Layla Shield Strength Comparison | Genshin Impact 

Travellers handy sword give some Hp if I recall correctly (red 3* sword)

@@alteragosagin4211 It's Def% unfortunately.. Perhaps you've mistaken its passive as the mainstat (Each elemental particles collected restores 2% hp)

@@verzetta oh, probably well thats sad, thanks for the correction

For Layla, the 5-star Summit Shaper R2 sword can increase shield strength by 25%. Summit Shaper R5 sword can increase shield strength by 40% My Summit Shaper R2 sword wasn't used until Layla was released. I have two Mistsplitter Reforge R1 and one Aquila Favonia R1 swords.

​@@valenrn8657 sadly the shield strenght is for the person that uses the sword only , not for others

Thoma Skill: 5 hit Xinyan: 8 hit Diona: 9 hit Yanfei: 10 hit Layla: 11 hit Noelle: 13 hit (3rd place) Thoma full stack: 15 hit (2nd place) Zhongli: 16 hit (1st place)

I remember reading a comment about why they didn't include Noelle in the showcase. Said it was because her shield is "nonexistent". So that was a lie.

@@Blackoutdmc it’s a lot more inconsistent than the others, her shield has a 50% uptime while the others have 70%+ uptime so they’re usually still more effective

this is really surprising, I've always thought Diona had the 2nd strongest... at least that's how it feels on my characters, but then again, I don't have Thoma and Yanfei built....

So glad she was strong but kinda expected since all cryo character are quite solid itself. Maybe a sign why snezhnaya is the last region we are going in teyvat. Cryo archon gonna be op af

yeah, people just don't know how to use it, and later they call it "bad"

@@Geppaku the pb is that if you build thomas like in this video (full HP) you dont have enough ER to make the full combo with his ult. So in real fight you will not be abble to have the full stacks. In real you have to put a er weapon or sand of time (so you have less HP).

Just put favonious lance on him it solves most of his energy problems and gives particles for the rest of team and his shield is still strongest or second strongest and he's been doing perfectly fine for me (zhongli still stronger cause he has utility outside of his shield and is a 5* tho obviously)

@@john-paulnguyen8829 Zhongli is Geo, which makes his shields better in more situations. Especially this one where geo get 150% reduction and every other element gets 100% reduction only.

@@natachaquezelperon5485 The thing about that is their substat is not even that amazing... Especially with a Shield bot Thoma you don't have to focus that much on Atk sub and Crit like what their build is. The way is HP and ER priority, crit doesn't matter that much. With HP all main and good ER substat it is possible to do that. Also, just to note, replacing black tassel with ER weapon (for me I use Kitain for Burgeon) will not yield that much of a significant difference especially since you refresh it as you stack (while you use NA).

Ate and left no crumbs 💋

He still sucks wdym. Man’s gotta use a high cost burst to keep up where as the other four star sheilders actually bring something to the table that Zhongli doesn’t.

@@wilburforce8046 n o 💋

@@wilburforce8046 hater always hate

@@gegie10 nah I’m being realistic. Our body deserved better then to be so copium. I’ve had enough of Mihoyo making whole character kits confusingly bad. Why can’t our boy Thoma be actually good.

Thoma?

@@junconglin relies too much on his high 80 cost burst for shield stacking and without it his shield uptime is incomparable to Layla's

@@toolazytoholdagrudge1148 fav lance and cons?

Diona uses no hp weapon too

Well there is a shield buff sword

plus shes a student so a book would make more sense than a sword

I dont think we'll ever get a cryo catalyst, it'd make freeze teams waayyy too easy 😂 they know that

@@genshinmonaria1551 Ayaka was the compromise

@@genshinmonaria1551 maybe they gonna make us wait till cryo archon 💀✋

@@minami_uuu cryo archon is a polearm user, it's confirmed in ventis story

Zhongli shield lasts 20 seconds with a 12 second cooldown but it is still impressive for a 4 star.

@@richardomilos8686 it's almost as if 5 star is better than 4 star. Such insight.

@@SayokoNeeeeeee its not always the case. Bennett is better than most 5* s. xingqui is on equal terms with yelan. Being a 4* doesnt mean you are a direct downgrade.

@@richardomilos8686 hell no Xinq is better than yelan lmao. Pure damage and hydro application Yelan is better. She's the 5 star Xinq and a decent built Yelan deals more damage than high built Xinq with c6 cons. I have c6 Xinq and I transferred his build to Yelan when I got her and she deals more as level 80 rn despite Xinq being in 90. Cope harder. As for Benett, he's a buffer, he fulfills different role and even as a healer Kokomi beats him. People use him for his buffs and not his heals, and the reason he is the best right now is beceuse he has no 5 star competition and Sara is just Benett for Raiden anyway, but just wait for his 5 star competition and I assure you he'll be the next Xinq.

@@richardomilos8686 oh did I mention she buffs her allies' damage? Yeah Xinq doesn't have that lmao and his damage resistance is irrelevant in late game anyway.

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@@minhtrieu2204 lol! I honestly didn't even think about her.

@@minhtrieu2204 nah bc she can literally stop everything with her e, she is not like the others shielder at all

@@alinee7698 not really , her shield durability base on her HP% so it has a limit too , you can check it on her talent .

@@minhtrieu2204 yes but what im trying to say is that she doesnt have the same shield as the other characters- zhongli for example, his shield is around him for 20s~. Candace only has it when you hold her e

Edit: Since new people show up to the reply section, I stand corrected and the following is fake news. Have a great day everyone ^^ Actually, the shield strenght bonus only applies when Leyla or Zhongli is on the field. The buff is gone when switching to another character (4-Piece bonus)

@@garagara4849 4-piece bonus of Tenacity , Effects can be triggered even when the character who is using the artifact set is not on the field.

@@garagara4849 no that is how the 2 piece bonus of retracing bolide works, tenacity of the millileth specifically states that it works off field as long as their elemental skill is still hitting opponents

@@garagara4849 NEIN! The effect works everytime E hits an enemy, but it only lasts 3s. In John Lee's case it's his pilar with small AoE which can't be deployed in some areas. Align that to my 150 mS latency and I'm not sure if I should use Millelith 4p or Archaic 4p since the bonus on Archaic at least last 10s.

@@reversethepolarityoftheneu773 Ooooh I was confused then! Thank you everyone, I'll remember that next time ^^

noelles passive saved me too many times early game

And also imagine if he stacked the claymore... Etc... So many possibilities 😍😍😍

Passive shield? I'm a little new to the game so I don't know about this

@@caseylp7121 once you ascend a character to level 70+ you will unlock a passive ability these passive abilities are listed at the talents screen

Too add more there are three passive talents for each character

It's really strong if you don't take damage for a long time. But in the usual case of being negligent after having a shield up, his shield easily breaks after a few hits with just few stacks.

@@reed3863 was gonna say that lol

@@reed3863 hard to set-up useless

its kinda hard to stack with. even with hutao that usually do 2 normal hit then charge attack rarely get hit. probally you will feel it if playing burgeon thoma

@@Kindi001hes a good to pair with yoimiya, constantly stacking his sheild

Yess i was so sad when i didnt see beidou

@@Teekls same here, i wanted to see beidou's shield

And kaeya's shield!

Kaeya's shield only appear when he's low hp so it's kinda hard to showcase his shield with traveler

you meant to say , beidou, Yunjin, and Candace?XD they are all counters but also work as shields. I honestly never saw my Yunjin get any damage while holding her E while both Beidoe and Candace usually get damaged instead, if the damage is big of course.

These Ruin Guard missiles are no joke, though. The fact that Layla could tank 11 and Thoma when fully-stacked tanked 15 hits are quite a testament of their strength.

Need 10 talent to stay this

@@na_umnichah i was about to say that

Nope my Zhongli is 59K HP with E at 10 he manages it easily..!!!

Most likely because it was talent lv 8. With level 10 talents and this much hp...there are very few things capable of breaking his shield.

Using tenacity 4pc passive also increases shield strength

@@erasedsilence Damn, 2 years and still many people think Shield Strength is good. It's not. It's practically useless. It doesn't work the same way Healing Effectiveness does.

@@kusanagi-no-tachi5303 chill out bro, nobody has said a single thing about it being good or bad, it's just a matter of fact. Healing effectiveness only works for healers + a special case for Kokomi and it has nothing to do with shields at all, if you want to give your opinion on the value of shields, post it on the comment section, not on a reply of another random comment that has nothing to do with it.

@@FluffyWaffle33 What? I'm not saying Healing Effectiveness affects shield, I'm saying Shield Strength does not work *the same way* Healing Effectiveness does. In other words, in much simpler terms, in case you still don't understand, Healing Effectiveness increases a healer's heal while Shield Strength *does not* increases a shielder's shield.

@@kusanagi-no-tachi5303 bro.. shield gives you resistance to interruption which you need to make the most of your dmg

for most shield i agree, but geo will ALWAYS be the stronger shield simply because the nature of the element absorbing ALL attacks and not only the elemental one.

We need a shield hp bar somewhere

Yea every character is pretty balanced in terms of shields (except for zhongli)

​@@alice0795 fr that will be so helpful

@@dhfiwxjf hes the geo archon so his shield being the strongest make senses tho

I exclusively use mono geo Noelle and she destroys everything. I can't wait till next banner for C6 Gorou so I can make my crit damage 219% (for reference my highest crit rn was a 78k Shield Bomb & like a 60k+ Albedo flower plunge attack, normal 4th attack hits about 42k). I've even considered making a Lv90 Favonious GS and soloing everything with Noelle. This is with Gorou & Yunjin talents at 8 and C0 too.

I'm a Noelle main I love her! Itto isn't really fun for me ( I know I know ) But here's my teams if you are interested: geo- pyro: Noelle, Albedo, Xiangling, Bennett (is good because the pyro generates crystalize and thus 100% uptime shields) mono geo: Noelle, Albedo, Gorou, Yunfin/Zhongli. Depending on if I want a shield or just buffs I switch those two, but lets not forget Zhongli shreds geo resistance with his skill! Noelle never disappoints me and it was so worth it refining the BP's claymore just for her :)

It makes sense that Noelle is the one freebie wish char given she can play so many roles for an early player’s team. Need dps? She can do that! Need healing/shields? Got both! Need someone to take all the def scaling artifacts? Boy do I have good news for you!

Her skill generating zero energy is her biggest issue.

@@cunnyman considering her unique tech that is maintaining infusion on swap (shared with both Diluc and Keqing) + the ability to extend her burst to the max 10 seconds at C6 with a little bit of quickswap magic, a bit of practice can heavily mitigate her needs. It's also not like she's short on battery units that go well with her (since defensive utility of her supports matter less as she already has those)

Noelle's burst doesn't increase the strength of her shields. It adds her defense stat to her attack stat to increase the strength of her normals. It will increase the damage the shield deals when it explodes since the defense stat will embellish the attack stat for the shield break's 400% potency to pull from, but it will not increase the amount of damage the shield could take to begin with. What you may be thinking of is that when Sweeping Time and Breastplate are both active, the chance of Noelle's normal attacks resulting in a heal for the party increases from 50-60% to 100%. This would not effect the shield's damage absorption.

@@PerkyPyra i think they are talking about i-frames but they don't know every character can do that.

@@chloeprice8584 I doubt that, they probably think her burst increases shield strength, or talking about the addition of its healing, who knows lol

It does not. What you are thinking about is Noelle with her own shield, probably meaning that its not the shield that can take more as much as Noelle taking WAY less due to her defense stat itself.

Maybe you are thinking about her passive, which procs a shield with 400% of her own Defense in her allies when their health gets too low?

shield strenght lol

He does have the second strongest shield, TCs knew it since the start. But it's a shame bec you need very high ER on him to consistently shield

which is basically garbage knowledge XD because in a normal fight, you're no gonna have the chance to stack that much while enemies attack and you switch characters to use skills. It is a good shield when stacked but most of the time, you just don't have the time, to add all those stacks.

@@WastedTalent83 you dont need to swap characters to stack his shield i use thoma so i can explain. u use his burst u use his skill then u swap to ur main dps as long as your main dps uses normal attacks like ayato or wanderer or alhaitham or even raiden shogun those normal attacks will stack his shield also you do not need to stack thomas shields, if thoma shield breaks and your active character uses a normal attack and thoma burst is still up it will apply a new shield ( a weaker shield but a shield) so his shields best benefit is that it is constantly being refreshed as long as normal attacks are being used i use him with both ayato and wanderer and they take no damage in abyss floor 12. and i use nobelesse on him not even shield str artifacts. the biggest downside to thoma is he doesnt do alot of offfield damage but his shield is very good. (and at c6 he gives a 15% atk boost when his shield is refreshed which is everytime a normal attack goes out) i feel like a majority of the community doesnt understand how thoma kit works or they just want to shit on him cause its a meme.

@@WastedTalent83 skill issue

Noelle's passive shield is beefier than her regular shield though

Noelle's passive shield strength is 400% of her defence. **400%**

I’m sayin like!!!

Yes, still using her till now since 1.3

I also main Thoma so ehehehh.

I know this is a joke but for people that is thinking about it, careful shields take damage all the same time.

@@Spellbook lmao yeah. But it is only my temporary team. I typically have Cyno, Jean, Thoma, and Zhongli. (Yes it's an odd team)

@@thegrinningreaperr I'm usimg the flowers team.. why I named my team flowers? Because they can unleash a flowers skill.. like Ayaka deals frozen sakura petals burst.. Yae deals thunder sakura petals. And two other.

@@manoharalisa5829 That actually sounds really cool.

That suits her reputation as the "ever-so-reliable"-maid as well =)

Correct me if I'm wrong. I think her shield will appear if your active character still alive after taking a hit in shield activation threshold, if the dmg high enough to kill your character even though you are in the threshold she just let you die but the shield will appear on the screen xD. This had happen to me so often. My poor Yanfei got caught so often.

@@vikryarsana5081 This is true, though the upside is that the emergency shield is way stronger than her normal one (IIRC). The downside is that its on a very long cooldown, so it should not be part of your game plan.

@@autofire55555 Yep! the Devotion shield absorbs 400% of Noelle's defense which is 20% more than even her crowned Breastplate shield protects for, and 100% more than the level 11 talent shown in this video!

and her shield exploding does a crap ton of damage, wanna forget that?XD Noelle when C6 is a 6 star people don't want to admit.

for talent level fairness, since other char have higher constellation. ec. Zhongli

I have been scrolling just to find this comment. Yes it is extremely satisfying :ooooo

sound like a for fun team, but not much a dps oriented one XD unless you have insane artifacts on all of your char ^^

Yeah, right now you either go harbinger of dawn ( bruh), favonius ( if you manage to hit the enemy with the shield cast) or key of kaj... Not that good. Hopefully fontain can bring home an hp party buffer sword.

I dont think the missiles count as pyro damge tho

No like she set grass on fire and the fire then hit her a few times

@@noah-yun now I get what u meant with your comment. I thought u said the missiles counted as pyro so she couldnt sustain that much. Still I dont think she would be able to tank 11 hits, because her shield has 250% efficience towards pyro dmg

Yea that’s true I was just sayin

But pyro shield have 250% resistance against pyro, so I don't think it's very significant impact also burning grass dmg is so small.

You can see that it needed to tank 175 more damage to get to 11 hits. But since pyro shields have 250% resistance to pyro damage, the grass would have to do over 400 damage. Sadly meaning it wouldn't have had an effect.

Scaramouche is already getting a niche support for him. Her name is Faruzan.

Layla has literally 0 synergy with Scara

@@topkekkek2135 how do you know that?

Diona's also key to a Dragonstrike comp (thanks to the added movement speed of her shield), the comp where Diluc actually deals almost double the damage he normally does + has decent amounts of healing. It should be a decent payoff

@@ArnoldFrost Didn't they fix dragonstrike ages ago? Does it still work?

you don't usually do 25 attack to strengthen the shield before entering a fight, so most of the time you're gonna use the shield without stack. Reason why people don't think much of his shield. You either kill enemies too fast, or the shield is not gonna last enough to do all those stacks without ever getting attacked , like in the video. I'm not saying its a bad shield, i don't think any character has a bad shield in this game, but probably it has too many gimmick linked to the "stronger" version of the shield, to be considered practical and strong.

@@WastedTalent83 as a thoma user, trust me, you do use all 25 stacks. even if you kill it quikcly, it doesnt matter. and if its a tankier boss or mob, the stacks come quick and help easy. (ofc they personally come quick for me bc i used swords and polearms, but they may be slower for claymores and bows. they just so happen to work well with my team)

eu vi uma build meta que usa ele, xiquinho, a ninja e nahida de field DPS aparentemente é mt forte, tomara q thoma seja valorizado nesse meta

Zhongli shield is also effective against cryo enemies. Geo shields are 250% more effective against every single element.

@@oyshikaadi9631 150%, why everyone gets this wrong

You wouldn't need healing if Diona's shield wasn't crap 💀💀💀

@@Abobus101 in Abyss you need healing even with god like sheild ( specially for f2p )

Also might have to do with the fact that we currently don’t have a lot of hp scaling swords (aka we only have one which is a 5 star so if you didn’t get it you have like no alternatives) so in turn her shield is going to be weaker since we do have hp scaling catalysts.

You can get a 5* anytime But the soft pity starts at 74 and ends at 90

eu uso até hj quando o zhonli tá em outro time, consegui uma boa recarga pra ele ent só uso artefatos e armas de vida

Diona offsets her shield strength with utility (upfront particles, heals, speed). Hell, I prefer Diona for Diluc because she helps in Dragonstrikes + her C6 gives a fat amount of EM for Diluc's melt damage to skyrocket

john is the best

@@nelaepowt indeed

Thing is, not everyone will want to level Layla's talent that high, or give her a 5 star weapon. Zhongli has value bc he does just fine without a crown, using a 3 star polearm.

@@otaku-chan4888 zhongli's also a 5 star unit... and can only be on ONE team in abyss

He also continue to be the most useless 5 star either. Pulling 5 star just to cast a shield, lmao, lame xD

Oh, fuck off. He’s extremely useful for characters that can’t afford to get interruption or need to be low on HP like Xiao and Hu Tao respectively. Just because you suck at knowing how the game works or you busted your ass pulling shit 5 stars doesn’t mean anything. He’s an extremely flexible character that can be used on almost any team. I say this as someone who doesn’t have him and would love to have him with my Xiao and unfortunately won’t pull Hu Tao on her rerun (even though I absolutely love her) because my other teams perform better than these two characters without Zhongli.

@@sunright20475 lmao just say u lose 50-50 it's not that hurt lol

@@sunright20475 There's also some characters who need shields too, like Yoimiya, Ganyu, Tighnari, etc. Don't forget that Zhongli shreds nearby enemies' resistance too. The only problem Zhongli is facing right now is DPS loss (casting skill and burst takes time), lack of particle generation, and shield addiction (Zhongli users know this well).

@@sunright20475 longest shield in the game with universal shred attached, honey ;)

trust me XD its a useless shield, because its based on her HP , so unless you want to use her as a tank (which makes no sense) the shield will be much less strong than showed in the video. Since you're gonna stack EM crit and crit damage, and IF you're lucky get some HP % here and there.

Bonus in that she can hold Thrilling Tales or Prototype Amber.

1 more hit max, definitely not "few hits" considering for most of them that'd be like 30-50% of ALL of the hits

Да , в то время как другие щиты могут хорошо поглощать урон от аналогичных элементов, у Чжун Ли нет такой проблемы , он урон от всех элементов поглощает одинаково.

He's literally geo and an Archon

Itto???

5 star+Archon+ Chinese archon... kinda obvious he would have been the best shield ever in the game.

Their base hp is lower but the artifacts are the same, so i guess it's kind of part of the showcase to show how much investment does each character need

@@markpapitas2161 I agree with this, the only thing I think that isn't fair probably is how they have different talent levels.

@@fhantom2115 they're all lvl 10 and 11 talents except zhongli who has lvl 8

I think Zhongli is way easier to get since he can be guaranteed and she have to dispute with other 25 characters + weapons.

cries in getting an (accidental) Yae Miko, 2 Thomas, 4 Heizous, a sacrificial sword, and the bell in 40 pulls trying to get Layla I JUST WANT ONE LAYLA PLEASE MY SCARA PITY TOO.... IT'S GONE 😭

don't forget that while other shields can absorb damage from similar elements well, Zhong Li doesn't have this problem, he absorbs damage from all elements equally.

@@katsumixvCAN WE SWITCH LUCK😭 i pulled for heizou cons but ended up with c3 layla…..

@@chargebclts YES PLEASE OML GIVE ME A LAYLA

It doesnt. skill not maxed.

@@seeps489 you obviously haven't used him in abyss with those lawachurls

@@seeps489 Even maxed it could take at most 18 hits from my calcs.

True but it's only noelle who can survive that because of her high DEF. You can put Zhongli's shield on a high def character like Itto or Noelle and they will survive even longer..

@@the-suspect I don't think that's what they meant. You can use gorou to boost noelle's def, therefore her shield

@@RADZIO895 You're both right tho. Both situations mentioned would make Noelle with a shield last longer.

But zhongli is useless in frozen team

@@Jhoentak15 I guess you don't have zhongli then hihihi

@@ABC-yj6cy i have zhong li , When you use zhongli in frozen team , geo will ruins the frozen time ,

@@Jhoentak15 Any shielder is useless in frozen team because u dont take dmg as enemy is frozen???

@@Jhoentak15 why use Zhongli in freeze team tho? Enemies can't even move so still need shield?