So I have to say, I've been farming friendship with the Nilou Bountiful cores team (Nilou/Candace/Kusanali/Kokomi), and as much as I was shitting on it, and as limited as it is in team comps, it's a lot of fun. My still un-maxed Kusanali generates 30k damage cores, and they pop up so quickly, it's hard to even count the damage. Along with her "linked damage" mechanic, the damage just piles on, especially in mid to large groups.
The 2 biggest downsides are that there is no Succ between Hydro/Dendro charactes, and there is no shielder between Hydro/Dendro characters. Those two support features would make it truly a force of nature (ha!)
It also reinforces my belief that at some point Candace was supposed to generate a Hydro shield in her kit. It would be amazing synergy in this team to prevent the friendly damage of Core explosions and to prevent knockback while Kusanali is reapplying Dendro to the next waves of enemies, with her tiny HP pool. I wonder why the fuck they decided to do Candace so dirty and give her a kit that doesn't really fit anywhere, and you have to go out of your way to use. She even talks about her damn shield in like 75% of her voicelines.
Maybe they nerfed her kit to give it to Scaradouche too.
Not bad Nilou, not bad.