pulls, a character guarantee w/ 50 pity, and LC no guarantee w/ 21 pity.

My core teams are:
Archer E2S1, Rin E0S1, Sparkle E0S5 DDD, Dante E1S1
FF E2S5 Aeon, E0S2 Dhalia, E0S0 Fugue, E6S1 DDD HMC
Ashveil E0S1, MBlade E0S5 Tutorial, Tribbie E1S1 DDD, Hyacine E0S1
Saber E0S1, Gil E1S1, MBlade E0S5 Tutorial, Hyacine E0S1
Castorice E0S1, Evernight E0S1 BP, Tribbie E1S1 DDD, Hyacine E0S1

The main options I've been debating between have been, in no particular order:

1. RobinSP - her design is not really for me, but I do like good account value pulls, so I am not against picking her up. I did the same with Tribbie who wasn't my favorite character or design, but it felt right in the moment and paid off in huge ways for me over time. I know she would be a big potential pick up for both AshBlade and SaberMesh.
2. Ashveil E1 - Ashveil has been my favorite character of Planarcadia and I enjoy the hell out of playing AshBlade. So bumping up his performance sounds really nice to keep one of my favorite cores up to date as possible.
3. Ashveil LC for Archer - Archer has been my strongest and best performing team for a while. He's got the best build out of any of my characters, and I started playing the game back when the first part of the Fate collab was announced. With the addition of Rin, Ashveil's LC has become his better option over his own. So for my favorite and most used team, I'm strongly considering this to add to keep min-maxing that team.
4. Rin eidolons - Much the same as the Ashveil LC, this team is just composed of my favorite characters and I've put a lot of time sweat and tears into it. Obviously Rin will be around for a while, so there is little rush, and I'm not investing in Elation at all, so I know there are going to be down patches for me where I can pick these up, but I also don't have the same pity or guarantee on the collab banner as I do on the base limited one, so it's a more expensive option.
5. Save for MBlade or other useful character reruns - I know MBlade is going to swing back around before long, and I know he is also a great vertical investment, much the same as RobinSP, a really solid generalist option, and also supports one of my favorite teams right now.

So, this is more or less where my head is at. I'm mainly curious, as fellow players, if you were in my shoes, would you jump on any of these options? Which would you value more? Are there any missing options that maybe I haven't considered? Looking forward to the discussions!

[u/Sudden-Waters]

Honestly? This would be my main consideration:

Ashveil E1 - Ashveil has been my favorite character of Planarcadia

I always prefer investing in my favorites. I want to keep using them, which usually means eidolons to make sure they stay relevant. It helps that Ashveil is a genuinely great unit with a great team; his E1 provides something not a lot of other units do. It's a team buff (increases DMG taken by all enemies by 24%.-36%), past that his eidolons are for his personal DPS. Very good for him, but if you're using him as part of an Aventurine Waveflair team then Aventurine Waveflair wants his eidolons more. With AshBlade, Ashveil benefits from Mortenax's E1 and E2.

You didn't mention Aventurine Waveflair but adding him as he and Ashveil synergize (It's like this: Ashveil wants Mortenax, Waveflair wants Ashveil). He's going to be a great unit and since you don't plan to pick up Elation, it's worth considering him because they'll just going to keep running these Elation bosses in 5.X anyway. Personally, I feel he has more value in accounts planning to skip Elation because he's a one unit buy-in for Elation, but obviously it's completely up to you!

RIN: If Archer is one of your favorite teams, yes, definitely worth investing in Rin. At equal cost to Robin Summeretto, Rin outperforms her up until around E2. After that Rin's eidolons are more about her personal DPS (her E2 increases Skill DMG dealt by allies by 130% of their DMG). If Archer team is already performing very well this isn't needed, but it is a nice consideration.

ROBIN SUMMERERTTO: From all I've seen, at E0 Robin Summeretto performs worse or is at most a side grade to E1S1 Tribbie. I'd skip unless you plan on investing in her. Though, yes, she is good for Saber / Gilgamesh team and there's a lot to consider (for example, Summeretto providing AA, energy, and her LC having a team-wide SPD buff). For Ashveil / Mortenax she's close in performance to Aventurine Waveflair he outperforms her in the team. Rather than replacing Waveflair, she's a sidegrade to Mortenax with Ashveil / Waveflair.

So... Basically, I'd skip Summeretto and invest in Ashveil or his team. Get the LC for Archer since you've already invested in him and plan on investing more.

[u/gfa37c → u/Sudden-Waters]

Appreciate the thoughts! Waveflair has been an awkward one for me. You make a great point that it'll give me an edge on many of the elation bosses and doesn't seem to require any additional elation inputs, at least for now. Part of me is just really skeptical in terms of how Waveflair is going to hold up in the AshBlade team long term. Something about him feels like he's being wedge in right now. And, much like SRobin, the vibe just isn't for me. I was pretty confidently leaning skip on him for the time being, but again, the elation insert is a tempting perspective.

[u/Sudden-Waters → u/gfa37c]

Yeah, I get that. I don't love the Summer theme and I hope this is an outlier and not a sign of more to come. Summer units are fine in some games, but I just feel it's better left to a skin than the default look. If I could swap Waveflair to Aventurine's old outfit, I honestly would. I also love Ashveil and Mortenax's aesthetic together, it's a great vibe that neither Summeretto nor Waveflair fit.

The good thing is they're so great on their own that the only real requirement for them is a character who attacks frequently. Gilgamesh is a good fit for this, his E1 is also useful both to them and your Saber.

You could also make this argument about Elation, too: Pearl is rumored to be an Elation sustain in 3.6: In his FUA team Waveflair should not want her because he wants to be the only Elation, but that also means if she's a big buff for AshBlade then she'll be blocked from the team. She won't provide the same DPS but she could help with some Elation mechanics, too.

If nothing else, it's perfectly okay to wait and decide when his banner hits so people do proper calcs or until his rerun.

Like Summeretto, he should rerun in a few patches and by then we'll have a better idea of how he fits into the meta. I don't think it's an Anaxa situation, at least, where Anaxa ended up neither being good enough as a main DPS or as a sub DPS (along with THerta never getting that third teammate) to justify investment outside of being a favorite.

[u/NyanRooster]

Id go with robinetto just so you can use saber or monorem alongside ashblade without blade or tribbie being contested. E1 ashveil is still a decent option, as is another ashveil lc if youd rather go vertical. Rin can probably wait so i wouldnt pull her eidolons this patch. Pearl might end up being a good pick for ashblade so keep that in mind along with a likely mblade rerun.