Hydro’s development as an element throughout Genshin Impact’s timeline has been arguably the most favorable of the seven. At no point was it ever in a weak or impractical state, yet it continued to receive improvements from new characters, to the inclusion of Dendro, etc. reaching a point where it’s now raising the question of if it’s the new strongest element in the game.
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As someone whose only hydro for a year was Barbara – yeah I feel that hydro is the strongest and most needed element cuz oh boy do I still have a tough time with genshin (yes I'm still Xingqiu-less). Only lately I could get Nilou on her rerun so everything goes a tiny bit smoother, but I still get my ass handed to me ngl. I challenge people to play this game/abbyss without Xingqiu/Yelan before saying abbys is easy.
Hydro's biggest sin is that for the longest time almost all its members were 5*. Sure we get free Barbruh, and you technically can buy Xq in the shop, but if you spent all your starglitter on wishes, you're bound to just a 4* healer as your driver for every freakin team.
I really hope Focalors will be an amazing support because I don't even wanna get Xq at this point, sick of seeing this guy in everybody's team.
i feel like the hydro archon will be an off feild, mid hydro applicator with a new niche. i think it would be cool if they could do something like increase the maximum amount of dendro and bountiful cores + buff their dps.
Ayato isnt a main dps, not in his good teams at least, he's just there to apply hydro
Im sorry but i cringe so hard when i hear anemo as the best element…if your argument is VV then thats bs. Dont include external help via artefacts and weapons. When i hear about other elements it about there strength and for anemo is always the VV set. If u mention a set for a element for a reason to be the best that means without it its mid
I'm not sure if it's your editor or you that chooses it but I love hearing ffxiv music in this guides fhaisdgsa It's so calming and gets together 2 of my favourite games
I can't wait to see hydro Traveller! Sooooo when fountaine drops again?
5:30 Editor-san gets a headpat for doing gud.
Hydro is the best elements in the game all along, hoyo just didn't make them more broken than they are now.
I know it wasn't intentional but that introduction to hydro (with how its both alike to geo and anemo) was so beautifully poetic
Every Hydro character after Tartaglia fulfilled some kind of distinct role that separates them from each other.
Kokomi provides huge healing and consistent Hydro application
Ayato has consistent DPS instead of huge numbers
Yelan is a perfect Sub DPS and fits in almost any team comp, especially with Xingqiu
Candace is
Nilou capitalizes on Bloom reactions instead of pushing out huge numbers by herself
When are you adding an official CC to ur videos? Your words often sound muffled 😢
What makes hydro the strongest element is that it serves as a catalyst to ALL META reactions. You can literally pull any hydro character and find them useful for basically 80% of the Meta teams. The amount of flexibility hydro has is incomparable to any other element
Oh Iroh knew what he was saying….
The only downside I could think of for Hydro would be its underwhelming resonance compared to most other elements.
what is ganshin Liyue Character‘s name meaning? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAF2da4Z-u8&t=136s
amaurot background music? 😢 makes me miss ff14
It is neat to see a support role so high on the ladder. Also, not sure if you chose it purposefully or not, but Full Fathom Five is an excellent choice for multiple reasons. Clever, even.
I think Focalor could be an HP Buffer. We have a lot of HP scalers in the game now to justify it.
since I started genshin I knew hydro best
Dendro merely balanced things by introducing reactions with the weakest elements (except geo) and providing no reactions with the strongest elements like anemo or cryo, which essentially left them where they were before. The already strong pyro got relatively useless burgeon and burning reactions, and hydro received a sweet middle ground between these and dendro + electro reactions.
Consider this: the currently underwhelming geo and physical elements may receive the same treatment as electro, by introducing gravity control in the game!
0:18 I did come back from version 1.2ish to 3.1, and I didn’t feel too “outdated”.
Quests and exploration still performed the same (other than of course having two regions I didn’t touch), and the Xiangling I had from before quitting was still strong.
The only weakness I see to Hydro is the possibility to freeze yourself by accident. Painful when it comes to Barbara!
I think you can choose between any, but all in all, giving it Dendro. Both it's main reactions, Bloom and Quicken, are used and Hyperbloom, Spread, and Aggravate are all very, very powerful. And what's more, the way to build them if the DPS is simple. Elemental Mastery. My Tighnari and Nahida haves terrible crit in both stats, and yet their damage is some of the highest out of all my units. You don't need to use Dendro either as the DPS, just as a driver element for Bloom or Aggravate if you so choose.
I will admit though Anemo has the advantage of where it seems like you can get basically any type of character you want and they'll be good in it, Kazuha buffing, Sucrose crowd Control, Xiao/Scara Hyper DPSes, and the same applies to the others, but Anemo seems like outside of healing and shield, if you want a unit for a role, it has one there.
Hydro is much what you said in the episode, able to adapt and always be relevant. I think Hydro and Anemo both have this since Hydro has strongest reactions, and Anemo can give spread Hydro more through Swirl, so those might not drop off for a while
They decided to make the most versatile element the one thing that can constantly pour down from the sky. Hydro quite literally brings out the best in every element.
Every time you use Neath Dark Waters as the background music for your videos I have to stop and cry ;-; man that song still hurts its so beautiful.
It seems that someone has seen the light and realized that Hydro is the best element in the game.
Hydro isn’t the “new” best element.
It was the best element, and Anemo is its reverse scale.
Well its not new, its ALWAYS been the best element alongside anemo
Hydro was always been the best element in the game with so much utility it has and it is the foundation of every elemental teams
Childe… bbg…
Im so proud of him and the element, im so happy that hydro never or will never fall off!!
hydro is a 5 star element like literally 70% of the hydro roster are 5 star it's like hoyo wants me broke
hydro is broken for all these reasons but you forgot the biggest one. its fighting for top 3 with elements that have an archon. with the exceptioon of anemo, the archon is the unit that dials up the element to max and if hydro has xingqiu,yelan, AND an archon who is better or even at same power level as those monsters then its no longer even a question.
Im always puzzled by the random FF music,lol
Thumbnail says "New best element" as if there has ever been a time where the top meta teams didn't use a hydro support.
I still find it funny how your Genshin Impact videos have FFXIV music playing in the background.
The argument about stats on artifacts is weird, by that logic Geo is also top tier thanks to def% being a high chance main stat. And Anemo and Dendro aren't, because EM, despite being main stat, has low chance of happening.
New? Hydro's been the best element even before dendro.
The fact that hydro has a relatively small roster also makes it feel better – we're not tired of it and we're still excited about new units.
As someone who vouched for hydro on the anemo video i definitely think its at the top but easy to over look. Thank you for summarizing it all!
After i pull kazuha next banner im all in for Hydro archon!
I have every Hydro character except Childe and low key consider myself a hydro main 😂 I'll have Childe one day!
Only been one four star new hydro character since launch. Fontaine probably gonna change that though
Meanwhile Geo needs a complete rework
WOW WHAT?! A BRAWLHALLA CLIP!?!?!?!?!
One downside of Hydro is that it's bad at breaking Shields and constructs
Mainly Cryo and Electro, since Hydro usually gets reacted than causing Reaction
The only way focalor can beat xingqiu and yelan is by having her skill to stay onfield while constantly apply hydro to all enemy. So 100% hydro application without worrying about cooldown nor energy. Xingqiu and Yelan both need to do elemental burst to apply hydro off field, hence need to be concern about their energy need. Although for them both it's not really an issue to get their energy bar full on every rotation if they're built right.
For me Cryo is best Mostly because they have most likable haracters in the game …. in second place i have geo because all haracters are great … maybe except ninguang and zhongli ( but he is archon so from the beggining he was destined to be a dick , but still he did much better than raiden ). and in third place i have pyro xianling and benny were with me from the beggining to this day … also pyro has one of the best haracters ever but this element is downed by many filler haracters that are the same and simillary usuless ( xinyan / thoma ekhm ekhm )
FF14 shadowbringers music in background
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Hydro’s only weakness is long cooldowns
Such are the words of Rhodeia of Loch
"Coveting the shapes of the living, pure water can take on many forms. In this way shall water deliver your punishment."
"The power of water is its ability to take any shape…"
"One who is ignorant of water's treasures fails also to comprehend its horrors…"
Hydro in general