Why EVERYONE Plays: Bennett | Genshin Impact 

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Cheap to build, efficient to optimize. That's honestly how I would define Bennett. He literally can make do with the dregs of whatever leftover resources you can throw at him, but if you ever take the moment to focus on him and optimize his build, Bennett is bouken de broken. Seriously, there's no loss in investing in Bennett. A support Bennett with barely any artifacts, a leveled weapon, and a somewhat invested Burst talent is serviceable, yeah, but once you move on the part of the game where you have the excess Mora and mats to throw around, you can build your Bennett into a DPS and benefit from it even if you don't play him any differently.

Accidents gone right Basically Bennett's entire existence

I find it funny that at the start of the game people thought bennett was bad. I remember watching some streamers play and they got bennett and asked if he was good and her friend said he was meh.

Bennett In the Lore: *No one wants to be on his team* Bennett In the Game: *I can't build a team without Bennett*

Bennett is just an overall well built character that will NEVER get powercrept. His energy generation, with healing, and massive attack buffing paired with his non negligible damage makes him a staple in gameplay. Also he's got a great personality and funny backstory to boot. Giving him a thumbs up, just like he does!👍🔥

Let’s be honest and just say that Bennett has the entire Genshin meta dancing in the palm of his hand. Calling him game breaking is an understatement.

I have a head cannon that Bennett buffs the entire team not because it has the ability to do so. But they just find his positivity endearing and a joy to be around with, so when he cheers everyone on it's like they have to do it or else it'll feel like they let good ol' Benny Boi down.

Every time he goes "I won't hold you back..." I'm just like "-Dude, you are the best character on this game!" Sometimes I even say it out loud lol

Bennett's existence does makes me curious on how they will ever top him off, specifically the pyro archon. I know the memes of Bennett basically being the pyro archon, imagine if the pyro archon ends up being worst than Bennett, it doesn't even have to be a bad kit, just maybe worst supportive or lesser DPS potential, she'd be mocked the hell. I told a non genshin player friend of Bennet's kit and tell them that the character who owns it is a god in game and they believe it just from the sheer power. Murata might need to watch her back when she comes along.

If there was a new 5* who did the exact same things for same investment, my first thought wouldn't be to ditch him for the new character. It would be that I can now have two of him in Abyss at once.

The reason why Bennett is so widely used is because of the many things he is capable of. Firstly, he can heal, which is helpful in game, especially in floor 12 where the enemies have the power to one shot you. Secondly, he buffs your attack which basically means he buffs your damage. Buffing damage is unique in Genshin (at the time of this comment being written). There aren’t many characters who can buff damage in this game, and it is a very valuable component in a team to have. Thirdly, he can battery. Pyro carries such as Diluc could use some energy to get his burst on CD every rotation, and Bennett can help create that energy. Bennett’s elemental skill has a short cooldown already, but inside his burst, it’s even shorter, allowing you to funnel energy CONSISTENTLY. Lastly, he does good damage. His scalings aren’t bad for a support character, allowing him to potentially be a Sub DPS. Bennett is also immune to power creep as he has a unique kit. Hoyo can’t really make a better Bennett, because we will always love you, Benny Boi.

Bennett will most probably never get powercrept but I'm pretty sure hoyo will keep going forward with making him less required or something to that effect. Niche supports like gorou is one good example since he's basically a Bennett for anyone who scales purely on defence like albedo. Another way as mentioned are characters like Yelan who don't scale of ATK. So yeah you can use Bennett with Yelan and albedo but its definitely much better to use someone else with them and put Bennett on the other half/second team of we are talking abyss.

If you look at his kit. Hoyoverse design him to be a sub DPS with decent support abilities. But accidently makes make him overpowered support because underestimated how much base atk scaling does. Is pretty funny. Hoyoverse design him to be 4 star sub DPS with some atk and heal support. End up being an overpowered energy battery, moderate healing, sub-dps, pyro infuse and increase, extremely high damage boosting one man party.

"Imagine if we had 2 Bennetts"- Bennett and Sara do exactly that for electro team comps! Raiden and Raiden/Yae teams love her, although snapshot mechanics make other Electro DPS prefer Bennett just a tiny bit more if they had to pick one.

as Dendro rolls in in the upcoming months all we need is a single unit which self-infuses the active character with Dendro (Tighnari and Collei both have Dendro field effects but it is unknown if they self-inflict Dendro or not) and we can have the Vermillion dream alive with Bennet self-burning the DPS for atk buff, now everyone can be Xiao

"He got a good amount of exposure in the second dragonspine story quest" Me who started genshin in January: hahahaa yeah.. the dragonspine stories yeah.. right

His only problem is when you get him late. I didn't get Benny until after I got several other units that facilitated different playstyles. Ningguang, Gorou, Yun Jin, Yelan, Kazuha, Beidou all came before I got Benny, which meant I ended up with a Tazer team and a Geo Hypercarry *BEFORE* I had the time to invest into Benny, which meant by the time I got him . . . //I didn't need him?//

When the game came put I heard he was "unlucky" and had a hard time keeping friends. I decided to adopt him because uwu, but didnt manage to pull him until the first time he was in the shop. It wasn't until then I also learned he was OP.

There's the alley flash 4 stars sword that gives 620 attack, that's more than some 5 stars so it works great on him as long as you stack a lot of ER on his artifacts

Deep down we are all truly Bennett mains

You should do a “why no one uses diluc”

🌸😹He is but one once shunned who despite the odds, came to be loved by all.😹🌸

I remember back in 1.2 when I first played and got Bennett, I rlly loved how adorable he looked and I immediately placed him on my team without understanding his kit lol But man when I found out how useful and op he actually was, i was so happy 😭💛

11:11 'The only ones that come to mind are Keqing and Eula" Dammit, those are my only two main DPS

Here's an initial reception story from myself: I remember playing my first week of Genshin and going to the subreddit for information like: "I got all the guaranteed ones + Bennett and Ningguang, so... how screwed am I?". Little did I know I had gotten a ticket to the finish line.

I personaly find bannet's gameplay kind of boring, so I dont use him that much, but every time I get stuck in any dps check, there is only one old reliable

Me who's never used Bennett in my life: hmm yes I know what all of this means hmm yes

His C6 is a pro and not a con imo and I'm prepared to die on that hill

He is such a popular character that is is strange to me he hasn't gotten a skin/outfit yet

Because you’d be dumb not to use him 😂 I’m a whale and every time I do the abyss, he is the only 4 star unit I can’t just not use

I love how these long videos could be summed up to "buff good, build not hard"

He may only heal up to 70% but honestly his heal ticks are so fast that's hardly a con, unless some character releases who deals extra damage with full hp or something like that. He generates energy insanely well, super low cooldown and high chance to get 3 particles. He even cleanses too. And of course the massive attack buff which is probably his most important asset. It's next to impossible to nerf bennet for the current cast other than of course making a unit that powercreeps him, but that's not happening ever or at least anytime soon. What they could do is instead make more characters that have high attack to begin with so bennet matters less for them. They have already made a few of them, hu tao who boosts her attack to really high amounts via her E (and has additional anti synergy with bennet because she looses her below 50% hp 33% pyro dmg bonus) and Itto who converts his really high defense and adds it to his attack. What they could and probably will do is keep making more characters who have really high attack to begin with or just have an atk steroids ability like Itto and hu tao. We are probably not getting many more characters like raiden and xiao again because those characters receive massive dmg dealt bonuses in their kit so bennet actually buffs their output even more than most characters. Bennet is a mistake of mihoyo (xiangling and xinqiu too for that matter) and they fully know it and are absolutely malding every second for sure that he was able to get away from beta as strong as he is but they can't nerf him directly because that is a one way ticket to the bottom of the app store page for a gacha game. Their only choice is undirect nerfs like making more and more characters who synergise not as well with him such as hu tao and itto. Or ones that don't synergise at all like yelan.

The summary is: He´s broken. Can do a bit of everything, and does it all great. His only weakness would be not having range... and that doesn´t matter in Genshin.

You could say he bennett-fits in almost every way.. I'm sorry

I personally find Bennett to be an abomination against game balance. Essentially, he's so good, he's bad. Not bad as a character; I mean bad for the long-term health of the game's roster. People give flak to characters like Thoma, Sara, Shenhe, and Gorou for being "too niche", but conveniently overlook that Bennet goes too far in the other direction. In a game where character revolve around niches, Bennet isn't niche enough. A healer, attack buffer, battery, and cleanser all rolled into one low-investment 4-star? Was he even playtested?? As a result, every support character has to be compared to an impossible golden standard that only exists because of a gross balancing oversight. Hence, most of the other support characters don't get the love they deserve because Bennett's mere existence precludes any reason to do so. Don't get me wrong; I still use him, but I just wish other support characters (besides Xingqiu and Kazuha) could enjoy the kind of popularity Bennett gets, too.

Something I love about Bennett is that, on top of everything else he knocks out of the park, he's also a super fun character to play as in co-op! A lot of Genshin's characters, especially its supports, have a huge issue of being a bit boring to play in co-op because of how they have a lot of innate downtime as you're designed to switch off of the character. Xingqiu, Yelan, Kokomi, Gorou, Diona, etc. Most of the supports you'd love to see in co-op are boring as sin to play because nobody wants to stand around for ages normal attacking with a wet noodle while you wait for cooldowns. Bennett is one of the biggest exceptions to this, since his passives lower the cooldown on his E to the point it's basically another basic attack button! (That's also applying a ton of Pyro for the Ganyu in your party) And if you really want to have fun, you can build DPS Bennet for co-op, since his artifacts don't matter to his attack buff. This WOULD hurt your party's healing...except that since all 4 characters are on the field at once, the only issue Bennett has with his healing (that it's only single-target normally) isn't an issue! So in other words, co-op Bennett becomes even more broken than he already is! God, I love our broken as hell unlucky shounen protagonist. From a gameplay perspective, he's my favorite character in the game.

In one sentence: The most overpowered character in the game that the devs made while either drunk or high or both.

🌸😹It would not be a stretch to utter of Bennett, that he is but a king that embodies excellency to his core.😹🌸

The thing I hate is when the electro rift wolves and other enemies attacks me when Im inside Bennetts thumb

I love Bennett. I started playing Genshin because of him. I like his gameplay, I like his story, I like his design. he's cute and I see a kindred spirit in him. at the moment, this is still the only character I love very much. Yes, I like Venti, Ayaka, Sucrose and many others, but... the love for Bennett is much stronger than for them

I think his constellation 6 should've been part of his kit from the get go, it would still have made him powerful but he wouldnt be on every fucking team and i'm so tired of seeing his face sometimes

bennett was my first ever main back in 1.0 just bc i liked his character so much, i remember having to argue with my friends every day to say that bennett is good! and that was before i even understood what his burst did i just lliked him so much i was ready to defend him from anything lmao

Imagine if hoyoverse made two Bennetts, twice the damage

Bennett may be the most unluckiest person in the game (in terms of lore and background story) but he is the MVP in the roster.

Remember boiz there isn't yet a highest base damage sword with 741 like SoBP or Calamity Queller.

🌸😹It could be spoken of Bennett, incomparable usefulness that cannot be rivaled by any and a power that shall not be challenged for ages in terms of support capability😹🌸

Gotta appreciate the Fire Emblem Awakening music in the background.

While everyone HATED Bennett in 1.0, i WANTED HIM SO BAD. Luckily, i got him in 1.2! And since then, i still have so much fun with him!

The fact that you asked if it was alright to share the ad made me watch it instead of skipping it lmao

3 simple things Heal: everyone needs it Buff damage: everyone needs it and apply pyro to yourself: For cleansing and sometime is the key ingredient for double swirl for kazuha team

I can already see Zajeff facepalming and cringing at some minor mistake commentaries here.

Bennett's C6 is so good; it kind of blows my mind that it's still a hot issue. There are so many more examples of how a pyro infusion actually improves damage output than there are where it ruins a major meta comp.

I have Hu Tao and Bennette on the same team and Hu Tao does more damage with c6 bennette than at low health.

His energy needs, or rather lack there-of, is also something worthy of praise. Most supports like Diona usually require having another member of the same element to fund for their burst but Benny doesn't. just an ER sand sprinkled with a few substats will let him fund for his own burst and cast it on CD with little to no outside help,which is imo the main reason why he is so "plug-and-play"!

And now we're getting a free Bennett in 4.0. I'm definitely looking forward to it.

I only use Bennett when I want to use his pyro infusion that he gets with c6

bennett was the first character i got (except for noelle because she was part of gacha tutorial). ever since getting bennett, i never take him out of my team eventhough that time he was always at rank c or d on every tierlist.

The title: Why *everyone* plays Bennet Me, who doesn’t have bennet: *laughs whilst crying in the corner* Seriously, he’s the only character I want at this point WHY WONT YOU COME HOME TO ME, GOD DAMMIT BENNET

Bennet over here fighting Albedo with the travaler's handysword while travaler's still using a dull blade.

I started playing genshin really late. When I started, Bennett was in shop and I managed to buy him. He has been invaluable since then. One of my best assets. Helped me a lot as a new player. He heals, buffs other's ult, he is like ALL IN ONE pack. Oh and btw, its quite ironic that how lore wise he is supposed to bring misfortune to everyone with him while as a char he is one of the best support.

I still remember my first team before knowing how to build teams was albedo,**bennett**,childe,razor Boy did he carry me through hell and back

I find it confusing how it took this long for this to come out considering he’s generally top 3 supports (up there with raiden and kazuha).

I can't concentrate on your words when fire emblem ost is playing in the backgrounds. Nice analysis.

You forgot about his insane energy generation. He generates the most particles in the game, idk who thought generating 2-3 particles with 2s CD E is balanced. On top of dealing pretty good dmg, Bennett on field just does a lot. Mine 240ER 4set NO Support Bennett vapes his burst for 80k, 45k skill vapes and 27k non vape, it's insane. In classic Diluc team of Bennett, Xingqiu, anemo if you never swap to Diluc and instead will stay on Bennett you'll do more dps.

Bro, i swear to god, you or your editor know that Fire Emblem Awakening has one of the most awesome music in the franchise, and you use it almost flawlessly. Great work as always.

Remember when Bennet was considered the worst character and Qiqi was the best How the tables turned

I think you did a good job summarizing Bennetts importance overall in this video. Great that you mentioned there are HP scaling characters for example who don't necessarily want him in their team (I feel like the most obvious characters are Yelan for her pure HP scalings and Albedo for his pure DEF skill scaling). However there are a couple of things that bugs me a bit. For starters I'd say Sucrose and Fischl is in the same top tier of four stars as Bennett, Xingqiu and Xiangling (ofc it depends on what reactions you're going for, but I really don't think this is a hot take). A statement that really caught me off guard however, was "... But nowadays I believe everyone has reached the conclusion that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages." (speaking of his c6). Ofc there are many scenarios where the extra 15% pyro damage bonus is good (also want to specify that this bonus is also only given to characters with melee weapons, so Yoimiya, Yanfei and Klee for example won't get buffed), but I personally don't think it's enough to justify ruining certain teams, especially since there might be future characters who wants Bennett without the infusion to work properly (speaking about my own decision with my own account, I want the option to not have him c6. My biggest current reason to do it is a few red pixels in the top right corner of my screen, which isn't quite enough to win me over). If people want to do it because they want the infusion that's fine, it's not the end of the world (there are even some teams that become available from it), but I'd definitely say the community is still very split when it comes to this decision. Upsides and downsides are both present, and afaik there's many players who prefer c6, but also many who prefer c5 (as there should be, variety in preference is a good thing). But yeah good video, not trying to be negative if I came across that way, just adding to the discussion

A small problem with bennet is how he keeps aplying pyro on you, so it can be hell to use him against eletro units who will constantly knock you down. Also, iirc his c6 is bad for ayaka too.

Everyone except me at AR60, got him on Noelle's starter banner before her - never used him once.

the only thing bad about bennett is that he increases the opportunity cost of putting other, new characters onto your team

I see a lot of people talking about how to powercreep Bennett and i can say: This won't happen. At the moment we have so many different teams that don't need Bennett so he isn't as good as back then? Nope. People who think that way have to realize: They activly drafting a team not to use Bennett. That's how oppresive he is. You don't need him to create strong teams. But you need specific teams to outperform him. And often high Cons are needed for that while Bennett start breaking the game at C1. At C0 he is kinda balanced but still pertty strong.

I do just fine without Bennett. Qiqi is all I need. 😎👌🏻

Imagine hoyo releases a new 5 star bennet, than u can use bennet, than use the 5 star one, to enhance it more, and that'll be just crazy

If im completely honest Bennett being meta could be heavily affect his performance in future patches due to how burning affects the user. As we already know Bennett's burst makes the active character on field be affected with a Pryo status and if with a huge jump in heavy dendro hitting enemies. I honestly think Dendro could create new problems that can be solved with a less heavy focus on Pryo characters and towards weaker elements at the moment, such as Hydro and Electro. I'm interested to see how Dendro may structure Genshin meta again.

Waiting for "Why no one plays Thoma"

reasons why bennet is great - great attack buff - very fast heals -cheap and efficient to build - dosnt really heavily on artifacts -also has quick pyro application with skill for reactions lots of positives with almost no negatives though i would say his playstyles can get very boring quickly but hats just my personal opinion and dosnt really affect him from meta standpoint

me: same birthday as Bennet, so he became my go to character

I built my bennet to prioritize healing because the attack bonus from fantastic voyage has no conditions that can increase through artifacts (aside from raw damage which bennet isnt really for). HP sands and HP goblet with a healing bonus circlet and my bennet heals for roughly 7800 per tick of his ult and hes still sitting at 50/100 on crit and providing about 1100 attack. personally I feel like he doesnt need to do damage if he is buffing my team's damage and also making the active character literally unkillable. I get about 1100 attack from his ult and his healing is so absurd with my build that he fills two rolls at the same time allowing me to bring an extra sub dps.

for some reason I was thinking of pokemon and I thought about how a big percentage of the players would be screwed if hoyoverse added an enemy that has an attack that becomes invincible and then uses the move counter from pokemon

"Every character needs attack and will always need attack" Yelan says hello. It's possible MHY will start creating more non atk scalers to reduce Bennet impact.

I love how any team I have benny will always be in it

A pity they don't make "must have 4 stars" anymore unless they're niche towards a specific unit.

great video, however i do disagree that bennett himself does a little amount of damage considering his scalings and his weapon priority he does dish out a high amount of damage himself (i dont remember where i saw the comparison but as a dps bennet outright outperforms diluc at similar levels of investment) he can properly perform as a dps himself with his short skill cooldown in his burst.

"with dendro coming there's now ay Bennett will fall off" Nahida:allow me

good video!! but just one correction - bennett hasn't been given as a free reward yet, only via paimon's bargains. and i'm also not sure what freeze teams use bennett? same for taser as childe fireworks without an anemo slot has largely fallen out of favour.

Bennet's unluckiness is over.. His adventure team is a platform

Even with a relatively cheap build, his damage isn't that negligible honestly. I have him at c3 with talent levels 5/6/13 (without the +3). He's on Noblesse with ER Sands/HP Goblet/Crit Rate Circlet. He does around 50K crits in the rotations I do, which is very much valuable for me as an f2p. Helps me a lot with Abyss Rotations. And particle generation. If you're using him with a Pyro DPS, he can help with 100% uptime of the himself and the unit you're using. This is just a fraction of what Bennett is capable of. There's constant Pyro application by this burst so you can avoid a lot of weird gimmicks like the cooldown increase by Hydro domains and the Energy sucking of the Electro ones. The example of Hu tao's skill bonus is also in Bennett's favour. Hu Tao gets the buff for herself, Bennett can buff any member that you can get on the team including himself.

This video is truly wonderful, I’d love to actually see a “Why everyone plays Ayaka” she’s such a busted character damage wise and is almost on all cryo dps teams

I'll never understand how people ranked him in c tier once, he's so blatantly broken you have to be blind not to notice it. Bennett can also be used in almost every team (not saying he is the absolute best choice for every team) and is incredibly cheap as you only need C1 and a noblesse set, everything else is a bonus.

It's so sad that he's amazing as a character, but has the worst outfit in the entire game. Him and Tighnari need to start a support group

Yeah like we don’t know why everyone uses Bennett

Ah yes, finally it is time for the One True King of Genshin. Alright, looking back I also rank Bennett low when I start playing the game because we have no idea how the game work. 1 he needs a lot of investment to shine despite being a support, nowadays resource is a nonfactor but starting up you only have the resource to put into your main DPS while your support will get nothing so the best support is the one that cost absolutely nothing to have a decent result. 2 he relies on burst which needs a proper setup like a lot of ER or energy funneling from other or himself, or both to use reliably/off cooldown and at that time most people don't understand how energy mechanic as a whole work so we mostly put everything into atk for bigger DPSceenshot instead of reliable and sustainable rotation 3 we have no idea about snapshot mechanic or buff mechanic, at that time a lot of people use physical xiangling cuz of how easy and straightforward it was as it doesn't rely on burst and instead of the Bennett+Xiangling vape dps/melt support pair, people just smack enemies with crescent 4 he is not waifu and doesn't appear in story, unlike Keqing or Ningguang. enough said about our dumb past self, I think a few thing you forgot to mention about Bennett 1. His healing is insane, you mention it yourself about 3-4k without any healing buff but you can easily improve that with extra HP which his healing scale from and since he deal very little damage anyway as long as you don't use Fav sword that need a lot of crit to proc or use him as main DPS for some reason you can slap HP goblet and Healing circlet and turn his 3-4k into 6-8k/second, which mean most character can get to full HP in just 1-2 seconds and despite the 70% hp requirement you can still bruteforce your way into 100% HP lol 2. His battery capability is insane, not many character can produce as much particle as he is, although only XL can fully benefit from it right now, if we ever get pyro dps with a lot of energy requirement then his value would increase 3. You can build him pure HP to use as a tank to take dmg if you can't dodge well or just too lazy, with ER sand, HP goblet and circlet you can reach 30k+ HP and afaik nothing can one shot you, oh and he get 30% extra ER when your HP is bellow 70% (on C4? I forgot) so even more reason to use him to absorb big damage and switch right after using his burst. anyway, man it suck being a healer in Genshin cuz most team only need one or none at all and then you have to compete with Bennett. Kokomi was never a terrible character but she has to compete with Bennett, same with Barb and Qiqi tho in Kokomi case at least she has her niche

I'm so glad I got him and leveled him super early on at the beginning of the game. He's my favorite character by far personality-wise and my most pampered unit up to this day, my favorite son 🥺💖💖💖 I couldn't get why people said he was bad when he was carrying me during launch, and I'm very happy he gets the recognition he deserves now 💕

it's simple - slot efficiency. 1k+ ATK for the team, healing, and pyro resonance. this is all you need from a support. give him damage and he can drop fat melts while doing all of the above.

So excited for the rerun next week. Finally get that sweet sweet c1.

Eh, I got Bennett late in the game and he's not that fun to play. I love the little guy but his playstyle is not for me, no matter how effective Fantastic Voyage is. I'd rather keep my already built team with characters I actually enjoy to play than to invest in him (or Xingqiu for that matter)

Bennett is so insane that as long the artifacts aren't defense, he's still crazy.

I have such an awkward relationship with Bennett. I don’t like his character that much, and I’ve never rolled him EVER despite being AR56. To be honest, I’ve thought about eventually getting him and putting him on showcase at level 1 as a flex… but I’m not sure if I’d do that, especially since I have 3 AQUILLA FAVONIA which I can’t use because I don’t own him or Jean. One day, perhaps, I’ll roll him. Or buy him from starglitter, I guess, although I doubt I’d do it just for him

didnt reealiz how lucky i was to get bennet when i first started he was my first pulled character on the noelle starter banner