CentaureissiBuild and Guide

Character Summary

Centaureissi is a pure defensive sustain support most notable for the offensive buffs she provides at V1. Her base kit is overwhelmingly biased towards defensive utility, sporting all the heals, stability heals and debuff cleanses needed to maintain a team in peak condition.

Centaureissi’s singular focus on being the “ultimate” sustain support places her in a niche with limited practical applications. Her healing output far exceeds what is required of the team, while her utility in other areas is notably lacking, leaving her with little to contribute outside of her primary role as the team’s healer. 

Centaureissi is assessed at V1 on the basis that a significant portion of her value is attributed to the Blazing Assault II and Damage Up II offensive buffs applied through her enhanced V1 Passive. At V0, Centaureissi can be summarized as an underwhelming defensive healing support with few impactful qualities.

Important! There is already more than enough damage within the character roster to meet the damage thresholds to clear at-level content. To the average player, Centaureissi’s V1 offensive buffs will not noticeably improve team performance. As is the case with all dupes, pulling Centaureissi’s V1 incurs an opportunity cost for what would have been some other SSR.

Fixed Keys

Fixed Keys core to Centaureissi’s function are:

• 06-03 - Lucky Menu: Applies a random buff to the ally when healing them while they are affected by Heat Recovery, helping with her lack of offensive buffs at V0.

• 06-01 - Thorough Preparation: Gives Centaureissi the ability to cleanse debuffs from allies using her S2, instead of it being tied only to her Ultimate.

Mod Key

Centaureissi’s Mod Key greatly improves her supportive capabilities by providing offensive (and defensive) buffs to add much needed depth to her otherwise one-dimensional healing support kit. 

Offensively, Centaureissi’s Mod Key reinforces her niche as a damage amplifier in Qiongjiu-Vector “Burn” teams, with the improved buffs solidifying her place in the team archetype. See below the Character Synergies section for more details.

Defensively, Centaureissi’s Mod Key significantly shortens her Ultimate Skill cooldown by increasing her Confectance Index gain from 2 to 3. The Mod Key also improves her Skill 2 by adding an on-demand single-instance full damage negation effect, applied map-wide to all allied targets. This complements her healing by providing some damage mitigation (akin to Suomi’s Wintry Bastion buff) where previously there was none. 

As of writing, Centaureissi’s Mod Key has not yet been introduced to the Global server. Global is expected to receive it at a later, yet undisclosed date.

Character Function

Centaureissi(V1) is an offensive buffer/sustain support, valued primarily for her single-turn Blazing Assault II - Damage Up II buff combo (+15% ATK% and +20% DMG%, respectively), which can be applied up to twice per round via her Action Support.

While Centaureissi(V1)’s damage amplification is less potent than that of her more specialized peers (e.g., Vector, Mechty), the broad applicability of her damage buffs ensures they provide value to the entire team, regardless the comp. In Gunsmoke Frontline, where teams are stretched thin for buffers, Centaureissi(V1) can quickly find herself the next best alternative for the team.

Beyond Centaureissi(V1)’s offensive buffs, she also meets her team’s need for a sustain support by serving as the healer, a role in which she excels.

Character Synergies

Centaureissi(V1) is most prominently featured in Qiongjiu-Vector “Burn” teams, where she serves as a support to round out the team. Specifically, these “Burn” teams refer to comps built around the Qiongjiu-Vector damage core and forgo a second damage pairing (e.g., Tololo-Springfield) to instead push damage through maximizing the value of Vector’s Burn buffs by using more Burn characters (i.e., Qiuhua, Peri, Centaureissi).

While her Mod Key adds to the buffs she contributes to the team, she still falls short compared to other buffers within their respective niches (e.g., Vector-Burn, Mechty-Corrosion). Nevertheless, she is good enough to take the team slot.

Centaureissi(V1) can be somewhat awkward to use. Specifically, her Action Support can easily be applied at the wrong time on the wrong person. Owing to how “Burn” team rotations pan out, it can often be the supporting characters that trigger the Action Support, and not the main damage dealer themselves. Some considerations when using Centaureissi(V1) for her buffs include:

• Qiongjiu cannot realistically maintain Centaureissi(V1)’s buffs on herself, as she will spend most of her turns casting her self-buff Ultimate Skill.

• Unintuitively, within the Qiongjiu-Vector “Burn” team, the main recipient of the buffs tends not to be Qiongjiu herself but some other damage dealer (e.g., Qiuhua)

• Certain characters (e.g., Peri) can inadvertently set off Centaureissi(V1)’s Action Support in the process of setting up their buffs/debuffs. 

Vertebrae Breakpoints

SSR characters are reviewed at V0/V1 strength. However, for those especially dedicated players, it is worth noting Centaureissi’s significant dupe powerspikes at:

• V1: To paraphrase the above disclosure, the entire basis for Centaureissi’s value (the reason she gets a team slot) can be attributed to the two offensive buffs she applies on allies at V1.

Default build:

• Fixed Key 06-01 - Lucky Menu

• Fixed Key 06-03 - Thorough Preparation

• The third slot is flex.

Sets:

1. Emergency Repair

2. Phase Strike

Stat priority:

ATK% > ATK > HP% > HP > DEF%