Originally Posted by Taon

Where are you getting that Cymbi's ability acts as a separate multiplier? I didn't see this on her unit data here, nor on the DM wikia.

It is a multiplier that acts after the affection multiplier. This was confirmed by the devs several times when they were questioned.

TBH, if you have both a Cymbi and Dendro, you can place those girls elsewhere. Dendro will normally kill everything first turn and once she has her bloom this will include whale ship as well.

Not necessarily doubting here, I'm just surprised that this info never made it into either repository of info for units. I don't suppose there's any source of a dev confirming this?

I'm inclined to take Drip's word on his testing, but I'd like to play with it myself when I get some time to run trials on this.

The part that amazes me most of all is, if true that Cymbi's ability acts as a secondary multiplier then that is an insane ability for a 6* to have, let alone a 5*, and Cymbidium should be the first non-event 5* people should aim for (waifu considerations aside).

Originally Posted by Taon

Not necessarily doubting here, I'm just surprised that this info never made it into either repository of info for units. I don't suppose there's any source of a dev confirming this?

I'm inclined to take Drip's word on his testing, but I'd like to play with it myself when I get some time to run trials on this.

The part that amazes me most of all is, if true that Cymbi's ability acts as a secondary multiplier then that is an insane ability for a 6* to have, let alone a 5*, and Cymbidium should be the first non-event 5* people should aim for (waifu considerations aside).

Cymbidium is the only girl in the game with that x2 on first turn, there are a few with x1.5 on first turn and they work the same way but only for the girl with the skill.
So a 1.8x team with Dendrobium means that Dend gets x2.7.

I found this in japan wiki
imgur.com/a/R66cJ