The Dangers Of Hybrid Scaling Characters | Genshin Impact 

Hybrid scaling can go wrong. Xinyan is an example. Her ATK and DEF stats shouldn’t have been split. They should’ve supplemented each other.

"Def is easier to get" unless you're farming the Husk domain, then all you get is EM, healing bonus and ER

Another example of failed hybrid scaling is Thoma, he ascenda with atk, his shield is based on HP and his atk scaling abilities are very low but not compensated by his HP conversion passive (also he needs a huge amount of ER to function )

I'm kept up at night thinking as to why Albedo's ult scales with attack instead of defence

This is why I love Ayato: his hybrid scaling of Attack and HP doesn't make or break his C0 gameplay (like Xinyan). It's just make Hp rolls less copium

Several characters I enjoy playing use hybrid scaling, like Albedo, but it's always been a feature I've never quite been sure how I feel about. On one hand, I can see the merits: every character has artifacts with up to 5 stats, so being able to increase damage by focusing on two areas for scaling sounds really nice, plus it can greatly benefit certain playstyles (Albedo, for example, can be a great support if you lean into defense). If both high attack and high defense give more power, why not build both? But on the other, I can see how it can be an issue because stats are finite, so you can potentially lose out and have a worse build trying to pay attention to both, since scaling isn't necessarily equal or well implemented. As always, I'm so hype to see the video tomorrow go into depth :D

Actually Raiden wasn’t the first great unit that scaled of both ATK and Energy Recharge. Mona converts 20% of her Energy Recharge to hydro damage bonus. Ofc Raiden has a much better version but you get what I mean.

I find that hybrid-scaling works well when the multiple stats go towards a common outcome, like how Raiden, Kokomi, and Zhongli have their hybrid skills all go into damage. Characters like Yae and Ayato have weaker versions of this where the secondary stat provides so little benefit that it’s just a pillow to land on if you roll the wrong stats. The issue I find is split-scaling, as you mentioned, where you’re forced to pick between two distinct play styles, invest in one, and then the character feels incomplete. As everyone mentions, Xinyan is a good example. I play her solely as a DPS, so I invested into ATK, but without the DEF stats, she doesn’t have a good shield, and I can’t utilize her kit to the fullest. Albedo also has this issue where his skill is DEF and burst is ATK, but I find that investing in the skill has a much better damage output than the burst, especially with his recent 2.3 buffs, so it’s easier to choose where to pool his stats. I like how we’ve been seeing a rise in alternate-scaling like Yun Jin and Yelan. Yun Jin’s skills and burst scale completely on DEF, both in damage and support. Yelan’s skill, burst, and special charged attack (according to her leaks) will all scale on HP to deal damage, so investing in ATK will actually be pointless unless you plan to play her as an auto-attacker.

I think every character who got left behind bc of their awful scaling should get a patch adjusting their stats. Thoma and Xinyan are fantastic characters personality wise, but not that great when you try to run both their scaling stats and that’s terrible! Plus Yae Miko who happens to be a 5* and cost those monies

I think hybrid scaling will be helpful for artifact farming since it allows some artifacts to be useful in different builds compared to the typical atk/element/crit builds. With that said, I really want more hp and def scaling characters that aren't geo. I just want my many double crit hp/def sands to be useful eventually instead of gathering dust in my inventory.

Itto scaling on Def made him my most easy character to build. He is dealing way more damage than my Raiden and lvl 90 Diluc. Plus the fact that Gorou doesn’t need investment to be amazing.

I think they should introduce hybrid scaling to open up different playstyles, like maybe DEF for more off-field DMG but normal attacks deal enough to warrant building ATK for on-field DMG

Speaking of scaling, some characters feel suboptimal from what the game gives them in terms of Ascension stat. Characters with hybrid scaling can be fun but when you give them an ascension stat thats irrelevant to the character's mainly built role it just feels off putting. Take Gorou, with his defense scaling but Geo damage bonus ascension (for himself, not buffing the geo comp entirely), or sucrose who scales amazing with EM but has anemo dmg ascension. Some DPS characters are given a pass for being given a crit rate/dmg ascension stat (Hu Tao, Itto, Ayato, etc.) but that just distracts from the problem. These are great characters but some feel too spread out I mean look at thoma, his stat is attack but you need hp and ER to make him worth using in one single comp. Some ascension stats just feel like they were slapped on for the sake of it, literally 4/7 geo chars have Geo dmg bonus. Yes I feel very strongly about ascension stats, worth a thought.

pre video cmt: - as a Xinyan main, i hate split scaling so much (let me get out of the way first) - as much as i hate seeing char with hybrid scaling due PTSD from Xinyan and even Zhongli pre buff, i can't deny the benefit that hybrid scaling can bring to both gameplay and char design but also the risk it carry as it is a double edge sword. - imo there is 2 way to go with hybrid scaling: 1. The hybrid scaling manage to convert into 1 single goal/purpose or into each other at the end (for example Hutao scale off on both HP and ATK but it all for her dmg at the end) 2. The hybrid scaling that make char have 2 different role when focus on one of them, this way can be good cause it give char different playstyle/role if both is as good as each other and good compare to other char with the same role but you know how it go with Xinyan, they did tried but fail so bad (also i doubt mhy will really make a good char with this type of scaling cause it will make that char too good/OP and mhy is stingy as well) - If in the future, when we get more hybrid scaling char, i hope mhy make type 1 like i said above cause they proven to us they bad at making type 2 hybrid scaling but ofc they might give us a surprise and actually make a good type 2 hybrid scaling char, let keep the copium up for now

Hybrid scaling would be resolved if Artifacts were more consistent. I got a Gladiator CRate circlet that rolled into CDmg and Def% to the point where I used it on Noelle who used it wonderfully. If we could have more control over the stats that we get from Artifacts, then we could take adavantge of Hybrid scaling more often and less characters would suffer because of it. However, cases like Xinyan -where her scaling just isn't good enough even with well-rounded artifacts- won't be fixed. At least in the overworld and for DPS check events, she's totally fine.

I consider Yae Miko's EM scaling and Kamisato Ayato's HP scaling specifically to be more like "so rolling that stat doesn't feel useless". Maxing that stat will most likely decrease the overall damage because of the low scaling, but having some sub stats here and there will do the trick.

This is why I want C2 Albedo. That shit is mad op.

So I just finished building my Xinyan for fun today and I actually feel like she's not that bad at C6. Her C6 actually allows her to not loose out on that much damage when her DEF stat values are being invested into. So she is actually kind of like Hutao where she can be both tanky and deal dmg at the same time. Her dmg output is probably at around the same tier of other 4 stars non-Xiangling level dps, such as Chongyun or Yanfei. My problem with Xinyan comes down to 2 points. Her element being pyro, and her C6 being locked behind her charged attacks. The beyblade style charge attack is just so bad to use. You sacrifice all of your mobility to do it + it has an annoying startup animation. If the C6 bonus was given leeway into her other abilities and not only for her charged attacks, she will end up being very solid character and nowhere near overpowered.

Dual scaling = coolio (hu Tao, itto) Split scaling = poopoo (xinyan)

Ah yes, I love the 5 weapon types; Bow, Claymore, Polearm, Bow and Catalyst

7:00 BRUHHHHH.. I just wanted to put it out there💚💚 sucrose💚💚 is one of there first good hybrid scalling checters that still hold up well.her em shareing allows her to stack all em to not only help her but her teammate, ps it really benfits her more cus of her low scalling swirl only relys on lvl and em so she can do so much damgg even with low scalling and talent lvl👍👍

Having someone with a game design background talking about the game is a blessing.

Stat conversion ---> alternative stat scaling. You avoid the issue of split scaling this way (Xinyan *cof cof*). Take C6 Noelle for example, for burst mode only, it converts her DEF into ATK and added to whatever ATK she had before, so she can have the best of both worlds. Despite DEF% scaling harder, if you get ATK% substats it doesn't hurt that much because she can use both. Same for Raiden, Zhongli, Hutao. They can use both their ER into Electro DMG or HP into ATK, and ATK% itself. Kokomi is "kinda" the opposite. Because she can't crit, CR and CD substats are dead stats on her, and we all know this game has a desire sensor and gives you CR,CD,ER,ATK on HP% and Healing Bonus pieces lol. Also why is Xiangling so broken? Snapshot, no ICD, pyro and she can use 5 out of 7 freakin stats: ATK, CR, CD, ER, and EM. Only HP and DEF are useless on her (and the holy trinity of flat_atk, flat_def and flat_hp that is useless on everyone lol).

To me, hybrid scaling is how the developers justified having "varied" artifacts. This is both a good and bad thing because, until a character is announced and examined we used those dead artifacts to level other ones and then having to search again for what we used to call dead artifacts for the new hybrid character.

I think Shenhe's design is the way to go, specific use cases that dont break the game as a whole

I just hope the many recent dual-scaling characters aren't only there so they can just not fix the terrible artifact system... this might sound crazy, but I genuinely wouldn't put it past them.

kokomi is best girl

I like the hybrid scaling in Genshin, as much as how strangely or questionable some character designs are to me. they’re like riddles to solve rather than having generic pure ATK scaling, add a bit of confusion to get people busy for a while, and it’s pretty fun to look at. Who knows maybe we can get more out of Xinyan when we figured out

In my opinion, hybrid scaling allows for people to play characters differently. By prioritizing one stat over the other and vice versa to play a completely different play style.

Very well thought out video. Great job!

Really hybrid scaling has only three levels Works - Hu-Tao, Raiden, Kazuha,Itto Does not work - Xinyan, Toma Not needed/ ignored - Yae, Ayato Most work but the few that don't stand out

This was a really solid vid. In some ways, Mihoyos general openness towards any character being used is quite nice, allowing people to use characters they like on a personal level over what’s meta, which in turn is more friendly towards F2P/low spenders. Even with the “worst” units like Amber and Xinyan, if you give them some good supports they can clear most content (I still see Amber abyss clears from time to time). However, like you mentioned, it results in a lack of proper challenge or incentive to use these new units. The main way Genshin has been increasing the challenge of spiral abyss is just by shoving more and more HP on the enemies. At this point abyss can still be cleared by players of any spending range, but if taken to an extreme this can result in only “whale damage” being viable, with strategy mattering very little, which could completely destroy the initial “play whoever you want” benefit for non-spenders. The one time I recall them truly adding something to push for certain character usage was corrosion, which while I was skeptical of at first, I will give them the credit of keeping the mechanic in game rather than just a one-time Kokomi ad. It created a reason to want Kokomi, but for people who couldn’t roll for her characters like Barbara and Qiqi were still possible, as long as you made sure the rest of the team did enough damage with a pure healer support. That all being said, I hope they take some time to make characters of the element/weapon types we still don’t have, especially with Dendro coming up. I do have a theory that maybe they want archons to be the first to use certain weapon with their respective element-which could be totally be proved wrong any time soon, btw-but even then there’s still gaps. Ok essay over.

I think there need to be a distinction between split scaling and hybrid cause those aren’t the same. A few people in comments are bringing up albedo and xinyan as examples of hybrid scaling but they aren’t since ATK or DEF will push in favor for a specific part of their kit unlike raiden which is actually hybrid. Koko is also an example of hybrid scaling but the dramatic issue with her kit is that it has trade-offs instead of just supplementary benefits. Having any type of trade off for a stat you can build for yourself creates pretty underwhelming performance although it dose shifts the focus of building to make it easier. For kokomi I’m specifically talking about her dmg capabilities, her healing is great obviously. Hybrid scaling seems like a difficult thing for MHY tho; miko scaling ability is underwhelming, kokomi has trade-offs, it seems like they hit the mark on raiden and are trying to hard renovate it. Tho the value of the DEF -> ATK type of scaling for noelle was kept basically consistent with itto even if he does have trade offs in his kit.

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5:06 clearly you've never played competitive pokemon ever before in your life because no, type matchup does not determine the battle's outcome. Type matchup is very important but experience with a given team, the mental game (predictions/knowing how smart your opponent is), (when applicable) the general power of the pokemon in your team, and most simply of all literally just the various speed stats of your team (it's better to be faster or slower in different situations) are all drastically more important factors when it comes to winning a battle. If you know what you're doing you can beat a mono-fire team with mono-grass and it won't even be that hard.

Genshin is apparently simple, but the whole elemental reaction, ICD, is surprisingly deep.

another wonderfully put video. I don't mind hybrid scaling but at the cost of crit rate is kinda ridiculous to the point where they need to make an artifact set that can really only be used on kokomi and qiqi and whatever niche uses. Raiden artifact set can be used on so many characters and it's the only domain I farm right now. PS, love your voice.

MHY went in the right direction with forcing team splits in abyss but there needs to be affixes that force you to experiment with different comps and elements. Imagine a floor where shields simply don’t work as an example. Or, a debuff if you trigger an interaction that would otherwise be really good for that floor. There is an artifact domain where at higher levels it doesn’t matter but if you try doing 90 at a lower level, the affix HURTS. It’s against frost abyss mages but if you melt or something (I forget which interaction), you start getting obliterated by random damage. They should build on this.

Regarding electro healing mentioned stuff 8:20, Kuki is slated to fill that spot. It’s really nice to see new unit types, which will open more team options.

I think we need more characters like Shenhe and Yunjin. Dmg boost they give is really really good.

Keep up the good content, love your videos

I did not understand too much, but, I really like this type of content! :))

Proud Shenhe main here-when co-oping with a friend, she was quickly convinced to roll on a Shenhe rerun because mine buffed her Ganyu and Ayaka so well. So she’s definitely a great investment and her affects on a full Cryo team are fantastic! I’d recommend her to everyone. (I pair her with Diona and Chongyun. Wonderful trio!)

To anyone curious, the music during the video is "Far From Home", the theme of the Drowned City of Skalla from Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood.

I've always enjoyed the hybrid scaling with Albedo, Noelle and Kokomi. I just wish Xinyan's scaling was better, hers don't really harmonize that well

I really enjoyed the music in this video

Btw xainyn the not only has weird def x atk split scalling she is a pyro x phycal /dps x Support 😢😢

3:41 ah yes, my favourite sword, sacrificial bow

Personally i enjoy hybrid scalling characters, they are a lot easier to farm artifacts for than the comun scalling characters and make fell different to use them (like kokomi, in who the most important thing is her healing, if she heals a lot, her dmg is a lot too)

I recently built my Albedo. I was hesitant at first because I wasn't sure what to do with his ATK and DEF scaling. His burst still deals a decent amount of damage without me actually focusing for ATK, so I suppose he is okay.

I think hybrid scaling is a good way to keep characters (and the building of them) from being super monotonous. When it's badly done, it does bother me, but when it is done right it's a really fun concept. I think it's a good thing to continue doing on units that aren't already going to be stretched kinda thin, and if the stat scaling is something that would already be useful to them or is in some other way synergetic. Kokomi's scaling is almost saved by her passive honestly, it would've been a lot less commonly used if she didn't have that innate healing bonus as well as the -100% crit rate, as trying to build for crits, healing bonus, and HP at the same time would've stretched her too thin. This way, she can still deal acceptable damage just from improving her healing capabilities. While Kokomi certainly still has a few flaws in her design, I'd say she's my favorite example of this kind of hybrid scaling done right--their goal was to create a reliable healer that could deal damage without sacrificing large amounts of their healing capabilities, and they did just that.

2:22 I know that's not Brave Frontier, but it reminded me of it, and I wanna say RIP to my first gatcha.

I like the video and appreciate the matters talked in the video, But we also have to keep it in mind that Genshin impact is not a hardcore tryhard pushing/grinding type game. Its a casual game with gatcha (characters & weapons) as endgame. People often complicate stuffs which is not wrong, like i person fan of theory crafters but sometimes doing too much like literally being a PhD in Genshin is sometimes unhealthy and depressing. we have to sometimes chill and understand the bigger picture.

I think this special scaling makes sense on characters, geo represents crystalize/shieldin/protection so it makes sense for a geobcharacter to scale on def, in Zhongli's case hp makes him more durable because he's a tank and doesn't have to die too fast, Hu Tao makes also sense cuz she works at the Funeral Parlor, Shogun scales of energy recharge cuz electro element simbolises energy and also the electro resonance gives you more energy, many of them makes sense in my opinion and is nice to have more diversity in our build and learn about each character

Love how there is a sac. bow instead of the sword and Homa as the spear.

Good call out on Shenhe. You’re right it’s kind of a unique twist on alternate scaling.

Is that a double cleave in RTA at 2:07!? Mad respect for drafting rose in 2022

Man, Brave Frontier popping up at 2:13 really just hit me with a wave of melancholy. One of the biggest victims of power creep I have ever seen, it still holds a special place in my heart as my first gacha game. RIP Brave Frontier

3:42 "Swords" proceeds to show a bow. XD

3:40 Interesting, I've never tried Sacrificial Bow on my sword wielders before

There is a lot to work here. Yes, I agree. Btw what's the background sound there? Those scotish-pipes made this video even better?

I love Qiqi's character, her story, her lore of being a victim to the casualties of war. ...but god, her hybrid scaling of physical-cryo-healing just confuses the hell out of me, and it doesn't feel like the best, nor easiest thing to play. She's one of the characters I really want just for the story, but never for gameplay/abyss.

I love how you are using FFXIV music in this! Good choice man!!

Btw if you want to run a fun build try ER Keqing out. She gets 15%er and crate whenever she bursts and has a cdmg accension so its very easy to stack high cdmg crate and 200% er with an emblem set and just spam her kit out. Can even use Skyward_Blade on her and she uses most of its niches well.

wanted to put out albedo as well. he scales based on def for elemental skill whereas attack for burst(I know you can get c2 but really who would go for his c2 when there is shogun). It frustrates me that one tick on his elemental skill is more than his burst damage. my albedo has 3k def and 1.2k attack with crit ratio 54/120. albedo should scale off his def for both his e and q....

Appreciated the Star Wars reference 2:53

Hey Vars, here’s a suggestion for a video, badly designed/incomplete characters that just happen to be good and see play because they have enough numbers. Or characters where their element just simply doesn’t really matter to their functioning. My first volunteer would be Xiao, which is extremely popular, reasonably strong on a vacuum, but honestly really broken in the bad sense of the word where him being Anemo is just flavor and having a whole bunch of internal or external problems, same with Eula being Cryo and all the problems with physical damage, etc. Raiden or Zhongli would also pretty much fit this category but you already went through their existences on why everyone plays but could be an unifying factor for poorly designed characters that are not bad by any mean or even pretty meta.

3:42 that's a funky looking sword there

Yae Miko is a true tragedy, considering she needs all of ER, EM, Atk, Cr, and Cdmg at their maximum values to realize her true potential. That EM scaling should have been a ER scaling. Split scaling with EM is entirely unnecessary. It would have still made her C1 valid, considering her C1 doesn't reduce ER cost but refunds energy.

I do like your comparison of Venti and Kazuha since Venti still has a niche in freeze teams as Kazuha shatters with his E.

5:27 There aren't many dungeon that requires a specific strategy, but that ONE Ice Domain in Mondstadt sure is picky about what elements it wants me to use. Anyone who isn't Pyro or Electro have little use there, and Hydro is suicide.

Omg you used The Drowned City of Skalla ost from Final fantasy xiv!!! Take my like and follow sir :)

Using the ost of the last good dungeon from XIV, nice.

Didn't think I'd hear the Skalla theme in a Genshin vid good taste

Vars, I was wondering if you'd be making a "Why Everyone Plays Kokomi" video. A few months back you made a "Why No One Plays Kokomi" video and even then it felt unjustified as she was the 12th most used character in the abyss. Now things have changed drastically and she's the second most used character in the abyss. You've already made these types of videos for Kazuha and Raiden due to their high usage/ utility. Wanted to know if you had a redemption video like that in the works for Kokomi - Kokomi enthusiast

This is so true!

Whatever characters are same functions elemental damage or scaling stats to use passively somewhat drawback. Also, Catalyst never used Meta time challenge dps as Vars said. Players wanted use characters look aesthetic or gameplay consistency. Stats are depending specifically character needed instead universal helpfulness.

Shoutout to the nonexistant sacrificial polearm in 3:44

I think 90% of genshin's problems can be traced back to the artifact system: currently we can only get Crit rate, Crit damage and Healing bonus on the circlet slot, Damage bonus only on the goblet slot while the flower and feather is fixed to flat HP and ATK. Imagine if this restriction wouldn't have been there and you could get any desired stat on any slot many of the weapons and characters out there that have so called 'problems', wouldn't have been problematic. Imagine if you could have crit rate in one slot crit damage in another, atk% weapons like unforged wouldn't be considered bad. Imagine if you could have artifacts like atk%, def%, phys bonus, crit, rate crit damage as artifact main stats may be xinyan wouldn't have been as bad as she is.

"They both work for a funeral home." No, no. Zhongli works for the funeral home. The funeral home works for Hu Tao.

While this wasn't an artifact video one thing i think that could help out maybe, unless it is already the case just so weak its barely noticed, but having flat stats taken into account on artifacts before the percentages. possibly buffing how much flat stat we get on rolls if its too weak but having all the flat rolls being added in and then the percentages take from that total, it could be like a Yae situation where you won't go for EM outright but you wouldn't look at an EM substat on an artifact and see it as a completely dead stat like we do currently for flat att, def and HP. if that was the case my Kokomi wouldn't have just under 40k Hp (39,898) and would have like 48k~HP , mostly from the flower main stat being almost 5k flat hp, and they could tweak them a bit by making Flower and Feather main stats less powerful but making substat rolls higher cause i could see, at least hp, being a problem with such strong Hp scaling Characters like Zhongli and Hu Tao. it would take some messing around but i think it could be a viable option so its not a total waste getting flat stats on artifacts. side note, obviously no change to characters like Bennett, Sara, etc. they're damage buff being strictly from weapon and character base att is fine cause they're already powerful, although Shenhe would be a weird case and idk how to work it around her without her being absolutely busted in any cryo team.

Only Uses I have for Xinyan 1.Burst support in a Raiden Eula team 2 piece BT 2 Piece PF with full CD cuase C2 gives you 100% CR on first part of Burst 2.Mini Shield for Eula 3. Pyro Resonance 4.15% Physical reduction 5.15% Physical Damage Bonus

• Improve the utility of cooperation, both in team composition AND in matchmaking. Make some enemy’s Shields and Abilities vulnerable only to certain Elemental Reactions. Design enemies and encounters so that co-op takes advantage of specific vulnerabilities that lone players have a hard time exploiting. For some characters, certain Elemental Reactions could meaningfully alter their utility in the team. • Give characters (at least the 4-stars) 7-9 Constellation slots. You can still only apply 6 all total, but you have 1-2 alternative slots designed to refocus their kit around a different stat or to change their specific utility. Bennet’s C6 could have an alt path where it unlocks the healing instead of providing the Pyro Infusion, for instance. Amber could have an alt Constellation that increases the cost of her Burst, but also greatly increases its duration.

Mihoyo needs to look at KOEI TECMO for inspiration---especially Warriors Orochi 3. Hundreds of characters to choose from, almost everyone is unique with very little useless or cloned characters. All the while retaining the simplicity of the game.

More hybrid scaling please, I need someone to make use of those godly substats, DEF/HP/EM main stats artifacts

Did anybody notice that when he was naming the weapon types he put down two bow as the pictures

3:42 Ah yes my favorite 5 weapons. Bow Claymore Polearm Bow Catalyst

I do think that adding slightly a little more unique concept will help the game prevent powercreep. eg. new weapon type, new element, new debuffs, etc For example, we all have seen the twins from the hydro nation, imagine they can fight together as twins which require 10 artifacts and 2 weapons but they are classified as 1 character. the one off field can provide buff for the onfield twin and can fight together when burst is activated. For new element and debuffs we already seen, qoq dendro and corrosion. for new weapon type, just think such as hammer, scythe, crossbows etc. That way there will be less powercreep since there are a lot more concepts. For math geeks, thats permutation

Was that background music from ffxiv, why you got to tease me like this

I like hybrid scaling, a lot, it's probably my favorite design philosophy That said, it does have a very delicate balance that needs to be kept or it'll just throw everything out of sync Namely it needs to either be blatant, basically converting the character into an "alternate scaler" like Itto, Hu Tao, C6 Noelle and the like Or be just good enough that you have similar performance to regular scaling on that character, but with the added benefit of good scaling of the character's other non atk scaling abilities, from the top of my head, I think only anemos and Zhongli nail this concept in Genshin, but I might be forgetting someone

I like it cause it makes certain artifacts you have more viable than being trash or being an exp for your good pieces lime a hp percentage with great sub stats might look like trash but you might keep it because later on who knows if there will be a character that might be able to use it

While me as a casual player: As long as the enemies die ASAP, it'll works 🤣

I havent seen brave frontier in a HOT minute omg…

3:37 I think doing a video on the weapon-element diversity issue would be a good thing to touch on. We're inching towards 3.0 and still don't have a cryo catalyst, hydro claymore, or hydro polearm. The four most recent characters, as well as both upcoming characters, are all retreads of what we've already seen. That's half a year. When Dendro releases, are we going to sit around for 3-6 months with a single 5* dendro sword? It's not even so much the number of characters released. It's more that the wave of Pyro and Cryo units was annoying in the short term, but has consistently bothersome effects even today. Oh, we're finally getting a new Hydro character? ...oh it's *another* 5* bow.

Im actually will welcome swiss knife character like Noelle. I think she is hybrid scale as well, and on the broken side. Because healing and burst attack are a scaled from def. With long burst duration. Energy recharge is never too big of issue while you can hording def on main stat and distribute all other sub stat to crit damage/rate, attack and energy recharge. It is almost like it will work regardless what artifect you throw at her. And it get occational renew of interest with new weapon. I decided to pull the unforge because it comes with 20% boost with shield strenght. It comes in very handy while I can free up 1 artifect kit ability for other used (healing, def boost, or energy recharge, or even attack related boost when I want to build a dps Noelle). It is funny that despite my personal attachment, I found Noelle has lot more to tinker with compare to others like Hutao or GanYu.

Been a long time since I played but. If Xinyan's shield split converged her ATK and DEF like Shield health scales to base ATK% (maybe reduce shield damage by DEF%) and converts base DEF% to ATK. This way her buff last longer the more offensive you get and be more offensive by increasing her defense. This makes her a bruiser who could deals as much damage as she takes. But there ain't no way she can be salvaged with a Physical DMG with a puro class

The thing about hybrid artifacts (getting main hp/def etc stat on artifacts) is that because artifact 4pc/2pc bonuses matters so much, any artifact that manages to land that double crit but doesn't fit into that specific character's best artifact set is automatically useless anyways.

I play FGO and, although I know it has its problems (im looking at u small indie company shennanigans), it does encourages you to have different units to different content. Of course u have the units that go well with every content, but those tend to not be the best for every challenge quest nor farming. The class advantage system makes u have at least 1 character of each class invested, being a gacha, I found myself sticking to f2p units much more than genshin's, also, theres not much difference between some f2p and 5-stars (maybe a bit less damage), but viability and attention from the lore are top notch

As someone who went all in on my cryo team. That one wolf weekly boss shits on me for being immune to ayaka. Yeah I can definitely relate to “elements don’t matter”

3:41 - "Swords, Claymores, Polearms, Bows, and Catalysts" *shows bows twice*