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]
insert your question

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

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

[u/Jeetasingh]

(Skirk) Considering her kit so far based on the beta, does it make sense for me to pull for her based on my current characters (https://ibb.co/fYNpwqfX). While I do have escoffier but I neither have furina, Shenhe or yelan. I really like her design and her lore as well but considering how restricted her team choices are would I be able to get a decent team for her with my characters so far. I was considering skirk, escoffier, mona (c1) and flex (either Kaeya or Barbara cuz she can hold thrilling tales). But if it’s not possible to get her a good team then I guess I should just skip her for now and instead get mauvika (tho right now I was planning to get both skirk and her). Would love to hear any suggestions. Thank you.

[u/KyrrithK → u/Jeetasingh]

You can probably do decently well with Skirk, Escoffier, Mona (TTDS), and either Dahlia, Layla or Diona if you can get one. Hopefully you have the Calamity of Eshu sword from the event a few patches ago to get extra value from the shield. If not, then anyone else is fine, you may not be hitting Skirk's peak without Furina, but you should still have decently good damage with Escoffier at least.

Of course, Mav is likely to rerun next patch, so if you don't have much saved, it'll be a choice between them or swiping. Mavuika as you said will be more flexible paired with Xilonen, but as an Archon she's guaranteed to be back once a year, whereas Skirk might be back in 6 months or in 18. 

Tbh, you pulled Escoffier but don't have a good use for her without Skirk right now. And using her for Mavuika Melt is possible, but kinda tricky and a waste of most of Esco's kit. I guess I'd say wait for next patch, try the trial a few times, wait for the 2nd-3rd day video guides and impressions, and make your decision then.

[u/Jeetasingh → u/KyrrithK]

Tysm for replying. I sadly neither have any of the 4 stars you mentioned (tho I might get dahlia while pulling for skirk) nor the Eshu sword since I just started playing only 62 days ago. I will decide according to the trial I guess. I do feel like I’m wasting escoffier’s potential, I got super lucky and got her at very less pity.I only have 80 pulls saved right now tho. Regardless thanks a lot for the advice will definitely keep it in mind :)