First of, Optimizations. Swap Cancels. Piper is one of the best characters to utilize Swap Cancels with, because the end of her EX has a **huge** damage multiplier: 1459% at Level 16, which is further boosted by her M2.

You don't see me do it in the clear because I didn't get the chance to do so, but Chain Attack Manipulations. If you want to maximize your Decibel efficiency, don't enter the Chain Attack phase with an unused Ult. Chain Attacks give you a lot of Decibels.

Never end your Chain Attacks with Piper's. Her Chain Attack has awful recovery frames and doesn't combo into the rest of her moveset. 90% of the time, you'll want to end it with Lucy for the free Quick Assist for Astral Voice. 10% of the time, you'll want to end it with Burnice to transition smoothly into her Double EX (only if she's low on Heat and you have enough time on Astral Voice left).

Most important thing about Burnice is that you don't play her as an off-field Anomaly character, you play her as someone who is able to contribute while being off-field. Play a Burnice team as if it were any other regular Disorder team, don't just bench her after applying Scorch.

That means after you proc Assault, switch to her to proc Burn instead of continuing to field Piper. The odds are stacked against you with an Anomaly team for this Pompey variant, you really want to be getting as many Disorders as possible.

However, if you have enough energy, you'll want to prepare Anomaly buildup ahead of time for future Disorders. (Remember that enemies have a 3 second immunity to Anomaly procs after you trigger one.) At the end of the first stun window (around 1:13), you'll see me proc an Assault. Instead of switching to Burnice like I usually would, I continue spinning to fill the Physical gauge to max and switch before I proc the second Assault. Now, I have an Assault in 'storage' that I can easily trigger immediately after Burnice gets a Burn for maximum Disorder damage.

You'll actually see me repeat the exact same thing with Burnice in that same rotation: I delay my stored Assault to build up Fire Anomaly and store a future Burn, which you'll see get procced during Piper's Ult immediately afterwards.

Last thing: Buff Management. Piper's Power stacks are really easy to maintain. Her M1 even allows you to build Power stacks for free without any energy. It's an 18% Damage buff for 12 seconds so it's nothing to scoff at.

You really, really want to maintain your Astral Voice stacks. I screwed up early with the swapping on Lucy's EX Specials and didn't get my first Astral Voice stack until 0:35, forcing me to use Burnice's Ult a little sooner than I would have liked because I wanted to start getting them as soon as possible.

At 1:38, I have 8 seconds left until my 3 stacks of Astral Voice run out. I switched to Lucy to use her EX, but miscalculated Pompey's aggression and impatiently ended up doing a Defensive Assist with Burnice instead of a Quick Assist from Lucy's EX, losing me the stacks. I was able to start building them quickly again at 1:51 thanks to Lucy's Ult, though.

Aside from the initial 35 seconds and another 5 seconds later, I was able to maintain all 3 stacks of Astral Voice throughout the entire fight. (This part is unintentional, but when Pompey does his spin I accidentally got hit, which allowed me to use a Quick Assist for free and not lose the stacks.)

Unfortunately after he did his spin, I got excited because of the new score record and you can clearly see it because I started taking unnecessary hits and randomly using Lucy's Specials for no reason.

Would also love it if other Piper mains have any criticism on my gameplay.

For those struggling against Pompey with an Anomaly team, feel free to watch and read my sloppy 27.7k clear/guide. (Sorry for lack of audio, I mute the game to listen to music.)