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>That I didn't know, but who cares
Math. Math cares.
>20%/30%/50% damage for just Basics will always be stronger than some 12% ATK buff
1) It literally won't be.
2) It's 12% ATK buff + 12% CRIT Rate buff.
>while only getting 10% from Polar and 20% from her Support Passive
And 24% from her W-Engine.
And 45% from M6.
And another 24% from Astral.
And potentially more from support W-Engines, Astra, Swing Jazz, Shiyu/Deadly buffs, and DMG% #5
>some 12% ATK buff, which Soukaku doesn't need when she gets 1000 ATK
1000 ATK on top of the base ~3000 would be an equivalent of having a 33.34% in-combat ATK buff. That's incomparably less saturated than 100%+ DMG you're more than likely to have.
The multiplier being split between 12% in-combat ATK and 12% CRIT Rate also means the buff is distributed between two respectively multiplicative multipliers, most of the time that's more desirable than having everything go into a single one.
>%DMG is more important
As explained above, this is evidently false
>it's more beneficial to go through the whole chain than skip all the time, when the first half of the chain is as fast as the chain end
BA1 is literally never worth it, though. All BA1 should be replaced with Dash Attack. Doing otherwise is a damage loss.
>not when you're standing in front of the enemy attacking with Basics
This is objectively wrong.
Dash Attack > BA3 loop is simply much higher DPS than BA123 loop.
It's also higher DPS than pressing her CA by the way.
https://youtu.be/wZM5KfCPbhs
Dodge Counter/QA > BA23 is debatable. I don't know if it's higher or lower DPS than the Dash Attack > BA3 loop, but either way it's pretty close, so it doesn't really matter here, but Soukaku's BA1 is pretty damn bad and should be skipped always.
>You also don't need the crit rate from Harmony, 60% Crit rate is enough + you get 15% more from Ultimate
But that's wrong and that's not how any of it works.
Extra CRIT Rate either means just dealing more damage on average, or, if it throws your CRIT Rate-to-DMG ratio off, it's an opportunity to redistribute stats off CRIT Rate elsewhere.
Getting an extra 12% CRIT Rate from the set means you can gain 24% CRIT DMG% from your sub-stats while keeping your CRIT Rate% identical to what it was before.
>Harmony is just a brick with shittier stats than Polar the 100% upkeep is irrelevant when the Polar buff is stronger
Except, as we went over, Harmony's buff is highly likely to be just as good, if not better than Polar's.
However, unlike Polar, that buff is applied to literally everything Soukaku does, and not exclusively BAs and Dash Attacks.
And if you look at your own video, you might notice, that you aren't even dealing most of your damage with those two.
tl;dr You're impressively wrong on all accounts.