Why EVERYONE Plays: Nahida | Genshin Impact 

I have never seen the community band together in agreement so much until that day...and Deyha's kit, BUT mostly on that day XD

For real

@@Eternity116 you were definitely not there for the dragonspine albedo quest then when reckless palad pissed the entire playerbase off for what he did during that event XD

Half my HoyoLab posts are just gifs of Nahida on her swing looking at scenery 😂

​@@Tm-dy2bp Fun fact, I was not lol. Also, just to add, the 1 year anniversary? I wasn't part of genshin during then, but boi did it have some...chaos, let's say 😅

I hope they continue the overworld trend on other archons. Overwolrd Movement for Venti Mining for Zhongli Instakill for Raiden Farming for Nahida Diving??? Highly copium tho, but Focalors please?

Her, Yelan, and Kazuha are some of my favorite characters because they're so absurdly strong, but also just really fun and comfy to play in overworld. People tend to focus solely on meta and abyss runs, but proportionately you spend so little of your playtime in the abyss that it's really important to me how fun a character is to just run around with. Having them be meta is just a very nice bonus.

My exploration team is Nahida (of course), Kuki, Kokomi, and Ayaka for speed. Also freezing enemies helps them end their living a lot sooner 🤣

Exploration was the reason I fell in love with this game in the first place. I remember losing sleep those days and even running enemy and ore routes back in 1.x with friends. Yelan, Wanderer, Yaoyao, and Kazuha is great for general exploration and movement. I sometimes swap Yaoyao with Zhongli if I'm specifically doing ore runs. Other times I could use Nahida for quick cliff plants like the Violetgrass. There's just so much you could do in the overworld that I wouldn't be surprised if they release a character that's kinda on the weak side, but has some interesting overworld use like Sayu.

@@Eternity116 Could just be fishing or a no stamina drain version of what Mona does so she can beat ice bridging.

Those dumbasses that hate her still exists

The reason is Chinese TCs have told for ages, that her kit is underwhelming and people will roll for her only because of story. What happened later is that western youtubers got a paycheck and western TC'ers got a warning for discussing leaks. The sheer amount of trash-talk directed by them to other dendro-units makes the whole year of their opinions/guides questionable

​@@jeanwinter5275 ??? I don't see how this is any bit relevant.

@@Eternity116 I may be wrong with the reason for such flip, but it literally made ppl not care about other dendro units and complaining later about Abyss becoming too hard

@@jeanwinter5275 Oohhh, well this is the first I've heard of it. But I don't follow these kinds of things, so I'm in the dark in these things

She'll be back next patch with nilou

Mine is the " Everyone hold hands!" Which sounds cute as hell. Meanwhile everything is dying lol

I want her C2 so badly, even though I already pop the hell off with C0

@@EquaYonah oh my god yes this one too. Like imagine some kid walks up to you, starts dancing on you and says “everyone hold hands”😂😂 Too cute man

Klee > Nahida you coward.

They are also the easiest characters to play

Definitely. Alot of my overworld is just Zhongli shield, Ei E, and Nahida DDR and everything is deleted lol

​@@Aaron_Kuroiwa yep, I love the high uptime on thier skills. Zhongli has 20s duration with 12s cd. Raiden has 25s duration with 9s cd and Nahida has 25s duration with 5s cooldown. Makes playing with them super comfy

Then explain Venti and Zhongli. They’re two of the worst characters in the game. Anyone who pulls them has questionable intelligence and shouldn’t be trusted with gacha games or literally anything.

@@bobjones1934 🤓🤓🤡🤡

yup. She's great at c0, her c1 is an amazing QoL upgrade, and c2 is if you want to try-hard with her lineups. XD

Yeah anyone who skips or doesn’t play her is stupid and doesn’t deserve to play

He can't be a Why Everyone Plays though since he's been dethroned and everyone prefers Kazuha now

Watch them completely ignore dehya and be like: Venti needs a buff cus he’s an archon

@koharu i agree that kazuha has overtaken venti but it does not mean venti has become bad. With sumeru most of the enemies can be dragged by venti. And also when venti does work (which mostly works on at least one side of Abbys) he's the best character in the game. He's just becomes a auto win button

@@abcxyz8318 I know but this is a "why EVERYONE plays" not a "Why Everyone should give this guy a chance" series

@@koharuyuuki3162 you don't know but many people use venti to get 3 stars in Abbys chambers

Lmao she does more damage than trashy characters like Cyno, Ayaka, Ayato, Yoimiya, Itto, Xiao, Eula, and Wanderer. You’re better off building her as a hypercarry than any of these sad trash bags.

without other characters in the party, she has no access to reactions and her skill doesn't proc. also, you named some good dps characters so i don't really know what you mean, nor do i think you understood the point of my comment lol.

@@nora.c lmao I said what I said. Nahida does way more damage than those hypercarries and for way less investment too. There’s no need to get anything else but top meta unless you’re stupid and like wasting your pulls on useless garbage.

@@bobjones1934 least toxic child simp

​@@bobjones1934 you a 🤡

Yup. Cryo and freeze suck now, and good riddance.

​@@bobjones1934wdym suck?

@@bobjones1934 stop spouting bs you clown💀

@@bobjones1934 what? freeze is still good

​@@vipernitrox8324No against newer abyss, it kinda fell off

Bros never heard of Kazuha

@@TeoEmil Kazuha is good at buffing character but his crowd control essentially only work for one moment and the enemy can easily moved away Venti Crowd Control works longer

I wonder what the Hydro Archon will be 🤔

Then furina rolls up with the single best buff effect in the game.

Hats. @@ly_sho

Yes even if you like cyro teams, you can do burning melt comps

@@DanielCruz-xq6eo i remember cryo main crying by dendro reaction. They didn't think tri-reaction exist at all. Not react means more way to create tri-reaction

@@wahyuwirawan727 lol cryo and Ayaka suck. Why did you even like them in the first place?

100 euros well spend i got her on first 10 pulls and then i got her weapon later on the raiden rerun her dendro damage with crit damage can do 20 k in one attack with just boring artifacts that i just had and she still keeps geting better with every new artifact i get for her

@@bobjones1934 why you assume i like cryo? Lol. Read the comment

It also helps that Nahida got the absolute utmost attention in beta cycles due to being an archon (Got quite a few buffs to be where she is currently), whereas Dehya they pretty much intentionally seem to have shafted her and gave her a bunch of placebo changes that in the grand scheme of things didn't fix anything.

The fiesta analogy doesn't because no one was celebrating

heavely anticipated... guess someone never out from the cave that time🤣.. you mean heavely hated lol

@@fragmentedrose7401 wait wdym? it's a clown fiesta, an internet slang...

@@istiompaxindica9676 I have literally never heard that term before

😊

So was Yae, but unfortunately because of the problems with her kit she isn’t used nearly as much as Nahida or Shogun.

Her archon status help her a lot, so far only archon & fatui have the biggest marketing point in this game.

Raiden Mei and Theresa Apocalypse right?

Most genshin characters are actually

the best pyro is an adventurer who was abandoned as a baby and has horrible luck lol

have you ever heard about the legend of xiangling

For sure, the remaining 3 archons have major competition to outsell. Most likely they would need to apply most of their element, compared to Venti and Zhongli whose elements are only triggers. Focalor either has to outheal Kokomi or abuse the 3 hit rule more than Yelan/Xinqiu. With Dehya's kit, Hoyo probably wants to focus on survivability in making future enemies than a dps race (tbf I'd rather have that than the crap they're pulling with Wenut). It would be odd that her healing potential isn't on par or better than Kokomi/Qiqi. Murata has to either outshine Bennett as a an atk buffer or bring huge dmg per screenshot numbers to a new height. Pyro has become less of the meta, with Dendro enforcing quantity of reactions rather than quality (how big each hit is). Tsaritsa has to set a new standard for critical hits. I'd like to imagine she'll freeze time (not abyss time obv) or slow down enemies (since cryo slowing things down hasn't really been expanded upon)

I disagree about yoimiya being the best pyro unless when enemy is flying

Worst pyro? Try worst character

SAME, but i didn't understand the last para, help

@@hamburtgerr Nahida is not only the Dendro archon, but also the archon of wisdom and has a direct link to Irminsul, the tree that forms all lay lines and contains the entire knowledge of Teyvat. So technically, Nahida should know everything about everything that ever happens or has happened -> great calamity 500 years ago, Kaenri'ah, Celestia, heavenly principals, even what the Tsaritsa and Fatui are conspiring against.

she makes farming less tedious*

Yeah she’s perfect. Anyone who says otherwise is a danger to themselves and others.

I didn't realise that most of her references actually Samsara-based! Maybe it will have to do with the larger story, because of how even the Archon of Knowledge is still "stuck" in Samsara - that is Teyvat? - if you will? In relation to the latest Archon Quest (4.2), I wonder whether basically Nahida we see is actually her Samsara version, while Kusanali is her Nirvana version. It seems to be a theme if it is.

@@MagisterialVoyager Yup, she is based a lot on Dharmic culture which is really exciting to me and I can rant all day about her among my friends XD. Her kit: (NA: Akara means form or shape in Sanskrit, her skill is a chain which are described as Karmic bonds with Skandah and her Ult is Shrine of Maya - the literal Indian myth, goddess of dream/illusion and the thing that keep people in Samsara irl myth. Shrine of maya also enhance her skill -the karmic bond/chain). Yet, the first part of the archon quest is about her helping us escape Samsara, she and Rukkhadevata are Avatar of Irminsul that are trying to prevent disasters. Isn’t that exactly what avatar of Gods in Indian mythology do too? Take an avatar form to walk among humans and help humans to escape Samsara and prevent disasters. Especially Vishnu who is also associated with Dreams. Also her paraphrasing Indian philosophy and morality based stories is funny (the blind men and the elephant-the blind men and the boarshroom and on). Sorry, I’m ranting, I’m very fond of this character. Also, that’s an interesting topic indeed, since she is the avatar of Irminsul, I imagine we will still see her around especially if they are pushing the time-loop/Samsara lore as they hinted in Fontaine.

​@@OzEtlar Oh, feel free to talk about Nahida, I really adore her, too. I suppose we can widen it because the concept of Archon as gods was so confusing to me who came from Abrahamic religion, but of course they're basically "the avatar", since they have physical body and are among their own people (unless maybe Raiden who literally put out her doll outside and Focalors, as we've now learned). Isn't it a bit eerie, though, that Nahida's saying "The Temple of Wisdom" is basically, and correct me if I'm wrong, the Play of Life (I forget the term, is it 'lila'?) Because we're in it, our enemies are in it, and they're bound by her chains of Skill.

You should add "in multiple waves", since she is effective when dealing with large groups, though not when they come in waves

She has 6s skill cooldown though. For me, she has barely any trouble with waves. But yeah, when there's more than 5 enemies at once, shit gets dicey

@@ShadowmanX1989 That's a much better way of describing what I was trying to say. Thanks :)

​@@destroreact5706 I'm not really paying attention, is her skill apply different enemies when we camera for the second time? Let's say the floor has 10 enemies, so the first camera she mark 5 enemies, and then the sacrificial book reset proc and she can camera again. Is it working? Does she mark 10 enemies?

That only sounds like it’s only a problem when you can’t swap back to her or on field her Oh wait Cyno 💀

that's a bad decision - you'll have plenty of cores lying around just to rupture simultaneously in 2+seconds and only 2 of them will deal damage

@@jeanwinter5275 that literally has nothing to do with my statement and even if it did nahida having em on her doesnt change that. The cores stacking to too high an amount is entirely about the speed of ur electro application.

@@awinkingowl7608 ah sry, got myself stuck thinking about bloom there

Can confirm, this is a great and fun team 🥰

Lmao why would you want Ayato? He’s actually the worst hydro. Candance and Barbara are better investments than him. Using him would only taint Nahida and any team she’s on. Just use Xingqiu, Childe, Kokomi, and/or Yelan like a normal person.

​@@bobjones1934 ayato worst hydro? 😮

@@bobjones1934 alright then, what about kazuha?

@@eh9618 Kazuha is the best anemo. Have you been living under a rock? Every other anemo except Sucrose is complete and utter garbage. Especially Venti and Xiao. They have no right to exist and be used.

Yeah. Cryo is now dead. Anyone who still uses trashy cryo characters should be banned from playing lol. You’re better off building Dehya, Eula, or any geo character than a cryo.

How long did it take you, cause I just started a new acc and I’m barely on inazuma quest where I have to do yoimiya story quest before I can do archon quest. I don’t wanna miss the nahida rerun banner

There would be a lot of people mad because they dont want to see reality

Oh, Dehya's coming, dw

I'm more leaning see more mad at Dehya compared to Eula since most of us use her already expect more new enemies with physical def resistance, even the existence of Mika sadly feel like a dps loss to put on her team while Dehya she still newly out and her kit is...yeah I end up just get her weapon instead get both.

​@@Mateo_8886 But all of those jokers are ruining my life instead. I must stop them...!

@@Mateo_8886 yeah and they’re idiots with their heads in the sand. These people who get mad because someone called their trashy and ugly waifus trashy and ugly are simply not fit for life :)

Yeah Keqing is better than trashy Ayaka now. Good riddance. Ayaka was always an ugly cow anyway.

Suffering from success

How come sucrose is an archon

Damn I am salted

I despise you -_-

Man I wish I had your luck with back to back 5 star pulls, I'm just lucky to have one of Nahida XD

I LOVE the team name. That’s really creative and it’s a good team to boot! Why do you choose Lisa? I’m just curious because I believe she’s underrated but she obviously has some glaring flaws. Is she there to trigger hyper?

Also, Hoyo really blessing you with that gacha luck. ONLY 3 multis???? And you got C2?!?!! I’d be running around my room (as small as it is lol) like crazy😂

This is what I've been hoping for! A HP buffer! Since the Hydro roster is increasing with units scaling specifically with HP more so than any other stat, I can't help but feel like Focalors will provide the best HP buff in all the game, since we don't have one yet. AND since the Traveller seems to be getting better with each addition of a region, Hydro Traveller may well be the second best HP buffer we'll have - second to Focalors, of course. It'll still stay in touch with how Dendro Traveller is still viable even without Nahida, but of course Nahida is still the best in terms of application and support. If she were to be a healer tho, I would hope that it's minor in comparison to already existing healers. Since Zhongli's existence, other notable shielders have been easily considered worse or lacklustre in comparison to him, and if the Hydro Archon were to become a healer, it'll just diminish the existence and use of the other healers - making their pull worth very trivial. So I passionately hope that the Hydro Archon fills in this HP buffing niche so it doesn't contend against anyone else, and gives her some great utility as a support, whilst keeping units like Kokomi, Barbara (that's two Hydro healers in the game, I just noticed), Bennet and etc still viable in the long run.

We might get an idea when we get the Hydro traveler. Cause traveler kit is usually kinda similar to the archon. My speculation is some buff that scales of HP. Reduce Hydro resistance and buff hydro damage(kinda like Shenhe). I don't think they might overlap Kokomi or Xingqui Yelan. A Hydro Shielder would be really cool though and maybe even trap enemies in bubbles like the hydro mages.

​@Deeraj N I thought Nilou was going to be a hydro shielded initially.

a small inside: any shape/form + gravity If she's pulling enemies to the bubble she creates and then explodes with HP scaling... I would pull for that!

@@deerajn3337 usually, but 2 Dendro and Electro have nothing similiar... hence this theory is already debunked

I imagine a versatile hydro applicator who can apply both slow hydro like Kokomi's skill/Ayato's burst on skill and fast hydro like Xingqiu/Yelan on burst or vice versa, has more AOE than both of them (AOE Xingqiu is kinda broken though), can heal as good as Kokomi but can crit, or can't crit but can buff HP at C0.

@@verzetta honestly speaking i thought we might get hydro xianling as our archon

She really hit us where it hurts... second story quest when? I wanna cry more lol

apparently nahida and nilou will be on phase 1 of 3.6 with kuki, layla and dori.

Just beware to some domain clearing where many wave of squishy enemies where your cyno kill so fast you have to switch back to nahida again even though you haven’t use a lot of cyno burst

Nahida is really good with Cyno. But a bit worse if there are waves of enemies cause you need to swap back to reapply Dendro, ending Cyno burst really early. I usually run quickbloom so that i could still atleast keep doing some reaction damage.

You hate small people? That’s a stupid reason to skip the most broken character in the game

@@shironasama0445 I didn’t skip her.

I don't blame you since I was, too, sceptical of an archon with a child model. And God, I was fairly aware of which audience Lolis were directed towards, and how some of those fans are... questionable in their interests, so I find this nitpick reasonable. The only reason I pulled for her is because I found her endearing in the story and found her a joy to befriend. Honestly, one of my favourite characters today, really. But it is uncomfortable when some nahida mains go as far as call her their wife despite the fact... you know... Just because she's 500, and legal in age, doesn't negate the fact that she still looks and acts like a child!!! This goes for all the other children!

You won 50/50?

@@edishasora5200 Yup!

she is a dendro buffer and lacks of on-field presence. you need alhaitham or tighnari for optimal spread. nilou for optimal dendro seeds, and a disaster kuki hyperbloom

The only thing she can be lacking (which is a debatable point if I were to say) is that her Dendro application is so prominent that she makes it hard for anemo characters to swirl other elements. However, that can easily be fixed by applying and swirling electro or hydro first to gain its benefits. Another, albeit debatable, is that her application as a support for a hypercarry lacks for multi wave content. This can be seen for people like cyno, but for quickswap teams, she has no problems there. Not to mention, her E skill has a very short cooldown so it's pretty unnoticeable if you just use her again. Honestly, Nahida is just, all around, so strong. There's really no contender in where she shines as both a dendro applier or as a dendro support. If a character were to provide better support, but less dendro application, she'll still be top tier. It's quite astounding how good she is within her element. The only downside would be, she doesn't do much outside of anything else (except for melt comps). I don't think Hoyoverse has any plans making a much better unit for dendro application than Nahida, as she is an archon and representative of her element. The only thing that future dendro units can provide is specific niches and utilities that she can't. This is seen for Yaoyao in healing, Alhaitham in DPS and Baizhu for shielding (I hope). But this may be a bad outcome for future dendro characters since it'll be inevitable that they'll be compared to her and her strong prowess in her abilities.

I mean unless we break off another branch, can't clone Nahida and having her on both teams for events or abyss would be great.

Sinatraa, a FPS game professionals is a tighnari mains

easy, then have 2 electro.. i normally swirl with Fischl and Raiden

You can just go without anemo support. But if you really want some swirl, just start with the electro and swirl before going with Nahida. It's not really a downside since you can easily manage it with a little change to your rotation

Nahida will be returning soon

shes coming back in 3.6 dont worry!

That’s your fault for pulling trashy characters like Ayaka, Ganyu, or Venti instead of perfect characters like Nilou or Nahida.

But wasn’t nilou just before nahida banner? So who did the guarantee go too?

The beauty of Dendro

The true definition of "Random BS go!!!!"