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If we allow ourselves to give Hoyo the benefit of the doubt here, the intention was probably to make Lauma not interfere with any kind of preexisting bloom team. Nilou wants her blooms to transform into Bountiful Blooms, and Hyperbloom or Burgeon teams want the exact opposite. There isn't really an easy way to rework the entire reaction without hurting one of the two archetypes.

But holy fuck, making it do absolutely fucking nothing on practice and marketing it as a whole ass new reaction is stupid and dishonest. They could have made it so Verdant Dews could eventually ripen into extra Lunar Blooms or some shit. Even if they deal negligible damage, it would at least be SOMETHING.