Dendro Keqing looking GOOD :D But seriously, Alhaitham is really solid and I wish you luck if you're pulling for him! Otherwise, the massive phase 2 banners are on their way to steal your primos!
Scribe said " I don't have to fight, I just have to think " and I think he was talking about relying on his mirrors. Thinking is often referred to as "reflecting" which is also what mirrors do. I love genshin for paying attention to the small details
His trailer also show that so yeah mhy make character kit actually fit their personality,for example dehya(leak ahead) Her kit seem to be like bodyguard which is her job lore wise. So she heal her team and tank attack
*Pull off 6 consecutive instances of rain blades with him. You don’t need to count seconds. Just look for visual clues. Here’s how to maintain 3 mirrors:* 1. Cast Burst (Q) with zero mirrors. He’ll get a refund of 3 mirrors. 2. Do normal attacks and procc 2 instances of rain blades. do not do charged attacks at this point. 🔪🔪 3. When you see the 2nd instance of rain blades, cast his tap Skill (E) to maintain 3 mirrors. Do not do hold Skill. 4. Do normal attacks again (still, do not do charged attacks) and procc 2 more instances of rain blades. _(total of 4 rain blades at this point)_ 🔪🔪🔪🔪 5. When you see the 4th instance of rain blades, now you can do a charged attack to further maintain 3 mirrors. 6. Do normal attacks to procc another 2 instances of rain blades. _(That’s a total of 6 consecutive rain blades)_ 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 7. And then you can just spam his infused attacks until his mirrors run out. or switch out to other characters to do their skills/burst. - It takes practice and familiarity to do this. So be patient. But once you nail this, the satisfaction is so awesome!! 🤘
As a colorblind person, yeah those mirrors are hard to see, even yanfei's stacks too. Mihoyoverse needs to start putting in stacks indicator in the game's HUD
You just have to remember then, 1 mirror from charged atk, 2 from his E. It's okay if you didn't get 3 mirrors, if you using his burst with 3 mirrors, you didn't get any dendro infusion after that. But 3 mirrors make him do more dmg and If you want to maintain his dendro infusion: Ult Q > Normal atk 5x > Charge Atk > Normal atk 5x > E > Normal atk 5x > Repeat to Ult Q
From most ppl replied, his best mirror indicator is his mirror attack, If its rain sword = 3 stack if its boomerang sword/2hit sword = 2 stack if its single slash sword = 1 stack When you at single slash sword, you just need to deduce that he's about to run out stack in 3 second at most.
He has the content creator server which means he has early access to new stuff and he gets free c6 character to test them out basically a genshin creative mode
It's not like all high burst cost characters make sense to use with Raiden, plus look at Bennet or kazuha who are often used with her and they both have a 60 energy cost
for managing mirrors, i've found it very effective to just watch his burst CD timer. his burst takes ~2s to cast and the mirrors generate after 2 seconds, so the first mirror will expire at 10 seconds on the timer and the next one at 6. i've been using this since around when i got him and it works great!
@@bxnnylia7656 im saying kuki is a great support for Alhaitam (triggers eletro and heals quite alot even if not built with maidens) and since her skill's area is quite big (better with c1) she can use the deep wood artifact set to Apply dendro defense shred to the enemies youre fighting, that way u can focus your Alhaitam with Pure dmg with gilded dreams set
THIS is what I needed! I really appreciate this detailed analysis into the specific damage (with numbers!) and the notes on what artifacts/stats you’re with. Also really appreciate you running Demon Umbrella to make him more F2P friendly.
@@Chi-Chi-Fy some people do complain about that actually. That doesn't mean smaller creators can't provide quality content, but the bigger creators have it much easier
I won my 50/50 with him!!! I tried him with EM Raiden, 4pc DW Yaoyao for Quicken and it's definitely satisfying. Can't wait to try him with other party options. He is so smooth to play! His animations are fluid and I love his quick swap playstyle. He is definitely flashy and fun, not a must pull IMO but as a husbando collector, he is more than welcome in my party.
On regard of indicators, I believe Heizou's punch circle/star is very good in telling at which level of power a skill is, it's simple yet elegant and effective in any situation, so it makes me wonder why Alhaitham's mirrors couldn't have been just a little bit clearer. Wanderer's bell above his head blends quite a bit with his ring while in flight mode so it's a bit hard to see when it will ring. It does makes a sound, and yet Heizou's punch manages to be clearer on that regard as well. Raiden is an extreme example, her burst power is indicated at the back of all characters on field for a very long time, so it's hard to miss it. Well, sometimes I misjudge and do the Heizou punch at level 3 instead of 4 in the heat of battle, but I don't believe it happens nearly often enough to be a hindrance.
the best indicator with Alhaitham's mirror is his projection, the projections only happen every 1.6s and the mirror lasts 4s, which means when you see that two mirror projections of the same level happened, that mirror is about to disappear so you either CA or E to get another mirror Example, you casted his burst and gained 3 mirrors, then begin doing NAs unti; two falling swords projection happen and then either cast skill or CA to gain another mirror then keep doing that pattern
Considering that is a fixed time for mirror expiration, I think this is a temporary problem. For the others there counts depend on ICD and possible generation so they need more visible indicators. The optimal rotation for refreshing the mirrors is simple and players can pick it up easily.
Heizou is done very well, if you play him alot just by hearing you know exactly how many stacks you have. Not only that but counting swirls or knowing his icds + literally just looking at the screen combined I extremely rarely am mistaken on how many stacks he has.
Great video there mate! Everything we need to know well summarized and explained! I'll never forgive HYV for putting him and Yelan in the same patch, I can't afford to spend any money in this game because everything in my country is SUPER expensive for a gacha "haha get lucky" videogame and Al Haitham is one of the three Sumeru characters I was most excited about since the early leaks, specially after his role in the archon quest. Guess I'll be waiting and saving for his rerun and Baizhu's debut soon. And the mirrors are indeed extremely small and hard to see, specially when there's a lot of stuff going on in the field with the dendro reactions. Tons of names, numbers, cores, everything is very distracting and very green. I think they should put three symbols next to your HP bar on the HUD so you know how many mirrors you have currently. It definetly does not sound like a hard thing to do, but we're talking about a company that didn't had the decency to put separate maps for caves and underground areas when a lot of stuff in Sumeru happens under ground level, both in the desert and the forest. Still have a faint spark of hope that they'll do some large QoL improvements to their game someday tho.
I said it before but every char that gets hate befire their release ends up being amazing! I knew he was gonna be awesome but playing him just confirmed that M so hyped to build him
I wish they not only showed the mirrors on the side of the character but also show them above the health bar. They do this for Honkai and it’s so much easier to see. Im surprised they didn’t consider accessibility with this gameplay technique.
Dehya is releasing soon and I really like her as a character. Once I get her and Nahida, I'll be waiting for Alhaitham's re-run. I'm pretty sure that Fontaine will be a skip fiesta for me anyways.
Honestly. I was assuming sumeru would have been a skip fiesta for me when it was first leaked with the only character I was super hyped for beinv dehya. Now I have Nilou, nahida and Haitham. And enjoying them tremendously with their respective personalities
@@GraveUypo Arrogant, maybe, but the other things are relatable to the "arrogance", he doesn't waste efforts, just do the necessary things. You can maybe link his personality to Iron Man, who's also firstly arrogant, selfish, "lazy", but with a purpose.
@@GraveUypo r u just a alhaitham hater or smtg? i mean i get the arrogant part but lazy? dk how u think he's lame when he was the one who planned out most of the things in the archon quest. im assuming you like wanderer tho, just a hunch
I use him as a lead DPS with Kokomi and Yae. I know nothing of the meta, but having deployable skills trigger the reactions seems to work well enough for me.
i tried harbinger of dawn on him too and he was dealing superb dmg and i cleared 12-3 first floor which has a boss with dendro resistance in 2 rotations. The team consisted of xingqui kuki traveler and al haitham
I'm so relieved to hear that even as a F2P I can still build Alhaitham to be a proper character in my teams. I was already cursing myself for pulling for him when I had no wishes for his weapon, thinking I could never use him. Thanks for the video!
He actually has wide variety of weapons for a DPS. If you want Alhaitham to do spread go EM weapon, Iron sting and umbrella works (though this one is single target), if you only run Alhaitham as single dendro in a team give him festering desire if you have it or favonious sword and Harbinger of Dawn works really well on him especially if you have Kuki in your team. But if you have access to crystals you can use blackcliff sword. I skipped his weapon since I have jade cutter and mistsplitter thats what I'm using on him and he still does a lot of damage. I'm considering pulling his weapon but honestly I have way too much primodal jade spear one r5 and another 3 extra so I'm not risking it.
I am bit baffled why youtubers don't recommend Sacrificial Sword for him. I know it may not have the highest DPS potential, but it has the ER mainstat and passive which resets your cooldown on skill which makes playing and sustaining his mirrors much easier!
Its good if you really want to use him on field for a long time. But you need to remember that his E is a 1 hit skill. Even with sacrificial r5, you have 30% chance that the skill won't reset and you need to wait 'bout 18 second to recast his skill and that's a damage loss considering sacrificial have low stats.
@@darkrow8488 Yes, even with R5 the chance to reset is "only" 80%, but this is meant more as a way to sustain his 3 mirrors rather than getting in the second cast. Also it can be beneficial just because of his long cooldown, sometimes you rotate through your supports too quickly for his skill to be ready naturally, so "keeping the extra charge" from Sacrificial ultimately makes him easier to play and actually makes him playable as an unga bunga character rather than always keeping in mind his perfect rotatation and what not :)
He seems like an interesting character, and as much as I love dendo, I already have a dendro DPS (C2 tighnari) and be works good enough for me. I skipped Raiden banner since I was out of primos, now I'm saving my garenteed for Xiao. I'm obsessed with anemo characters, I already have Venti, Wanderer, and Kazuha (no jean). I have good enough characters who've got me far into the game (such as Bennett, Kazuha, Yelan, and Zhongli). My only characters on my want list is Nahida & Raiden and maybe any other character that releases. I really want an electro 5 star, so we'll see. Alhaitham is cool over all, but I have other characters I'd rather have.
❤ A team that I'm using is: alhaitham, fischl, kuki and kazuha. Fischl is equipped w r5 Favonius and Kazuha has r1 Xiphos and the team runs VERY smoothly so if you have er issues, you can run that team. Kuki is equipped with 4 piece Deepwood. ❤ Another team you can try is the usual hyperbloom team with alhaitham, xingqiu, kuki but in the fourth slot, you put fischl w Favonius and Deepwood instead. Again, it's very smooth because the energy is constantly flowing.
gotta say, your explanation of the data spread and nuance of maintaining mirrors was just exceptional. Keep up the good work. Alhaitham seems like one of the more interesting characters to come out recently.
It looks like you'll have to switch his playstyle and team depending on the enemies in the abyss. I mean the rotation for on field Alhaitham is so strict that you'll probably miss out quite some damage on multiple enemies so quickswap probably will be better, however against bosses as showcased on field will probably be stronger
Great review as always! Just one question, how about his interruption resistance? Since a lot of on fielders has this issue. I know there wasn't any mention of it in his talents but its the same as Nilou, she has increased interruption resistance during E, with same value as Cyno (0.5) despite no mention of it in Nilou's kit EDIT: just checked wiki data and it seems he has no interruption resistance, but being a melee character might've helped since they generally have higher poise bar than ranged characters
I'll try Double Dendro and Double Electro team for him. Alhaitham (Gilded Dreams), Lisa (Noblesse), Fischl (Gilded/Millelith/Thundering Fury), and Yaoyao (Deepwood)
@@Faustkiverian2380 ER I have Fischl and Electro Resonance to cover that. Also double dendro would ensure Alhaitham got his ER covered too. AOE is pretty tricky but I don't see that much of a problem It's not like I'm building a team to beat all kinds of floors in abyss.
I'm also running him on double dendro and double electro, but my team it's a little different fron yours and has move AoE cover. Alhaitham (Gilded), Nahida (Deepwood), Beidou (Noblesse) and Kuki (Tenacity), both Beidou and Kuki have Fav weapons, granted I didn't got to test this team very much yet since I've been playing coop since his release, but I did played the team a lot before with Tighnari on Haitham's place and noone seems to have ER problems, Nahida and Beidou hit hard too and it's been really fun so far.
isn't Lisa hard to play with Alhaitham? Doesn't she wan to be on field too? My alhaitham has 145 ER but even with that he have ER issue with Fischl, beidou/kuki and yaoyao. I think DMC with favonius will be better than yaoyao. In the end Nahida is the best ofc since she game tons of ER and EM buff. I jut dump her with him if she's not needed in another team. Else I'll just use Raiden or DMC lol
I think Im dumb. I really like playing alhaitham. He’s the only character I triple crown. His dmg quite okay. But I still didnt understand how to play him actually…
It's a relief that Alhaitham works well with Yaoyao and Nahida. That opens up a lot of new team comps for us to explore. I'd say it's a big win for dendro these recent updates
I absolutely love him in my Al'Haitam, Nahida, Nilou, Kokomi team. Nahida is even holding her Key, which makes this team sooooo amazing, I've never finished the Abyss this quick
Me an Itto main thats very used to unga bunga spam CA gameplay. Pulls for Alhaitham, the first few days after his release I was suffering from not being able to stop myself from doing CA that I have to deal with physical Alhaitham for few seconds. Thank goodness he is easier than Childe which took me few weeks just to use him properly
Sounds like he’s a character that you pull for if you really want to play the character, not because he makes any teams better for having him vs another character that can already fulfill that role. Shame that as the dendro Keqing it seems like he actually might be worse than than her on quicken teams since he requires a lot more field time and more restrictive team comps to properly battery him. Oh well - just means I can save more for the absolutely stacked 3.4 second half 😅 Edit: changed “aggravate” to “quicken”
Im actually convinced the best character to pull for overall utility and Value is Yelan remember Dehya is coming out and we all know Vaporize is busted, alhaitham seems good but i think he is a skip for now
@@bet-a-betta6468 dude you're playing genshin, don't act like you're some kind of prodigy kid just because you think you play alhaitham better than OP. My God
I'm a new f2p player who started a month ago just for AlHaitham, I had saved 115 wishes ever since, and I pulled him C1 today after 30 wishes starting from pity 0 lol. The 3rd 10 pulls gave me two AlHaithams + yaoyao. This made me so happy.
Honestly I’m pretty conflicted. I absolutely love Alhaitham’s character, but I’m just not sure if I should get him or not. From what I’ve seen, he’s nothing that’s super crazy, especially since I already have other top tier DPS characters. I used up a lot of pulls on Wanderer (which I kinda regret) and now I’m wondering if I should bother with Alhaitham or if I should just save up so I can get a guaranteed Yelan. I also really want to get Staff of Homa. Hu Tao is my main, so I feel like Yelan and Homa would be more beneficial for my account overall. There’s also Dehya coming in 3.5 who I really want. I’m genuinely contemplating skipping him.
Yelan would be much more beneficial foramy account. As for Homa, I guess you can try for it after getting Yelan since both Homa and Aqua are good weapon. And Dehya looks like to be a good semi on-field character so be mindful of her too
btw, you dont need to countdown the mirrors. Just renew with elemental skill or charge attack a second after the second projection attacks happens. And most of the time you will do 3 normal attacks and dash cancel to do another 3 combo attacks. The last attacks from his combo are slow.
Wait cause some other content creators are saying that he is very restrictive has massive energy problems as well as having issues actually fitting in some teams. Kind of glad this time around some content creators aren’t being afraid of being critical
He needs some er but it's not some massive issue as long as you get some in substats. For an F2P option use DMC/Collei/Yaoyao with Deepwood and a Favonius weapon. He works in Bloom (with Nilou), Hyperbloom, Burgeon, and Spread teams. Granted Hyperbloom is the best option but the others can still 36* the abyss if you want to play them.
It makes more sense to do spiral abyss considering the open world is tremendously more weak. Doing well in abyss translates to destroying the open world
I, for one, don't give 2 shits about the Abyss. I hate it. I have all the top meta characters and I can 12-3 it for sure, but I just dislike the idea of timed, laboratory-styled dungeons. For me, true endgame is in the open world. Yes the mobs are weak af if compared to Abyss, but I like to feel powerful anyway.
I'll be honest: I'll pull until I get 2 Yunjins and then I'll take take a free copy of her during the event to get her C6, if I end up getting Yaoyao and/or Al Haytham in the process so be it. Then I'll try and get Dehya...if I like her gamplay. BTW I'm guaranteed to get a limited 5* in around 80 pulls UPDATE got something like 10 Yaoyao, 1 Al Haytham and only 1 Yunjin...only time will tell how good these pulls have been
@Music DZ jokes on you 'cause I love her, in fact I made some videos of her at C6 and how strong she can be in Abyss. What ? You were just joking ? Ah....my bad
@@NeverSettleForMediocrity Why would he be out of his mind if he wished for a character he likes?? I skipped Yelan then and i will skip her now as well.
Well this guy is hella cool and strong he's got the whole package , now waiting for dehya leaks to drop if she is a burgeon character like everyone is saying then i will definitely get alhaitham
That's gonna be a skip for me... He looked really fun to play but the shard management system looks like a total bore, specially since you can barely see how many shards you have when it gets chaotic
I got alheitem, using Ayato's weapon (lost 50/50 on previous weapon banner). And now I'm left wondering how to build the kuki Shinoubu. I'm running currently Alheitem, Nahida, (Xinque or Yelan, still need to work that one out) and Kuki. I got 4pc gilded for alheitem, 4pc deepwood on nahida. I know I need a lot of EM on kuki so I was thinking 2pc wandering and 2pc gilded? Or should I be looking for something else artifacts wise. I also saw 4pc tenacity pop up or I also saw Flower Of Paradise Lost set appear! Also what 4stars are good, just any with EM sub stats? (such as iron sting or event weapon)- Thank you for your time and responses!
Did something happen to microphone audio at 8:24? Also, I personally consider a downside is rly building him on EM vs Crits vs ATK artifacts while making sure he's got decent ER up, ESPECIALLY when EM main stat artifacts are the LOWEST percent to drop, especially with ideal substats in this game
