Can you beat Imaginarium Theater with Polearms Only? 

How to beat the theatre: Step 1: Lose Step 2: Level up characters and equip them with artifacts Step 3: Win Step 4: Forget whos artifacts you put on your characters Step 5: Confusion Step 6: Rebuild all your characters Step 7: Cry Step 8: Grab a rope Step 9: Grab a chair Step 10: Go to the nearest tree Step 11: Make a swing Step 12: Be happy :D

Amazing how this mode forces certain elements, so you have to change your builds if you havent built for overload but we still don't have artifact loadouts

This gamemode just tests if you have your characters leveled up

The main thing I like about this gamemode is that sometimes I end up using characters in unorthodox ways. I do wish they allowed us to enter each stage with fewer than 4 characters. The previous limited time event that used this same vigor system allowed for that - I feel like the flexibility would be a positive. I understand they're trying to get us to "use" almost all the characters, but in the case that we roll our strongest characters in the early pool, we might prefer to run smaller parties to save certain characters for later stages. Also I had a similar reaction to the water critters, thinking it would be good for reaction damage and then struggling with how much constant damage they dealt to me.

HOLY CRAP, THATS MY XIAO!! I'm glad to know he was useful!! little guy was my first 5 star :)

as someone who really ONLY levels and builds characters I like, imaginarium theater is really annoying cause I can only get through the easy mode. So now I’m forced to build and level characters I would never care about before. And the element limitation is also annoying for the future I have so few for certain elements. I’m not joking when I say I have 4 hydro characters and only 1 of them is a 5 star.

The hardest part of this mode is gacha all the characters you need and then level them to 70. This mode is such a disappointment both in fun factor (since boons are worthless and irrelevant, not to mention the lack of decisions around teams) and difficulty wise (enemies are so low HP feel like level 8 of abyss).

Looking at how many polearm characters there are in each element currently 5 Pyro, 3 Cryo, 2 Geo, 2 Electro, 2 Dendro(if we count Emilie), 1 Anemo and 1 Hydro. I think we might have problem if the restricted element be Anemo, Hydro and Geo/Electro/Dendro.

Them letting you not take enough characters would be interesting especially for challenge runs. Like having Required number but then have a max number you can take. Add it to the simple tweak list!

I think with how its seen as fine to use Sucrose's passive in crafting enemy drops on these challenge accounts that the penalty of having to raise unused characters to 70 doesnt invalidate it being an "x weapon only" account.

If you were on Europe I would have loved to give you my physicak Thoma 😭 he does 15k charge attack so he prolly would have managed to solo.

Also the thing with the forced 4 characters in a party, i was using my friends c6 freedom sworn kazuha and i was like “oh cool! Itll be fun to atleast try to solo this” but nope you HAVE to have 4 characters in a party. So incredibly dumb

I'm pretty sure this is only possible when pyro is allowed. I don't think polearms only can do it without pyro.

I guess if it's primarily a matter of your own enjoyment, it doesn't make sense to try this mode again, especially when you'll have to do so with an elemental roster that doesn't favour polearms. Still, I did enjoy this video. How you actually seriously try to navigate the restriction as part of the challenge is what sets Polearms Only apart from some similar single weapon challenge accounts on youtube.

I think where it went a little wrong was the monolith one. You worried a bit much about the big hilichurls, which A) have more hp and the shield so take longer to kill and B) will happily target you instead of the monolith. So you could have focused mostly on the little ones, and doing so probably have done it with Cyno + a pyro polearm user. Which would have saved a dose of Arl vigor for later. Though using up Thoma's vigor early also hurt a bit, since he's one of your few defensive options. Sucks he's one of the starting 6 in a way.

gg! Next theaters, you can just ignore this mode in Polearms Only, imo. Or you can just do some highlights if there is anything you'd like to show. But I think having to level up characters you don't use is a waste of resources. So probably not doing it is better, I guess? And the content is not exactly challenging, right? The most difficult part is getting your characters, but imagine if they make a Dendro/Hydro/Geo one, what could you do?

Arlecchino is so crazy it literally looks like you're popping balloons w her

I cant wait for the burning comps youll do cuz in second half of 4.8 Emilie who is a dendro burning polearm is coming out

Funny thing... emilie, the character coming out in the first half of 4.8 is indeed a polearm character

This series has motivated me to try polearms only. I was thinking of trying to beat abyss with only guaranteed/starter characters but I think that’s too difficult. I’ve made a rule for myself that I can’t make a second account until I get my first 36 stars and since I’m really close to it, I’m going to start preparing. Hopefully we get a hydro polearm in Natlan so I’m not forced to pray for Candace’s return!!

idk how to star rail team pumps out incredible new endgame modes every few months and genshin had 3 years to cook up this clunky mess of a game mode lmao

7:08 emilie is in the second phase 💀

Try turning on brief describtions when reading the boosts. Saves a lot of time

6:26 no, it's 2.55 per boss 14:05 it's partially because you kept bursting too late to catch the particles from your skills since Xiao consumes the energy late into his burst animation Also you can change builds during the theater but not after you selected a fight but you can say : I will choose this fight with these enemies so let me build X character accordingly and then you select the fight, what it means is that if your build doesn't work, you can't change once you've tried it

they should add invite 3 people in hard mode for newer players

Tbh I feep bad for people that have challenges like: mono pyro, mono hydro, etc. They just can't do theater => they get not so many primos as they used to before theater

Beat it: Easily, it's like floor 9 with randomizer except you've leveled the characters You qualifying for it: As expected...

I would love to play in Imaginarium Theater to the end, but I don't have enough characters to use, especially since most of them are still super weak. If I could play with my strong characters all the time it wouldn't be a problem 😑 btw, if I invite a guest player and then cancel him, I can no longer invite other characters from this player ... Only next month, Hoyo is such a .... >:

I am missing 2 charactes to do the hardest difficulty bc I don't want to lvl up any characters that I don't use last lvl 69

woo polearms only

I was thinking of doing it on my Catalyst only account. But tbh i'm not sure if it's possible, because there aren't many dps in these elements. There're only 2 pyro characters (i don't have Klee, so i'll have to take her from any of my friends assuming some one has her with good build and all. My Yanfei is top4% on Europe, she'll be fine), 2 electro characters (I built my Lisa as a burst support dps, so i'm not sure if it's possible with her alone, she's also only c4, and that's a huge loss on dps from her E, because i don't have extra levels on it. Yae is good as a reactor tbh, so soloing with her would be tough, probably will have to get her on emblem set), and 4 anemo characters (Wanderer is fine at least mine. Xianyun can play as a dps if needed. Problem lies with Heizhou, because mine is not properly built and is c0, and with Sucrose who is not a dps, like at all). This makes it 8 + i can claim Baizhu and Wriothesley as additional characters = 10. Thinking that probably i'll need either Baizhu or Xianyun survive till the end + 1 electro + either Yanfei or Klee, it'll be like hell mostly. The only one that can heal himself is Wriothesley. I dunno what strategy to use here, and of course it makes me sad that i need to lvl up some non-catalyst characters on the account (i believe i have Xiangling, Bennet, Beidou and Fischl, i have Diluc and Jean as a 5*, but honestly i don't remember who else i have, because frankly speaking my account was kinda lucky with catalyst characters, so i overall got duplicates of those i already have be it those i need or don't need, i don't have that many characters on the account). I think i'll try to beat it, but catalyst characters are less agile than polearm are, i doubt it'll be easy.

that arle is CRAZY.

24:03 frog eating chevreuse's brain😁

I'm new so I didn't have enough characters leveled up to play so i spent a bunch of resources getting some characters up and now I kinda ended up using most of my resources and i will probably need to grind for some lmao. it hurts.

I really wish you could enter certain stages with less than 4 characters, not just for polearms only but it feels so restrictive. It’d be nice to make one stage “harder” so your next cycle has more options

personally there’s a lot of things i really like about imaginarium theater, but the gameplay itself is kinda the least interesting thing about it to me. i’m much more here for the cool set dressing and new music and character voicelines lmao

this is a pretty fair solution

Hey just a question. I have a ar37 acc with arlecchino and alhaitham as my only 2 5 stars. Want to do a vape team for arle so going to pull for yelan but furina is out rn and I have the wishes Is it worth the pull for alhaitham?

Maybe make a video everytime they update the elements required? If you want to obviously. It doesn’t seem like you like this gamemode much so no pressure.

23:48 I really wish we would be able to change artifacts after each act

Nooo, I think that it was interesting! Its very meaningful that you were able to clear it using just polearm characters cause it shows how doable ImgTheater really is for everyone thats complaining. It isnt hard.

for the nearly 4 years that this game has been out the only thing you needed was 2 good teams to beat the hardest content. Only 8 characters. The logical thing to do was to just pull cons and weapons for the 8 characters you use in abyss and you don't need anything else, but if you did that and invested all those primogems, you are just completely screwed over in this new mode despite the game never incentivizing you to have a wide variety of built characters. Luckily I don't pull for cons and weapons so I can manage but it's just frustrating that the players who did what was optimal for 3+ years are now punished for it.

Even on my normal account, that stage with the water elementals can f*** right off. So much annoying damage everywhere.

Seeing you not taking advantage of Cyno's burst properly made me cry.. you press his e when that symbol appears and it does so much more damage and AOE 😭

It’s a cool idea YK but the bad thing is that it’s more towards pay 2 win players since most people who are f2p probably don’t have all characters.

Glad you had enough characters to naturally get into the first stage, but still upset for you that you can’t bring just your well built polearms further than easy. Tho the struggle on hard after leveling some undesirables is entertaining to watch. As for my own challenge account, yah I’m never getting in which is sooooooo obnoxious cuz Abyss has been here the whole time but isn’t gatekept by all these BS do nothing rules so I can get through with at least 18-21 stars consistently. That doesn’t seem like a lot so I should mention the gimmick of the account is I can’t use bursts (genuine question would Kirara’s C4 be cheating to activate? I think it might be…), I’m f2p, and the big one no level up books. I can ONLY level up by fighting monsters. Mainly activated shrooms to save time and sanity; I’ve hit 9999 of the green drop more than once and have had to combine them. This “endgame” mode is so easy my main account did hard mode in like 7 minutes of actual combat. But I can’t even challenge this joke on a challenge account where it had the potential to be somewhat of a test because Hoyo decided to add a level cap and force full 4 party teams. Like bruh the teams can end up so random anyway you might only use 1/4 of the characters so it’s not gonna matter if the Amber you throw in just to fill out a slot is level 70 or level 2. It’s just completely arbitrary. A character not being as leveled on any account doesn’t mean they won’t have access to a solid build of artifacts and weapons. My highest characters currently are only 2 at level 40 yet I have reached AR 58 and have farmed fairly decent artifacts. My level 33 Nahida has a top 1% build on Akasha. Hell my Diluc even has a better build here than my main at top 3% over top 4%. I haven’t even had to rely on a co-op friend to help me out in farming for quite some time. I’m totally fine doing events and getting a fair share of awards at my character levels. The only thing I’m normally gatekept by is only having 1 Sac Frag between Kokomi, Barbara, and Sucrose. But now 4 years into the game Hoyo decided they didn’t want to make a new endgame mode, they wanted to make a new cash grab. Lock just enough new character dialogues and camera poses for the casuals, teapot mains, and lore enthusiasts who might ignore Abyss behind it and they’ll now want in. Players who need more characters to do this game mode get locked out and can’t get the primos from it. Aka go swipe. Players who have a decent amount of characters but need to level them all at once get spread thin. Aka go resin refresh with your primos to keep up aka go swipe. Players who have spent enough time and/or money to meet the check, go take a nap (if you aren’t in the like 30-50%+ that quit already), your monthly refreshing game mode’s done in under 10 minutes. Hate to be that person but in comparison WuWa’s Depths of Illusive realm has built in incentive to do it more than once, let’s you exchange for more valuable rewards, will warn you if your character is under leveled but still let you in, and has solid enough builds on the trial ones if your own characters are too weak. It’s not a team check but I had a lot more fun going through the different stages for around 2 hours than the yawn of a 7 minutes I had on my Genshin main where the highlight was seeing what bratty line my Wanderer (who’s C4 & well built but I can’t share with anyone because he’s principal cast -_-“) would say between stages. I threw out this analogy on another chat but it’s like if Hoyo suddenly decided that, “In order to access any of Natlan and future regions, you now can’t even step foot in til you have 100% exploration in all previous regions down to the last chest and side quest. Should’ve logged all your chests in the official interactive map we totally didn’t just steal the design of off the fan made one and now launched lil bro. That’s ok you can exchange genesis crystals to send your (select few RNG) characters (you may or may not have) out to hunt those missing chests. You get 1 single new dialogue when they come back at the end of week with a single common chest! If you’re extra special (get lucky with the .03% odds) your waifu might even give you an exclusive cute wink! No there’s no skip button in the stories still, enjoy left clicking yourself into early onset arthritis. Oh did we say no skip button, we meant for f2p. You can buy the monthly skip subscription for $20 a month, no we didn’t test it to see if it’s buggy or not.” Not an entirely exact replica of Hoyo dialogue because I skipped the patronizing customer service emoticons but you get the idea. Really consider this. How much outrage or at least annoyance would something like this cause and why? Would it mainly be that it’s super restrictive to people who don’t have time or who’d rather dedicate themselves to different aspects of the game? Would it be because this is not AT ALL how exploration has worked for the earlier parts of the game and now they changed it to THAT? Would it be that it’s such a stupid reason to prevent you from progressing something you could otherwise do? Would it be those few elitists saying, “well you should have just been doing exploration all along, what’d you expect? It’s supposed to be the end regions, Hoyo’s totally in the right to make sure you’re fully caught up on all the lore from before.” or the other side of the coin I’ve seen before, “just top up.” or “just quit.”

You don't need to lvl them up to 70. 60/60 is enough since the game let me use characters that are 60/60

I am stuck on satge 3 act 3 i tried this for several tyms and still not promoting for stage 4😢😢

Seeing this after the 4.8 stream: I feel bad for you cuz of Emilie being a 5* dendro polearm 💀

I wish genshin had the same team as hsr man- even ZZZ has a better endgame and its new rip. Had to delete it, zzz,wuwa and hsr are way more than enough for a student like me xD

just call this series "Polearm Mains" or something similar instead of "... ONLY" that might give you less headaches for such occurences, they will happen again eventually

Honestly ur c6 Arlechino is too strong, even w lvl0 healing cap she's just shred everything within 10 sec like omg. To be kinda of a challenge u should try trial's Arlechino or ur own w 3* artifacts n 4* weapon

This gamemodes like way too difficult for me

dps thoma my eyes😫😫😁😁

If u don’t have bennet built up def should he’s RLLY GOOD

TLDR: No, you can’t beat it with polearms only

25:32 Thats why I prefer Crimson Witch

me and the homies hate coeanid

Make Soluna Use Cyno on the Polearms Only Challenge

Your voice reminds me of technoblade.

I feel this is a horrible thing to be forced into you to pass haha Maybe allow you to use all characters BUT no polearms have everything lvl1? should allow you to still use their elements and some other minor buffs

Are you gonna pull Emile ?

Its way too ez

What was the point of pulling for C6 Arlecchino if you’re just going to keep nerfing her?

Hoyo finally cancel weapon only accounts (lol) >_

Hey can you rewiew my account i only have one good team and i dont know what to do pls help

This mode is more fun that abyss is kind sad that people heated because they only thinking about primos 😒

Ngl this seems rather annoying .... even more if you happen to not have certain meta (5*) characters built or at all

Early

it kinda hurts how you play cyno... sorry....

Genuinely who or even how was this mode approved. Its so bland and boring, it has terrible rewards, its way too easy while trying REALLY hard to restrict your options and they nerfed abyss rewards for it? Imagine if every time star rail added a new end game they removed rewards from previous ones

Change name to polearm "mostly"