EVERY BOW RANKED! C0 Yelan Weapon Showcases and Comparisons! Genshin Impact 2.7 

edit: talking to youtube support to replace it with the fixed version. if it's successful, you lucky(?) few will see these errors below: 1. ONLY the Fading Twilight chart at 8:45 had an error that I missed for the Elegy and Favonius Warbow's burst damage numbers. All the other charts have the correct damage numbers for the Elegy and Favonius, so you can just fast forward to 9:45 for the correct full chart for the in-game showcases. 2. The charts all say 5 stars for the 4 star weapons... Ugh! The 4 star weapons are all in blue... I missed that detail through copying and pasting -_-

okay but in all fairness if you managed to get 9,999,999 ATK you'd be better off just using her normal attacks

We got a fully HP scaling Bow user... This brings us closer to the day when the Bell will be on TOP of some character's weapon options. I'm so lucky to have it at R6!

This yelan girl is probably one of the best F2P friendly 5 star in the game. She create energy, she give a lot of damage off field (just like xingqiu), very easy to build because HP% useful for her, and her playstyle is pretty satisfying too.

For those who need "recurve bow" and already fed it to other weapons ; rest assured, there is a npc in ritou docks named "nakano" (soldier with spear) who will give you one once you chat with him. Unless you have spoken to him, you wont spend much time on chest RNG :))

I searched your channel 3 mins ago looking for just this video, and it wasn't there, then I went back to my home screen and you uploaded it. Perfect Timing!!

I'd pick fav warbow coz it gives a lot of ER, and paired with 4pc emblem, I can focus on her crit ratios especially on a HP sands which is so much easier to get than ER sands with double crit lines.

IMO you should consider to include yelan's ER requirement in this chart for more consistent burst uptime

I think this underrates the favonious warbow a bit. The massive ER boost lets you refocus your subs on more crit and/or run a HP sands and the white particles are a really powerful contribution to energy hungry teams. It's a solid 4 slimes in actual gameplay IMO unless you're running double hydro for more energy.

Sacrificial Bow is heavily underrated. Energy recharge sub lets u run hp goblet so means a little more damage. Also it gives u another skill charge, basically c1 Yelan.

Love the theory crafting you make. It always helps me better understand a character and guides me into building them. Thank you for your hard work.

Nice video as always, but the Favonius warbow should be higher in my opinion. It gives so much ER and so much help for the team... even if it doesn't do a LOT of damage, it is still a really great option for damage output, and it has a unique utility for your team

Don't forget that having a energy recharge weapon means that you can have a HP% sand, so it's not a bad choice even if you want the most damage

THANK YOUUUU!!! Like everyone just making support guides, but seeing a COMPLETE guide is what I needed. Awesome as always IWTL!

Great work as always! Kept checking to see more Yelan videos from you.

Been using Favonius and love how comfortable she is. Her burst is always up. I’m considering trying to roll for C1 though, use Sacrificial, and then have triple dashes after her bursts. Her play style is just so insanely fun

PRO TOP: It is possible to change artifacts on any given character. If you equip a fav bow, you aren't stuck at 300%ER and low damage. You can change ER artifact to HP% ones. This makes fav bow the most damaging option among 4* bows once you adjust your artifacts.

I'd say Favonius is the best after her signature weapon. You can fit her into any team and burst on CD all the time, AND provide energy for everybody.

Great video! Can't wait for your complete guide video of her specifically your favorite team comps and the difference her C1 and C2 does.

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Depending on the team, the overall damage can be way higher with Elegy for the End but that requires a good rotation to make a great use of its buff. Aqua simulacra in the other side it is pretty much straight as regardless the rotation and team you choose damage will still be the same. I would like to pull aqua simulacra but I rather save for Sumeru so I will just stick to Elegy for now.

Fav bow and sac bow is being underrated in this chart. Fav bow while does not increase Yelan’s damage but it provides tons of energy for herself and her teammates, it allows her and her team run with less ER and focus more on damage. Sac bow, while a bit more situational, is very fun to used. When fight mobs, you can trigger it’s passive and effectively gain another extra charge for her E. While it doesn’t increases her burst damage, it can double her E and break through barb damage.

The calm and soft voice in the closing statement was really nice we were used to every RU-vidr giving an explosive and loud outro so a calm voice for once was really pleasant

Love your content as always and what a great translation of the elegy for the end passive haha

Sacrificial bow feels really good on her aswell.

Thanks for treating Yelan like an on-field carry instead of a Xinqiu replacement like anyone else does ❤️ She's very fun and reliable and finally made it possible for me to get 36* in Spiral Abyss

I forgot to mention that I like how you always do comparison video which me (or also majority of players) would like to see. Great kudos to you!

Great work as always IWTL !

Here we see wintolose; weapon inventory full, cryo regisvine at the ready, thesaurus AND calculator in hand ready to amaze us all with his damage while helping us build our characters

I love the Alley Hunter color Scheme, and matches her outfit perfectly

Finally, the video I’ve been waiting for!

Great video, as always

I was mesmerized as how attack is completely useless to her. It makes the great overall bow like skyward harp mid tier for her

My Yelan currently use r5 stringless to maximize her dmg output with xingqiu as battery and hydro res shread.. I use tazer/electrocharged team with Yelan as on field carry.. Perform really great!

Thank you so much for this video !! It’s so helpful

I’ve been waiting for this all day I love your vids your the goat🤞🏿

My Yoimiya is hitting 130k on N5 with C0 Yelan (elegy) C5 Bennett (skyward+noblesse) and C0 Zhongli(tenacity) Definitely a huge upgrade from XQ With R5 Rust!!

Awesomely detailed Guide as Always, I used the Stringless on her along with some Pyro Characters and I can safely say that she slaps on that Vape team

The dedication to the work is 🔥 Another great video, dude! 💯

Thank you so much! I would love to see a video on possible team comps with her

I probably use sac bow for that double E, so fun! currently trying to pull her c1

You should have done elemental reaction using the stringless. It gives yelan a lot more dmg

As always an amazing guide! Thanks a lot!

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I think you should have set ER requirement to make her burst every rotation (you can assume Raiden/Double Hydro/Another Fav user as long as you stated it). It'll be more accurate and Fav bow is actually rated higher because it can easily meet the ER requirement while other bow will sacrifice HP for more ER. Overall, it's a good comparison but I'd say Aqua and other crit weapon is overrated a bit while ER weapon is a bit underrated.

I feel like the favonius warbow is easily 4 slime option, for group, uptime, etc.. at C0 gameplay.

Thanks for this as always!!

Perfect video. Thanks man.

Yelan: "I'll need that 3 star bow" Me, after just feeding that thing to the event 4 star without second though: "Screaming internally"

I remember a few months ago, I lookked at the Polar Star and was like "this literally has no character it will ever be bad on, no matter what happens, so I'm pulling for it". I'm so glad that even with a character with unusual scaling like Yelan, this still applies. This let me go for constellations instead of Aqua Simulacra, which yes, is better than Polar Star, but not enough to sway me from my plan!

I got Yelan today and this video was suuuuuper helpful so thxxx!!!

God ive been refreshing my sub box every few minutes since Yelan release waiting for this video. Also looking forward to the constellation comparison.

From my experience the recurve does much more dps than polar star R1, I am interested in trying out R5 stringless, definitely giving that a shot

I'm using the BP Bow Viridescent Venerer, it gives about 7-9K ticks and 30K E Skill damage. I think this one is also a good option for people who are having problem with getting crit rate up. Edit: It's Talent level 8 only

Your videos are invaluable, I love it!

Amazing video man

Used recurved bow allowed me to have decent amount of dmg with of coures with Hydro goblet but i will say Favonius is best weapon for her if u dont have her signature weapon becouse this truely solved her ER problem 100% with 200% ER her ult is alwasy uptime 100% like alwasy is amazing

Sac bow deserves extra points bc her skill triggers a coordinated attack with her burst. MEANING, you can burst, skill, one normal attack, breakthrough barb, and then skill AGAIN, one normal, barb shot. Youre activating her burst many times in this rotation and throwing in those strong barb shots too, I expect that we’ll see more ppl utilizing this as time goes on

great video, thanks for your efforts

Just pulled her and is instantly checked your channel. Thank you so much!!!!

What artifacts are being used in this showcase? I m asking because if you are using eosf won't that make all bows with er substat better?

Great as always. Yes for damage and wanting her to be onfield i do agree with this but as a low constellation user, I would prefer Elegy over aqua. As most of her dmg is on her Q and not having it up off cooldown is so painful plus shes on emblem. plus the teamwide atk buff to benefit raiden and hutao (plus EM in this case) Considering aswell that on rotations, I would never be able to get another E after 10 secs of cd, the ER requirement would be quite high unless u have C1 and do E Q E(quick) on her or have raiden/fischl in the team

I like the Fav Bow on her so far but I also looove how Fading Twilight looks like so I might swap to this one for lolz XD And many thanks for the video! I always appreciate how you explain stuff - it's always so coherent ^^

I've been waiting for this video Hope you're doing well dude 😊

She requires a certain balance between HP bonus, crit rate, crit damage, hydro damage bonus and energy recharge. I'm happy to have her C0 + FWB R5

I'm running Favonius Warbow and 4pc Emblem on my Yelan as a support in my Yoimya team. My Yelan is working with 230% ER in order to have full uptime on her burst in my rotations. I would say she needs at the very least 200% along with the white energy procs from Favonius's skill just to keep her burst up unless you're running her with Shogun. I would definitely prioritize Energy Recharge bows on her over anything else otherwise you'll spend entire rotations without her burst. Pairing her with Xingqui to produce even more Hydro particles is an option but doing so is also lowering her damage. She has a passive that increases her Max HP the more elements you have in a party. With 3 different elements she gets 18% HP but with 4 elements she gets 30%. That's too significant for me to want double Hydro. In short, I would put Favonius as damn near her best weapon option as nothing else will give her the same uptime on her burst. Players could manage with an ER Sands but why do that instead of an HP% Sands? You'd miss out on a lot of damage that way.

whenever i feel like i am stuck in the game or planning to pull a character or simply just want a guide and want to see kit of any character and want it to be in details, i come here- he is just too respectful, easy to understand and clears my ever doubts like my teacher LOL

Now that her rerun is coming up, i really appreciate these videos.

Yelan seems to need a lot of ER. Wouldn’t it of been more fair to use a ER% time piece on her when comparing the aqua simalacra and vice versa with a hp% on the ER weapons (which I think you did but not sure). This makes the aqua out to do a lot more damage but in practice it could be different cause of burst up time.

Great Guide and I love how you include the Fading Twilight since a lot of other CC just recommend Favonius. Fading gives you more DMG If you C1 Yelan (I know it's highly not possible but if you somehow got lucky & still have extra Primogems) the Favonius actually gives us too much energy than we need

This is why i wait for your review the most. The best dad jokes with accurate information 💯

For sure this video help me so much, that im using Amos since i got her, LOL. Thanks dude.

🌸😹It would be a deep dive into her best armament and how one could yield the most efficiency out of her character.😹🌸

Honestly i strongly disagree on terms of evaluation because you are just taking damage output into consideration to measure them until u mention Elegy(being that said, support skills of the bow should have not being considered into rating). Favonious not being the "best" at making damge is a sure thing but, its the best at making sure u do get ut Q back maintaining a high damage cuz of the emblem ER buff.. wich is kinda my point... u just cant do a good rotation on 150% ER on a C0 yelan on teams like hutao ones with those 5 star bows unless u kill 3-4 foes with E.. it will work with Raiden but who doesnt work with her? if u cant get ur Q back theres no point on measure damage cuz ur loosing dps waiting to get another E to charge up wich is not optimal at all... i dont think u should drop the rate for those 5 star bows but get a higher rate for Fav(at minimum 4 slimes, displaying it at the best not 5 star one, wich it is all around and have been proved by a lot of other ppl aorund the the community). I have tested this extensively myself also, being Fav r5 even better and easier to build with than Aqua...that of course its her signature weapon but its designed to make you need her c1 cuz she does lack a lot ER(around 180-190% minimum being the only hydro on team with no raiden), or forcing u to get an ER clock with GODLY substats with high rolls, and good luck getting a GODLIKE ER CLOCK on emblem set. i have being 3 months farming it frecuently and i have 2 decent with CV near 15-20. Im a data and indicator analyst at a bank and i honestly love ur videos a lot cuz u bring plenty of data.. but this video just had some big mistakes as methodology itself of the showcase and not showing the potential of her best f2p weapon over all misleading ppl to see Aqua at her best over all.

Thank you for the fantastic video! At the beginning of the theory crafting, you spoke about the optimal combination of stats in order to maximize damage. Would you mind telling me the optimal combination of stats? Would be appreciated a lot!

Every Christmas, my dad puts all the bows from the presents on his head, and that beginning reminded me of that.

If you use ER sands with non ER weapon then ER weapons (except the new ivent weapon, it doesn't have enough ER) will be much better than in your calc. If you don't use ER sands with non ER weapons, well, then your Yelan is just useless, because she cannot ult. Sorry for my English.

You didn't test the 3* crit dmg bow, which isn't a bad option either. 50% extra crit dmg at lvl 90 and the passive is decent when using Yelan's breakthrough barb on a target that has weak points. Bit of a niche passive, but hey if your HP and ER is good on Yelan but you lack CDMG it's a nice boost.

Thank you for your nerdy maths and spreadsheets. I’m moving my Yelan to my r5 mouns moon immediately. I meant to try it out, and now I know it gets more dmg than the stringless

i love how u do the ratings🗿

Elegy's buffs still overtake whatever personal damage increase yelan gets for most teams, I think elegy is her best bow realistically since she's best suited for off field support

Tldr, *aqua* *simulacra* bis. Otherwise the free bow *fading* *twilight* for f2p(use *emblem* set for bonus damage) Notable mentions are *recurve* *bow* for hp% Amazing guide tysm iwintolose! Yelan is a metabreaking character.

IWTL is that one teacher who is always fun to study from !!!

You make my stats prof look like he's teaching basic stats.....i love how you showcase real data on each weapon which not alot of Content creators do

If you people want a guide, pick someone else not this guy, all he tested was damage, sure the 3* have hp mainstats its gonna boost the damage but where ER? Most people are low spenders or f2p you cant 1 rotation sh*t everywhere, you need to balance the stats, emblem set is BiS for her which is required ER for more dmg, Fav bow is free and its good for your team too, also Elegy if you have it for team buff

Misleading calcs. Unless you’re in a team that’s specifically designed to generate more energy for Yelan or are simply getting a lot more particles than usual from enemies, her ER needs will be at an absolute minimum of 200%. This makes Favonius Warbow extremely powerful, behind ONLY Aq. Sim. and Elegy. Polar Star, and Harp especially, are weaker options.

What I want to see is if you take the Aqua Simulacra damage and move stats around on artifacts so that it has ER equivalent to Elegy, how do they compare then? You're going to probably end up swapping in an ER sands over an HP sands to accomplish this. Unless you have Yelan in a team that feeds a huge amount of energy (such as with Raiden), you absolutely will need high ER even with C1. My intuition here is that once you've replaced the ER lost by switching from Elegy to Aqua, you're going to be looking at a damage increase roughly equivalent (in percentage) to what Elegy provides to the active character.

This video is exactly what I was waiting for! Now I'm going to pull for the 5 star weapon :(

The problem with your damage calculations is that they completely ignore the real ER-requirements of a character making any ER-weapon looks significantly worse than they are in reality due to a non-ER weapon in your chart being apparently perfectly fine with just 100/120 ER. A better comparison would be comparing the opportunity value/cost of a weapon, i.e how many artifact sub stats does it take to fulfill her ER requirements while also reaching the damage output to her best option (R5 Aqua) and in that category a Fav Warbow would beat all weapons except Aqua, Polar Star and maybe R5 Skyward Harp simply because it provides the most amount of raw artifact value being a 41 base atk weapon with a useful substat while simultaneously having a passive that lowers her personal ER-requirements even further thanks to the extra particle generation.

Big THANKS to you IWTLG. Your vids are always great and the slimes also like to get some attention :) I´ll give her Fav bow too coz of the ER and it's passive. But i'm tryin to get the Aqua Simulacra and i might give it to my Ganyu cause of the massive Crit DMG. Curious to see how she will perform with it.

It's really cool how many choices she has. I will first focus on her artifacts and then choose the weapon accordingly. So far I've been lucky with HP stats but not ER, so I guess I'll have to put Favonius on her.

11:17 I initially thought what slingshot's passive meant was "Increases ALL damage by 60%", I was so excited, but turns out it meant "Increases the normal or charged attack damage by 60%" lol.

Wasn't really planning on getting Yelan, stopped right after pulling Ayaka, but it had been so long, figured id just toss the 5 glitter ones from the shop reset at it, and 2 in, there's yelan... really fun toon, even though i haven't farmed her up to full level yet..

Nice job as always, i come to your channle more often now

Thank you for this

Using 2+2 noblesse and hod, got +22% hp on noblesse circlet. Easy 60:180 ratio with 35k hp and 176er. Using eledgy(got during venti rerun). Total hp% from artifacts is somewhere around 108%

Very informative video for Yelan weapons. Though I have her sign. I'm still interested on the other weapons performance

There is also the Blackcliff (not great on her) and the 3* Crit damage bow (forgot the name but it has more Crit damage than blackcliff). I'm inclined to say that order of usefulness is: Aqua, Fav, and then Recurve or Elegy depending on party. She does need a fair amount of ER which is why I placed Fav and Elegy so high. That and party utility.

good job bro this video has to become legendary. i didnt know e lan's damage doesnt stack from her ATK TY

Fantastic stuff