Zajef is something else. I have never seen someone ping-pong between dog shit and based takes so quickly when talking about this game. Any video that isn't about undeniable math is like verbal whiplash over and over.
you shouldn't take this chanel as his real opinions, the raiden one is obviously bait, and this channel put that part for people to take the bait. He doesn't take the story of this game seriusly really
@@yaemiko0614 so if he doesn't care why does he keeps rage baiting with takes like these. I feel like rage baiting is his thing now. "look at me I have such a different and better take than other people" when he's just spouting nonsense without much though to bait lore enjoyers. And if that call him out for this shi he's like "it's my opinion" even when he's blatantly wrong. I loved his streams for his contribution to theory crafting but now his streams are just 90% hating on hoyo and rage baiting. I'm not saying criticizing hoyo is bad but his shi is annoying to watch
Well, it seems like he doesn’t give a damn about this game’s lore and storyline. And that’s okay. I don’t watch him for his lore takes, but for his math. And he is very passionate about theorycrafting, he’s good at it and I can see that he enjoys doing it.
My favorite solo character is Neuvillette. You just can't die, you're above 50% health consistently all the time. Complete self-sustenance and amazing damage. Lack of interruption resistance at C0 is really his only weakness.
And C1 is f2p friendly too, I don’t see how pulling an extra copy would cost you any real money when all u have to do is keep your hands controlled by not pulling for some random character u find visually pleasing but will end up benching after 2 days
yes thank u. i just solo'd abyss with him with an f2p build and i couldnt believe it looool. no auras on the enemies too so it was literally just raw damage. tho u need decent er too bc if u end up with nothing to do charging his atk wastes time
@@lockjaw_ this is why players should just read the kit, play around a bit in the test trial ignoring the numbers but testing the mechanics Imagine how many Zajef viewers legit got fooled into thinking Neuvillette is only ‘pretty good’ and is no better than Childe and Ayato
He's ignoring the fact Raiden was milli-seconds away from killing the Traveler twice and could still keep fighting, after they got omega plot armour buffed, but chose to concede?
i mean thats fine honestly. like every soldier who good at sniping or fire a weapon didnt need to know how what the story behind the gun, just the function is enough
Yeah, honestly, probably You dont get to see someone using 2 visions at once every day (+ he got main character treatment in that moment aka power amp out of nowhere)
LMAO @everyone in the comments having an aneurysm that he called Raiden as weak lore-wise. Its obviously just bait. At the same time, it also shows the slightly inconsistent writing cos the fact that Kazuha could stop her (even with the help of an extra vision) is like crazy actually. But I also thought its generally accepted that Inazuma's writing is quite garbage.
he parried one (1) attack. she was still going to kill him if traveler hadn't intervened, and even traveler wouldn't have been able to defeat her if yae miko hadn't intervened.
Bro hates raiden so much in the archon quest that he forgot raiden was the one helping makoto in the entire archon war, a permanent electrifying pool which must have existed thousands of years before(since archon war) and the obvious ones. Even as a raiden main i have to accept that they ruined her story and lore but this is too much of a hot take.
It is, like, the Archon quest and first half of her first story wuest is terrible, but I think her AS a character is not bad. I think her characterisation was pretty consistent and understendible, but the story around her was poorley told.
Honestly Inazuma lore was too rushed...the antagonistic Raiden suddenly hanging out in a dango date with traveller and paimon was so weird to me..but it's also similar to how kids act..they fight and forget and chill again...Raiden ei is very adorable with adoration for sweet and how she acted with the photographs was how older people act towards the memes we show them... no comments about Raiden shogun...she have no personality she's a machine..I think the reason why ei wanted her puppet to be emotionless is because she's so emotional and wished she could be more ... collected
@@mandom5714 Raiden Shogun is the title, Makoto was and later Ei is the Raiden Shogun. The puppet only playing the role, but the role itself is not the puppet.
@@soujiokita6062 I would be happier if they wrote her a little bit more, how to tell, phylosophical? Like I think the story should have been more about Makoto's ideas vs Ei's ideas where we not just emotionally won over Ei but rationally as well.
wait raiden and zhonli literally changed the topografy of their respective regions i like neuvillette but all he has done atm is hold back an ocean which is a lot of power but like it aint changing any maps, also archons gotta be nerfed imo cause story also kazuha had the power of two visions essentially
Ima point out that since full powered sovereign dragon can be stronger than archons neuvillette has not yet unleashed his full powers yet. Maybe once he does he can rival against the archons especially with the gnosis
Raiden fans coming out of the woodwork with this one. People really doubling down on the power of the Sovereigns despite them being ultimately featless is funny to me. Like yeah, Nooblet is a reincarnated sovereign, but that means nothing because we don't even have the context for how strong the Hydro Sovereign was(we know that Apep is heavily weakened when we see her due to Erosion/Forbidden Knowledge). Xiao is an adeptus, Shenhe is a human who fought Beisht(a god-adjacent) pretty much on her own which would have put her above everyone else in Liyue AND Childe. Zhongli, meanwhile, is the only archon whom the Tsaritsa hasn't outright tried to fight over their Gnosis for. Azhdaha, whom Zhongli is at the very least equal to, is theorized to be one of the seven sovereigns, and if that theory is true he didn't even reincarnate and still ended up getting sealed by Zhongli. And even if he isn't one of the original seven, the fact he is the lord of vishaps means he IS a dragon, and is at the very least on par with Nooblet. Also just going based off environmental feats, the Chasm and Guyun Stone Forest speak for themselves compared to Raiden creating Musoujin Gorge and Venti literally terraforming the entirety of Mondstadt.
Man, I see those Neuvillette solo clears really makes me think like, am I doing something wrong? Like I have 39k HP, Prototype Amber and (with Marechaussee included in the crit rate), 81/159 ratio, talent level 9, but I'm not hitting near those numbers I see online at all...
159 crit dmg with Neuvillette is way too low. And 81 crit rate is overcapped with MH set. (If 81 is with MH set, then it’s on the lower end crit rate )
To be fair, I don't think Raiden accounted for the broship of Toyo's vision to give Kazuha the strength to deflect her single slash. People kinda forget that Raiden is trying to protect her inhabitants to a point of stagnation, not mercy kill them with a high powered slash that has cleaved through an entire island, lol
Did this man just say that raiden is weak in lore?? If you don't go out of your way to use simple cutscenes, and read the lower than maybe he should just stay silent.
Loved that "Raiden is weak lore wise". Fail to remember she split a continent in half after killing a god. But between her and ZhongLi? Tough one. ZhongLi is lot older with more combat experience. Raiden has Musou no Hitachi brute force. But as much of a Raiden simp I might be, I think ZhongLi would win.
@@restart6358 That's just any fan of anything in general when you spread misinformation they will try to correct you for better or worse. But then again it's also standard that in every comments section as soon as there's an opportunity to slander the fans of that media someone will leave the mandatory "x fans in a nutshell" comment =)
Raiden didn't lose to us, at the beginning we had no chances. Then Yae Miko came to the rescue with a power of friendship. NO ONE wins against the power of friendship! Also, against Kazuha he only managed to block one attack. A very strong one, but one attack with a power of his dead friend. I'm starting to see a patern
@@mattsopiratoso790 Is it that hard to believe his take wasn't a bait but genuine thought? Unlike combat mechanics he is just not as invested into the story. He probably was falling a sleep during cutscenes and dialogs
@@WineAndGamess I fall asleep too, because this fucking piece of shit company is horrible at executing their amazing story. Paimon's overshadowing, Dialog bloating, and Uneccessary retakes, are a few of the many issues within the narrative. I skip most of the shitty dialog this game offers. Yet, I do watch the story videos on youtube. Why not in-game? The community unironically does a better job at conveying the story than the billionaire company. He's 100% joking, because Raiden may be horrible at many things, but one thing she is good at... and that, is Combat.
@@WineAndGamess Yeah, I am in many game communities, Zajef is so clearly the dude who's one of the most knowledgeable about the mechanics but one of the least knowledgeable about the lore and story even if it's the main story everyone has to do.
the only reason the archons replaced the sovereigns now is because celestia literally ganged up on them, otherwise the archons wouldnt be able to solo them
Idk. Azdaha said Zhongli was stronger than him. They fought, and Zhongli won, but non of them were in their strongest, since Azdaha was affected by erosion, while Zhongli gave up a portion of his power to try to slow the erosion Azdaha went trough.
The victory of the Traveler is literally a "friendship always wins" moment and Kazuha literally and barely holded himself against her because of the two visions shenanigans (that were never brought again) also a "friendship always wins" moment... the weakling is not raiden but the writing of inazuma...
I don’t deny the writing was obviously hasty but I don’t think it was just a friendship moment. I think it was to imply the traveller is connected to people’s visions/goals because they’re a star themselves.
Ei literally: 1. Slew Orobashi 2. Slew the Thunderbird 3. Helped Makoto win the Archon War 4. Split Yashiori Island in half in one strike 5. Created two sophisticated puppets using Khaenri'ahn technology 6. Protected Inazuma against Abyssal monsters during the Cataclysm 7. Is reveered and cherised by most Inazumans (power comes from belief according to lore)
she didn't "help" Makoto, she was always basically the muscle, so she did all the heavy lifting in the fights, so more accurate to say she won the archon war for Makoto.
@@manthin7206 I don't really care who he talks about, but many people don't seem to understand that "Raiden" the one we interacted in the archon quest is a separate entity from Ei.
I think y'all don't get there's difference in ranks between gods, like how many "gods" do you think we're being killed left and right during the archon war? It's not a particularly outstanding feat, it's an expected feat of any who rose to be an Archon.
I though the hidden truth was that Orobashi killed themself after they read the forbidden knowledge - the truth about the vishaps and the light realm and the dragon sovereigns. They did this to protect their people (the Watatsumi people) from Celestia.
I believe she's one of the strongest...I would say for now she's the second strongest after zhongli..but if we choose to believe that zhongli have grown weaker now compared to his prime then she might be the strongest..this opinion have chances of changing with future archon's reveal...
What are these Raiden takes 😭 The traveler didnt beat her they just stopped fighting also she had help from all the visions in the statue. Kazuha didn’t deflect a full power Raiden slash because a maybe full power Raiden slash cut Yashiori Island in half and she wasn’t gonna do that in inazuma city. The only thing we’ve seen Raiden fight with full dedication is the puppet.
raiden stomped traveler first time. And the second time he was infused with power of inazuma people or somethig like that. Kazuha blocking her attack caused his vision to break.
Raiden was throwing. Kazuha paid her off beforehand so that he could look good in front of his crush, the Traveler. #FollowTheMoney #TatarigamiEnergyCantMeltMikageFurnace
If you want to know the state of this man's non-tc related opinions, today, on stream, he said the chimera ant arc is the most skippable hxh arc, because the pacing is slow and "it's not important."
nah Zaj is right, like what kind of robot created by an Archon can't penetrate through a wooden shield, and even if its electric resistant her burst is like a lightsaber
Not even, the Neuvillette cope is strong on this one, I don’t see how Neuvillette isn’t broken when mf is being used to solo abyss without dodging and moving at only C1 R1
@@episode4882Not that i'm defending him, because i do think that in a vacuum, neuvillette is the best solo character, but pretty sure zajeff doesn't care about constellations and signature weapons. Only C0R0
@@itsYuza People can play however they want. Some like going for constellation, i do to, but pulling for every C0R0 character is also valid. Also, meta in genshin is calced on C0R0, if you pull for higher consts, zajeff's opinion and TC doesn't apply to you.
Zajef should stick to TC most of the time, ngl ;-; Also, "he isnt hypercarry", like what, furina deals around 20% of team dmg, kazu and ur healer are under 5%, so he is around 75% of total team dmg. If thats not hypercarry then idk what is
Man’s just too stubborn to admit his wrong, he must not make mistakes as a theorycrafter or he will lose credibility And he’s well aware there a bunch of idiots worshipping his words as if they belong in bible to protect and defend his takes
I don't get why he thinks dehya is fun, yeah her numbers are bad so playing her is only for fun but her kit is really boring. E that you just put down and a Q that locks you in some animation for years. Her basic attack chain is funny but thats not really part of her gameplay even at c6.
This is why zajeff shouldn't talk about lore. He doesn't know jack shit. Next time he's going to say that Xingqui is stronger than all 7 archons combined.
@@MefoWho Yeah it never stated when he got the gnosis, just that he saw when the last archon took theirs and it's basically stated that after that event the archon war was considered done. Raiden never had it before Makoto's death, and after she got it,she was more concerned finding a way to just stored it, never considered using it since she was going to give up her body and store her consciousness in the Musou Isshin, and Yae just stored it in the shrine (does she even know it's worth, who knows, she does seem amused of what Scaramouche will do with it). So all her feats are gnosisless. But it's clearly bait, he focused on Raiden battles in game, despite Zhongli not fighting absolutely anyone, he only gave the "wrath of the rock" to a Fatui soldier (he was even going to be backstabbed by Jiu if Kun Jun didn't intervene)
@@MCHR92 I think you misunderstood the archon war tho. Archon war happened, archons get gnosis for licking celestia's boots, peace time. The breaking point leading everything to shit was khaenriah thingy. All and all, i do agree that its bait. Theres a reason why people laughed at retard/austism back in the day. They just cant relate to it. Raiden's situation is shown very clearly, at least to me, after her friends all gone ONE BY ONE, never have she stood up or do anything. But once makoto was gone, its the drop that went over the glass, as you can see in the MV, that is when everything turned into purple shit. People who see her as a neet that do nothing is so biased that I wont bother touch tbh.
That's also something Ayato's story quest has, it isn't really about Ayato, it's mostly about that girl whose marriage he's helping with. These quests that are about something and just let the character's personalities shine through as a consequence are the best
The thing I like the most in venti story quest is the fact that it didn’t focus on venti himself, but it still manages to reflect him indirectly. Like let’s summarize what stanley is doing again. He has a dear friend who died but because he want his friend’s legacy to keep live on, he lives under his friend’s name and identity, spread his friend’s great feat. ISN’T THAT WHAT EXACTLY VENTI IS DOING (he is literally using his friend’s form)? It’s just so clever lol. Really made me wonder does sometimes venti have the same thought that stanley has or not
I don't think its a recipe for success tho. Ayato's story is really a love or hate and Nilou's was forgotten almost. In-your-face character stories could work out well and I think many players can easily think of their own examples.
@@arcoirisaycaramba2857 as with all stories, Nilou and Ayato's stories depend on whether the audience is capable of resonating with them. Nilou's story was basically about artists and craftsmen (the creative field in general) in a society that disregards anything that isn't a STEM field - which kinda hit me hard since that's basically today's world. Some people are unable to appreciate it because they simply aren't able to "connect" with it, and I have a couple of friends who aren't able to enjoy stuff like Re:Creators because of how it doubles down on talking about the struggles in the creative field. Some people like spectacle and seeing their favourite characters act like girlbosses/badasses, some people prefer stories that revolve around interpersonal relationships and overcoming struggles (Nilou, Yoimiya's 2nd Act, Venti, etc), and that's okay.
Honestly, if you didn't described Ayato's quest in this comment, I wouldn't even remember what was it about. And I try to be invested in story quests as much as I can, but it was sooooo forgetable and boring.
People should know by now that you don't listen to anything Zaj spits out other than numbers/theorycrafting stuff, Even then the "Neuvilette is not a hypercarry" double down feels like cope because poor guy doesn't want to admit he's wrong lmao
I think older viewers are used to this and know this, but new viewers are literally worshiping him like a cult and marking his words into the Bible It’s funny to watch Zajef though cause he’s sad
CLEARLY someone doesn't know Raiden lore. FORGET the Raiden who spilt half inazuma, during her story quest part 2 she thought a prefect version of herself for 500 FUCKING YEARS where a single moment of hesitation would have killed her and she came out fine. Lore wise she is one of the strongest if not the strongest character we know.
@@putent9623 Not anymore. Archon power scales with their people's faith. Ei's a ruling archon. Liyue thinks Zhongli is dead. It's anyone's guess who's stronger now
Kazuha, parried, the Robot Shogun's strike. Which isn't the same as /fighting/ the actual Raiden Shogun. She also didn't lose to us in a physical contest. We changed her mind.
Why is everyone taking the bait so seriously, he’s not being fr 😭 At this point I have to wonder if it’s a double bait where people are fake reacting to his fake take and I’m the one being stupid
Perhaps, but ur also limited into playing normal attack only, and Chongyun’s field is kinda small paired with if you have no interruption resistance, u can easily get knocked outside of the field Meaning u will need a ZhongLi for example if u wanna play Cryo Alhaitham, Cryo Shenhe, Cryo Kazuha or whatever. Meaning your team is literally fixed with certain character and hence very inflexible
Good to know even Zjef can be just factually incorrect about the game kek. Raiden didn’t loose to us, she simply stopped fighting us because we had the power of friendship(tm), Kazuha managed to block a single attack with the power of 2 visions before being blown tf away by the follow up attack and loosing the vision, so in a 1 on 1 would have been absolutely destroyed after that. If we are only talking about on screen fights, in her story quest she wrecks an entire compound of samurai when looking for the commissioner in ep1 and beats a ton of rift hounds as well as the Shogun doll in ep2. Meanwhile Xhongli only kicked a Scneznayan traders ass and some Hilitruls, Venti is drunk and Nahida fought no one, and Neuvillette’s only in story demonstration of power so far has been some (impressive) water bending. Ei is infact probably the only Archon that has retained most of her peak power (Zhongli could be the only contender so far, we don’t know, he is too busy drinking wine)
saying raiden is weak lore wise is crazy. she slices a whole damn island in half without a damn gnosis. She also clapped us easily the first time and without yaes vision friendship thing we would have gotten clapped a second time. zhongli is also powerful af.
Does this man really think that Raiden was about to split her own island on half just to kill a Samurai? Lmao? Does everybody skipped the part of her quest where she literally says that she wouldn't use her powers like that and that she can limit the output of energy from her attacks depending on the situation? Mf deadass missed that when Signora got obliterated she didn't nuke her own palace lmao.
I guess the Oceanid and Hydro Hypostasis don't exist, then. Hell, even the Cryo and Electro Regisvines and their ridiculous resistances if you don't break their corollas.
out of all the archons rn, Raiden,Tsaritsa,Murata and Nahida are probably still strong, for Raiden she is techncially in her prime rn, since when she articipated in the archon war she was still a 'child' in god years, and when she slew orobashi she was in her "teens". Zhongli said it himself he is not strong enough to take on gods and dragons now because of his erosion
I've been exploring alternatives to Kazuha because of Nahida's overwhelming Dendro Aura. I think you might enjoy running C4 Layla instead. You can relatively easily get Full Stacks on Neuvillette's passive. ON TOP of additional CA damage bonuses. Would love to see this with your build. My build isn't nearly as strong nor am I using Widsith.
Welp, thats exactly why i dont like anything but maths from him, I respect his maths, but anything else is like, why would he even talk about something that he has literally 0 knowledge of? Dude skips all dialogs and makes himself look like a clown, maybe its funny for some but its really irritating for me
Yep literally the reason why i unfollowed him on twitch lol. I like his calculations/theorycrafting but jesus his stream takes are just unbearable with him acting like hes the smartest person there, went as far as banning spree randos that are disagreeing. And the fact that his brainwashed fans are always trueing/agreeing with his takes there doesnt help. Also dont get me started on his twitter takes lol
Maybe it's a bit early to say, but furina c6 actually looks like the best c6 to get. Because you can play pretty much anybody you want with her, her huge damage buff will make even dehya playable. And unlike kazuha you can put her in geo or anemo party.
Just look at Neuvillette and Lyney, Hoyo has clearly realized it is time for power creep so players start using primos more often, abyss update might actually be a thing where mobs will have a lot more hp where you will need to pull cons for older characters or forced to pull newer(better) characters to have a easy time in abyss
Raiden fought her own puppet for 500 years straight lmao, that's so beyond human comprehension that i have a hard time believing even the highest Harbingers could defeat her 1v1, ofc everyone has different powers and some are strong against another. But in no way is Raiden weak, weak bait that i bite.
Raiden: *splits an island to kill a god* Jazef: Yh she’s omega weak lore wise Nothing against him, just a consequence of having Raiden biggest feats behind text
I think a really good way of improving underwater combat would be if each character in the party could hold their own copy of an ability. You’d be incentivized to explore around for 4 different abilities and the game designers could create more challenging and engaging underwater fights. The ability would be tied to your team slot so you’d keep your abilities when switching characters.
Yes i am here to defend Ei like most people in the comments -Ei was so strong she broke an entire island in half with a slash of her sword WHILE SHE WAS TWO ISLANDS AWAY, she led the entire inazuma army to fight against the monsters of the abyss to defend inazuma AND WON -She won against the traveler and was going to kill him/her, the traveler got saved by thoma, and then in the rematch the traveler only won because they were using the elemental energy of ALL VISION WEARERS IN INAZUMA combined, they did not win on their own. -She did not win against Kazuha, Kazuha was only able to parry 1 strike, it was barely even a fight -Has canonically defeated other gods (orobashi and the bird)
Not defending anyone but just minor corrections and some points to be made: Kazuha blocked 1 block with a fillet blade, a fodder weapon while Raiden was using a legendary weapon. Either kazuha was so strong that he blocked it or ei was holding back so hard she didn't break kazuha's sword. The latter is improbable because she was there to kill the traveler. If she was holding back too hard, I doubt the traveler would even die from it and Raiden definitely went for the kill there. The two gods which Raiden killed didn't even fight back, they just straight up died without a fight. Idk much about kapatcir but I know orobashi wanted to die at ei's hands there. If anything, the island splitting is the most impressive feat here and not the killing of 2 gods. Also, the archon war was full of gods and the archons fought their best to become archons today so killing gods isn't even that big of a deal when everyone else did the same. Also, I did read one earlier and he said that Oro ran away from zhongli because he was afraid of him and zhongli fought more prominent gods than ei, gods who actually fought to win instead of wanting to die like Oro and kapatcir.
Not saying ei is weak btw in case u misunderstand cause shes's still one of the strongest character to be introduced thus far and possibly the strongest non-sovereign currently alive due to other og archons suffering erosion. But all I'm saying is that her feats aren't that big of a deal for an archon when the rest og did so as well during the archon war.
"Raiden losed to us and couldn't even beat kazuha." Okay. Fair point. Tbh I got a little confused when Kazuha blocked the supposedly unblockable/unsurvivable/undodgeble(?) Musou no Hitotachi. It's mentioned that anyone who witnesses it, doesn't survive ryt? If I remember correctly... And Kazuha blocked it with the power of friendship or smething. (If it's Aether/Lumine I would understand though) He's not even injured. Just sayin.
I hate when people say faith gives archons strength because that makes no sense, by that logic Venti would be the strongest. In literally every region so far there is a person praying to Barbatos, and hell Venti is the only Archon with a whole church dedicated to him. Also, how does "faith" even work in proportion to strength, is it how strong people believe in their archon or how many people acknowledge their existence in general. Also, peak Zongli claps Ei (Raiden) easy. Venti power level idk, we see he can teleport at the beginning of the game and he seems like a schemer so for all we know he let Signora kick him in the balls (maybe he is into it??) bcs he could have just teleported away.
am i the only one who took 10 minutes trying to figure out which character was the guy thinking of when talking about C6ing someone- i legit kept replaying it to try to understand what zajef was saying because i kept hearing "eula" as "melon"
