Bready Early Analysis

Note: This Review Accounts for the updated values of Bready. The updated values is a nerf. Prior to the nerf, Bready was (80+~%) the DPS of Scarlet: Black Shadow on her recommended taste route. Bready’s total DPS was nerfed by around 18%~ and is harder to buff her due to the higher buff values and lower base modifiers for skills, this indirectly nerfs her damage even more when placing her in proper teams.

Bready’s Lingering taste was nerfed by around 100%~ (assuming both were multiplicative buffs for burst, and yes, by that much) This would’ve out DPS Scarlet: Black Shadow by a considerable margin. previous statements being harder to buff also holds true in her Lingering taste status.

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Overview

• Bready can deal damage comparable to Scarlet: Black Shadow (With Alice) when using her “Recommended Taste” Distributed damage route (60%~ of SBS optimal team) due to the multitude of self buffs Bread can give herself
• Bready’s Lingering Taste Route does considerably more damage without outside buffers. However, there are very limited amount of sustain damage buffers, and are season-limited Nikke (Rosanna: Ocean Chicc). The buffers for distributed damage are also much better buffers which leads to “Recommended Taste” route dealing more damage in the end.
• Bready can’t have Lingering taste and Recommend taste at the same time.
• Strong staple Water DPS in solo raids, however directly competes with Scarlet: Black Shadow Maid team when using her recommended taste route in neutral element
• Unimpressive DPS if the Commander does not have a sustain damage buffer or distributed damage buffer in the team

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Newbie/Incomplete Box Section

Bready is one of the harder hitting non-pilgrim DPS’s . she can deal damage in two different ways, one via distributed damage and the other in the form of sustained damage.

Bready does require a strict team to be able to deal any sort of respectable damage. She needs to be paired with Mast: Romantic Maid and Anchor: Innocent Maid or Elegg (copium) for recommended taste status. For Lingering taste status she needs Rosanna: Chicc Ocean

In both their optimal teams, Bready can deal equal damage to Quency: Escape Queen, the previous hardest hitting water DPS Nikke, now tied. However Bready is simply better if there is no core exposed.

She does mediocre damage if she is not paired with any of these Nikkes listed above.

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Basic Information

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Skill 1: Lonely Gourmet

Activates when entering Full Burst. Affects self.
ATK ▲ 70.01% for 10 sec.
Activates when gaining the buff that increases sustained damage.Affects self.
Lingering Taste: Charge Speed ▼ 20% for 50 sec. This effect cannot be dispelled.
Removes Recommended taste.
Activates when gaining the buff that increases distributed damage while not in a sustained
damage-increasing status. Affects self.
Recommended Taste: Charge Speed ▼ 20% for 50 sec This effect cannot be dispelled.
Removes Lingering Taste.

Most important part of her kit.

Every full burst she gains a attack boost. She has two DPS routes and can fit into two different DPS archetypes, and that is Distributed damage and Sustained Damage

Both routes will reduce charge speed by 20%, making her full charged attacks 1.2 + 0.36s (from auto-play/non manual gameplay). This directly affects her recommended taste damage route, which means that charge speed overloaded stats are welcomed.

Charge Speed Debuff

In practice, a -20% charge speed doesn’t affect damage too much as there is aim in time (when playing auto/not controlling her) of a fixed .36s, this doesn’t change at all until charge speed reaches near 100%.

Skill 2: Favorite Candy

Activates after landing 3 Full Charge attack(s) while in Lingering Taste status. Affects the target.
Damage Taken ▲ 10.2% for 5 sec.
Aftertaste: Deals 150.04% of final ATK as sustained damage every 1 sec for 5 sec.
Activates when hitting a target with Full Charge while in Recommended Taste status. Affects self.
Attack Damage ▲ 60.01% for 5 sec.
Activates when hitting a target with Full Charge while in Recommended Taste status. Affects all
enemies.
Deals 265.07% of final ATK as distributed damage.

Lingering taste buff route offers higher DPS when compared to her recommended taste buff route, However her recommended taste status has much better teams.(Maid Mast, Maid Anchor vs Rosanna: Chic Ocean). This does mean her recommended taste status will be used more often than until more notable sustain damage buffers are released.

Since distributed damage buffs are a different buff bracket than Attack damage ▲ (base % x ATK buffs x ATK damage buffs x Damage distributed buffs) this allows her to reach up to 60%~ of Scarlet: Black shadow in their optimal teams.

Burst: New Flavor

Affects self.
Attack Damage: ▲ 60.19% for 10 sec.
Activates when in Lingering Taste status. Affects self.
Aftertaste Effect ▲ 349.8% for 10 sec.
Activates when in Recommended Taste status. Affects self.
ATK ▲ 70.09% for 10 sec

Grants a huge attack damage buff no matter what status Bready is in during her burst.

Gives a modest attack boost for recommended taste status. all her total buffs when in Recommended Taste status is:

ATK: 140.10% (During Burst)
ATK Damage: 120.2% (During Burst)

These values are insanely high and are multiplied by distributed damage buffs as well. However this does mean she is a a lot harder to buff as compared to other Nikkes when adding extra ATK or ATK damage buffs. the only reason why she is unable to dish out more DPS desipite the massive attack buffs is because her distributed damage per shot values is rather low with slow frequencies.

Her Aftertaste Effect buff is a multiplier (150% x (1+3.5)) and is not additive. it also does not get diluted by any other buffs. It is assumed the burst modifies the base value of aftertaste DoT rather than being a direct buff/debuff.

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Campaign

Bready is a bit hard to determine where she lands in Campaign without having proper hands on usage on her first.

To start, she’s expected to be just ok in Campaign. This is due to her being essentially locked to the maid team, which isn’t a bad buffing duo, but it does force some anti-synergy with the other Burst III DPS in the team unless pairing with another distributed damage dealer. But she should be viable in water weak campaign stages with her recommended taste status.

Water Distribute DPS team

Rapi: Red Hood,Mast: Romantic Maid,Anchor: Innocent Maid,Bready,Quency: Escape Queen

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Arena

In PvP Bready could have possibly been a budget version of SBS, but the dream is cut short since she needs specific buffers to work. Maid Mast and S.Rosanna are not considered highly viable units in PvP.

Hence, the only way she can possibly be used to good effect is if Maid Anchor is in the team, who is not part of the current PvP meta. Even then, her damage cannot compare to that of most DPS units, and distributed damage DPS units come with a ton of already well known problems against invulnerability and damage reduction. Her burst generation is also nothing special, so you’re probably better off just not using Bready in PvP. Try someone else out, it’s probably better than our new chubster Nikke.

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Special Interception | Union Raid | Solo Raid

Due to the nature of her kit, Bready basically only has one viable team to use currently in each status, with a alternative cope team

She’s expected to be useful in water based teams in solo raid for a while as there are very minimal viable water DPSs currently, she’s not expected to see use in neutral element raids.

Recommended Taste Route

rapi: red hood,mast: romantic maid,anchor: innocent maid,bready,quency: escape queen

Rapi can be replaced with any burst 1 CDR, Quency: Escape queen can be replaced with phantom or any DPS of your choosing. Maids can be replaced with Elegg (copium) if the Commander does not have both.

Lingering Taste Route

rapi: red hood,Rosanna: chic ocean,bready,Helm (Treasure),flex b3

Rapi can be replaced with any burst 1 CDR, it is hard to replace helm treasure as she’s the only Nikke that can deal excellent DPS while healing and providing burst generation without severely hurting team DPS. alternatives would be any off burst healer of your choosing

Flex slots are a sub buffers such as Crown (has passive attack buffs not tied to her burst), or any of your preferred sub-dps

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Strengths

• Bready Has similar damage when compared to the previously hardest hitting water DPS, Quency Escape queen. Bready does however out-dps Quency: Escape Queen if there are no cores exposed
• Her overload statlines are not too strict, Bready just needs max ammo for more uptime (which is already compensated by the maid team). other usual DPS lines are still welcome of course.
• Not only Dough rises when she bakes

Weaknesses

• Essentially useless without distributed buffers or sustained damage buffers. Locked behind pretty much all other teams
• Bready has extremely high self buffs, to the point where outside buffs will be diluted, which isn’t currently a problem, but her damage ceiling is lower than other Nikkes of the same DPS tier currently for future purposes.
• Mediocre in PvP
• Probably the reason why server maintenance was extended TWICE

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Should you pull?

As a newbie or any Commander that may not have Mast: Romantic Maid or Anchor: Innocent Maid, absolutely not. Save for Anniv 2.5, wishlist her

If you’re a f2p solo raid try-hard, as one of the only limited water DPSs, she would be impactful enough to warrant a copy using pulls. Do not use Mileage. She doesn’t need to strictly be used in solo raids, Bready is part of the strongest water-weak bossing team currently, and can be used for Harvester, Nihilister, or any water weak boss, assuming you have the Maid duos.

If you’re a wallpaper enjoyer, MLB Bready, SSS tier, use any means necessary.

Note: Bready was a must-pull before the nerfs, though.

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Rating

Category	Rating
Overall	S
Story	B-A
Bosses	SS~
Arena	C

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Recommended Cubes

resilience cube,bastion cube

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Expected Skill Priority

Nikke	Budget Skill Investments	Recommended Skill Investments	Skill Priority	Notes	Investment Priority
Bready	Skill 1: 7 Skill 2 : 7 Burst : 7	Skill 1: 10 Skill 2 : 10 Burst : 10	Skill 2 > Skill 1	Skill 2 is more important to raise as it holds the base values of her DPS values while providing buffs similar to skill 1. Level one or two ahead of skill 1 Skill 1 simply gives an ATK buff, charge speed values are unchanged.	High

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Overload Gear Priority

Gear Priority = Head > Chest > Gloves > Boots

Attribute (Sub-Stat)	Priority	Recommended	Notes
Increase Element Damage Dealt	★★★★★	4x	wanted for Union raids and Solo raid content.
Increase Hit Rate	☆☆☆☆☆	0x	—
Increase Max Ammunition Capacity	★★★☆☆	1x	Maid team already covers for almost 100% uptime due to reload speed. Lingering taste would benefit a bit from this but not as much as it would compared to other DPSs as most of her DPS is applied as DoTs. Charge speed rolls can be rolled for instead
Increase ATK	★★★★★	4x	Universal DPS increase option.
Increase Charge Damage	☆☆☆☆☆	0x	—
Increase Charge Speed	★★★☆☆	4x	Having 17~% extra charge speed will allow one extra shot during her full burst, any less wouldn’t benefit Bready much. despite this ATK stacking is still better.
Increase Critical Rate	★☆☆☆☆	0x	—
Increase Critical Damage	★☆☆☆☆	0x	—
Increase DEF	☆☆☆☆☆	0x	—