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The last time we had a new A-Rank the game had only just updated for the first time. Version 1.1 saw the release of Seth Lowell. It's been four updates since then and finally update number 5 is when we get the brand new Pulchra. Actually Pulchra made her debut back in v1.2 and seemed like any old NPC enemy character at the time so it may be that miHoYo just realized they hadn't been giving out any new lower rarity characters. Players have been calling attention to it for a while.
Anyway Pulchra has merit as a character. You really only use her for the passive her skill offers. Hit the skill and then you can switch out. As you use your new active character's skill, Pulchra will team up with them and do additional damage. As an A-Rank though I'm not sure how useful this additional damage will be but passive effects seem to be the direction miHoYo's going in. Astra Yao from the previous update also had a skill that provided passive assistance.
In the current update, Trigger also provides something similar to Pulchra and as an S-Rank likely more so. Instead of just skills triggering her passive damage, any attack will do something with stronger attacks triggering stronger passive damage. On top of that these passive attacks also weaken enemies. The tradeoff if you can even call it that is that it takes slightly longer to get the passive going. You need to start with Trigger doing a few sniper shots. Anby on the other hand is a straightforward attacker. Her original form required a triple hit combo before you could do a stronger stunning hit which you can further combo into her skill for even more stun. In this new form she uses the triple hit to charge up a marker which lets her whole team do more damage and also allows her skill to hone in. She also seems to provide more consistent Electric build-up though she's not an Anomaly Character so how useful this is is yet to be seen.
Personally I went for Trigger because her passive damage which also weakens the enemy seemed more useful and her sniping mode is really fun. I'm reminded of miHoYo's flagship game, Honkai Impact 3rd and the character Shigure Kira who also had an fps mode. She dropped in 78 gacha pulls.
Anyway who did you guys go for? Or are you waiting for Vivian and Hugo in the big update coming up next?
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