What Makes A Well Designed Character? | Genshin Impact 

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Unironically funny

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Im a beidou main and I think she is one of most lost potential character. Her burst hass one of worst mechanism, having a minimum and maximum numbers of enemies. U need min 2 and max 4 character for her burst to perform. Her burst already has an aoe so having max no of enemy is stupid.

she stuggles with poor enemie AI

As a Beidou main since I started the game, her playstyle is so burned into my memory that I find it hard playing as anyone else. Despite having Ayaka for about a month now, she's only a sub DPS and still dies way more than I'd like

As someone who sucks at timing my attacks this is exactly why I don't use her 🙈 I also struggled with the counter-mechanic event we had not too long ago...

Personally I think Beidou has design issues due to how her focus looks like it should be the counter, but in actuality her burst is the real hard hitting part of her kit. They did it much better with Yunjin since that's all Yunjin has for personal damage and they added the work around of just holding it for longer if you can't be bothered to time it. I remember seeing Beidou counter do like 70k during the first 2-3 months of the game and that being so awesome, now it's so focused around how her burst works and it's so uninteresting. As someone said before, it also plays around a cap, 2 enemies minimum and 4 max for good dps, any less or more then your damage falls off so hard you might as well not use Beidou. Fischl is op in ST so you'd think "Oh Beidou is better in AoE right?" when in fact she's best at 2 enemies... which is a sizable dps increase from Fischl but is it really enough to matter? I think the only thing saving Beidou right now is the fact that there isn't a better AoE 4* Electro unit, unless you count Kujou Sara being able to hit like 120k on her burst or c6 Lisa hold E doing like 150k with proper set up lol But yeah, Beidou is really cool, her counter is really cool, but it's not even that good. It's a mechanic you have to learn to play around for less reward than just pressing Q then swapping to Ayato/Childe lol

Every time I fail 50/50 I pray for my first Jean.

What I love about Jean's design is how simple it is yet how versatile she is

ive been using jean for everything ever since i got her and yes she's very reliable tbh

Yeah even tho I would cry if I get her on a banner I want. She’s pretty good and easy to build helped me out early game and I’m using her more with xiao

@@2triedforthis830 jean is actually one of the best xiao supports you can get especially if you have her c2 and c4 which give atk speed buff and decrease anemo res which greatly boosts xiaos damage

Like what? Healing check? Defense check? It all comes back to DPS check.

The end game content, yes ... this game lack of this ...just abyss is the endgame content now (gathering and exploring is the main content) ... I would have they add the event that on Childe 2nd rerun (i forget the name) to be the another endgame content ...

If Co-Op had greater focus then healers like Qiqi and Barbara would actually be a lot better, because they could heal other players while those players focus on damage.

@@Ayasegaki Well, a mode that's about endurance, about lasting the longest rather than a mere dps check (the example i think of is like the slaughterhouse in borderlands 2) would incentivize the use of characters that can help survivability.

@@Ayasegaki If they focused more on Co-op experience, such as adding Raids, then healers would become much more useful. Maybe something like a sort of Call of Duty Zombies mode where players have to fend off waves of monsters, and the numbers keeps on increasing over and over again. This would also make healers stronger.

with all of this he has enough complexity that if you start to care about optimizing combos and such you can. Itto is such a well designed and balanced unit!

The problem with Itto is that he kinda needs zhongli, albedo and gorou, as in, all geo characters play best with other geo characters, he’s not a particularly interesting main dps outside of geo because he offers absolutely nothing other than damage which might as well be physical in most scenarios.

@@impendio itto only need gorou his best team litteraly dont use zhongli cause he gain résistance to interruption by his ult and gorou ult

@@impendio thats a geo element problem, not an itto problem

@@theolailheugue9402 And since he almost only does geo damage you can have any off-field damage dealer of another element and he will get a constant stream of shields.

As someone who used Yan Fei to carry my team from mid-late game, I think that her kit is fantastic. Everything in her kit is there to support her stacking scarlet seals for maximum charged attack damage. Her elemental skill, burst, constellations, and ascension passives cohesively come together to make her a charged attack focused main dps. The only thing that holds her back is her numbers, but she has one of the most cohesive kits in the game imo.

before vid begins, best 5* imo: Zhongli, Ganyu, Xiao are best designed

this is so true

Yeah, I agree about Yanfei. It's not her fault that her damage is overshadowed by other 5 star characters. It's simply because of how the game is supposed to be. 5 star will always have better stats eventho their kit is kinda bad. There is nothing really out of place with Yanfei's kit.

@@seansaechao1798 Yes, I have her C5 and started maining her when she first released. It’s only later that I got her cons and boy, it makes her even more powerful. I agree that her numbers hold her back (the highest I got with melt was 58720 with Bennett and her talents 8-9-10 at lvl 80) but she’s a well-fledged char and all things in her kit makes sense unlike Diona C4.

Ganyu 😌😌😌

First thing I thought of was Homestuck lol

im a day1 player (AR59) and im still using diluc for abyss

I enjoy Dilucs gameplay! He was my first 5050 loss (lost for HuTau) and first five star. After playing HuTaus story I’m so glad I got Diluc instead.

He carried me until around AR55, when I finally decided that I have like 3 benched 5 stars that are some of the best in game, so I started to use them, but, he's still by far the easiest to play and still lasted me quite a while in the game. There's really nothing wrong with him that's not reserved to just him, as clunky-ness is something in a lot of claymores and damage output won't matter much throughout most of the game.

legit im envious of any one who pulls diluc on noelle banner.... they have and amaizing fun to play dps who can acompany them till the end of their journey as their main

Only until people discover how xiangling is a gap in pyro dps 🤣

Ok Kazuha is not well designed. He is simply too OP and can be placed in almost any team and he will improve it significantly.

imo Yanfei's charge atks should consume less stamina even with the sigils

I think that this what should make a well designed main dps, is a trade of power the main dps has and cons/ requirements it has. For example: Tartaglia is extremely flexible due to stance change and element, very powerful against crowds, he has literally quadratic scaling on his riptide against multiple opponents, but to make you take advantage of this feature, you must learn how to manage coldowns and have crowd control party members.I think that Xiao good example of very well designed main dps character as well. He is very good main dps, despite being anemo, which is both his biggest advantage and disadvantage, it makes him jack of all trades, master of none when it comes to fighting almost every kind of enemy or elemental shields. He will shred through every shield quickly using his anemo plunge attacks, but not as quickly as other main dps with elemental advantage to that type of shield type. His burst gives him really huge buff, but it has a it's price, energy and health drain cons. Ninguang as geo main dps has similar advantages to Xiao, geo is good against everything almost, but isn't the best against anything. Diluc is another exaple, hr doesn't really gets any buffs from his kit besides pyro infusion, but he is pyro and uses claymore so he can utilise reaction really well and destroy shields easily due to weapon type, but to do that he need hydro supports. There are more well designed main dps characters like Itto and Ayato, but it would take long time to explain each of them. There are also characters like Hu Tao and Ganyu destroyed that trend of this trade of. Hu Tao is good example of case when character has such trade of, but it's unequal. Her gameplay is risky, but buffs she receives are too high for that. Her elemental skill infusion shouldn't be as powerful or should introduce another restriction other than taking some health, but she her design concept is really good in it's core. Ganyu on other hand has very safe gameplay, so she can send spam nuke charged attacks from her bow safely, has dash/taunt+application of cryo on her elemental skill and her burst makes her good as support. But there is no justification for such power. No real restriction or requirement. Even Hu Tao has a requirement in her kit, that tries to justify her power. Ganyu has none. Bow gives her easy infusion and safe range she can attack from sending charge attacks with enormous scaling, basically better version of Mona's elemental skill what makes her good cryo applicator and burst is also very good for support. Raiden is broken too, even more than Ganyu, but Raiden is broke because of her design, she is archon so she has to have some kind of broken utility. Venti has the best crowd control and is excellent debuffer, with very neat energy recharge capabilities, also provides a lot of exploration benefits Zhongli has the best shield in entire game making you invincible, has very good nuke that grands also freeze reaction like crowd control, destroys geo shields and ores easily, shreds resistances even those rare as geo and anemo and buffs all geo constructs. Raiden is best battery in whole game, very good main dps at c0 and the best in the game at c3. She is very good in all kind of teams that need energy and additionally can easily outdps your main dps.

@@killerspreet7318 Totally agree... that's the reason I don't play him anymore. Accept in Keqing comp, because I love her but she isn't the strongest.

@@God_abandoned_us_all wouldnt say Xiao is a nicely designed main dps I main him and he can shred shields not a lot of enemies have high anemo res, but his ult outlasts any buff you can give him, and he need particles plus his cooldowns were made with anemo resonance in mind. Honestly they should shorten his Q duration and decrease the energy required to use it, in a way so it stays the same as now it justs lasts shorter so it can be buffed for its full duration also hoyoverse literaly hates Xiao, Yunjin and Heizu were rumored to be "anemo gorou's" but they werent, geo has a good offensive resonance, giving us an anemo gorou a better anemo resonance will mean a lot to Xiao and possibly another Anemo main dps in the future

I comepletly agree with you. That's why i didn't pull for Xiao. I really like him, but his clunky in his gameplay, i would lose too much time in abbys ;;

i also agree with you! i almost pulled yae before trying out her trial run and she's so clunky

Absolutely agree with this comment! I use my favorites and the characters I can connect with personally or if I really like them and their stories, too.

you literally sums up the reason why i played genshin. i like the character design. ends of. no matter how bad the character kit is. if i like the design, i will make it work.

@@aryosatya4528 Another reason why I play Genshin like that is cause I suck at coming up with team comps and builds. I'm a lil dum dum xP

For me, the character needs a sort of combo. Obviously I want them to be fun to play, pretty to look at, and a story that creates a connection. However, I also want them to contribute something to my existing team, and whether they are worth the time I have invested in the game. All characters will eventually be powercrept, but I still look out for the more optimal picks of the bunch. Really, personality can only do so much for me since I intend to use them often. Hence they need not only be fun but effective in their role. Otherwise I start comparing them to others and question whether it was worth the primogems. Yeah, I'm picky. It's why I usually hold my gems for awhile.

Regarding Raiden-Beidou, I tend to stagger their Bursts so they don't interfere with each other. I will always run Xingqiu with them, since his Burst is pretty much permanently up due to how much energy generation Raiden provides. It can feel a bit clunky, if you aren't used to an "unclean" rotation, but they can work. You just have to be mindful that Beidou's Burst and Raiden's Burst can't proc each other. It does give a near 100% Electro-charged reaction uptime with Xingqiu, which is bonkers for large mob packs. But then we start getting into Electro problems, not character issues, where it's the weaker single target Element compared to Cryo/Pyro.

I 1000% agree. I made a second account and got him and was overjoyed. After he got the new husk set and his 4* weapon he just became better imo and easier to use. He’s amazing in a lot of dps teams like hu tao and Xiao and maybe even Ayaka ( I use Ayaka and him together and they do pretty well) and he’s just super fun to play with dealing good dmg himself.

@@2triedforthis830 mhm! I'm really upset that I won't be able to give him his weapon for my second account, since I only just a few days ago am able to play it without lagging to hell and back, lol. Not gonna stop me from playing him when I do get him on it tho, I love him too much

@@Streamstresss Even though i don't own Albedo, i agree with this. But i just don't like that he seems like just a good pair with Zhonghli. They did Albedo dirty with that in my Opinion. Imagine him beeing a different element. Or maybe even switch elements, that would make him way more viable and stronger. And would fix a lot. I guess he can make geo shields easy, but that isn't gonna last forever. And that elevetor is literally useless outside of the exploring of course. What is it supposed to do? Reach frickin Ruin Guards Eyes or something? I guess? Very weird design from Hoyo.

@@chaosinfernoid9008 I can't see him built any different, and I've never had an issue with his elevator in combat, it's even helped me a several times times. That might be because I'm a Xiao main tho, idk, I just like plunge attacks with any character, lol. The only change that I'd make if I could is make him complete build off defense, and not his skill on defense and then burst on attack. That would be the best change they could make to him if you ask me.

Thoma wasn't released during Yoimiya's banner... He was paired with Hu Tao's rerun banner.

@@MrGelexone you're right, mb, it was Sayu's release

Diluc is just super versatile and easy to use

the problem is she was meant to be a physical dps but fails in that regard due to her slow and clunky AA animations lol

@@Neisse she is a support and a cryo support at that. Her multipliers on E and Q are very good. Just bcoz her C6 has Phys support capability doesn't mean she is a phys dps (if anything its phys support). Also it doesnt matther that she was seen using a phys weapon in character trailer, Yunjin was using dragon's bane.

Yeah Rosa is on my gathering and mining team for that passive.

@@parthpurwar her A1 C1 buff herself, A4 C6 buff the team, she's a weird hybrid. C1 especially that encourages her being a main dps

@@avic7248 doesn't mean she is a phys support and still not a dps at C1

I like Physical DPS but truth is her Electro carry teams are genuinely very good, as a old player of her its what i'd typically recommend for easy/efficiency of clearing all the content, with Phys being more for showing off or having fun. Point with this is her variety for being played on field is wider, includes a lot more variation then some give it credit. Phys, Electro, and Hybrid i've encountered atleast half a dozen team types that are good enough i'd easily call them viable (Phys Hyper with Yun Jin, Hyper Electro with Sara, Taser on field with a off field anemo or pure superconduct which is where Hybrid build shines, various overvape teams, and hot pot/soup driver.) This all being while any on field play with her is basically a option, but its a easy to make work option even if its not her more definitive calling as a SubDPS.

I’d say the only problem is most of her power is locked behind constellations. I absolutely adore fischl and still use her even though I have xiao and Ayaka who deal way more dmg lol. She’s a great character.

@@cmool I'm still waiting for my C1 on Fischl to use her machine-gun :'( I guess I'll be able to get her to C2 by july, with her being back in starglitter shop + her being a reward for 2.8's event.

@@vicca4671 You can work on your Yun Jin in the mean time if you haven't! :D

@@Ottobon Yup, I'm doing that, already got her a husk set and she's close to 80 now ❤️ But the most important part for me is the joy of seeing numbers go fast hahaha

They are very crunchy

Sucrose isn't clunky either(in terms of both support and being a main driver)

Heizou: i cast fist

he literally praises sucrose in the video

Yes 100x this. Not to mention the fact that many many people were scared that powercreep would happen in the game after Hu Tao and Ganyu. Now to see people be upset at characters like Yoimiya and Kokomi is complete whiplash. They’re good but they’re not making Past dps look like garbage. This is exactly what we asked for. Don’t get why everyone is so pressed about it.

@@Chopsparillo It's probably because the Genshin fanbase if very large and some of them want balanced characters and will complain about overpowered characters while other want more and more powerful character and thus will complain about any character not following the upwards trend. This means you'll always have someone complaining. There's also a bunch of content creators who realise that complaining about stuff generates more clicks and thus follows whatever the latest trend of whining is, adding significantly to the negativity online.

Bro, I agree and I have been watching some of these content creators wanting every character to be a nuke or a fallout shelter, no in-between. On top of that, we always need a better nuke or a fallout shelter. And eventually our old nukes and fallout shelters suck. This is why I'm fine with Hoyoverse making characters that specialize in one thing and do it good. It just makes the game more interesting in my opinion instead of most gotcha games that just have a better character that's literally the same as the last one that will eventually be replaced by the next one.

There is one thing that was not touched on much by the video or your comment, which is that some characters seem to have weird design choices, and still bugs me till now. Yoimiya and Yae Miko are the 2 I'm talking about. Yoimiya is a DPS that has an ultimate with exploding fireworks, yet somehow its a single target ultimate, which applies a debuff that Yoimiya herself cant proc, and really doesnt make sense to me. Yae Miko has such beautiful attack animations and a really damaging looking charge attack, yet shes released as a sub-dps you use quick swap style, without using any of her normal attacks, and yet for some reason requires insane field time for her damage rotation like a standard dps. Her totems give her a dash, which doesnt rly function as a normal dash as it has no invulnerability frames, and her rotation requires casting her totems, destroying them with her ultimate, and then casting them again, when really her design could have refreshed the totems duration on ultimate cast rather than destroying them. Her design makes it seem like she should have been an electro DPS, but maybe changed later down the line to be a sub-dps.

@@YongRuiTanFenway I think you’re missing a couple things, firstly yoimiya is designed to be a single target Dps, nothing wrong with that I think that distinction shoudl be made more often with some characters excelling at higher damage in 1 on 1 situations and some excelling with damage more spread out across more smaller enemies. Her ult exists to be a downtime filler when her skill is on cool down for you to swap and use other characters skills and bursts since that’s the main source of her damage, not saying it’s the best ult ever but I understand why it works the way that it does. And Yae’s field time to me isn’t an inherent flaw of her kit. You brought up how long her rotations are but an important thing to mention is the game isn’t explicitly designed around character rotations, that’s a concept players came up with, there’s no reason any character has to fit into a nice “rotation” of a team in order to be a good designed character, Yae’s totems don’t even take much time if you’re placing them, it only takes longer if you’re also casting her ult which destroys turrets as a way to balance its insanely high burst scaling as well as by casting her turrets again allows you to refresh the damage buff from her signature weapon. As well as while her normal attacks can go Unused in a standard role, it’s important to remember that’s true for tons of characters (Bennett, Xingqiu, Zhongli, venti, kazuha, etc) you can play her as a main Dps if you want and get plenty of use out of her normals if you invest in them. The only notable issue for me with Yae’s design is her EM passive, it seems like ayato they wanted to add an extra scaling that you don’t necessarily build into but converts an additional stat into damage like ayato does with hp, however it taking up an entire passive slot is the main reason people have a problem with it as opposed to it really being an issue in of itself, and I think is meant to future proof Yae especially for when dendro or more reaction oriented characters that would pair with her come out in the future, making EM far more viable.

I think he meant character design not gameplay or meta lmao, but yeah you're right.

I am pretty sure it Gameplay not visual design cus that is not vars filde of content just saying 😅😅

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@@snapedu9166 noo its ok lmao

I love my Rosaria-Shenhe duo in the abyss (Ayaka who? :D )

@@doug3454 I know right?

Ayaka is stupidly good indeed, you can just slap her on a freeze team and be done with it. I guess we'll see her becoming less viable when we get more cryo-resistant content, because as of now cryo is too good against 3 major elements (hydro, pyro and electro) and average against the others. I'm thankful for her being that strong though, I needed that extra oomph as I reached WL 8 as a newer player with piss-poor gear :')

@@vicca4671 she regularly hits 30k with her E with no buffs 😭

HP is also something he really wants, for the heal on his burst

@@Iffem Yes, but heal with generic artifacts not focused on HP is enough in most situations. You see the difference, but in most cases it's overkill. And while overkill with shields is acceptable, with healing it's usually a waste (unless clam set? Clam bennet would be funny)

I feel the same way about Gorou! He's really easy to build, barely needs any investment... but I like Gorou a lot, and want to invest more in him and make him stronger. And there's literally no point, levelling all his talents and min maxing his artifacts won't make him buff better and he does piddly damage anyway so there's no point beefing that up either.

@@ph5.484 I agree! I have major problem with Gorou's mechanics because he does his main job great with minimal investment (slap some energy regen and max out his skill and you're basically done). It changes slightly when you get C4 Gorou cause then he finally starts to scale with something (DEF based healing) which motivates you to invest into him a little more, but the difference is not that great. I really like his niche and as a character, but he's more specialised Bennet in lots of things.

saying WGS is Diluc's tailor made weapon would be a lie. Yes it's best for him, but only because it gives you an unnecessarily big shitton of ATK, instead of working like Kagura's Verity for example. His kit is thought out very well, true, except for the useless charged attack talent. I wish they swapped it to something like +20% crit damage for first e slash, 30 for second and burst, and 40 for third. Would make building crit on him even easier.

I'd actually disagree on Ningguang being well-designed, for a variety of reasons. But a big one is that Gorou is not a support for her at C0, and you're better off bringing another character. He even barely counts at C6. Ningguang, as a whole, feels very self-contradictory with how many elements of her kit fight against the rest. She's a catalyst where her reactions are unimportant, and she can't use Widsith well. She's a Geo character who can't benefit from DEF, or enable Geo resonance. She's a 4* Main DPS, which means she doesn't have the personal damage to compete with the 5* DPS. She's also one of the only characters where her best artifact set is double 2-set pieces, and that already sends up some red flags about her design, since I'd say no other character that actively avoids having a complete artifact set is well-designed. Unless I'm missing something, she doesn't really have much team variety either. Her best teams will all be Yun Jin/Bennet/Flex. Maybe change Yun Jin to also include Zhongli and Albedo.

@@rust8995 this is something I would like to say about Noelle, I would consider her well-designed, but the community wont because of just one glaring issue which considerably easy to fix. The other issues about her is being Jack of All trades but I consider this as an advantage. And being reliant to constellation, other players consider non-C6 Noelle as lackluster, I would argue with them, but the fact that non-C6 Noelle cant compete with other DPS nor Support in the utilities she have shows that there is something wrong on her kit. Dont get this wrong, Noelle is my favorite character in all of Genshin, but really her kit wasnt well-designed enough. Meanwhile for Ningguang, I just find her kit as well-balanced and despite needing common supports (Bennett and Zhongli), her own damage still lives up even without them, it isnt as much as 5star though. She doesnt rely on constellation that much. Her role as a 4star DPS that deals enough damage even without relying to reaction. My standard for well-designed and balanced character is a character that brings enough utility, not too much nor too little and still relies on a team but not too much. Ningguang and Itto lives up to that, they are decent and strong Geo DPS that gives enough damage. they are strong without being broken but also have flaws without being too hindering.

@@thesilent185 that's why I didn't use "tailor-made" but "dedicated". But that might be wrong too. Since WGS is a generalist plain DPS Claymore rather than dedicated weapon for Diluc, but Diluc is just a plain DPS. Furthermore, WGS makes Diluc's artifact stat priority easier since his Atk became sky high so his artifact priority will just be EM-Pyro-CritDmg. His Crit Rate was already covered by ascension stat and artifact substats.

@@thesilent185 Not only that, it has nothing to do with him lore-wise. I don't think they were releasing weapons like Amos bow and Freedom Sworn at that time.

Very glad to share the same sentiment, you put it so eloquently in words, kudos!

@@undepartedlover Thank you! I appreciate your understanding of what I said. 😊

@@zeosummers3984 That’s kind of the game’s fault for not encouraging you going on the defensive side, due to several factors: enemies’ ai don’t put much fight, lack any meaningful strategy, dodging has no downtime, some characters unintentionally do a better job than others, etc. What I want to see is to introduce more enemies who are aggressive, smarter and that hit you harder, have attacks that you can barely avoid with dashing and even prevent your movement, have block periods that prevents you from doing any damage to them while it unleashes heavy blows to you or can affect your health through shield like the corrosion status. Lastly, I don’t care if my characters do big damage numbers to win. Because why bother stacking more when I worry more about my survivability and endurance, something that the game never learns from.

@@zeosummers3984 But that’s what makes combat in that game less impressive and boring. I don’t like when players has cheese all the way because that looks the most laziest and honorless way you could ever think of. Maybe that’s what people in china thinks, that it is a waste of time to spend healing and tanking when you could just kill the enemy as fast as you can. But I on the other hand don’t see it. Yes, it is fun to one-shot everything with all the big damage numbers. But do you have fun when you are tanking almost anything or heal so much too? Just because the tank and healer don’t deal huge amounts of damage the DPS, nor the intention of doing so, does not mean they should abandon for what they are good at. And it’s especially true when you only put DPS at top tier while tank and healer is at bottom tier just because they deal no damage, which is very wrong to begin with and only lead to misconception. And the Chinese community are quick to point out that they say something like “skip this character it sucks!” And I’m like “So what? Is it because they deal no damage? Is that what you think? Well, you are just trolling.” I swear, the Chinese community is infamous for this sort of s***. Edit: And sorry for sounding racist here, but that just bothers the hell out of me.

Tartaglia's main strength lies in his nuke potential, not his DPS. If you want to use him on the field it is best to use him with Xiangling. If Kaeya's passive is enough to keep you alive, then healing is not needed. Just use food. Kaeya does not heal too much and, tbh overworld monsters at low AR do not do too much damage. Plus Ayaka does a stupid amount of damage so you are likely to take down most monsters before they can fight back. But you can play however you like.

I think Razor, Ningguang and Yanfei are well designed Characters where the kits work well with each other and also useful. I think their Kits are even better than some 5 stars.

The least intuitive thing about his kit is his elemental skill. He is a physical carry so you prioritize his normal attack but his skill animation takes up so much time. Add his c4 to the mix and to me it feels like his abilities are competing against each other for uptime, locking each other down.

@@dentangaji6161 True. Only thing about ningguang is theres no reason to get all 3 star jades from NAs, it would be great if her normal attacks were slightly faster and every star jade you get boosts your normal attack and charged dmg by X%.

Raiden is bordering for me in terms of her scuffed ass writing, but in other aspects she's pretty well done.

@@niajoby4973 Her story is fine. It was just executed horribly. The concept of puppet was interesting.

@@niajoby4973 i honestly like raiden's story and her journey from being a depressed shut-in in denial to growing out of that and embracing change

@@levisamom5069 The thing is that we don't see a good passage of time in Genshin, so it'd be better to have seen her struggling at least a bit to deal with the issues she caused during the Sakoku period. Lots of people see it as "Oopsie, I guess I did a poopsie. Okay everyone, free travel permits, have your gems back" and the people went automatically "Yay, thank you almighty narukami ogosho shogun! We love you!" Her lifting the decree in her part 2 history was okay, but we could have at least one more part to see her working to make Inazuma a better place, and improving her relationship with Kokomi. The vision hunt decree ruined lots of lives after all.

@@vicca4671 yeah true...I also wanna see something like that...maybe in a part 3 or something

Yoimiya is one of the characters who needs a shield the most, imo. I'd sooner not use a shield for Hu Tao than for Yoimiya. Reason being, her damage is backloaded - most of her damage lies in the later attacks in her Normal Attack combo, so you really don't want the combo to be interrupted by either getting hit by enemy attacks or needing to dodge them. That said, I personally play her with 4-pc Crimson Witch in a Melt team :D

Chongyun cons all make him more like a mdps which is sad considering his most meta application is hydro abyss bullying with Cryo infusion.

Yeah, Albedo Burst and Ayaka skill are just extra damage. If Ayaka had a bigger stun for her skill, and Albedo burst healed or increased damage somehow, people would appreciate them more.

Elden Ring remind people why Genshin is easy. You DON'T need perfect 4 piece set,perfect substat to beat Spiral Abyss. Also are you F2P/Light Spender ? Cause... Excuse me ? being _Completionist_ ? Is that weird Joke ? Unless ya are Whales then go on. Collect em' all *LIKE NO TOMORROW* ヽ(°◇° )ノ And NO. I won't include "F2P with Crazy Luck" as valid justification for collecting all Hero.

Personally i think it's a bad idea long term to skip characters you really like just for meta. When you do 36 star abyss, what will you have after all is said and done? 4 stars are good enough to clear, you just need time and investment. And at least some 5 stars you like should add some power to your account, even if it's not peak power. Even if they don't add power, you can just not build them too much till you max clear Also with artifacts, do away with the idea you need BiS sets on everyone. Use an optimizer and you'll be surprised how much power you have in your artifacts. Now, if you're too new to the game, you may just have to farm more. And ofc get those talents up. Bad rng over a long period of time becomes statistically unlikely. Also, ppl often don't realize how good their substat efficiency is. Easier to let the computer do the thinking for you

You don’t need meta characters to clear spiral abyss however. It’s very possible to 36* with your favorites with enough time and investment. And even if you are struggling it’s very easy with almost any units to at least 33* abyss and if you are getting 33* then you’re only missing out on 50 primos every 2 weeks, which really isn’t a whole lot, pulling for meta characters just to clear abyss is draining primos for characters you like far more than just ignoring abyss all together. Especially when you can absolutely do spiral abyss with your favorites, Don’t focus only on the meta

Pulling for units just to get abyss primos is messed up, my friend. You spend 10-20k primos to pull a 5 star, just to receive 1.2k monthly from 36*. It’s literally taking 10 months (almost a year) to regain what you spent for that meta pull. Just to regain, not even to start earning more. Not viable at all.

"Jack of All Trades" type would be more valuable the more limited your character roster is.

Noelle? She can shield. Her shield is durable but it doesn't have good uptime (can be fixed by using sacrificial greatsword) She can heal while her shield is up. Using burst can increase healing She can be a support, healer, shielder, subdps or main dmg dealer But she's not that good at those things

Diona is that yep

And then there's Benny who's the "master of all" hahaa..

Its the Vanilla of roles. When in doubt, the jack of all trades will do the job just fine. For example, you cant go wrong with Jean. Are there better healers, CCs, nukes, resistance shreders and dps? Yes to all but you wont find a unit for all of those slots than her. She can go on any team for her anemo and the access to Veredesent gives her that push the DPs of the team. Her healing nuke allows her to go even on a Geo team and it does a decent damage at the same time. Her CC its decent enough and can dispatch a respectable damage if mastered well. All of those reasons its why, regardless of meta, she always stays at the middle of the charts.

because most players are f2p, thank you for coming to my ted talk

​@@mariacancino95 fr most of us can't even clear floor 12, we need more endgame stuff but not everyone has god built teams that can one shot everything

@@xxri plus not everyone is interested in building god tier characters. I play for the story and because I like the characters. But as long as floor 12 of spiral abyss is the only real challenge in the game I have better things to do than to waste my time to farm godly artifacts. I'm almost glad my characters can't oneshot every enemy as the rest of the game would become even easier (=more boring).

@@lemonbunny71 spiral abyss is literally not even hard if you have a team, doesnt have to be god tier characters, just have one or two characters built with decent supports and its not that hard

Kokomi made my Genshin Impact experience a lot more fun and enjoyable.

Nah - 100% crit rate and shitty split scaling is terrible design lol

@@RA-ux3fu she's barely split scaling considering that hp does less for her than healing bonus, and there's only one artifact that can be healing bonus unlike def, atk, or just pure hp. The -100 crit rate would have actually made her broken, that's the only reason why they did it. Edit: also, she's the most unique character and isn't easy to be replaced which is a very good design. Only problem I do have with her is her shitty scaling

And he ignores the 4* Monstadt 4*: Bennett (busted af), Sucerose (one part of the holy Anemo trinity), Fischl (really good. Great flex pick/ good unconditional off field damage), Lisa (kinda eh but fine), Amber (meh/bad), Kaeya (good), Rosaria (second Kaeya so good), Diona (good), Noelle (fine, got better with Updates), Razor (eh), Barbara (eh) Liyue: Xiangling (really good), Xingqiu (king of Vape enabler, most flexible Hydro in game. Amazing), Xinyan (bad), Beidou (good), Ningguag (eh), Chongyun (eh but nice niche), Yunjin (until now a bit eh but has good potential), Yanfei (fine. Just outclassed) Inazuma: Say (okay. Worse Jean), Sara (without C6 pretty meh. Lisa does her job better), Gorou (pretty good). Like early 4* are still really relevant and the new one were pretty meh.

@@joe_simon you forgot thoma but he sucks so...

To me, Yae is an example of a character devs didn’t give proper time to test her kit enough. I was so hyped to get her back then, but when I saw her kit, it felt off (skipped). Even today, I’ve been skipping her story quest and only now I finished it. During the story quest, I could play with her again, but oh boy, she still feels clunky af

What do you mean? Raiden is the best electro character by far. Like no other Electro character comes close. She does outclass other electro batteries because she is a universal battery. She is also the most flexible character after Bennet, Kazuha, and Zhongli.

Who uses electro traveler lol

@@TsukatsukiRio Wait for Dendro.

@@kimkardashi-un2.051 me

The problem is that i can't get those character no matter how much i pull for them =-= I've never gotten a Bennett from any wish banners that features him, and i only get a C1 Xingqiu from that Irodori festival event and 2nd Lantern Rite

@@Other-C I don't have much luck in me, but I'll give you a bit of my luck to bless you in your next pulls. Btw, there is a Bennett in this month's Paimon Bargain grab that as soon as possible.

I’d argue that the older units aren’t over-kitted but that the new units are underwhelming. It seems like they purposely make units bad, give them horrible scaling, and think it’s fine since people are going to spend money anyways. Honestly it’s infuriating, especially with how many Inazuma units got cucked in the process. And anemo isn’t strong because of their element, they’re strong because of VV specifically. Bennett is fine, but you need to design characters that MATCH his strengths. I don’t understand why they’re going to reverse powercreep route. Unless their goal is to minimize powercreep as much as possible but it’s not hard balancing units to be good..

@@Other-C I already maxed cons on benny and have a lot of cons for Xingqiu, so sending some luck your way!

@@TacticalDimples What you mean? Xingqiu literally does everything. He deals lot of damage, has consistent hydro application and interruption resistance, can be a battery and heal. The reason why new 4 stars are underwhelming is because Hoyo doesn't want to create flexible and powerful characters like him, Bennett, Xiangling,...

i think the problem with kairagi is that hoyoverse wanted to encourage players to use characters that don't have CC abilities because why use character with crowd control focused kit if the enemies in question have some kind of resistance to it.

thats literally not true, his pull power is still strong (arouns as much as kazuha's pull after E) regardless of how big the enemies are, its just that they arent picked up. Venti is not like "If enemy small he OP, if enemy big he useless", its more like "If enemy small he OP, if enemy big he good"

I feel like Genshin's monster design could be the subject to a whole another video by Vars haha As they seem to be heading into a wall imo. Most of the recent enemies designs recently seem to be more focused more around "trying to make previously OP units less prevalent" and less around "making an enemy that feels fair yet challenging, thus fun to fight" Though they still haven't made a single monster more obnoxious than the Lawarchurls (might come from having the farm the Blizzard Domain straight after farming the Emblem one for months though haha)

Idk why people think characters were specifically designed to go against venti…like you guys are overthinking it. Not every enemy is light weight; it’s really that simple

@@K.G444 My comment was a bit more general and with other characters than Venti in mind. I don't have Venti so didn't even think of him haha But sorry if it came across as what you're referring to

Omg THIS. I honestly dislike using shields and only use them when absolutely necessary (looking at you azhdaha), because it just feels braindead at times. And is part of the reason I main Beidou.

And then there's also the fact than you automatically enter sprint if you press dodge for more than 0.5 seconds, and to exit sprint you ...have to stop pressing the directional button. Like, why not just separate dodge to press and sprint to hold, for example.

I think Kokomi is a healer bc the best tactic is not dying.

I think the best part about Hu Tao's design is mostly how well you are rewarded for learning how to play her, especially before c1. Your average new player will either do little damage from healing too much or running out of stamina. If they don't heal constantly, she'll just die all the time. Zhongli (or another strong shield) does take away from this. But when I first got her, I learned so much about how to play the game and with some practice and investment her numbers really pay off. Thematically her gameplay and story are very in sync as you say. All-round a great character imo. Plus her team building has some nice complexity to it if you aren't just looking at a guide.

I agree with the Hu Tao part, although... I thought that Hu Tao lorewise doesn't like to fight, which is kinda weird considering that she is one of the strongest units in the game

Funnily enough soldier 76 is what made me lose faith in overwatchs balance team and quit the game for good it never made sense to me why such an easy character like him should be stronger than mcree or widow who are so much harder to play Low risk high reward, making picking high risk characters pointless. Terrible philosophy imo

I think opposite. She is to basic, her strenght is 2 base mechanics (heal and hydro aura application). This make her solid at the moment but impossible to NOT power creep her. Any true hydro suport should be better than her. Of course MHY can make all future hydro unit weaker and more basic than others given how good hydro is, but i doubt this make people happy in long run.

Agree, too many people attack Kokomi without understanding how to play her. I laugh when people complain that she doesn't do damage when her role is a healer and she does more damage than Diluc.

So you find spamming charged shots fun? Also, Mona and Kokomi are very different characters, with completely different roles, how did Kokomi replace Mona? Also, you should wait before getting Yelan. Just on first impressions, she appears to be another Xingqiu. Wait till people figure out how to play her. Also, you know Shenhe gives Ganyu a significant boost right?

@@killerspreet7318 Yes, I find freeze Ganyu and spamming charge shots on enemies that can't fight back fun, I think it's funny lol I put Kokomi in my Ganyu team instead of Ganyu, it makes it easier because I can keep Kokomi's hydro application up longer and keep enemies frozen longer Yes i know Shenhe is for cryo teams, I know this would be good for unfreezable enemies like bosses but it took me so long to farm Blizzard Strayer (like 6 months) I want to keep it on Ayaka/Ganyu at all times so Shenhe wouldn't work well, not worth the primos nor resin for artis and building her etc.

Based

Its nearly imposible to powercreep kazuha, bennet, unless they create exact clones with better numbers or more effects.

@@michapiasta3072 tbh bennett could get nerfed in a way with units like eula who can’t actually utilise him efficiently, or more of yunjin/gorou/sara type units

Exactly. People Wishing Ganyu because she's HOT (myself include ) and DEMN...~ SHE's SMACK hard that Cryo number But imagine if she's turn out BAD ? Poor those people especially F2P & Low spender Yeah ? Also Good for you accepted Yae Miko even though she's.... Well CN community know better than me so I won't say it. Gave a great day 🤗

Who would you say Yae would enable? Or would it just be something that could be done in the future with the way her kit is set up?

@@Chopsparillo i see a lot of people comparing her to fischl because, yes her kit can function similarly but from what i found, she's less clunky as an on-field charged-attack dps her skill is focused more on movement and dodging while reserving her stamina for charged attacks i wouldn't say that she has a best pairing to enable but i personally play her with thoma and i imagine that she would also pair well with other off-field dpss like xingqiu, xiangling and now yelan miko feels bad to play as a secondary fischl because her totems are more so designed for movement and increasing her overall damage the longer she's on field future damage comparisons might do well to include her totems when calculating her on-field damage

it is...if wasnt beacuse right now he has no direct competition... hell he is the only charcater who can double swirl in the anemo department

@@vergil9981 guoba swirl?

It's unfair. Even her NAs and CAs have good scaling. And she has a passive that's similar to Heart of Depth's 4 piece effect.

@@ki_dochannel93 Her NA's are about 2 notches higher than Ayato's, just for reference (also considering her passives she's still kinda broken)

waifu over meta then

my man 👏

Venti 💚💚💚💚

I agree with last sentence. Sadly,Most casual just _LAAAZZZYYY_ to invest more. Imma use Ittou as example. A bit badadim-badabum and *THERE* U got big damage. Noelle CAN reach his damage but required more time & investment. Which Again. Casual player don't go that route (unless that bored or something). Not just Genshin. Any online game with gacha will always have lazy folks.

imo kazuha is not really well made bc his selling point which is the dmg boost is his passive. hyv could give it to sucrose, sayu or jean if they want to edit: imagine they gave kazuha passive to venti instead of the energy refund 💀💀. no one would ever pull for kazuha

if we break down kazuhas kit, we can see that his entire kit is EACH HALF OF VENTI BURST. his E sucks enemies in and his burst deals aoe dmg with ele. absorption which are all packed in venti black hole. additionally, his E is also ventis hold E. in conclusion, kazuha were lack of identity if he didnt have his OP passive

@@vht1 I strongly disagree. Kazuha is better version of Venti, that's why I was wondering why Venti is on a preview. His skillset is much more convenient (cc has lesser cooldown and is overall better, because enemies are gathered on a groun and not mid-air, also exploration is designed much more interesting). Venti is a one-job man, Kazuha is what Venti should have been.

@@misteltein3420 nah! if sucrose had kazuhas op passive u would think again. the most valuable thing in kazuha kit is the a4 passive

@@vht1 well, this bias doesn't let you see the whole picture

While i adore his kit, I don’t think i could ever play him because of the story quest ha

The only issue is that she kinda needs c6 to do well. I have her there but I’m still very hesitant to build her because of her play style and the characters I have rn. She’s really good and I’ve seen what she can do at her full potential

people play this team because its advertised as the best 4 star team (national), but the team works together well because bennett is a buffer who buffs the whole teams damage, xiangling and xingqiu are off field dps, and sucrose is for swirling everything together to provide reactions and defence shred. the team works together really well and its also why raiden shogun works instead of sucrose as well

what bothers you about her? what would you change

Yeah, you described every character.

@@killerspreet7318 No. Childe is just as good at C0 as he is at c6. He has 15% damage increase which is nothing. The only thing his constellation adds is an easier playstyle... Which is just a question of skill. Also qiqi... Nothing gets really added aside from a revive at C6 that nobody needs anyway.

His job is to suck in enemies and he sucks in enemies well

Apart from her burst being similar to Xingqiu, which is also not so different from other elemental applicators such as Fischl or Kokomi, her kit has no similarity to any other character. Her skill is entirely unique and the passives being unique as well. People take certain things on face value and do not understand the depth of a kit, and say a character is lazy. You talked about utility, if anything, Yelan's presence INCREASES the utility of hydro applicators, so now two of them can exist in separate teams.

Damn I didn't know Xingqiu has a special charged attack in his kit.. And he has one of the most unique elemental skills too? Thanks man, I'm gonna go get him a HP substat bow asap for maximum dmg, so wish me luck!

@@gnuhgnauqneyugn those things dont matter, her main focus is her burst. You think I'd spout these things without analyzing her? Think again, her entire power is 95% Burst and 5% at everything else. She is an exact replica of Xingqiu, just with more damage but WORSE UTILITY. Let me add the fact that her hold mechanic on her E has no practical application in combat and her charged attack is nothing more than after thought.

@@muhammadhunain7784 you are wrong, hydro already has a stacked roster, she is unnecessary; -Single target application and dmg is covered by Xingqiu with a bit of aoe -Kokomi for aoe and healing -Strong on field is covered by Childe but with heavy restriction due to pre emptive cooldown ‐Ayato's slightly weaker than Childe but he has more freedom on his cooldown. Just accept it, she is just Xingqiu but more dmg and worse utility. You didnt even considered that the main focus of her kit is her Q (JUST LIKE XINGQIU) Oh and She cant even enable the strongest pyro like Hu Tao and XL due to her burst duration desyncing and elemental gauge theory.

I love how both of you replied with face value analysis and sarcasm which makes it easier for me to slam actual facts and objective analysis to counter your silliness