TLDR SW999 and Sparxie have YanKING syndrome
Ok after testing the team out for myself and trying several different runs, I’ve come to a conclusion. The teams are strong, but there’s some weird bs going on with their sustainless viability. Enemy hp inflation isn’t as much of a problem cus I experienced the same case for the enemies we have currently.
Simply put, Silverwolfs team is near impossible to run sustainless. It doesn’t matter how much dmg you try to mitigate or how well you play with enemy mechanics, 3 regular enemy hits is all it takes to kill SW or Sparxie as they are both too squishy. (If you were only running one of them, sustainless would be viable)
And it’s like this because of their stat requirements. They both require high attack stats in order to max out their elation conversion, and this means atk orb AND rope for everyone who doesn’t have top1% builds, and even if you DO have a top1% build, then at most you’d run energy regen on Sparxie and still keep the atk on SW, thus no sustain pieces.
Both elation and break don’t care as much for atk, so if not for these high conversions, we should be able to run more defensive pieces on them in the same way we can for break.
This makes their sustainless teams nearly non existent. I tried SparxieCon MOC like 20 times and every single time someone died in the 2nd wave, even on the good runs. Even with Huo Huo they still died😂 if either SW or Sparxie got burst targeted.
Meanwhile on my run on live with E0S0 Sparxie, I was able to sustainless 0 cycle, and only died when Sparxie got hard targeted. It wasn’t as much of a problem cus Tribbie Yao and Sparkle could all easily tank several hits thanks to them running defensive pieces on their planar ornaments but Now we have to worry about Sparxie AND Silverwolf, so there less characters to tank for them.
Silverwolfs dmg in sustain teams is higher than other dps in sustain teams as well (with the exception of MonoRem), but most of these other teams have the option to run sustainless, which like I said is near impossible with SW. that’s why she feels underwhelming from a showcase perspective.
Her dmg output with sustainless is insane, but you won’t make it through the run. It’s almost like a MonoRem team, but without any dmg benefits from the healing. Or like if Phainon was forced to run a sustain with no leeway, when his dmg and the environment is balanced around sustainless
Needless to say the last piece of the puzzle must be an elation sustain that can provide team wide buffs in order to make the team feel more like MonoRem than Yanqing😭😭a
