How Did Kuki Shinobu Suddenly Get So Strong? | Genshin Impact 

Her hyperbloom team can easily handle one side of abyss. She can help any beginner clear the abyss with ease.

TL;DR The Kuki Pattern, where a character is released way ahead of the content that they excel in

Her AOE electro application and alongside healing made her fit into many hyper bloom team

One main difference between zhongli and kokomi initially is the interruption mechanic. Shielding will generally be superior to healing as your character will not be affecting by flinching or other forms of interruption(bar freezing). Additionally zhongli's shield follows the player and does not restrict you to playing in one spot, making the overall player experience a lot more comfortable.

Dendro saved her from the bottom of the pack hot damn. Shes actually a fun electro role condenser now. Happy for her and glad I leveled her.

As someone who doesn't know how to play the game properly, Shinobu sure was nice to have when facing cryo enemies because unlike Barbara her heals don't get you wet.

When she first released in 2.7 I was happy because she was a great Tenacity user and filled a role (electro healer) that no one had. Despite being apparent that her EM scaling was made with dendro in mind, everyone called me copium. I want to see their faces now

It's more than clear that Shinobu was purpose-made for Hyperbloom and simply released prior to the Dendro element. Hoyoverse continues to do this with characters like Childe and Kokomi before their dedicated artifact sets were added. Similarly, Thoma seems clearly made for Burgeon and for pairing with his boss Ayato. They release characters in advance of equipment or mechanics that will complete their niche. I'm expecting new artifacts to drop in the next update or two as well.

She is a beast. Im lucky enough to have her at c6 and I adore her. This was BEFORE Dendro... Now with Dendro. Sweet drunken Barbatos she is a QUEEN

Soup: Oz is the chicken, hydro is the broth, pyro the heat to cook it, and anemo is the stirring. But like many teams not based on a single hyper carry unit, other close enough characters can take up the role of the traditional members, so despite it still being called "soup", you can play someone like Yae or Kuki over Fischl even though that removes the "chicken".

Em shinobu seems actually pretty good with hyperbloom... i would guess it's part of the reason it's not actually a WNOP her constant electro applications are very consistent plus the aoe and the fact that it doesn't require her presence on the fiel makes her a good support in hyperbloom teams but her ult also has great aggravate potential since it's not a one hit reaction

I think Kuki and Yae were both made with dendro in mind. The EM scaling wasn't great before 3.0 and now it's really good to have

She when from zero to hero. All thanks to Dendro.

I built Kuki before 3.0 for her electro healing on my Ayato team, and i always liked her weird kit, so glad she's even more useful now. Her healing is honestly the best and most convenient of any healer. On her skill, off field, 100% uptime, it's insane. Also i love all the potential hints to her best role in her design. I mean her hair is green, her skill has something to do with plants, Naku Weeds. Might be a reach but it's a fun coincidence.

Currently have her with Iron Sting. 4x Gilded Dreams (EM/EM/EM). Talent (1/9/6). She's so easy to build. Doesn't need ER or a burst. Team comp: Kazuha/Venti/Sucrose, Kokomi, Kuki and Dendro MC.

She literally has the same story with your typical shounen protagonist. Weak, and seemingly useless at first, until that one faithful day.

Yay!!! You were my favorite league RU-vidr. It makes me so happy to discover your genshin content

AS SOON AS I ACCIDENTALLY GOT TIGHNARI I IMMEDIATLY KNEW SHINOBU WOULD BE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR MY TEAM AND I AM SO GLAD I BUILT HER!!! I got Nilou's weapon and gave it to her and now she is absolutely insane, I love her so much

You should do your next video on Nilou. The perception of her from pre-release to release has improved since people have seen her dmg. She just lacks in flexibility, which will grow with additional character releases.

One thing about kuki that people don't mention as much is that her niche needed to be filled as an electro healer she is generally is just more versatile then other characters she is ofcorse not the best option in every team but a healer is always valuable 💜👍👍

Always nice to watch your video!As someone who watch you from Why No One Play Aurelion Sole,I've find myself interested in any of your video.Btw since you want to talk about kokomi,can you also talk about how broken she is with Nilou+Two dendro character as well?The amount of explosion bloom create is underwelming and kokomi provide enough healing and hydro application that make this team able to be broken.

I love shinobu even before dendro was introduced. Her low cooldown and quick healing ticks made exploration so much more enjoyable, therefore making the game much more enjoyable as well! As a casual player, I would say she is my favourite character 😊

I’ve been waiting for this kind of video. I’ve gone from being real iffy on her usability, getting ready to throw her at the bottom of my use stats w/ Thoma and Xinyan, to thinking she may be one of the best 4 stars to pop up since the original 1.0 4 stars appeared. Currently testing her w/ an EM build in a team with Albedo, Xinqiu and Collei/Dendro Traveler. And it’s fun as hell. Like w/ Kokomi, as the game builds up, it builds itself around her and makes her more diverse and usable w/ each patch. While Melt and Vape reactions are still king. Dendro reactions have made the game more diverse and fun. I only wish this had done the same to Yae Miko who is still OK, but not as good as C6 Fischl. And I thought Dendro would somehow really help Yae.

I was kinda of aware of a possible foreshadowing mihoyo was doing with Thoma, he was usually seen using that one Inazuma spear (and I guess dragon's bane?) Yes, the EM one and now we see him doing as good as Kuki but on burgeon teams

Bro ur content quality is really good 👍

ur voice is so relaxing i already use kuki and think she's good i just like the commentary lol

Yesterday I started a second genshin account. Got her on the Venti banner. Turns out she’s actually really fun. I love her play style and I think I’m going to use her for Spiral Abyss on my main after I get a good Dendro character.

Ever since Cyno came out, Ive used Dendro traveler or xinjiou, collei, kuki and cyno in that order for Him quickswapping to him in that order. He pretty much loves kuki. That team is IMO his best team because they all give their damage for him to dish out on top of his damage and makes him ever present on the field. I enjoy kuki a lot. Exept when fighting around water which makes the funniest of the situations.

Shes a great healer for cyno, have her with yelan and eventually nahida and the hyperblooms are gonna be insane

MY main Kuki team up until dendro release was with Ayato, Kazuha and Fischl. I am just glad that i now have more team comps to use Kuki in. I am also glad to have more team comps for Thoma too (someone i also used a lot previously).

I totally agree~😌 The focus on DMG definitely wool over the eyes. Shinobu’s electro application to me allowed for similar application as Barbara’s so I saw its potential!🤩

I love Shinobu! Her Support Build with Favonius Sword (Crit = Energy), Elemental Skill (Healing and Favonius Procc), and both her Skill and Burst provide Elemental Reactions is great as I heard of it!

I was always pretty excited for Shinobu before she came out. Mostly because where others say a Barbara ring with damage I saw a Beidou burst without ER reqirements. I finally got enough EM artifacts to get her a full set and she's so good in overvape! I just got to tinker with Kokomi's ER requirements and I think I can start her in hyperbloom.

Basically, they released early and the playerbase judged her before Dendro. I'm lucky enough to get her in the Cyno banner (she dodged me in Itto banner... I stop rolling after getting Itto) and I can finally completed my dream Heizou team with her.

This didn't even mention Key of Khaj Nisut, it's a 5 star weapon and naturally a bit pricy as a result, but it blends perfectly with her kit and makes her even stronger, raising both her healing and DPS potential, between the dendro reactions and the introduction of this weapon, they're really bringing her into a spot where she comfortably sits I'd say around the same spot as Fischl, and that's no small feat.

Thank you for making this. When Kuki dropped I was ecstatic with her out of the box, was running her in a wacky taser comp with kazuha, and she felt great but I had no explanation why. It was through playing her that I learned that a Character might not be "good" but being "good enough" still clears content. Then Dendro hit the fan... and she is thriving.

10:07 as an EM shogun lover, you called me out. Love it

12:25 what kind of optimal settings? that'd be interesting! also, good content as always!

controlled electro application, the first healer of her kind (electro), and benefits from EM so she functions both for healing + reaction. skill centered, so burst and ER% doesn't matter as well. honestly, pre dendro she ticked a lot of boxes, just so happens we didnt know we needed them until now, and dendro is also just super refreshing for the related elements.

Just restarted on PC after dropping out around 1.1 on PS4. Pulled Kuki and Heizou early on and it’s been a lot of fun swirling non-stop

Is this background music from fire emblem three houses?!?!😍 Edit: so glad she has gotten stronger- I got her as soon as she came out and was disappointed that everyone said there was no point using her!

Holy shit watching your Itto clips just pounding those bosses is so satisfying! Forget Wanderer, I'm pulling for Itto!

Could you do a why everyone plays about Fischl. It took me more time than it should've to realize how useful she is. She has the double edged sword factor you talked about with Ganyu and now with dendro released, i think this is a good time to talk about her.

Before 3.0 she a good unit After 3.0 She became one of the strongest 4 stars characters

I remember the old leaks back then, when some said Kuki will be released in 2.5 as Yae's dedicated support.

What happened to Kuki? Simple, she became Kuki monster

Odd thing this season was, I got so many characters (including Shinobu) from weapon banner and vice versa. And then C1 from character banner finally at the last minute. Never intended to get her but nice to see she offers some different play style.

Honestly I sorta wish Barbara's skill functioned like Kuki's with the pulsating effect, would really make her far more useful then she is nowadays.

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I saw the value of Kuki way early on. A healer whose healing follows you is already pretty dang good. That and for her to do a large aoe of electro application and she has EM passive further stacks to the electro reaction build. Hyperblom plays right into it beautifully.

Before dendro introduction she was more into demerit healer and electro aplication for other dps unit that is okayish since there is better electro support for the usual element reaction. Since dendro appear she pretty much usable for hypebloom team and a little taser depend on how consisten hydro application is and her EM scaling for healing is pretty much fit in with Dendro + she is not as rare and very expensive compared to Yae Miko that also have scaling with em for more burst dmg.

also if you happen to get Nilou's weapon it is such a huge upgrade for Kuki, more hp which converts to em and a huge em buff to teammates as well.

I really like her heals. Basically it is 100% up time, no need to charge burst at all. Really like it when I'm exploring overworld and she's only lvl 40 lol.

I was able to complete flooor 12 first half with kuki, ayato, kazuha, dendro mc in 26 seconds

I am so glad Shinobu has become more useful with dendro. Shinobu is in my hyperbloom team with about 950 EM and does about 30k per hyperbloom, I love it!. Now I just need Nahida for better dendro application and I'll be set

It was the green hair for me 💚💚

Shinobu (C4) is on my main team comp with C1 Raiden, C2 Kazuha and C5 Dendro MC. She is on a two piece Wanderers and Gilded Dreams elemental mastery set.

I'm very surprised to know that vars also play blue archive I agree with you that genshin needs to have different forms of challenge instead of just dps checks. Blue Archive has this upcoming gamemode "Joint exercise" where your characters only deal 1 damage. I find that kinda cool cause you have an incentive to use your unbuilt characters if they have multi-hits. I hope they make those kinds of creative gamemode and make them permanent(Cause Blue Archive will do it).

I pulled Shinobu as one of my first characters when I started Genshin about two months back (tail end of Ganyu banner). Her healing alone was indispensable, being far quicker than Barbara's and having constant enough uptime to let me power through my exploration of Dragonspine without needing to care about the Sheer Cold, meaning I could just Skyrim up the sides. And now, having pulled Childe, she's a cornerstone of my Hyperbloom team (with Nahida and Yae). Only problem is that since I just finished the Liyue Archon Mission, all but Childe are stuck at level 40 for the time being.

I have her on my “Green Haired Waifu Team”. (Kuki+Surcose+Collei+Extra character) Really fun to play with. Would recommend.

Something I've been doing is trying out team comps with off-meta characters like Lisa, who now does rather well when paired with dendro Traveler.

Also jean and sayu... diona, BENNETT, Noelle, too, are healers (if someone forgot, or didnt knew). First i got kokomi and i love her (basicly healer mona (E skill)) and then next banner i got kuki and omg! Im in love with kuki (c2) I allways use 2 healers in team (first it was jean dps and bennett, now kuki and kokomi)

I've reached friendship 10 with a lot of characters and I'll keep doing it, right now Kuki is in my team and I finally tried hyperbloom. No much to say, I really like her design, voice and as a character, I'll level her up, hyperbloom is pretty cool, she's pretty cool.

I am so happy I leveled her before and than starting main Yae Miko before dendro so when dendro came I had 2 amazing electro units. (Definitely didn’t built both of them when they released because they were hot)

I don't really pay attention to Shinobu at first but the release of dendro made me build her cause I thought at the time that hyperbloom looks pretty fun. Now she's one of my most used character in abyss. Safe to say that I have no regrets.

5:50 “if you were gonna trade any of the holy trinity away, whoever’s replacing them better have a phd in a$s whooping” - Vars, 2022

Part of the reason why Shinobu's a cookie & not copium is also how easy it is to build her. Yes, the standard EM/E.damage/crit is the go to for Aggravate, but for Hyperbloom you legit only need HP & EM. No other stat matters. Even ER is optional since the part of her kit you want active isn't her burst. The comfort of building her is so great that it opens up her flexibility by a wide margin. She can be a Tenacity holder, she can hold your Freedom Sworn if you got it (but don't get me wrong she's perfectly serviceable with Fav or Iron Sting), she can be a hybrid DPS with your crit in subs, you can make her a battery, you can use her in Taser if you don't use Xingqiu . . . Add the fact she's a 4 star and has equipment coming out that's making her even more insane (seriously the Key's her best weapon by a lot), and you have the replacement for Fischl after Fischl became Electro Bennett.

Just wanted to thank you for posting videos in 4k, not a lot of genshin creators do this

I got 2 freedom swords for her, and kazuha, but lowkey wanna get the nilou one for her. EM Kuki so op thoooo. I tried clam and she does solid 10k unlimitedly at c2, and even max physical dmg possible in co op if ppl are around. Kuki

I will say, one huge buff to Kokomi was the addition of Ocean-Hued Clam, which came after her release. It gave her a higher damage output via 4pc and also added to her healing bonus for scaling.

As f2p who came to Inazuma with no other shielder than Noelle and no other healer than Barbara she carried me through every thing and will forever have a special place in my heart

I play hyperbloom Kuki with Ayato, Kazuha and DMC. I build Kuki full EM (Gilded Dream and Iron Sting) and her hyperbloom hits like a truck (30k/seed) and she heals a lot 2.5k/tick. She more than keeps my team alive

Funny thing is that I only level her up after sumeru for exploration reason. I love the quicken bouncy mushroom (before shinobu, I use Beidou) but I still need a healer. So I spend two weeks grinding mats for her lmao. Only after having her I truly enjoy hyperbloom.

I'm surprised something like elemental "advantage" or something akin to Fire Emblem's Triangle system hasn't been implemented yet. Even if could come at odds at the free form style of elemental reactions, I'm sure miHoyoverse could take it as the next step after finishing Dendro.

I think I'll try her with Cyno. Must do wonders with the resonance alongside hyperblooms

Love her design and being a healer is why I wanted her. For me she fit a spot in my eula team that I wanted to fill. I prefer Rosaria>Diona as my 2nd cryo character for her crit buff and def shred meaning I needed to slot another healer. Kuki fit the role of electro for superconduct and healer which was needed because I wouldn't have diona shield. I was super disappointed with the Em scaling prior to dendro as I thought it was worst the Sayu's scaling in every way but with dendro I see how broken she could have been had she had larger scaling

I got kuki yesterday and right now she is carrying me through the spiral abyss with the dendro traveler.

See you list off a bunch of characters that I was sure were going to be strong, but people doubted before release. People talked a ton of trash about Shenhe and Yelan, and they ended up being incredible. I personally pulled them because I saw their art and thought, "hot damn I am rolling for you" and them being strong is just a bonus. I don't roll for characters for any other reason other than, "Oh that looks cool" and that has resulted in me being very happy with my account, while also having an extremely strong account at the same time. Look at Ganyu, I have a thing for female characters with white hair and as soon as I saw her in the MSQ I thought, "when do I get to pull her? Mihoyo please let me pull for her!" and I snapped her up despite the rumblings of, "Cryo Amber" and people being skeptical as to what she was going to bring to the table compared to say Diluc...well we all know what Ganyu brought to the table now. The biggest hinderance to clearing abyss early is usually just a lack of weapons to equip your characters and not enough good artifacts to make sure that your characters function the way they should. Once you start fleshing out your store of artifacts, you start gathering decent 4 star weapons and maybe a 5 star here and there you'll find yourself increasing in the number of stars you get on floor 12. A lot of the limiting factors that made it hard to get full stars in 1.0 are gone now...be patient, save for the characters you love, and don't chase the "meta" if it means picking up a character you don't really like.

It's pretty simple, people usually lacking a healer slot that can apply a lot of element in term of either hydro or electro in hyperbloom/aggravate team. And the option we have is very litmited, barbara is not good enough while kokomi is too expensive so take a healer slot in electro is more affordable. Everyone can work in dendro reaction team but not everyone can be a healer AND cheap AND fitting the element. If we ever have a dendro healer that's gonna be a huge sought after unit.

Id say if 2 characters could be fast enough to activate bloom, i think she'll work well with amber dealing hyperbloom and burgeon simultaneously. Im still unsure about my idea, but idk it might probably not be as smart as I thought, or it might be is. Cause the damage apperently deal 1000% above overall on one ult. Would like some opinions. Probably a combination of xingqui/barbare and collie, or nilou and kusanali

I'm kinda curious what happened to Yae? I remember she also had an EM scaling somewhere but I don't have her and I never see her so idk

I love using my C6 Shinobu as a meatsield vs the Magu Kenki. (Zhongli was in the other team)

She's awesome. I like cyno but I've been seeing more consistent results with shinobu, especially with hyperbloom teams

Meanwhile I am here using her with kaeya, bennet and jean ever since she came out😂 I dont really follow meta nor really care to have highest damage. I never understood why no one liked her until now. I have ER sand on her so she is dealing continous electro damage and it was soo satisfying to have it constantly spin and deal damage that I just left her in my team. Love her to bits❤️ (not recommending anything here just my preference, I know I have it harder because of it, but constantly worrying about numbers is boring me)

As someone who maxed Kuki on day 1, I can say I am very happy that she is getting the attention she deserves. Great vid Vars.

I'm a happy Shinobu main, got her C4 on Cyno. Mained her since 2.7

lol im sure they already had Hyperbloom comp in mind when they made her talent scales damage along EM.

I'm so excited for this one. Shinobu is kind of in a good spot atm

I play only half year and pull for Kuki on Itto banner because i like her look and need healer on start of the game. And how surprised i was after kuki and her hyperbloom give me my first 36 star run on abbys )

very excited that I just got Kuki on Cyno's banner

My Kuki stacked with EM carried my f2p team from ~AR35 to AR 50 thanks to hyperbloom (combining her ring with dendro traveller and xingqui's respective bursts produces nutty results) and she was underleveled the whole time until I finally got to Inazuma around AR45 and could finally farm her ascension materials.

Im glad kuki is seeing more utility, I absolutely love her design and character

I love using kuki as a personal healer for my cyno. I had survivability issues with my team of cyno, layla, dendro traveler and fischl as laylas shield duration does not match cynos burst duration. Shinobu basically replaced layla and fishl in my team and allowed me to put in yelan fo hydro application.

Kuki ya era excelente previo al Dendro, no es muy difícil de descifrarla. Equipada con Tenacidad de Geoarmada, buscando entre vida y maestría, tener buena curación, aplicación de electro, reacciones, y buffear con Geoarmada. Podía usarse en partys con Eula o Kaeya para Superconductor, buffearlos, y curarlos. Cómo así también en partys de reacciones usando a un personaje a poca distancia o melee. El dendro obviamente la potenció aún más, pero ya era un personaje sumamente útil y versátil pre 3.0.

I love Shinobu, so I'm glad that she has actually become a strong character. Now I just need a dendro character I want to use.

Soup = electro for spices, hydro for the broth, pyro for heat and anemo was there just for VV. My soup comp removes pyro and adds dendro (vegetables) to enable hyperbloom

I built her with elemtal mastery and then an hp head piece and she heals nicely with a 100% uptime and her hyperbloom does a good 19k. It's a lot and it's good. She's very fun to play with

thoma came way before dendro was even conceptualised so he got the short end of the stick and had atk for his ascension stat for some whatever reason shinobu at least has hp which helps her healing and ult dmg, and has the a4 passive which incentivises em builds so right now thoma is very similar to diona, they have their niches and can do a decent job at it but were clearly not designed with it fully in mind (dionas ascension stat being cryo dmg and her c4 being useless)

Her kit split scaled between hp and em then Dendroculus reactions scaling heavily of em , then she applies electro and doesn’t loose noticeable healing with em rather than hp

Dori is actually pretty good as a full EM hyoerbloomer! Kokomi DMC Dori (with Lisa bc i love lisa) is pretty good! Yes it takes a bit more skill expression to position kokomi in regards of Dori's ult but if you use the DMC hydro ult Dori triggers hyperbloom faster than Kokomi can make blooms. Same with boss battles, use DMC Dori ult for rapid dendro and slap with Kokomi ult to get all the blooms