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In a post that is buried about 50 posts back, someone suggested I use Cyclops on my Thunder team, if I have her, instead of an SSR. I just pulled her, but don't see why she's so great. I guess it has something to do with her "applies zeal to all allies" skill. Not sure what that does though. Could someone explain?

Also, who should I change her for? Right now I am running this set-up:

D'art
Brahma
Baal (SSR)
Jupiter
Mammon

Reiko
Thor

I'm planning on switching to Shingen, so maybe swap out Mammon at the same time?
Drop Mammon in the front for Raiko, and run Shingen sniper shot. And actually, just drop Mammon completely for Cyclops in slot 1 backline. Reason being Baal U SS already covers your debuff cap mostly, and Raiko... I'll cover together with Cyclops. Screw Mammon, because her role as a debuff slave doesn't even matter and her nuke doesn't matter without D'Art. And D'Art is too slow for dps anyway.

Zeal, which both Raiko and Cyclops does, basically gives you burst while eating your HP. In this case it's 12% HP for 10 BG for Raiko's case 3t, and 8% HP for 10 BG for Cyclops for 2t. Which is significant because full bursting gives the highest damage output, and zeal helps to accelerate that process.

Now, Cyclops also has a passive that gives 5% extra HP to all himes no matter front or back. That alone means she deserves a spot on your team if you don't have anything else particularly helpful... and she happens to be one of the passive slave himes which can do work, with both a C frame atk break (discount Marduk) and more importantly... party cleanse. You'd be hard pressed to find another thunder hime with that... so naturally use her where you don't want to get fucked over by some debuff. And as for who to replace, pretty much Jupiter.