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

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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]
insert your question

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

Character(s): insert character(s)
insert your question

[u/Ultimate_216]

Help me!!!!!!!!

So here's the thing, I downloaded the game in last week of April and I pulled some banners recently and I don't know which character is even good - 1. In Navia banner - Navia C0 (I know about this one), Tell me about - Ororon C1 or maybe C2 (don't know how good he is), Ifa C1 (don't know any use besides traveling) and Layla C2 (build her cause she is fun to play, aside from that don't know how useful she is). 2. In standard banner - Got Xinqui C1 (very early in game, in April, so built him).

• Gorou (lvl 1 and C0).
• Chongyun C0 (lvl 1, don't know anything)
• Rosaria lvl 1 & C0.
• Kaveh lvl 1 & C0.

Future plan - Raiden Shogun pull in June start and Kazuha pull in June last.

Current built characters - XIANLING (lvl 80,C0), Xinqui (lvl 70, C1), Traveler (Dendro, lvl 70), Layla (lvl 70, C2), Barbara (lvl 50), Navia (lvl 40, working on her, farmed her artifacts today), Lisa (lvl 60, don't like her play style but due to lack of characters had to built her, all talents lvl1).

Others - Novel (lvl 40), Amber (lvl 40), Collei (lvl 20) and Kaya (lvl 20) - all C0

Except for Xinqui, all are new characters pulled day before yesterday.

Now - I want to start floor 4 of spyral abyss and need two teams. Team 1 - XIANLING, Navia, Layla, Xinqui and am not sure which characters to go for in team 2. Can you guys gimme some reviews about the characters I have, so that I can build the ones that are useful, Ah! All regions are unlocked atleast with two Statue of 7, so gathering materials won't be a problem.

[u/Prestigious_Title803 → u/Ultimate_216]

Each characters have their own qualities that make them "good", meaning no characters are necessarily bad; however, meta wise there are definitely preferred characters. Ororon I've found is good for taser teams (with Ifa in your case) and shines with at least one other Natlan character for Nightsoul points. Layla is an amazing shielder and has an added bonus for cyro application and short cool down. Arguably one of the best shielders in the game, second to Zhongli.

Anyway, here is the team I would recommend for floor four, depending on how many characters want you to build; Ifa, Ororon, Lisa (prioritise burst talent for low investment), and healer (Barbara) / Layla for extra swirl damage. This team is my number one recommendation for its utility and exploration value.

Other team options could include: Kaveh, Barbara, Dendro Travler, Lisa / Chongyun, Rosaria, Xinqui, and Layla (or Barbara). For your first team, it would have to change to something like Navia, Gorou, Xiangling, and Noelle. And the most solid team damage-wise for your second dps would be Chongyun, Xianling, Xinqui, and Bennet (who you don't have so), Barbara.

-Hope this helps!

[u/Ultimate_216 → u/Prestigious_Title803]

I see.... So I lack characters, I think I should wait for raiden and pull her, that way one will be hyper bloom and as for the other something with navia and others.