SenyuBuild and Guide

Senyu is a Reason Affinity SPD-type Damage Dealer, focused on AoEs and self-sufficiency.

Skill 1

Senyu’s S1 is a 2-hit ST attack that deals low damage in itself, but gains a lot of punch thanks to the SPD differential buff. For every 1 point of current SPD you have over the enemy’s current SPD, your attack deals an additional 0.4-0.6% damage. On top of that, whenever the second hit of the attack crits, Senyu gains 10-15% Turn meter.

Although the attack is good for a basic skill, the other two skills of Senyu are much more impactful and have more priority. Note that Senyu’s SPD nodes are on her S3, so there’s no reason to level up this skill before the others.

Skill 2

Senyu’s S2, Sentinel Wings, is a very powerful self-buffing skill, which can even buff the rest of your team. After Senyu takes action, she grants herself 1 stack of [Lightwing], an undispellable/unstealable etc. buff that grants her 4-5 SPD per stack, up to 12 times for a total of 48-60 extra SPD. At level 5, she gains another stack of [Lightwing] if she started the turn without being CCed.

She also grants herself a 1 turn [immunity] after taking action, with a 60-100% chance to grant [immunity] to the rest of her team.

If you want to bring Senyu in any Debuff/CC heavy scenario, getting the skill to level 4 is a top priority. Lvl5 is also amazing, but only matters if the fights last more than a couple of turns.

Skill 3

Her S3, Sacred Rite, is a powerful multi-purpose ability that does a bit of everything extremely well. She grants a 2-turn [SPD+] to the whole team, before attacking all enemies 4 times. Each hit comes with a 20-30% chance to dispel 1 buff on each enemy hit. Similar to the S1, the damage of the attack increases by an additional 0.4-0.6% for every point of current SPD Senyu has over the enemy she’s hitting. The additional damage is calculated separately for each enemy.

With 3 powerful effects combining one of the best buffs in the game, an abundant source of Dispel, and excellent damage against slowed enemies, Senyu’s S3 has a very high priority. Lvl3 is the bare minimum for PVP, while lvl5 represents a big damage increase, so long as you can modify the enemy’s speed before attacking. For burst, prioritise this skill over S2, otherwise, for PVP it is highly advised to raise S2&3 to level 4 and 3 respectively, and then bring S2 to 5 for DPS-oriented setups, or S3 for Burst.

PVE

Although sporting good damage and teamwide Buffs + Dispel, Senyu ends up more as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none in PVE. Immunity is readily available from excellent Sustains/Supports already. Dispel can be very valuable, but other dedicated Debuffers offer much more than just Dispels. On the damage side, Senyu is solid, but doesn’t perform great in single-target content compared to Liliam or Diting, and in AoE-focused stages, characters like Yeli or Kokardi can already fulfill her role very well. Honorable mention goes to her performance in Hollow Guild Boss, where a big SPD differential can be created and follow-up attacks can be spammed, skyrocketing her damage thanks to all of her built-in steroids.

In summary, if you do not explicitly need to fit as many roles into one, Senyu’s value goes down. PVE currently does not require such role compression.

PVP

In PVP, Senyu’s role compression is very much welcome, as each and every draft slot is of vital importance. Although her damage is very often not enough to play her as a solo cleave unit (depending on both the enemy draft and how much offensive stats you give her with gear), she shines in multiple Damage Dealer comps thanks to all the extra utility and good AoE damage she brings.

It’s worth noting that thanks to her very high natural SPD, Senyu can act as a very fast AoE Dispeller who also gives SPD+ and Immunity to her entire team, giving her some much-needed flexibility.

With the current state of Cleave and Turandot’s dominance, Senyu is one of the top contenders for a draft slot as DPS in the metagame. Although Senyu herself isn’t the threat, as Turandot can make most cleavers work amazingly at the time of Senyu’s release.

Unfortunately, with her SPD scaling, any SPD- effect massively impairs her performance as a Damage Dealer, on top of all the usual Damage-reducing Debuffs. Likewise, she prefers to be partnered with Dispel + SPD- Debuffers as they can remove the Immunity, Defensive Buffs, and apply the SPD- to create a big differential.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Senyu is a good Damage Dealer against any Hollow Affinity enemy, and she’s versatile enough to fit in multiple PVP strategies without difficulty. She does a lot of things well, but not to the point where she overshadows the rest of the roster and completely warps the meta around her.