He is a MUST PULL for you IF… (C0 Zhongli Guide & Review) 

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Oof, reminds me of those people that say "jUsT dOdGe" when they don't realize that not everyone has the same reflexes they do for whatever reason (are as abled as they are) and to insult people that use shields because "they are cope". Anyway, I'm glad you like your Zhongli and he's helped you have fun with the game for you, that's what it's about~

@@Diamond1234well I don’t have zhongli so I dodge or just use healers,I mean like…why not?😂

@@Diamond1234💀

Yep brother I’m 44 and playing on my phone. I’m not a great dodger so Zhongli helps a lot and I just think he’s cool and burst is coolest in game

Meh

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i smell a meta slave@@kaustubhdarade

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Same bro

As I heard c0 Neuvillette will need interuption res and 3 different elements... so they may be good toogether

Yes, for example Fishl: electocharge kazuha: whirlwind zhongli : crystallization A1 neuvillete :110/130/160 If you put beidou in place of zhongli you will lose a charge from his A1. different is layla or kirara that can do a reaction related to hydro, but it all depends on the composition. There are few teams where neuvilette c0 will get 3 charges from her A1. Solution? play rainbow team or take out your C1@@user-iw2vf7pb7s

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@@user-iw2vf7pb7s Apparently he has a passive that buffs his attack when he performs a reaction with Hydro and another element, and yes, this includes Hydro Crystallize.

I guess the latter is the better reason

you miss the part about osmanthus wine

Can relate

I am bad at dodging. Before I got Zhongli, I was flying left and right, it was awful.

I'm great at dodging, but it's still a DPS loss for many characters. Also, at least for my teams, it is a much faster rotation just to use Zhongli's shield and pick up a crystal for (-20%/+35%) compared to swirling each element, which takes at least 4-8 more seconds, for (-40%/+37.5). Add to that the time not spent dodging during the DPS window and setup rotation and the actual DPS ends up higher. Although a team like Yelan/Bennett/Jean/Yoimiya is more fun to play because of the speed and dodging, Zhongli/Yelan/Bennett/Yoimiya always finishes faster (meaning higher actual DPS). Genshin really does not reward mechanical skill, compared to a game like Honkai where parrying and dodging were mandatory for maximum DPS. I think that's on purpose though so there's not a huge gap between mechanically skilled players and others. For the most part, most teams are "shielded" by the invincibility frames of their burst since that's 95% of their on-field time anyway.

I mean you still can 36* abyss without zhongli coz there is a hyperbloom team and many

i dnt use my bow/arrow characters because i take forever to aim... and miss anyway >.

Only layla, that has 100% uptime, but its a 4* so the shield is weaker

Congrats! 🖤🖤🖤

eh, 18% atk is good but it doesn't make up for 20% shred (16.6% more damage from Ganyu + Xiangling). Lyney already has pyro shred from Xiangling so i'd say he is less dependent on having big zhongli.

Pretty bad clear considering this abyss is so easy

@@qwertysysysyysysysyzz Really dumb comment .

@@Demonblade777 not as dumb as your gameplay

@@Demonblade777 gotta hav that one in every comment right? 🤦🏽‍♂️

@@qwertysysysyysysysyzzit’s not too late to delete your comment you know🤦🏾‍♂️

you also can go with Baizhu that provides heal, a paper shield that basically is made to prevent interruption, dendro resonance, can hold deepwood and apply some more dendro :)

Well no, they don't benefit from shielding really. They only benefit from res shred. Yae just has to do three skills while Tighnari has an instant charged shot. Diona is also a good shielder here because she can hold deep wood and buff Tighnari's EM, or Yae's when she uses her elemental burst.

​@@kawaiimika7974zhongli can also hold deepwood, and yes they do benefit from his shield. Tighnari really doesn't want to be interrupted while doing his charged attacks and Yae too while casting her E. Also diona's em boost is only at c6 and her cryo application can mess with quicken sometimes

​@@Ricksolayeah baizhu is a really good option

@@Ricksolabaizhu buff even rivals nahidas and can be better if you have high em. He probabky the best defensive option in any dendro team

Better than if it doesn't do insane dmg so I can beat floor in seconds it's bad

Yeah, as a Dehya use this pisses me off so much XD Like on majority of teams that you run Zhongli in, you're going to be running Bennett. And Benentt heals so what does it matter if you take the damage or not XD You just need the Interruption resistance.

@@dream6562 I don't think that's as big of a problem today as it was in early days of Genshin when most online content came from whale content creators who had (and still have) 0 idea about game mechanics and propagated idea (coming from even more predatory & P2W gachas) that you need to spend and max out "top tier" characters or you won't do anything. Fortunately now Genshin CC scene got better and more people understand that you don't need to deal 1 million dmg to clear Abyss.

​@@radcat4317 ...Yes you do need to deal 1 milion damage. Sometimes 3 million in Venut's case.

​@kawaiimika7974 1: no, majority of teams where you use zhongli dont run bennet. 2: even in the teams that do run bennet what matters is the interruption resistance not the inmortality and its teams that are not gonna be running any xingqiu or beidou, like ganyu and lyney

Also I always find it funny that Hoyo created rift hounds to specifically counter Zhongli and hurt people that use him in the abyss. Savage move.

@@xsnipermattymacx I have mono geo cleared many of the rift hound floors on Abyss. It's a skill issue if they're a problem for anyone.

@@lihavalokki5705 that’s what I was alluding to. Anyone that relies on his shield heavy and can’t dodge gets crushed. I’ve found some time struggles with some of the Lector floors with mono geo but throwing Bennett in instead of albedo helps.

Well bennet is not saved from the nerf either with HP and EM characters, with dendro and enemies like the beasts of the abyss where taking Bennet is pure suicide. @@xsnipermattymacx

​@@gizdra1128 Why? Consecrated beasts don't counter Benentt

The Mohs scale apparently 😅

@@rainiplaysgames3545 indeed, it is as you have guessed

There’s no real need for a shield in the overworld though, even most overworld bosses die in seconds. As for Hu Tao and hypercarries, I would argue that they’re past Zhongli at this point, Hu Tao’s best team replaces him for Xiangling, Wanderer and Xiao can easily swap him for Thoma, or C4 Yanfei with TTDS for the latter.

@@vladdyru yea that’s why I said “to a lesser extent” lmao. As a wanderer main, I’m perfectly aware that Zhongli is probably his lowest damage option in terms of shielders. That being said, he is my personal top pick for overworld since he has good uptime and his shield isn’t tied to a burst. Plus he can mine rocks. If damage doesn’t matter in overworld why not make it a lil bit easier for yourself? This is just my opinion tho, and I use Zhongli just because I happen to pull him way back when I was under the misconception that he was “s tier”. If I were to recommend him to a newer player I probably wouldn’t if they care about abyss.

he's a great flex slot for plenty of team & I still think he beats every other shielder in overworld. Hyperbloom, Al haitham, etc. I've even used him for Raiden hyper when the kenkis are annoying.

Literally same. Also during the trial from his storyquest i fell in love with his playstyle

Making the game easy is not a downside, our mission as warriors is to take down the enemy. With Zhongli on our side, victory is even more assured.

Zhongli needs c2 to shield other players

Well, for co-op, you want that C2. Otherwise, you have a character that brings poor DPS, poor particle generation, has an element that doesn't set up useful reactions, is usually the only geo, so no geo resonance, and, well, doesn't do much at all other than protect his own bacon. He's one of the characters I like to see the least when I'm playing co-op, because his being there is about as close as you can get to not having a 4th player at all. Of course, with C2, then he shields the team, so then he's okay. You still feel the negative impact on clear time over other defensive options, but will have a better time than without one. Note though that this is for co-op. In solo play, he's quite useful, because you have three other characters that can be on the field doing things, and his shield is there for them. Co-op, without C2, just makes all his weaknesses even bigger, and undercuts his strengths as well.

Don't bring Zhongli in co op if he's not C2. I don't want to see him

she is OKish at C6, pretty bad with low constellations. Also, very few comps she can be useful so far, besides Nilou bloom teams. Let's hope new units will make her more relevant in the future.

Team mates shields from C1 Layla is like wet paper even with 40k HP.

Agree with the first comment. Good shield for you but paper for the rest of the team. But i also think that co-op is always better of with a healer rather than shielder.

is your hutao c0 or c1 ? is playing her at c0 good or bad ? Its already difficult to get a 5 star (as f2p/lowspender), and if have to get a constilation on top of that then 😑😑😑 Is ningguang good ? how she is in double geo ? i have her at c6 but not leveled her (got her while wishing in yelan banner few months ago when yelan n hutao banner was up ) Should i get zhongli even if i dont have hutao, ganyu, yoimiya, xiao, wand, itto, etc

@@BlankSama For me, yes, it is good to have him in your account. But the question is whether you can and want. My case is, when I looked at his banner on 3.0 I was comfortable with primogens, I didn't worry too much about how long it would take for a rerun because archons have a more consistent cycle than other characters (his last rerun was in 2.4) and I like Zhongli. So do you want to get him now for future characters, or do you want to build a roster that you enjoy to play and then get him later? My Hu Tao is C0 and I got her way after Zhongli in her rerun with Yelan (also C0). Using jump cancel is weird sometimes but is not a "you totally need this con, otherwise this character is unplayeble", as far as I know it's an increase in comfort. For what I have now, Zhongli is very good for her, but I could use other options like Layla and Diona, but I would need to change my rotation play. I prefer Zhongli because I find it comfortable and I'm sure I can use Hu Tao's skill until it runs out and not early. For Ningguang, for me it's an obvious case, Zhongli is the best for her: apart from protection, he gave defense shred for all elements and also there is Geo resonance, which is good for her. I haven't been playing with her that much and my artifacts are garbege, but if you're willing to invest on her, Zhongli is one of her best teammates. But again, what do you want and what you can do?

He wouldn’t even be that much of an upgrade, you get so much from the pyro resonance and TTDS, that his shred might even fall short of all those buffs. Besides, I would argue that his pillars that are all over the place are especially annoying on Ganyu.

Zhongli pillars are especially bad if you're running the Nahida Melt Ganyu version because the crystallizes can throw off the Tri-karma timing and make you drop burning when you don't want to. Definitely think c4 Yanfei or even Dehya is the better pick specifically for that one. But whether running Nahida there instead of a real Dendro team is worth it is another story. I've used it against flying bosses like Wenut, but would normally just say stick to the Xiangling version.

He’s good for Yoimiya if you have a well-invested Yun Jin. For Hu Tao, however, you’d be much better off with simply slapping Xiangling in Hu Tao’s usual double hydro team. Frankly, recent abysses are terrible for Yoimiya, so I would advise to consider skipping him, as it’s not worth trying to make the dying team work.

@@vladdyruyes exactly

@@vladdyru cosigned, as someone with zhongli and a well invested team (r5 rust w/ 200CV, jade cutter XQ, c6 yunjin). The difference between clearing and not clearing is more likely going to come from dropping geo entirely and doing something difficult to play for AOE and element checks. For example beidou XQ fischl/bennett. Its still okay so long as your other side is overinvested/really good lately.

Fischl provides a 3rd sub dps which increases the overall team damage by a mile because of overload and because fischl’s damage is already insane.

You are not a clown, but the entire circus

@@zaraki942 You okay bro? Inhaled too much copium maybe? You don't get 40% shred, all you're getting is 20% actual shred + 20% geo shred. Who on earth would want geo shred on any other team besides Itto? And what do you call a unit that's actually beneficial for a single character? A replaceable underwhelming unit, you're at least right on on that one.

@@vladdyru Dendro shred? Also "beneficial for a single character"? If you want to, you can use him on any team besides Nilou Bloom.

with layla, thoma, tankfei you also dont really need zhongli. Its that zhongli is cheap to build and you dont need to build and spend tons of exp and mora building those units. I still would prefer those other shielders if u have them built since they also give more utility

Yes tomato is good too

if you want a hydro on field dps unit, get Neuvillette, he's probably going to be better (unless you love Tartaglia).