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Mr. Socks said it best: "Navia didn't save Geo, Navia saved herself" Chiori on the other hand, adheres to Geo's playstyle, and suffers massively for it.

It was such a scum move advertising her fighting with Navia in the trailer but she doesn't synergize with her unless you get C1

I would've completely accepted her If her skill effects are more like what she showed in her story quest, different colored fabrics, now Imagine If she revolved around crystallize then the fabrics change colors😊

Honestly I thought they'd build on making use of Crystallize after Navia uses it for additional damage. Chiori just feels like Geo status quo unit at this point in the game, which is ironic because her sense of fashion in Fontaine is meant to be disruptive and different.

What we need is a Geo character that truly shakes up the element at its core. Translation: We need a support that fundamentally changes how Crystalize Shields work or a character that takes Geo Constructs (and by extension mono Geo) to the extreme.

I know the devs stated that Dendro was the final piece of the puzzle for the reaction system but if Geo is going to survive long term it needs a little something more than pure force or crystallise. Navia felt like such an important step in the right direction

Navia and Zhongli are the odd ones out since both doesn't scale with Def at all, which is Geo's main stat!

I do find it interesting that Chiori is a dual scaling character, which makes you wonder if her scaling on atk matters at all unless they wanted to make it seem like she can be a dps(remember she comes with geo infusion and also her signature weapon boosts her normal attacks for some reason). I just wish her normal atk gets boosted based on defense as well as atk

This release of Chiori reminds me of Baizhu. I wasn't playing when he released, but I heard that he was overshadowed by Kaveh's presence and healing wasn't in a popular spot at the time. It wasn't until Furina came out that the majority started taking notice of him. I feel like Geo needs a Furina of some sort to enable the element as a whole (or better yet a re-work of the element itself, copium).

I think Mono Geo needs a Geo Baizhu: heals, shields (enough for Resonance), and buffs Geo Damage. Perfect 5 star that can be run with Gorou.

her being the only character people arent talking about in the version she comes out is pretty telling of her place in the meta

We need more geo units that revolve around constructs

I only pulled Chiori because she has, in my mind, one of the best outfits in the game (from top to bottom, if you know what I mean). I didn't expect much from her usability and power level because her skill set can't really fit in any team aside from mono geo teams. Right now, I'm just putting her with Navia, Zhongli, and my C2 Furina because I don't have better options. I may build Noelle and Gorou and test their combination with Chiori later.

what I hate is the fact that once constellations were considered an extra now they are necessities, new characters don't feel complete

All I think it takes to make geo better is to release a team wide geo healer in order to enable itto and furina to work together (c4 gorou is a joke and doesn’t count) If chiori did this with her burst I would have pulled for her 😢

Chiori as a whole is future proof for what's coming to new geo characters, but the only thing I'm so mad about is that using her skill to swap characters and try to her swap on-field can deal more damage than her using geo-infusion that intend to make her an on-field DPS, like it so inferior which is expected cause her NA's just scales ATK but like you get my point.

People would prefer using fire, Lightning, and wind powers, rather than throwing rocks.

I think Geo, specifically mono-geo, would be fixed if they added a Geo version of Baizu, where they can heal the entire party, give a shield and buffs the party damage from one of his talents. The party wide healing could also allow for Furina to be slotted in. At that point, the mono geo team would be Itto/Gorou/Furina and them. Chiori I think is designed for the double geo core with Zhongli, and then Navia and Yun Jin stand out on their own, the former with her own team, the latter with Yoimiya and Ayato

I edge to your videos but this one made me explode instantly

A game about element reactions, geo has none. Most dull element

Geo is like Dot in HSR except Dot got kafka. Geo needs unit that does for it what Kafka does for dot.

New-ish Genshin Player here (since October 2023) and I always wonder why they're not giving Geo more offensive elemental reactions (instead of only having Crystallize) with a few other elements to make it more interesting to use? For example: Geo + Pyro = Molten Geo + Hydro = Erode Geo + Electro = Shatter (similar to when lighting hits sand and creates glass) Geo + Dendro = Overgrowth Like I wonder.

Remember the "Navia will save Geo" and later "Chiori will save Geo" cope?

Look she’s ok but she kinda got the yoimiya treatment since you know 4.6 is gonna be huge and people won’t really pull for her because of arlecchino so ya she probably won’t get much pulls even though she isn’t bad in my eyes

My girl deserved a better and a more creative kit 💖

.5 curse continues basically.

Also Chiori has the most unfortunate timing to come out since we're getting Neuvillete and Kazuha reruns and then Arlecchino next patch. And kazuha and Neuvillete are both S+ tier characters

Imo, something that could help a lot geo is units that benefit even more of the constructs and charged attacks, i suspect yunjin was meant to boost charged attacks too, but that was changed since at the moment that would have boosted way too many already op characters like hu tao and ayaka, but now should be a good moment to try it out, and as for geo constructs, there should be at least a character that allows more than 3 geo constructs and for example, makes them blow up like nilou bloom, or them to have a coordinated attack like with zhongli pilars based on defense, i think geo would benefit with a 4 star like that

Chiori will probably benefit from every geo release specially if they bring one with constructs, but the lack of it right now just put her in a drought state where you dont know exactly where to put her at all, i guess she will be fine in a Navia team with Zhongli and Yelan or maybe a double geo core with her and Zhongli with Hutao/Yelan; and of course she is good in a Monogeo with Itto, she is fun, easy to build and pack quite a punch but she just doesnt have many things to work with and her C1 is just a bad joke towards Navia Players

I feel you. I wanted her to be a catalyst user to tie in more toward her being a seamstress and weaving with her hands. Maybe adding in speedboosts and super armor to her teammates to work with the idea of thicker and thinner fabrics. Definitely some strange stuff going on with Chiori.

Ningguang and Noelle are my only other geo options, so Chiori will make a fine addition to my Navia team. I pulled her early and there are no other future units to save for, so I'll try for her c1.

I was hoping she would focus on buffing and healing via the constructs. And even grant bonuses to summons like Furina and Fischl. That way, Geo can get in on a few different teams.

should made her dolls work with any entity(yae, fischl, furina, etc.) could been a nice off field sub with shielding capabilities thanks to crystalize, maybe even tweak her abilities to work better with crystalize too

i dont understand that mechanist statement at the end, Chiori`s dolls are just Yae-turrets or Oz, they arent some new identity for a character

I pulled Chiori because (1) her design is amazing, (2) I had the spare Fates after losing my last 50/50 and getting Mona on the new Chronicled banner, and (3) now I have her I finally have a way to make my Ningguang usable again with Charlotte and Furina. NB: Had to try for her weapon too for the drop, and I got that too. Yay! Probably going to lose my next 50/50 though.

Xinyan's constellation 2 isn't weirdly worded, it does exact what is says. Holding charged attack now cost less stamina, along with dealing extra damage based on her defense stat.

Made Navia to finally break free of the Geo curse of single mono boredom makes Chiori a single mono boredom

12:16 i dont believe so. We had 4.3 as filler and 4.5 aswell We are getting a dainsleif quest, an archon quest part 2 ( which is always hype). We are still missing an archon interlude quest It seems like we are still going to be getting new units released until 4.8 and arlachino is coming At the very least, 4.6 is gonna be a banger patch

As a first day player when zhongli and albedo were released, the first thing comes to my mind the about future of geo were a terrain changer, using contruct to change terrain. Example like mc geo burst that make surrounding area block opponent direction, that time i think some future character can make a cage construct, better than mc geo burst as atternative to venti suction burst this way overload reaction would be more viable as they are trap in a cage. Or make cannon contruct well we do have navia burst as air strike as cannon but not construct and chiori has those doll which somewhat close to my idea of cannon construct. I mean zhongli skill has resonance to any geo construct so i think they have that idea but it kinda hard to make a reality so they scrap and turn other geo like doll as non construct but have another copy if there is one geo construct maybe too much geo construct would lage the game so they put limit. So my idea of geo were like edward elric from full metal alchemist or earthbender iguess.

im mostly pulling for overworld stuff after clearing abyss, and she fits in there perfectly.

genuinely a very good video, as a geo main i enjoy this kind of speculation and discourse. theres only one thing, and its a minor gripe i have with how many people refer to geo units. in my opinion geo units which serve "mono-geo" arent "true geo" units. mono geo is simply a sub-section of geo and always has been, since ningguang and geo traveller have existed since 1.0, both of which scales off atk. I personally believe a "true geo" unit is one which can make geo a more utilised element and makes proper use of its reaction (aka navia), similar to how furina yelan and xingqiu make hydro such a busted element (not to discredit the power of hydro reactions as a base). in my opinion, chiori is the first "mono-geo" unit in the last 2.5 years. People say Navia didn't save geo, however i think she presents a good prospect for geo's future. The best case scenario is a unit/artifact set or whatever that can make geo as a whole better, but unfortunately I don't think that will ever happen, due to how different mono-geo and crystalise-geo are (ningguang and geo traveller can use crystallise with the new set too right??).

i use chiori with ninnguang furina and kuki shinobu where you get nice aoe damage with electro charged and then chiori and furina just doing high off field damage and its more as a quickswap team where it doesnt matter whos on field cuz the enemies die anyway its a really fun braindead team but it sucks that i only have 2 teams where i can make use of chiori since i never played geo before getting her

Geo won't be saved by any new Geo character, Navia also didn't save Geo. It would take an entire rework in order to make Geo better. Navia is strong herself but didn't make the other Geo characters better.

When i think about geo there are a few things that i think could help geo at this point, first would be giving Gorou a better artifact set, it would be something that would give other members of the party energy recharge but makes it so he can obtain all 3 buffs without another geo character or at least 2 of the buffs on his own(it would make him useable for Navia teams because his ult can pick up the crystalize also the geo buff). second would be to as you said have a geo buffer, but having the character be a healer so they can work with Furina lastly, add better reactions. i saw people talking about crystalize giving buffs based on the crystalize shard but the problem with this is that depending on the buffs you maybe forced into trying to use crystalize that does the most damage, id say crystalize should mostly remain the same(maybe) but instead buff the characters based on the amount of shards you have picked up, similar to how Navia works and the archaic petra but its useable for all elements not just one at a time these are just my thoughts on the subject and at this point i am a lot less hopeful than in the past, over time my confidence in the performance of hoyo has dropped

She is 6 seconds away from being great. I am referring to her E cooldown. The doll duration is already longer then her E cooldown, and her base normal attack scaling is dogwater without C6, so further gating her infusion behind that cooldown just makes her feel bad and confusing to play.

They should make a Chevreuse but for Geo-Anemo teams that just generates random elemental auras 😂

Here's to hoping that when/if Sandrone gets dropped as a unit she's a Geo unit and her big fuck off robot that she's with in the Fatui traler is part of her kit and is a geo construct.

Turns out having an element which doesnt interact with other elements, in a game revolving about that interaction, is a bad idea, who would have thought

I currently run Itto on my Team 2 and manage to make him work even in floor 12, however I do agree he is really held back by a lack of solid support units aside from Zhongli. Having trialled Chiori and taking what you have said into account I will 100% be pulling for her. She seems to be the perfect 3rd slot and will finally allow me to start Mono-Geo rather than 2 Geo - 2 Cryo. For Mono-Geo Itto to really work we need a better Gorou (or off-field Noelle/Geo Kokomi/Geo Faruzan), but Gorou will suffice for the mean time. Looking at the long term, I highly doubt we won't get Geo support to take slot 4 at some point in the future, it's just a question of how long we will have to wait.

Here's a thought, what if geo reaction shields also gave a crit buff while active?

I managed to win the 50/50 and I wanted her so much. I started the game like three weeks ago and my aim is to build the Noelle/Furina/Yelan team, and once I saw Chiori I wanted her for that team (I know Gorou would be better, but I don't want to use him xD) Free off-field damage, most likely buffed by Furina, and free geo particles+resonance for Noelle? Yes pls, I don't need Gorou to stack more damage buffs XDDD Also, design and attitude won me so hard XDDD

Your videos butter My biscuits thank you

I'm playing her rn with ninguang, furina, and a flex healer They do a crazy amount of burst The rotation is short and really nice to use But I agree that it feels like she is going to be one of those units that gets "completed" later on I am still happy I got her especially since her design is top notch

As a full geo player, which only plays Geo, I would suggest one big unit change - If Chiori scaled with Elemental mastery, and her ultimate would strip enemy geo resistance by the element mastery %, and dolls would deal damage based on that as well. She would straight up be a good unit, which would help whole GEO element and would be usable with nearly all geo units

I have had this character concept since the release of fontaine. This character is a tinkerer who... well tinkers. They're whole concept is that they have a hobby of making gizmos and gadgets to help with your average daily life. For gameplay I theorized that they are a geo character who places down supportive robots who deal geo damage/buff your team. If they released this character and did them right, this concept character could absolutely bring geo into regular teams!

I think a really easy and simple way to help out geo would be to make navias ability to draw geo crystals towards her base kit for everyone and no input required , and just increase the distance of navias ability to compensate. Also I think something that might help would be making it so that all geo crystals gave you energy ( of rheother element that made it in the reaction) nothing crazy maybe like 5 or 3 on the lower side but it would def be interesting imo

What I think could've helped her slightly is by giving her a longer infusion, about 7 or 8 seconds. Having the infusion lasts for half her skill cd means she can dish out a bit more damage before finishing with her burst and cycle through supports again in the remaining half of her cd

I kind of wish when dendro was added they made it have some sort of synergy with geo that was different than crystallize I feel like the interaction space between rocks and plants is a pretty wide playing field, and probably would've given some credence to geo

As a mono geo/navia player, i thank you for the video

I saw a comment somewhere that said "Navia didn't save Geo, she saved herself from Geo..." and this honestly couldn't be more true now

Let's face it- geos never gonna be good, it's far from being saved. Navia was the closest we got, but chiori realy doesn't help geo. It's kinda sad

i like her, but i think i’m going to wait to see if geo gets a character that will buff her, but right now furina nilou and wriothesley are way higher up on my priority list and i need to save my precious primos for them

i absolutely love navia she’s my current main her play style is something i really enjoy but i would kill for her to be a different element

I feel like there was a similar-ish complaint when yae miko came out, only for her to get instantly buffed in the next version of the game. I have a feeling that chiori will get much more viable the more geo characters we get

I’d love to get her c1 and play her with navia, but I’m already cutting it close for arlecchino. I got lucky with neuvi and furina, getting his c1 and her as well but I doubt I can pull that off again,,

Hi. I played a full geo for a long time, Zhongli C2, Gorou C6, Albedo, Itto C2. The squad performed, for the most part, very well.Despite the fact that Albedo has always been a flex slot, the damage from his E nicely complemented the team's damage. In the latest update, I upgraded Itto to C6, and it made no difference whether I had Albedo or not. His damage is simply not visible. There is a suspicion that if it is replaced with Chiori, there will not be much difference. Even if she deals twice as much as Albedo in my team. What is curious is that even if the difference is “significant”, the slot still remains a flex, and Itto’s power still has nowhere to go, because there is nothing that could survive at least one rotation (excluding invulnerable bosses and high-level elemental shields). In general, Chiori is not for geo right now, although she can be useful/fun. Maybe this really is another foundation for the distant future. Didn't pull for her, pointless tbh.

all i wanted was for chiori to do something about crystallize like how navia did, literally all they need to do is to make her skill somehow related to those crystallize shards and she'll be both easily synergizing with navia and be probably one of the most fun geo units

9:23 I mean, Gaming exists, and he can output quite a punch

one thing you missed is that if you pair her with zhongli u can use her in any team you dont need to use her with mono-geo

I genuinely hoot would drop new elemental reactions with geo, like maybe dendro and geo bc they’re both to do with like soil or something

I'm over here running Chiori + Ning and two flex spots. Depending on what you need: off field dps, shielder, healer, buffer. For me I went with Fischl and Layla. Personally I didn't really see any downsides with Ning as Chiori's partner in non-mono geo. Even when running in the 4.5 Abyss 12 some of the teams felt pretty good personally.

If I were to redesign chiori's kit i'd have made her scale off of EM similar to nahida's kit. Making her work with crystalize. First would be her skill, i'd make it scale with atk and EM. Something like 100% ATk + 200% of her EM for the initial hit while every subsequent hit by the dolls would scale off of EM more than atk. I would also remove the ICD and increase the atk rate of the dolls to further hammer home the fact that she is meant to trigger crystallize. For her burst, i'd simply do the same but i'd add the effect that is similar to navia's skill. For every crystallize shard the party absorbed up to a limit of 10 she does more dmg on top of her burst's base dmg. It's like she is cutting through the crystallize shields to cause a backlash of elemental damage. For her ascension passives. Her first one would revolve around crystallize shards based off of the concept of "self-repairing concrete". Whenever a character picks up a crystallize shard while chiori is in the party, the entire party will be healed by 50+15% of chiori's EM per stack, up to 3 stacks with a max duration of 5 seconds per stack. For her last ascension passive, i'll make it so that everytime a party member picks up a crystallize shard, the entire party gets a 15% geo dmg bonus and 15% dmg bonus for the crystallized element.

I misser Chiori due to real life issues. I still love her and want her. I will just wait for next year re run.

Chiori's is a character that i fully know that i can't really use but still got anyways because she is a sword character, which is already a good sign even though i main Furina 99% of the time. i likely get her C1 next run

Yes!! We need 5☆ Gorou / Geo Faruzan!

I was so sad to see that she doesn't work with Navia, it would make perfect sense lore wise

i know geo reactions lack so much but i can say for sure if you like any geo character go for them. almost all of them are useful for each other with only three chars maybe worth for non geo teams. my first ever limited five star accidentally happened to be arataki itto and he smashes everything on his way. I absolutely would recommend him for any player no matter if they are aware of how genshin impact works or not. i myself got itto in liyue times for my acc yet he still dealt so much damage compared to others that i still owe him for saving my sanity when i was worried i had no proper damage dealers on account and didn't even know how gacha actually functions

My chiori is on lvl 40 with random artifacts but i decided to put her on my Noelle team instead of Zhongli (Noelle, Furina and Gorou) and she is doing good enough in there, my Noelle gets more energy and sweeps more time, and thanks to her quick swap its easier. Sure she is not game changing unit, and she also is not close to Navia who made diference on the game but to a geo team is good enough. I have yu jin that i could put on that team but with her the rotation feels weird

Unless they buff Crystallize or make Shatter reactions CRIT like Quicken reactions do, Geo, Physical and Cryo elements will always remain underperforming in terms of combat.

i feel like genshin devs just found out how to make elemental skills more flexible because xianyun can e glide/jump e glide/jump e and chiori can switch characters after e.(but they also released kazuha a long time ago who can skill mid air)

Personal hot take, Geo is basically fancy physical damage in elemental damage form when used as DPS. As elemental reaction, very lackluster and missed the intended design of Geo that represents as defensive buff element. I'll just stick with Noelle (fairly built and became fairly usable with Furina) if I need Geo DPS and gonna pull for Redhorn this patch.

It would be great if hoyo made geo support who scale with em and deff to make crystalize it's main gimmick to make shield variation 😔

I made it a point to acquire every geo character since Itto came out so I had to add Chiori to my party. Basically, she's Albedo but she can sass someone to death.

One thing I want to say about geo is that they can be pretty comfy. Chiori can get a ton of Def, and for her Def is basically just better than attack. There is an appeal to a unit that you don’t have to worry as much about. Not to mention that def does increase interruption resistance. Crystalize just further exaggerates that.

I pulled Chiori. I don’t play the meta because I’m not a sweat and I have sub-zero interest in Alrencino She’s a fun character. She works pretty well in the Navia team I made. It does feel like she was built for a character who doesn’t exist yet tho.

I feel like she should have been added to the standard banner. She just seems on the same level as base game 5 star kits... plus, it would give the standard banner both a Geo character and an Inazuman character.

Imagine completely forgetting that the double-geo core exists and focusing exclusively on mono-geo.

I personally really like that Chiori works well with a mono-geo teams, or semi mono-geo. Her working on a team with Itto and Gorou is entertaining to me. A team of Inazuma geo characters, how fun haha. Also because Ushi counts a geo construct, you don't need to bring in other geo characters, with said ability, if not wanted. No Zhongli, Albedo, Ningguan or Geo Traveler required here. The last slot could be someone like Kokomi or Kuki. Characters that not only provide healing but in addition have off field applications. They can help spark crystalize. A reaction that further boosts the team, and that alot of people don't fully understand. Either way I like Chiori, her being a geo is an absolute win to me.

I feel like Chiori specifically wants a geo healer who also makes a construct. Then we can get a core of her, this hypothetical character, and Furina going.

Okay, so say we had a Gorou that made a geo construct and was maybe useful outside of mono Geo. That would make Chiori a lot more practical, yeah?

She is good,id say a character similar to her is nilou. Both have their niche teams that do very well,but outside of those they both are pretty ehhhhh. I agree that we lack construct characters for her,its the reason why im skipping out on her right now,my account lacks the units for her to shine. I do have navia but ngl i might aswell use any other decent subdps like yelan and get the same results.not having that 2nd doll really hurts her dmg. Really hope we get more reliable construct characters in the future,if i have one of those im sure to go for her

They should really make geo and phys synergies with each other. To save both elements

what weapon should i use for chiori? mistsplitter or hod? im using her with navia,furina,bennett

I think the Crystallize reaction should also add a temporary "Brittle" status to affected enemies, which temporarily shreds their PHYS resistance.

For now I feel subDPS Navia is similar damage output but more energy particles and without a construct restriction so she makes Chiori obsolete on day 1. I know you can use Navia as a carry but there is no rule that says you can't just EEQ and swap out, and you'll still have full shards for the first blast so you only lose damage on the second and the normal attacks would take field time you could give to your main carry instead so you're not losing damage there either. The only benefit Chiori could have had is being improved by DEF buffs but she doesn't snapshot the buffs and Gorou has no construct so even that's not helping her. Even ATK buffs, Navia uses better as her damage is front loaded so you can do your EEQ on Benny's circle while Chiori...doesn't snapshot the buff and wastes it.

I really wish Chiori's potential to work with Navia wasn't locked behind her C1, I can't afford to pull for that while ensuring I can get Arlecchino and Clorinde, and there's no point in pulling for her at C0 since I wouldn't have a team in which I could use her. I guess I'll just have to hope she gets a rerun or 2 when primo's are a bit less tight.

The only geo character I use is Zhongli and I only use him for a beefy shield and reaching things with his pillar. I built Albedo, but that's the only other geo character I built and I never use him. Geo is like yellow physical to me so I just ignore it.

At this point there are so many characters and combinations in the game that I'm rolling for her simply because I like her as a character. What else am I going to roll for? Weapon banners? And in either case- why would I? I have 2-3 teams that can do the content I care about well enough already.

Lava dust mud and uhh idk what else reactions when