Actually also you guys get to hear about something incredible going on in Granblue Fantasy right now.
So I've been into Granblue for 8 years. Don't play a mobile game for this long by the way. My favourite character in the game is Sarunan and has been Sarunan the entire time. He is deeply unpopular. When I first got into the game, his dark SSR, which I linked, was the very worst SSR in the entire game. His burst damage skill would instantly kill him on use, and his dispel skill, rather than removing one buff from an enemy like standard dispel, removed all buffs and debuffs from all enemies and allies. Bringing him to anything was a fast way to ruin the raid. He got a rework that made him slightly less life-ruining so now he's just among the worst SSRs in the entire game instead of the actual worst one. He's had a uses in a couple of niche team compositions over the years but is extremely difficult to build around and there's no real reason to use him when you could use literally anyone else.
Like he's my favourite character but I basically don't use him because he's really bad... I try to cajole my friends into trying his niche builds out but they're always more finicky than my already very gimmicky daily driver dark team. So I mostly just bother people by asking when's Sarunan during every announcement stream and being like this year he's getting a summer lim for sure guys etc etc. He's never been in an event despite being released near the game's launch, by the way.
And then the new raid Lumi Credo dropped!
It's like an expert mode version of one of the first raids in the game. She has a universal buff with 10 stacks that needs three dispels to be done in a single turn to remove one stack. It's universal so you yourself don't have to bring 30 dispels, other people who join the raid will be bringing their own dispels as well. But you still have to bring three dispel sources, which sucks and restricts your team composition options.
Enter dark Sarunan. His dispel removing all buffs counts as a full stack for Lumi with a single button, so you don't need to bring three dispel sources. You can just bring Sarunan.
And people are bringing him! This isn't just me cajoling my friends into trying out niche builds, strangers are going oh shit, this guy works for this raid, and bringing him!
Dark Sarunan gaming 2024! It's happening! I manifested it! After all this time, people are actually using my favourite!! Maybe Cygames will notice and give him something!!! Maybe his pixiv tag will update for the first time in three years!!!!
