ICD: The HIDDEN Mechanic They DON'T Want You to Know About | Genshin Impact Mechanics 

What a breath of fresh air. A video without 9 minutes filler and 1 minute content. This video is pure content.

Well edited, well scripted, well explained, this is gold standard educational content. Most youtubers (genshin and otherwise) just do a low effort slap of some barely relevant footage over a rambling script, but you made every single thing that went onscreen actually useful and timely in illustrating the concept at hand. If only every class I'd taken had this kind of clarity. o7 this is amazing.

A thorough and easy to understand explanation, amazing! Thank you for making some of the best guides in this community. Hoping you’ll make a video on elemental gauge theory soon too!

Loved this video a lot, but as someone who mains Childe since day 1 when I was damn surprised he didn't get mentioned during the No ICD part. Genshin's in their 3rd year and he's still the quickest hydro applier and the reason combining him with Xiangling who has no ICD on her burst makes his dmg so sick T T

Bow charged attacks some times do have icd. You can confirm this yourself by using diona’s constellation 4 effect, when you stand in your burst and charge attack you can see that she does not in fact apply cryo with every charged attack, but instead uses the 2.5s rule. Tho that might just be a diona problem :D

While I've been watching other content creators explain to me how ICD works, this is the only one where I understood its importance. Thanks for making guides like these and for making difficult mechanics of the game more understandable 😊

This video tackles one of the more complicated mechanics in Genshin Impact, so it naturally ended up being a little more dense than my usual content. I hope my explanations weren't too difficult to follow, and that this provides a more clear understanding of ICD, at least a little bit. If anything wasn’t clear, please feel free to ask any questions you have in the comments, and I’ll try my best to answer them.

Great guide. ICD is no secret to anyone who uses more sources than just the game but this was really well explained and documented with examples. Thanks.

I salute you. This is the best explanation on ICD I have seen. They way you explain it and have very clear visuals is very helpful. Thank you so much!

Character like Yoimiya is based around the 3-hit rule, if you pay attention to her normal attack string. This allows her to hit Vaporize on her 3rd and 5th attack string, which has the highest multiplier on her normal attack. But this is TOO RIGID, that if you missed a single shot, you’ll miss your big vaporize shot.

This Video right here did so much more for me then the countless of hours of other RU-vidrs parading off their awesome Team Comps with no real explanation as to "why" those comps are so busted. You Sir, deserve a freakin medal, and this piece of Videographic evidence should be proliferated for prosperity so others can also revel in the understanding on what makes their teams tick :D

This is by far the best ICD explanation video on RU-vid. You gave constant examples and slowed it down for us to see properly what was going on. I finally understand ICD properly. Thank you so much!

I liked that for examples such as Xiangling’s burst you even thought about making sure she had 0/100 percent crit rate so damage was consistent for teaching purposes. Put a lot of thought into things, great video!

2:00 that image alone told me everything that it is so perfectly accurate for every first time players and super hilarious/horrifying at the same time 😂😂😂😂😂

this man really has a harvard phd in genshin mechanics and presentation skills

The only ICD video I've seen that explains thoroughly without bloating the video. New sub here.

I already knew all of this, but this is a great video I'd only add that ICD is tracked per skill per target, so exploding dendro cores isn't bound to ICD, since any pyro/electro elemental damage it takes will definitely trigger it Also, some gauges in the game don't have an ICD either, the wolf lord shield heads for example, they take damage from all ticks of Nilou's elemental skill "serenity aura or something" which has normal ICD

Wow! Although I knew about this mechanic already, this was the best and the most understandable guide I've seen so far. All these examples were just great and list of characters with shorter or no ICD was really helpful. I've been wondering why Diluc works better with Xingqiu than Chonguun, for some reason I didn't realise it's because of ICD, thank you for pointing at that! Special thanks for clear pronunciation and subtitles, English is not my native language and autosubs don't work well with game slang and names, so really appreciate it! I've been watching your guides for quite a long time and the quality only gets better. Showing builds in the end of the video is also an amazing update. Happy to see you're getting more and more attention, you deserve it!

Deep understanding of the game’s mechanics and clean editing. What an underrated channel! Subbed.

Excellent video! You made this complicated mechanic pretty easy to understand and went so in depth that, even though I knew most of the ICD mechanics, still taught me something new (I didn't know about the 3 hit rule). Keep up the good work!

Would love to see more guide videos about obscure mechanics, such as elemental gauge and snapshotting. You explained this in such a thorough yet efficient manner.

God I wish this video existed two years ago. I generally understand ICDs nowadays, but I spent a lot of time feeling very confused and no explanations were good enough to paint the whole picture. There are some things in this video that I still had no idea about and no one had ever mentioned, like the 3-hit rule. Awesome job, I wish all Genshin content was like this. Edit: The madlad even included the builds of every character he used in the video at the end because he knew people would ask. A lot of character/team showcases don't even do this for some reason. I like this guy.

man, i think this is one of few video that i actually listen from the beginning to the end without skipping a single things, bless the easy and on point explanation, pure gold

So much quality goes into this. I thought i already knew pretty much about everything regarding ICD, but turns out i still miss something important. Cant wait for your guide on elemental gauge!

You,deserved more likes and attention. Well edited,great and clear explanation,straight to the point no bullshit. I hope this channel became big and we're hoping you keep doing this type of content,cause you are that guy who can make it big.

Played the game from the first month it launched…I have heard terms like ICD multiple times but no one has explained it with more clarity than you. Great vid bro!

One of the best Genshin Impact videos I've ever seen. I already knew the mechanic, but the way you edited, scripted and explained in the video made me understand even more clearly about the mechanic. I am going to share this video with my friends!

This is genuinely one of the (if not THE) most educational Genshin videos. Most only scratch the surface and teach the basics, which is fine for the most part, but well explained and detailed videos like this are SO MUCH BETTER. 10 minutes that went by real quick and i wished there was more lol

This is the clearest illustration of how ICD works that I've encountered.

Absolutely amazing video! I love how well you explain things and having the visuals made it incredibly easy to follow along. Easiest subscription of my life

Wow this is a very complicated and well thought system. I'm amazed by Hoyo because they came up with these out of nowhere and managed to get all characters to be in a balance somehow while still making them unique. But this video deserves compliments no less than that because this video is a goddam masterpiece. You explained all the cooldown durations and icd conditions so well even I understood the whole thing.

Been playing since 1.0 but you're the first person to explain ICD that I could understand

Great guide for new Genshin players! Keep it up, buddy!

dude, that's lifechanging. Thank you sm for sharing this! (also my jaw dropped after i saw your dps Barbra doing like 20k dmg wow)

This is EXCELLENT, thank you so so so so much-- I was incredibly confused about this but you made it so easy to understand! I appreciate your channel more than you can know 💯

really helpful, thank you for this! I've always heard abt the term ICD but was never able to fully understood these kinds of mechanics/understand how it works. your explanation's rly thorough & the video's edited pretty well

Great explanation! I had heard about ICD before and vaguely understood the concept, but you put it in much more concrete terms. Thanks!

Good video. When I started, I had the same "wrong" understanding, since mihoyo/game never explained anything about ICD and was constantly showing off reactions.

This video is really easy to understand, introducing with a simple example and then explaining different mechanics in clear steps. great writing !

Thanks for the vid! I've been playing since year one, and never knew about ICD. I love that you explain this in detail while showing on screen what is happening.

Please keep making more videos like this. Helps those who don't understand this mechanics very well.

this is SO educational SO easy to follow AND informativ. insane. props to u!

this explination of ICD really tought me a lot about the mechanics in genshin and gave me a lot of new idea's for party's to run for both solo and coop play. Thanks for making this guide it really is amazing. cant wait to check out some of your other guides to learn more about the game.

I've been looking for a video on Genshin's hidden mechanics for a long time now, and this is the first one I've found, and I'm glad I did!!! Would love to see more of these videos. Keep up the good work!!

Wow that's by far the best explanation about icd i saw on yt to this day

I've had a hundred people or so explain ICD to me including my whale brother, and as much as I understood its presence and who was strong around it, I never understood why. This video easily paints the clearest picture I've seen. Well put together thank you.

Very detailed and thorough explanation. I like how you opened the video with a relatable story & thought process.

God even the outro is very informative! Good work!

I honestly didn't know this existed specifically but I did notice how I don't always proc an element right away aside from my Hu Tao. Which is why I mained her

One thing in really like about the video is the voice. It's isn't somewhat loud or irritated to heard like most other RU-vidr.

I knew everything except for the kokomi skill bit, that was new and worthwhile info, which makes the whole vid worth watching. Thanks :)

Glad I stumbled upon your channel! As what been mentioned by other comments, your vids are well edited, easy to digest, fully make sense and in a way gel rightly to fix my broken gameplay.

Probably the best video explaining how ICD works. Thank you so much for making this!

Your video is very well informed. Although I was aware that the ICD was a thing, I wasn't all that knowledgeable about how it worked. Now I know why some of the "inconsistencies" of the game actually works (such as Xiangling's no ICD, or Hu Tao's charged attack). You got a subscriber :)

This is good quality content. Pretty basic stuff for advanced/veteran players like me, but is an amazignly well made guide for new players or players that know nothing about TC. Great explanation 👍

Brother this is the best Explanation about something complicated, I've ever heard in my life....And the neat thing is I understood it.

That is such an awesome and needed explanation, thank you!

This is probably the most informative video of Genshin I've seen which was also very easy to understand even as an AR 58 player. Usually easy to understand vids aren't very informative or informative videos are presented in a way only the creator understands. Kudos to you!

Because of my RNG luck early on I got C2 Mona, this makes her normal attacks have a chance to trigger charged attack with no stamina cost. With her fast normals + charge + taunt pulses I find she's able to layer hydro really fast. After watching this I'll want to look into who can team up with her for rapid reactions. C6 Fischl is usually with her, might need to build some Dendro.

Thank you for explaining this so well!!! I’d picked up the vague idea that attacks could have ICDs but not really thought beyond that

What a great watch... I think you have one of the most clear and well illustrated explanations about ICD out there ! Elemental reactions are very basic and simple at the surface but the hidden layer of "complexity" behind elemental combos is what I love the most in genshin, little things like e.g how electro-charge allows you to have 2 auras to coexist and proc vaporise and overloaded at the same time when pyro is applied etc...

ICD is also entity dependent. Different entities will have different ICDs. For Yae's E, the turrets hit the enemies randomly, and each enemies has a separate ICD of when the element is applied. In groups of enemiers, Yae can technically apply electro a lot more than expected. The same is true for the burgeon and hyperbloom reactions on bloom seeds. The faster your trigger hits regardless if those hits don't actually apply the element, they can trigger more burgeon and hyperbloom reactions.

This video was way more informative than i came in expecting. Keep up the good work!

thank you! some of the more intricate mechanics in this game are so hard to find good explanations and examples of but you demonstrated this so well

Nah bro this video is golden.

IM IN LOVE WITH YOUR CHANNEL!!!! LITERALLY HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT THESE TERMS LMAOAOOO AND NOW I CAN SAY I KNOW THEM SO THANK YOU!!!

Sorry for a long-ish comment, but.... I started playing Genshin Day 1. I knew right away, I was going to save my primos. Once I got Diona, when she first came out... I played with the same team for the next 10 months, until I got Yoimiya. For those 10 months... I hardly paid attention to elemental reactions... I knew of them, but I pretty much just used Superconduct for my main source of damage (with Fischl as my main DPS). Once I started expanding my teams a little more... I felt I kind of had to learn more about elemental reactions. That's when I hit up youtube to watch videos. With a much more broad understanding of elemental reactions... I felt I was good to go. Then I started running into this thing called ICD. I googled and watch so many videos, that would try and explain about it is. But all those videos did a terrible job explaining it. The only knowledge I came away with (from watching those videos, and reading comments) is that ICD just means you're restricted on how often you can trigger elemental reactions. I don't care much for Meta. I'm like 1% Meta, and 99% just play with whoever I want to play with. So I didn't bother learning EVERYTHING about ICD...since I was having trouble finding people who could do a good job explaining it. Then, I just happen to stumble upon this video tonight...... and wow! I can't believe, in a 10 minutes video, you were able to explain so much, in so much detail. Putting on-screen graphics of what you're talking about, helps A LOT!! Also, explaining how specific characters are when it comes to ICD is amazing. I learned so much from this video, that no other video did a good job at teaching.

This was REALLY insightful. Thanks!

Appreciate the video! The demonstrations and editing to emphasize certain concepts were great, and the pacing felt just right. It also didn't feel like 10 minutes had just passed. While I did know that an ICD exists, I never truly understood what that meant (that being said, I haven't researched it before, but seeing formulas or walls of text are kinda intimidating in a sense). Now I know that there's more to it than just "you wait before an element is applied again" and why certain characters are "broken" :^p

I've watched TCs talk about it but none have really demystified it like you have in such a clear and succinct way. Thanks!

Finally an ICD video I can link everyone knowing it will make sense! Gauge theory next?

Man, I'm already at AR59 but I didn't know much about ICD, until i stumbled on your video. Thanks for the video dude. The information is absolutely clear and well detailed.

I forgot this kind of videos existed. Really helpful bro

I've always seen people talk about ICD but i never understood what it meant ,this video thought me a lot, thanks!

Best and most informative video about genshin I’ve ever seen. Thank you!

Very informative. Great examples and visualisation. Thank you.

Very well explained and informative. Thank you for the wrap up.

This is an underrated youtube channel. hands down one of the best explanations. Been here since launch of the game ive never seen anyone explain it this way. ❤❤❤

I really like the way you describe everything in detail. It's very understandable. Keep it up, very nice video :D

There are so many contents in RU-vid, but by far your explanation is always the best. I really hope your channel gets more attention than it deserves.

I have seen lots of videos talking about idc, this is the first one explaining it so good

Loved it, helped understand way better the game and how to optimize a lot of characters, thank you so much! Keep up this amazing work please.

So in-depth analysis. Subscribed 😌

As some one who eats breathes and sleeps genshin tc, this is a really good icd introduction video, good luck trying to explain egt man

Amazing guide. You explained everything so well. Made learning very engaging.

It's nice to see videos being made on TC. And this is such a well-explained, easy-to-understand and easy-to-follow video. While I already knew all these concepts, the more people understand these basics, the better they'll get at the game - the easier they'll find the current content - and there'll be a strong demand for challenging content that currently doesn't exist in the game

This was insightful good work

This video captivated me. Subbed instantly. Thanks

Great explanation. Thanks for the video!

I think you explained it as simple as it gets that anyone can understand it, nice work.

Awesome and informative video! Thanks for making this

Very well worded and organized. We will watch your career with great interest.

Well explained, I kinda new what ICD was, but never to this lengths you demonstrated and explained.

This is by far the best video for understanding ICD. Thank you

Something you should consider when talking about units like yanfei who has normal ICD in her normals. Because her main gameplay loop is to stack her sigils and vape her charged attacks, having normal ICD on her normals make sense since in actual scenario when you're using xing qiu on her you dont want the hydro to be immediately snuffed out or to be overridden by pyro right before she can perform her charged attacks. If there isnt any ICD tied to her normals, it kinda breaks her kit design and it'd be impossible to get any actual vapes onto her charged attacks. The same thing can be said for yoimiya who also follows the same idea as yanfei but in her case her normal attacks are a string of continuous pyro instances. Again if she doesnt follow the ICD rule, it'd be impossible to sustain the hydro aura on the enemy with just xing qiu or yelan and you kinda have the same issue with yanfei. Once the enemy gets a pyro aura on them its gg and it'd be impossible to get them back onto hydro.

Best ICD video I have seen by far. This video should be included in the game somewhere.

Top tier video, man. Well done

Although it had nothing new information to me, it's an excelent guide with well considered build-up explanations and visuals. Have my sub!

WOWW 100K Amazing vid as always!!! and congrats!!!

Honestly, the best icd video on youtube, just by how easy it is to understand really complex mechanics