Genshin Impact - Ei vs Raiden Shogun Boss Fight & Ending 

the 3 characters are triplets basically, really salute the VA and the director

@@Okuni_ Don't forget the fourth character - the "Country Girl" Shogun :^)

@@LordofPainValak For some reason, I read "country girl" as "cowgirl", and now all I can think of is Cowgirl Ei.

“Lightning fast quick draw.”

And other npcs

No way

Will this be like human and AI? 🤔

i think she was muchh more powerfull, but the corrosion made her weaker to the point that her puppet was around the same strength

Scaramouche is weak than raiden puppet xd ,raiden puppet has not power limit and her power is similar to Ei's power.

@@isaacortiz6692 so the corrosion hasnt affected EI at all? cuz she still defeated the raiden puppet. and it better be, im at the dendro archon quests line right now. and i swear to god if scaramouche does as much as TOUCH eI i will kill the writers personally

we need venti banner:)

Venti is rumoured to make a comback with his story 2 in 2.6.

Wasn't it 2.7 or something? Cus they have rumoured that it's an inazuma festival for 2.6 right?

I thought 2.6 was gonna be The Chasm release, as well as Ayato’s debut; maybe his debut comes with the festival you’re talking about. Hopefully Venti is in 2.7 though, if not sooner somehow lmao.

Normally they come with a weekly boss and well… I don’t think we’re ready for another one, not to mention razor took the second weekly boss slot of mondstat

I agree

@@mananexus indeed

and makoto

@@Zak-tk8wv mo yskje mo

Terry

Ei's voice is somehow more soft and solemn... And Makoto's is more playful... While Raiden Shogun is rigid. It's truly amazing work.

@@wolfofsummerbreeze Indeed. Also Ei's voice has so much determination behind it. "Don't look down on me". It did caught me off guard, but then it's how the real Ei would answer. Awesome story.

@@wolfofsummerbreeze It definitely speaks to their respective personalities. Raiden Shogun (puppet) being stern and by the book like the old Ei. While Makoto is enlightened and more relaxed. While Ei drifts between the two moving toward Makoto’s view of things.

I cant hear the difference between ei and shogun voice at en. Makoto slightly different

@@user-zq7vi8lm4z Well think of Shogun as Ei while she is determined about eternity, since the Shogun embodies her will. So the voice of Ei when she gets serious sounds closer to the Shogun, only slightly less rigid. When Ei is talking with the Traveller or reminiscing the old story, her voice becomes very soft and tender. I think it is also intentional. That's my take.

And here i am thinking that the voice actor had to talk to themselves with 3 different tones lmao

so I guess Shogun is a mirage of Ei back then and by now Ei try to find a balance

Bruh, venti is hella underrated too; he is actually one of those that done the most work among the archons, especially at the early days of Monstadt, it was already hintef from from golden apple archipelago, unreconciled star event or even Dainslef collected mischaleny about venti, and hell even it was being mentionef several times, monstadt was once mountanous frozen wasteland not lush green as we know now, it is barbados aka venti who use his power to cut down the mountains and throwing them off to the sea, in what now becomes haar island or golden apple archipelago, and throwing the largest mountain in Tevyat, pylos peak, to the sea, to what is now, musk reef, aka the location of spyral abbys, not only that, venti also drive off storm from monstadt, so monstadt will be the land without storm this is the thing that have been said by that girl with church of favonius uniform at the area around stormbearers mountain, venti also taught people of monstadt how to harness wind and taught them how to build windmill all of this is the reason why monstadt being nicknamed crown if the north After all of this he goes off to sleep,but from the manga, he definitely didn't have control over his sleep, and even ask himself how long has he been sleeping, and wake up to monstadt already under the yoke of Lawrence clan, this is my speculation, but he looks like overspend his archonic power especially since he is a god that didn't get worship at the beginning, vannesa's rebellioj would be impossible to succeed without venti's direct intervention, and he once again handed monstadt to it's righful owner, the people Fast forward during catacalysm , venti and dvalin are the one that defended monstadt from the attack of the largest dragon that ever roam monstadt, durin, you can see the remnants in dragonspine mountain, in which why the mountain being named like that And idk if you realize it, monstadt archin quest are the only archon quest where the archons actually greatly help in handle the crisis,without venti we stand no chance against corrupted Dvalin, hell without venti we wouldn't survive at all

@@briantarigan7685 yeaaa both of your comments describe why i feel so much more for these archons than Zhongli ahaha. Venti was my previously favourite favourite character,but i just find Raiden to be visually more interesting.

@@briantarigan7685 i was thinking the same about venti.. but i think he will be a major chara in our journey later on, i mean yea ofcourse bcs he is an archon.. BUT there's so many implication/speculation that monds will be the "gate to celistia", IT SEEMS that we met venti before, many more.. i definitely sure that later on venti will be a major chara

and i heard some hater said that the Genshin story is bad because the character has not changed and developed...

@@briantarigan7685 we might have more insight on venti soon

Exactly people complain that her first story is just a date but its a good way to show us how ei is because in archon quest we never talk to ei beside fighting unlike venti and zhongli who already know each other in archon quest, but its genshib community they always complain about everything

@@yakz9600 It was still pretty bad and terribly written. Like, the first part of Act II basically reiterated the point Act I was trying to make, but significantly better without being woefully cringe worthy. Don't for a second believe Act I wasn't a writing abomination. Cause it was, and no amount of conceptual talk is going to change that is was an executional disaster.

@@yakz9600 facts

@@gameboy8010 Yeah, like Venti's story quest wasn't the same thing. People complain about Ei's but not Venti's when the first half of Venti's story quest was literally just going around Mondstadt talking about imaginary friends. It was only in the second half when they went into more interesting stuff, just like what they did for Ei.

@@Michylawhty Venti's at least narratively tied the front and back half quite well in a narratively satisfying cohesive package. And it actually hit its emotional notes when we got to it. That's where Raiden Shogun Act I is a huge flop. It was hardly cohesive, had no real emotional resolution or payoff. Just came off as shallow. Commission dude was cool and all, but it just didn't tie back to Ei as strongly as it could've. Act II however, did it right.

Thank you mommy Ei.

You can also finally Kaeya-bridge your way to Inazuma! I assume it’s unnecessary in the time of the game’s story tho.

@@silverhawkscape2677 stop

Whaaaaaaat??? I'm gonna check it

Theres a video of yae miko swimming to inazuma

Its easier than childe and the ancient gods in lore.

@@aaronbrosking6429 Childe is the easiest boss though

the story quest raiden has less hp and ei has her burst active the whole time i think

Not to mention storywise, it took 500 yrs for ei and shoguns battle to end

@@k333r no burst active its just permanent electro infusion for the 2nd fight

Mihoyo really tried to make raiden look so powerfull here....BTW i've made a genshin 2.5 cutscene with colosal/armored titan theme ..mind if u have a look on it?😅

@@gemzzyt4118 Because they are in fact strong, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay stronger than the traveler right now.

@@lucasconti9562 Truth. We (the traveler) got smacked by a water gun from a giant fish. Meanwhile Ei is battling a copy of herself for centuries.

@@wtpiv6041 and a copy of herself that doesn't tire while she herself does, and she's still keeping up even after the shogun used that form.

@@wtpiv6041 And Ei has only gotten even stronger since then.

No much better than all the quests* don’t be shy

@@inessladia5747 better than all quests. Raiden's voice is also really amazing.

I had the Japanese voice acting honestly both were so fucking amazing!!! Like omg this was so fun to do, I loved this quest and can’t wait to fight the new weekly boss more!

Her previous one set a really really low bar for sure. This one is quite good. Basically covered everything I wanted her last one to cover and the act that followed. Plus it ends on easily the best designed boss fight thus far to boot which promotes actually playing to its mechanics. This was a fun one.

is this ei story quest?

@@yoimiyu1226 Yes, ingame it is indeed listed as Raiden Shogun Act II.

But you do realize without the first quest, the second story quest wouldn't happen.

looks like we were too early to judge

Me, who loves Ei and completely enjoyed the first story quest: *My goals were beyond your understanding. But now...now everything is clear to you.*

@@youknowwhoiam1062 nope, just the regular haters

@@slampest literally

@@youknowwhoiam1062 lol who’s we?

actually both of their views are kinda right?(ig) scara's pov for ex is like how humanity have been living for a long time but gets boring or even worse. while makoto pov for ex is like how people doing things they love and some of them invented revolutionary things.

Scaramouche only figures some of it, so his view, although have some similiaries to Makoto's, ultimately means something completely different. Maybe someday he will understand the second clause (Dreams illuminate each moment within) and become truly free, like Ei and the Sacred Sakura.

I think Scara's views are basically Ei's before 2.5. He's basically saying that even if you could stretch things out over a long time, you're still susceptible to loss during that time. That's why Ei felt that she needed to take extreme measures, to protect the fragile nature of things in humanity. Whereas Makoto's and Ei's are that you need a little bit of both to truly shine.

There is actually a lot of philosophy debate over the idea of eternity all these stories evloved around, just sadly no one picked up on it. I personally interpret Scaramouch's line as his perspective is that eternity is a weakness, one that he can expoit (which is actually true.)

For me who is very interested in philosophy, the debate of philosophy of Eternity is what interest me a lot in the whole inazuma quest, especially the sacred sakura. First thing to notice is how Makoto says the sakura tree can escape the grasps of the heavenly principle. Although we don't really know what the heavenly principle is, I believe the heavenly principle is what we IRL refers to Entropy. Entropy is a concept mainly in physics that describe all things will fall into a state of disorder. In simpler words, all things will decay. This cocept is also present in Honkai-impact(anti-entropy), the other game of Hoyoverse. As Honkai can be interpret as the end of all things, it can also be interpret as the physical manifestation of entropy itself. Zhongli and Ei always refers that the erosion is caused by heavenly principle, if we replace heavenly principle to entropy, it makes sense. You might think entropy is bad, but it is what gives time meaning. According to Stephen Hawking, "Entropy is what distinguish the past from the future, giving a direction of time." without Entropy, time won't just stand still, time wouldn't even exist, meaning everything won't exist.(Maybe that's why there must be a sustainer of Heavenly principle(entropy)). Now, given entropy/ Heavenly principle can't be stopped, then how do we "escape it" without breaking it? The answer is Eternity. Both Ei's and Makoto's method of Eternity is a possible solution theoretically. Ei's previous ideology of Eternity is that the flow of time is stretched to infinity, in a sense, the flow of time is stopped. (This is similar to the philosophy of Eternity during the Age of Enlightenment IRL, which suggest "eternity is a permanent now"). Ei's idea was to slow down time indefinitely. Basically, it usually takes one second for one second to pass (ah yes, the floor is made out of floor) but, by stretching out each second to infinity, u are technically still moving forward in time, but u will never be able to move forward, meaning entropy is technically happening, but doesn't actually. (It is a paradox, but a paradox that just so happpens to be close to the laws of entropy, but also escaping it). However, as we proved to Ei, this is simply not possible, as humans are still progressing. She might be able to achieve Eternity herself, but not everyone else. Moreover, by stretching each moment to eternity, each moment also become meaningless, as time is not moving. That's why Scaramouch says, "Eternity stretches thing over a long time, but each moment within it becomes all the more fragile." Makoto's idea is a more abstract one. Her philosophy views eternity from the perspective of existence outside of time, many religious philosophy views eternity this way. If time is a dimension that can be measured, then to the perspective of higher diety, both past and future are part of the infinity duration, in other words eternity. That's why Makoto treasure every moments in time, as all of them are part of eternity. If a single moment is missing, there is no eternity. Now rmb how Entropy is the direction and movement of time itself? This whole concept revolves around the idea that time is an arrow: like the xyz axis. Meaning it can have an end and a beginning, and so everything will move toward the end point. However, we don't necessarily know if time truly flow that way, or at least we don't know how exactly time flows in Teyvat. If time flows like a circle, then there is no start point, nor an end point. Meaning Entropy is still happening, things can still decay, but that decay also bring about the beginning. This is the concept of the Ouroborus (ahem, the world serpent in Honkai), the serpent is always consuming itself. It will always produce waste, the tail will be consumed, but the serpent is also always growing in length, producing the things it needs. In this quest, with the birth of Sakred Sakura tree, the flow of time has officially become a circle(at least the tree did). The Sacred Sakura has provided the support past Ei needed to cope with her experience, until she reach the point she get the seed, then Ei plant that seed that the Sacred Sakura tree needed to grow. Time has become a circle, in other words, Eternity is achieved, and escaped the Heavenly principle (entropy). This is why the traveller said time in that realm is flowing foward and backward at the same time. If time is a circle, when u move forward, u are approaching the "ending point" but u are also approaching the "starting point", moving backward is the same. With this very complicated explanation, we truly understand how beautiful the moment Ei planted the seed truly is, and how 5head Makoto is. I am not a philosophy expert, only interested in the idea of eternity in philosophy, so I am not sure if everything I said is correct here, but given how Hoyoverse is approaching with this topic, I think I got the gist of it correctly.

For sure, but she's finally gotten closure for her sister's death and she actually got to say goodbye this time. Makoto will be remembered forever through the Sacred Sakura and Ei's rule.

I thought u said "didnt LIKE the last story quest" and was about to lose it again thinking about the upcoming essay...then I read it more clearly and went "oh." Hahaha, you speak the truth tho 👍

And yee, Ei is one of the most developed Genshin character Ive seen haha

Agree

@@FreePALESTINE37383 she can turn into a cute waifu or a fcking tyrant 🗿

Who was complaining? Oh yea I forgot people literally complain about EVERY thing no matter how big or small, good or bad. Sad world

Mihoyo is playing 4D chess while idiot complainers are stuck in 2D thinking.

Yeah just because the quest is short doesn't mean the story will end at that moment. More like watching episodic anime with cliffhangers. Funny when Inazuma just released, people who speedruned are disappointed for the story xD.

@@Nick-tz3ke its normal because genshin community is suck, their day feels wrong if they aren't complain about something in genshin

@@yakz9600 Unfortunately, that seems to be the truth with every fandom.

Although I enjoyed act 1 very much, I must say some of Mihoyo's short term storytelling need some work. Not saying they are bad, but they sometimes fail to grap audience attention. Act 1 relied soely on humor and the philosophical topics to catch people attention, but the humor is subjective, and nearly no one pick up on the philosophy behind Eternity (because it is a very difficult topic). There are only some actions at the very end, but its kinda late. Just like Yae quest says, u need something to grab people attention for a great story, even if sometimes it is cheap thrills. They could have added some elements of intrigue, foreshadowing to make people wish for more. This is a problem even for even Honkai as well. Still, their long term stories never failed to pay off and I would say it is justified.

I also find it hilarious that the first thing she says after making peace with Ei is basically "okay, but when are we doing our next 500-year duel? Because this was kind of fun."

Explain

Yeah somehow- it's very hard to explain but it feels nostalgic in the end

@@-ss-8606 how?

@@zamatesenpai8815 because, yes

@@lightborn3526 yes what

So Anne voiced- Ohh... I wonder if it's the same case with the JP voice... (Great, now I'm imagining Miyuki Sawashiro talking to herself...)

@@louievelayo4100 basically HoT persona talking to Mei

@@louievelayo4100 Dee Bradley Baker: "first time?"

And then Theres venti

@@sidhart8667 Venti has a lot of stuff that he hides from us. He's cut down mountains, survived the Archon War and was responsible for making the Archipelago. Then there's the fact that he's probably related to Istaroth, who helped Makoto in planting the Sacred Sakura.

@@sidhart8667 “Ehe” 🤣😂 lol I die every time he does that chuckle

And she also voiced other NPCs

To note, properly playing to her mechanics, such as breaking the nodes when she does large AOE attacks actually leave her with proper openings. Additionally I've seen it is possible to break her guard stances sometimes for another opening or alternatively back away for her to let down the guard or she might counterattack.

@@gameboy8010 Well I never said you can't break her guard. Also I already mentioned there are brief moments to deal damage. But not long to the point of killing her in one round (as we know some bosses are like this)

@@oscarfunez3806 I'm just adding on to your points. Is all. Very much agree this is a fun boss and maybe the best designed mechanically in this game thus far. Actually promoting risk reward factors or heavily pushing you toward playing to its mechanics.

@@gameboy8010 The story at the end......WHO RUSHED THEM???. It build up good then poof....it was like what???

The boss have fun mechanic, but man she sure die really fast compare to other boss like azhdaha and signora

gonna wait till sumeru then... BTW i've made a genshin 2.5 cutscene with colosal/armored titan theme ..mind if u have a look on it?😅

@@gemzzyt4118 considering the Dendro Archon is just 500 years old I doubt we'll get answers from them. Most likely Fontane or Natlan will give answers.

@@Blue-Code ahh i see

@@Blue-Code it depend díd the previous dendro archon left any information for the next dendro archon

Actually, Zhongli does wanna talk about it, but cannot. He’s contract bound to it.

EXACTLY! Even at Yae Miko story quest, we can see many scenes centered at Paimon. Feels like we gonna get a reveal or something to do with Paimon in near patches. Maybe around Sumeru release.

@@simia2324 Paimon is probably not revealing herself as the time archon until after khanreia

I honestly doubt Paimon is Istaroth

@@raphezar2049 Whatever Paimon is, she is clearly somebody or something important. Ive seen two theories about her that I really like; either she is like Guoba, a god that lost most of her powers or like the Sakura tree, she isnt a god yet but will become one and therefore always was one. A "The flow of time itself is convoluted." type situation.

And Enjou, he straight up said Paimon have the probability to betray us

If there was a live wallpaper of this scene, then 100% I’m getting it 🥲

@@kevinvora1708 I would like one as well

Cherry or sakura tree cause thats a real thing

By the way who's makoto?

@@youwillmeetgod9686 you don't Know ?

Yo on the first appearance i thought it was an archon quest haha... BTW i've made a genshin 2.5 cutscene with colosal/armored titan theme ..mind if u have a look on it?😅

They Practically spelled put Istaroth

Yeah, also “a seed that is finally free from heavenly principles”???? Like whaaaaaaaaaaaaat

@@rendrarifaldi3469 Exactly!! Sounds like the Heavenly Principals are preventing everything from growing and "escaping the darkness".

I already got her at C1 as a F2P and I share a birthday with her. Also if I dont get Yae I'll have guaranteed C2 Ei.

@@v.emiltheii-nd.8094 so yae or c2?

Baal is Makoto, Ei is Beelzebul people always mistake them

Its not a "booba sword". It comes from her HEART. Because it is her sisters sword. Stop sexualising her.

Not really

Well in her Ult phase. She's immune so her shield won't break at all. I would suggest Pyro and cryo. But you'll need to be fast in deploying the shield with no electro in the team. Otherwise you'll die easily and possibly miss calculate which character to sacrifice and might screw you over. Just saying. The fight is very fast paced.

No. However, her shield is hard as an Electro Abyss Lector's and is softer to Cryo like that of an Fatui Electro Warhammer. Takes time to break.

How did you see the screen while your eyes water

Lol

I cried a bit 😅

@@jonathan.k7492 I don’t even know because it was 12:30am when I was playing it

Yeah traveler literally done nothing lol Like "omg we must go and help Ei fast!" comes at the end of 500 year old fight and does literally nothing, except looking lol Tho what could the travel do, both are gods and traveler has no "ambition" boost from 99 vision bearers, just an insect against Shogun

@@erikasl.7050 we did help tho wym

@@Emiichoco how did we help?

@@erikasl.7050 we were supposed to be there , we're the reason she was even able to win the battle did you not play the quest ?

@@Emiichoco But we literally did nothing, did u not play the quest?

Yes

The best story quest in my oppinion same level with zhongli 2nd story quest, childe, and itto

@@yakz9600 imo, the entire first half of the zhongli 2nd quest was tedious and boring. 1st one with salt god was way better. But yeah agree with others.

my favourites quest still on the osial quest .. i mean we are fighting against a god that beat the size of a mountain lol ... BTW i've made a genshin 2.5 cutscene with colosal/armored titan theme ..mind if u have a look on it?😅

Yess

i think so .. their sound look familiar .... BTW i've made a genshin 2.5 cutscene with colosal/armored titan theme ..mind if u have a look on it?😅

and i still can't believe she cannot cook even tho she has that long sword haha. ... BTW i've made a genshin 2.5 cutscene with colosal/armored titan theme ..mind if u have a look on it?😅

@@gemzzyt4118 sure

@@gemzzyt4118 but at least she can brew tea 🤣

@@duwan4241 😂

That is why Ei admitted that herself cannot compare to Makoto's ruling. She knew that her sister was the superior ruler.

Ofc makoto is better at rules inazuma and ei is better at fighting because ei is never have experience to rules inazuma

@@yakz9600 yes, though I don’t particularly care about their ruling. Ei thought Eternity was complete stasis. That the flow of time goes from one end to another without change. Makoto understood it as a malleable line, that can be bent and broken. And to be in cahoots with the God of Time herself? Now I’m more interested in learning about her, sadly it looks like we’ll never get to see that.

i got so hyped when they referenced Istaroth. Istg i'm waiting for Venti's 2nd story quest where we learn more about his connection to her.

@@Ash-qd2ke This explains the Sudden Appearance of the Sakura tree. Her Sister literally went back in time to plant it.

The Inazuma soundtrack is EVERYTHING🙌🙌🙌the leitmotif that plays there is the one that gets associated most often with the raiden shogun (it even plays in her teaser & demo) so hearing it while her older sister is speaking just adds another layer. I love all the recurring melodies that they’ve incorporated into this soundtrack (because you can hear that pattern in a lot of places)

Her eng va is Anne Yatco

NOURR😭

mY tIMe HAs cOmE

Salute

Boss in inazuma : GIGACHAD ......... BTW i've made a genshin 2.5 cutscene with colosal/armored titan theme ..mind if u have a look on it?😅

@@gemzzyt4118 bruh

@@gemzzyt4118 you aint gaining subs by simply promoting your videos on the comments. This isnt a worth and its a waste of time for the reader and for you too.

@@CoffeeCup22001 Ayo , calm down . He is just trying to improve his channel with everything he could do. I would do the same thing if i have to achieve something in my life . as long as it doesn't hurt others feeling or anything.*CMIIW

It's a pre-built trial Ei, even if you own her, your stats does not transfer dw :)

@@ymrue oh thank god i really thought i would have to solo it

@@ymrue op they did for me I had her on my team but only because mine was stronger then the trial one raiden shogun got obliterated real quick

@@ok.5985 i also have her but my stats did not tranfer to the trial one..?

@@ymrue oof they actually made my build for Ei to fight the Raiden. Hell, let me tell you because I was struggling a lot. So I left the battle and put Ei out of my team lol

Anne Yatco *understood the assignment* 💅

it was easy for me...

@@ivandphantom9028 yea ei cant die

Yes, mee too. I even think "It's okay to die so I can restack my food and come back to the quest", but she never die. My food gone to waste 😂

Well for god's 500 years is nothing

Ei and raiden are the same person right? I don’t get this

That's what was playing in my mind, when I fought her.

Exactly.

Yep I didn't know and wasted alot of food until the last few times where I reached 1 hp and realized😭

I didn't even heal her, But I came in clutch so

Or the pace time in the domain really messed up.

Yeah time is weird there

@@-ss-8606 I did some research and it's a lot more complex situation than we think. Theorycrafters will probably explain it in the future.

@@rajadarshidash1016 yeah I think it isn't that simple and more over how Makoto predict there will be a external force who will help Ei to understand the Makoto's insight of Eternal.

@@bagongerwae2159Makoto took help from an Elder God named Istaroth/Kairos/Thousand winds of time aka the God of moments to pull all this off but the question is when because Kairos is long dead.