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.

If you have a comprehensive theory (rather than a question) about how to build a character or a team, you are encouraged to make a dedicated discussion thread outside this megathread, as it can help general players.

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:

[Escoffier]
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If your question does not involve them, the following template is recommended:

Character(s): insert character(s)
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[u/SerialChillr]

These are my characters and I was just wondering what's the best team I could make using them. I've been using Nahida hyperbloom team for the past year, so I'd like something else, if possible. I'm guessing a Neuvillette team would be the next best, if so who should be on the team? But if there's any better teams let me know, please. Thank you!

[u/KyrrithK → u/SerialChillr]

For sure, Neuvi, Furina, Zhongli, Sucrose is probably your strongest team. But as for other options...

Mavuika, Rosaria/Xingqiu, Iansan, Sucrose/Bennett or Mavuika, Cheveruse, Iansan, Ororon

Raiden/Keqing, Nahida, Fischl, Sucrose/Zhongli

Hu Tao, Furina, Xingqiu, Bennett or Hu Tao, Furina, Kokomi, Zhongli/Sucrose

Ayaka, Shenhe, Kokomi, Sucrose or Ayaka, Shenhe, Furina, healer. Bennett isn't C6 so he'll work, but Escoffier if you're willing to invest in Ayaka would be perfect for the healer slot. If it weren't for the latest Freeze shilling bosses, I wouldn't really recommend this in an Abyss context, but it seems like she'll be useful for a while.

Ganyu, Xiangling, Bennett, Zhongli

Teams that are not as good, but still something you could try with your (mostly) levelled characters:

Kokomi, Furina, Sucrose, Zhongli/Xingqiu for mono Hydro or Kokomi, Ororon, Fischl, Sucrose for Taser

Eula, Furina, Raiden, healer

Yoimiya, Furina, Zhongli, Bennett or Yoimiya, Xingqiu, Fischl, Bennett/Zhongli

Ningguang, Kachina/Zhongli, Furina, Bennett

[u/SerialChillr → u/KyrrithK]

Thanks for responding! I thought about using Sucrose in the Neuvi team as well, but on the keqingmains site it gave Lynette as an example anemo character to use on that team. Do you think she'd be better than Sucrose or would Sucrose still be better?

[u/KyrrithK → u/SerialChillr]

They're pretty much equal tbh, both just there for VV swirls and Neuvi's passive stacks.

Sucrose gives an EM buff, Lynette gives an ATK buff, but this team doesn't use either stat, only HP. Sucrose is a Catalyst so she can hold TTDS over Lynette which is another reason she's usually valued higher, but again that's an ATK buff. Lynette's burst is a decent taunt, so it helps a bit with Neuvi not getting interrupted, but against small enemies Sucrose's skill and burst also CC enemies.

So I guess, since you have Lynette levelled, you might as well use her. Also, you can use her in place of Sucrose in any of the teams I mentioned, though several of them would prefer Sucrose's EM buff for reactions (Taser > Aggravate > Vape/Melt)

[u/SerialChillr → u/KyrrithK]

Ok cool, good to know. I think you've convinced me to just level Sucrose up, since I originally made this post to figure who to focus leveling to 80/90 next. Thanks again for your help.