An Analysis about the best swords in the game for genshin
00:00 Tier List Premise
00:55 Mistsplitter & Jade Cutter
01:41 Light of Foliar
02:15 Haran
02:59 The Hellacious Trio
03:12 Summit Shaper
03:43 Skyward Blade
04:03 Aquila Favonia
04:30 Key of Khaj-Nisut
05:21 Freedom Sworn
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Mistsplitter betta 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥
benny boi weapon's got a separate tier XD
Has Jean on the thumbnail.
Mentions her one time. >:|
As a F2P who has been playing the game since 1.5 and only wished on the weapon banner twice (and by that I mean two singular wishes, both made during Homa runs as jokes), I own 3 5-star weapons and two of them are Aquila Favonias.
I run Aquila Favonia on my Physical DPS Jean and it is probably the best I could possibly ask for (Jade Cutter is better but it's unlikely I would wish for it); it looks very pretty on Jean and it is canonically the weapon wielded by Jean's idol (plus the interrupt resistance from the passive feels really good). I've also given it to Bennett on several occasions for damage screenshots. I'm glad the Standard Banner gave it to me (it was my first 5-star pull at 17 pity; my next was Jean herself at 55 pity), but I don't think it would be very valuable for anyone else.
I think it is worth considering that Skyward Blade/Spine/Pride are probably held back to some extent by the fact that they all have ER secondary stats while having passives that benefit on-field carries mostly, which puts them in a weird spot because there aren't many on-field carries that specifically want to build ER (Raiden comes to mind).
Can u do catalyst next pleassseee
Only 5 star swords I rolled for was Mist and freedom, I was tempted to get Key but with it only being good for Nilou I chose to pass on it
You put a weapon only Nilou LIKES, and Kuki only sort of likes, and Layla can use it, and nobody else
…over 5 star crit stat sticks all DPSs can use 😀
okay
Thanks for the video, very informative. BTW Can you make this same video but with bows? There are so many amazing bows that can be used with many characters. It can be a very interesting video.
mr The Genshin Scientist, did you ever think of also becoming… a The HSR Scientist???? at least while genshin is on patch downtime
I have five 5 star weapons, four of them are from standard banner xD One of them is Skyward Blade which I use for Bennett, really helps with his energy hunger while also giving high base attack for his burst bonus
Can't wait for polearm video, I have Calamity Queller and it's so underrated, especially for Raiden. Remember that The Catch is only one and if you give it to Xiangling, Raiden can have CQ. With Rational rotations, she can easily get the best from the passive
My boy is getting his followers, i hope you’ll get many many more followers 🙂
fav is a 5 star
Mr Genshin Scientist, do you think it's ok to give up having 50k hp for having more than 200 Er on Baizhu? I use him in a team with Nahida, Yelan and Cyno as main dps, with 50k hp my Baizhu has 180 Er
Can't wait for The Catch to sneak into the 5* Polearm tier list
As far as the Key + Kuki goes, worth noting that, besides that damage increase, Kuki benefits from both the EM and the HP. Which means you get a nice increase in healing. And while many people will want to say something akin to "Who cares?", the last few Abysses, as well as the newest domain (in 4 player co-op, at least), are situations where that extra bit of healing can make a difference. Furthermore, with Kuki trashing her own hp, the higher HP she has to start with when using her elemental skill reduces her risk. Not saying it is worth pulling for just to upgrade your Kuki, but if you have it, and you aren't using your Nilou, it is definitely worth having on your Kuki.
Also, given you list some niche case uses for the Aquila Favonius, it should be in the "some niche use case" category. As opposed to, say, Summit Shaper, whose use case is pretty much, "You got it while trying to get the other weapon, so you might as well use it." Though, honestly, the "niche use case" and "Bennett stat stick" category can really be rolled together, since, if a weapon is really only useful for slapping on Benny, well, that's a niche use case 😉
i think that the key of khaj-nisut will be of higher worth in the future as with the release of fontaine there will be more hydro characters, which have typically hp-scaling. besides em is high valued on such units
Still hearing a slight beeping in the left ear, at around 2:25
Mr Genshin Scientist, would you consider doing such a list for four star weapons too? I know that there is much more of them, but it would be informative for f2p players like me.
Cool video as always! Thank you for putting it together.
Thank you for the nice list. But I’m not wishing for weapon banners since I got scammed 3 times on trying to get a 5 star bow (0 bows while I have 6 polearms). The wishes could’ve been used for Nilou & C2 Nahida.
I was so lucky to win misplitter on Ayaka last banner. He really likes the weapon lol
I personally think that if Foliar also gave EM (at least 60) and a bit more of crit rate, it could have been a better weapon for more characters, to me is kinda unfair that a weapon that gives you a bonus from a certain stat doesn't give you that stat at least in the passive, considering other weapons do that
and then you look at the Catalyst 5 stars, you get a niche, you get a niche, everybody gets a niche!
Yo this is dope