Ah Nilou my queen, I pulled her when she came out and she has been a staple for me ever since then. My favorite thing to do is actually testing whacky Nilou comps that not many others use (and don't need to be meta or anything, it's just for fun) which includes putting Childe in the Nilou team OR another meme favorite of mine is using Mona. When you have Nilou's water ring and then use Mona's special dash it looks like an angry puddle attacking the enemy. I recommend it for the fun factor alone. Now that I have Sigewinne my next project will be building her up and putting her with Nilou, Nahida and Yaoyao for a team that I call "Nilou's daycare" 😊
I’ve always wanted to try Childe on a Nilou team ever since I saw a yt short showcasing that!! (Which might’ve been part of the reason why i ultimately pulled for childe in 4.0 lol)😂
This is literally *perfect timing*. I'm guaranteed and been wanting Nilou for my my bloom team for a while now, and seeing an updated build guide is just
I was doing the event and Nilou reignited my love for her. I’m glad I did this because I found you! You were so easy to understand. Thank you for the guide. I will now binge watch your other guides now
@@haydenbrazer3609 right, you're dead with xq only if battle takes long. so it's smth ig, just that mono feels bad without him. as long as you're clearing floors with it, by all means, yeah.
I love building Nilou for both bloom and then going against her kit and building her as a main DPS for vape teams lol. She does great damaged even if “that’s not her role”. Love to beat all the bosses with her lol.
@@ZeFrenchRatones for vape teams I usually have two piece heart of depth and two piece tenacity of the millelith. HP, Hydro dmg, crit dmg. I give her jade cutter as weapon. Thinking 2 piece golden troupe might be better than HoD but haven’t farmed good pieces for her. For team I put her with Xiangling, Bennett, and Kazuha.
@@user-uj6nq6mc8k Not OP, and my Nilou has changed a bit since I've done this, but I've managed to hit her burst for 350k and skill for about 44k on the HoD and Tenacity.
@@crypticcryptid4702that’s actually really impressive. I did the opposite and built her kit like normal and still did vape tests with babies on pyro cube and I only manage 120,000 and 21k on skill so it dmg is multiplied like crazy
this is an amazing guide! thank you so much for explaining bloom, becuase i always assumed the hydro character had to be the one that needed the most em. knowing that it both dendro and hydro that need the em, it makes so much more sense now. thank you! i'm so excited to get nilou this upcoming patch~
Some people may be like “Nilou’s falling off” or “Nilou’s mid”. I don’t give a shit, she’s my wifey, always has been, so we’re pulling for her and I want to main her until Genshin Impact 2. that’s enough yappin, thanks for this video dudeeee 💜
Anyone saying nilou is mid is just kinda dumb respectfully,nilou is an amazing unit and has so much value if you're a f2p player,her only issue is massive reliance on nahida but nahida is arguebly the best unit in the game,you'll wanna pull her regardless. She has such a high floor of damage and MASSIVE AOE which really helps if you dont have nuevillette or kazuha If your nilou preforms badly its your own knowledge issue for not knowing how to play her,she's not that hard either
Genuinely super helpful guide! I started playing 3 days ago and got INSANELY lucky on my first 10x banner pull with Nilou and 2x Kaveh, and some other legendary. This vid has definitely inspired me to go ahead with the bloom build!
Nilou is the only character that makes me realize how much I miss Sumeru and love it in general. She's so nostalgic to me. Thankfully I got her and 3 copies of her weapon in just 25k primos. I really want to buy her skin but I have no money. Maybe someday 💙
Especially with the "niche reaction enablers" like Chevreusse (not as good as Nilou, but overload is a better reaction than bloom from the start), Navia (I'd argue as good as Nilou) & now Emilie who early impressions indicate will be quite good
@@DINGOlord imo none of these characters can be compared to nilou. nilou buffs a reaction meaning u just need to build em on your bloom trigger and stack hp on nilou while chevy, navia and emilie give a buff to themselfs/a party member if a correct elemental reaction is triggered. the former dont enable reactions, just further buff characters with good numbers.
@@dot2604 as the video already mentioned, bloom ownership in Nilou's team is pretty hard to pinpoint on one character due to the nature of the reaction itself (unless you use the specific team comp with only 1 dendro or 1 hydro), so you cannot just "build EM on your bloom trigger", you'll have to build EM on your bloom triggerS, meaning your whole team. People comparing Nilou with Chevreuse or Navia or Emilie is due to the fact they utilize reaction that is not inherently strong. The difference is just that for Nilou's team, only EM and HP is needed, which could be seen as easier to invest in than crit values for the other niche reaction teams. But in the end, every team needs characters with good numbers to truly shine. And just a piece of my personal thought here, Chevreuse can definitely be compared to Nilou. She utilizes a pretty trashy reaction for an immense buff for pyro/electro dps that suffers from the ICD (Yoimiya, Arlecchino and Raiden come to mind) It's refreshing to see new variants around "standard" dps, instead of just slaves to the Vaporize and Aggravate teams. I know Arlec or Raiden doesn't need Chevreuse to be broken af, but a buff is still a buff, especially if it's a good buff.
@@NickIsMe171 the investment needed for nilou teams to be good is way lower than farming dmg sets for typical dps characters. im not impressed with chevy bc she favours characters that already have good numbers.. and i still dont think shes that similar to nilou. her teams may be unconventional but the way that u build your units is still the same
@@dot2604 I wouldn't say investment for Nilou's team is that lower. Unlike hyperbloom team where you only need one dedicated full EM character, in Nilou's team you need all 4 to have considerable EM (unless you have Key of Khaj-Nisut) Farming for crits and farming for EM to me are just equally painful. Yes Chevvy may favours characters with already good numbers, but not really in a typical way. Pyro often relies on vaporize (or more uncommonly, melt) to get good numbers, and those who cannot fully utilize reaction due to ICD suffer a lot (except Arlecchino, she has good numbers on her own, though still partly thanks to Bennett) A similar situation is with Electro and Aggravate (the only true exception so far is Raiden, though she still needs C6 Sara and possibly C2 as well to be really broken) Chevvy opens up a whole new team archetype for Pyro and Electro where EM is completely not needed, lessening the hassle for investment a lot. Nilou makes bloom useful without hyperbloom or burgeon, Chevvy makes overload useful. That's why I say the comparison is still reasonable here.
I'll be pulling for her. I'm really nervous though because I'm literally on the 50/50 on my account. I'm also going to get her new outfit if I manage to get her. 😊
For 3H1D archetype, you can also use Baizhu as a driver, in fact he's better than Alhaitham since he heals/shields and opens up the 4th slot into a non-healer unit that can buff the whole team like Yelan with elegy bow. Otherwise great vid.
This is true! Baizhu is very tanky as well with his healer build so there's a lot less pressure of dying. My only complaint with Baizhu is that he lacks any sort of meaningful AoE, with really just a 3 target attack on a 10 second cooldown on his skill. Definitely some upsides and downsides 😄
Dockhand Assistant is a limited 4 star weapon but so is Xiphos Moonlight, so it's also as difficult to obtain. And up till now, Xiphos has constantly been featured on the same banner as Key of Khaj Nisut.
Yup! I don't expect many people to have Xiphos' either, but at least its a lot older as a Sumeru weapon instead of a Fontaine Weapon and it also has F2P replacements that give the same amount of EM for the main stat. We really need another HP% sword outside of Dockhand and Nilou's signature 😭
@@Meowreii I agree so much we need more HP% weapons. I don't suppose the Natlan craftables will come with those but it's a missed opportunity the Fontaine ones are mostly Atk% except for the HP% Polearm. Edit: Xiphos Moonlight is once again confirmed coming in the weapon banner with Key.
oof no tightnari mention? i know he's made for spread but he makes a ton of cores just by himself in triple hydro, been loving him again since pulling his c1 with nilou 😆
anyone who said Nilou fell off literally doesn't play this game. she got the opposite of Venti treatment where every abyss after her release made her more and more viable
Great guide! The part on the bloom ownership was very clear and i finally undestood it, also i love trying random teams with Nilou and she's really fun!
Small note, to get the max 400% bonus damage from her A4 passive, you need to push to 75,000 hp. While maths says 74,444 is all you need, the last 9% wont be calculated unless you break the 1,000 hp requirement. Hence, 75,000 needed for maximum benefits. Tho 391% boost is already massive enough...
THAT PERFECT JAPANESE PRONOUNCIATION ON TOUKABOU SHIGURE WAS THICC ALSO TY BECAUSE I WAS THIS CLOSE TO NOT PULL FOR NILOU'S SIGNATURE WEAPON,AND THEN I SAW THE DIFFERENCE, AND I WAS LIKE "oop- let me just" *credit card sound intesifies
Im one of the oldest Nilou fans. Wanted her since the very first blurry 2 second leak of her skill about 3 months before her release. I remember everyone saying she will be bad because she is too niche. She clears enemies faster than my Ayaka team and that is a lot considering she is C2S1 triple crowned and 54/266 crit.
Bro I got her by accident at 20 pity on my guaranteed and im so sad cuz i was saving for kinich but i gotta make the most of my situation so time to nilou grind
Nilou is ❤ for me. Got her in early pity out of nowhere when she was released and from that time she is my one of the best characters, cleared my first abyss 36 stars with her bloom team ❤ nothing can replace her in bloom team 😇😇
I have been running a team with Nilou C2, Yelan, XQ and Kaveh C6. Almost all Bloom ownership goes to Kaveh thanks to his C6 and slowish dendro app. C2 Nilou makes the damage from Blooms and the other Hydros skyrocket and, since every1 but Kaveh is barely on the field I dont need a healer. It is one of my strongest teams, bar some scenarios like enemies with annoying shields or enemies weak only to some other element.
in tripple hydro hydro is still the trigger especially with nahida with baizhu/alhaitem it becomes more mixed if your using xq or yelan and reverts back to mostly being from the hydros when you use furina
I’m building my Nilou as a DPS because I love her and I have no Dendro or Hydro DPS that are easy to build other than Nilou. My team is Sub DPS Nahida, DPS Nilou, Healer YaoYao, and Sub DPS Xingqiu. Xingqiu is C2 and YaoYao is C1 while Nilou and Nahida are both C0. Everyone is fully built except for YaoYao who is just missing an hp goblet.
Im a guaranteed f2p with around 10000 primos. I always wanted to use my Kaveh in the Abyss and in order to do that..well I need the queen of bloom herself, Nilou. I like Niche characters and despite not liking her at first, she’s kinda cute ngl. Maybe I’ll warm up to her after I build and play her properly. Very helpful guide, thank you :D (Now I’m gonna watch your Kaveh guide ^^)
It makes sense in lore why Nahida would work best when you want a Dendro character on your Nilou team. She was one of if not THE only playable character that still believed in her in the Archon quest.
I always loved Nilou's design, but never had the need to pull for her. Maybe I can main her in my alternate account (all f2p) but really looking forward to see her in the Summer Event!
Nilou my beloved queen i recall getting her weapon and triple crown her the moment i got her in her first banner, im happy she enables bloom to shine, the only thing im missing to be a fully nilou enjoyer is baizhu lmao it sucks i dont even have yaoyao bc i quit genshin for a while
Your guides are really great for understanding characters! Thanks to you I feel like playing some of them in teams I didn't even think of^^ Could you do an updated guide on Kaeya if you're interested? I didn't find one on your account and would love to see you explain it😊
Another special case team: Nilou nahida kaveh xingqiu Where prototype amber is on nahida, kaveh full EM instructor forest regalia and xingqiu dmg reduction small heals are enough to survive.
One Nilou team that I think also worth mentioning is healerless Nilou team consisting of Nilou, Kaveh, Nahida on prototype amber and either Xingqiu or Furina. This is by far strongest Kaveh+Nilou team and it's surprisingly tanky due to Kaveh's self-sustain combined with p amber additional healing. I also like it for how well rotation of this team flows.
For the 2 Hydro + 2 Dendro without a healer, could you use a shielder like kirara?? Especially because her shield can tank extra damage because dendro.
Nilou and Kokomi has always been great on release, it's just the vast majority of players are just too short sighted to see it. Week one of Nilou release a CN TC showed that her team can clear the Ruin Serpent abyss 3* without even leveling and equipping her, she's the least investment highest return character in the game.
@@Rockfello His constellations only enables AFK playstyle (aka never swap to him). You just need to poke enemies with his normal attacks for him to work here. Build full EM if you want,
Super tanky which puts a lot of pressure off survivability compared to Nahida/Alhaitham, and frees up your hydro healer! Solid pick, but my only gripe with on-field Baizhu is his lack of AoE.
since most blooms are triggered by hydro, its better to keep a full EM kokomi (or barbara) onfield for more bloom damage, and Baizhu can stay offield and give buffs to these drivers for bit more bloom damage. Nilou Kokomi Baizhu Nahida is comfy and strong. 🥳
Something I wonder that I still don't have a clear answer to: why does dendro sometimes not reapply/vanish without a reaction? I play a bloom team with Nilou and generally I set up Nilous skill, then link enemies, then start throwing hydro at them and every time I do, Tri-Karma triggers and reapplies dendro and I can just keep doing my rotation and get multiple reactions off like this. However, there are strange occurences that have me scratch my head where Tri-Karma/dendro only applies once or twice and then it stops, while enemies are still marked and the hydro won't create blooms anymore. Why does the dendro sometimes just stop applying very quickly? I know part of the answer is when enemies aren't linked, I have seen this issue consistently with single-target battles. However, the strange thing is that it also sometimes, say 1 in 5 times, happen with groups, where dendro just vanishes and doesn't reapply unless I switch back to nahida prematurely to reapply manually.
I've benched my 2nd account, where I already have Nilou, and am considering using my guarantee on my main (and now only) to get her again. I saw the recent Natlan trailer and really want Mavuika (and maybe Kinich and Chasca) but... Nilou doesn't come around often and judging by history, Natlan will rerun its own characters multiple times before Nilou returns again. So I'll be getting my girl for my main account. I already know she runs well with Nahida and Kokomi - with either Yaoyao or Karira filling the final spot. I can't wait... though I am still sad that I may miss Mavuika if she's in the 5.0 patch. We'll see. :)
call me a madman, but I use Hydro MC with Nilou (+ Yaoyao and Nahi). I use them interchangeably: apply the dendro, Nilou NA3, HMC Skill. I don't have any guidelines when it comes to bursts, so I just use them whenever I deem it necessary, like in abyss or boss fight.
When Nilou reran in 3.6, I skipped her and got her weapon (huge crime, i'm sorry) instead for a certain green catgirl, basing my decision on certain "sources". I ended up getting two Nilou swords out of that, which I've determined was a sign to rectify that wrong on her return and unite a masterless weapon with its owner.
It looks stupid but trust me it works. You can pair Nilou with Arlechino, Nilou ring can apply enough hydro for Arlechino to vape her normal attack (since Arlechono NA follows normal ICD) But you need to hug the enemy for Nilou's skill to "hit" the enemy It is a trick from the Genshin tournament when all the hydro applicators get banned or picked already
@@feyandhisstuff9888 I guess it is I don't know how fast Barbara can apply hydro since it got -nerfed- fixed by hoyo last time But Barbara apply wet on the active character, sometimes will be annoying when facing cryo enemy, her skill radius is pretty much non existent you gotta maintain skinship with the enemy, and also her heal doesn't work on Arlecchino
Would Barbara Nilou Dendro MC and Kirara make a good team? I don't want to build them if not but im not the best at doing teams so if anyone could tell me I would appreciate it!
Wait Wait Wait Wait... Hold on.... Sacrificial sword makes nilou unique with the aura and the moon attack at same time. Jeeezz Thats kinda cool. I have c1 nilou with her signature sword, But im gonna switch her weapon Just for fun😂
Very nice guide. Thank you! Got her C0R1, I skipped Nilou twice first for Nahida and then for Baizhu(Baizhu can be used in way more teams than Nilou) but this time I'm not letting her pass. It's been 14 months! Will keep pulling til her banner is over I might get lucky with C1
Tldr for artefacts: steal your beloved kirara artefacts Doghand is useful on pretty much any HP sword scaler Anyway I'll be pulling for her and I might try my luck on weapon banner if I win the 50/50
Huge piece of incorrect info. There is a way to make sure one person is the bloom trigger 90% of the time. The stronger AOE setup with 2hydro 2dendro. If you have Nahida as an off field dendro means your onfielder being either Koko or Barbara/Ayato or any onfield hydro with good application should not build Healing Bonus /HP or Crit Attack but EM/EM/EM. Nahida applies enough off field dendro with the assistance of another off field dendro character that most of the bloom is done by Koko since her jelly fish is faster than Nilou’s ring in conjunction with her Normal attacks she will have ownership of almost all the blooms with Nilou yoinking a minority of them.
I got Nilou on my 50/50 although I didn’t want her but now I am building her f2p team with C1 Barbara and I hope it do damage than my Furina team as I don’t have a good healer for her. Sadly no Nahida for me and I think it will be the case until next year
I'm saving for Nilou cause I got bored and decided to build my Chile to achieve 1k em and just pair him with Nahida because both have insane application for multiple targets, right now tartagles chores can make like 23k and I want to see how much I can do by adding Nilou to the mix
We Don't Talk About Childe... Like literally, no one mentions him but I have been wanting to do this since Nilou came out. I haven't ever been able to get her but I should be able to this time.
the event weapon’s downside of being ugly on nilou is so real honestly. i’ll be using the 2pc vourukasha’s glow not just because it’s good but because the set looks pretty on her 😭🙏
Now I need to try and get Nilou I love her and even tho I want Emilie, Nilou is definitely for me. Nilou, Dendro traveller, Furina, Collei. Or if I get lucky.. I can swap traveler or collei out with Emilie
Thanks! I made sure the blubberbeast wasn't taking damage from the grass so I think it's actually ok and the pyro aura wasn't reapplied because the pyro aura was flashing to signify the aura weakened after the cryo consumed some of it. Could be wrong tho!
I was thinking on runnin 4x FoPL full EM Mona with her, maybe w/ sacrificial fragment to reposition her E, mainly because my Mona has stayed unused for a long time and I want to pick her up again. Dendros Yaoyao and Kirara maybe, or yaoyao and Nahida.
