Top Ten BEST Characters In Genshin Impact (2024) 

At this point it should be called Hydro Impact

“Kokomi helps with survivability” *Kazuha’s corpse decomposing in the background*

Neuvillette is such a chad he can solo the whole game and abyss

Including honorable mentions, the number of characters with the corresponding element in this list: Hydro: 6 Pyro: 2 Dendro: 2 Electro 1 Anemo: 1 Cryo: 0 Geo: 0 Yeah Hydro is so fucking busted…

I appreciate that Genshin is a game where you don't feel punished for not having the best supports or the best DPSs, so I rarely care much about Tier Lists or things like that, but it's still fun to see how the game's META evolves over the years.

I made a list in my head before starting this video, got 9/10 the same. Only one I had different was Sucrose over Alhaitham but in retrospective that's probably a fair shout too

Honorable Mentions: Nilou, Kokomi #1: Xingqiu #2: Kazuha #3: Fischl #4: Bennett #5: Xiangling #6: Neuvilette #7: Furina #8: Nahida #9: Yelan #10: Alhaitham

the way genshin handles powercreep is truly something i admire and appreciate. the only instance i could think of "powercreep" was hu tao with diluc, but even diluc has a chance to compete thanks to xianyun and being able to abuse diluc's highest plunge multiplier in the game. kazuha doesn't make sucrose irrelevant, as sucrose excels as an excellent anemo driver; yelan doesn't make xingqiu irrelevant, as XQ offers a bit of QoL defensive and healing utility. Wanderer and Xiao are both anemo hypercarries, but have different playstyles, and one doesn't necessarily outclass the other. i cant place enough emphasis on it, because other gacha games have taken the pure money-making route and added new characters that completely overshadow the previous ones. it feels like the devs truly care about every character they design (*ahem* i can't speak for dehya pls leave me alone) Edit: someone in the replies corrected me on freminet having the highest plunge multiplier, and not Diluc. but i haven't seen freminet used with xianyun as a plunge dps. diluc's damage shines with her, while freminet has his niche playstyle that doesn't have anything to do with plunges; but thank you for the correction regardless

I'm a preference over meta type of player and I always pull for Hydro because I love the element so much. Luckily, most of them are also very much in the meta so I end up getting so much value for pulling characters that I already love in the first place. The only downside to collecting Hydro is that most of them are 5 stars 😭

I agree with this list, it's ashame that zhongli not mentioned for a long time, meta truly shift 180 from shielder to healer because of dendro and furina

neuvillette was my first 5 star dps and i completely agree with you about his value to new players. i didn't really want him and was planning to pull for hu tao for my first dps but didn't like her playstyle in the character trial. i threw some wishes on neuvillette's banner and wasn't immediately excited when i got him because i initially misunderstood how his kit works, but once i put him on field i never took him off. neuv and c2 raiden shogun have made the game super enjoyable for me and it felt great to be able to breeze through some of the content in the game that gave me trouble before i pulled him.

I don’t play meta but still it’s nice to know which characters are the best!

Nice video, so the first 5 spots haven't changed in years! I think Baizhu and jean would also deserve an HM for being the healers who enable Furina at c0

where’s qiqi? 😔

Neuvilette definitely won me over when he first came out, i was lucky to get him and i wish anyone good luck wishing him when his rerun arrives hes totally worth it. Oh so good list all these characters are very good especially for f2p players

I slapped on Alhaitham iron sting and mediocre artifacts I farmed within a week a year ago, paired him with Kuki and any other character that were available and he performs just as good as my other units with much higher investments (bis, cons, supports etc). He may not survive being alone, but with a good or at least okay team he's a beast.

"daddy zhongli save me" 💀

"if fischl is a battery, raiden shogun is a nuclear reactor, bombs included" that's something you once said. but i understand why she didn't make the cut for top 10: she needs different artifacts depending on the role. with the advent of dendro, her EM-build emerged using gilded dreams(?) and i think the golden troupe could be good too. on the other side is raiden-national with her emblem-set. her best f2p-weapon (the catch) is also easy farmable, even if it uses some time. if you go for the EM-build there are better options though.

I wanted both Al Haitham and Neuvillette. Have both of them and enjoy both of them. Al Haitham is one of my favorite characters and I wanted him to be playable when we first met him in Sumeru. As for Neuvillette I knew that I wanted him when I saw him in Fontaine trailers. Now I travel with both of them on my team (I'm casual and do have a team comp for Al Haitham along with Baizhu, Thoma, and Xingqui for Burgeon). I do think that Baizhu is good because he's a Dendro Kokomi with amazing healing. I also think that Xiao is good too from the aspect of him being a good damage dealing in his own right with good investment and not as many restrictions. Honestly though I think that any character can be good with some work and investment.

Oh boi here we go

Extremely informative, love you mr. Vars

i would personally put kuki in honorable mention, completely functional at C0 (3s downtime of her Skill) at C2 its virtually 100% uptime. And the fact that she's also a healer and provides a ton of damage with a team. Her flexibility compared to other hyperbloom triggers is unmatched at the moment. Kuki hyperbloom, and Bennett+Xiangling core - you basically already have 2 teams to 36-star abyss 😂

I appreciate that you included fun-to-play teams with your assessments.

i love how Busted those Archon characters are And the power 5 of Benny, Xiangling, Xingqui, Fishcl and Sucrose

6:57 this clip is literally the perfect example of what you are saying given that with the Bennet buff you were doing 60-70k and without it 30-50k There is a reason why a lot believe that

sounds about right , although I think Zhongli does deserve a spot at leat as an HM

Can speak from personal experience that when I luckily picked up Haitham as my first 5* DPS unit in the game as a relative newbie last year that it was a game changer, and similarly, getting Neuvi on release (as my favorite character in Fontaine after our first awkward introduction in game) was an account changer. He made so many of the domains I often spent time struggling on so much more doable, and as someone who is objectively BAD at combat (and knows it) - he helps, a LOT. His ease of use definitely made the more challenging aspects of the game (even if Genshin at baseline is a relatively easy game) more comfortable. For comfiness though, easily getting Kokomi and Zhongli were both game changers for me as well.

year ago i decided to pull for every dendro and hydro unit. just for the sake of collection. now i have all hydro and dendro units and the game is too easy for me, lol. you can throw any hydro and dendro unit in abyss and auto-pilot it. i love hydro units so much that i actually play mono-hydro team and it is one of my favorites

Baizhu is a really good substitute for Nahida that gives healing, interruption resistance, and buffing Dendro reactions. With enough ER he does constant Dendro application. Shield also absorbs Dendro core damage for Bloom team. There's a reason whales have included him in Abyss speed runs even before Furina.

I just lost my 12th 50/50 but I need 10 more wishes for guaranteed Nahida so I will put this on the background while I farm chests

as a f2p who only mildly pays attention to the meta, i was not expecting to have so many of these lol. i usually just pick who to pull based on what role i feel like my team is lacking, but i've managed to end up with everyone on the list except alhaitham and neuvillette (and i've been saving for their reruns for a while now). good to know all my grinding for freemos hasn't completely gone to waste... that being said i do have c2 qiqi so go figure

don't forget Yaoyao as healer option for Furina, that that plush doll of her heals ABSURD amounts of damage both skill (single target healing) and burst (on field team healing), while also making her an amazing Tenacity Of The Millelith or Deepwood set user depending on what you need.

Furina is the best character. Fully compatible with every character.

9:20 I feel like this is a bit misleading; the reason Neuvillette was BUSTED for that Abyss cycle was because the Abyss Blessing was as follows: "When the character's HP increases or decreases, their Normal Attack and Charged Attack DMG will be increased by 16% for 6s. This effect can be triggered once every 0.5s. Max 3 stacks." No one is denying that Neuvillette is one of the best hypercarries in the game, but that one comment is misconstrued.

This Clips give me a great motivation, to redraw old Character, definitely for Fan Service

I blind guessed 9/10 correctly, didn't expect Fischl over Raiden TBH, but Fischl definitely has higher upside in certain teams. Good list and solid quick analysis.

For anyone who likes exploration: Just get wanderer and/or Xianyun (furina is good if its in more island-ish areas) Big dmg, big fly fly, and hot.

Since Neuvillette came out I'm using him solo in every cycle and he never let me down. I even cleared the current worm abyss with him alone on first half and just Yelan and Furina on second half. Those 3 are the most broken characters imo

*patiently waits for snezhnaya for the cryo archon with crit buffing and cryo characters with unique cryo reaction enhacing skills to revive cryo characters*

It'd be really cool to hear your thoughts on how much potential you think some characters have, well, at least in comparison to their current state

Totally agree with Fischl, but may I ask your opinion on Raiden Shogun? In my opinion she’s still very broken, so I was a little surprised to not see her on the list haha

Nothing surprising, the usual suspects. You can't go wrong with any of the Archons and then there Xingqiu/Yelan, Xianling and Bennet which basically work wherever needed. Last but not least Kazuha Mr. easy and fast elemental def shred and grouping. Personally I wouldn't set Fischl before Raiden Shogun. Raiden National still clears the boss sides of the abyss in easy mode and Raiden Shogun consistently seem to have a higher use rate than Fischl. Did the new Spiral Abyss today and got 36 stars and used Raiden National in several floors... I also used Nahida Hyperbloom a lot but in that team I use Kuki for electro because I do not have Kokomi. But honestly that is just flavour.

As a Neuvi main with support furina, I agree with this list

I think a video on the top most versatile units could be interesting. Not necessarily the strongest in their role or element, but enables a lot of teams and keep them competitive.

If you wanted THAT much to include Nilou in the top ten you really could have just put Yealn and Xinquo under the same segment.

For new players, "what to" goal What to Roll for: 1. Nahida 2. Furina 3. Neuvillette 4. Alhaitham 5. Yelan What to Re-Roll for: 1. Bennett 2. Xingqui 3. Fischl 4. Sucrose 5. Yao Yao In no particular order

I was definitely one people who though furina was bad at first until I intentionally got her at one of my alt accounts and saw that even without her burst her skill is incredibly

I think one interesting thing to note about Nilou is, because of her need to have a Dendro unit in her team, she can also fight things like Hydro Slime and Hydri Tulpa. More easily because spamming cores are easier too now lol

Finally someone who see Nilou for how powerful she is. Sure, she's niche. But it took me thrice less effort to make her stronger than my Rational who carried me through floor 12 in older patches. (Even against ST enemy) And even to this day, rival my Furina vape comp. (I barely build Furina tho. She's busted. Maybe I'll get her cons) Getting Nahida also solves her ST enemy problem ( My Nilou team's artifacts that are just okay too, because the bountiful core spam has more than make up for it. )

Hyper Carry players pulling out their super powerful and hyper invested Xiao/Wanderer: "Your list is wrong"

I've reached a point where my f2p account is complete and I've hyper invested on my best 2 teams. (Alhaitham Hyperbloom & Hu Tao Double Vape) I'm most probably will wish on weapons I don't have, and might get Neuvilette for fun rather than necessity.

Neuvilette spin makes him a multitarget dmg dealer. Good video

Kuki benifited more from dendro then fischl i would say

electro is the best element bc the damage numbers have the prettiest colour 😎

Bro... I really love videos like these......😊

Definitely want to get furina when she gets rerun. I just like the aesthetic of having allies/things on the field while I fight.

2:26, what did u do to our kazuha baby D:. can u pls do an episode about what happend to ayato or is ayato still worth pulling

5:15 still to this day, is the most based take Ive seen in this channel. People really overrate Raiden so much lol.

I just realized that you now only need to pull for three 5 star characters to make 2 complete decent teams for Abyss that also make the game easier to play: - Raiden Shogun: in the Raiden National team, one can never go wrong with this - Neuvillette: He is THE team, the only downside of him only at C0 is the lack of resistant to interruption, but that where - Zhongli: will come in. He literally reduces the game difficulty from 100% to 10% As for the 4 stars: Benny, Fischl, Xinqiu, and Sucrose are the only 4 that you need to pull, whereas the other fine 4 stars like Traveler, Barbara, Collei, Xiangling, Kaeya are free

i currently have ayaka, hutao c0, zhongli, xinqiu c3 as a team, and it just feels random. i def want to make a vapor team and a freeze team should i try to get kazuha. idk what to do atp my team feels so weird rn 😭 i also rlly want raiden idk what to do please give me some advice 🙏🙏

Why not do one for both: one for the most versatile and ones that do most damage

Here's something funny I noticed: if I had to pick four (4) characters who were the best in the game, they'd be Kazuha, Yelan, Nahida and Furina. I think we can all agree those were kind of meta defining, closest to "must pull" characters we've had. I just think it's interesting that each on came out in a different version. Kazuha in 1, Yelan in 2, Nahida in 3 and now Furina in 4

Thanks a lot for thi great video. I mostly agree with your list but I am not sure if there is not a littel bit to much water. Xingxiu and Yelan? Including your honorable mentions there are 6 of 12 characters Hydro. And none are GEO or Kryo. So at least Zhongli I am missing.

Furina is the best for me she is the first character I got 36 stars in the spiral abyss and got it in dominant faction.

Xianyun has definitely become another top-tier support unit. The plunge playstyle increases the damage ceiling for most teams

I agree with most of the characters except for Alhaitham. Yes he's strong but I would honestly put Baizhu instead. Even without Furina, he has basically replaced my Zhongli for survivability. I think he's underrated and is only talked about when paired with Furina. You just press a button then you're insta-healed party-wide. What makes it even better is that it's an elemental skill which makes it easy to spam.

Im curious on your thoughts on gaming.i know you have said 4stars dps cant compete with 5 star dps but i think gaming is the closest to being an equal footing especially when you consider hes basically pyro xiao but his constellations actually really help

friend: who do you play in abyss? Neuvilette: literally me

The only change I'd probably do in this list is Xiangling. I'd probably change it to Sucrose or Raiden for unit that's easier to use/build Not saying she's bad but she's so reliant on having enough energy while also requiring the best stats possible. Other than that, I basically have the same characters in mind, especially with Alhaitham.

this is an interestin ranking. Though if i were to rank them i would probably have alot of units share the same spot 1. Yelan, Furina and XQ, all three are good no matter what, XQ isn't damage ceiling but he is the most comfortable, Furina is the damage ceiling but she's not the most comfortable and bit more restrictive. Yelan is the middle ground. no matter all three are just broken with what they do. 2. Nahida, i don't think i need to explain why. 3. Kazuha, same as Nahida 4. Bennett. if you have a character that scales off attack he's one of the best buffers in the game, Stupid broken, the only bad things about him are Circle impact and elemental enemies that hard, and that he doesn't buff those who don't scale off attack. 5. Nilou, yeah her team building is restrictive but it is extremely effective unless if you are up against cryo shields. her teams are cheap Nilou only wants HP, whoever is triggering the blooms are built full Em no need for crit or stuff like that, like it's just Her+Flex Hydro+Flex Dendro+Healer. 6. Raiden and Fischl they both are pretty comparable, they both deal a sh*tton of damage, Fischl with her A4 and Oz and Raiden with her Burst, Not to mention absurd battery potential. 7. Neuvillette the best Carry in the game. he can Sustain himself and can be pseudo healer with PTA. deals a sh*tton of damage, and also pretty flexible all around. 8. Alhaitham the only other dps besides neuvillette to be here, Alhaitham is probably the 2nd best carry in the game, since in his case his teams have more than one instance of damage, like There's his damage and then the hyperblooms or whatever. he has pretty flexible rotations, good damage, and just like neuvillette also cheap 4 star BiS slots with Alhaitham with Iron Sting or HoD and Neuvillette with prototype amber. another i like about both Neuvillette and Al is that you don't need their archons to see those big numbers the archons are helpful and provide big buffs but they don't feel neccesary at all. 9. Kokomi, serviceable healing, Good AoE off-Field application with no ICD, Decent damage if you build her as a half healer half damage dealer. also pretty flexible like she can be used in Burgeon, Hyperbloom, Nilou, Taser, she's good in alot of teams 10. . XL. I was wondering if Hu tao, Childe would fit in. like i said it's hard. but i think XL takes the cake here since she can dish out insane damage, apply a ton of pyro with no ICD, her only bad thing is that i think she's too tied to bennett and without bennett well good luck with your ER reqs Honorable Mentions Childe:A unit that has really good AoE potential, his international is one of the strongest teams in the game, i doubt it's top 5 anymore with all the new stuff, but no matter what internat will still slap amd can get better the more you invest into it, he's also somewhat F2P friendly since can also help with saving more valueble hydro characters for the other side. -Hu Tao for an old Dps unit, she has aged pretty well however compared to Neuvi and Al she does take some getting used to but if you get the combo right then you're gold. Xianyun and Furina are pretty strong buffs for her. -Shinobu, Hyperbloom is a godsends and only needing full em to reach that damage is great while also sustaining your onfielder, she's probably also the best hyperbloom trigger in the game. Xianyun: i think this might be the most suprising one here since she's new. but her plunging buffs are pretty strong if you wanna incorporate plunges especially when paired with other buffers like bennett or furina. Baizhu:the highest amount of healing in the game, ofc there's Nahida who is better at applying dendro off field, but Baizhu is also good driver and i find him to be better than Nahida on field since she herself is so frail unlike Baizhu. also furina buffs him even more since he heals so much which means you can achieve fanfare alot more. Zhongli: probably the worst one here but he's in the honorable mentions because of how good his shield is to help for survival and comfort a decent res shred which is ok. even though it's not cutting these days. and if you don't feel doing some big brained stuff and don't wanna die then ZL is for you.

Definitely gonna try to get Furina on her rerun; I HAD to skip her for Navia 😆😆

C1 Noobilet kaJOOha Yelan are my aims in Genshin right now

Neuvilette…and…Yelan???

funnily enough both benny & kazuha have dropped from their spots in the top 4 most used characters for a bit (mostly by the addition of neuv & furina) but kazuha in particular was down to like 12 spot for 2 patches. Benny is easy to justify as slowly being brought down by alternative scalers but how & why kazu dropped so far down is flummoxing, i guess it had to do with what enemies from what i can see cuz currently he's back to spot 5/6

Something that I think is worth mentioning when it comes to ease of use for new players is how far into the story you have to go for their ascension materials.

I never pull for meta reasons only Fun and vibes, yet I am lucky because I have so many “meta” characters but also uh don’t really build them that well so 36* is still way too difficult

Are you the strongest because you're Xingchu or are you Xingchu because you're the strongest?

VARS WHY DIDN'T YOU MENTION *insert character here*! VARS WHY IS THIS CHARACTER ABOVE THAT CHARACTER! VARS STOP ACTING LIKE YOU'RE A TC! VARS MY DIAPEY NEEDS CHANGING! VARRRSLGDLMGGGDG

The only thing that keeps me from pulling Furina is the bubbles on the screen, I'm sorry. I really don't like it 😭. Is there a way to remove it?

People seem to forget that hydro is the only element that interacts with *every* other element. Given that this game very heavily relies upon elemental damage, and particularly elemental reactions, this is a huge advantage to being a meta pick. Hydro also has many high rate of application characters. In addition to that, hydro resonance granting an additional 25% hp bonus also makes the HP scaling hydro characters synergistic with each other, essentially making hydro also react with itself. Furina may be the worst offender for this, because she pairs extremely well with any non-hydro HP scaler, like Hu Tao, but she also has Neuvillette, Yelan, and even Kokomi within her own element. Heck, you can even use Barbara and quickly max fanfare.

No. 1 has to be Fischl, not because she's the strongest, but because she's literally my wife.

its interesting how he mentioned nilou in honorable mention but didnt do childe or xiao who can easily surpass her in aoe with decent investment and not having any team restrictions

Ooh I wanna hear more about the comfort characters

Your videos butter My biscuits thank you

Qiqi will always be the best in our hearts

Yoimiya is the best character in Genshin, because she's my favorite

bro literally played HSR audio at the end 😂😂😂

as a f2p, i am proud I have all of them, exlcuding nilou which i will piull next rerun

Honestly, pretty good list. Only thing is probably Fischl being here, Shogun kinda beats her in the sub DPS field. Still, solid list. Here's mine 10. Alhaitham 9. Bennett 8. Neuvillette 7. Zhongli 6. Kokomi 5. Navia 4. Kazuha 3. Furina 2. Nahida 1. Shogun If i had to choose honorable mentions, i think id go with xingqiu, hu tao, yelan, Xiangling, Lyney and baizhu I'm prepared to get slandered btw.

Before the vid, I rate supports higher than dps units, they simply age better overall.

As someone who hasnt played since the release of Inazuma, is Ganyu still viable?

When I started this game to till this day, I didn’t play for the meta I just pulled whoever I liked and I hated how the word meta insulted my favs while other characters overshadowed them but now funnily enough the new characters I’m interested in are now considered meta And I look like a meta enjoyer just because I keep using them😭

fischl over Raiden is mental bro does not know what he doing fr fr 💀💀

Fischl I think is overrated a bit… Her teams are so so limited, and feels a bit very replaceable, like she has only Quicken which fall very hard after the release of Quickbloom, and her real team is with Neuvillette, and you can replace her with Zhongli, or Navia; in that team, and her A4 is only strong only with double Electro. The best Electro unit in my opinion is Cyno, like literally no electro character can do the strongest Aggravates on top of having the strongest, and the fastest Hyperblooms.

What do u think about ayaka?

I don’t wanna neglect anything you said but like… 2:46 How did you die on Floor 11 on Kazuha while having Kokomi On-Field in ur team?

I feel sorry for the fools who passed on Neuvillette for wriothsley. Bad move, very bad move

bro does NOT play genshin impact 😭😭

can we also have list of top characters who are also fun to play

only one i woul have questions about would be nilou-- solely because of the locked hydro and dendro teams, and god only knows how difficult it is to get an entire team of only hydros and dendros that can sustain her self damage (4* options for these two elements are quite limited and specifically the good dendro ones are either based on sheer luck or have to wait lantern rite for yaoyao. which currently is pretty convenient, but if it's not the start of the year, you have to pray that the next banner has her or that you get lucky to get her randomly. otherwise you have to wit for nahida to make her work). currently playing on an alt account where i was considering her, but i had to scrap her entirely because hte only viable unit i had to pair her with was xingqiu, and possibly barbara (still don't have yaoyao and no nahida still) so i don't think nilou is such a good investment if anyone is a beginner that does not have a good amount of characters in their roster 🤔