Swap cancelling, and why your damage feels low
Most rotation losses come from finishing animations you never needed to finish.
The core idea
Every outro animation can be cancelled by swapping. If you let a full animation play out, you are paying several seconds for damage that already landed.
What to practise
- Land the hit that matters.
- Swap immediately — do not wait for the character to finish posing.
- The incoming character keeps the buff regardless.
Why this matters more than gear
A clean rotation is worth roughly a full echo set of stats. Before farming for better substats, record yourself fighting for thirty seconds and count how many animations you sat through.
Tier lists assume competent execution. If a top-tier character feels weak, the rotation is usually the problem, not the character.