Why EVERYONE Plays: Ganyu | Genshin Impact 

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"I literally installed this game after downloading 60 images of Ganyu, since the official lore of the game specifies that she killed a monster after being eaten by it because her ass was SO BIG, it blocked its trachea, and suffocated it to death." - Ganyu Mains.

13:04 "unless dendro characters and reactions are so overtuned that they overshadow all other existing characters" Me, from the future: so about that...

Noëlle's elemental burst is also 15sec long (base) for 15sec CD. It's just less noticeable since she have big energy issues.

Fun fact: Ganyu has the highest fanart count of all genshin characters, followed by Keqing

I think a highly underrated part of an Aim-shot DPS is the fact that there is no stamina cost, which really gives her already high uptime kit even more presence.

Ganyu is one of the characters that really made me want an Artifact Loadout feature in Genshin. While her main playstyle of charged attacking enemies to death is bonkers on its own, using her as burst support in cryo teams is really strong too because of the cryo bonus passive inside her burst is huge and 100% uptime on her burst is achievable if kitted for ER with the extra cherry added on top is that it has high scaling + quadratic scaling go brrr when there are multiple enemies. One kit I use on her for burst support is the 4pc EoSF with R5 Fav Bow which works well into her support and even a sub-dps role. The artifact 2pc and 4pc works well with the weapon and cryo resonance means you'll ALWAYS proc fav passive every E cast.

There is something extremely satisfying in the Absolute Control her playstyle provides you with. Attacks of other characters are guided by autotargeting, which is helpful, but sometimes can get annoying even in melee characters and especially with ults/skills (Venty, Ayaka, Diluc, hi). Ganyu's charged shots are aimed by you 100% and it feels like nothing else.

Back in the day, when she made her first appereance during the beginning of the Liyue Archon Quests, i knew i was gonna pull for her without a doubt. And despite of all the leaks and almost everywhere and everyone i read comments arguing that she was just a Cryo Amber, i did not mind at all because I'm not into the "meta slaving" or meta gameplay stuff at all. Up to this day, i still so proud for taking that decision back then, and she's still by far my absolute favorite character in the game, according to her whole design, backstory, surrounding lore and gameplay-wise uniqueness.

4:34 I still think that you're misunderstanding Childe here. He's seen as a weak DPS before not because of Polar Star is yet to be released but because of lack of artifact set that can cater to his playstyle. I played Childe with Rust before getting the Harp & Polar Star and I didn't think his weapon option was the problem, it was completing his set and pairing him with good off-field pyro unit (which you stated in the video, is Xiangling which a lot of people slept upon d/t her being a free unit from 3-3 abyss).

Ganyu is absolutely overpowered She can do a lot of things and she's great at doing all of them. She can disintegrate enemies from 5 light years away without ever being at risk, she can be used in short range engagements, she can fill a sub DPS role no problem (which is like using a heavy tank to open a bottle of beer but nobody's stopping you i guess) and on top of that she's as consistent as it gets And she's cute af. Like look at her!

I remember the time when people called her Cryo Amber. Sure glad to own her since her release

Her infinite range is super useful in exploration and daily and so far she doesn't have any competitor yet, some enemies are hard to reach with just melee characters or some daily might require you to break tower that is far away, or maybe some flying enemies might get in your way I always prefer to have her in a party whenever possible but for abyss I think she no longer that popular but only in comparison to her owner-usage rate cuz of how hard she is to use in mobile/controller and lately abyss don't like cryo character. Oh and most people already have her from her rerun so most people are more excited about the new Dendro while no one is talking about her

Reasons to play ganyu 1 she has a consistent high dps with her charged attacks 2 great against both single target and multiple targets 3 can have permanent burst uptime 4 being cryo gives her acces to freeze and melt as well as letting her use the blizzard strayer for extra crit 5 cryo resonance can also give her more crit rate this along with blizzard allows her to invest muchore in crit damage 6 while not as important but her e helps to ensure she always has good distance from her enemies Tldr ganyu is really good due to her high CA scaling , permanent burst uptime and permanent cryo application. Her element works greatly to her advantage letting her acces to some of the best reactions . As a bonus she also has several good dep bows available

I absolutely love Ganyu. She's the first limited character I ever pulled for (got her in 2.4) and she really really helped me get through past Genshin's content. Despite having Raiden, Ayaka, Ayato, Yoimiya, etc., I still find myself coming back to Ganyu because of just how powerful and consistent her damage output is.

First 5-star I really wanted and she's been the main DPS on my team ever since her first debut. What a great character

Lets go! My Main

Tbh I met a lot less Ganyu mains over the past few months

Honestly, I started playing cuz of Ganyu... Her design, her playstyle, I love all of it. I started at Klee's rerun banner before Inazuma (1.6) so I had to wait a lot before I got her. it was all worth it.

Long Ago, When Zhongli and Ganyu Banner was released, I Managed to Pull for Ganyu, instead of Zhongli, due to my disliking for the Geo element, Ganyu was on my main team, along with Jean, Diluc and the Raiden Shogun herself, but everything changed when the Yelan Attacked.

I could remember the last banner of Ganyu + Zhongli, I lost to Ganyu and was unable to get Zhongli. But now the 3.0 patch came, I won my 50-50 with them both. I am so happy.

few years later, she end up getting the what happened video. Man, the irony

yeah she really good, only negative experience is the sheer unsatisfaction when she misses a crit lmao

I just wanna say that your voice is super calming and I like to have it in the background when I play Genshin or when I get anxious in other situations. It’s both friendly and appeasing, and I get to learn about characters while I listen ^^

I feel like youve missed some details in this video... One of the biggest points that make ganyu what she is is the uniqueness of her playstyle... As besides amber there is no unit in the game with aim shot beeing its selling points... People might not even like ganyu but enjoy playing with this mechanic in particular and there is no better alternative for them to choose... As in fact Ganyu is in fact a direct upgrade to Amber in that regard and has been memed out to oblivion in Amber focused groups...

I personally think subdps ganyu is underrated the fact she can have 100 percent best uptime on burst and 60 cost The fact she can utilise the elegy bow and give you a good cryodmg buff

She is my very first main dps. But not having at least Zhongli, Mona, or Kokomi make it impossible for me to clear spiral abyss, so I change to Ei and Ayaka. Now I come back to her since I am able to get 36 stars now.

She's one of the most F2P friendly 5* character. No need constellation or 5* weapon. Have good synergy with craftable weapon. Can be played both as DPS and sub DPS. Can be played in both freeze and melt teams. Good at early game because her charge attack doesn't need energy. So you don't have to go for perfect artifact stats. Is an old character, so you can max her out relatively early right away. Her charge shot have unique ICD meaning it WILL always trigger reaction. Also it is a strong cryo application, it will destroy Water AND Electro shields very very fast.

Ganyu is the first 5-star character that I pulled for 😸 I started playing RIGHT before her 2nd banner feature ran, and when I saw her character in the storyline, she was instantly my favorite. So when her banner came around, I was so happy that I got her! She's still my favorite to this day, and has consistently been my strongest character, so I don't feel like I'm compromising my damage output to play my favorite character ~

my first limited 5 star, my first triple crown, and the one character that never leaves my team. ganyu and zhongli will always be some of the comfiest and nice to play characters. they might be on the "boring" side to some people but i don't see myself maining any other dps but ganyu.

The true GOAT of genshin

I was so expecting a clip of KKOMDA's rolling animation at the end🤣 Great video man

Ganyu was the first five star I actively rolled for (I'd gotten a Eula by surprise as a low AR player who didn't know I should save and spend only on banner where I wanted the five star). She is still my most used DPS followed by Yelan and Fischl. The only other unit I use as much as her is Kokomi, as a comfort unit and great support for helping low AR players get through difficult content (they don't need me to one shot everything If I can keep them alive).

Correction. *Why Everyone *Played* Ganyu.

hm, however, i do think she needs zhongli as a shielder. specifically in melt teams in the abyss. otherwise, she gets one-shotted and it’s irritating. ganyu is fun in the overworld as a DPS, but since she’s an incredible support, i mostly use her as such.

Ganyu main here. I dont think Ganyu is popular anymore. She's been in many talks concerning how boring, not fun, bland, and generic her design and personality are and how repetitive and boring her charged shot play style is. People have moved on into Ayaka as the "queen of cryo dps" and that shows. So far many YT polls on banners show that people's interests in her are the lowest, even lower than Kokomi and Collei/Dori. I haven't seen anyone talk good about her in months.

RIP Ganyu :( The single most situational character together with Venti. Groupable = Destruction Ungroupable = Pain

I started taking an interest in Genshin Impact purely because of Ganyu.

truely the G.O.A.T, never left my overworld team because of how good she is.

Hi Vars! I just have a suggestion for your future content : - Section why everyone / no one plays the character. Example : Design/Personality/Gameplay/Resin efficiency

When I first saw her I definitely fell in love with her designs and was surprised on her first banner she was just using the favonius warbow on her trial but still she hits like a truck 😍 and I think she's the only character that her raw dmg is insane that doesn't rely on elemental reactions or any buff like Benny or food buffs.

I got decent 4pc wanderers on her and considered farming blizzard for freeze team. but when i built bennett and xiangling i just used her for melt team with zhongli shielder and it slaps

*Why everyone plays Ganyu* me with my benched level 90/90 Ganyu with a good build: "Yea.. everyone plays Ganyu."

She was my first C6R5 love ganyu use her regularly to this day. Shes tied for my favorite character with yae and Nahida

I dunno why but i remember that she wasnt really that popular in her first release, specially considering that she was consistently compared to Amber (who was considered the worst character during her that time) when she was initially leaked. And that her whole kit was buffed up bc of the Zhongli incident. It was also due to the fact that Xiao who was leaked to be the powerful anemo dps was about to be released right after her banner, which greatly affected her banner sales.

Ganyu was made to be an off-field cryo applyer, but the devs gots pissed off when they saw the "amber cryo" meme and kicked off her CA multipliers. Source: the voices

Ganyu burning melt is probably her best team if I’m not mistaken so dendro did enhance her lol

She still one of my favorites and finally a why everyone plays video that actually invoods someone I play lol

love your videos

This video is like the overflow of emotions for me . It says everything that I pulled Ganyu for . Her change of attack type , her lore , her gameplay (and one more thing , we both are vegetarian so that is a biased-point . Found that out the hard way by not listening to her story while Cloud Retainer was explaining it , and fed her the Squirrel Fillet Fish in that event where we tested various spices) , her versatility and already having the other Big Three of Liyue . She has been carrying my account since her arrival and I couldn’t be happier! People said “why didn’t you pull Ayaka? Ayaka burst better!” But they don’t understand why I pulled Ganyu . The reason was her consistent damage , instead of one focused burst . Sure it can clear the content faster , but where is the sense of accomplishment when you just time a burst and the enemy goes poof? Instead hitting every shot dead headshot is something that is really satisfying (that’s why I am loving Heizou so much!) for me . She can be used for proc’ing melts with Hu Tao and Hu Tao can do so much more damage while Zhongli just stands there and protects them both , with occasional Xingqiu vapes and freezes (Mefrape? As in Melt , Freeze and Vaporise?)

"We all know why" GUILTY AS CHARGED. missed Klee on her first banner during the Archipelago last year (one of my first events) and was not shy on trying to get her this year. R5 dodoco tales was waiting for her. Is she meta? Probably not. Is she adorable? Yes. Is she hella fun to play? Hella hella yes (I am definitely anticipating a ganyu rerun, don't have the best weapons but I'm hoping to get her either way.. highkey hoping to use her in permafreeze comps; would be so lit!!)

Man, I remember meeting Ganyu the very first time when out picking flowers with Zhongli and just instantly falling in love with her. I know I started frantically checking her model for a vision, because that's a good indicator that she might be playable someday and was overjoyed when I found out she does indeed wear one. Was so hyped up for her release a few months later and instantly whaled on her c6 because I loved her so much. She has been my main DPS ever since then, and I've never looked back ♥ No regrets.

super dope... thanks

7:33 nah she's not the only one Noelle has a 15s cd and 15s duration diluc as well, 8s duration +2 from his passive = 12s, 12s cd

Waiting for Ganyu rerun in the 2nd phase of 3.0 so I can finally pull her and test her out

She was also just announced for a rerun for 3.0 so nice timing here lol

Just made the connection that u were the vars from league. Damn dude your content is insane, hope both ur channel grows

Why everyone still plays Ganyu would be a more fitting title. Dread it. Run from it. Power creep comes all the same. Yet Ganyu keeps being an amazing unit to have.

Never needed her which makes me regret going for meta over waifu. I barely play her even if she can do more damage. But I do have to agree her damage is pretty high.

Ganyu has been my main since she came out. Thank you for making this video

Excellent timing for this video considering she is about to get her second rerun next patch!

The only 2 5 stars I want in the game (Ganyu and Cyno) are running back to back and I can only get one of them... Guess I'll go with Ganyu, though, since I've already prefarmed for her and have the rest of Morgana kitted out. Sure wish I could have gotten an Amos Bow from standard banner instead of 3 Qiqis, tho lol.

I guess I’m a Ganyu main- does twice the damage as my Hu Tao (bad luck on artifacts for her)… lucked out on a great Wanderer’s Troupe and when Hamayumi was released, despite getting no prototypes for months, got 5 in a row and R5’d it. Most open-world monsters take 50k dmg in 1 attack (twice as much as Skyward Harp when I finally got one a couple weeks ago).

Gotta contribute my view for the Goat!

Ganyu is my fave character in the entire game with how fun she is to play also she’s best girl for me in genshin then it’s raiden then ayaka then hu Tao

I think you should do a "Why EVERYONE Plays" with Yelan or Xingqiu (or even both in the same vid) as the subject/s; both are two sides of the same coin: rapid off-field hydro applicators that give substantial damage and reactions to the team. Notably, they are also useful by default due to being hydro, and they bring very powerful tools in boosting the team. Hell, due to the new hydro resonance, it's not uncommon to combine the two in a team, and I gotta say, a Yelan-XQ core team is sooo smooth to run and absolutely shreds everything that isn't immune to hydro damage. [Biased take incoming coming from a Yelan main lmao] As for Yelan, I'd consider her as one of the most complete and satisfying 5-stars since the game's release. Her skill is useful both in abyss and the overworld; her skill in abyss lets you close the gap against mobile enemies (e.g. teleporting Mirror Maiden, knocked back enemies, rifthounds, specters, etc.) while dealing massive damage to them at the same time - very useful in teams where CC is unavailable or just straight-up useless; on the other hand, her skill in the overworld lets you travel efficiently, kinda like Sayu's skill. Her burst is her bread and butter, and it's kind of like a more offensive-oriented version of Xingqiu's burst; its rapid rate of fire combined with its tracking nature ensure that everything counts, thus more damage; don't forget the damage ramp-up as well, which, when timed correctly, can be quite devastating in the hands of teammates with strong burst damage (e.g. Raiden, Zhongli, Hu tao, Eula, etc.). Personally, I'd also consider C1+ Yelan to be one of the unironically strongest hydro dps in the entire game in terms of raw damage. By that point, she has a Q > N1 > E > N1 combo during the first few seconds of her burst, thus giving her a huge burst of damage at the start. I personally have her C4 and R1 bow - her C4 is one of the first character-driven HP buffs in the game, so combine that with other powerful HP scalers like Hu Tao and Zhongli, and you'd have an extremely tanky team that just keeps getting more and more damage as long as Yelan simply does her things. Hopefully, they make other elements have a "Yelan" unit. Not exactly a must-have, but you'll definitely feel the boost in your account once you get them and use them in ideal teams and scenarios.

To me, nothing exemplifies the feeling of power more than having a Ganyu back in 1.2

Over a year later and my C6 Ganyu still helped me 36 star 4.3 abyss even though I stopped building any character for ages. I put her with the hydro units for the 1st half of floor 12 and gave her the blizzard strayer set. Ganyu certainly does the job of multiple people. She even gives herself multiple buffs. All the enemies were just deleted.

Love the Braxophone call out lol

I don't like bow characters (yelan doesn't count cause of her skill and burst) but Ganyu is the only bow character I go out of my way to use. Cause of all that damage, she double hits, applys cryo, and can hit more than one target, OP

I think it's quite sad that this video makes it sound so certain that every character will be overcrept eventually. I mean it does make sense because stronger character = more money for Hoyo but it just saddens me that there will be less or won't be any balance (even if this Genshin is PvE) for this game in the future.

I started playing the game because of zhongli, I fell in love with his trailer and I desperately spent every wish I could get at the start to get him but failed. Fast forward to January and I finally hit the gold (looking back at the history it was exactly 90😭) and it was ganyu! Being relatively new at the game I hadn't followed any content creators yet so I had no idea how good she was, but she ended up carrying me through the end of the liyue story + ascension quests with a chain freeze team. I didn't have any good bows or artifacts so she was used as burst support with my kaeya as main dps and with barbara and xingqiu for healing and hydro application

I already got Ganyu during her first run, and she is one of my favorite dps characters along with Ayaka, and Hu Tao. I'm currently saving up for either Kokomi, Dehya or Kusanali.

Im a new player and im definitely planning to pull for her in her upcoming rerun now

I remember when people called her "cryo Amber" oh how wrong they were. I got her and her weapon as soon as she came out and she was a massive upgrade from Keqing

I am biased but i cant wait for an Ayaka video!!! i know she is mentioned here in the Ganyu but still. She is my fave character and my main DPS!!

For me, Gun Yuu literally became the reason I'm playing this game. I started to play for other reasons, but I continue to play because of her. From the very beginning, I tend to use Amber for aimed shots, and I did that to the extent I would neglect other characters completely until I get in the situation where Amber's kit simply does not work. I've learned my lesson and started to utilize other characters abilities, and it was fun, but I never got too good at that. So when suddenly Ganyu rolled out of gacha, and I tried to play her, I immediately knew she is going to be my main character. It's not like I only want to play her, in fact I level almost all of my characters more or less equally to be able to play all of them on occasion. But whenever I need to do whatever, she is the first one I want to pick for my team, and I only replace her if I know others will do better in her place.

You should do ayaka now the two broken cryo girls

I see a lot of people say she needs Zhongli to function for her melt teams and as someone who has both Zhongli and ganyu DIONA is literally better bc ima a crazy person who likes to run her with shim and hamuymi Diona being able to battery her burst back one really good thing about ganyu is how all her abilities center around herself instead of flinging your 80% of your damage for 20 seconds on a single hillichurl at 1 hp behind you instead of the 5 enemies right in front of you because genshins auto-targeting sucks this has happened to me more times than I can count with Ayaka and venti point is centering your damage around yourself is far better than flinging it out personally, the ganyu vs Ayaka debate has always been strange to me bc ganyu freeze is clearly designed for AoE while Ayaka as a whole is designed for single target or boss fights (the 2 areas melt ganyu covers)and this discussion on who does more damage freeze wise (spoiler alert between 2-5 enemies it ganyu by a long shot even beyond that though the gap is very small) it doesn't make Ayaka weak that she a little worse than ganyu, in fact, I have both and I do prefer Ayaka for bosses because once again I'm lazy (butifinbeingrealidratherjustrunyoimiyaforbosses) I know this sounds like I'm bashing Ayaka but I'm not I just wanted to point out some of the major flaws that people always gloss over she is essentially a 1.0 character with 2.0 damage if diluc is an actual 1.0 character who has way smoother gameplay than her had 80% of her numbers hed instantly be top tier

I'm probably one of 10 remaining Ganyu mains and I don't plan to change that anytime soon. Screw the meta, embrace cocogoat

Ganyu is one of the coolest names I've ever heard

I lost 2 banners 1 cuz i hadn't enough primos And 2 cuz i got Jean Now i have both I won't lose again

My only problem when playing Ganyu is that I can't see if my shield went down during aim shot mode. I hope that one day they add some indicator that shows if you still have a shield when you aim.

I still watched this despite knowing all what you said, idk i just enjoyed how well put the video is and commentary 🧡

Ganyu my beloved

You've probably heard this question a thousand times when dendro reactions were revealed. But what do you think about dendro not having a reaction with cyro? Are you perhaps going to make a video about dendro reactions after 3.0 release and address it then?

tbh i rarely see anyone play her lol

This is funny cause I got Ganyu on her first release was super exited to have this "Cracked and op" unit and I haven't used her since Ayaka came out 😂

Thank you for actually mentioning support ganyu, everywhere I see everyone just slander it but its SO GOOD seriously if you have ganyu just make 2 sets for her, 1 main dps 1 support, I sweat to you it will be worth it

More people play kokomi than ganyu. Believe it

Another one of ganyu's shining virtues is that she is one of the most cost-efficient DPS in the game period. Amos' bow is obviously her BIS, but craftable weapons prototype cresent and hamayumi can preform fantasitcally on her, not to mention she is great at C0 and broken at C6, meaning she is great for casual play, speedrunning, and has a high impact on both F2Ps, dolphins, and whales. Her artifacts are also very flexibile, with wanderers troupe being craftable, saving tons or resin that could be spend in more cost-efficient domains like EOSF/Shimes or Blizzard strayer, which are both both good for Support/Sub-dps and dps respectively. Ganyu does everything you want for a dps-support hybrid, good uptime, easy to gear, f2p friendly, persisting effects, and as you said, amazing consistency

To me she has still one of the best DPS kit. No flaws, no downtime, pure synergy with all her skills. I use her with Ayaka, and geared with Blizzard and Amos. Because, like you said, I often find myself using her CAs to finish enemies or clean leftovers with bursts ready for the following chamber. Not to mention how much she improves QoL in daily activities. Oh, and she’s so beautiful and sweet.

I started playing Genshin during her and Zhongli's reruns, got them both. Never looked back since.

I feel like Ganyu's potential is locked away somehow. Even though I gave Ganyu a 4 piece Wanderer's set with high crit values, attack, etc. and an R5 Hamayumi (for the additional charged shot damage), I feel like I'm not getting what I should out of her. I'm not sure if I've messed up somewhere in building her or if it's just because she's only C0 without a 5* weapon.

Man I love the sneaky eula/keqing mentions

So glad I won the 50/50, I also got kuki shinobu in the grind for ganyu so I got my two most wanted characters! Now just hu tao and zhongli

a point that you forgot to mention is that ganyu is the absolute best character to use for overworld exploration/dailies. with her insane range and charged attack damage, she clears dailies very quickly. she’s just an amazing character to pull for if you want to make your daily grind much easier.

this should be a why NO ONE plays her now

nice timing they just announced ganyu rerun

Thank you cars for posting my main, ganyu's WEOP on my birthday