What Happened To Keqing? | Genshin Impact 

What happened? She became my wife

I heard that a possible reason why the Keqing banner happened was because of the chinese new year : releasing a character strongly tied to death (Hu Tao) during that period would be considered a bad omen or something of the sort. So they delayed it with the Keqing banner

Actually there was only a Keqing banner because it would be considered “rude” to show Hu Tao in the 1.3 special program since she is obviously related to death, and it would be considered insensitive if a character so related to death in the Chinese New Years update. So unless you looked at leaks, (which were less prominent back then) there was no way of knowing Hu Tao’s existence until her character demo. So in conclusion; Keqing only got a banner because Hoyo was scared of backlash. Edit: I know the 3.4 Hu Tao are a good counter argument for this theory, but I’m guessing that since it’s a two year difference, their mindset must’ve changed? Idk. But I can’t thing of a better answer why they didn’t show Hu Tao back then.

What happened to Keqing? She never left. But seriously, Keqing is my absolute comfort character and will always be my go-to. I still have not found another character whose play style works so fluidly for me, her animations are just a thing of simplistic beauty.

Keqing has one of the best Burst animation. She may not deal the biggest of dmg, but it sure looks awesome.

It felt so validating being a 1.0 Keqing main when Dendro first dropped. I remember I was in VC with my friends and the first thing I tried out was Aggravate with Keqing and DMC. I remember screaming with excitement, “Oh my god, she’s good again! Keqing is back!!” My friends who knew I was one that copium finally saw the power that Keqing held in her Death by 1000 Cuts playstyle. I don’t play Genshin any longer, but it was one of the most cathartic things I’ve ever felt playing gacha throughout the years 😭

Keqing got one of the best glow ups in genshin when dednro came out. I personally use keqing aggravate in one side of the abyss and cyno hyperbloom in the other side and i can clear abyss easily with that. Just in case anyone was wandering my teams are: Keqing,kazuha,nahida and kuki shinobu Cyno,baizu,dendro traveler,xinqu

I've always found Keqing a fun character to play so the release of dendro making her stronger has been great.

Keqing was my first 5* since I lost Xiao to her. I was upset at first but after using her I liked using her. I brought her through Inazuma and Sumeru. Sadly I have now becomme an Al Haitham main, but I think Keqing is part of the reason that I like his playstyle. Keqing still has a very special place in my heart and I'm not upset that I got her now. I'm glad that I've gotten to use her for as long as I did.

The only issue I have with Keqing is managing stamina with charge attacks and dodging on mobile 😅 using her in quickswap in dendro teams while barely weaving in normal attacks has made me use her a lot more.

I have been playing Keqing with Kirara ever since Kiri came out and I've never liked a team so much, will stay a Keqing main forever

how many times did kazuha swirl nothing in the background footage during this video lmao

What made Keqing good to play for me was the fact that you can swap off her immediately. Unlike Cyno that if you want to swap to a different character, the burst will disappear.

I never managed to get Keqing, but I have seen her quite absent in most accounts, I only want her because she looks so cool!

The reason why Keqing had her own banner as a rate up was because it was the first lantern rite at the time and Hu Tao was meant to release during the latter half of the update. However it's taboo to talk about death and things related to it during Chinese new year and so they didn't speak anythimg about her on twitter, on the live stream, nothing. She was no where to be seen until Feburary 26th 2021 when they revealed her teaser trailer and her banner came up not too much later on March 2nd the same year. They needed someone to fill the two week space between Xiao and Hu Tao (because the banners were 2 weeks each) and Keqing was a Liyue character so I guess they throw her in there.

Mine's Triple Crowned since forever and I still use her alot. Just 36 Stared the Abyss with her aswell. Keeping that low % of usage in Abyss up for my girls Keqing and Sucrose :D

Yep as a Keqing Fan, it's just pure love and appreciation to her character, even if she wasn't viable it didn't matter, she was fun to play and fun to look at. Dendro sure helped Keqing become even more viable. When Genshin Impact first launched, playing Keqing was the most fun unit for me to play, especially her handy elemental skill being able to help with exploring so much.

Pulled Keqing on her very own banner back in 1.3 with tons of luck. She probably still is my luckiest pull to date, or up there at least. Ever since then I‘ve tried to complete stuff with her (and Xiao who I also got in 1.3) not only because they were my favorites, but also out of spite since she was called bad. I never did mind her powerlevel and had a solid team by the end of version 2, but no denying dendro skyrocketed her in every way!

what happened? she got even more popular than before. There are so many Keqing mains producing content. She's extremely fun and her personality/character are amazing. She is the definition of 10/10. She's also super strong with Dendro and is one of the best chars right now..

As s proud Keqing main, I love the fact she become so strong after dendro relase

Chlorinde is coming. She's an electro sword too. I hope Kequing remains safe. XD

I think this calls for a new series, probably one with the name "Why "they" were played again", implying how the new game mechanics/character brought by updates helps forgotten characters be playable again😊

Always my fav character in this game. Played her since the early days still play her now. She's so fun!!!

Keqing is my comfiest character to play to this day, she hard carried me since ar 10 until ar 56 where I pulled my current main. I was overjoyed when dendro finally did her justice.

As a keqingmains, i really enjoys the attitudes many shares which is not “meta team” but rather “make any character works” mentality. It’s both healthy as well as more fun messing with weird team (thurderingfury EM razor is my shield breaker team now) and change it ups so thing doesn’t feel stale

I never liked Keqing, but today I wanted to try something new, I made a team of her, Fischl and Zhongli, and I actually was enjoying her fast attacks with a lot of aggravate damage. Her talents were 1/1/1 but she still managed to handle enemies quickly. I actually liked on-fielding her.

keqing will always hold a special place in my heart as my first 5 star dps (venti was my first five star). I love her so much and have mained her since the day i got her. she is the only character that I have triple crowned and I even got her signature weapon (mistsplitter is literally for her, it's purple and looks perfect on her). I bought her outfit. I love her so much. i've been playing since just after the first lantern rite began and i've always started each new region with her. she is what made me love electro as an element. I have every single electro character at level 90 with one talent crowned. it is because of her that I have become a dedicated electro main. the amount of joy she brings me is so insane. she is such a fun character to play and the only character that even comes close to me in cyno, but keqing is so easy to play for beginners while cyno is a but harder to build. I could literally write an essay about why she's my favorite character from her personality to her design to her role in quests (keqing story quest when??). to all the other keqing mains out their, I wish you all the best of luck on your wishes and I hope you only loose your 50/50s to out kequeen

I got Keqing as my first five star on my second account, and over time I started to grow fond of her. I love her skin, her fast attacks and her aesthetics. I play with my friend who uses Alhaitham and Nahida, so I play electro for him and that made me, again, like Keqing more. She’s not the strongest, but she is a special character for many people. As for me, I’ve invested more time into her because I genuinely love her playstyle and looks. Aggravate Keqing is pretty good too

i still use her to this day

As a former Keqing main it warms my heart to see that she has a new place in the meta

One of my fav characters. She's always in my team to 9 star floor 12 in the abyss, alongside kujou sara :D

Great video!

She is in a better place now but I think Yae's still the favored aggrevate electro due to being way easier to use. It's mostly EEE > switch out Yae and then repeat, then burst if necessary. Keqing does makes you sweaty but is satisfying when you pull off her combos and rotations.

Sumeru was great in that it buffed some characters that really deserved better. mainly Keqing/Yae/Kuki/Thoma but i have to admit i wish they would do something for former fan favourite Diluc as well. Although i suppose Diluc mains can at least be happy that he isn't Dehya.

This is a great history lesson for a newer player like me. 🙏 Thank you

yeeees been waiting for this for long :3

ugh hearing the word "waifu" said out loud is literally like the modern version of medieval torture😭😭😭

She was my first ever 5-star, first carry that I built a team around, first character that I levelled to 90 and my first companionship 10. Nowadays she's a bit overshadowed by my national team but I still use her while exploring and completing quests. Nevertheless, she will always hold a special place in my heart (or at least the Genshin part of it) :D

Keqing was my very first 5 star and I got her from my first free 10-pull so she'll always have a place in my heart ❤

I got keqing in 1.3 and she was my main for a while and carried me hard through the game I still love her alot

Keqing was my first 5* character. I loved her. She helped me to go through Mond and Liyue, but when I reached Abyss... Yeah, she was replaced. And then 3.0 came. I use her since. Funny how I never used her in Electro region) Also, Vars forgot to mention that Electro set bafore 3.0 was GARBAGE, but after Dendro release, it became good. It give Keqing more damage in every way possible: elemental damage, reaction damage and cooldown decrease! Now Im able to 36* the Abyss without breaking my fingers or switching to other characters!

She was my first 5 star, carried me since the start of the game until the first Hu Tao banner, seeing her get a buff with dendro was so satisfying

Keqing was my first 5-star and she carried me through to AR 40. About that time I picked up a Diluc and used him until Ayaka was released and mained her for a good chuck of time. I very recently started building my Keqing up again since she works well with dendro and because I am growing a little bored with my best teams. It's fun to try something new even if what's new is actually three years old. Now if Hoyo would just do something to reinvigorate Qiqi.

She grow on me since Dendro's release, I'm using her on the first half of abyss lately.

I wonder what Chlorinde is gonna be like since she seems similar to Keqing, at least from what we’ve seen from that one combat cutscene in Act 2 of Fontaine.

iirc, keqing had her banner because hu tao couldn't appear on the same time of the chinese new year (death cannot be mentioned in such dates - but i do need confirmation)

My first 2 50/50 losses. Aggravate is an absolute blessing for her, and I'm looking forward to what Clorinde has to offer

dude this girl was the reason i started playing genshin in the first place. still playing till this day trying to get the best possible set for her and constellations (currently C3)

I'm pretty sure she was a unit designed around dendro from the very beginning. They probably meant for dendro to be in the game in the beginning, but didn't have time to finish it due to burning always being in the game. Thus some characters always worked better with dendro's addition, but were useless before then. Hydro is the only element that got buffed with every addition to the game, but there are also the least amount of them. So maybe we can see something similar with Hydro soon though for this case it could be a nerf of some sort. lol

I wonder if Clorinde, the next electro character that will be realesed in Fontaine will take Keqing place as an aggravate unit or will be something different again.

It’s crazy how many times Kazuha swirled windy plant in the video xD

I got Keqing on the beginners banner (the one where you get Noelle) and I love her a lot. My current only five star and she has such a fun playstyle.

i really wanna build keqing but hoyo keeps releasing new chars, i just got done building kazuha and started farming for her but then they announced yelan rerun 💀💀and next patch is nuivillete and writholy.... cant catch a break sheesh

I really wanna build her, but I have Al Haithem, and he’s like, a hotter, more modern version of her.

The defication. Im bought. Subscribed.

Loved the incredibles cutscene!

She had the special mushroom and got powerful (dendro not anything else)

I got keqing as my second 5* dps very close to sumeru, when her predilect team was taser, I got fishl on the summer event of that year shortly after and I had kazuha from his banner not so long before that, it felt predestined, I've been a keqing main since then, yaoyao was a game changer for me since I could free nahida from my keqing team 😂 I've already got even Raiden shogun, but I just can't let go my girl, she's special

I joined the game when she was on the banner, she also became my first 5 star and carried me in the early parts of the game 🫶 I love her to bits, but I have quite a few t stars and barely use her now :(

She was mid then trash then good now mid again. Wild stuff y'all

Tbf, dendro buffed ALL electro characters not just Keqing. And since we are on this topic, it's very obvious that Clorinde will powercreep Keqing. Heck, if not Clorinde then Chiori (being also a 5 star electro) will.

I finally got her after wanting her forever. I’m glad she’s still usable but I am sad she got pushed out of the spotlight :( she was who everyone wanted to main at one point

Keqing is the reason i got hooked to Genshin at 1.0 i always bring her "almost" to everywhere, and im very happy when i can clear full star abyss with her in 1.3 for the first time yes, i use her less and less time in world exploration, but she always there for my abyss run, either its top or bottom F12 team to this day.

We got Dendro and Fischl keeps getting buffed. That's what happened. 5:47 NO?! BEIDOU WAS CONSIDERED THE BEST ELECTRO DPS! 7:25 You're telling me, that one of THE BEST FISCHL DRIVERS! Had the a bad Electro aplication???? The math isn't mathing. 10:42 SHE IS NOT COMPETING WITH FISCHL! CAN YOU STOP WITH THIS NONSENSE! THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS, THEY WORK TOGETHER! 11:30 Keqing DOESN'T specialize in Aggravate. She got lucky that Cyno has uptime issues and that she can drive Fischl better than him. If this was not the case HE WOULD BE BETTER THAN HER ALL THE TIME! 12:20 It doesn't matter if she gets powercrept or not BECAUSE OF HOW STRONG HER AGGRAVATE TEAM ALREADY IS! Yae is already better than her in that team BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER since her baseline is good enough.

I'm one of the few who whaled for keqing on her banner to this day i did not regret it and still use her even tho i got almost all the characters I'll still play keqing

i remeber when 3.0 drop and everyone start to look at keqing. i felt happy and sad at same time because she finally gain some spotlight but also she become more mainstream than b4. maybe its just my bias as keqing main since 1.0 until now. never bench her even once in spiral abyss

I like that the Keqing Mains subreddit is still using the same profile a pixel art that they made on r/place 2022.

She became my only C6 5-star prior to Sumeru due to many failed 50/50s. As soon as Dendro made Electro viable, she became my highest DPS driver alongside Nahida on my Aggrevate team. She’s definitely a late bloomer and made me appreciate those failed banner rolls more.

I love the Engage bgm, feels calming after playing that game so much

I’ve always loved Keqing for her playstyle and design and I wasn’t playing the game when she was the meta so dendro felt like a great buff for her! Even if she falls off again I don’t think I’ll ever stop using her

Keqing was my very first 5 star, still sad i lost to venti, but she was one of my favorite characters. I even triple crowned her and got her Jade Cutter but I just don’t find her fun anymore.

Keqing is the first standard 5 star I built. She's fun to play

I remember seeing I think mango seven play genshin in 1.0, and he had keqing. I was immediately interested in her. Ever since 1.0 i’ve wanted her, and I got her somewhere around 2.0-3.0. I haven’t stopped using her since.

U uploading it the day i bought the Keqing skin 😭😭

I havent gotten keqing yet but seeing this i look forward to getting her. I also want to cosplay as her since shes really cool

Keqing is and will always be my favourite goto chara, I pulled for her on her banner using guaranteed pity and have been 36* every abyss with her :3 Her gameplay is so fluid and fun, and will never get old, especially for me

Keqing was my first 5star, came in time when I pulled in Tianqiu valley with those pesky towers. Used her constantly until after the First Golden Apple Archipelago where I stopped due to potato PC. Went back to playing in Nov2022 and continued to enjoy her even more because of Dendro. Keq is Qween.

I still play her so much😂 I got her on Standard Banner a long time ago and now she‘s part of my permanent team(s).

"What Happened to" was a very fitting name for the topic of this video!

The standart banner character I wanted the most, 2 years and half on waiting and hell yeah, this cat delivered it, love her speedster fightstyle. 👍

I still use her up to this day ❤️

She's still my main electro unit. Love her!!

I love how you made a wnop and a wht since of course dendro came out.

I haven't played since 1.2, and haven't really followed much content about it. I enjoyed it, but I just don't have the time play it anymore. That being said, Keqing was my first 5*, and was my favorite to use at launch. So this was an interesting video for someone who is basically an outsider looking in.

My first 5* character and have a special place in my teams

I really liked her playstyle as physical dps in Version 1 and after all the crazy dsp characters came out I switched to them and somewhere around the release of inazuma I quit, now that I am back and hearing the she is actually good now, I cant wait to use her again.

I actually started building Keqing just for fun just before they announced all the stuff to do with Sumeru. I was gonna do a taser team just because Keqing looked fun to play and then dendro dropped and I was suddenly very glad I'd started building her on a whim.

I have her triple crowned c3 with mistsplitter and she slaps. More than once ahe helped me to clear the Abyss

I start maining Keqing when I already build all my main team. And I wish I build her sooner (like right when Dendro came out) She was fun to play with Aggravate and Spread ❤

My one and only missing standard character. Jean came home for a very long time and even I have Dehya and Tignari cons before I ever pulled her.

I started playing Genshin when it came out and stopped. Then after a year I wanted to try again especially after I noticed Keqing ultimate is similiar to Judgment Cut End from Vergil and Ayaka's charged attack to his Judgment Cut. And for that whole time to this day I roll mostly for Keqing since she is avaible to get all the time and I didn't get her a single time

I hope IF and WHEN we do get some sort of a third passive for everybody, Keqing could have something that could give her some quality of life to her kit.

Started Genshin just this year, Kequeen was my first 5* and I was lucky enough to almost immediately get a Lion's Roar, both off Standard Banner 🎉. Her +C1 Collei taught me how to use Aggravate and Spread. Rolling Keqing/Fischl/DPS Yaoyao/Kirara. You did kind of touch on how Aggravate made Keqing play as intended, basically "spam as much electro as possible" and I totally agree. One thing that I found that totally changed how I play her was 4-Piece Thundering Fury. With the hectic number of reactions Keqing outputs, her skill recharges incredibly quickly enabling her to definitively keep 100% uptime on her infusion as well as spend less time charged attacking/dashing around the field. It makes her a far speedier, spammy character which I think is exactly how she should handle. AND this means more electro application, since I've heard that sometimes excessive Dendro application can bump off electro. My rotation goes EE-Q-N1C-EE-switch out and means far, far lower stamina requirements. You can go E-Q-E but I'm finding it difficult to learn lol. Going to get the new BP sword and see if that improves the damage, what with the Elemental Skill spam. Dendro (and now this new artifact set from Fontaine) has also buffed one of her best supports in Fischl. With the coordinated attacks from Oz benefiting from a spammy playstyle, the team works even better. Not a direct buff, but remember that team-building is the name of the game now and a strong Fischl is great for Keqing.

Kqueen main since 1.1, will forever be one

got her on day 2 of playing and she immediately clicked with me when I hit that burst once it got full

Keqing aggravate is my comfort pick for abyss, she always works and clear in very good times while being unironically the most fun character to play with her zooming in the battlefield and spamming ult.

To this day Keqing, never left my main team.

my first five star in genshin was keqing, and at the time i was sad that of all the five stars i got, i only had keqing , but when the dendro element came out i was very happy! nowadays i dont really care about meta as much as before but keqing quickswap aggravate teams are sooo good! it's very fun so i'm glad hoyoverse did this XD

I mained a physical Keqing back in the early days and she got me through abyss no problem

Keqing was my first long-term main (quickly replaced Diluc and Jean with her) and im glad that dendro brought her back