Why NO ONE Plays: Yanfei | Genshin Impact 

me too tbh, ive heard it said quite a good amt of times that yanfei is the best 4* dps alongside razor

I wished I got yanfei to c4 at least. She would have been great for my hu tao team

@@notdog-san7933 if you ever plan to roll for her, then i wish you good luck! an advantage that 4*s have over 5*s is that their constellations are faaar more accessible, so you'll get there eventually

@@emopeterparker7 Thanks man! idk if I plan to pull for her c4 or if I even have the primos to do so lmao but if she comes with a 5* that I am also interested in (or a hu tao rerun) I'd probably do. I do have yanfei right now but she's only at c1. and I have zhongli as well. The problem is that often times the geo application fucks up my rotation or atleast that's what I observed. so having a pyro shielder is much better. I also saw a vid that thoma kinda steals reactions so yanfei is really the choice I have,

@@notdog-san7933 oh yeah, i run thoma with hu tao right now and him stealing reactions with his burst is a primary concern

Lisa ( yes, Lisa) or Fishl will cut that fighting time into half. ;)

Yes but, idt character strength is measured on specific boss, she isn’t as good on regular enemies as an enemy who gives constant vape:/

@@RejectedInch Fischl is an absolute godsend for oceanid

​@@taymalharbali1008 She is pretty good against all enemies besides fire immune ones and rock shield bearers. Her charged AA with even my bad artifacts crits for like 15k AOE every what, 2 seconds? Don's forget about talent procs on crit with additional 8-9k damage. Against basic enemies you don't really need to use her skill or burst, just use 1-2 support skills like Fischl's bird and/or Albedo's flower and your autos will delete everything in sight.

@@putin2012 the phrase bad build is subjective so can h tell me the stats properly

I wish I got C4 earlier in the game, I'd definitely mained her, but not now when I have fully build Wanderer that mercilessly outdamage her

THIS 100% Yanfei being in the standard banners was a godsend, carried me through the entire early-mid game until I finally got Diluc and a half-decent Claymore. She's a perfect DPS for new players getting their feet under them.

Yanfei is a favorite one of mine I use her on main leviathan account to this day. Love tankfei build aswell great pyro shield and decent healing use on hu tao team and some raiden or yae miko dps teams

There is Hu Tao, Yoimiya even Diluc, already 3 characters that outclass her from the same element, Xiangling is simply better, off-field makes it possible to use as a pyro applicator and her burst snapshots, that makes 4 now. It is not because she isn't a 5 star, it is because she isn't a 5 star dps, less investment needed to get same dmg. That said, she isn't bad but has a lot of competition

@Salyx That is the point, you are agreeing with me now, if you can have better numbers why use Yanfei? Also this video seems to be based on spiral abyss

I think the reason why she got into this series is because her abyss play rate is quite low, despite her being perceived as an 'okay' character. So ofc she's in the series :D

that's literally the point of the video? what's not clicking?

did you even watch the video?

Xiangling >>>>>>>>> flopfei

@@vincent8136 ok

Aight question, How do you use Yanfei as a sub dps? I'm not trying to offend you or anything just asking because on my experience with her, she's supposed to be an on feild dps who's very greedy because everytime you switch out, especially during her burst, she loses her scarlet seals

@@mei-san5699 oh yeah dw i know haha, i wanted to build her as a main but artifacts are pain as we all know, and i'm still prioritising kaeya also on how i use her basically depends, melt or vape usually with xq

@@vincent8136 😐😐

Her shield help prevent interruption while she executes her charged attack, but yeah I get you.

@@jadecoolness101 It's more because C4 yanfei lets yanfei be a shield support and a pyro applier for Hutao that doesn't mess with Tao's vapes like Thoma

@@tabbune yep and being a hu tao main who also really likes yanfei, this is a win for me since I can use both my faves in the same team

@@tabbune Yeah but I'm just pointing out that the shield doesn't have NOTHING to do with charged attacks. It's just very unrelated XD

@@tabbune Mihoyo did Thoma so dirty it ain’t even funny anymore

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not even bro.. i remember trying her vs oceanid lvl 20 and from on then realized how good she was

C6 triple crowned oh no, why did my clothes suddenly fall off?..

Every character requires investment lmao

Crowning and level increase definitely matters for Kahuza skill damage output overall. Level really does not technically matter on a character since there is max stat raise per character anyways.

good news, they did

She got a major role in Perilous Trail.

*laughs in Xinyan*

They did finally with the Chasm mission 🥰

Happy ending

Yes, yes, stuns stuns and stuns everywhere

Also I find that Kazuha’s elemental skill have a tiny black hole after effect, which helps make things not explode everywhere and group stuff for the AoE of Yanfei CA, skill and overload

Yes! Makes those annoying Mirror Maidens easy peasy. Yanfei has always been one of my favorites, so after I Friendship 10'd Hu Tao, I went and mained her.

yes! my favourite combo

16k overloads with em raiden and a dragons bain. Fei, raiden, yunjin, zhongli...... Then Auto attack everything to death and never die

this is how I use Yanfei xD

tankfei rights 8D shes also good for healing if you give her prototype amber and a healing bonus cap. perfect for hu tao tbh - pyro resonance and not TOO much healing but still healing all in one slot.

@@emopeterparker7 Its not just healing as well, Prototype Amber gives so much energy for free. (18 energy over 3 seconds) I thought Vars was going to bring it up considering how much he was hammering in the whole "not versatile" thing. Don't forget that if you already have a healer and no energy issues, you can slap on TTDS as well.

@@princiedv oh yeah, forgot about prototype ambers cool energy passive. and yeah, it's surprising that vars doesn't even bring it up. it may be niche, but it's a viable way of playing her and makes her offer something more than just being a mundane damage dealer

Yeah I believe she’s a viable support as well

true, she carried me all the way to ar50 and killing the oceanids have never been so easy :D

@@zz-jn8vd you could have never said it any better

Honestly I use her and Keqing side by side. Don’t know why people bench her. I especially love holding down her main attack.

Sameee she carried me to ar55 and still going strong!

She hits bigger damage numbers than my Diluc sometimes xD

Yep even at level 70 I can clear abyss 2.4, of course with best supports around her

with the right artifacts, she's like on drugs. that's what i call my units who deal high damage lol

Me when he gets around to "Why no one plays Ningguang": I am going to beat you up with jewelry!

Razor should be next, he's barely used in spiral abyss. It's mostly because of physical res mobs but still curious.

me

The "No one uses" tag in this case seems to be strictly 36 star abyss clears as there's no shortage of Yanfei in other areas of the game.

@Sabrina Jahan A lot of characters lose value if you ignore constellations. If your Yanfei is C0 I can see why someone wouldn't enjoy her but at C6 her stamina issues are non existent and the shield is a big help.

Underrated cz of what? U must think like that. Yes yanfei is an amazing character to clear open world mobs, domains or even bosses. She is fun to play also. She has ok damage and is also sometimes pretty good with supports but not good enough to clear the spiral abyss floor 12 in time for most of the people. No matter how much u invest in her. Even if she does clear it, there are better options out there. So why bother?

@@deadshade442 yanfei is cooler than them, I don't want some traumatized loser on my team

@@deadshade442 my brotha you answered your own question in two sentences

When I first got Yanfei, I decided to main her almost the instant I pulled her. At that point I did already have pyro characters which outclass her, (namely Yoimiya and Xiangling), but she is honestly a really well rounded character in terms of design and carries herself rather well. Yes there are better options but honestly more people should give her a chance.

She is my favourite character so I try to use her when possible. Great character and well designed but as the video stated, she becomes overshadowed. Currently there is never a situation where I'd prefer to use Yanfei over Hu Tao or Xiangling for efficiency sakes. Take the team Hu Tao, XIngqiu, Mona, Kazuha. Yanfei could easily step in for Hu Tao but...why? The numbers would be smaller

Diluc... ahem..

@@nationalgeografic7687 what about him? i for one have every other 1.0 5 star aside from him, and I want him!!! I lost my Ayato pulls to freaking Tignarai!!! I would have been fine with stopping if I got Diluc as I plan on pulling for Yelan next!! given I was getting bacck in the game when her first banner was up and I needed a strong damage dealer as didn't have kokomi yet so i was still using a blue haired water kid.

@@10tailedbijuu i forgor why i mentioned him there

I'm a yanfei main since the first day (my first 4star) and yeah her c1 make thing much better and she can use mappa mare (f2p) and many sets like shinemawa, CWOF, wanderers i dont know if bolide works but with her c4 it might actually work She might not be best pyro dps but shes great for new players Edit other than that she is so pretty, smart and her basic atk animation is really cool she like playing volleyball and still to this day (Ar57) i still use her to explore enkanomiya (event) even tho i have much better dps like ganyu, xiao itto

Get C6. Four seals makes a difference.

I have c6. I cleared abyss with 33* with a main DPS yanfei with r2 widest.

Yeah I agree I have been maining her since day one and trying out ninguang, I realized how freaking much less clunky she is Also her DPS Potential for a 4 star is CRAZY Like I have her with an R3 widsith, some decent to good Wanderers troupe stuff and paired her up with benny and xingqu and BOOM you have DPS with numbers over 30k and that pretty consistant Compared to 5 stars that's weak but she's a 4 star that is even on Standard and her signature weapon is a 4 star

@@ginsengaddict that’s my next goal, C6 and triple crown her but I’m saving my pity for Kazuha or Venti so I can’t risk anything for now.

Is funny since they prefer using c4 yanfei shielder or Tankfei for short over Thoma in Hu Tao teams since yanfei shield doesn't apply pyro like thoma's

I'll have to disagree that 4 stars become broken with constellations. At least, some of those you mentioned. While Fischl's potential is definitely locked behind constellation 6, the other ones are broken even at C0. Xingqiu becomes even more broken at C6, but he's still broken at C0. Bennett is still broken at C0, but his C1 makes him even stronger. Sucrose is a character who doesn't need constellations at all for her to work. Her constellations don't help her at all besides a little quality of life with C1 and C6 giving a small boost which is only really useful in taser teams (since if you use her in vape or melt teams, her elemental application can either screw you up, or the buff be worthless if you don't use her burst/infuse the wrong element.) If you want a 4 star that does become broken at C6, Beidou, Rosaria are examples of constellations that unblock their full potential while being average at C0. Both of them kinda need C2, C5 and C6 to unblock their true potential as either support (Rosaria physical) and dps (Beidou off field).

@@leojustice3367 I never said that they become broken with constellations. I was very deliberate with my wording. "4-star characters OFTEN [implying "not always"] need SOME [implying not necessarily all 6] amount of their constellations before they TRULY SHINE [implying that they can be "good" at C0, but not inherently "broken"]; EVEN [but obviously not exclusively] the broken ones [...]" Bennett's TRUE potential is unlocked after the HP threshold needed for his attack buff is removed. Sucrose's is unlocked after at least gaining the second use of her skill. Fischl's is partly unlocked at C1, but especially unlocked at C6, to no one's surprise. The list goes on. All of them are fine at C0, but their 'true" potential, the potential that truly makes them considered "broken" by most players, is locked behind certain constellations, compared to many 5-stars that can be considered "broken" right out of the box at C0.

@@sadsausagestreaming That's fair

Yanfei as a Pyro Noelle, cool

Ninnguang

@@maksimshumeiko6494 ninng can't vape

@@maksimshumeiko6494 I have Yanfei and use her daily and have many 5 stars. She does a lot of DMG for me but I will say Beidou’s DMG is higher for sure. I just got Ning not too long ago and am trying to figure out how to build her best. I have two piece Archaic and 2pc Glad on her currently but only LVL 65. (Need those damn books lol) She isn’t as high DMG wise for me just yet. Anyway I just wanted to state that though I love me some Yanfei there are higher 4star DMG dealers

She's alright, I tried her and she sadly can't compare to my xiangling. Maybe a future team comp will make her truly shine.

yea it’s cause catalysts have better support weapons

@@lauriee5364 yeah but even with an equivalent to tassel on thoma her TTD tome outshields thoma

@@daviduribe004 How would you pass the buff though? You need to swirl pyro.

Thoma isn't the best shielder so that doesn't make for that good a comparison. Yanfei's shield doesn't have 100% uptime getting her Q is a big pain as she doesn't generate that many particles and she doesn't have much max hp to begin with so its not that tanky except for maybe pyro opponents .But hey if you can work around all that then sure it's your choice. (btw if you are going to shield then ttds is the best in slot)

@@farannazar155 Raw shield output, Thoma's actually 2nd best after Zhongli (there's a video testing all conventional shielders). Thing is, he needs energy and without his burst his shield is practically as thin as paper, unlike Diona who can almost double her E shield with just holding it for example.

Hi, i think the "lost prayer" is the best for her , if you unlucky with artifact lottery :( On my account she's do the most damage without buff that any other char, my second best dam char (with buff) is Noëlle (not C6 actually, so long for have it... ) but with Albedo she do 11k each attack, sometimes 18k and 27k when shield explode :) So actually i have fun with one team for cleaning Inazuma Quests and daily : Rosaria, Ganyu, Noëlle and Albedo . For others area's, i use Xinyan, Thoma, Jean and Sayu ;) Have fun and test strange team for refresh your gameplay ;)

@@jacklang2349 I only have like 3 5-star weapons also including Calamity Queller & the Skyward Spine. Also I don’t have Ganyu or Albedo either. Lol

@@themidnightotaku22 i failed the 2 zhongli re-run, so :( . I hope, one day for the C6 Noëlle my second 5 stars weapon won last week, but the worst of the spear: jade spear :/ crit spear weap in the BP is 2x better :(

I do think someone tested it out and windsith was the best, outperforming even the 5 starts

I use widsith on her that works like a charm. Best F2P option imo

But the point still stands that she has a low playrate, doesn't matter all the c4 and craps there are still better options.

@@gravelor78 "better" options only available if they are present. But you completely missed my point of misrepresentation. Good things are still present about the character, like her utility, and saying yanfei has no utility options, like all the details made it out to be in this video, is wrong.

@@James_DawgWhile it is true that Yanfei does have qualities that make for a viable shield support, she does generally require more investment to be better than some other supports. It also does require C4. As a F2P Yanfei main who is now at AR 52, I still only have her at C2. While this problem may only apply to a minority of people, it does still exist.

@@ZhiningAnomalie Right, so Yanfei still has that as an option. I got her c6 in 30 rolls, which was miraculously lucky. So whereas yeah, less people have access to it, but c4 is something even f2p can get. I think its fine to say that not many people have c4, but my point stands. Saying Yanfei has no support is ingenuine. You can say support Yanfei is hard to get, not everyone has it, or even her shield does not have the same properties as Zhongli's, and I would have no problems. To imply there is no such support options bothered me enough to write a comment about it.

@@James_Dawg She is my favourite character so I try to use her when possible. Great character and well designed but as the video stated, she becomes overshadowed. Currently there is never a situation where I'd prefer to use Yanfei over Hu Tao or Xiangling for efficiency sakes, even with C4. Take the team Hu Tao, XIngqiu, Mona, Kazuha. Yanfei could easily step in for Hu Tao but...why? The numbers would be smaller for larger investments. If Klee and Yanfei swapped star status, Yanfei would be a solid uncontested character

EXACTLY. Either there was some misinformation on Vars’ part or Tankfei got snubbed just to further push the narrative of her being the inflexible copium 4* DPS💀💀

Her shield's probably just as busted as Zhongli's lol, or a little bit weaker (which is still good). Also I like giving her a shield (Noelle or Diona because I don't have Zhongli) because she actually is great on her own dealing decent damage. Been using her with Noelle and both of them cover up each other's weaknesses. Edit: grammar and a few words

seriously... "we cant give her support abilities" tankfei: exists

I was exactly thinking that. I mean Tankfei build is quite popular in CN players because unlike Thoma, she doesn't steal any vapes from Hu Tao and her shield is a lot stronger. So I don't know how Vars thought that Yanfei was unpopular, she's just not popular as a Main DPS.

@@mysteriousastrolabe well...you got her shield when u use burst so it takes time and is not available easily...and as her shield scales on hp...her burst damage will be useless...and also u got her shield on c4 and not available in her basic kit

AR56 and still at C1 Yanfei. Also Diona and Thoma are better shielders.

I kept wondering why and how Vars didn’t mention that!!

I absolutely adore Tankfei~ My tankfei's healing is still inconsistent but i adore the saves her shield has given me

@@itsmrdante6274 Thoma's shield takes a long time to put up

@@itsmrdante6274 Thoma can really mess up Hu Tao comps (his only viable team to my knowledge) by accidentally stealing her CA's vapes. Tankfei doesn't have that issue and shields just as well and even gives marginal healing with Prototype Amber.

I think all catalyst users are viable as DPSs.

@@Swagbastian If hyper focused yeah.

Yanfei’s scale a little lower but they cost way less stamina than Barbara’s when you factor in her scarlet seals which means you can end up using them more often

@@specific3600 yes barbruh CA are also very slow.

@@ingenuitypulse6254 I'm mean both my ganyu and yanfei have had the same focus and sometimes my yanfei out dps ganyu. But I'll attribute some of that to my poor aim

I'd almost agree to the first sentence. Yanfei is my main DPS early game and I got Diluc as my first 5* back at AR48 but I still used her until I got Hu Tao. And even then I still switch around Hu Tao and Yanfei depending on my mood lmao. To me, she's irreplaceable.

@@99toyotacorolla idk but I really feel like having a pyro dps/sub dps in your team just stomps most game content especially if you're just starting with the game

Yanfei is good , although I got hu Tao yanfei is still my go-to pyro carry, diluc gets outdamaged by yanfei

I found the same. I have very few 5* characters (lots of 5* weapons, but apparently pulling 5* characters is beyond me) and she pretty much carried me to AR55. To be fair, as I'm still a bit low in terms of characters, she's gonna stay there, but once I get my 5* ones up to scratch she'll probably get the boot.

Incorrect - 4stars like xiangling, beidou xq and sucrose are all easily more powerful in raw dmg, with noelle bennet and fischl possibly out damaging in some situations

you are so right with your point. very well thought out and amazing. 😌

thats not the point of the video though, its to talk about why Yanfei isnt being used much, which is a fact

@@jivanjovan it’s apart of my team lol wdym? I see so many other people using Yanfei

@@secretjanus its literally a fact from a statistic...

She's also pretty decent with like, half investment. My Yanfei isn't exactly built, but she's still probably my second best damage dealer. She has some decent artifacts but I haven't farmed a set specifically for her, so she's essentially just using offpieces and artifacts I haven't recycled yet.

i totally agree! i saw someone solo floor 12 first half with just yanfei in the previous cycle i believe? or the one before that. clear time was 1.5min, they got 36* too haha

@@atJamie yeah i did that, it was fun soloing the thunder bird with yanfei

@@arkankamil5345 YES! Yanfei is great against thunderbird.

Well the biggest issue she's not used that much is... surprise surprise, Xiangling exists. What if you have a team comp that is F2P friendly (mostly used 4 stars), competes against 5 star centric team comps, and works on every Abyss rotation? You have National team, where Xiangling is in there. Itto's Abyss? Use National team Shenhe/Ganyu's Abyss? Use National team This current Abyss? Yup, still use National team "I think Yanfei will have her moment in the Abyss when we get pyro-weak abyss mobs and pyro-oriented cycle buffs again" It wouldn't help her one bit because any pyro buff is a Xiangling buff.

Your point is valid, but what the video is saying is that Yanfei is still overshadowed by most of the other Pyro characters, Abyss or otherwise

She may not be able to clear SA as fast as others, but she's fast enough

Literally no character is a problem in the open world, i can even use lv 20 characters in the open world w/ bit slower clear speed as only the main issue. You only need to invest in artifacts and weapons in open world even if your character is say, lv 20 they will still be viable

@@zodiacsagittarius344 clearing bosses still requires fairly decent investment. And beating one low-level mob for a minute isn’t “not being a problem”, so is dying in one hit.

Anyhing works in open world

@@anyanP open world bosses are a joke ive quite literally been using level 50 melt amber for fun and im able to clear all the bosses i need lol

The spectre point didn't age so well lmao they're CC-able now

Omfg teaming her with beidou.... when beidou's burst pops up .... everybody in the room dies in seconds. Combine their bursts? Instant death.

Just use xiangling lmao she's better and stronger

@@vincent8136 let me enjoy who I want to use man, plus Xiangling is alrdy on the same team with my Ganyu Melt team

@@rainitaouwu don't worry, ignore them man, they've been replying to almost everyone saying that yanfei = bad, xiangling = good

@@dumbassidot did I lie tho? NO. Xiangling is superior.

@@vincent8136 i do not care about the meta man, we play for fun

100% agree with the spark thing on klee, its so hard to see if she has it, they are kinda same even in terms of dps, but still use klee over yanfei tho since my klee is c4 and her def shred is really good

Finally someone said it! And Fischl too. Vars thinks onfield=dps for some reason. In a childe team the dps is xiangling or beidou, childe is the reaction support. He does decent-ish damage but the off-field 4-stars always do significantly more.

@@winter5945 ok calm down a bit, tartag in international team Tartag xiangling bennett kazuha Does about 50% of the damage since he gets the nuke off first and has access to quadratic scaling, in single target scenario sure xiangling does significantly more but if there's more enemies tartag does a shitton of damage, thats one of the reasons why kokomi can't realy replace him, he does a lot of damage if you pilot him properly, manage cooldowns, get vapo on burst and get duble swirls with kazuha

wait .. to you, Beidou has better dps than C0/C1 Raiden?

@@xfeerman wdym? She literally deals 1000% damage every second if there's 2+ enemies, you can count how many enemies you would need in order to beat that with raiden and then you'd have to make an assumption that she can hit them all at the same time and then you have to take into account that Beidou deals 1000% every second for 15/20 seconds, with more realistic rotation it's like 15/24 and so with realistic scenario she's going to prock her burst like 12 times which adds up to 12000%, now tell me how many enemies would raiden have to hit at the same time to get the same %, then you can be like oh what about hypercarry raiden and if you have more than 10iq you'll know that you can give the same buffs to beidou and someone like kazuha is actually a good driver for her due to high attack speed, thats also ignoring her like about 600% counter every 8 seconds, she literally has the highest numbers out of any electro unless you go with single target or like 5 enemies that you can hit at once which is usually unlikely, current first half is almost perfect for beidou 12-1 4 small wolves that die from 2 counters and 2 big wolves 12-2 2 ruin guards 12-3 3 ruin sentinels, you can do the math to see if raiden gets higher %, lower base atk doesn't really matter since 2 atk buffs make difference way less significant, same for % damage especially since beidou also has electro damage from ascention and has access to serpent spine which has both %damage and crit rate

@@utsubyo LMAO! First of all no I'm not reading all that. I only read up to 12K% damage. It looks like you don't know how damage is calculated. In a nutshell, you think that 1000dmg X 12hits on an enemy with 100 def would be the same as one single hit dealing 12Kdmg.

Agreed on both. The second point, I have team comps set up for my 12 star abyss runs but most times I just use fun characters people would say aren't viable in the endgame but I just have fun playing

Wasn’t her old shield busted? Like it was stronger than zhongli’s shield?

@@ghostlydude6478 i saw a comparison and it was just _slightly_ weaker than zhongli's, like they tested the shields against rock frog's stomps and yanfei's shield broke just a few seconds before zhongli's and it was pretty cool to see

@@ghostlydude6478 well technically if you only look at how much hp the shield has, yanfei's is 13% beefier, but the thing is zhongli's has 150% resistance to all elements so it ends up being 26% stonger, except if you are defending against pyro attacks where yanfei has 250% pyro resistance which jups her up to be 60% more effective. But water attacks kinda just piss on that In conclusion, it depends.

I literally am one of those. I used her as my main dps up until inazuma then i rolled for hutao. New player btw

Yeah, thats definitely the TLDR of it. And lets face it, the general community will play 5 star units than 4 star units wih some excemptions. Nevertheless, I use yanfei in my abyss runs and she is fun to play.

A pyro unit automatically has to fight against xiangling, and at that point why wouldn't you just use your xiangling

honestly she was my first non-amber pyro character and i got her before i knew about xiangling, she got me to ar55. lots of people say she’s not too viable for end-game but i don’t see myself stopping tbh (despite the xiao and childe sitting in my character archive lmao) but you’re right, had i been exposed to, say, diluc or hu tao first, probably wouldn’t have gotten so attached to her

@@DunhaCC Yanfei is all around better as a pyro unit than xiangling. Everything she does applies pyro and pair her with the right team in makes the game easier. To me the only good thing Xiangling does is her Burst. With Yanfei I have so many different ways of applying pyro for reactions that Xiangling isn't even a viable option.

I was looking for this-- it seems like this build is not well known due to its niche with hu tao. Plus the fact diona is known as the better shielder/healer/battery. In the end yanfei still suffers from what other "non-used" characters do, being compared to other units that can do the job just as well or better.

Yes, but she is supposed to be a main dps, not a shield bot, and that´s the focus of the video.

@@esaualfaro3447 I think it should've been mentioned still since Tankfei is an actual good support build for her.

Yeah. Tankfei was missed in this. This was made by someone who doesn’t use her. And it shows.

The thing is yanfei c4 isn't as good as others, when you have diona, I'm pretty sure there was video out there, she did have a respectable sheild but diona sheild is ultimately better cuz it's built into her kit and you don't have to get a copy for her to have the shield (Both are 4 stars too). Diona can boost em and can trigger melt too. a problem too with yanfei sheild is it scales off hp, and yanfei as a catalyst has very low base hp, so for that you have to sacrifice all of her damage to have a good sheild, doesn't mean it's bad sheild tho, it's just that sheilders, with offensive capabilites is better, thats why zhongli is valuable cuz he can give debuff as well (ik it's kinda unfair to compare it that way cuz zhongli is a 5 star) yanfei c4 is just that a sheild, it's meant to make her less squishy, but still being the dps of ur team, its kinda sad that it's that way tho :(( cuz it would be amazing when she gives ur team extra dmg when she uses her burst and activates sheild or smthn

As someone who has Hu Tao it mustve felt really easy playing Yanfei for you. Hu Tao is not so fun against common enemies

Yanfei is my go to whenever I need to fight the Thunder Manifestation. She's ranged, so it makes it easy to hit the darn thing and not get too close, and since its infused with electro she triggers overloaded reactions consistently which makes it a much easier and fast fight.

she carried me for a long time, i got ganyu and hutao now, but yanfei will be a character i always love, so easy to kill stuff at range, i gave a break using her at times because she makes bosses too easy 😆

and one thign I like about her is that her she can help you manage your stamnia consumption in good as long you have 4 stacks (C6) you can dodge without using too much stanmia and her CA dmg multiplier is kinda big as a 4 star and her C4 is very useful especially if u don't have Zhongli or Noelle problem with CD

when you say she can outperform "a lot" of 5 stars who are you referring to? I can only ever think of her as comparable to Klee.

Yeah I don't get people saying 4*s are automatically weaker than 5*s. The only actual difference is their base stat total and substat scaling, but the difference between 4*s and 5*s in that regard is, while not negligible, ultimately dwarfed by the value of constellations, weapons, talent stats, etc. The best 4*s are better at low constellations than several C6 5*s, so while 5*s TEND to have extremely broken C6s (starting with Ganyu; none of the 5*s before her did and only a couple since her don't) and also tend to hit high- or even top-tier potential at C0, C1 or C2, and top-tier 4*s TEND to hit top-tier potential only at C4, C5 or C6, even that isn't a rule. But even beyond that, you will usually C6 one or two 4*s per C1 5*, or get around 3 constellations for each the banner 4*s (on average) in the process of getting the banner 5* once. And when you compare C6 4*s to C1 5*s, or even sub-C6 5*s in general, you start to notice something: There are just as many top-tier 4*s as top-tier 5*s, and almost as many high-tier 4*s as high-tier 5*s. It's true that all the bad characters in the game are 4*, but all the bad characters in the game are Xinyan, Barbara and arguably Amber, Lisa and Kaeya (because it's so hard to get constellations for them and they suck at low constellations, and Kaeya and Barbara aren't even BAD so much as thoroughly outclassed by other characters).

@@elizza8770 I'm not actually sure of Yanfei's current damage potential because I don't care that much about her, but when she launched she was about on-par with Xiao... The weakest dedicated 5* DPS (contrary to popular belief at the time). Funnily enough now that Yun Jin exists he no longer holds that title (even replacing C4 Albedo on his standard team with C4 Yun she's still about a 20% increase in team damage per second despite being a 4* support, and that's being generous toward Albedo by inflating his opportunity cost), but popular opinion of him seems extremely low lately. But I digress. Apart from pure damage Yanfei also notably has the strongest non-geo shield in the game. Zhongli can only be on one team at a time and Noelle has uptime problems unless she's the main DPS (though if you run Noelle and she's C6 there is less and less reason lately not to run her as your main DPS...), so while the abyss meta for a while has been nationals on one half (which is where you'd put Zhongli if you use him) and freeze on the other half (where you don't need a shield, but even if you do you can use Diona and still have a slot open for Kazuha or Yun Jin whereas another shielder would take up Kazuha or Yun Jin's spot; Diona's spot is heavily contested now because of Shenhe, but that doesn't change the situation for other shielders really), in general if you deviate from that she's high-value simply because of her shield. There's really only one 5* known for his shield (and several 4*s by comparison), so it's not like she's really getting compared favourably to any 5*s in that regard, yet it is something she does better than literally every 5* that isn't Zhongli (even if it's by default). Also it may not make her objectively better but she lacks Hu Tao's weaknesses, and Hu Tao is actually a more direct Yanfei competitor than Klee. Comparing her to Klee is practically falling for a red herring (they're both pyro catalysts, but the same way Yoimiya is more similar to Aloy than to Amber, and Ganyu in turn is more similar to Amber than to Diona, Yanfei is more similar to Hu Tao than to Klee). HT has to be at low HP to deal optimal damage (especially due to her reliance on synergy with Homa for her reputedly high damage, which compounds her low-HP bonus), she relies on a limited 5* weapon to reach her reputed damage potential in the first place (Yanfei is nowhere near as reliant on any particular meta weapon and can make excellent use of Dodoco Tales, a f2p weapon, provided the player's account is old enough and they participated in the event; The difference between Homa and Blackcliff, Deathmatch or even PJWS on Hu Tao is pretty drastic, while Yanfei has a more gradual incline in power based on how close you are to her BIS, which is currently Kagura's Verity), has only 56% maximum uptime and an awkwardly-timed cooldown that will have trouble syncing perfectly with most rotations, meaning she'll have additional downtime in most cases (Yanfei's uptime is 75% at best, and unlike Hu Tao, her DPS is still high during her "downtime," just not AS high), she is a 5* who relies heavily on her C1 and loses about 25% DPS AND struggles with stamina management without it (Yanfei also relies on constellations, but she's a 4*, and while 4* constellations are never guaranteed like 5* cons are, _on average_ you will C6 EVERY banner 4* in about the number of rolls it takes to C1 the banner 5*, and when considering standard banner free rolls, weapon banner having 4* characters, 4*s getting reruns more often than 5*s and being on other 5*s' banners and even the potential for free 4*s, it's relatively trivial to C6 any particular 4*), her Q is both a substantial aoe damage source and kills her low-HP buff if she uses it on more than one opponent (and makes health management a pain even against one opponent), and due to operating at low HP she practically requires a shield for insurance (harshly diminishing the damage she could receive by running Kazuha or Sucrose instead of Zhongli; Yanfei's charged attack is high-commitment so a shield is also advisable on her, but as mentioned before, she actually gets a shield, and its duration is identical to her uptime, so she should be able to run Kazuha or Sucrose in the fourth slot along with Bennett and Xingqiu/another Hydro applier). When you actually work out the damage Hu Tao might still win (like I said, I'm not sure what Yan's current damage potential is really), but without a doubt Yanfei has a better-designed kit and is much cheaper to build and use.

"in several meta builds" ???? The only place tankfei sees use is with hu tao lmao and *maybe* niche melt ganyu builds for people who don't own Zhongli

Also showcase big pp dmg as emotional support

I use her as tanfei for hutao as well, and when i require ranged dps i use yanfei instead of hutao.

ikr it's so so weird he hammers so much she can't do more when tankfei exists, and no, it's not to say the whole video is invalidated with it, it's also con locked but it's a really worth mentioning fact

There’s not a single team where c4 yanfei is better than any other shielder.

A fellow Yanfei main :)

Triple crowned her today!!!

@@SCP-1762-BOL Still saving up mora to get that last crown😩😭

just got an upgrade piece for her today, she's now 70:200 crit

I might join you soon, cause I just got her c4

Can't really go as in depth in the comments as in a video but concerning Beidou: shes by far the most popular 4* main in all of Genshin considering her versatility as both damage dealer and shielder (if C1)

@@Cherryxarts she is nowhere near as popular as xingqiu bennet xiangling or fischl good char tho

ayyy another one who uses yanfei as sub dps to keqing

OMG I DID THE SAME THING

Ayy, Triple Crowned C6 Yanfei buddies

Hell yeah, Yanfei C6 Triple Crown gang, let's suffer together.

Triple crowned too, except I don't have C6 because hoyoverse keeps giving me beidou and xingqiu

Same here tho sadly only double crowned. Missing some Gold scrolls Edit: she's now triple crowned too!!

Yayyyy So glad to know there are other Yanfei mains here in the comments :D

Yeees. I swapped Ei for Yae and they straight slap together

Wouldn't Oz be better?

@@jasondphoenix no. Oz has too much cool down

fischl's literally famous for 100% oz uptime through ult oz refresh

yeah she becomes good at c6: big pyro bonus, 0 stamina consumption and other qol stuff

Well, run noelle,or zhongli if you have him, and if you have C4 yanfei, you are pretty invulnerable, i run noelle xq,yanfei,bennet,and switch noelle with sucrose if I wanna deal significantly more damage,sacrificing survivability

which is why her c4 is pretty genius

This lol. I tried to use her with Kokomi and she still died easily so I benched her for so long until I got Zhongli. Now I can play her comfortably.

the real problem is she cant hit flying enemies with her charge attack.

@@Reihjart its only really a problem against wolflord so far, and that enemy has lots of downtime on the ground. she does fine against the spectres, considering she can also use her skill against them, and iirc i could even get charged attacks to work on them as well. id say her only weakness are those flying hydro mimic birds, but even then you can just NA and skill anyway

Xiangling is better and stronger keep clowning

@@vincent8136 wtf is your damage man, you're just commenting hate on everyone who enjoys her. the two characters play entirely different there is barely a comparison, the only real comparison is damage numbers and as long as yanfei is good enough to use (she is) then why does it matter. even if she truly was garbage just let people enjoy things???

@@vincent8136 I mean xiangling is best 4 star dps. Followed by Bennet melt and Yanfei. So it's not anything surprising.

Yes, people uses the characters they like, but that's not relavent to the contents like this where we talk about power level only.

@@danke_boi this video didn't even get in to "serious statistical analysis" it was mainly talking casually about how she's just not as good as five stars or off field/support 4 stars. People just liking a character and choosing to use them despite knowing they aren't the best character in the game isn't an echo chamber.

Her shield is not 2nd to zhongli, I want to lose gaming already test that.

this is kinda funny to me but i think i have a level 90 c4 yanfei lying around so might try this

@@darodjati Its true that Thomas shield is overall a bit bigger but it is not applied in one instant but is strenghened over time so technically his shield is bigger but you dont get it right away. Thats why I said the second biggest.

ooh, I'm a yanfei main, if i ever switch main dps i might try this out lmao

@@nirou3691 yes ,this is weird because i don't really trust her shield i still bring zhongli in my daily comp, zhongli,ganyu,yanfei,and xiangling ,my yanfei is c5 btw

Xiangling literally exists and she's so much better

@@vincent8136 sometimes we don't care if someone is better.. we just want to play our favourite character because we like them

@@vincent8136 xiangling is a sub dps while yanfei is a main dps

@@note3neo411 she's still considered a main dps when she deals more dmg than your on field character LMAO stay pressed

@@vincent8136 in my opinion yanfeis easier to use

its gacha game

Well its a gacha game

Yeah and what I mean is that it really doesn’t need to be about numbers all the time. YT vids usually discuss those with a heavy emphasis, although there’s so much more one could discuss. It can add to the fun tremendously if you mix and match teams and just have a good time!

@@varirinoa8509 yeah. Just another educational video for players that are clueless or want to maximize their character efficiency, it's nothing too serious to talk about it, really.

@@varirinoa8509 as much as I would love to agree with u, beside it being a gachu game, F2P players doesn't have the financial backing to level up and max out every character to comfortably swap them out and try new things. We gotta have a main team and work everyone around them. 6 months in and I'm now trying to get a proper 2nd team to do higher abyss. It's that tough.

my Zhongli mining ore: *misses one Yanfei: "haha ur skill on cooldown, charged attack go brrr"

the satisfying rabbit seal/stamp bonk (The block is an ancient Chinese jade seal. Imagine a rubber stamp at the post office but made of jade/stone)

@@sm79165 Yanfei can mine? I never knew that. Thank you for the tip.

@@yenchitan7276 and also her CA can lightup that round shape thingy where you need to stand on it to start the challenge.

@@crispwhitesheet6355 wow. I feel ashamed as a Yanfei main now. I knew so little about her. I use her mainly for Oceanid and Hydro Hypostasis farming.

Yeah, also Klee has no stamina mitigation and so you get thunked for the full 50 on her charges until C1, and even then it's RNG if she pays 0 or 50. Yanfei is more like a 4-star version of Ningguang (we true believers in Ningguang can see her fifth star), with the tradeoff for the whole "actually using stamina until C6" thing being that she gets Pyro and its reactions instead of Geo.

a lot of f2p can also c6 yan fei far easier than c6 the others

Yeah surprised he didn’t mention Tankfei

The point of the video is literally explaining why more people don't play her. The reason he needs to nitpick is because Yanfei doesn't have a "problem" like Qiqi or Lisa do.

I have a team I call "spec ops" when I want to try hard and she's my main dps there.

First

There is no Tankfei in Ba Sing Se🙈

Vars this is just a request but can you look up tankfei. Its yanfei c3 and meant as a sub dps and shielder and energy charge is stable with her.

*edit c4

This is the worst video you ever made, i am very disappointed

fr. she’s so smooth to use, even more so than yoimiya imo. zl + yan is my go-to team core on mobile for this reason

U mean best DPS catalyst user bc the support catalyst users are pretty OP

@@aname1190 Yanfei can also be a support

@@maraisfan4life517 yeah but still worse than Mona and Sucrose. Just saying that she's the best DPS catalyst, not that she can't support

Dps maybe? Yae miko should be better than her. However for supports, Sucrose and Mona exist.