The Biggest NERFS In Genshin History... 

this man really said the barbara bloom team couldve been better than nilou. BIAS AGAINST nilou and underrating showing once again. but since we need to make a narrative for the video that the nerf was "big" and that hoyo doesnt want to make free units good, we will just spout out blatant misinfo. really glad they fixed that bug, imagine how much more he would doompost nilou if it was still in the game.

Biggest nerf is mihoyo purposely making new enemies immune to venti

Mika's Charged Attack with 20 stamina cost...."Bug Fixed" into 25.....An actual Nerf.

its crazy to think that these broken 4 stars like fischl and Xingqiu were so broken that they had to nerf them and they're still insanely good

Biggest nerf has to be removing the super jump ability albedo’s skill had that let you instantly leap over mountains.

Dehya was nerfed when she released if she stayed as a story character only she’d be stronger

I still remember in 1.1 I think it was where the grass burning was the real last boss of the game lol

It is funny how Barbara gets nerfed a lot. Her burst area now is reduced to less than half the area it covered before, which was good for co-op. They just don't like the idea of co-op happening in Genshin, I guess.

You forgot the biggest nerf of all time! The one where they fixed the "bug" where Keqing could cast her skill twice and do damage at 2 places at once.

OG’s remember the biggest nerf was to make Barbara’s voice lines sadder

Zajeff forgot about the burning grass nerf. Its a funny time when pyro characters burn themself to crisp...

That Barbara nerf was so unfair. She was barely used already, I don't think she would've overshadowed Nilou teams at all, she would just be a F2P option to Bloom teams if you don't have Nilou. The Mondstadt idol had her time to debut, but Hoyoverse said no

The "nerf" (it was just a real bug fix but it felt like a nerf to my fun) that made me the saddest was them fixing the Albedo elevator bug that if you hit certain objects when the elevator started going up, you'd fly into the air. It was my favourite thing about him and I ended up teaching it to a few friends before it got patched. RIP Albedo's Space Program.

The Miko targeting saga was wild. I still miss the Lisa C1 interaction, as a Lisa Main.

The Xingqiu nerf was probably the BIGGEST nerf to Klee. Because his swords application could have been so strong at C6 that he will always apply Hydro. So, you can switch between attack and charge attack with Klee and her charge attack will ALWAYS vape. She used to be the best carry in the game before the nerf. It's really weird how people don't talk about this as much as we also had Zhongli drama back then and it kinda divert the community's attention to Zhongli instead. RIP Klee mains.

Barbara healing radius nerf is so unecessary and so annoying

"We can't have a free unit be this good" OPPA

Remember when Venti-Klee interaction had to be nerfed? Then Kazuha came who can suck in the dodocos and nobody talked about it lol while venti still cant (including a few other things which kazuha can)

I'm still tilted that one of the rare times that hoyo decided to implement a community-requested change to a unit, they did that braindead change to Yae when there are so many better changes they couldve made to her kit. Or any other unit

Biggest nerf was Klee’s walk nerf

I felt like an grandma when Zajef said "turbo Fischl" like damn-

would love to see more videos like this about the interesting history of genshin its very entertaining.

Zajef, you forgot to add Barbara's recent nerf again, her burst range was nerf. From 200m to 40m.

sad that he didnt mention that the main example to why hyv decided to nerf xingqiu was when people started abusing the xingqiuxchongyun permafreeze comp to the point it became a meme. since both icds aligned perfectly, enemies couldn't move at all as you would start your rotation immediately before even getting hit, making it a strong freeze comp if not the first one to be that strong yet so quickly removed lmao. pd. it wasnt only xingqiu, but chongyun got the worst nerfs on cbt and with the xq permafreeze nerf his cd increased a lot (forgot by how much tho) lmao ripbozo

Fun fact, mihoyo actually also stealth buff stuff... good example is thay in 3.1, they actually did make albedo's geo flower more resiliant towards aoe attacks, it breaks less than it did before now, the critiria now is that when mods use stage wide nuke it will break instead of aoe skills

I was pretty pissed when they nerfed Childe’s boss fight during the Archon quest. Like, I went into that fight with Diluc, Kaeya, Barbara and Lisa in 2020. If I had to suffer so should y’all 🥲. I did that fight three to four times and Diluc was the last man standing and had 137 hp left after the fight. However it was a lot of fun. November 19, 2020 will always be remembered as a tragedy

I keep hearing about the nerf to Xingqiu's rain swords but I never see footage of it that I almost just can't believe that the nerf occurred 😭 Edit: I know people didn't know about ICD in 1.0...I've been playing since 1.0 🧎 my point is that I just found it a bit difficult to find any footage of Xingqiu attacking anything that could've interacted with his rain swords' application like an abyss mage shield or an elemental boss but I might just not be looking hard enough

insane how fischl was the raiden shogun before the raiden shogun was a thing

One related area I’d like to see a video for is indirect nerfs and how effective they were, for example corrosion for Zhongli, unsuckable enemies for Venti, or enemies that constantly push you around and can vape / melt off you for Bennett

For me the biggest nerf is Hoyo making all new enemies Venti immune. The entire design of new enemies and floor 12 of the abyss had to be changed because of Venti Also my honorable mention: changing how Raiden's burst works so that it doesnt proc things like Beidou's burst. Raidou never made to the live server but they had to hot fix a few descriptions. So not a nerf per say but descriptions saying it worked existed on the live game, including the image describing the abyss blessing who came later on in the patch. Second honorable mention: Unlimited Blade Works Xingqiu, its was a legit bug fix

This video was a lot different than the usual. It was interesting and a really enjoyable watch! Keep at it

Biggest nerf is kokomi not being able to permanently walk on water anymore :') that was the best couple weeks in genshin ever when that worked. People would go nuts in coop seeing you do that xD

I remember Fischl and Xiangling was nerfed before the actual launch of the game. They were an absolute powerhouse during the beta.

I remember when u could cancel her charge attack (it would function lika nahida's, where u could spam multiple charge attacks one after another) they sadly took that away too, poor girl...

Keqing used to be able to fly places with her skill and even able to do multiple skill with one E, shame they nerf it. Wish Mihoyo is more like Warframe dev where they add mechanic based on user gameplay like seriously, yes Sumeru and to an extent Inazuma have mechanic that help with traveling between places outside of teleporting but running around Liyue and Mondstadt is pain without mount or just anything that help us to move faster. Warframe used to be a lot slower but the community keep trying to push the boundaries of parkour and movement ability so the dev just upgrade the game and add the mechanic into the moveset while the mechanic in sumeru is so stiff and kinda odd. Just give us mount and parkour geez

How did you not include Jean's E slam? She could uppercut a large sized enemy into the air, then slam them into the ground repeatedly over and over for hundreds of thousands of damage.

The other reason why the Yae Miko nerf was reverted was that it completely made one of her constellations (increased E range) useless if there was more than one enemy.

This might be only tangentially related but here's little history about raidou. It's technically the beta testers who asked for it. The way it originally works on the earlier beta is only her initial hit that does burst and the rest do na/ca damage. This makes eosf and her own skill buff less effective and probably ended up hurting her own personal damage. When mihoyo changed her burst to do all burst damage the leak community at first cheered for it because it sounded like a good change. And because no leaker bothered to re-record raidou team after this change. Raidou change goes unnoticed to everyone, even to a keen theorycrafters because it's the first characters to convert her na/ca to other form of damage. There's a funny artifacts of this change is if you see the abyss blessing for raiden patch it requires you to do na/ca damage after burst to gain some benefits which raiden can't use at all lmao

makes so much sense now why guide teams back then would have support fischl with like noelle and xiao

They nerfed Barbara 10 times so that Xiangling and Bennett could stay busted. Laws of equivalent bullsh*t amirite

Suprise there's no mention of the Keqing "thunderclap and flash" where if you slow down your game and use a macro you can trigger both versions of Keqing E at the same time. I guess it was just a straight up exploit but still sad it didn't got a mention since it's fun to reminisce about how the community found it and mhy patch it immediately like 2 weeks later

you talked and explained No.2 so much that to me that one deserved No.1. Also, it's Barbara, can you imagine her being a top tier character? That was a pretty big nerf. XD

What stings with Lisa "bug fix" was that hapened as they released Raiden. You know the character that has the best energy generation in the game.

Barbara cannot catch a break. First they nerf her voice, and then they hamstring her potential with Dendro. smh Mihoyo.

I remember the recent “nerf” when mika came out and hoyoverse sent a mail that they “nerfed” his skill cool-down because it was “so low”. So they just made mika even worse

What a banger video. Zajef is really good at explaining things and keep it so damm entertaining. I could listen to him talk for hours without getting bored. Great work!

15:55 You were wrong. Even with that targeting mechanics, Yae's turret prioritized enemies over non-enemy entities. But I do agree it was a huge nerf.

I'm still fearing that the yanfei's stamina mechanic will be added here. Then again it needs to be a Big nerf and not a fun bug that hurts nobody

No mention of the even bigger barbara nerf where they changed her voice lines smh

I miss old Zajef, the Excel Rider, where he compares down to decimal percentages values

Nice educating video! I haven't heard about shatter nerf despite playing from the release. Now we just need a "Biggest buffs..." video with Zhongli, separate case for dendro buffed characters and, of course, the biggest bug fixes from patch notes, which technically made characters stronger.

More videos like these are very welcome. Please make more like this. Thank you

remember yae miko where they fked up on top of a fk up on top of a fk up and called it a "bug fix" good times

I think recently they nerfed Babara again with her ult range, it wasn't a big deal since it affects co-op only but the pre nerf range is so big that it made the after nerf range looked so funny😂

omg i absolutely remember lisas one!!! every time i used her skill on a bonfire or a torch, it would give me some energy for lisa. i wondered why it didnt work anymore after some time and i guess now i finally know 😢

How about 1.4 removing snapshotting EM for transformative reactions(and by extension, additive reactions once 3.0 came out), would that be considered a big nerf?

As someone who enjoys physical, I would have loved to find more in dept info on the physical nerf here (I think that happened sometime in 2.x), or the general dmg nerf in 3.6 that affected all units.

Not a huge deal but would have been nice to have some clips to show these interactions prior to the nerfs. Also honorable mention to the early Rosaria nerf.

Never thought 2:2 together where “Burning” worked kinda like “Aggravate”. Now I’m thinking, tell me if I’m wrong if they didn’t nerf the pyro unit from 2 to 1 would “Burning” would be up there w/ Nilou Bloom?

I'm pretty sure that the pre 1.1 Xingqiu would have led to a similar Situation that Herrscher of the Void caused in Honkai Impact, which was that 1. The Abyss had to be remade, because together with the defense Shred from another Character, she obliterated every single abyss no matter the debuffs,enemys, you name it, it contained 2. It caused a Powercreep to Significantly speed up, because everything had to catch up to her damage at least to some degree Just to put into perspective how broken (not op, straight broken) she was, if we leave out the absolut mega whales who have what in Genshin would be considered C6R5, Herrscher of the Void can still be used to clear abyss stages quick enough, to save you from going down into a lower braket...nearly 4 YEARS of powercreep later

No older clips showcasing the interactions?

As a barbara main since 1.0 (the 50 free pulls gave me Barbara c6). She actually had another huge nerf to her c6. Whenever she revives anyone she restores them to full health but depletes all their energy and cd stays the same (not sure). But back then in 1.1 with the childe and zhongli patch she used to be able to revive the character with their cd back to 0 and gave them all their energy back. I know this since i used childe back in the old spiral abyss and i would use his E, which lasts 32 seconds if you stay on him long enough and i would forcibly let him die so that barb can revive him back with his cd back to 0 and with his energy back up too. It was a huge nerf for sure and one that went under the radar.

Isn't the revert on the Yae Miko's E because of one of her constellation that increases the area that a totem can hit. So making it touching the closest target make the constellation a scam? I have an other question. Xinqui got a "bug fixed" in 1.1 but didn't he got an other one in 1.3?

Great video buddy!

So this video was mostly related to elemental reactions. We recently got a huge range nerf for barbara's burst (this literally happened on her birthday)

12:19 THIS MAKES ME SO SAD WHAT 😭 Barbara my beloved… I wish I’d realized and played with her when I could…

I never thought I’d recognize any of this but here I am. I feels old right now lmao 😂 TF and CW interaction, I can forgive since we got a buff to transformative reaction in exchange. but Lisa nerf was straight up pure evil. not only that make her even more painful to play but also add salt to injury since they did this to her during Raiden banner.

I miss turbo Fischl man...

Didn't expect to learn some interesting stuff today. The more I know

Barbara's og English voice lines will forever haunt me. I will never forgive them for changing it

0:20 there is a game that is popular on Asia called Mobile Legends bang bang and they kinda do that, they basically buff a hero then after it got popular on the meta they'll gonna release an expensive skin then revert it back to normal, back then they are selling the skin like a very straightforward but after covid they are going to like a gacha where there is no certainty you'll get the skin unless you got the pity

And then there was that Xingqiu bug where you could get infinite heals on his water swords. You just to go close to a electro crystal and use E skill. Then wait until the healing kicks in. And when you leave after that it will keep healing. It was a pretty early bug like in 1.0 or 1.1.

this video is pretty cool, I never thought about nerfs being a thing, but more like bug fixes

needs to be updated for the Diluc turbo omnipotent god DPS bug with Venti

*Barbara,* Queen of Nerfs! _Not feeling much _*_Ikuyo!_* edit: _eeeeeh..._ didn't comment about the reduction on Barbara's Q size (from 200m to 30m) on 3.7... This nerf was *BIG!* _ahahah~_

Didn't they always hav an internal cap to how fast something can have an element applied to them. It's a really small nunber like every 0.3 or maybe 0.2 seconds. So his rain swords would simply apply hydo every wave one time anyway unless they landed at a really odd angles.

18:50 This song is really cool and interesting in general, but this part and the way it subverts expectations is especially cool

My Yao Miko still attacks camp fires like they’re a threat.. LOL

Watching these videos makes me realise there is a lot of stuff I don't know about my characters and how their kits work. I feel so educated.

I'm curious about one thing, the use of instructor on Bennett changes his normal rotation in sucrose national right? Cuz the normal way people do it was Bennett Q, XQ Q, XL E, Sucrose E(Guoba swirl), XL Q, XQ E/E(x2) but with instructor I've found myself using XQ before Bennett to trigger vape on Bennett and proc the instructor set

YEAHHH i knew that would be no. 1 and watching this video was a HUGE trip down memory lane. I don't play anymore but seeing jinx talk abt turbo fischl and supervape at the time of release was incredible. Definitely a golden period of genshin for me.

I played since week 1, but didnt really follow these nerfs. So this video actually taught me how Babara E works lol. Since I started using her in Fontaine in hyperbloom and noticed her generating lots of core when I used her skill but didnt think much of it.

The only reason Clam artifact set has 30K HP limit is because Barbara would've be broken with this set when using her burst. So she was nerfed twice. What a pity

There was a bug with Barbara's second Constellation where you could stack 15% Hydro damage infinitely

About the burning reaction, I think they did it to make burgeon more viable. If you had that much pyro, it would spend too much of hydro application and tone down the seed generation.

They should have changed Nilou's ring to work like Barbara's. But it is understandable why did they proceed the way they did. They probably don't want any character to have basically infinite elemental application because that could break somethings in the future but by then it will be too late to change it.

I'm trying to build a reverse melt team with Thoma But he doesn't apply pyro well enough alone and burning is not helping that much Knowning that burning had a *way* better pyro application kills me

Counter to this, I think the biggest BUFF was HYV giving Dehya’s kit to a character in a different game where her kit actually works. Justice for Dehya

love these Genshin history stuff. very interesting to see the development since I haven’t always been playing since the start.

I thought he was gonna talk about the fischl infinite ult camera or kokomi infinite waterwalk.

A huuuge nerf was on the skins, there was a bug that made you keep the dragon book buff indefinetly, you needed iether barbruh or mona, it needed to be a catalyst user with alternate skin, that made mona or barbruh a godsend

You talking about the Barbara nerf sounded personal 😂

Thought you would’ve mentioned the EM snapshot nerf that (if i remember correctly) came about to stop sucrose supporting Kazuha

I saw Barbara in the thumbnail and thought this was about the nerf to her voice lol

The entire Geo element?

Top 5 biggest nerfs in history: Barbara 300% hydro dmg nerf Barbara EN voice nerf Barbara TTDS skin bugfix(nerf) Barbara infinite bloom nerf Barbara infinite healing radius nerf Done.

Yeah the Barbara change wasn't a "bug fix" lmao there was no bug to fix there, just another case of Hoyo messing up their own mechanics. They just wanted to rework her normal ICD to make it worse.

Yae Miko’s E always had a rule that made it prioritize enemies. As long as there were an enemy alive within the range of a turret, campfires and other objects were never targeted. Even after the post release change that made the turrets target the closest entity, the higher priority rule that made turrets prioritize enemies was maintained.

One nerf/bugfix I’ll never forgive HoYo for doing is removing Keqing Lyre Warp.

nice video man