I spent an entire YEAR perfecting Hu Tao! 

Thank you though for saying this, I needed that after farming for my first abyss teams

you typed akasha.cv as askasha.cv btw

You put askasha instead of akasha

@@arachniic lol ty

I know, right? And I even stop at 60 crit rate and 200 crit dmg for main dps, I never went this hard on any build. It's just not worth it.

Sorry for the wall of text, TL;DR is that hyperinvesting makes more sense on polearms only and my doing so on this account isnt meant to tell anyone to do the same on a normal account. There was no real need to hyperinvest this much. I probably shouldve mentioned that in the video, my bad. But on Polearms Only after Ive gotten all the polearm units in the game, what is there to do BUT hyperinvest? I’ve got nothing to farm for other than continuing to farm for existing characters, until they release new units at least. And apparently I only get a new polearm five star once every year and a half lol. Ultimately, most units can get to a functional state for most players with a relatively minimal amount of farming. Thats a very vague statement intentionally because it can obviously vary wildly depending on a particular players general account state (with existing artifacts and characters they have). Though Hoyo does there best to make players make mistakes in choosing what artifacts to farm by releasing artifact sets with bonuses meant for one character. (Hoyo doesnt want you to farm resin efficient artifact sets because it means you may end up playing the game less) In my case on my main account I will be able to get Arlecchino and not farm a single artifact for her, because I already have enough artifacts and characters to use with her to make her functional without farming the new artifact set at all. But on Polearms Only when I have nothing to do but farm those minor improvements over time its a no brainer for me (and these minor improvements make more of a relative difference by nature of being limited to only polearm units). Many an abyss cycle has been cleared on this account with the timer ending right on 7:00, so pursuing a method to make that 1s faster genuinely can make sense, but it is not something that I was trying to imply should be abstracted to the average player.

@@Duhgel not worth it? it is.

@@Sensei_Leo ehhh I disagree. I 60-70/200 most dps's and my tao is 70/245 and that's "perfct" for me. Anything else is a waste

She truly may become Who? Tao after Arlecchino releases /j

@@Solunerra don't do my main girl like that smh

who’s tao

AKA THE LIKE- BEST RAPPER EVER🫡🫡 before u say no listen to Chinese version

@@HumanePsycho I honestly liked the english version too but yes true C:

Istg same

lol I kinda have a love hate relationship with Hu Tao as well

I used to think having to animation cancel was annoying but using plunge hu tao with Cloud retainer is much more fun.

…. overload has very low scalings its not worth it

Raiden has a relatively heavy EM build in this video as she is the one triggering Overload most of the time. Hu Tao doesnt trigger overload so you dont want to spec her into overloads very much. Its possible on a normal account to do something with Fischl that may make OL Hu Tao worthwhile to spec a bit of EM into, but even then its still probably better to ignore in favor of having the electro unit trigger it instead and just focus crit on Tao

Thats a team that Ive tried before and it doesnt really work, for a few reasons that arent super obvious. So uh, this is gonna be a wall of text to explain lol. The first one is pretty simple for anyone that understands what the community calls “gauge theory.” For anyone reading that doesnt, all you need to know for Tao/Shenhe/Rosaria is that if you want to trigger melt with your pyro unit (as in getting big dmg from Tao), you need twice as more cryo application compared to the hydro application youd need to trigger vaporize consistently. The long and short is that Hu Tao wont be melting most of her attacks in that team, instead she will be applying pyro to enable the cryo units to trigger melt instead, most notably Rosaria. So you still get mono pyro Hu Tao damage but Tao is also enabling Melt for Rosas dmg. Rosaria melt can be very strong, but then comes the second problem with Tao/Shenhe/Rosaria. The second issue is much less obvious without knowing more specifics about Shenhes and Rosarias kits, which is most notably that BOTH Shenhe and Rosaria really want to use multiple skills per rotation. And Hu Tao is an on fielder that wants to stay on field for long enough that you dont have the flexibility or timings right to be able to use their skills multiple times. This has a couple of consequences, the most obvious one being that when both of the cryo units that want to use multiple skills per rotation now only use one both of their energy needs go up, by quite a lot. My 200% ER build with She he isnt even enough, and requires an ER timepiece. And Rosaria would also require an ER timepiece, or switching to the Catch. So both builds need to be tweaked from only needing ER substats to now needing more, and it basically requires tweaking builds a ton to the point of sacrificing a meaningful amount of damage. To the point of basically making me have to switch Rosaria from a melt dmg maximized build to a emblem build. The second factor other than ER is that Shenhes buff has a limit on how many instances of cryo dmg will be buffed per character hitting an enemy. It has a limit of 7 instances per tap skill. So if there are even two enemies being hit, you can run out of the buff very quickly with Rosaria to the point that in AoE situations Shenhe is doing very little if she cant refresh her buff by using her skill again. Rosaria can use her skill once, hit 2 enemies with both of her skill hits (her skill is a multi hit attack), which would use 4/7 instances of the buff up, and then Rosarias burst would only get a buff for the first hit. Then Shenhe isnt doing anything to buff Rosas burst at that point, and since Rosas energy needs go up enough to the point of it making more sense to use Emblem (the burst dmg buffing set) on her with Tao, but Shenhes buff runs out before most of Rosas burst dmg is dealt, and not getting a big cryo dmg buff for most of the burst dmg when Rosa is built for burst dmg entirely is kinda rough lol. So yeah, overall there are a lot of compounding factors that end up making it a LOT worse to do Tao/Rosa/Shenhe. Worse than what, you may ask? The XL variation I briefly mentioned/showed this video. XL being an off field pyro enables Rosaria melt to not have ANY of these problems I described above (well the buff running out on Shenhe is still an issue in heavy AoE situations but using multiple skills per rotation and having more atk on shenhe with an atk timepiece instead of ER is literally more than twice the buff value from Shenhe). XL allows easy swapping between Rosa/Shenhe to use multiple skills, and even allows field time to use ZL burst, extra NAs to trigger Fav on Shenhe/ZL if need be, and XL obviously does meaningful dmg of her own. XLs own ER needs are quite high in the team of course, but she is already energy hungry and doesnt require meaningfully changing her standard build since its still emblem with a bunch of ER regardless(I actually never change her built on polearms only). And on a normal account you would just use Benny instead of ZL and the team is notably stronger too (Benny reduces XL er needs and Rosa can snapshot Bennetts burst buff) With all that said, I am optimistic Arlecchino WILL work for that melt team, because her infusion mechanic doesnt have a duration forcing her to stay on field. She can be swapped out and swapped back in, meaning she can allow Rosa/Shenhe to use their skills multiple times.

Hmm. Not 100% sure between those two, I imagine theyd be relatively close but Dbane likely would still be better. Deathmatch may also be worthwhile just by nature of making her crit stats much easier to balance, but it would depend on the artifacts you have available (eg if youve got a 70 crit rate build without a crit weapon already it may something you dont notice as much)

Just in time!

If you can keep uptime on the crit stacks, then yes. Eg with the Furina/Yelan/Jean team or Chev C6 like I did this video. But if you already have a hyperinvested build for her in Shimes or Crimson on a normal account? It’s probably not worth refarming. In this video I showed how Shimenawas got me higher CA dmg than the MH build (but with less crit rate and not allowing consistent bursting, so Shimes is still worse). My Shime build is good enough that I could easily have not bothered farming MH for her and I wouldn’t be in a state where it made a huge difference to how I could use the character. One common struggle many people can have with Tao is getting a healthy amount of crit rate on her though, so I do also think MH is a way to get good dmg out of Hu Tao with less investment into substats, which is nice too. But again relies on characters like Chev C6/Furina. You could use other healers to enable the set, but the difference maker to really make it worthwhile on Tao is the fact that they give enough dmg bonus to make not having Tao be under 50% HP worthwhile.

@@Solunerra my luck on marechaussee is so bad. Not any good piece in 1 month. Edit:- thanks for your advice

Hah that is actually the exact reason why I enjoyed genshin. Collecting characters and building them up. The game feels somewhat fresh again with a new character but sadly there's nothing for those character to do once I built them up

@@lili_yaps It’s RNG…

@@user-lk6wy8mz6wwell yeah, It’s a gacha game😂 but if you grind enough you will get what you want. Otherwise you can just casual it

The key word is "perfect" to get a good build doesn't take nearly as long, and on supports like bennett chevreuse or kuki it's far less

Yes, guilty

In general? One of my favorite units they've released in some time. Even at C0. With Hu Tao for a normal account I dont think she makes all that much sense unless she is C6, but it is an interesting new playstyle option for her at least