This is why you don’t pull for characters like Phoebe lol
Brant's banner will be indicative. I'm already waiting for it not because I'll be pull him, I'm skipping him, but just to see what will happen next and understand the situation. Now that the endgame game is clearly divided into two different parts, the situation with characters changes, since both modes are very different and characters that are good in one mode will not be so good in the other. Therefore, it seems to me that the next patches will be based around characters for the new mode WW, since this mode is currently experiencing problems with characters since before this, all the characters that came out were sharpened for the TOA mode.
If Brand gets a low rating in TOA, but a high one in WW, I would expect that Cartethiya will also be for WW mode character (So far these are of course rumors, we haven't seen her kit) but she, like Brant, judging by rumors, is locked in the Havoc element, which is already bad for TOA. And it will greatly limit her effectiveness in isolation from Havoc teams, but let's not get ahead of ourselves, let's wait for patches.
Regarding Phoebe, I don't know why there is so much negativity towards her, but in fact, many people miss several important points. First, she is the first hybrid character with 2 stances, who can act as a character of position 1 or 2 depending on the stance. But most importantly, she introduced a new mechanic of Spectro Frazzle and accumulation of stacks, which can then be converted into damage. What does this mean in the long term? Well, it roughly means that if DPS who use Spectro Frazzle come out in the future, and you don't have Phoebe, you are fucked, since no one else in the game can do this except her, and in fact, you will not be able to use these DPS effectively. This does not mean that you need to urgently run to pull her, it just means that you need to remember this point, since perhaps in the future, when new characters come out, she will be in both columns as DPS and as Sub DPS at the same time.
Now after this patch the game changes dramatically, and now you will have to look at characters not as before in one direction based on TOA. Now you need to evaluate characters based on two game modes, which greatly changes the whole picture, and in general the whole strategy of pulling characters through gatcha.