a strategy so stupid, that it should never work @ZirconitikAK

ZirconitikAK #arknights #arknightsen
SS-8 Lungmen Only

an actually interesting boss for once, would be cool to see morpheus playable at some point but shes an npc in a collab event so thats not gonna happen, unlucky

Music Used:
Somniloquium Serenum Lobby Theme
Somniloquium Serenum Boss Theme (LDEVIL)
Touhou Luna Nights OST - Septette for a Dead Princess

i quite like the music of the ave mujica event, it cool

updated 7 months ago

a strategy so stupid, that it should never work

ZirconitikAK 2026-02-15 | #arknights #arknightsen
SS-8 Lungmen Only

an actually interesting boss for once, would be cool to see morpheus playable at some point but shes an npc in a collab event so thats not gonna happen, unlucky

Music Used:
Somniloquium Serenum Lobby Theme
Somniloquium Serenum Boss Theme (LDEVIL)
Touhou Luna Nights OST - Septette for a Dead Princess

i quite like the music of the ave mujica event, it cool

becoming communist for zimalt or something (playing USSG only)

ZirconitikAK 2026-09-17 | ...

How Difficult Is it to Beat Sui with NO Suppression Pillars?

ZirconitikAK 2026-07-17 | #arknights #arknightsen #DustLifted

TN-10 Lungmen Only except like one of them isnt haha
(with using suppression pillars Hoshi soloes anyways)

might be the first and last time i use chalter since shes not actually lungmen and all, might try YYB artist only at some point but that also has the boring chalter so maybe not

anyways the dragon killing blade kills the dragon isnt that crazy who couldve seen this one coming

Music Used: Limbus Company OST - Canto IX Boss 9 Battle Theme

not a fan of this guy

ZirconitikAK 2026-06-25 | #arknights #arknightsen
ME-8 Lungmen Only

spent a while trying this stage in a more interesting way with a different niche, but it didnt end up working out because the fountain drain in phase 2 ruined things, so heres hoshi obliterating everything instead

Music Used: Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent OST - Master of Power

the best event for 5★ medics

ZirconitikAK 2026-05-21 | UR-8 5* Medics Only #arknights #arknightsen

wake up and smell the three oppa sloppa

Music Used:
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 OST - Tantal

totally real endfield cutscene

ZirconitikAK 2026-05-13 | sorry

washed streamer struggles with OS-S-5 for an hour

ZirconitikAK 2026-04-30 | ...

5★ Medics Pass the DPS Check

ZirconitikAK 2026-04-15 | OS-10 5* Medics Only #arknights #arknightsen #SunlitPeak

funny event mechanic giving very volatile ground deployment and also just free damage

Music Used:
Library of Ruina OST - Roland Realisation Theme

ez game

ZirconitikAK 2026-04-01 | Rhodagn / Triaggelos / Marble Aggelomoirai Trimmed Medal - Chen Qianyu Solo, No Consumables, Lung Only(?) #arknights #endfield #arknightsendfield

endfield gameplay isnt as deep as arknights but it has stimulated my autistic instinct for big number nonetheless

build is aethertech gear (agility pure stat body off set) with sundering steel, rhodagn uses grand vision though generally sundering steel is best

in case youre wondering where ruan yi is he gets jobbed so hard that i got his trimmed medal without even realising (didnt get an exact time, just didnt feel like adding him to recording and instead waiting until rest of wuling bosses drop)

also april fools ig

the dumbest way to beat the bear

ZirconitikAK 2026-03-22 | #arknights #arknightsen #RICreativeRally
brawlers are awesome i wish they were usable

music used:
Super Smash Bros OST - Targets!
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance OST - It Has To Be This Way

70 RES Cant Stop Hoshiguma

ZirconitikAK 2026-01-17 | #arknights #arknightsen #NeonRain
AT-8 Lungmen Only

yea hoshiguma kinda brokey

Music Used: Limbus Company OST - Canto IX Boss 3 Battle Theme 2

the best operator you should never use

ZirconitikAK 2025-12-14 | #arknights #arknightsen
felt like using dagda
thats about it

Music Used:
Limbus Company OST Canto VIII Boss 2 Battle Theme

Arknights, But Its Actually Library of Ruina

ZirconitikAK 2025-11-23 | #arknights #arknightsen #libraryofruina #limbuscompany #projectmoon

the previous video:
youtu.be/qy72bu4UE-U

another 26 minutes of keter gameplay woo yea

0:00 Intro
1:14 Recap
1:52 DM-8
2:11 BI-8
2:58 MN-8
3:38 NL-4 and NL-5
3:55 NL-10
5:39 CB-10
6:22 IS-3
6:32 DH-9
7:54 WR-10
10:18 H6-2
11:12 'The Possessed' Upgrade
11:23 7-18
13:39 'King of Sarkaz' Unlock
13:50 H7-1
15:23 GA-8
16:17 'The Martyr' Unlock
16:29 TW-S-2
17:45 Floor Switching Explanation
18:04 BI-EX-8
19:04 H5-3
20:35 'Smoke Support' Unlock
20:47 IS-8
22:09 IS-10
23:32 'Hour of the Wolf' Unlock
24:08 M8-8
25:58 'The Singer' Unlock
26:10 Outro

music used in order of appearance:
LoR Hod Battle Theme
LoR Keter Battle Theme
LoR The Red Mist Theme
LC Canto IV Battle Theme F2
AK Blood Knight Boss Theme
LC Intervallo IV-2 Boss Battle Theme
LC Intervallo II Battle Theme
LC Canto VIII Battle Theme A1
LC Canto VIII Battle Theme A2
LC Canto I Battle Theme B2
LC Canto VI Boss 1 Battle Theme
LC Canto VI Battle Theme D
LC Canto VI Battle Theme F
LC Intervallo V-1 Battle Theme A
LoR Yesod Battle Theme
LC Canto I Battle Theme A2
LC Intervallo IV-1 Battle Theme
LC Intervallo IV-1 Boss Battle Theme
LoR The Reverberation Ensemble Asiyah Theme
LoR String Theocracy Instrumental

Lemuen is ALL You Need

ZirconitikAK 2025-10-16 | #arknights #arknightsen #BeyondHalo

00:00 MT-1
00:24 MT-2 and MT-3
00:46 MT-4 and MT-5
01:23 MT-6
01:52 MT-7
02:31 MT-8
04:23 MT-9
04:44 MT-10

i cant lie i got no idea what to title this one

Music Used:
Limbus Company OST
Canto IV Battle Theme A2
Canto IV Battle Theme C1
Canto V Boss 1 Battle Theme

getting banned from the icebreaker games

ZirconitikAK 2025-09-03 | #arknights #arknightsen #icebreakergames
finally got around to this one haha, ended up being a whole lot of editing for a 2 minute video....

anyways next video never im playin silksong

Music Used:
Limbus Company OST - LaMancha Carnival

You Haven’t Seen Arknights Played Like This Before

ZirconitikAK 2025-08-14 | #arknights #arknightsen #libraryofruina #limbuscompany #projectmoon
this ones been a whole 4 months in the making (not actually like dedicating every day to it for 4 months or anything, but i did first start working on this 4 months ago) and probably upwards of 300+ hours just working on it (idk i never really kept count)
anyways theres enough text to read in the video so i havent got much else to say here

crownslayer my goat

0:00 Intro
1:14 1-8 and 1-12
2:03 General Rules
3:28 2-10
4:06 Abnormality Cards
4:50 3-3
5:03 3-4
5:16 3-8
5:40 4-4
5:52 4-10
7:17 GT-6
7:51 OF-8
8:45 TW-8
11:28 RI-8
12:44 5-7
13:56 5-10
15:14 H5-1
16:43 6-5
18:13 RI-EX-8
19:45 6-16
21:00 Outro

all music used is from either Library of Ruina (LoR) or Limbus Company (LC), listed in order of appearance here:
LoR Theme 02
LoR Lobby Theme
LoR Keter Battle Theme
LoR Yesod Story Theme
LoR Result Theme
LC Canto I Battle Theme A1
LC Canto II Battle Theme A2
LoR Yesod Battle Theme
LC Canto II Battle Theme C2
LC Intervallo I Boss Battle Theme
LC Canto I Battle Theme C2
LC Canto III Battle Theme B2
LC Canto III Battle Theme D1
LC Intervallo II Boss Battle Theme
LoR Second Warning
LC Leviathan

Why Akafuyu is GOATED

ZirconitikAK 2025-07-22 | OR-9 5* Musha Only / 5* Higashi Only #arknights #arknightsen #arknightsstrategy #livingflavors

a second vid on this stage because i actually managed to pull off the 5* musha clear i originally wanted to do for this stage - it took me 2 days of trying to 2op with vulpos to realise it was actually viable with 5* mushas, dont ask how vulpos and 5* mushas are even connected and definitely dont ask where the vulpo 2op is ((((because its not happening))))

also utage is the actual goat here with her s1 not akafuyu but i like akafuyu more so thats that

anyways this most likely means there wont be any ex8 clears unless i feel particularly inspired

Music Used: Octopath Traveler OST - The One They Call The Witch

it takes two big jugs

ZirconitikAK 2025-07-18 | OR-9 Juggernaut Only #arknights #arknightsen #arknightsstrategy #livingflavors

i originally wanted to do 5* musha only (Noir Corne, Akafuyu and Utage) but unfortunately the boss being able to heal itself in phase 2 meant they couldnt deal enough damage to kill the boss (as stalling the boss involved cycling all 3 mushas one at a time, leaving no opportunity to charge up the event mechanic to remove the boss damage reduction)

there wasnt really any other niche which felt fun to do so heres juggernaut only ig

Music Used: Final Fantasy XVI OST - Shattered

Penance (Almost) Soloes Another Boss

ZirconitikAK 2025-05-02 | PV-10 Siracusa Only 3OP #arknights #arknightsen

this vid has been a bit of a rollercoaster for me - i started off trying to 2op the stage and eventually figured that it wasnt really possible, so i just threw in Lappland, edited this video together and called it a day

however, i ended up having major complications just trying to export the video, my laptop pretty much just had a breakdown and wouldnt export the video whatsoever - during this time i had thought up of even more things to try to 2op this stage, and gradually got close and closer to pulling it off, so despite having the video ready to upload by the second day of the event, i decided to keep on trying to pull off the 2op

in the end, it took me 4 more days of constant attempts to finally solve the stage - lappland's phase 1 transition had to be precisely timed (while still only damaging her with penance reflect damage), and some precise vulpisfoglia skill activations to keep her alive in phase 2 and camoflaged away from lappland (she was also moved to laneholding on right side, as left side isnt viable) - i also ended up finding out you can have penance do a ton of reflect damage to lappland in phase 1 with a trick that i didnt include in this video (because i had already finished all the editing by this point)

despite solving the stage, i still had to actually get the perfect phase 1 transition timing to happen naturally (as i had used other operators to get the timing just to test it out) and after many many attempts i finally got the ideal timing, penance managed to beat lappland and vulpis managed to lanehold - one slight issue however, is that with this perfect timing of lappland's phase transition, it meant that i couldnt get carnevale active again before the left side carts leaked - additionally, the right side fire dancers also leak

as such, i ended up wasting all my time figuring out everything there is about this stage only to not be able to pull off the 2op, and while i wouldve liked to include footage of this final attempt (rather than what is in this video) i had recorded so many failed attempts before getting it right that i ended up filling up my storage without realising, meaning i didnt get a recording of the perfect attempt, and i really do not feel like grinding to get the stars to align again (fyi, lappland is an extremely inconsistent boss, changes in when she activates her aoe skill result in desyncs)

Music Used: Guilty Gear Xrd OST - Jack-a-Dandy
Arknights OST - Bloodstained Oath

Lappland Soloes Alistair II in the Stupidest Way Possible

ZirconitikAK 2025-04-10 | GO-9 #arknights #arknightsen

Alistair II (and the stage itself) is such a joke that i couldnt find a single niche to play that had anything even remotely interesting from this stage, so i thought it would be more fun to bully the boss in every way possible

anyways this is actually a degenbrecher skin showcase isnt it so awesome

Music Used: Terraria Calamity OST - Boss Rush Themes 1 - 4

These Goats BULLY Rosmontis

ZirconitikAK 2025-04-07 | VEC-08 Caprinae Only 3OP #arknights #arknightsen
usually dont like uploading the same stage twice, but thought i might as well try caprinae for this stage since i hadnt seen anyone else attempt it - strategy ended up being pretty similar to my Lungmen Only clear, revolving around maintaining matrix buffs through shieldguards to deal with Rosmontis, however the strategy this time was also significantly more burst oriented, because degenbrecher is cracked

Music Used - NieR Replicant ver.1.22 OST - Snow in Summer
eating another copyright strike yum

Vector Buffs Make Chen BROKEN

ZirconitikAK 2025-04-03 | VEC-08 Lungmen Only 4OP #arknights #arknightsen

the matrix buffs are incredibly strong especially with the additional buffs, giving units +115%atk +200%hp +80aspd 3%hp healing and generating 1sp every second, the only issue with these buffs is getting them set up in the first place, especially against Rosmontis since she clears all matrices on the field shortly after you create them, and also during phase transitions

the main strategy was to create matrices before Rosmontis first spawns in, and then not breaking any VTE after this point (as Rosmontis only clears matrices after she has been knocked down from breaking a VTE) allowing the use of the matrix buffs throughout the first phase to deal with the enemies

the next issue was trying to maintain matrix buffs to deal with Rosmontis, as she clears them with each of her phase transitions, and will no longer create any more VTE in phase 3. the solution here was to carefully manage how much damage the shieldguards take so they can be used to smuggle VTE's through Rosmontis phase transitions

overall this event was more fun than i thought it would be, though it wasnt particularly difficult

Music Used: Genshin Impact OST - Symphony of Boreal Wind

Theresa Soloes This Dog

ZirconitikAK 2025-03-11 | DT-8 Bards Only 2OP #arknights #arknightsen

today i will not engage with the event mechanic

Music Used: Library of Ruina OST - Binah Battle Theme
already used this in the last vid but it just fits too well for me to not use it

The WEAKEST Niche with the STRONGEST Operators

ZirconitikAK 2025-02-22 | Swordmaster Only #arknights #arknightsen
0:00 MN-8
1:48 BI-8
2:48 SN-10
4:49 MN-8 (Degen Diff)

swordmaster has gotta be my favourite class archetype in ak, mushas are also up there but theres just something super satisfying about building up big %multiplier nuke skills through offensive recovery, swordmasters also sometimes have a bit of a focus around inflicting status conditions too, which can also make things interesting

degenbrecher s3 is not a swordmaster skill

main issue this niche has is that it lacks any real survivability - forcing you to nuke everything that is remotely threatening as soon as possible, with particular status conditions being beneficial for this too (bibeak stun, irene levitate, degen disable) but usually this niche just gets wiped against most bosses, either through not being able to cycle skills up in time, not having enough damage to instantly rinse the boss, or the boss just having a mechanic which is too difficult to deal with

bosses typically being immune to stun and levitate also doesnt help much

overall kinda fun niche, im considering maybe expanding what is even considered a 'swordmaster' to include operators which have similar playstyles and kits to the typical swordmaster playstyle (so offensive recovery skills with nuker damage multipliers) which would end up including operators like chongyue, qiubai and fiammetta, none of which especially help with the survivability issue but more bodies and more options would be good

Music Used: Library of Ruina OST - Malkuth Battle Theme
Library of Ruina OST - Binah Battle Theme

jobber boss detected

ZirconitikAK 2025-02-11 | KR-8 Caprinae Only 3OP #arknights #arknightsen

not a particularly noteworthy stage, noticed it hadnt been done with caprinae only on Arkrec so decided i might as well go do it

i suspect CM is possible with max pot degen + max pot and level eben, as the only issue i had when attempting CM is that when using degen to kill dockworker boats (when eben isnt able to store charges to oneshot them), in NM she destroys the boat in 9 s3 hits and the shift of the final 10th hit stalls the dockworker slightly and deals extra damage, giving eben enough time to finish the kill - in CM, she takes 10 hits to destroy the boat, giving eben less time to finish off the dockworker

it could be that some other 3op approach to the stage could also solve the issue with CM, but i dont really care enough to bother

also idk who but someone submitted my previous vid of the musha only clear to arkrec, i wasnt really intending to do it since a 2op enmity clear of the cm already existed BUT if you wanna go save me the effort and submit this vid to arkrec too thatd be awesome thanks

Music Used: Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- OST - Flash Hider

Zuo Le SWEEPS This Event

ZirconitikAK 2025-01-25 | AS-EX-8 Musha Only 2OP #arknights #arknightsen #treasureunearth

finally a stage where Noir Corne S1 chain activations is useful, even though hes completely interchangable with Akafuyu

not much else to say really, certified fodder stage for the zuo le sweep

Music Used: Library of Ruina OST - Keter Battle Theme

The Anti Event Mechanic Skill

ZirconitikAK 2025-01-17 | AS-9 IRIS_YI Artist Only + Defender Only 2OP #arknights #TreasureUnearth #arknightsen

nothin interesting on first week of event as per usual, obligatory IRIS_YI clear so i can go back to playing ruina (its peak)

Music Used: Library of Ruina OST - Angela Realization Theme

Even the WEAKEST 5★ Class Can Beat This Stage

ZirconitikAK 2024-12-29 | HE-EX-8 5* Medics Only 7OP (6OP + Robot) #arknights #arknightsen

ive been wanting to do a 5* medics clear for a while now, so when the Hortus de Escapismo rerun dropped the first thing i did was... try and do an IRIS_YI clear by using Shu to get the boss to walk into a hole. Turns out they patched that out, so when Amiya's skin dropped it reminded me of how i wanted to play 5* medics, and then i saw that EX-8 allows ground deployment, leading to this clear.

it was actually really fun playing this niche, though it does depend a lot on having ground deployment available, either way what started at just trying to figure out if it was even possible (since -1 block combined with DP constraints is pretty hard to deal with) eventually turned into me optimising every last bit of DP and having to carefully manage enemies - most of which are in the captions to this video, but some things i didnt really bother to mention.

anyways, H14-4 is next

Music Used: Octopath Traveler II OST - Normal Battle II
Arknights OST - towerfierce

showdown. | Lungmen Only

ZirconitikAK 2024-12-21 | WD-EX-8 4OP Lungmen Only #arknights #arknightsen
been attempting this stage for a while on and off, not sure if i love it or hate it

i was obsessed with trying to get it to 3OP for a long while, and while i was extremely close after trying a ton of different operator combos and strats, it ultimately fell apart when it came to the final 5 enemies - i dont see any way to take them out with just 3 Lungmen ops, especially on CM (where the tile bans prevent dropping Hoshi to block 3 of them)

its worth noting that everything before the final 5 enemies is completely possible with 3ops on CM, and i intentionally avoided deploying operators on the CM banned tiles to help show that (the stat increase is insignificant) but i just couldnt figure out how to deal with the final 5 enemies with the tile bans

Music Used: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 OST - Origin

three of them

ZirconitikAK 2024-11-10 | 14-21 Adverse IRIS_YI Artist Only 3OP (+ Defender Only) #arknights #arknightsen #timelessechoes

i dont really like repeating stages with different niches especially easier stages like this one, but i was originally trying to beat H14-4 with the IRIS_YI squad PURELY so i could use the Theresa art IRIS_YI drew a few years back in a thumbnail (source: pixiv.net/en/artworks/81415356) and while i came somewhat close to being able to pull off H14-4, i kinda just need more bodies for trying a Phase 1 killgate abuse strat, as the enemies which spawn in Phase 2 (notably Patriot) are just too much to handle, and Theresa gains too much DEF to have any chance of bursting her before the chalice enemies reach her - it may be possible in the future with one or two more ops but for now its unfortunately impossible, so i decided to just go and do 14-21 instead because i still wanted to use the Theresa art as im not gonna have any other opportunity to use it

Music Used: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 OST - Noah and N (Phase 2)

Just Burst Her | Lungmen Only

ZirconitikAK 2024-11-03 | 14-21 Adverse Lungmen Only 3OP #arknights #arknightsen #timelessechoes

nothing much to say about this boss, pretty easy since you get a load of free time to deal with enemies and then focus on the boss, and then you dont even need to worry about other enemies once the boss is dead since the stage just ends, would also be a bit harder if you couldnt just retreat to avoid the cage skill in phase 1

originally did this on NM with Swire instead of Chen, ended up having to swap her for Chen to get enough DPS to burst Phase 2 but that was about it in terms of challenge from this stage

Music Used: Arknights OST - Broken Sun
Arknights OST - Merciful Broken Sun

Theresa Solo DPS?

ZirconitikAK 2024-11-03 | FC-EX-8 Bindknights Summonless 6OP #arknights #arknightsen #TimelessEchoes

the first of what i hope will be many more bind vids using Theresa / Civilight Eterna, shes just as good as i was expecting with at most some slight issues with positioning to get the projectiles to work as they can easily end up colliding with and then permabinding the wrong enemy, though if its a weaker enemy it isnt too big of a deal - biggest issue with using CE so far has mostly just been that Ethan combos super well with her as their skill uptimes and downtimes can cover eachother, the problem being that Ethan is very RNG and inconsistent which is why i usually avoid using him

overall very fun to not just instantly burst a boss for once and instead actually using Bind for stalling and such, CM is probably possible with 6ops but just more RNG

also i cant wait for Eblana to be playable if they dont make her an awesome Bind unit i will cry

Music Used: Arknights OST - Cries of the Cinderbringer
Arknights OST - Civilight Eterna

Glaucus Useful..?

ZirconitikAK 2024-10-17 | CCB1 Daily 1 - Fortified Pass
Bindknights 5OP 350 Points with No Shieldguard Buffs
(shieldguard 60% atk phys damage reflect was taken but it does nothing for the clear and was only needed in order to take the 1 life point risk)
#arknights #arknightsen

Glaucus is mostly just there to stall the final invis guys for just long enough that Rosa can get her skill off again, and also helped kill enemies on top lane to keep the shieldguards alive (notably binding the defender enemies before theyre blocked as they do a decent amount of damage to the unbuffed shieldguards, and would manage to kill them if Glaucus was not used)

this is definitely a video i forgot to upload during CCB1 and totally NOT just a blatant reupload (with a cool new thumbnail) of a video i did during CCB1 because it got horrendous views :)

Music Used: Arknights OST - Path of Life

The REAL Babel Boss?

ZirconitikAK 2024-10-13 | BB-8 Caprinae Only 2OP #arknights #arknightsen

nah he just gets shredded by Degen just like every other elite enemy

Music Used: Hollow Knight OST - Nightmare King

I Thought I Would NEVER Use This Skill

ZirconitikAK 2024-10-12 | CCB2 Daily 2 - Dryreed Morass
Lungmen Only 370 Points
#arknights #arknightsen

massive thanks to @NoManIsland99 for letting me borrow their account for this clear (again)

started attempting this daily on the second to last day before CCB2 ended, kinda assumed that none of the dailies would be interesting and for the most part thats correct, but this one actually ended up being pretty fun, though annoyingly it wasnt max risk just because of DP costs which is always pretty lame, but the DP restrictions were still interesting with the -50% DP gen risk because it meant that i had to optimise my DP use as much as possible throughout the entire clear, which was pretty fun to work out

the blockshift strategy for the right side Gargoyles was only necessary due to having to save as much DP as possible, it wouldve been much easier to just drop Chen S2 on the Gargoyles when the three of them line up, and then drop the pillar on them to kill them - however Chen S2 barely doesnt deal enough damage to put the Gargoyles in pillar kill range, even with additional damage from silencing them with Waai Fu to remove their 70 RES from refraction so Chen's arts hit can do more damage - the only other way to put them in kill range otherwise wouldve been to also throw down Swire to increase Chen's atk slightly, but this was a lot of DP investement compared to the blockshift strategy, and the blockshift strategy was also able to just hold the lane for the entire rest of the map by also adding Rope (the final big arts dude can also easily be blockshifted in the same way as the Gargoyles, i just completely forgot to do it because i was too focussed on the left side, thankfully throwing down Jaye in a panic worked perfectly)

also a little clickbaity in that Lin isnt even used until the very end and her S2 isnt even super essential for the clear, however i was originally doing runs with her S3 and just barely couldnt get through the stage, particularly due to the last big arts guy on the left side reviving themselves which messes up everything, and S3 just doesnt attack fast enough to prevent them from reviving, Hoshiguma S3 i barely couldnt get up in time (or she would just end up dying before the arts guy goes hitcount mode) and Aak is busy being distracted by the shield guys (they have taunt) so S2 ended up being the best option and managed to carry the end of the stage (the flat -200 damage and stuns from crystal barrier share also helped Hung and Hoshi stay alive for slightly longer, but it wouldve been a lot more useful if i could've gotten down Lin sooner)

Music Used: Xenoblade Chronicles X OST - Codename Z
Cytus II 2.0 OST - CHAOS + V. - Æsir

Qiubai ISNT Washed

ZirconitikAK 2024-10-11 | BB-10 2OP Bindknights (Summonless) #arknights #arknightsen

Qiubai skin anims so goated that it bought me back to Bindknights

playing 'summonless' because i hate Ray and also because Dorothy S2 soloes the stage

Music Used: Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition OST - A Tragic Decision

Are Shifters Good in CCB2?

ZirconitikAK 2024-09-29 | CCB2 Main Map - 500 Points Lungmen Only #arknights #arknightsen

initially did a 440 point clear which was essentially just a Lin hypercarry, where i really shouldve been able to go above 440 to around 560 but i just couldnt deal with the +150% HP +50 Res Brandguiders condition, which locked me off from a lot of basically free points, so instead i opted for trying to hold off the regular enemies with just Aak and a load of shifters, which still ended up being super tight on the Brandguider kills

really fun actually having reason to use all of the shifters in Lungmen, hoping to get to use them more in the future

massive thanks to @NoManIsland99 for letting me borrow their account for this

Music Used: Genshin Impact OST - Polumnia Omnia
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 OST - Carrying the Weight of Life

The BEST Operator Combo

ZirconitikAK 2024-09-18 | CR-EX-8 4OP Lungmen Only #arknights #arknightsen #LDChallenge

LD Challenge Conditions:
1. Mateo must be defeated as the last enemy.
2. Mateo can only be blocked on 8 surrounding tiles around Barricades.
3. All Barricades must survive at the end of the stage.
4. At least 1 Originium Explosive must activate

needing to defeat Mateo last made this stage a lot harder as it wouldve been much easier to just kill him, meaning youre forced to block him through his phase 2 stun attacks, which requires having 2 bodies with enough sustainability

it would be possible to use smth like Lee + Swire S1 (or Hoshi + Swire) to block his phase 2, but dedicating that many bodies purely to stalling wouldve increased the op count a bit (i also just dont have Lee or Hoshi built yet)

the solution was to try and stall Mateo out on the barricades for as long as possible, meaning i had to start his phase 2 from as far back as possible and stall him with barricade repairs, which ended up cutting it super close to finishing the last enemies

the bodyguards were also super annoying when combined with Mateo's smokescreen, since the left side bodyguards would always be right next to Mateo but wouldnt go onto the barricade, meaning i had to block them to reveal them to let Lin kill them, while also being careful to not do too much damage to Mateo - in the end it all just barely lined up

also Lin + Aak combo is super fun and one of my favourite combos of all time (i get to press the lin button more often)

Music Used: Terraria Calamity OST - Stained, Brutal Calamity

The Only R6 Stage Swire Couldnt Solo

ZirconitikAK 2024-09-13 | CR-6 Lungmen Only - Lin Solo #arknights #arknightsen

ok well swire also couldnt solo the stages with drones but thats not important

bit of a slop clear but this event kinda boring as hell so i dont have much else to show

Music Used: Touhou Luna Nights OST - Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's Kappa

Why Chen is STILL INCREDIBLE

ZirconitikAK 2024-08-25 | FC-8 Lungmen Only 4OP #arknights #arknightsen

me and the bestie ⁠@Hanidragora have decided to pick up Lungmen Faction (including Lee Detective Agency and excluding Penguin Logistics)

thumbnail and title are about chen but the real carry was obviously Swire, i initially spent a long time trying (and failing) to tank Eblana with Hung S2 + Aak S2 only to realise that Swire can tank Eblana super easily with S1 as long as she has someone to break the disables faster than their natural decay rate

rest of the clear after that came down to figuring out how to get Chen to hold left side while dealing with Eblana

Music Used: Drakengard 3 OST - Kurai Uta

Revisiting My First Bindknights Clear

ZirconitikAK 2024-08-23 | Bindknights FC-7 4OP (retrospective) + 2OP #arknights #arknightsen

0:00 Start
0:10 Could I have done better at the time?
3:23 How much better can I do now?

its not the most challenging stage but i wanted to revisit it since it was my first time actually playing Bindknights, and also the first video on my channel ofc - for a long while i thought about how much lower op count i could have gotten at the time if i'd just borrowed Rosa instead, which then also got me considering how much lower it would go if i used modern bind ops - i expected it to be a massive Ray sweep, or at the very least a sweep using Rosa's SIE-X mod, but both of those ended up with hitcount issues against the embers, shouldnt be any surprise then that Dorothy ended up being the solution, and it was so brainless that i literally forgot to pre-set her mines and still managed to win by placing mines directly in front of the enemies...

oh and i probably couldve borrowed Dorothy instead of Gladiia at the time, but without her module and Ines i dont think it wouldve gotten less than 4OP anyways

the clear from a year ago
youtu.be/8F8iXJiRir0?si=uElaFzGDmKhSOwk3

Music Used: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 OST - Carrying The Weight of Life
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 OST - Unused Moebius Field Theme

HOW TO USE FROSTLEAF

ZirconitikAK 2024-08-15 | H10-1 Bindknights 8OP #arknights #arknightsen

been putting off attempting this stage for a while, previous attempts a while back before Ray just didnt go well since Manfred is a pretty scary boss for bind, made even worse by the immediate swarm of enemies (notably the chain casters, who are also very scary for bind) as soon as you defeat his phase 1

having Ray enables me to burst Manfred phase 1 before the last enemy of the wave spawns, allowing me to abuse the killgate with Gladiia attack cancelling, giving me infinite time to deal with Manfred and then redeploy everyone to deal with the enemy wave, rather than having to deal with it all at once

frostleaf can be replaced with literally any other 2 block unit :)

Music Used: NieR Replicant OST - Emil/Karma
NieR Replicant OST - The Dark Colossus Destroys All

Basically a Penance Solo

ZirconitikAK 2024-07-31 | HS-9 IRIS_YI Artist Only 2OP #Arknights #arknightsen #SeedsofTomorrow

shu can be replaced with literally any operator shes just there to tank those last fly enemies and nothing else

went into this event thinking i'd get to have fun playing around with Shu since shes the newest operator drawn by IRIS_YI, but ended up finding out how much of a joke this boss is, maybe the EX / S stages will be better...

Music Used: NieR Replicant ver.1.22 OST - Hills of Radiant Winds

I Thought This Was IMPOSSIBLE

ZirconitikAK 2024-07-26 | WB-9 5OP IRIS_YI Artist Operators Only #arknights #arknightsen

i attempted this on and off ever since the Vernal Winds rerun started, thinking it was impossible and giving up multiple times after trying a LOT of different strategies to try and beat the stage

the main strategy was to try and get down as many aspd towers as possible so Ya would move as little as possible when they teleport to the top lane in phase 2, which requires 11 towers to be placed down for Ya to attack so fast that they stop moving (there are only 12 ranged tiles on the top lane)

the reason Ya needs to be prevented from moving is because Firewhistle and Roberta cant really hold the top lane very well, Firewhistle works very well when she has S2 up, but its followed by 40s of nothing, and since theres a constant swarm of enemies it just doesnt cycle back up in time. Roberta and Firewhistle both have more than enough def to wall out the enemies on the top lane, but will eventually die to chip damage from the enemies especially with all the aspd buffs they have, and with NCD being my only healer option she needs to be deployed on the top lane in order to heal them, but she isnt anywhere near bulky enough to survive against the enemies when off-skill, meaning i needed to occupy a tile using Roberta devices to prevent a tower being placed on it (as this would prevent NCD from being deployed there until it was destroyed)

the other major issue was attempting to hold the top lane without destroying any of the towers - Ya needs to be perma-stalled as soon as possible because any more than 3-4 white tiles on the top lane is too much to handle. this also meant i needed some of the first few enemies spawned from the white tiles on the top lane to be Shanhaizhong Relayers to get the 11 towers up faster, and is why i couldnt let Firewhistle use her ranged AoE attacks because these would end up destroying multiple towers when there are no enemies around allowing Ya to create too many white tiles creating too many enemies to handle

Ya themself wasnt especially difficult to deal with, with the main threat on Phase 1 being the risk of the mirage creating white tiles behind Penance, meaning it needed to be killed before it could pass Penance, requiring Lunacub to have her S2 up - her S2 doesnt cycle in time to handle a second mirage, meaning Phase 1 needs to be killed before a second mirage can be spawned, easily done using Penance S3 with a little additional damage from Lunacub

Phase 2 Ya also wasnt especially difficult to deal with as long as all aspd towers are up, as the clone will be permastalled with 5 towers up and Ya is permastalled at 11 towers, meaning theres infinite time for Penance to kill Ya with reflect damage - Lunacub might also seem like a good option for DPSing Ya as they have a pretty low def, but she just gets distracted way too easily by the enemy swarm as she prioritises lowest def enemies, and is also likely to destroy some aspd towers - in the end Lunacub's only real use was supporting Penance with killing Phase 1 (and reducing the rng needed for Penance to lanehold at the start of the stage as she sometimes just lets enemies through if the wrong ones spawn when shes off-skill) and then adding some amount of support for the top lane by getting one or two hits off on enemies - she also helps NCD survive when shes deployed on the top lane before she can get her skill up, as when the enemies are moving fast enough they can clip into NCD's tile before being blockpushed, meaning Lunacub is able to target them by just having NCD's tile in range, however this was pretty inconsistent and likely wouldnt have been viable for keeping NCD on the top lane permanently

overall it was actually a really fun clear to figure out even if there was an annoying amount of rng malding to deal with, im looking forward to getting Shu soon who will make this niche significantly more viable

Music Used: NieR Replicant ver1.22 OST - Song of the Ancients (Fate)

Is Ray S3 TOO POWERFUL? | Bindknights

ZirconitikAK 2024-07-19 | WB-EX-8 4OP Bindknights #arknights #arknightsen

not too difficult of a stage when you just burst Ya as soon as possible to avoid having to deal with a swarm of defender enemies, CM doesnt play out much differently (Muelsyse becomes less useful because the summons become unable to block, likely would need an additional operator for CM to be viable)

rosa doesnt really do much especially once Ya is defeated, but she is needed for additional damage to Ya to move the real body back into Ray's range after phase 2 starts (Rosa also provides additional damage in Phase 1 to allow Ray to defeat it in one skill use before they reach their first checkpoint)

Music Used: Xenoblade Chronicles X OST - Noctilum

when your goats cooked 💔

ZirconitikAK 2024-06-26 | H9-2 Caprinae Only 3OP #arknights #arknightsen

pretty low effort clear, tried for a while to 2OP but pillar jank on this stage makes S3 essential for wall hacks to kill enemies regardless of how you position things, but without Carnelian S3 just doesnt cycle fast enough - its possible Earthspirit may have been able to replace Carnelian for the clear, or just using an op purely to break a pillar to block off the left side path, but this was the strat i ended up going with

Music Used: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 OST - Chain Attack!

Why You Should Use Degenbrecher S2

ZirconitikAK 2024-06-23 | H11-2 CS Only (Cool Swords) 4OP #arknights #arknightsen

tremble (im not calling it frighten) is a pretty cool debuff, its a shame that Degenbrecher's S3 just doesnt make much use of it at all meaning its main utility becomes praying for her 10% tremble chance to proc exactly when you want it to, meanwhile you can fully control the procs with S2 and the tremble uptime becomes pretty high (i wish her S1 at least had an increased tremble chance, wouldve been pretty cool)

its especially useful against enemies with hard hitting normal attacks, and even more useful if those enemies have skills which require attacking to charge up

overall Degenbrecher and her tremble is a super welcome addition to Cool Swords, i dont really ever want to use her S3 in this niche especially when her tremble is especially useful as a way to increase the survivability of my operators

Music Used: Xenoblade Chronicles X OST - Wir Fliegen
Xenoblade Chronicles X OST - Black Tar

Lin SOLOES This Stage?

ZirconitikAK 2024-06-12 | god id let her solo me

#arknights CCB1 Daily 3 - Beach Repair 310 Points Lin Solo Clear

wanted to try for the max 350 points by abusing ground tiles for free SP gen as much as possible but the +30 res for all enemies is just too much to deal with, particularly the shieldguards (the only threat of the map)

probably the hardest part of this clear was redeploying Lin in time to kill the first sniper enemy - i had to retreat her and redeploy her with EXTREMELY tight timings otherwise the sniper leaks, though it turns out you can also just deploy Lin on the top right tile from the start and she still beats the stage (thanks @Krys_ak) so that whole killing the shieldguards at the start was pretty pointless - having a higher pot Lin might also have made killing the final Croc Duelist possible, but i wanted to use my own (I'll pot6 her someday)

Music Used: Xenoblade Chronicles X OST - Uncontrollable

Muelsyse CHEATS Against This Boss | Bindknights

ZirconitikAK 2024-05-25 | IS-S-5 Challenge Mode - Bindknights 6OP #arknights

originally wanted to do IS-EX-8 but its a pretty boring stage with the boss just taking a super short path to the blue box and there being very few safe tiles to work with, its entirely doable but not particularly interesting.

i ended up using the same muelsyse clone baiting tech that i used in Trials for Navigator, otherwise the DoT is just a death sentence for three operators - phantom is also viable for baiting the attack, but it still results in at least one unit dying, so Muelsyse ends up being the best option

im pretty sure 5op or even 4op will be possible when Ray releases, so maybe ill come back to this stage when she comes out

Music Used: Xenoblade Chronicles X OST - RAOKIMERATERESIA

Makeshift Exusiai?

ZirconitikAK 2024-05-10 | still dont like this boss. 5ops feels like too much but i dont really care because this boss isnt worth the time - CM is most likely possible with slight adaptations to the strat, but ran out of practice plans and theres no way im spending sanity on this

Music Used: Super Smash Bros Ultimate OST - The Valedictory Elegy [Remix]

#arknights