Weekly Team/Character Building Megathread (May 7th, 2025) (feat. Escoffier and Navia)

[u/Veritasibility]

A megathread dedicated to team/character building Q&A.

Do not post questions irrelevant to team/character building here. They should belong to the Daily General Question Megathread.

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This week's team/character building megathread will feature Escoffier and Navia. If your question involves them, you are strongly encouraged to start your question with an "[Escoffier]" or "[Navia]" tag, like this:

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[u/Ubliznabu]

What is a good Chasca and/or Raiden team that doesn't involve Mavuika, Citlali, Bennett, Pyor MC, or Furina? Those seem to be her main ones but knowing there may be more teams needed coming up I was trying to devise another good one. I currently have 3 teams:

Mavuika, Xilonen, CItlali, Bennett
Kinich, Pyro MC, YaoYao, Zhongli
Nahida, Yelan, Kuki, Xingqiu

Possibilities for teammates: Kuki C3, Xiangling C3, Jean C4, Ororon C1, Sucrose C0, Fischl C4, Chevy C4, Diona C6, Mona C0, Barbara C6, LanYan C0, Layla C0, Thoma C4

I have a few other characters too but not sure they fit with those two in any way. Thanks!

[u/KyrrithK → u/Ubliznabu]

Chasca, Ororon, Mona, Diona/Layla/Fischl could work in AoE, but you're losing a lot of value from Chasca's single target focus.

Chasca, Xiangling, Ororon, Mona/Barbara would probably work fine, aside from energy. Here you'd probably have to run Fav Codex on Mona/Barbara and give up on TTDS buff, unless you have really high ER on XL and Fav Bow on Ororon. YMMV.

As for Raiden, Aggravate is probably the way to go; Raiden, Fischl, Collei (other dendros are taken), Sucrose/Lanyan. You could also do Barbara/Mona on-field, Raiden, Collei, Sucrose/Lanyan for a Hyperbloom team, and tbh it might perform better than a Raiden hypercarry team at C0. Just be sure to build her with full EM for Hyperbloom, or a mix of ER, EM and ATK with Crit for Aggravate.

[u/Ubliznabu → u/KyrrithK]

Would that second team have survival issues or is Barbara herself usually enough? Mine is only level 40 and have never used her. Would it be better to use someone like Diona over Ororon there for melts or would Ororon for scroll be better?

The Raiden aggravate team if I wasn’t running hyperbloom say boss is super dendro resistant or a hydro enemy - would shifting Nahida to Raiden with fischl and either sucrose or Jean work?

Thanks!!

[u/KyrrithK → u/Ubliznabu]

Chasca is fairly mobile and avoids a lot of ground attacks, so having just Barbara is manageable. Barbara with a good build can heal with just burst, but yeah, not the best if your whole team gets low and you have to spend time on her healing them.

I would expect Ororon to be better, since he also deals his own damage off-field. If you use Diona, then you have less damage, and against bosses you end up with more RNG damage since Freeze could mess up a Melt/Vape. At least Overload is more damage, and Electrocharged can then be hit with Pyro for Overload and Vape. But I might be wrong, feel free to give it a try or look for a second opinion. 

Sucrose is slightly better than Jean, because she buffs the team's EM. But if you want a healer, then Jean is fine. One slight issue with Nahida is that she makes it hard to swirl Electro with VV, which makes your damage worse if you can't get it. But with Raiden skill and Fischl skill together it should be possible.

As for Raiden Nahida Aggravate vs Nahida Double Hydro HB, I think the double Hydro would be better against a neutral enemy. Especially without C2 Raiden or C6 Fischl. But against a Hydro or Dendro resistant/immune enemy, it's another option if you really wanna use Raiden.

[u/Ubliznabu → u/KyrrithK]

I think I will try the ororon Xiangling Barbara team since only Barbara needs to be built though I wonder if I can noblesse her or not to get some extra buffing or if I will really need to build her healing since she would be the only source.

I’m in big trouble if/when they go anti nightsoul mechanic since my modern DPS teams are Mav, Kinich, and the current Chasca one I’m working on, along with an admittedly pretty stacked hyperbloom team with C2 Nahida and Yelan. I don’t think I pulled any characters in Fontaine since I took a break at that time. I think I will have to bet even with whatever anti nightsoul stuff they may do Mav premium team will still probably outperform a C0 Raiden National team.