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Let’s dive in:

SUMR:

There’s locks, resolves, and preempts in here. The traditional red build with Echidna has been around for a long while now and it still holds up.

Here’s Dark’s example:

Freyr can likely be replaced by adding damage in various ways – row equips, more killers, a stronger swipe lead at the cost of skyfalls – lots of options.

Here’s a true nosf version built with slightly less pings:

Minor accessibility notes: If you don’t want to triple godkiller mgoe, a Ronia equip and a single god or enhance killer will suffice for P1. And if you don’t have Brigid, P2 can be made to work with Zangief directly subbed, with additional killer latents added. Resultant mod might look something like this:

Here’s one that buttons the invade wherever it comes, by Quan:

If you want a no-manipulation pure Geist swipe, you can add an extra active:

Too lazy to mess with sdr / damage checks but yeah you get the idea

For more inspiration, here’s a rather old (kinda outdated, there exists better) collection of builds following this general setup courtesy of Digity: https://imgur.com/a/vbhPn

These red builds are fairly cheap and straighforward. Unfortunately, it’s a little hard to make other colors work…

Here’s a blue build:

Here’s a dumb green build (ridiculously whale and also depends on not getting heart skyfall).

Here’s a super dumb dark build:

For fun – if you wanna watch some expensive efficient stuff, here’s gw’s most recent SUMR setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLVH5YDW2ZQ

Gravs Liberty Geist combo shield. Good shit. Unfortunately Momotoros and that 3 SB mech killer stick aren’t available in NA.

SDR:

Historically the first rush to get SDR invades, this one is nice.

Here’s a fairly NIAP blue setup besides the Carat spike:

You can make it fully NIAP by adding a killer stick and not needing the spike.

Note: NoahDra for the resolve; you can just use board + extra poison active. Also, a note about F1 preempt and animation times – he binds dark cards, and hits with a faster animation if no dark cards to bind.

Slightly less pings by alternating colors a bit (edit – short damage on F3, need to fix via more row equips / attacker killer equips):

Less pings, and no extra Carat active by using Scheat and killer stuff:

You can eliminate the Kopis equips and replace Blodin with Kiri – at the cost of needing to add SB (Valerias, SB equips, Whaledors with those extra pings).

A red one by crop, NIAP except Sara (helpful for the killers), who you could choose to exchange for:

A NIAP red/green one by crop with Auroros and killer stuffs:

Another gw build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5XABZ-KWsg

Some old red stuff:

Fully farmable Glav Hunter x Manticore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeF9eNbsV7g

Kaede red stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0cwve9qZ2Q

There’s also some old green builds, if you like that kind of stuff.

SUNR:

Decently beefy HP; not very much in the way of mechanics.

Let’s start with another whaley efficient gw setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7EuSuDFmoM

It uses laser+row swipe to kill floors, and the laser will button the invade whenever it comes.

lol

Here’s a blue build:

Should be able to make NIAP Frost Cape heal work instead, popping it F4.

At the cost of nosf, it can be made fully NIAP:

Where Ibaraki-Doji spike (beefed up by the Bufu equips) is a farmable stand-in for the traditional Carat spike.

Now, red builds exist, but since red doesn’t have the raw damage that MNoahs bring, they involve a decent amount of investment and aren’t really any more efficient.

Here’s a really clean one by Rainbuckets:

Damage on the last two floors is exceptionally tight. You can add some more Bufus to let a 28blue swipe work.

What I’ll be running with my partner due to box constraints:

Incidentally, it’s faster than the mnoah spam due to less P1 pings and not needing to heal.

Inspired by that minimal ping stuff, here’s the concept extended a bit further:

It’s possible to further reduce ~2s by replacing MGoemons with no haste animation Zangiefs (with killers, the damage works out); however, there are situations where Zangief board actually adds cascaded combos with a blind swipe. So we’ll leave it at that.

Here’s a light build:

If you add a >= 1.6x spike to Tengu for F7, none of the row equips or the dragon killer are needed.

And here’s a dark build:

Chinese Rush sucks:

Yeah Chinese Rush sucks.

Um. Here’s a dumb Zela spam build:

Tested some and it’s worked decently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK3Vs1KVZpg

bye

There’s plenty more builds out there. Eh. I’m going to sleep.