What Happened To Ayaka? | Genshin Impact 

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who's layla again? cute character, but i never remember who she is because she never appears in the story(or at least no quests that i've done yet

@@Colin-xv3bc she's basically just a tired college student. I think she only appeared twice, in the fungi Pokémon event, and in the academia tournament event.

​@@jonniejinji254 yeah, plus her hangout

And a stupid amount of them too

If bosses can't freeze then why not shredding their defense?

They give cryo only 2 viable reactions and proceed to completely gut one of them...

@@horyzon3143 guess I'll pretend like superconduct never existed on this life, ain't that right Hoyo?

@@huyphamle159phys only 😭

thanks

That's only a piece of it. Abyss floor enemy comps that screw freeze teams, hydro/cryo resistant enemies among other things. But even shorter, abyss is (and always has been) driven by recent banner runs.

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@@L17_8 mate, pushing religion on topics that aren't related to them ain't nice, y'know.

True story. I have her premier team and so if she is needed she is more than ready

The most annoying thing ever. I built my Ganyu for freeze and all is well, until I get to floor 12

It feels near impossible to run her on freeze. Even her premier team feels like trash nowadays.

Yeah its the perfect example of how the devs control the meta by what they put in abyss. That freaking Icewind Suite boss/s thats in almost every abyss is pulling so much weight in keeping cryo teams bad right now.

Is that not most abysses?

This is why I love Coppellia

Yeah also the tanky unfreezable fatui operatives 💀

I'm sorry in Abyss 70% Cryo resistance isn't enough 🤣

Only the traveller, master of all 7 elements can stop them.

Coppellia?

They've been around for too long now, I enjoyed fighting them 😭

Genshin players: We want harder content!! *gets harder content* Also Genshin players: It's too hard!! Remove it!!

@@Kyle81290 If it's difficulty achieved by consistently making certain units nonviable then it isn't good difficulty.

​@@Kyle81290Nobody is complaining they're hard, just how many times they're in the abyss cycles lol

yeah. pyro crab, electro seahorse, gravity boss and tulpa were only in once, yet icewind suite has been in 5/7 abyss 12's since 4.0, so bored of them at this point.

Same. At first, I only had ayaka and kazuha, but just because of her, I got kokomi and shen he.

Me too, I even got her cons and signature weapon.

Try Ayaka + Zhongli + Navia + another cryo or hydro for a fun team that can overcome freeze resistant enemies.

Yess me 2

@@jacoblopingco116☝️☝️

Shit happens

Hoyo need to print more money so they nerf ayaka by adding cryo resist. For now. Later on snezh ayaka probably best dps again

really?

@@inhuahua1that’s cope

And there was one fault to it- freeze dependency. Without freeze, her straight path burst can be avoided as enemies escape out of it, plus she depends on the blizzard artifact set. Freeze is a reaction that doesn't boost elemental or character damage, just makes it easier for them to unleash their attacks. Ayaka's carried by her scalings on an ability that can be pretty easily avoided. The kind of solution needed for that is homing on her burst or another Venti-like character with enduring CC but strong enough like Kazuha's. There is also far too many cryo resistant enemies and unfreezable enemies. At least freeze is a great stopping force for monolith defense.

Tbh my issue is Frozen not staying on bosses etc for more than 0 seconds, just have them be CC immune or something, not remove the effect entirely

​@@shaderunner7.0 that's why some rich/dedicated players use mono cryo ayaka team vs bosses like with shenhe plus rosaria/ganyu plus some anemo unit. You don't gain 20% cr from set, but at least you don't lose it entirely. Or there's an option like hunter set with furina. I'm afraid they gonna scam ppl who plays with raw dmg chars like freeze/anemo/geo/phys dps. The game tells us that reactions are useful in combat. But we're figuring out that there's harder and easier ways to boost damage. Unfortunately, players can find out it too late

As a Kaeya main who has been unable to 36* with him for some time now, I think saying that Icewind Suite has contributed is valid. Not because that enemy can’t be frozen but because that enemy keeps getting out on the side of abyss that HAS the enemies that can be frozen. Players who are not strong enough to 3* all three chambers will certainly be able to benefit from freeze on the chambers that allow it, but players who want to play straight through will have their entire run stopped by one boss if they’re on a freeze team.

Neuvillette situation is different He allows another dps in the team I use Navia to trigger crystalline and to counter hydro immune enemies

​@@Grass_rock-kb7giyup yup! Me too lol 😂

Accurate 5 second answer to a 15 minute video

​@@A_Lo_Pex that still counts as something if you ask me

And her popularity hasn't diminished eather! Sure in terms of gameplay she's not widely used as much, but she's still a popular and often talked about character in the fandom regardless, it's really just a case of her usage rate dropping and that's about it.

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​@@A_Lo_Pex Exactly XD

If you run backward slightly as soon as they spawn they will both charge right at you, keeping them grouped.

bruh just use zhongli or claymore character

Arlecchino is busted for the domain tho

They're Mitachurls, not Lawachurls.

I dont have zhongli. And also Ganyu, Neuvillette, Furina and Diona finishes the fight in 23-28 seconds.

I smell cope

more likely they'll make melt actually playable than buff freeze.

​@@PenguinsAreColdish or physical.

Or it shouldn't freeze them in place, but the reaction should still go through so you can proc 4 pc Blizzard Strayer

​​​@@mohammedbaig9569 it'd be lovely if Bosses had a "Freeze Trauma" gauge. With enough Freeze Reactions (Units) triggered, the boss will eventually become Frozen for as long as 10-15s. After they thaw, their Trauma gauge won't register Freeze Units for the next 10s. Afterwards the gauge can be filled again. This is how Freeze(Ice)/Paralysis(Lightning) works in Honkai Impact 3rd.

@multitaskman4227 oh that's sick, kind of like a stagger bar. I would also be down for smth like that too

It's interesting how in HSR, they're buffing older, weaker units instead. Like from Erudition units with pure fiction to more specific issues like Jing Yuan getting an artifact set and harmony unit that works with him.

​@@mango-float4* 💀

yeah they kinda ruined a whole element when they introduced those changes, i lowkey wish they would go back ;(

They couldn't try to boost other characters or something so we can at some point put bennett and xianling and xq on the shelf. Nope, those three will run and dominate the game until we die.

I actually swapped Ayaka from Blizzard to Hunter set specifically because you can't freeze enemies that don't already die when Ayaka sneezes at them. Then again I have Furina in her team now, so that works out. The current F12 however is so unfavourable for her that I didn't have her there half the time for the first time since 2.0 I really wish bosses could be afflicted with Frozen even if it doesn't freeze them in place instead of having 0s Frozen duration..

I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually nerf neuvillete that way too, making the abyss full of hydro immune enemies

Venti Ult still has some benefit and he charges very fast at least

you can always just use furina in the nilou team to deal with the shield

If you want to deal with the Arkhe shields with Nilou bloom, give her the Narzissenkreuz sword. Unless you have her with Key, you don't lose much by freely switching her weapons.

@alejandroalfaro3800 I feel like an idiot...i totally forgot that sword exists lol. Good point since Barbara is my driver there not Nilou. Thanks for the tip

Snezhnaya will bring cryo back.

​@@jadecoolness101And might kill Ayaka anyway, by powercreeping and redefining what Cryo can do. Just as Arle redefined pyro hypercarrying and Neuv redefined hydro based frontloaded dps

@@Vekcrazah oh I don't doubt they'll powercreep Ayaka.

@@jadecoolness101they def will, money

@@Vekcrazah i think its fine if a 6.x character powercreep a 2.0 character as long they wont make her completly obsolete.

Me too. And that's even considering Ayaka was the character that made me play want to play Genshin. But now, I go for Ayato Hyperbloom instead.

Which is her strongest suit which affected her standing in the meta

My guess is melt was put in the backseat by Hoyo because they want to give it more attention in Natlan or Snezhnaya so they don't exhaust every niche for cryo before we reach an elements dedicated region. Just look at Fontaine, every Hydro related reaction already has multiple S-tier teams, so most of the fonatinian units aren't specifically designed around hydro reactions but HP drain instead. Neuvillette in particular pretty much doesn't give a damn about reactions at all and is pure front loaded damage.

the thing for reverse melt is that, we only have xiangling, thoma, and dehya as offield applicator, xiangling being the god of polearm she is, thoma is better as a pure shielder and his pyro application is only viable in burgeon team, while dehya was well, dehya.

Cryo not reacting with dendro allows for the "fridge" mechanic, where, if you keep a cryo and dendro aura on an enemy, and apply hydro. It will only consume half the gauge of Hydro for bloom, generating a core, and freezing the enemy at the same time. Also, It procs Nahida's E, so you get the dendro back as well with her. I think the "reaction" would be used a lot as a niche if they made Dendro chars that were as reliable in applying dendro as Nahida, with some mechanic that benefits Cryo chars. Also, I'm really upset by the fact htat they instead of fixing cryztallize and geo constructs, they made two geo characters that NEED the reactions, as a conditional for buffs, but don't USE the reaction's mechanisms. Crystallize is all about creating shields that, TBH, are quite weak. To benefit from that, they could either create a character that buffs crystallize shields so much, they become viable forms of having shields without a dedicated shielder, releasing another slot for your team, or some mechanism that gave buffs using shield breaks as a conditional, therefore buffing weaker shields such as Baizhu's or Crystallize ones and not those of dedicated shielders such as Layla or Zhongli.

​@@dohickey7184fortunately exists Burnmelt. Permanent Pyro application with just Thoma

Ayaka Melting is a joke since she has a lot of attacks with relatively small multipliers, melting a small number is not gonna make it a nuke without very specific circumstances. Even if you do manage to have Pyro on enemy 100% of the time with something like Burning, her BurnMelt is just not good specifically because of her low multipliers. Having standard ICD on normals and Burst is kinda bad for Melt, her CA has .5s ICD, and Skill/Burst final hit have no ICD, but using her Burst on anything you can freeze just doesn't sit right with me.

Yeah. I do agree on your points. He's very consistent, flexible and has low cooldown on his E state (6seconds at c0). I think many people dont own him thats why they don't how good he is.

@@Constalle0412 the only problem for me is he's male, I don't and (maybe) never pulled for male on-field dps, except in the future there's character who can transform to something

100%. I have C1 and he has the smoothest rotation of any character except maybe Yanfei, easy to get artifacts, varied weapon selection. He's just EASY. And his cons are cracked.

@@Constalle0412 Wriosley's range is tiny and his burst can easily miss everything lol what are you talking about.

@@kyero8724 for a exclusively single target DPS with a small coverage of AoE is fine for him, as long as you outmaneuvre the AI of your opponents is fine. As for burst, nah, it does have linear AoE , but I prefer not to use this especially before c2 unless you have to dodge some enemy attacks to time frame it.

Current abyss is good for nilou

@@ahmedbleibel8764 Not really first side has Coppelius and Nilou teams struggle against cryo sheilds, you can only remove it easily if you have Furina. Second side has Iniquitous Baptist who also has an annoying cryo sheild.

yeah shenhe has been perma benched since i got her last year. i dont regret it since she's probably the character i like most in the game, but it'd be nice if she wasnt useless

Tsaritsa is an Archon so she will be a support/off fielder, she cant take Ayaka's place as an onfielder.

​@@dnoyrnoptere3499 That was the pattern until Raiden showed up, we don't know that

her damage isn't 90% tied to her elemental burst? more like 60-70%.

Try 4pc Hunter on her if you have Furina :^)

Ayaka for life fr

don't forget mono cryo

i think you forget to mention one of Ayaka's main pieces, and that's Kazuha i'm wondering that he's not mentioned because he's such a great unit and probably has teams that make better use.

@@usmanya5110 I didn't forget. I didn't mention him cuz anemo is significant for freeze anyway. Also lots of players have already him, me too. So I didn't even mean that Kazuha still needs to be got But she can be played without kazuha btw. Furina and Jean provide higher dmg bonus + anemo set. Another question is will it be convenient without his E

Maybe he talked about her C2R2 Ayaka?

As people add cons and weapon refines to their Rizzlys yeah, absolutely

And he's more flexible on his teams. You can play freeze, Melt, and even hyperfridge. So even with freeze immune mobs he can still shred (as long as it's not cryo immune or high resist). His C1R1 also makes him a good candidate for solo Abyss on the same vein as Neuvillette.

@@lewsee5562R1 does make it more comfortable but a C1 Rizzly is pretty capable

Those cryo/anemo fatui operatives are so annoying as hell

I'm not sure if Sucrose is good enough for Ayaka anymore' like her grouping is awful. and EM is pretty useless for freeze.

@@usmanya5110 Sucrose's grouping isnt that bad but EM isnt needed for freeze