Why NO ONE Plays: Xiao | Genshin Impact 

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Damn, find yourself a mate

@@Greatcelestialkaligo mate? what are you a dog or something

​@@Greatcelestialkaligoa MATE?!

​@@kitnal4143mate in three moves. Can you see it????

Thats what xiao does. He jumps and scares people

As a fellow Xiao main, thank you.

Me too

Same💀

same ToT

I'd argue that the problem here is how hyperfocused abyss is. Xiao is REALLY fun to play, but abyss is too meta centered to bring him to floor 12.

I "main" him cause he was my 1st 5* character ever in the game. I got him alongside Mona in 10 pulls during 1.3. But only last year I was able to give him a good 2pc gladiator + 2pc vv set, which at that time I already had other units but I couldn't leave him benched. It was tough work to get him good artifacts, and not too long after that, a dedicated set was released for him :(. I barely use him in abyss floor 12, and when I do I can't get 3 stars 😂 but I still like playing with him hahahaha

hi i still clear abyss with 36 abyss with xiao until this very day

cuz there are a ton of Xiao simps out there

@@coriakacoron5851 im one of them

Xiao's makes sense at least. Albedo's is almost useless. During boss fights Albedo's skill can be removed through boss attacks, doesn't even activate on the field for the Oceanid boss stage. His C4 would make more sense that all active characters after using his skill gain 20% plunge and normal attack damage, and an additional 10% while in the Isotoma field. It won't stop me from using Albedo, though 😅

Can i say with the recent abysses c4 Xiao isn't really that bad lately and I'm not joking here

Imagine if they switches their cons

@@nav3346 Akshually 🤓you can place Albedo's flowers on the sides of the platform on the outsides because they have an elevated pillar under the water that he can reach and thus use his E uncontested to hit the spawns of oceanid

@@angelsoflolz I didn't know that! Thank you for giving me another reason to love Albedo. 👍

Faruzan was a massive buff to him

This is so true. Hypercarries arent for everyone and they require a lot of min maxing to be viable, but once u get them there they are just as strong. With hypercarries u need 3 dedicated supports, which might not even be possible given ur roster, so many players will be forced into playing Xiao or Cyno with less than ideal teamates and just give up on them cuz they underperform, especially since most of them need 1 or more 5star supports. While in rotation teams u can typically use many replacements and play with different reactions and adapt according to what characters u have.

Agreed i benched my double crowned cyno.. whilst on the other side nahida yelan never leaving my team, be it abyss or open world.

100% agree, personally love hypercarries and have both Xiao and Cyno. I pulled for their weapon and went all the way to pull for Nahida and her weapon for my Cyno. Going to go for Faruzan C6 for Xiao later. And farming the same goddamn artifacts set every day. Definitely a lot of investment, time, mora, resins, almost everything goes for my Xiao. So I think players should only pull for them if they really like the character or they will just be disappointed and bench them

@@AoKajii c6 xiao is fun, never a regret doing so

I agree hypercarry characters needs a lot more investment (including their supports). I myself is an Itto main and his mono geo team is my goal team since I started the game. It took me more than a year to complete my team (c0-r1 Itto, c2 Zhongli+Homa (his cons are accident pull 😬), c6 Gorou (was lucky to get few copies on standard) and Albedo from his last rerun. More than that, I have to spend thousands of resin to get good Husk set but until now the game doesn't want to give me an on-set 5* Crit hat. So yeah hypercarry playstyle is for those who has a lot of patience, dedication and maybe luck as well.

I get what you're saying, but no unit deserves to have numbers as low as Dehya, it's honestly her only problem and it breaks her character.

That's the literally definition of being edgy just for the sake of it. We do need cohesive characters just bc they need to be playable in the first time. A "better" approach is having more variety in the ways a character fulfills their element's role. Electro is full of that type of variety, since many characters enable taser, quicken, hyperbloom, and even overload teams, not to mention pretty much every single one of them can be part of a superconduct. Truth be told anemo is the one most crippled by the lack of variety but even then the means for a character to do crowd control is different for each, Venti is just the press of a button, Kazuha is held on his E.Skill, Sucrose is even split and if you count Faruzan it's on her charged attacks.

the name of the game is teamwork and combining character compisitions if said character is doing they're own thing they're going to be bad especially if they ain't Geo

well Dehya got the short end of a stick.

Sara is a 4 star so I give her a pass to be "interesting", even if she was just made for Raiden to be a Raiden buffer and her personality is just Raiden stan. Dehya sucks, low numbers and slow burst that can be broken. Xiao is probably in the best position in the three of them.

The fast plunge attacks he did during the CBT also impressed people a bit if I remember

Maybe it's best to spell it out instead of saying "CBT".

@@SeveredEverlastingWorldLoreClosed Beta Test

@@douglanmar To put it simply, people use acronyms for so much these days. It's possible to go down the wrong rabbit hole as some would say.

CBT... Excuse me, what?

He said that hu tao does have animation canceling but he isnt in the right place to discuss bc he got her c1

Because every hu tao player are automatically got c1 by defaults/s

Can i say throwing a normal attack between plunges is a lot easier than doing the right damage rotation for international or Raiden hyper or making sure you have electro on the enemy when you use nahida e to do a vv rotation with cyno/keqinq/yea/Raiden

@@tama2774 I used to be a C0 Deathmatch Hu Tao player, tried my best with her double hydro team because I wanted to prove that Hu Tao doesn't need C1 and Homa. She was doing great until she wasn't. I failed and benched her since 3.3.

@@spidebot3045 i have c0 hu tao and dragonsbane with only xingqiu, she is the most fun i have when fighting boss and bigger enemies, its really satisfying if you ask me

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I tired it and I kinda hated it cuz I have skill issue and I’m a mobile player but also it would be better to use that yelan slot with someone else

@@2triedforthis830 agreed that other units are better instead of yelan taking up the slot but she still is a viable choice if someone wants to use her

except ganyu is still incredibly relevent and is still capable of peaking with some stupidly high damage, xiao is not

I think Ganyu is much more sustainable simply because of her element. Although cryo doesn’t interact with dendro she’s very compatible with some of the best supports; Bennet and Xiangling. Or if you’re having a hard time getting even CRIT stats she has the option to do a freeze team making her easier to build.

However, Ganyu has whole 3,5 different playstiles (melt SUP, melt DPS, freeze+monocryo DPS), while Xiao is restricted to practically one

Nah, thats not true, ganyu Can Benefit from her element by either freeze or Massive damage increase from melt. Xiao Has neither of that...

​@@substitutedoll5224Ganyu's current best team requires both Nahida and Bennett in the same team which is burn melt but you're wasting two of the best support units who have better teams while being separated. While her standard melt comp with Bennett, Xiangling and Zhongli is on par with Xiao's comps.

Collei is the #2 dendro unit in Nilou Bloom teams.

Collei isn’t bad at all, she’s a great F2P option for all dendro related reaction teams. Besides, she’s a free character that’s really only meant to be serviceable in solving Sumeru puzzles and introducing dendro; not being as good as other gacha characters is a given.

@@terrylap6132 You say this, but the free Abyss character directly before her is *Xiangling.*

It's not about good or bad, its more about popularity and usage

​@@hedgeyes6411​Xiangling was the winner of the people choice though, the 1.0 beta players voted for her to be free not hoyo.

He still carries me till this day 😔

Xiao is still currently my strongest character 😭

Chongyun the goat, just wished there was ever a point to use him

@@c0mplex_Ale revmelt

lmaoo true

It’s kinda funny cause Zy0x screenshotted his community post and said his tweet was a dare 😭

his energy isn't as bad as it used to be simply due to time and getting better artifacts and fav weapons on supports. and most people run anemo supports like faruzan or kazuha for anemo shred and vv shred + battery.

Tbf he does run into energy issues with his high cost burst, but if you're using him you're already gonna be investing in batteries and supports that help those issues regardless

I do as well. Xiao builds with crit weapons recommend both ER ~120-130 % (depends a bit) and an anemo battery that funnels its particles to Xiao (usually Sucrose) The part where Vars states that Xiao can self-sustain his burst as solo char really sounded like bs to me

I literally play xiao with 116% er 💀 But I always manage to get his burst up in time bcs I use double geo (albedo+Zhongli) + Benny with him. Zhongli has favonius lance. Zhongli's pillar and albedo's skill constantly hitting enemies generates so many energy particles while xiao is out there doing his thing. It's a SUPER powerful team and quite sustainable too!

it still is if you dont have c6 faruzan

albedo + cons :^)

dont worry about it he is good enough

Exactly! I'm astounded this wasn't included in the video for me this is his biggest issue in terms of gameplay

Can confirm, C6 faruzan took him from being fantastic only for enemies you can't really move like bosses and ruin enemies to being fantastic for most enemies

He is a 4 star DPS , which mean he would never have enough stat to compete with any 5 star DPS (the only exception to this is the OG National trio), kinda in the same vein as Yanfei. And aside from his damage, he provides very little utilities, especially in comparison with Sucrose.

​@@cedrusnguyen5188Yep. 4 stars dps characters are doomed from the get go: Yanfei, Ningguang, Heizou, Freminet (who is an even more niche dps)...

I triple crowned all the anemo males, 15 crowned Aether. I'm a 6REEZE main

Cope 💀 Still not many people play with him

​@@aqgaming1092 His team was the most used this patch in CN IIRC. Also, he was quite popular for speedrunning since Faruzan came out, Xianyun just added even more fuel to the fire.

Yea, and I would like to add that the other artifact, Echoes, is not good for ayato if u have bad ping as for some reason that artifact relies heavily if u have good ping or not thus not making it, in average, not that much different from 4pc gladiator for Ayato.

Fr! I don’t care if hes not Meta or will ever be meta I will still play him cuz I love this silly yaksha

Doesn’t matter if he doesn’t keep up with the characters you mentioned only one of them is even close to as cool as him

As a comrade Xiao main since his first rerun (and a wannabe main since his first banner), I completely understand your concern. Thankfully, now his dedicated set has been added to the artifact strongbox, allowing us to farm for more efficient artifact domains while being able to use our bad pieces to convert them into his Vermillion set. Of course it isn’t perfect nor fast, but as any true Xiao main, being dedicated to him through the long run is an act of love we desire to do. I recently finished my first decent Hereafter set on him through the artifact strong box, I was truly happy ( about 82% CR over 225%CD, I say decent because I’m running Homa on low HP instead of PJWS). As a low spender (bought battle pass back in the days to get death match for him since I had nothing else better and not enough for BlackCliff), obtaining Faruzan’s C6 through the event was such a gift ! I look forward to upgrade him even more by getting a crit DMG circlet on set and returning to his stunning PJWS. Also DMG wise, I believe that he can be competitive, but of course, only for those who are willing to put investment into him. The team I usually played him with was (including him) : Sucrose with TTDS and Noblesse, Jean as healer, and Zhongli with Tenacity. His DMG output for one plunge was a maximum of 53K (that was with 2pcs Glad and 2pcs VV for about 70%CR over 199%CD). But now, since getting Homa and his new set like not even 3 weeks ago, I changed his team as the following (including him) : 1. Sucrose with TTDS and Noblesse, Faruzan (C6)with Tenacity and Zhongli with Tenacity, enhancing his maximum plunge DMG to 97k (a whopping 44K DMG upgrade, no energy issues while Xiao runs 120%ER). 2.Faruzan (C6) with tenacity, benett with Noblesse and the F2P sumeru craft able sword (565 base attack with ER% as substat) and Zhongli with Tenacity, enhancing his maximum plunge DMG to 107k (or double his initial DMG which was already decent). I truly love him, he is my reason to play, I am a dedicated Xiao main, and I encourage anyone who enjoys him as much to keep on grinding. If you are interested, I have discovered a page on which the conception of Xiao is explained, as a Xiao lover, I absolutely adored reading it. Here’s the link : genshin.hoyoverse.com/m/en/news/detail/103849 “ *The limit to one’s power is self-destruction. Answer me. Why do you persist?* ” - Xiao, Feelings about ascension: Climax.

2VV, 2 glad still works

That's literally my main problem with him too. Nothing like clearing a large group of enemies only to miss one then waste a minute trying to kill it with normals/skill because you don't want to waste your burst for the next wave/floor... It's also the exact reason I like my "unplanned" Wanderer too

The thing is, with her as a driver and enabling swirls every attack makes her output a decent amount of damage.

@@HSRFirefly She definitely does good damage with her swirls, but she is still a driver in that team.

driver and main dps r kinda the same thing bc they need lots of field time

​@@sukuna69420. Yes they both take a lot of field time but that's it, they are completely different things. You can play Barbara instead of Sucrose in that same taser team, and you will only have slightly less damage, because the majority of the damage still comes from the rest of your team (although no electro & hydro swirl so they too will deal less damage). Not the best example but you get me. A main DPS on the other hand deals the majority of the damage in your team, and without him your team will deal no meaningful damage. Sucrose is a driver, Xiao is a main DPS.

Yep Beidou shpuld be the off field main dps for that team

Thanks bro ✊️

@@Grief111 np man

Well I be damned. Thanks very much.

Yeah, I can hit 100k+ with c6 faru and bennett, and it's just overkill for overworld enemies. I usually run xiao/faru/bennett/wanderer for overworld so I can take advantage of wanderer's lack of burst reliance to deal with smaller enemies

He showed the stats tho, his play rate is very low

nah man don't make Xiao even shorter

That would be too broken or useless (depending on the numbers). Not only because of Xiao, but because of other Polearm users as well (Xiangling, Raiden, Cyno, Rev.Melt Rosaria, etc:)

Or conversely: something that increases the duration of off-field Skill/Burst effects with a base duration below 20s -- at the cost of personal damage, inability to generate elemental particles with Skill or a more expensive Burst.

Or artifact, I would love if Cyno and Xiao could deal 50% more damage (in comparison to his current meta build) with half the burst duration. Most of the time my buff would run out before my burst and that include zhongli shield

Or an artifact set that when using 4p lowered ur skill cooldown in half

Gotta get the views somehow. And since xiao is still somewhat popular this is rather good ragebait

True, but hyper Heizou sucks, his best role is as a driver so yeah , no wonder people forget about him being a carry 😂😂

​@@felipemendes5336skill issue

Heizou is more like a driver who can add some dmg from himself once every 10s than actual hypercarry

@@Jevjevjevj Math doesn't care about skill

@@felipemendes5336 well you have skill issue in math, sooo

yes but you need to swap from Xiao and lost his ult

​@@feilkate5892you dont know how thoma works do you

​@@fzhs7030I know. It's really annoying when people don't read character kits and are loud for no reason. Something you should probably correct yourself before coming after others

doesn't thoma work better for wanderer since he needs normal attacks for his shield to work properly.

I don't have Wanderer but considering Thoma's shield refreshes with every normal attack, plus activates Pyro resonance with Bennett, and C6 increases normal attack dmg by 15%, I'd say he's good for Wanderer. Edit: Just thought about how Thoma's burst is 20 cd. So may have difficulties aligning the sturdier shield with the burst, and the less sturdy shield with only the skill.

I don’t think this guy plays the same game as we do

Yelan does _not_ work with Xiao unless you're exclusively talking about her A4. You'd be wasting her entire burst's damage output solely for the scaling DMG% buff unless you awkwardly space your plunges by throwing in a normal attack between, which is arguably a DPS loss. It's much smarter to use a different character and save Yelan for the other team. Thoma has the same problem: if you aren't spamming normal attacks, you can't stack up his shield to a worthwhile shield strength.

@@SuperBeanSquad There's this thing called cancelling the end of Xiao's plunge attack animation by weaving in normal attacks, allowing him to proc the condition of doing normal attacks while also doing a bit of damage in between plunges.

I main both Cyno and Xiao! I actually let my rational and Ayaka teams sit down on most 3.x abyss runs to 36* it with polearm boy impact. It was in fact pretty doable with their best teams and I had much more fun that way... until the consecrated zoo and permafreeze abyssional team showed up and Xiao's now back to the bench for floor 12 for obvious reasons

Cyno isn't really a hypercarry in genshin terms imo, his long on-field time doesn't make him a hypercarry. He optimally is paired with sub-dps and healing based units, not atk or damage buffers, and he has the ability to improve as long as new electro and dendro supports keep getting released. His damage is unfortunate though, he should've been stronger than Keqing being a very hyped character

@@fzhs7030 apparently doing like 20 to 30k melts per second on a burst that's always up with like 90k E melt crits is weak, or 100k plunges in aoe on Anemo that shreds abyss mage shields...damn, if that's weak then O.O

@@Dhooparty But he *is* stronger than Keqing, i dont what know what you’re smoking. His most optimal team is one where Nahida buffs him, Baizhu shields and provides heals and interruption resistance, and Xingqiu/Yelan give him either more interruption resistance or Yelan with her ramping up dmg bonus. Quickbloom allows him to trigger hyperbloom while also weaving in aggravate for optimal dmg output which makes him deal more dmg than an normal aggravate Keqing. His massive base em as well as reach allows him to do a lot of dmg. For a hypercarry dps, the general rule of thumb is that he does more than 70% of the dmg which he does by triggering the hyperblooms and also aggravating.

@@seraphywang4638 “He is stronger than Keqing” In Quickbloom? Sure. Outside of that? Meh. Quickbloom is a broken comp, by that logic, even Shinobu can be stronger than Keqing because of how well she performs in Hyperbloom. Cyno is designed for Aggravate, and he yet he’s underwhelming in it compared to other dps options. With investment, he outscales Keqing significantly because her weapon is generalistic and her cons suck, whereas his cons are slightly better and his weapon gives him a more targeted buff. But saying “Oh use three other broken characters and play him in gamebreaking comp, he’s good” is dumb. Raiden and Shinobu can easily perform significantly better than him in Hyperbloom related comps with those same characters. He’s the least optimal option, he’s fine, but he was clearly intended to be an aggravate carry.

You can absolutely use xiao in most of the abyss. Xiao for this chamber 12-1 2nd half is also viable.

@@Marnige I guess you could. It would just be really rough. I'd rather save myself the pain and use another team. Though I do love using xiao when it's convenient.

Floor 12 is pretty easy with Xiao thought what?

@@lastorderx20001 for this abyss yes. For last abyss no

@@RePollster ah 3.7... it was a cancer he was useable but definitely not that good because of enemy patterns and their stupid amounts of damage+shields, so I just used Ayaka freeze for first half and Rational for second half

and his height

the thing about xiao is that he has a really dedicated fan base, people will go to all those lengths to build him and characters around him because they love him as a character

I don’t understand it either 😭 xiao is a pretty mid tier character and ppl play him all the time. He’s just not used often in later spiral abyss but in everything else ppl use him all the time

@@applepi2745 xiao is my fave character so this vid hurts me😔

“Faruzan didn’t do much for Xiao” it’s time to leave earth

Precisely because the were so fast and strong. In the cbt xiao was outdamaging EVERYONE else. He was unbelievably strong, so the nerfed him.

Beta C0 xiao was stronger than current C6 xiao

Man.. bring back xiao’s fast plunges fr

He's still bad tho 😂

@@aqgaming1092how so? your spamming comments for some reason just cus your mad lol I use Hu Tao and stuff more but Xiao literally outdamages every single dps now at this point with Xianyun Faruzan and Furina being only behind neuvii

​@@aqgaming1092ffxx is literally one of the best teams in the game fym

And me

@@Naetherr 👏

And me

Faruzan didn't even exist for the majority of Xiao's lifespan, so I hardly think people from 1.3 to 3.2 were going "I might get Xiao when Faruzan comes out".

​@@els236 ....So I guess I just imagined that people kept saying XIAO NEEDS A DEDICATED SUPPORT

That's the reason why I don't like meta players cause they'll always tell you what to do. They're like the backseaters of genshin

to be fair though if you’re asking for teambuilding help people are gonna tell you what the best thing to do is 😅

And after Ayaka, Ganyu lose more space within the top tier characters 😢

Ganyu is still quite good despite having moved from SS tier to A tier

​@@lipeepipolseeing the so called "best" units back in the day losing relevant is pretty sad

@@ba_sic right?? And not to mention that for many F2P (like me) it takes forever to not only build "decently" a 5* character, but acquiring is also hard lol I try not to stick to "tier lists", but I'm not gonna lie, I don't pull characters solely because I like their design, they must be functional and aggregate to my rooster instead of just being benched :( I didn't pull for Baizhu because I was kinda disappointed for his kit and didn't pull Alhaitham cause I have trouble paying certain characters on mobile :(

Xiao never "topped" anything, other than maybe Venti. I say this as someone who took interest in Genshin because of Xiao in the first place, all the pre-launch footage made him look like an absolute beast. I feel like he has one of the most obtuse kits and some of the weakest Constellations in the entire game - yes, even his C6, because of the "Two or more enemies" caveat. Still think he's a badass, but at his debut Xiao was super underwhelming, especially compared to Ganyu and even more so Hu Tao.

LAMENT

Your talking about about personal dps here. Wanderer can use much more support than Xiao (Yelan, XQ, Yun jin) and has better overall team synergies

@@lafeechloe6998 No im talking about team damage. Xiao's team finishes a chamber faster than Wanderer's in most scenarios. Xiao is designed for AoE so its irrelevant if he doesn't work with Single target supports.

@@lafeechloe6998 Xiao can use Yelan since he does not need to complete the animation of his NA to proc the attack. "Better overall team synergies" like what? Putting him in the 40th national variant this week where he's just a direct downgrad to sucrose ?. What does being able to use "more" supports matter anyway. Xiao team has bennett, zhongli and faruzan who else are you going to put in there ? Of course he is talking about personal dps, it is a hypercarry team, his dps is the entire team dps.

​​@@lafeechloe6998ou know wanderer can get thrown throughout the abyss arena with one arrow but I also disagree with Xiao do more damage then wanderer i have both at c0 with a c6 faruzan and i can tell you i haven't noticed any real deference between the two they're just a different iteration of the same concept als o Xiao can use yelan check it on youtube

@@JudahMusicArchive the whole pointd of it is that hypercarry style IS currently outdated. A very strong wanderer team is Permafreeze with Wanderer/Layla/C6 Candace/Ganyu where he act like a driver while still being buffed by his swirl passive (hydro and Cryo) and Candace NA Buff. Thanks to the team synergy he gain easily 30% free crit rate which is a lot. This is just an example of how synergetic he can be with the right partners on top of having solid hypercarries teams.