Why EVERYONE Plays: Kokomi | Genshin Impact 

From 'Why no one plays Kokomi?' to 'What happened to Kokomi?' to 'Why everyone plays Kokomi?' what an arc. Best meta redemption! (Edit: Please do not spread leaks in the comment section. As of 26th September 2023, Furina's kit hasn't been officially released yet.)

Kokomi’s crit passive is called “Flawless Strategy” because she doesn’t rely on chance

Wow considering there was “why nobody plays Kokomi” video before it’s pretty funny now “everyone plays her”! All the love for our fishy lady Kokomi!!

As someone who pulled for both Kazuha and Kokomi on their first runs when the entire community was clowning on them, I admit to a certain degree of satisfaction at how her reputation came around. Kokomi especially, promptly replaced Zhongli as a means of making teams immortal. To give you an idea of how insanely overused my Kokomi is... every character in my roster is level 80/90 at bare minimum. A few high-priority units I"ve pushed to level 90. My Kokomi is at level 82. Not because I used any extra books on her... but because after getting her to 80/90... I then proceeded to use her SO MUCH that she hard levelled up twice over the years.

Looking back it's a good thing that people started looking past how much damage single units can do and actually started looking at other parts of a character's kit that can be made use of. I still stand by that idea she never was a bad unit to begin with. It just took a lot of time for players to realize that personal damage and crit stats aren't the be-all end-all in Genshin and that we're not in the early game meta anymore.

As a Kokomi main this is the most dramatic character I have seen, she did a 180 and everyone loves her since 3.0

From being shunned by the community on her initial release to now being one of the most meta defining characters 😭 truly a character development

Kokomi is a victim of hindsight and meta at the time of her release. with hindsight we now know that we were looking at her in the wrong way and the wrong lens. however, at the time of her release, it was very hard to slip her into any comps, partly in due to the lack of dendro. Dendro flipped the game upside down completely with its reactions. with the release of dendro AND the maturity of the game over time, it led to the perfect storm for kokomi to rise in power without actually receiving buffs directly. at the time of her release, there were units that just did what you needed much better. but as you said, the team econ need suddenly turned kokomi into the jack of all trades with little downside for keeping her. she was a ticking timebomb. it was a matter of time before she exploded onto the scene. true to her character as the master tactician of watasumi island. best redemption arc, and true to kokomi's ability to think 17 steps ahead.

The real question is: Why Kokomi can't jump out of the water in Fontaine?

I've been a Kokomi supporter since day 1. Never understood why people disliked her and thought she was bad. She's by far my stronger character to this day and I am glad people finally realize her potential. They took their damn time but can you blame them ? Poor things...

for me, its always aesthetics over meta. so when she first came out i WANTED her. not because of her skills or whatever, but because she looked just SOOOO pretty. to this day i find her one of the best looking characters in GI. that aside, she made gameplay SO easy i have never been able to replace her from my teams. she will forever be my 1. character (in terms of key binding).

Kuki and Kokomi are great testaments to “play the characters you like”, you never know if they’ll become vital for teams in the future

Proud 1st banner Kokomi haver. I believed in her since the beginning.

Kokomi might be one of my luckiest pulls ever because I wasn't trying to get her and wasn't enthusiastic about it but figured I may as well put her to good use since she was one of my only few 5 stars. She's rarely left my party ever since

I suggested a friend to get Kokomi, when he was thinking about quitting Genshin Impact because his account sucked. Now, after he got Kokomi (his first 5 Star after Qiqi) he made Kokomi his wife. He made Kokomi a regular in every single team he uses. Taser, Bloom, Hyperbloom and Freeze. He Loves Kokomi so much that he is now filling his hard drive with images of Kokomi. I just wanted to help a Guy fix his account and I ended up creating a schizo.

Tbh, don't even play Genshin anymore, but I do enjoy seeing the community perception of Kokomi improve.

I just got her during her original banner, because my account lacked a second unit to sustain my other Abyss team. It's crazy to see how much she was disliked and how the narrative around her changed so much with each following rerun.

I watched "Why no one plays Kokomi" before Kokomi's banner 1 month prior ...but by the time she came back I had already decided I wanted her for her healing....but she even surpassed my expectations...one of my best supports

From why no one plays to why everyone plays. Such a beautiful development. Perfect for the mermaid indeed.

Basically Kokomi is not a healer first but actually a wet applier that heals As ppl realized that opinion on her changed

I've got a lot of hate and angry comments when I shared my exitment of first won 50/50 on her banner and that I can finally get rid of Barbara. I always new better then to listen to random people in internet who to pull for (otherwise I would't got my Kazuha as f2p at the time, who I love to this day), but comments was so crazy that from that day out I decided not to listen to anybody 100%, because people don't have a clue what is best and what is not for my account or enjointment of the game. I'm happy with all characters I pulled for to this day and I enoy playing them. I'm just sad people can't think outside of their box. They just repeat what some content creators tell them not thinking about it for themselfs. Otherwise, I'd love to be a part of this community.

Kok is love, kok is life

She needs a buff, the fact that she doesn't dolphin jump in fontaine is embarrassing. We demand dolphin jump for Kokomi!!!

Cant believe I regretted getting her by accident on her first banner. Everyone thought she was a horrible pick. Built her because I "wasted" primogems on her, might as well get something out of it. Now she's among one of my most used units. Crazy.

this literally came out 5 minutes after i beat the new abyss with a kokomi driver team (i haven't played her that way in months lol). cool coincidence yeah she's one of my fav characters, i'm glad she's popular now, the hate was wild in 2.1

Kokomi is the best happy accident to happen to my account and Im so glad Ive had her from the beginning. I have direct comparison from her signature kit came out and before dendro came out and she's just been getting better and better, it's been a wild ride experiencing her in these different phases of genshin and seeing her go from one of the most clowned on characters to a must-have in the eyes of the fandom ❤❤ From Kokopium to Kokokween, always stanning Kokomi 💙💙

as a nonmeta player what I absolutely love about Kokomi is that I can use my weak characters as long as I want and she will definitely and unconditionally sustain them. I want the originals Amber, Lisa and Kaeya to still be part of my roster during exploration and Kokomi let me do that.

proud day 1 Kokomi-haver here! i pulled her purely bc of aesthetics cause i was new to genshin at the time and so i had NO idea how much of a stir she was causing in the community until a couple months later when i pulled Albedo and was looking up if he and Kokomi had any synergy and discovered all the discourse fast forward to today and it makes me so happy to see how much community opinion has changed on her 💖 (and also im much better at team building now LMAO)

i am so happy to have believed that kokomi would be one of the best 5 star character since her release. i am happy to have been one of the OG Kokomi haver and forever will be a Kokomi main

Sumeru and Fontaine makes Kokomi better while Natlan,and Snezhnaya probably will increase Kokomi's power Now I think Kokomi could be better than Zhongli, yes Zhongli is strong but now there's some enemies that could counter the shield Also Kokomi could access some of the most overpowered elemental reaction while Zhongli is being Geo

i really love her artwork that u use on thumbnail, her birthday official post so pretty

I'm glad things have turned around for her. I've used her in my team ever since she first was added and I do not regret getting her for a second. All hail fish queen

This is all just a part of Kokomi's tactics 😂

I’m not a huge Koko fan, so I still don’t have her and probably never will get her. But I’m happy for everyone that does have her and likes her!

from 12:37 to 12:50 where he talks about all the various aspects. At the end i was wana add "and if they do, they're probably the hydro archon."

I saw her “why no one play” video over a year ago and today her rising popularity into top meta hydro is the most poetic satisfying victory I will ever see, even as new player I never agreed with the idiotic hate cause a dedicated healer obviously shouldn’t benefit much from crit plus she’s a strategist who doesn’t take chances do her talent fits her.

Honestly one of the best redemption arcs in a video game ever. I first saw her, did the initial free trial play and immediately knew how good she was going to be, even pre Dendro. She offers so much for so little investment. To this day, Kokomi is the only character I've ever spent irl money on and she's been worth every dollar.

I remember pulling for her when everyone was saying she was useless. Never had a regret, she is my hydro Princess and will always be ❤

proud to have been a kokomi stan since day 1 💪 og kokomi haver

People used to say she was bad, but if we look at usage statistics and meta teams, the truth is that from freeze to bloom she was meta from day one.

As a sloppy player, Kokomi with R5 Sacrificial Fragments is the dream for me. She successfully replaced my Mona/Qiqi combo and if I don't get perfect timing with her skill being extended by her burst, it's okay because her weapon lets me try again. I wish I had two of her. This video also really brought to light the way healers can actually be useful, and scaling is such an interesting piece of the puzzle. I genuinely think if Qiqi had better off-field cryo application she would be WAY more popular, because with her healing scaling on her attack it's really fun to build her out for damage and have her healing still be incredible. BUT it's so hard to have a physical damage dealer taking up a slot when elemental reactions are more fun and generally more effective. I love her to death and will use her as much as I can until the day I stop playing the game.

Me looking at my friends and none of us want or play Kokomi....

Sometimes I like to look back from discussions and posts from 2 years ago when peoples perception about Kokomi was negative and just laugh at how shitty their takes were lol. I believed her from the start and now I get to laugh at these poor misguided souls. Kokomi is probably still my favorite Hydro til today. Now I wait for "why everyone plays Dehya" ....

I think another reason why people downplay kokomi so much on release is cause her first banner came out exactly at genshin first anniversary and players were furious with the rewards to the point they downplay kokomi

Simple answer Dendro. Before she was only viable in a freeze team mostly Ayaka one due to the consistent application of hydro but Dendro made her more useful with both heal and hydro application not to mention Dendro reaction are just too broken with minimum investment to higher output

Never judge a book by its cover, I guess. I actually never despised Kokomi (I don't even have her but always wanted to test her playstyle), but all of this happened because people should stop thinking using only one perspective: a team is not only crits, reactions, buffs and stuff, sometimes having a healer is okay, especially if it's a new playstyle that has never been featured in the game so far (i.e. Freminet, the first in the roaster that can literally be either a physical or elemental damage dealer). A wide variety of ideas and diverse characters contribute to a vary meta which I deem to be amazing as it keeps the pace of the game up and never bores

Her stonks are going up even more after I had a dream about Furina's kit. Kokomi nation can't stop winning

That Maplestory OST in the background though!!

As a player whose first 5 star was Kokomi since her release, I have watched the trilogy with great pride and I feel nothing but fulfilment at this moment. Thank you!😊

I (accidentally) got her C1 on her first banner. I’ve pretty consistently had her on most of my teams and she’s popped off in every context. These days I primarily use her in Ayaka Freeze, but she’s excellent in just about every hydro related reaction.

During Kokomi's first banner, I was rolling for Xingqiu constellations and managed to get her in my 20th pull. At first I didn't want to build Kokomi because a lot of players told me she was bad, but I decided to build her because there is nothing wrong with using a healer in Genshin and I like Kokomi's design, personality and voice (JP and CN). Now she's the best healer in my Ayaka freeze team. No regrets.

Kokomi honestly feels like the best hydro character for a freeze team. Her jellyfish applies hydro just as the enemy's freeze status is wearing off, and just as Ganyu is about to charge up another frostflake arrow. It literally times perfectly.

I started playing a couple of weeks before her first banner. I pulled for the shogun and pulled for her as well, and I gotta say that having her since pretty much day 1 has made my life a lot easier

This guy finally figured it out... It took him more than a year and 3 videos, but he finally figured out the real reason no one played Kokomi...

Looking back at her first banner, I remember a lot of backlash just because she couldn't crit in a crit-frenzy era for genshin; and all I cared about the time was that I needed to pull for her because she's a unit with pink themed colors and is a healer. Never did I expect that she will be noticed by a lot of people like right now haha

I've had her since day one and I'm so happy to see her show so much potential now! My little fish makes me happy :')

Got her on her Debut banner because it was also my first banner, She was comfortable to use for a new player, I didn't know a lot back then about kits, I just know that she healed good and better than what barbara (because cryo slimes and cryo archers were a pain back then for a new player), built a random team that could do it all. Diluc, Fischl, Kokomi and Rosaria as physical DPS and that Kept me alive to Inazuma, the team changed but Kokomi was too good of a healer that didn't leave teams I made. Taser, Freeze, Superconduct and random reactions. Now with all the indirect buffs, more experience in the game, new healers I got, she still has a place in most of my teams. She was my Zhongli when I lost in Zhongli banner during lantern rite 2021 xD

Ahhh, I remember being so dissapointed after winning 50/50 to her while tryna get 4 stars. Now she's a staple member of my Nahida hyperbloom team along with Raiden and Yelan.

The music is playing throughout the video is "Temple of Time: Remembrance" from Maplestory if anyone else winds up looking for it the comments

12:40 furina : im bout to end this man’s whole career

Mihoyo was like now you know why we name her talent "Flawless Strategy" huh? 😂

"Since, back then, we didn't know better" is exactly why I always take community feedback with a really huge grain of salt. It's been like that since 1.0 and it's not going to change any time soon.

Oh now the tables have turned Vars

I agree completely. Listen i started playing genshin back during Dehya's banner, and i've mostly F2P the game (I've bought the monthly moon thing, and a couple of the battle passes). through pure dumb luck I stumbled into Bennett, Xingqiu... the list goes on and on, I was able to make a lot of different teams, learn the game, but the one thing i noted I was struggling with was Hydro application and healing; my only real healer i had built was Kiku, and while kiku is a great electro driver for hyperbloom, and fantastic core healer for a team, she's still electro, so she doesn't fit on a lot of teams that might need it. I used to get to 24-26 stars in the abyss, mostly because all i had was one good Hyperbloom team, and half of an ayaka freeze team or melt team. Kokomi was what my account needed. She allows me to run Nilou bloom teams, she lets me run ayaka freeze (ayaka, shenhe, kokomi and kazuha), she works in any team i stick bennett, she works as the hydro applicator in my Nahida hyperbloom, the reality is I actually find her more useful in various team compositions then Xingqiu, even though Xingqiu is all types of awsome, he's simply not as flexable, all he brings is hydro application and some solid damage and performs as a battery for various teams... don't get me wrong those are all great things, but in the grand scheme of things she just straight up replaces him on so many teams.

Thanks for reminding me why i should consider pulling kokomi. At first I didn’t understand the hate around kokomi as I joined around 2.0-onwards and I did not understand the wishing system.

Kokomi was my first event 5 star and I still use her every day. World exploration, quests, domains, abyss, ect. she's always there. Never for one second did I regret pulling for her!

"You could not live with your own failure. And where did that bring you? Back to me"

You can make Xingqiu have 100% uptime on his off-field hydro application since both his burst and his E provide it, you just have to stagger their use (Q first, E 10 seconds later, for example)

I pulled on her very first banner and not regret it. why? when i saw gameplay leaks of her and saw that she can do backflips i was like "holy fuck thats sick" and then dedicated myself to save for her banner

Cant wait for Furina to be a direct upgrade over Kokomi

my first time pulling a lot was on the ganyu/komomi banner back not much after 3.0 released. needless to say i had absolutely zero issue through the entire game and was able to get through 36* abyss pretty quickly lol

If she was top teir before Furina she is clearly even better now. I run her in a taze team with Funrina/Fischl/Kazuha with Koko on feild driving the team, in AOE situations its almost as good as my Nilou team. She kinda does everything well now.

You've no idea how good I feel as an og kokomi and kaz haver, seeing their rise is so dang satisfying.

I have her triple 9'd and it's amazing. She really is a swiss army knife where even if I mess up a rotation having her in the team makes it feel good.

Its so ironic that almost everyone I knew hated her and me when I pulled for her, and now they're asking for a Kokomi rerun.

I got her on her firts banner after losing to raiden. at first I was kinda upset by it but still used her. and now she is an essential part of my team and I legit cant play without her (I did get raiden later on a rerun)

I was actually trying to pull for either Ayaka or Raiden but ended up getting Kokomi instead. I didn't mind getting her and I've been using her ever since. Not every character on your team has to be a all crit dps. Different characters have different roles to play and I build them according to their roles. She's now my main healer and she's also kind of a sub dps. I'm currently running with her, Keqing, Yanfae, and Collie. Yanfae is lvl 70 and the other 3 are lvl 60 atm while I'm at AR45 WR5... And I love my little mermaid! She's awesome!

Back more then a year ago, before sumeru was even a thing and before her 2nd run, in co-op i showed to some friends the potential she had, even at level 70. soloing azdaha after the rest of the party died and azdaha still having 75% health left. With some nice dodges, tanking hits like a boss and timed healing, i brought azdaha to his knees as if he was nothing. Its still a fond memory to reminisse on.

I'm happy to be one of those who recognized her strength at release. Yes, I was also a bit skeptical about the -100% crit, but it was so obvious she was cracked on everything else even before dendro came out that it just seemed like a fair trade off (and it is).

Back when Kokoki got release, I did see a potential where she is essential in terms of sustain n' team survivability down the road where we're less likely to have more shield or unconditional dps (Looking at Zhongli n' Bennett), now we have more characters that have self inflicted hp reduction that further increase Kokomi priority in any team comp. A side note, OhC is fine, but I hope for an alternate 4 piece effect, like Overheal from LoL

If memory serves even back when Kokomi's Why No One Plays video was released there was already plenty of evidence that she wasn't a bad character and that she had unrealized potential. Without going back to re-watch that video I recall that Spiral Abyss usage data from that time showed that she was used more frequently than other perceived "bad" characters and that players who had her were actively using her as their go-to healer. Also as someone who's been playing Genshin Impact's multi-player since version 2.0ish I can say that from memory she was never a rare character to see other players running even from the time of her first banner. Which with me having known for a long time that she was the best in class healer in Genshin Impact makes it a small mystery as to why I've never bother to pull for her, and likely never will.

she's top of my list for rerun characters I'm considering getting alongside or instead of upcoming Fontaine characters

Got her since her day 1 on her first banner. Glad I pulled for her but I'm now comfortable with Baizhu so it's been a good journey. Best of luck for those who'll want to get her on rerun 👍

I always loved Kokomi's design, so much so that she's the only character who I pulled for that reason. Zhongli was for the shield, Yoimiya because I loved normal attacks, Nahida because I wanted a better dendro applier. I didn't have a team that needed Kokomi and with Zhongli and Jean I didn't need a healer. I also accidentally got her weapon trying to get Raiden's, which really pushed me to make use of her. Surprisingly, that wasn't hard. I've always hated having not full hp in overworld so she became my second most used character , second only to Zhongli who does not leave my Overworld team. Her dmg isn't Ganyu or Hu Tao level but she also didn't have their fragility. I could pair her with Beidou/Fischl/Raiden, electrochrage the enemy to death, and not worry about dying. I failed to get Venti or Kazuha so with Kokomi I also had the ability to go Freeze Ganyu.

My EM-Kokomi carriying me in every Abyss with Nilou 😍

I was just like everyone at her first release, didnt pull for her cuz many said she was bad back then. Then her first rerun came, got lucky getting her cuz regardless her power level back then, I still like her personality, and i realized she work pretty well with Yae in taser, it was strong but quite underwhelming compared to pre-dendro meta back then. But when dendro came (especially when i got nahida and nilou), i feel like she become one of, if not the most versatile character in dendro team. Really glad pulled for her. And still love using kokomi in the abyss.

gatta love that maplestory bgm

I’m so glad to have been a Kokomi main since before she even came out LOL. She’s just my aesthetic, and I also love hydro.

I finally got my Kokomi on the third banner after waiting fir so long and I immediately built her as a healer/dps hybrid hehe

Komomi is Really important in 4.1 because She Counters the new Fatui Operatives that have bleeding Effects that Reduces healing , Requiring you to have a lot of Healing to Remove that Effect Wich Kokomi provides a lot of Healing.

Remember when the community shat on the Kokomi mains? Koko players were actively kicked off of Co-op by toxic players and now she's meta, mad respect for the guys that stuck through with her.

xingqius burst actually has 100% uptime because hitlag causes it duration to extend longer. found this out a bit recently, normally can get it upto 21s instead of its base 15 because ive had his burst come back off CD before the last volly of swords finishes. i initally picked up kokomi because of her aoe hydro application, we didnt have dendro at the time, but is till saw it as a nice utility that just sumwhat worked here and there despite it not being use vary much. man did that application go far

I'm happy that Kokomi is receiving so much love now. I remember I pulled for her during her first banner just for fun and I got her in my first 10 pulls. This was back when she was receiving so much backlash and saying that she's a useless 5-star. I eventually started using her when I realized that her heals are so good and she constantly wet her opponents and started using her for freeze teams and she became so important that she's always in my party.

I remember when I first pulled her (OG koko haver) she literally carried my teams so hard I used her just about everywhere. insane elemental teams and healing, I was basically being carried by her

I want to see how this ages with Furina. It'll either age like fine wine, or cook very hard.

Proud kokomi haver since day 1, I dropped genshin a while back but I still love her character

Love how you in fact do have to try and dodge using Hydro and yet there are only three four stars and two existed when the game came out

Kokomi fan since Day 1. She and Yelan are a fantastic combo noone talks about tho. Both scale with HP (double hydro) Yelan burst boosts kokomi attacks during burst Yelan burst triggers with Kokomi I am so happy for our fishqueen.

She was always great, people were just too blinded by the "can't crit" part. I got her the day she released and she quickly joined my Abyss teams, she made my runs so comfy and I was not resetting floors as much. I remember that very early on, Kokomi mains pointed out how she had >60% Abyss usage (i think it was back in 2.3), and everyone dismissed it with "Well, they pulled for her, of course they are using her even if she's subpar". I'm just so glad to see her receive the love she deserves.

Kokomi is one of many examples of why Touhousniper says: " meta always been and always will be trash"; it makes us forget to think critically and creatively.