Sucrose deserves much more love and attention.
It might seem a little odd to say that about about a character who is consistently amongst the top rated supports in the game, but despite that she so often gets overlooked. She’s forever in the shadow of Kazuha and Venti, and for many she’s an afterthought.
She should not be so neglected.
Despite being a mere four star competing with an archon and one of the best characters in the game, she is legitimately just as good as them. In some teams she’s the better choice.
She’s not without her flaws, and over time Hoyo have dramatically nerfed the value of crowd control, but for me, she still belongs up there with the other “broken” early four stars who all get far more praise.
00:00 Intro
00:37 Personality
01:41 Kit overview • Normal attacks
01:52 Kit overview • Skill
02:05 Kit overview • Burst
02:42 Kit overview • Passives
03:21 Kit overview • Constellations
04:01 Flaws and caveats • Energy requirements
05:43 Flaws and caveats • Consistency
06:52 Flaws and caveats • C6 conflict
07:53 Recommended build • Priorities
08:19 Recommended build • Weapon
09:16 Recommended build • Artifact stats
09:46 Recommended build • Artifact sets
10:23 Recommended build • Talents
10:51 Playstyles • Off-field support
11:31 Playstyles • On-field driver
12:01 Team archetypes • Vapourise
12:40 Team archetypes • Melt
13:21 Team archetypes • Freeze
13:49 Team archetypes • Mono-elemental
14:24 Team archetypes • Taser
15:08 Team archetypes • Soup
16:00 Team archetypes • Aggravate
16:31 Team archetypes • Hyperbloom
17:04 Why she’s overlooked
18:18 Conclusion
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TTDS is BiS for most attack scaling carry teams. Hakushin Ring is BiS for most quicken teams. If your team doesn't fall into these categories, like Mualani teams, EM weapon becomes the best option.
Hi, lovely miss, I know you're Bri'ish, but even then, isn't it ''vaporise'' without the ''u''? Sorry, great and infromative video as always.
She may be overlooked by casuals but I don't think she is underrated by veteran/meta players, she is amazing in Taser, Vaporise, Aggravate and good in Hyperbloom, she can drive and hold TToDS or Prototype Amber if needed, she's very strong and flexible, easily one of the very best 4 stars in the game.
I love these guides!!! They're the perfect length and the perfect balance of depth — enough depth to experiment and understand all the mechanics of a characters, but not tryhard enough to make the game not fun. Please never stop making them!!
She and most of her teams are way too squishing. High skill needed. Helps if you sacrifice some damage to build HP on her.
Very good and comprehensive guide!
I don't have Sucrose yet, but I'll definitely refer back to this video if I decide to build her. Great job!
I pulled her by accident yesterday and the whole EM boosting thing left me intrigued, i wonder if she could work with a Dendro team. Say, 1 Dendro, 2 elements reactive to both and Sucrose so you could swirl for an element that can trigger Dendro reaction.
6:19 minor correction, her burst can absorb an element at any time, but it must come directly into contact with a creature (player or enemy) applied with that element pretty much right in the middle of the burst AOE.
Personally I don't consider her burst to be that important. The absorbtion and buff is definitely nice when you can get it, but generally I only use her on teams where it can't interefere with reactions (aggravate/electrocharge,) so I just kinda toss it and whatever happens happens. Trying a setup that relies on it sounds like pain 💀💀
Now is the time to speak my truth. I was a Sucrose main for most of my time playing Genshin for the first two years after release. I have her TRIPLE crowned running 4 piece VV (either EMx3 or Atk%+Anemo DMG+Crit) and usually ran R5 Widsith or Skyward Atlas. To this day, she’s still on my “comfy” team with Fischl, Benny, and Xingqiu as the driver. I don’t regret any of it, the investment or the time and I got through every early abyss 36 stars. She was the character I loved the most, her personality, voice lines, and just the way her moves looked and all.
I’m not gonna tell anyone to crown her, and if you haven’t played her yet, then you probably don’t want to and you never will. But I would never change the way I played the game. Maybe I’ll bench my Kazuha for once in this abyss. Maybe that means I can run them both actually lol. Anyways thanks for reading, I hope you all have that one character that makes you feel like I do for Sucrose.
Taser team with sucrose as an on field driver has to be one of my favourite teams, i just have to build my beidou for it to do good dmg
One thing to note about Sucrose is that she’s a rare 1.0 4* that can’t be purchased from the shop. You can reliably buy Bennett, Xiangling, Xingqiu, or Fischl, but there’s 0 way to guarantee Sucrose or her cons.
My first grouper. I was so excited when I got her from the standard banner. Sniped for cons on 2 different banners and finally got her c6 a couple weeks ago 😊
i got Venti before Sucrose and she's now Lv.84 while he's still 75 😂
i didn't realize she was usable for dendro teams, and watching you play that SuKoKuki-da team looked fun, i don't have Kokomi yet, but Barbara might suffice.
She's my first c6 4 stars that I really appreciate 3 years back. Now, she's resting my account.
I think the only reason you consider sucrose have a small window of absorcion for her ult is because you wanted a 1 unit of slow electro application beat nahida's fast 1.5 units of dendro, not even kazuha can swirl electro on those conditions (that's why you don't usually run anemo and nahida unless it's pyro)
as a kazuha lover through and through, i was contemplating whether to build my newly C6 sucrose, and your video was posted at just the right time! thank you 😀
I wish I had more sacrificial fragments for her! I've only ever gotten 4 and I'm AR 60! I've kept two leveled up and used the rest for refinements on the two. Unfortunately I love catalyst characters, I have a lot and they are fighting to use the sacrificial fragments😭
Sucrose is sweet itself in the world of chemistry
I love Sucrose! I prefer her playstyle to kazua and venti. Just got her C6 too!
After 4 years I only have r1 sacrificial fragments. Got it today. It's madness. I have all the other sac weapons at r5. multiple copies even!
Well done Sucrose was my first triple crown character I got her day 1 with Yanfei (favorite pyro who’s also triple crown) and she carried me very comfortably through game, you pretty wrong about venti being more popular he’s only strength is best CC and powerful of field damage the former isn’t necessary needed like Zhongli top shield while later is matter of preference over sucrose, i would argue Xianyun is the second anemo to power creep her due to both buffing and healing as well amazing exploration skill nevertheless Sucrose still has advantage of being classic ver 1 powerful 4 stars like Xiangling.
sucrose is an hidden meta char, the animation speed suits perfectly for speed running especially if u know how to do swirl set ups and how to AIM her skills landing point then she is totally a monster unit much better than kaz is SOME situation. But if ur the ONE type PLAYER who TAP TAP TAP only then just take kazuha. Cuz kazuha is just kinda easier to play than her.
Btw im a Sucrose main since ver 1.0, and i proud to say that she's kinda worth it to play once u learn to swirl set up. and im just kinda sad that only few play her due to her skill kinda messed up skill aiming
I use Kazuha around 80% of the time. But I just keep going back to Sucrose every once in a while. She is just a fun character to play against smaller mob. She's easy to build, and her skill + burst works like a stun lock against enemies that can be staggered. And her damage potential is actually higher than C0 Kazuha on certain teams!
Right before Lan Yan's release💀
i love how the line between archetypes ends just under the last letter of the word
The fact that she’s a catalyst user makes her a really good value. Aside from Sac Frag, she can use Thrilling Tales to buff your Atk scaling DPS, or prototype amber of you wanna expand her utility to also healing, and she’s my personal favorite as a Taser team driver. Obviously Heizou also exists but she beats him in crowd control by a lot. After really understanding how to use her, i ended up using her more than my Venti 😅
My favourite character. Her buffs are probably equal to Kazuha but Kazuha is just WAY easier to use
Well, my theory on that is the following. It's recommended in lots of tier list ls as an op unit which she is not for a begginer or an average player. Using her properly requires full understanding of the game. People who came to the game see her pretty high in the tier lists and think she will effortlessly obliterate everything. Then they realize it's not the case and think she's garbage. The problem is that she's pretty complex and you can't just e+q to win. She starts shining when you really get to understand the game. When you get to the point where you knowingly swirl or absorb the right elements and the right time. For example. Have you even tried using her in dendro teams where you would absorb electro so it will huperbloom with her em stat? There is a lot of crazy shit you can do with her if know what you are doing.
Sucrose is one of those i just barely started focusing on because early game she just feels bad with having effectively no artifacts, no weapons and no cons and levels. Anemo in general is just an element that i looked at and never liked because its awkward where i am/was.
I'm playing a lot with Faruzan on all of my accounts (yes she is that fun to play with), and let me tell you: people only talking about her issues more because this is how sour the community became since Sumeru. Her C1 can be patched with Sacrificial Bow, and she is very flexible in terms of gameplay. You can use her as support, but she is also capable as driver/crowd control and even self-buffing DPS. She doesn't replace Sucrose, but I find her more suited for my playstyle (aimed shots, lots of tactical control, focus on overworld combat).
I seldom use sucrose bit dn everytime I use her I get surprised at how nice she feels to play
she's the only character that i have triple crowned cuz i love her sm
hoyoverse i demand sucrose hangout, skin, echo and pls why has she not been in a summer event 😭 the worlds they create in those events are so beautiful i feel like sucrose would love exploring and see if she can replicate anything for her own world she wants to create with the help of bioalchemy
Yeah, i think everyone forgets how different C0 4* are from C6, even if it seems like minor QoL in concept. I never used Sucrose until I got her C1.
And to be fair, Sucrose ER problems can be addressed with just C1, whereas Faruzan needs C6 to reduce ER requirements.
I think C0 Faruzan seems like she needs less ER only because she's typically played with 1-2 other anemo, whereas Sucrose is usually solo anemo.
I have a very niche team that I use her on my hyperbloom team. I designed this team because she was my first c6. This seams unintuitive because her c6 can’t buff hyperbloom because the demage is considered dendro which can’t be swirled. But my hyperbloom was lacking hydro applier, I had only Barbara and Candace when I got her to c6. So she was helping Barbara to apply hydro only. But then I developed this idea to replace Barbara with neuvillet.
Now he utilizes her c6 and vv buffs and a bit of crowd control is useful for him.
You must have neuv c1 because kuki skill is small, raiden would be a better choice but it works pretty well.
I rerolled for Sucrose in early Oct 2020 (giving up an early Kequing). No regrets, aside from frustration with SacFrag pulls; still only R3 4+ years later.
I have every Anemo character but Chasca, and Sucrose is still my go-to when I want Swirl on both sides of the Abyss.
Definitely always use her in theater. I used to main her on an alt at early ar
meanwhile i have her on c6 yet never use her 🤣
I don't care for her design or how it feels to use her. Super useful but never used her that much
Honestly my sucrose is kinda built terribly with 1000 attack, 1500 deffense no crit stats and 800 em, and she carried me through the newest imaginarium theater
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