With how everyone claimed that Harmony was the most important path back when Ruan Mei was released, what's exactly easy to skip on her? I think that claim is just what you want and that's it, not really true.
the advice “pull every harmony” has always been a bit too binary. should you pull sparkle if you already have sunday and don’t have DHIL? should you pull ruan mei if you have robin and sunday and no break units? should you pull sunday if you have robin, ruan mei, sparkle, and no plans on pulling summoners?
it’s good advice for new players that they should pull a few meta harmony units (mainly robin and sunday) considering those units will be able to fit into the majority of teams they want in the future. however, for established players who already have harmony units - there’s no need to pull every harmony.
for example: imagine the main dps on your account are kafka and boothill, if tribbie is a crit support you deffo shouldn’t pull her; if your main dps are archeron and ratio, if tribbie is a summon support you’d rather pull a debuff support like JQ; if your main dps are aglaea and firefly, if tribbie is a HP support, you’d have no reason to pull her.
“never skip harmony units” is too black and white of a take to be objectively good advice, you should always pull harmony units for archetypes youre interested in - but there’s no point pulling a harmony for an archetype you have no interest in. and even then, sometimes a nihility unit can be just as good of a support in an archetype and you don’t need a harmony (fugue in break, JQ in debuff)
The fact that you have to go to examples and situations removes the "easiness" from the situation. The point is that "easy to skip" is just the reality of that player, not to claim if the advice is true or not.
And to answer your questions... The need is to pull the characters you like and the characters that buff the ones you like, I agree on that. But, what you shouldn't do isn't pulling characters that work outside of your archetypes but pulling characters you don't like.
i didn’t claim my answer would be easy or simple? the whole point of my comment was to add more nuance and complexity to the typical simple and binary rule. obviously it would be more complicated, but it’s important to point out
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u/lastsentra 1d ago
I've never seen a character as easy to skip as her in this game