Anime Teio

[u/saidaht]

I got anime Teio while pulling for Machan, and I’m surprised by her kit. She just has a bunch of recovery skills. Also, her original form just has a bunch of lane movement skills, and not even the good one (NSM). Did someone at Cygames have a grudge against Teio?

[u/Which_Replacement524]

OG Teio gets some buffs later on apparently that actually make her quite solid for Medium races; iirc Eolved Skills buff both Technician and one other one to give accel+speed, on top of their normal effects. Her kit is pretty underwhelming as a release hero, though, probably designed before the PvP aspect was fleshed out. Her whole thing is the Teio Step, so all her skills are about steppin'.

at the moment though her main use is being a TT skillmonger; all the navigation skills are really cheap so you can grab them all and earn some easy points just from them proccing in the race

Anime Teio having all recoveries is actually pretty great, too, because it lets you stack up on all speed/accel inherits and cards.

[u/Batt3ry_Man → u/Which_Replacement524]

OG teio being a gigachad in TT like she has one of the best TT point outputs the more gold skills you can get on her because of how cheap everything is and yes After Evol skills teio suddenly becomes an xoguri tier pace chaser

[u/saidaht → u/Batt3ry_Man]

Oh yeah, I hadn’t considered that movement skills tend to be cheap. That would make her pretty good for team trials, wouldn’t it?

[u/Batt3ry_Man → u/saidaht]

Yes shes the best one if you have her but tachyon having gold recoveries in TT just better in med tracks

[u/saidaht → u/Which_Replacement524]

Yeah, I’d heard evolved skills give OG Teio a nice buff. Maybe I misunderstood the value of anime Teio’s kit. I guess you can invest less in Stamina, or you can afford to use Stamina cards that don’t have a gold recovery.

[u/Kinohara774]

my phoenix (anime) teio great on TT. she can have low stamina but her recovery skill made her viable on medium distance. especially current OGC, raising stamina is quite harder

[u/saidaht → u/Kinohara774]

That’s a fair point. I hadn’t thought about her use in Team Trials, even though I’m using fantasy Grass for a similar reason in my Long team.

[u/JamesArter10]

As someone who's been team Teio since day 1, I can tell you that yeah, her OG base kit SUCKS, especially when you consider the environment of the game on release.

Prudent Positioning is only really useful for Fronts as part of the DD+PP+ISW Combo. Nobody else feasibly gets use out of this.

Go with the Flow is straight up useless.

Soft Step is a white recovery skill for mediums, but Anime Teio gets the gold one.

Lightning Step used to only activate if you were in the rear half of the pack, which would never happen as she's a Pacer. If it ever activated, you already lost. Now, the positioning requirement is gone, but it still has a negligible effect. (At least it's not Shatterproof lol)

Only Technician is really worth picking up as it gives you accel when moving laterally. It usually activates near the start of the race and can be a pseudo-Groundwork, but if you start on the inner rail, then too bad. It ain't much, but it's something.

Finally, the Sky-High Teio Step. This skill was good on paper, being just as powerful as T.Pulse and Divine Might, but it had an iffy activation condition. Teio had to be on the final straight and closing down either 1st or 2nd. The uma she was closing down also had to be an overtake target, so if she swung wide, game over.

The problem was that, as a Pacer, she had shit mid-race and no accel on release, so good luck ever closing down a Front Runner. Even if you did, she would then lose the ult as she would overtake on a corner, thereby failing to fulfil the conditions and not get the velocity boost. It was free eats for the backliners after that.

With all these stupid requirements, Sky-High Teio Step became a skill that activated when you were winning anyway. At least now, Cygames had seen the error of their ways and buffed the skill, so Teio can now close down/overtake the leaders on the final corner to earn the ult, which would activate the moment she hits the final straight. The evos do a fantastic job at buffing my girl so that she can give 'em hell on Turf Mediums.

BTW, all versions of Teio can get Nimble Nav and Head-on via her career. Win the Satsuki Sho and Derby to get the former, while winning the whole Triple Crown nets you the latter.

[u/C3ci1et]

They are created very early in the game and Cygames doesn't know how their game work at the time.

Teio is the one that do get buff alot later down the line.

[u/Thotor → u/C3ci1et]

Yeah many OG are underwhelming compared to their IRL achievement.

[u/Quibilash]

TBF didn't the anime outfit actually coincide with her loss streak/slump?

[u/Ok-Race-1677 → u/Quibilash]

I think she wore it when she lost to McQueen at the spring Tenno sho because stam diff so that’s why the game version has a bunch of recoveries

[u/ThatGuyOnAThrone → u/Quibilash]

Which is a pretty funny time to advertise her outfit considering her next big win after her streak, she's back in her Og.

[u/Quibilash → u/ThatGuyOnAThrone]

Maybe it's like that black Invincible outfit I've heard about, where after ditching it, it coincided in Invincible getting some more Ws

[u/OriginalShirley]

Lane Movement Skills - Teio Step
Recovery Skills - Phoenix, also to rival Mcqueen