The Dendro Element's Biggest Mysteries Explained (Genshin Impact) 

Agreed that the "delay" of dendro added more hype and interest in 3.0 compared to new region only. If ever Fontaine -- more advanced, futurisitc style, introduce a new type of weapon or new gear (again to add something to look forward to apart from new region), then I would believe the aforementioned re dendro is true.

Have you heard of the 'Fridge' comp? This utilizes Cryo not having any reaction with Dendro and being able to coexist with Dendro on enemies. Basically, you apply Cryo on Dendro as an extra layer so that Dendro can be used longer with Hydro. So yeah, Cryo may already be functioning as devs intended. Geo, on the other hand, has room to grow I think.

Also reason why agravvate is weaker than spread is the fact, that you can buff electro dmg in many ways, kazuha, vv shred (10%stronger than dendro shred) and many characters constelations. While dendro have only 30% shred now

I think the reason why dendro/cryo/anemo and geo don't have more reactions is because if you have access to all these different reactions at once, it becoming harder and harder to control what reaction you're trying to achieve.

The cyno gameplay in the beginning of the video hurts 💀

They really missed out on Dendro + Geo reaction.. :| like Dendro + Crystalize could have been creating a special Dendro Seed. something that leans more into shield that if collected it gives you buff :| like crit or something.

the only shame is Geo that is naturally supposed to be able to interact with dendro cannot do so

Geo is the only problem here for me, it's not bad that some elements have secondary means with dendro, i like it and to add more usless (burning and burgeon) reaction just for the sake of it it's not a good thing: It's better to have sub interactions that works (freeze and bloom, swirl to proc the dendro reactions) well that a complete new one that suck. Zhong is the only carry for the geo element (yun jin is also a super good unit) and the only reason we see sometimes a x2 geo comp is thank to him (the golden duo, him and Albedo or a hyperinvested mc) bc the golden duo gives so many buffs and damage, or a mono geo team bc this is how geo works at the moment, 1 broken flex unit (zhong, yun jin), 2 broken units (zhong and bedo/mc) to support 2 other or a mono geo team

basically: burn bloom -> hyperbloom (pyro) | (hydro) (electro) V \ quicken burgeon (electro) (pyro) / \ spread aggravate (dendro) (electro)

Tbh I think I'm overstepping my boundaries by saying this but I hope they add more characters that alter reactions. Perhaps even a character that can make mini minions from crystallize crystals, it probably wouldn't be strong at all, but it'll shift something up.

My first comment: In your background footage, when playing cyno, you are supposed to hit E when the eye appears on screen. It deals more damage that way. It's honestly triggering that you miss every single eye. Second comment, what the additive reactions (aggravate and spread) favors is quantity of attack, not quality. Multiplicative reactions focuses on how much damage a single hit can do, while additive reactions focuses on how much damage you can do overtime.

Knowing Hoyoverse, they most likely are taking their time with filling the gaps on Dendro reacting to Cryo, Anemo and Geo. And plus one could say that if they ever make those 3 elements react, it'll get players to come back/new players to play, and it would feel refreshing again with different playstyle, just as how the current Dendro reactions feel

I think they should rather focus on the enemies and how each element affects them and make it more drastic, not like that annoying wooden shield enemy but more interesting reaction like plant enemies hit with hydro spawn smaller enemies just like bloom or if hit with electro they could become very fast but start to wither away or loose def as if they are growing old or if they die with pyro they explode. Possibilities are endless and it wouldnt make ghe gane overly complex since its ties to a specific enemy.

Hoyoverse: There will be no new Geo reactions to prevent the system from getting too complex. Players: What about the Dendro reactions that you created. Hoyoverse: We don't talk about Dendro-ro-ro.

This gives me hope for the future of reactions, definitely hope eventually they come, dendro seems pretty neat overall

This is kinda unrelated, but isn't it crazy that, next region (Fontaine), we'll be at 5/7? Just 2 more areas following this formula after that.

Man, hearing all that talk about "Certainly they'll add more combat-related stuff" at the first couple minutes of the video is hurting my soul, that gamespot article man...

Finally, ur thoughts on dendro. This is what I've been waiting for sometime now

Great video man, thanks!

The main reason for not having a Dendro Anemo or Cryo reaction may be balancing, considering how you would slot Anemo units in almost every team, not sure about Cryo, maybe because freeze is too strong, considering the fact of dificulty not being a big factor, it may be due to being overused rather than overpowered. I personally think that they should rework superconduct into something like quicken (keeping the phys res reduction so phys teams don't get affected). Unlike freeze-bloom or dendro swirl there isn't any interaction that gets messed up by changing a reaction (or lack thereof), since no one ever uses cryo+electro outside of physical dmg, resulting in superconduct not being present at all, not even as a byproduct of something else happening. This improved superconduct would scale with EM due to Cryo not having an EM playstyle, considering how melt is a multiplicative reaction, freeze (the reaction itself) not having dmg and reverse swirl not being a thing, meaning that all the dmg comes from talents and personal dmg. As for missing reactions, they could go the Nilou route and make it so reactions are different for a certain unit, like an overload units that suctions instead of blasting, or geo/dendro swirl, maybe a magma themed character, or a unit that weaponizes crystalize reactions, they could even make reverse swirl a thing if they make a unit that ads an Anemo aura to enemies.

Geo plus dendro should have bin sprout. Entangles enemies and slows them down. Also sprout plus pyro increases the burning effect.

I like the fact that you chose Port Ormos' theme as your last bgm. 👏

It should be possible to have a reaction with Dendro together with Cryo. Now I can’t put my main Chongyun with Nahida, they won’t work together.😞

Now that Electro its in a good spot, they just need to adress two issues. First, the lack of Dendro units, which would be solved over time but we really need them if we want to keep making more teams based on the reactions. Second, the GEO problem of basically not working with everyone else. Seriously, cristalize its really not doing anything else when picking a shard besides getting better defense to X element. Only Yunjin is barely doing something with it and requires constelations to do so.

Can we agree that is really triggering how he missed every eye proc during Cyno's burst at the starting background footage 😭💀

My god the gameplay was too triggering every time you didn’t use Cyno’s E passive that I can’t finish the video

I like the thought of having future elements/reactions ^^ If they decide to add more "elements", I feel like abyss(dark) vs divine(light) would be a (stereotypical but) neat addition Also geo reactions please mihoyo? Catalyze is lonely over there.... Thank you for the vid ^^)/

there's something that bothers me why the community ignore electro utility a lot, EC being able to have hydro and electro on the enemies is something people ignore, overvape dmg is something not to be scoff at and if the knock back from overlord is annoying, having a cc character (usually anemo) will patch the problem, EC helps with chain reaction, there are many top tier team using the idea of chain reaction one of the popular one is succrose-fischl-kokomi-xiangliis anyways nice video 👍

I would love if in the future, Dendro + Cryo would make a similar reaction to Superconduct, to increase physical damage. Currently, physical is kind of underwhelming.

0:57 - 0:59 my hands are itching so hard lol that poor timed E mannn.......

I'm glad they finally added my favorite element to the game I always loved Wood/Nature element since I always picked the grass starters when playing pokemon as a kid. Good to see that the delay for Denro's release allowed them to refine the reactions more than some of the launch reactions. I hope they do the same for the Light & Dark elements they've been teasing and also the other polarity for Electro.

love your videos!!

Imagine if geo and dendro reaction was reducing enemies elemental resistance by 15%. That would be so good

You gotta respect how this guy doesn't jump on hype trains and just does his own thing

I think one of the most important aspect of reaction that you kind of touched is order of element application Amplifying reactions suffered the most from this with the horror stories of Xingqui Vaporizing instead of Hutao Transformative reactions also suffered since the wrong order of application on an Electro-Charged means that all the EM on a character just wouldn't matter Swirl could get around this by not having an elemental Aura so it's impossible to trigger a Swirl on anyone but the Anemo character who has the EM Catalyze and Bloom are also like this allowing characters to really take advantage of their EM Spread can only be triggered by the Dendro character, Burgeon can only be triggered by the Pyro character and Hyperbloom and Aggravate can only be triggered by the Electro character

12:11 Not thematic but one reason I love dendro not swirling (maybe it'll have smth completely new) is that we were hinted at it during all the Collected Miscellany that characters couldn't swirl Dendro

I think Geo should have a reaction with Dendro that leads to more interactions with other elements, like Bloom. Plant roots break down earth, so a new soil-esque state should have interactions with other elements. Fire smelts sand into glass, so the Smelt reaction should provide utility, like reducing enemy RES as glass is fragile. That's one example.

While I do love new dendro reactions, just wish burning will get a buff due to the fact that it is possibly the worst reactions in the game and could hurt your team because it take away the dendro previously applied to the enemy. Maybe do something as simple as burning stack or occasionally explode pyro.

Love the thumbnail 💚

I'm gonna be honest, before Sumeru, I've never used the traveller (after the gacha tutorial). But Dendro is so interesting, and the reactions boost my current team's capability, that I just HAD to use it. Thank you Sumeru, very cool.

2:41 "...makes you think that they are certainly going to continue building the combat..." Gamespot interview with genshin dev: "allow me to introduce myself"

Quite interesting, tnx

Geo isn't that bad rn, but it's still weaker than other elements. Then again, it's reaction provides more support through blocking damage in a game that's mostly checking how much damage you can do, so maybe it just isn't as important rn.

Oh hey, you're back!

that cyno gameplay footage will keep me up at night

I like the fact that the hyperbloom is a Naku weed from inazuma which is electro

I said it before and i'll said it again Make Burning enemies more vulnerable to Pyro attacks so characters that deal couple instanses of Pyro dmg will have more dps Or just made it like the other 2 reactions When the target is burning you can either attack him with Pyro for more dmg, or Electro for the same thing but lower, or something like that And yea, i just feel bad for characters that doesn't fit in with other characters like Amber or Thoma

Dendro is interesting but we really needed a Geo+Dendro reaction. It would make both thematic and mechanical sense because Crystallize is already nearly useless.

Great video, only thing I hate in this video is how you don’t use your E when the eye appears in his burst

I was lowkey confused at first with all the new reactions so maybe they didn’t wanna overwhelm us

The main tool for adjustment left is enemy design, leyline disorders and arena design. Time to see how creative they wanna be.

Remember the "Buff Electro" debacle. Now that can finally be put to rest.

I think Dendro being limited at the moment is fine, if they added them all at ince it's going to be kne hell of a mess onscreen

There's one thing I don't have clear from catalyze reactions. I see there's a level multiplier in the formula so it obviously increases it, but is it worth it to take aggravate DPS characters (Cyno, Keqing...) all the way to level 90 like with other EM-liking characters? Or is it still like with atk scaling characters where the improvement isn't enough to justify spending that much mora and books from lv 80 to 90?

Been so long since you streamed:( today's scaramouche's spotlight

miHoYo temporarily does not release Dendro in order to keep hole cards in their hands, which gives them a good chance to rebalance the game. That's why they choose to release Dendro halfway through the player's journey. I'm still a little disappointed though, as it doesn't provide any crowd control (e.g. growing vines to affect enemy movement) I say this because the current crowd control (freeze, petrification) will completely incapacitate the enemy and is OP, which causes miHoYo to make some larger elite enemies completely immune to it, as long as this enemy is often greatly displaced will put the player in a passive position

the devs implemented dendro so seamlessly. it's also very unique and fun

If Dendro has done well for them but they don't quite wanna add a new element yet, I guess they could finally remember phys is a thing

Hello, could you link the interview you are referencing? (10:13)

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I think a "permafreeze" mechanic of some kind would be cool; whether thru Dendro and Cryo directly or Dendro+Hydro then Cryo, it could be like an extended version of Freeze or maybe even cause Corrosion for a period after unfreezing; or being immune to the shatter effect. Just something to have a connection between cryo and dendro so cryo mains can capitalize from all the dendro-leyline-effect abyss trials since sumeru dropped 😂 Like oh great another floor my main will gain no benefit from cuz the effect is for catalyze, bloom, hyperbloom and burgeon *again*. 😂 Everything else about dendro is pretty darn good to me tho even after all this time.

As much as i love dendro my go to abyss run, still consist on my Kamisato duo freeze team, Eula/Raiden duo comp 😂 who knows maybe Nahida might make me clear the abyss with a dendro centric team

Dendro+cryo works fine now, but I wish we had a transformative reaction that can actually crit

They haven't hinted on a new geo character for a while and I really don't want to see another nilou that bends the existing reaction rules

Getting over the barrier

They shouldve at least added dendro swirl would be so cool

I like the idea of reactions that are delayed and double reactive like this, I hate that it has no reaction with Geo though, not only makes sense thematically but crystallize is already really underwhelming along with Geo characters basically only working well with other Geo being so limiting so at least having 1 other option that synergizes would have been really good IMO.

about the 10y roadmap, iirc they reduced it for 5 years (from now on)

It feels like it’s been a year since you last uploaded. What’s with the hold up?

Can someone please tell me the name of the song playing at the end on the OST

seeing how that cyno was played hurts me physically HAHAHAH

I miss you

I think that Dendro can't be swirled because Dendro slimes existed before Dendro characters. this meaning that players could theoretically swirl the Dendro effect onto other mobs and activate effects that were not meant to be activated.

Edit: nvm he literally addressed it right after i typed this The recent interview with the genshin dev has me worried about the future of dendro reactions. Its a bummer that geo×dendro, cyro×dendro, and anemo×dendro dont seem like they're going to become actual things

geo+anemo = sand *angry Anakin noises*

Welp, the video was good and stuff, but i still dont understand which reactions benefit from crit and which dont. Can you eli5 in a manner "reaction - benefits"

I feel *_excessive anxiety_* knowing these

I wonder what they plan to do with geo. Most of the geo units only really work with geo units with a few exceptions.

I know you rarely talk on the meta side, but i think catalyze really did a good job at setting up the power floor while not making the power ceiling not too high unlike multiplicative reaction which creates rich get richer situation. Meanwhile there's fischl which is already good become fucking busted. I love how 1.0 characters always been a mistake in game balancing terms one way or another.

Dendro really has branches of elemental reacrions huh?

I think the reason Anemo and Dendro don’t react is because of Spread, which already acts like Swirl.

People are always complaining that Geo has no use, but how would you feel.if Zhongli's shield reacted like Pyro. Sure it would have offensive utility but his team comp would be drastically limited. Geo being Non reactive is exactly what makes it, in the larger scheme of the elemental power system, useful. We just need more units to show it's worth. Yunjin, Gorou and Ittou for example brought new offensive utility.

I feel like Cryo always felt way too powerful, that's why they decided to skip cryo reactions with dendro, at least for now. But honestly, it feels quite interesting to use cryo in a dendro + hydro team as a way of freezing while not messing dendro element reactions.

After hearing that their won't be a another "endgame" or just another place to try your hand and challenge something head-on with your "dream team" it really turned me off.

Dendro is literally the best support.

I wish the Elemental system was like: Fire>Ice>Electro>Water>Fire With same 2x/1.5x dmg as Vaporize and Melt reactions. So Dendro could take Electro's place in the middle....as the Buffer element.

I’d like to think that they left out cryo because it’s already too op. It can freeze enemies which is a kind of crowd control; it can deal big pp dmg with melt; superconduct is the only reaction that benefits phys dmg; and not to mention cryo resonace increases crit rate

It's sad that Geo is the only element without any damage with its reaction...

Take A note, where's Sacrificial polearm type?

The Spiral Abyss is one of the most effective ways [for] players [to] test out their party composition and combat strength. If we design another type of permanent endgame that is similar to the Spiral Abyss, it might end up creating excessive anxiety for our players--not everyone is interested in Musk Reef.

Anemo will not infuse with Dendro because they will have to reanimate all Anemo characters’ infusions e.g. Sucrose hypostasis, Sayu

11:52 0.25 speed look at raiden lmao

This is going to fail so hard if they actually implement more dendro reactions on the future and just didn't because didn't want to overwhelm the players. Just like that other fatui video lady that swore Captain was number 2 and 100% the geo yaksha without any actual bases. That was fun

Rather than a 8th element, I wonder if we could have either a bi-element character or one that is adaptive? I could see some characters have a skill with one element, and their burst use a different one. Or we could have a mechanic where a skill/burst deals damage in the same element as character's infusion. So Bennet C6/Candace/Chongyun could change the element of a skill/burst. These wouldn't introduce new reaction, yet be a new unique elemental mechanic

Make a video on Nilou

I liked the idea of dendro. However all the multilayer reactions are too much of a pain in the ass to be fun. Well it may be more accurate to say the damage we get out of multilayer reactions isnt worth the complexity.

god it hurted to watch you play cyno

9:49 you mean liquid?

6:37 thats false, electrocharge was allways meta, in tasser teams are is usually (even in this patch) a very strong reaction even more the fact that can be used for overvape teams like riden National and Sukokomon, to late for the meta like usual

I’m gonna be honest my tighnari/cyno team has been the best team I’ve ever had.