Why Flins needs certain characters on his teams.

I've seen an uptick in posts around Flins's teammates for his best Ineffa and Ineffa-less teams and thought I'd write a quick explanation around why Flins needs a 2nd Nod Krai character and 2nd Electro character, and prefers sucrose despite her not being necessary. These characters and party requirements are thrown around a lot but i feel like a lot of people don't actually know why they are recommended for Flins.

Quick side note, play the teams you like, this is just for people who want to optimize their Flins performance but might be a bit out of the loop.

1. Why 2 Nod Krai?

Flins loses a lot from not using a 2nd Nod Krai character: 20% Lunarcharge damage bonus, 60 additional EM from Silken Moon's Serenade, and 15% crit rate from Night of the Sky's unvailing. However, the biggest thing he loses his access to the additional damage procs on his burst. Flins' discounted burst normally only does 1 hit for 128% attack scaling at level 10. But when there are 2 Nodkrai characters in his party, he does an additional damage proc for 187% attack scaling. This more than doubles the damage each burst is doing, and without it he would do a lot less damage, and feel worse to play.

2. Why double electro?

The effect of electro resonance is as follows: Affected by Hydro for 40% less time. Superconduct, Overloaded, Electro-Charged, Lunar-Charged, Quicken, Aggravate, or Hyperbloom have a 100% chance to generate an Electro Elemental Particle (CD: 5s). This effect is very important on Flins' teams since all the characters on it tend to be very energy hungry, and the extra particle from resonance helps a lot with energy requirements. Solo electro teams often need around 30% to 60% more ER to burst consistently on rotation.

3. Why is Sucrose so good? Why can't I run another subdps or anemo support?

Sucrose is not a party requirement in the same way nodkrai and 2nd Electro is, but i still think its good to go over why she is so good. First, Lunar Charge damage does not scale with that many stats and completely ignores defense, so there arent as many ways to buff it, especially since Lunar Charge does not taken into account dmg%. This means that electro res shred is very important for Flins to be doing optimal damage, since its such a rare undiluted buff. The only way to easily get electro res shred is through Viridescent Venerer or Flins' C2, and one of those is a lot more cost efficient than the other. Sucrose easily procs VV shred, making her one of the easiest sources of res shred in the game. But why not play Kazuha or another VV shredder? Sucrose has a 170 EM buff without an EM weapon, and can run TTDS for a 48% atk buff on Flins. No other anemo support we have currently can come anywhere close to this buffing power for Flins, besides maybe C2 kazuha with a R5 freedom sworn (and even then Sucrose is still better).

I hope people find this small guide helpful, and good luck on Flins pulls!